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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1949-02-17, Page 3C et: the "feel" of the roadbe- fore starting._ sL••ti !;j if!ti!isSes. Adjust speed to road, weather and traffic. U*e tire chains when roads are snowy or icy. SalTare WHEN IT'S FREEZY,, TAKE IT EASY An the chart below Allows, motorists travel fewer miles _in the winter than any, other time. Yet, the mileage death rate—the number of people killed per 100,000,000 miles tt'aveiled—reachee its highest point of the year during January and February, DiMens a De ath Rate (Per 9'00,000,000 M!lesj f. MILEAGE ,sll0s.t DEATH RATE sA a- 112, 20 0 JUL AUG. SEPT.00T. NOV, 'DEC. JAN. FEB.MAR.' APR MAY AMC When there's snow and ice on the road, it takes a car longer to stop. Even with tire chains, a driver can't stop in tine same distance he can when the road is dry. Chart below gives exatt figures on stopping distances. 25 ft.: SO it. r h. 100 ft, 4251, 150 ft 175 1.1. F 26 Ft4 dam, glfiNscRETSE iP 9y* Elfs1EINT:I Wet concretes 40111 21 Dry Concrete\ 69 Ft, No Chaim .M 40, Ft. Chains on Reor wheel �----- -161 ft. New Abrosire res—Best Performande 404 16,(JFt 1 Nnturol Ru' ber Tires --No Chains. * I 88 Ft, Syn hetic Rubber Tj es—No Choins 111, _-'Cloins on Rear i heels Braking (Distances on Various Road Serfacer at 20 mph The National Safety Council has reconnnended six rules for safety during the winter. The six rules are sketched on the sides. It may save a life—and the life may he yours—to follow them, Always keep t h e windshield and windows clear. Pump, don't lock, your brakes on ice or snow. Follow* at a safe distance when road is slippery. The IJcn i nion Department sof Agricuiture has put through new regulations — effective January 3, :1049—with regard to the marketing of cattle that have reacted either to Abe Tuberculin. Test for Tubercula - sin or the blood test for Brucellosis (1Banf'- Disease). .0 * Formerly the letter "B" was lot-. uoucd In the right ear for Brucello- ale, and the letter "T" punched — oleo In the right ear—for TB. But now all cattle which have reacted to the blood teat must be branded with a "B" on the right hand cheek, this brand to be three and one quarter inches in height by two and a half inches in width. Reaction to 11114 *he Tuberculin test is to be marked by a brand—height two and a half inches and the bar of the ".is" to be Ole same Jsngth—on the left cheek. * * * Speaking of Brucellosis—or, to • give it the better known name — Bang's Disease, there is a most in- &cresting article on this. subgect in the current issue of CountryGentle- auan. It deals, not so much with Ate effects of This disease on ani - wale, but on human beings, * * * Brucellosis today—that is among people—is primarily a farm problem, rind no one knows just how many *here are who stiffer from it in one of its many forms, but it is re- eogniaed that four out of five of them live in rural areas. * * * It is an undulant Fever, and can 'be a distinctly unpleasant and crip- pling disease. Sufferers from it, in inn more acute form, are often mis- erably ill for many months at a *line. Front a single exposure, a patient has been known to remain ill Aar as long as ten years. * * * All authorities agree that the number of KNOWN 'cases re- presents only Lei fraction of the vic- tbitrts; and one expert states that the number of diagnosed human cases ben iagreased sixtyfold in the past AO ;years, Another authority puts tilts number of cases, in the United $nalerg clone, at over 130,000 every year. * * * Many people have the disease without .being aware of It. The iil- WYLLIE WEATHER Says: 4.214tm ist arnees 1s golte *m- t1tm.&i)•--at seems tmat�every time 1 meet this certain young lady, the *Ind is Vfiwiiii at terrific rate of speed. That's why 1 call her my gale - friend. nets is often mistaken for chronic influenza or something of the sort. In some of the chronic• cases the symptosis are so obscure that doc- tors decide that the patient is emo- tionally unbalanced, or suffering front neurasthenia. It is easy to make such e mistake as most vic- tims suffer from extreme mental de- pression, * * * To try and found out just how many people may be suffering from Brucellosis, a Doctor Spink asked university authorities to let him make skin tests on all patients com fug to the hospital's out-patient de- partment. These included both city and country folks, and they worked at all sorts of trades and occupa- tions. The only thing they had in common was that NOT ONE OF THEM thought that he or she had undulant fever. Yet, out of 553 tested, nearly one in five either had, or had at some time been exposed to, 13rucetlosis. * * * Many pass through the scute stage of the disease safely, but still retain it in a milder form for years. "I had an attack of flu, with aches and pains in my body—chills, head- ache, sweats and a Little cough" is the way one describes it. "It clear- ed up in about ten days, but ever since I feel weak and tired. I'm nervous, have headaches, feel, low in my mind and my appetite is poor." * * 4 As many of My readers no doubt know, undulant fever may come from drinking UNPASTEURIZED milk from cows with contagious ab- ortion, or Bang's Disease. And be- cause most urban markets insist on milk being pasteurized this .forst of disease is rare in towns and cities- * . * But because many farmers do not bother to pasteurize the milk kept for family use, the disease is ramp- ant In many rural areas. Just how dangerous the milk -borne infection can be will be seen frorn`whathap- pened in a small Maryland town where,. within a few days, 28 towns. people were stricken. Caught short of milk during a holiday period a local dealer had "helped out" with a small quantity of,mpssteurized milk front an uninspected herd, Examin- ed tater, some of the cows in this herd were found to have Bang's Dis- ease. There's a new drug, called sure- oanycln, which pronises to do great things Jn relieving poeelblyy wiping yui--•title Wit"e7 to htienan beings. But, in the meantime It would be well for .a11 who may be' in tlu slightest danger to' ire entre sora- ful. Sorry if this column should sound like • medical-report—but !, thought it important enough lar bring to your attention, 'o, with thanks to Alfred 1 . $Enke, 4n of the article referred ige At hegltining, that will be an ter i�tl' • w e'r)s. Traitor's Trial 'Lord Haw Hate' w•as a household name in Great Britain durink the war. It was a name bestowed in derision on the best broadcaster that the Nazis had. His curious rasping drawl was known to nearly every British radio listener, and as he announced 'Gairmany calling( Gair- many calling!' Gairmany calling! Here are the Reichsender'.Ham- hours, Station Brennen, and Station DAB on the thirty-one metre band, You are about to hear otar news jn English',_ he was to some as a red rag to a bull, but to most he was a joke. His nick -name, 'Lord }law Haw,' was given to him by a news- paper and used as the titleofa war- time London musical comedy, and imitations of hint became part of the stock -in -trade of every mimic. 'T.ord Haw Haw's' real name was as the world now knows, Wil- liam Joyce. He was hanged Ior treason oil January 3, 1946. Treason is the greatest of all crimes, and the trial at Old Bailey in London of this notorious little man, with his' razor -slashed cheek and insinuating voice, attracted wide attention, The whole thing devolved on a question of nationality and the privileges and duties attached to the holding of a British passport. Though the guilt of Joyce was a fact of which no one had any doubt, the only people who can- commit treason are those who owe allegiance to the Crown, and it was earl• found that the national- ity of William Jute iris arguable. The case finally hinged on Joyce's possession of a British passport, which he applied for and was grant- ed when he left Britain for Germany immediateiy before the outbreak of war, and the Judge ruled that be- yond the shadow of a doubt the prisoner at that: time owed al- legiance to the Crown, and that no- thing thereafter happened to alter that fact. At the trial, throughout the long ;and brilliant legal argu- ments, Joyce sat tight-lipped and absorbed, and he seemed to follow it all with almost professional ap- preciation. The programme includ- es actual records of passages front some of his broadcasts, including his last. Scots Thrift The wife of a recently -married Aberdonian had successfully under- gone an operation for appendicitis. A day or two after the operation her husband was having a drink with the doctor, who in a moment of forgetfulness mentioned that the operation should have tpke.n place two er three years earlier. The father-in-law received the bill Operation Monkey Wrench Keep your fingers crossed, chum, but it does look now as if Yankee nuts soon may be fitting British bolts by interna- tional agreement, There's a machine -age miracle for you—simple as it may seem. Manufacturers of peacetime goods on both sides of the Atlantic have been trying to make it happen for 50 years. They couldn't get to first base. But now it's "an objective made urgent by military planning." So our United States' State Department and National Bureau of Standards have been stirring their stumps, and so have British officials involved in comparable wo•IC. Long and complicated negotiations seem about to be crowned with success. Why this interatataional fuss about nuts and bolas? Don't Bre and the British both use feet and inches.? This sounds like the sort of thing a few smart lads could arrange by air Mail and settle in 'an hour by transatlantic telephone, After that, an American who Post a nut" off a trunk handle in London could go to the nearest ironmonger—that's a bloke who sells hard- ware—and buy an English -tirade nut to replace it. The sante would go for netts and boltb on weapons, aircraft parts, ;and many other kinds of war goods which this country and :Britain have been trying. to pint on a common basis since the start of World War II. It's hard to read about such things Without getting red tapitis. That's a doll feeling of utter discouragement in the seat of our intelligence. For half a century, the iitechanical brains of two great nations have struggled vainly to stake a British bolt fit an American piinip handle. Yet both are eager to get the job done and each can say, "Please pass the monkey wrench" in the same language. —Denver Post, SLETALKS eJ axvtAndrews. Just the other day 1 was talking to a young chap' who was leaving for another town to start a new pos- ition. "I think the family are try- ing to sabotage my going," he. said. "Mother made a lemon pie that was about a foot across and six inches deep --and it's mighty hardto leave such things." Which is true—for there. are -few things in the One of "eats" more tempting, both to the eye and the palate, than a really well -made lemon pie. Here's one which, if the. directions are carefully followed, should turn out to be "just 'what the family ordered". Lemon Chiffon Pie 1 nine inch pie shell 1 tablespoon gelatin 3,4 esti) cold water 4 egg yolks 1 cup sugar „ 31 teaspoon salt i4 cup lemon juice - 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind ,, 4 egg whites Whipped cream—optionel METHOD. },rinkie gelatin over the cold water. Beat egg yolks, add one half cup sugar, salt, lemon juice and rind. Cook and stir in double boiler until thick. Add gelatin and stir till it dissolves. Coil. When it is beginni.tg to set, fold in the egg whites, beaten tin stiff with the re- maining sugar. Pour into a baked pie shelll. Chill. If desired, fold one half to one cup of heavy cream whipped, 31110 the mixture or spread the finished pie with the whipped cream. 1 stent ac bare started off "in re- verse" today, beginning with a dessert recipe. Now, here's some- thing of a more solid type, They tell me that Chop Suey isn't origi- nally a Chinese dish at all. I really wouldn't know about that. Euf I do know that it's a tasty dish, and that of all the myriad varieties, this is care of the real favorites. Pork Chop Suey 1j4 pounds pork shoulder 1 cup water I large green pepper, cut in strips I large onion sliced I cup celery,"coarsely diced 34 pound mushrooms of available) sliced I teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons soy sauce—Warces- tershire•will do 1 tablespoon cornstarch Bean sprouts, or canned green beans tslicedl if desired METHOD. Trim the fat from the pork, Cut fat into small pieces and cook in heavy frying pan over me- dium fire until all fat is. rendered from the tissue. Remove lean meat from bones and tut in thin strips. Add bones to one cup of water in a saucepan and simmer 30 minutes; there should be about three-fourths of a cup of stock remaining. (If very lean pork is used dissolve one bouillon cube in three-fourths cup of hot water.) Remove fat tissue and cook WI well browned, turning frequently., Add green pepper, onion, . celery, salt, mushrooms, three-fourths cup stock and sauce. Cook, stirring ocs` caaionally, for 10 minutes, Now add the bean sprouts -or green beans. Add half cup of cold water to corn starch gradually and blend in a little of the hot liquid. Return to chop suey and cook, stirring constantly, until all 15 slightly thickened. Serve with mashed potatoes or cooked rice. Makes -six servings -and goes. extra well on a chilly day. • These are the sort of evenings when most youngsters love to ga- ther in the kitchen—or around the fireplace if you are blessed with one—and pop corn. Here's a simple recipe for that perennial popcorn favorite Cracker -Jack 2 cups molasses 1 tablespoon butter One-eighth teaspoon soda Gently boil the molasses and but- ter. without stirring, till the hard- ball stage. Stir in the soda and pour over the t-opped earn. When thoroughly mixed press the mix- ture into a shallow greased pan, smoothing the top with a greased spatula. When firm, cut into, squares with a sharp knife dipped into WA-. ter; Cool. Wrap in waxed gape: and store in covered container, (if yours is like most families, that last is unnecessary—they'll just go ahead and eat!) Friendly Relations ":vow and again a telling paint in the sermon evokes a grunt of ap- proval from one of the deacons 511 - ting in the front titers. Old John Hicks is straining forward a little, his hand cupped over itis ear, for he ie eighty and somewhat deaf. It was John Hicks who at a recent prayer -meeting got down on his knees to pray,'and in the middle of a fervent prayer ended it suddenly Like — 'Owl - Amen,' adding by way of explanation 'Cramp. Lord.' Bless him!" Phillip Phillips talking about "A Village Church in Wales," A Suffered A symphony violinist was making such terrible faces while playing Brahms that the conductor stopped the orchestra and demanded, "What's the matter with you? Don't you like this piece?". "Oh, it isn't that," replied the face -maker, "It's just that I don't like music," Propping Up A Famous Edifice—Actually, of course, it's just a trick photo, but it really looks as if the young chap were helping hold up the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, which appears to be in even greater danger of falling than is usual..