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The Brussels Post, 1956-01-04, Page 6Daree,,o? 'Pipe down, dear — it'd not just. PITCHERS',little Oat Ova hitt car's:"" Grind ..DIVOrceS. Sansages She was.Saton by An Elephant "Couldn't Happen --But They Did Annually the National Safety Council rounds up odd accidents that have happened ththeghout .the country during the last year. Here,, tilos tra fed, IS a quartet of the wackiest ones. 'ABLE TALKS ckme Andrews oven, '3751'4 2.0. to 5.0 minutes. Or until very hot, Makes: 4 ser- Animal trainer Robert Beir- wirth had been teaching two baby elephants to step on and off 18-inch-high pedestals. Bier- wirth blithely tried it himself, slipped and fractured one of his ankleS. He, thinks he heard a couple of ttunkful of snickers, When they named a tavern "Dew Drop Inn" it seemed a harmless, if corny pun, But the pun backfired during a heavy wind-and-rainstorm. As waves undermined the shore, the build- ing slipped into Anchot Aay and floated,off. One brink too many. The world almost lost a 'plane lead of scientists in 1052, when polish test pilot W. .1, "Spud" Potocki, of the R.A.F., felt the stick go rigid in his hand as his twin-engined .,Viking• aircraft roared down the runway for take-oil!. It was too late to stop the run, but bky a freak chance the passengers and luggage were perfedtly balanced, and the *'plane took off by itself. When, he had climbed tar about a mile, "Spud" Potocki •got the passengers to move about a, bit, to get the aircraft flying level. A rubber clamp on the tailplane was locking the con- trols, it ,was discovered. This had to be shifted. A hole was bashed in the fuselage near the tail, and through this Potocki—hav- ing handed over the controls to his co-pilot—poked a sheath- knife on the end of a pole, For two hours he patiently hacked away at the clamp, while back at the airfield anxious crash-crews listened to a run- ning commentary over the radio, The Viking got back safely. People who escape. with their lives front what looks like cer- tain death are usually pretty grateful about it„ even though their injuries may be severe. There is the touching story of a fighter pilot, blinded by anti- aircraft fire in the Far,Fast three years ago. Over the radio Lt. Howard Thayer heard Ken Schechter gasp that he could not see. He flew alongside, Saw the shat- tered' cockpit and his friend's bleeding face. "This is Thayer," radioed the Lieut. "Get your nose down, quick!? They would have to land now—anywhere. Ahead was an abandoned UN. airstrip. Thayer spoke firmly, ordering Schech- ter's every movement, and, the flier obeyed with silent confi- dence. 'He heard Thayer's voice right until his wheels touched down. Said. Schechter, faced with darkness for the rest of his life; "I'm lucky to be alive and know it. Anybody who moans about anything is nuts." Corned Beef Boiled Dinner 4 servino to $ small carrots, cut in halves lengthwise. Is small potatoes, peeled 3 small head cabbage, cut In 4' ,wedges 1 12-ounce can corned beef, c,hlllcd 3 tableipoons melted butter Chopped parsley Put carrots and potatoes in a small amount of boiling salted water in a deep saucepan; cover And cook 10 minutes, Add cab- bage wedges; cook, covered, 5 minutes more. Cut corned beef into 4 slices; place in strainer. Suspend over 'vegetables; cover and cook 5 minutes more, or until vegeta- bles are just tender and meat is 14101. Arrange on, platter. Pour but- ter over vegetables; sprinkle potatoes with parsley. • • • sauerkraut and Stuffed Franks 4 tablespoons butter 44 cup finely chopped onion IA, cup finely chopped green pepper 1 29-ounce can (31/2 cups) sau- erkraut, drained 1 cup canned tomatoes 4.4 teaspoon caraway seeds 2 cups soft bread crumbs 1 teaspoon grated onion 34 teaspoon ground thyme 91 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons milk 2 (1 pound) frankfurters s slices bacon Melt half the butter in a aaucepan; add onion and green pepper. Cook over low heat un- lit tender, about 5 minutes. Stir sauerkraut,to tomatoes and car- away seeds. Pour into an 113/4" by 'Ph" by 2" baking dish. Com- bine crumbs, remaining butter, anion, thyme, salt and milk; toss lightly. Slit frankfurters length- wise, almost through. Spoon in 'duffing, wrap each with a slice of bacon; secure with a tooth - pick. Arrange over top Of sauer- aut. Bake in a moderately hot 12-year-old David Dahl placed his rifle against a ladder in the barn and started to climb up to the hayloft. His dog, Terry, jumped on the ladder. He . struck the gun's trigger with his paw and shot his ascending mas- ter just below the hayloft. "Man bites dog" makes news. So does "Dog shoots boy," Four-year-old Walter Adams, Jr., in his apartment home, was showing his 'kid brother acro- batic stunts lae'd seen on TV. Glancing out the window he saw several small girls on the side- walk, 40 feet below. Deciding to show' them something really good, he opened the window, put his hands together like a high diver --- and 'dove. The girls' pulled him out of a big snowbank — nothing hurt but his pride. Few people in this world can say what it feels like to be 11.10 over by a concrete landroller weighing a ton, But young Derek Milme can, Aged nine, he was riding on a horse-drawn roller when he slipped between the, shafts, The roller carried on over him, yet he escaped with hardly a scratch, Luckily for Derek, the acci- denf:happened when the ground was soggy from recent rain, The roller just pressed him, into the soft turf. He was taken to hospi- tal, but X-rays failed to reveal any broken bones. "Incredible," said the lad's thankful father, who, had wit- nessed the close brush with death. It is amazing how many peo- ple to-day can say; "Scared? I nearly died!" A doctor at a London hospital couldn't believe his ears when a woman casualty whispered that she had been "sat on" by an elephant. The, woman was a midget at a circus, She got away with two' broken ribs after a yapping dog had startled an elephant, behind which she had been standing. She's not likely to forget her unique experience! Evert Stenm'ark, a twenty- live-year-old trapper, owes his life to a bright red cinema tic- ket. InspeCting his traps in the Swedish Arctic Wilds, he was caught in' an avalanche. For eight days he lay buried under the loose snow, unable to, move his legs, His hands were free, however, and he was able to take the cinema ticket from his pocket; fix it to a stick near him, and push it to the surface. This S 0 S was seen by a party of rescuers who dug him out. When Mrs. Betty Lilian Horne, of Bristol, fell from the Clifton suspension bridge last year, and escaped with a few scratches and bruises, she was rescued by a bridge painter who had himself fallen from the bridge the previous year. Strangest escape of all must be that of a photographer who went hedge-hopping on the end of a tope attached to thirty gas- filled balloons. An air current whisked him up to '2,000 feet. His life was saved by a priest who followed him in car pop- ping the balloons one at a time with a shotgun. An electrician, Leonard Whit- tock, left it a bit late 'to make hiS "escape from death." He had actually been dead for about twenty minutes, after he had slipped while connecting a power eat;re' and received an electric shock. When a work- man pulled him tip through a manhole in the street, there were no signs of life. But by the time Whitteck had reached the hospital, his heart was, beating again. What is it like to die? He can- not say. "When I fell everything went blapc,"-lie declared, "Next thing I knew t was being offered a cup of tea."' A Fleet Air Arm pilot man- aged to get himself run over by an aircraft carrier. It happened when the engine of his 'plane failed during take-olf: The 'plane ditched ,in the, ship's path. The pilot, New Zealander Lt. Bruce Macfarlane, pressed the ejector-seat button and was shot violently upwards through the water, hitting the carrier's bet- ' tom. Then he was dragged un- der the propellers and tossed in- to the wake of the vessel where a...helicopter picked him up. The damage? Just a broken bone. SHE MADE IT! — Mrs. Ethel Park Richardson, of Los Angeles, is, screaming with joy 'after win- ning the $100,000 prize on NBC's-TV program, "The Big Surprise." The 72' - year - old great-grandmother won the lar- gest cash prize in the history of radio or television. vi n gs, . • * Beef and Vegetable. Pie 2 pounds round steak, cut in 1W' cubes, 6 tablespoons flour 3 tablespoons beef or other cooking fat 1 cup sliced onion 2 teaspoons salt 114 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 2 cups water 1 19-ounce can (2 cups) tomatoes 6 to 8 small carrots, cut in 2" lengths 4 medium-sized potatoes, cut In quarters 34 pastry recipe Roll meat in 3 tablespoons of the flour. Heat fat in a deep saucepan; brown meat slowly. Add onion and cook until soft. Stir in remaining flour, salt, pep- per and Worcestershire. Stir in water gradually; cook and stir until thickened. Cover, cook over low heat 30 minutes. Add tomatoes, carrots and potatoes. Cover; cook 30 minutes more, until meat and vegetables are, tender. Pour into a 2-quart cas- serole. Roll pastry to fit top of casserole; make crosswise slits in center, and fold back corners. Place over top of casserole and flute edges like a pie. Bake in hot oven, 425°F., 20 to 25 min- utes. Makes 6 servings. • • • Corn-Meal Biscuits 1.14 cups sifted all-purpose flour • cup. corn meal 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt • cup shortening • cup milk 3 slices bacon, cut in 1" pieces Sift first 4 ingredients into a mixing bdwl. Cut in shortening until mixture is fine as meal. Add milk; stir until a soft dough forms. Knead lightly on a floured board or cloth for about 30 se- conds. Roll out W' thick. Cut with a 21/4" cookie cutter. Place on a baking sheet. Lay 2 pieces of bacon lengthwise on half of-- each biscuit. Fold other half tip arid over, allowing a bit of bacon to show. Skewer with 2 tooth- picks; brush tops with milk. Bake in a very hot oven, 450°F., 12 to 15 minutes, or until light brown. Remove toothpicks. Serve hot. Makes 8. * • • Ready Refrigerator Rolls Make ahead, refrigerate, bake a batch as needed. 2 packages dry or compressed yeast 1/4 cup lukewarm water 1/2 cup sugar 11/2 teaspoons salt 1/2 cup shortening 1 cup scalded milk 2 eggs, beaten 43/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour Sprinkle or crumble yeast into water. Let stand 5 or 10 minutes. Put sugar, salt, shortening and milk in a large bowl; stir until shortening melts. Cool until lukewarm, Add eggs and yeast mixture; blend. Stir in flour gradually; beat until smooth. Turn out on a floured board or ' cloth; knead until smooth and elastic. Place in a greased bowl; brush with melted shortening. Cover; let rise in a warm place until dotible in size. Punch down; brush again with melted shortening. Cover;, store in re- frigerator. When ready to use, punch down. Shape into 32 balls; place in 2 greased 8" round or square layer cake pans. Cover; let rise until double in size, about 1 hour. Bake in hot oven, 425°F., 15 to 20 minutes, until golden brown. Makes 32, Tickling Is No Laughing Matter SIGNAL ACHIEVEMENT — Joseph Vollncii, displays the filet cro- eihet-stitch tablecloth which won birn first prize in a nationwide Crocheting contest. A railroad tegnal tower operator, Donnell began crocheting 11 years ago. • It was no joking matter when a noted Boston .doctor asked his patients if they would mind being tickled. Some began to laugh at the very suggestion and only twelve people per 100 failed • to respond. The doctor was helping in 'a perfectly serious nation-wide inquiry into ticklishness under a Harvard special research pro- gramme. Only sixty-nine Men in every hundred proved to be ticklish, against ninety-four per cent of the women tested. But ninety-four ch i l d r en squirmed at the slightest touch. The ticklers used different kinds of hairs, cork points, tuning forks and electric Currents. Tickles are a danger warning, anthropologists explain. When. dangerous insect pests were common, ticklishness — espe- cially around the ears and nostrils—served to protect the victim. Basically, scientists say, the hearty laughter that reaults from a tickle is an attempt to shake off the parasites. Monkeys are ticklish in much the same places as men. Kittens, lion cubs and puppies are es= pecially sensitive at the neck and throat, danger-zones in battle. 0 Oddly enough, few babies re- spond to tickling until they are over two months old. But for the next two years after that ticklishness is one of the main- springs of laughter. ' Scientists have found that a dentist drilling on a tooth can often make the nose, ticklish, because of the nerves running from teeth to nose. Rave a good laugh next time you're in the dental. chair — it'll shake the dentist! Rhode Island to the undesired Husband No. 1.... Max Lessing was a citizen of the State of North Carolina. That is a state which grants no divorces at all, whatever the ground of complaint by either marriage. partner. But Max, nevertheless, Wish- ed to be rid of his wife, and, having consulted his lawyet, was told he had better put in some residence in good old Reno, Nevada. All went well, and with his decree in his pocket, the light- hearted Max returned home. You guessed? He' wanted to get married again! His lawyer explained . the situation. "North Carolina law won't recognize that Reno de- cree: Not only Would such a second marriage be 'invalid in this state, but it would be a crime for which you could be put in prison!" In the U.S.A., where Women' feel very strongly about it, the National Association of Women Lawyers has produced a con- structive scheme to end these hardships and scandals. They want to make divorce, not easier, but more sure, so that people knbw where they stand in whatever state they are mar- ried and divorced, But there is Opposition to this long-overdue reform by the easy-divorce states, led by the notorious Reno, which turns out divorce decrees like a sausage machibe, In Reno alone the divorce racket brings that city an an- nual revenue of between three and four million dollars. A fed- eral divorce law would be one based on moderate lines. It would not include the frivolous grounds that now, in Nevada, Oregon and elseWhere, make a farce of divorce and' a mockery of remarriage. MERRY MENAGERIE 'Tat REAL She wanted, a divorce. Her friends told her it was about time she got one -- after all she'd had to endure from her husband, But when ,1)darylin Hardman (all names used in this artiele are fictitiens;ories) put her case to a lawyer, be shook his head, "l\ly dear lady," he explained, "such is the wisdom of the State of New Yeti; that even 'if yotir husband, as you say, took drugs, was an habitual drunk, knocked you about, 'is now in prison, and - hasn't supported you or yonr three, children for ten years, you. have, no .legal ground for divorce!' When Mrs: 'Hardman added that she wanted her -divorce he-, cause she was now in love with' a good man who was prepared to marry her, the lawyer gave her this advice: - "You can' move from this state into another where the divorce laws will enable you' to get rid of your husband. You will have to, qualify, by resi- dence, so that you can claim you belong to that state. Then you can remarry." "And come back to my home in New ,York?'.! "yes", said the lawyer, "but, remember the law of this state, That law will say you are still married to your first husband and that your .sec- ond marriage is void." In Reno, Nevada, the hotels are always crowded with wo- men. Some are young and pretty, some 'middle-aged and fading, some elderly and no longer glamorous. They have come to Reno be- cause the divorce laws of Nev- ada are the loosest in the United States, with, the wildest range of grounds, froin unfaithfulness to so-called mental cruelty and incompatibility, plus the short- est qualifying period of resi- dence. But what is the value of a Nevada divorce? The answer is that in many states in the Union it does not count as' a valid dissolution of a marriage contracted in an- other state. All ,these complications and marriage tangles are due to one single circumstance -- that each state .makes its 'own divorce laws. There is' no single divorce law for the United States as a whole. As a result, fantastic situa- tions are occurring all over America. And there •will be more and more, .for in ten years' time, say' the statisticians, more than half American marriages will be ending in divorce. Arnold K. Schmidt married his wife" in the State of New York. He divorced her in Reno, Nevada, He next remarried in Connecticut. His New York attorney ex- plained to his client that this second marriage was not recog- nized in New York. He told • his "wife," who became hysterical. She was a good Baptist and was 'very shoCked to learn• that the union was illegal: If she felt like that about it, said the easy-going, Arnold K., he would soil.* fix up a divorce to end the marriage that was, only a marriage in Connecticut. All now seemed ironed-out satisfactorily, and a pretty blonde being in the offiing, Ar- nold IC, had another attempt at finding Marital bliss. He mar- ried his blonde — in New Jer- sey. Asked about his marital situa- tion at the time, Arnold K. re- plied: "I sure have been mar- ried befere, but the wife I've just divorced in Connecticut was not really my wife at all according to the State of New York divorce law." Well, he was told, that'll do for New Jersey, but it won't apply in either Connecticut or New York. Every time you en- ter those states together, you aren't man and wife. Alice B. Jones lived in the State of Rhode Island and got married there. To get a divorce she had to qualify in another state, because -Rhode Island divorce law, like that of the State of New York, is exceed- ingly sticky. So Alice B, tried Idaho, where they are fairly easy-going. She then returned to Rhode Island and married again. This second marriage, how- ever, peeVed Mr, Jonas, and he applied to the Rhode Island courts for a ruling that the. Ida- ho divorce' was not Valid iii Rhode faland a- and got it. And Where Was Alice B. then? Was she a bigamist? Or was het- second marriage valid? Thotigh the names a re changed, this Was the situation in an actual daSe. Arid husband the legally phoney one, being a ptibliC than was unable to stand up to the publicity. Ile had a heart 'attack and died of it. And so. Alice fit, Mourned the Husband who was not her huS,..i hand, and, though divorced in remained married in *44 rcur little' girls were discus- sing how their parents happened to get them. The sfirst little girl explained her arrival by saying: "My par- ents bought me from the doe, tot." Sedoncl girl: "My parents bought Me froth the hospital," Third girl: "My parents bought toe front the stork," The fourth girl thought for a feNV minutes, and then 'proudly Stated, "We ate very pbor, and rM hotrieihade.." VCIP43RADE, CLAS0064-Junicir might get better grades f. is ichoolroath resembled this made!, built as a special "study project, tanribineS the latest ideas 'on heating, seating, light- Ing and, decOration. 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