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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-07-19, Page 2W ,TA LE T '. dam Awitiews. Combine several fruit juices for cool, refreshing summer drink either to be poured from a pitcher er ladled from a bowl. Add ginger ssle or some other sparkling bev- erage, ice cream, sherbet, or fruits and you have the makings of an easy form of hot weather enter- taining. For a decorative touch, make polka dot ire cubes. Pour blended orange and grape• fruit juice into your ice cube tray In the centre of each cube place a fresh strawberry, raspberry black- berry, or blueberry, or a mara- schino cherry; or, use several of these to have a variety in color and taste. After freezing them solid, float them in your punch bowl er cups. Polka Dot Party Punch 2 cups Iime juice 1/2 cup sugar 8 cups blended orange and grapefruit juice 2 cups sparkling water Polka dot ice cubes Combine lime juice and sugar : heat slowly until sugar is disolved. Chill thoroughly lime juice mixture, blended orange and grapefruit mixtures. Combine in a punch bowl ; just before serving, add sparkling water and ice cubes. * * * Use either fresh or frozen red raspberries for this colorful, re- freshing drink. If you use fresh berries, you'll need 1 cup addi- tional sugar. Raspberry -Lemon Shrub 3 cups fresh or 2 12 -ounce pack- ages frozen red raspberries ' 1 cup water I cup sugar (1T/z cups, if fresh berries are used) 1 cup lemon juice 1 quart cold water In a saucepan, combine rasp- berries, 1 cup water, and sugar; bring to boiling point and boil gently for 10 minutes. Strain and cool. Add lemon juice and the 1 qt. water ; mix well. To serve, pour ever crushed ice or ice cubes. Makes 2 quarts. * * * Lemonade is one of the favorite "cool -off" beverages. If you want it pink, add red fruit juice (from can- ned or crushed cherries or berries) —about 1 cup to 1 quart lemon Juice in the recipe to follow. Make this ahead of using time and store in your refrigerator. Made -Ahead Lemonade (50 portions) 2/ quarts lemon juice 2/ pounds (5 cups) sugar 2 gallons ice water Crushed ice Dissolve sugar in lemon juice; add water, Store in glass container under refrigeration (between 30 degrees F. and 40 degrees F.). Before storing, taste -test each batch of lemonade for flavor and add more sugar or lemon juice if needed. Have lemonade cold enough so that much ice will not be needed. Garnish with lemon dices. * * * If you'd like a milk punch for the children, try this orange milk drink. This makes 3 quarts. Orange -Milk Punch 1 quart orange juice 1 quart vanilla ice cream 1 quart milk Whip together the orange juice and ice cream. Add milk and serve. * * * If you like the taste of fresh mint in your punch, try this gin- ger -ale -lemonade -mint drink. Mint Lemonade 10 lemons 2/3 cup crushed mint leaves a cups sugar 1 cup water 3 quarts ginger ale Fresh mint Add juice from lemons to crush- ed mint leaves, sugar, and water. r, ring to boil; remove from heat and allow to cool. Strain and add ginger ale. Garnish with fresh mint. Serve over crushed ice. * * * A touch of spice adds a new taste to this fruit juice julep. This recipe makes 16 -ounce glasses. Fruit Ginger Ale Julep 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg cup fresh grapefruit juice 1 cup fresh orange ;juice Cracked ice 1 quart chilled ginger ale Lemon or raspberry sherbet Make syrup of water and sugar; chill. Acid nutmeg and fruit juices. Fill tall glasses with ice. Add r cup of fruit juice mixture. Fill glasses with ginger ale. Top with a spoonful of sherbet and garnish with a sprinkle of nutmeg and a sprig of mint. * Petits Fours Bake white cake in a sheet and, when cool, cut in squares, diamonds, or triangles. Place on rack on wax- ed paper (be sure all crumbs are removed after cutting.)Use a fond- ant icing, tinted with food coloring if you like, and pour slowly over cakes, Decorate with candied fruits, nuts, or tiny flowers made with a pastry tube. Or use the following sugar frosting: Confectioners' Sugar Frosting 2 cups confectioners' sugar 4 tablespoons butter Cream or orange juice (enough so frosting will pour) Flavoring (vanilla, grated orange rind, melted chocolate) Mix together sugar and butter; thin with liquid. Add flavoring. Pour over cakes. Sprinkle some with coconut or nuts and deco- rate others as above. Electronic Mailman The latest Book of Knowledge Annual records that the Cana- dian Post Office has recently spent a million dollars experi- menting with a unique system of electronic mail -sorting. An electronic keyboard translates the address of an envelope into a code of dashes and stamps the code on the back of the en- velope. Next the coded letter is passed to a "reader" which flashes the code to the central "brain." In a fraction of a sec- ond the "brain" issues direc- tions for sorting the letter, which is then deposited in the exact slot for its destination. If this device works out as well as it is expected to it will eventually be installed in main post offices throughout the country. The larger models, it is believed, will do the work of about four hundred men and sort upwards of 150,000 letters an hour. The experiment is be- ing watched with keen interest by postal officials in the U.S.A. and elsewhere in the hope that it will solve the pressing prob- lem of how to deal efficiently with the tremendous and in- creasing pressure on mail serv- ices everywhere. Takes To The Air 1n New Film Out of his western garb for the first time in quite awhile, Gary Cooper is back in the air again in "The Court -Martial of Billy Mitchell." Actually Cooper start- ed out in films as a flier and is as much at home in the air as he is with six-guns strapped to his waist. Far removed from his "yup" and "nope" parts, Cooper plays General Billy Mitchell, who was known as a very talkative guy, in the Warner Bros. Film. Al- though the long, lean actor makes no effort to keep up with General Mitchell's conversation- al pace, he does have several long speeches—long for Cooper, that is—in the Army trial scenes when he is being questioned. When asked how he felt about his "talkative" role, Cooper re- plied: "Well, I talk more in this pic- ture than I would in a western, but I don't think there's so much difference." However, a glance at the script, shows that Gary has so- lid pages of dialogue as he un- dergoes the ordeal of defending his honor and ideas about air power from the probes and jibes of Fred Clark and Rod Steiger who play the Army prosecutors. THINKING, THINKING, THINKING — What sets these animals in such contemplation? The solemn -faced camel, left, sits it out tat the traditional hazing of freshmen at the Paris Institute of Agronomy in France. The simian takes to the pipe, right, to get the proper setting for her moods of musing. Cleo is the family pet of a jeweler's family. WHO'S SERENADING WHO ? — What comedian Jimmy Durante began as a solo lullaby for one -year-old Rosemarie Mastro soon became a lusty duet. Durante and Rosemarie were fellow passen- gers on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. Best Man Picked Groom's Pockets Throwing a farewell party for her friends on the night before her wedding, a pretty young bride-to-be answered a knock at the doer and was conforted by a masked and armed man. "This is a hold-up!! he snapped. But before he could step inside the house -she had acted with lightning speed, courageously sending the gun flying from his hand and, with the help of her guests who rallied round, overpowering him. Then came the shock. As the mask was removed she shrieked with dismay. The bandit was the man she was due to marry. He said he needed money to pay for their honeymoon! Romance and crime are, unfort- unately, often mixed, as that story from Colombia, S. America, illust- rates. So does the case of the Can- adian bridegroom who was to leave a Winnipeg church with his radiant bride on his arm, when he found to his horror that his pock- ets had been picked. No guest was allowed to leave. Police were called In. An inten- sive search was made and the crim- inal was found to be none • other than ...the best man. Fortunately, crime still has its occasional funny side. Like the time a masked man rushed into a bank in a small town in Ohio, whip- ped a gun from his pocket and pointed it at the cashier. Then he thrust a bag on the counter and ordered the other to stuff it full of notes. Nervously, the clerk obeyed. But he couldn't help noticing that the bandit was trembling with fear, too, and suddenly — to his astonish- ment — he saw the violently shak- ing -gun start to fall to pieces, clat- tering on to the floor at the band- it's feet as he bolted in terror from the bank. There's also the example of the bold bandit who rushed into a Det - riot bank, "This is a hold-up!" and accidentally shot himself in the foot as he dragged his gun from his pocket! The staff nursed him until all ambulance arrived. Escape from the scene of the crime can be hilarious. There have been three instances — one in Brit- ain — in which escaping bandits have climbed into police cars, hav- ing mistaken them for taxis! There is also the classic case of the two men who robbed passengers on a tram in a Mid -West American town. After collecting the loot, they jumped from the tram and raced down side streets. They came out on to a main road, saw a tram coming, ' and climbed aboard. It was the tram they had just robbed—coming back on its return journey. Many crooks believe that their selection of a profession does not mean that they need be ill-manner- ed: After taking $1,000 from a Hong Kong businessman's safe, a bandit spent an hour with his victim show- ing him how he could "rig" his in- come tax to get the money back. More than one thief, after rob- bing a victim, has offered to sign a receipt that he stole the money. Two bandits holding -up a Chi- eago restaurant found only $60 but that did not stop them from dishing out drinks to the customers, sing- ing and doing a dance, and then shaking hands with everybody when they left. When stealing things other than money, the crook can run` into difficulties. The owner of prize pigeons did not complain when he found a dozen missing from his garden in a north of England town. They were horning pigeons and he honed the thief had taken there a good distance away so that they world have exercise on their home run. They all returned within a week. A. youth stole a large black car lin San Jt'ranciseo, backed it into his garage after a hard, nerve -grinding chase, thea climbed into the rear to look at it. Ile found a body in a casket. The car was an under- taker's hearse. In committing a crime, thieves often lose more than they gain. A cracksman completely ruined a set of expensive tools breaking into a stubborn Cape Town safe. All he got for his efforts was $3.00 worth 'of stamps. When three Glaswegians broke into a grocery, the police arrived and they had to leave hurriedly. All they got was $15.00 in small change. But the police got the three expensive bicycles they left behind. Thieves, too, have so badly injured themselves in breaking -in that all they have stolen is ban- dages and disinfectant from the first-aid kit. There's a lot of truth in the saying, "Some people will steal any- thing." Dustmen in an Australian town complained to the authorities that somebody with a lorry had been round the streets five minutes ahead of them and emptied all the dustbins. Then there is the thief who broke into the Californian "pen -friends" club and stole all the records of men and women on the firm's books. In Phoenix, Arizona, somebody stole -a "Dog for Sale" hoarding, then came back next day and stole the dog. Crooks are quick to act when -- opportunity accidentally knocks. to make a turn. When a Paris bank van collided A Los Angles woman had a $3,000 ring stolen from her finger as she put her arm out of her car window to make a turn. When a Paris bank van collided with a car and spilled banknotes over the roads, officials recovered only a quarter of the million francs blown over the pavements. One of the craziest crimes ever recorded took place at Venice, California, recently. A bandit enter- ed a suburban house and tied up the housewife and her two guests. But before he could ransack the place, there was a knock. Two more guests arrived. Before he had finished tying them, a baby in the next room began to cry, and he was forced to release and watch the housewife while she attended to the child. Before he could safely rope the housewife down again, the tele- phone and then the front door bell began to ring. Disgusted, the bandit left the house empty-handed. Stolen Kiss r ught Fortune Never had the romantic young Swede seen such attractive ruby - red lips as those of the blonde New York shop clerk. As she walked briskly towards her bus stop, he overtook her and began to speak. But she ig- nored him and increased her pace, Looking round swiftly to see that no one was near, he put his arms round her and kissed her lips ardently. Then things hap- pened. Freeing herself, the girl screamed. Up dashed several people, seized the dazed young Swede and handed him over to a policeman. He paid a fine of twelve dol- lars after the indignant girl had given evidence against him. It was more than he could afford but, he mused, the kill was worth it. And now for the surprising sequel. When the incident of"the stolen kiss was reported in the newspapers, the publicity re- vealed to a U.S. firm of solicitors that the amorous Swede was the missing heir to a $75;000 fortune. "We have been trying to trace you in America for three years;" he was told. "But for that pretty girl and the kiss you gave her, we might never have found you." Kisses which bring fortunes are rare, but one snatched im- pulsively at a New Year's party in Birmingham nearly sixty years ago brought happiness and prosperity to a penniless clerk. He had gate-crashed the party only to find that he knew nobody there. Then he saw a lovely girl sitting alone in a dimly-lit al- cove and looking as dejected as himself. He went over to her and she explained that her brother, who had brought her to the party, had been called away suddenly. Overcome by her charms, the clerk seized a sprig of mistletoe and, holding it over the girl, kissed' her. At that moment her brother—an athletic six-footer— returned. Assuming his sister was being kissed by a stranger against her will, he waded in and struck him. The clerk, a brilliant ama- teur boxer, knocked the brother down. The girl was so delighted that they were married three months later and her brother was best man. And the once -penniless clerk became a $100 -a -week partner in his father-in-law's business. Surface Affects Amount of Paint A lot of people run into trou- ble in painting their homes be- cause they haven't figured be- fore they started just how much paint they would actually need. By the time they get halfway through they decide that the job is taking too much paint and costing too much money. What a lot of them do then is to switch to some cheap off brand of paint and the final result is not often so good. The amount of paint required for a house will depend on the size of the house, the number of coats and the type of surface you are painting. It will also depend on the kind of paint you use. It's easy enough to figure out the number of square feet of surface you have to cover— simply multiply the width of each wall by its height and then add them all together. If your house is covered with wood siding you can expect a gallon of paint to cover between 450 and 500 square feet on the first coat. On a second coat a gallon should cover about 550 square feet. Now if your house is covered with wood shingles s gallon on the first coat will cover only about 350 square feet and about 400 square feet On the second coat. If you have asbestos siding and use an asbestos shingle sid- ing ppint, look for a coverage of about 200 square feet per gallon on the first coat and about 400 square feet for the second coat. A paint suitable for use On brick siding will give you about the same coverage. The reason you get such poor coverage on wood shingles, as- bestos and brick is because these surfaces are more porous than ordinary wood siding and they quickly absorb much of the paint from the first coat. The second coat does better. How to Reduce Traffic Deaths According to James S. Kem- per, former U.S. ambassador to Brazil and now an automobile insurance executive, there IS a way to reduce traffic deaths by 88 per cent: See to it that every driver obeys the law. The companies Kemper heads have determined, he says, that 33,700 of the 38,000 persons who were killed in motor "acci- dents" last year lost their lives because of traffic violations. Viewed in that light, traffic lawlessness has become prob- ably the greatest scourge of modern life. And enforcement of traffic laws, strictly and im- partially. is more important than the enforcement of laws against m u r der and other homicides. There is a strange psychology about traffic violations that de- serves special study. Millions of Americans who are law-abid- ing in all other respects, seem to feel no compulsion whatever to obey traffic rules. How high will the traffic tell have to go before a climate favorable to the laws which have been written to keep us all alive on streets and high- ways can be created?—"Denver Post." - LLOYD'S THIRD , CENTURY According to the Book of Knowledge, Lloyd's of London, the world's greatest marine in- surance organization, dates from the end of the 17th century, when a group of insurance men met to transact business at Ed- ward Lloyd's coffee house. It is not an insurance company but an association of individual underwriters. These underwrit- ers engage in other types of in- surance, except life insurance, and it is possible to insure at Lloyd's against almost any kind of accident or contingency. WITH OSTRICH GRACE — Thi: female athlete in London, Eng. land, is seemingly beheadec and most assuredly befallen The girl, P. Bungard, landed it this position durin.g a sch©o track event. iFRANCEi: MOROCC( UNISIA MEDITERRANEAN SEA CYPRUS L. 'SUPERIOR St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes Route for Ocean Ships 2,300 Miles MIINN, ISCONSI ilwaukee Chieag CONN:. New :J. York Boston e R.I. ATLANTIC OCEAN NEWSMAP V: *LD'S MIG:-ITI ST !WAND t/AMWAY — When deep -draft craft steam through the Sr. L..v- rence - G. eat Lo:ces waterways system, pe:•hnps as early as some time in 1959, the men v'ho co down to the sea in ships will be traveling the world's longest inland route for deep -dram trn¢- fic. Its anprv:':mn e 7 ' ;: ,urge lencith (inclu'ive o: one-way mileage from Lake Huron into Lancs Michigan o.1., r'ort of Chizago) will rival the Mediterranean Sea route (inset).