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The Brussels Post, 1957-04-17, Page 2Unique Plastic Heart. Valve Saves a Life A few weeks ago Ruth BrOwn..wOs .totally crippled. Though only 22 she could 'not breathe lying down, her blood pressure and heart beat were almdleout of control. .The slightest exer- tion caused her heart to fail. Her heart pumped blood into an artery but it ran right back into the heart because a .valve was not functioning properly. But advanced medical science has given her -life back to her. A man-made plastic valve, right, now controls the -blood from her heart. It was inserted by a skilled team,of reported at St. MaryHospital, using a delicate technique first reported in 1954. A newly developed heart pump ;is used to detour the circulatory system while the valve is inserted, TABLE TALKS *eical Ardttths. TRAIL-BLAZER—Vhe public will soon be able to see a model: of the very first horrie radio set ever put on the market 7. way back in the radio dawn of 1965, In a ceremony at Dearborn, Hugo Gernsback, 72-year-old inventor, presented models of his transmitter and receiver to the Henry Ford Museum, Gems- back's right hand rests on the transmitter model. The entire outfit cost $7,50 when it first went on sale, ass 4., Vitt:fob-04 iikAGUELcilyrook champ 44* rola.'Connolly and itsbride, Czech . Olympic Marriage in isrague. The' earttiollysl Were:. triarried lit three teremOrietefVil,: Catholic arid: Protestant, ThotitaridS Czechs left 'offices, shops' and halite§ to cheer and dance lit - streets 01 CdoPle wei wed biggest niarrtocioitio• aridIerit City hat--seen In huridiedit, -of years. star Olga Fikatovci Ord' :flonkeel Eiy Ciedi athletes Mr., arid Mrs.. Emit Z a t o p e k after their . PNIMMVOMOVAZiA.M., • , , ...... . Even in his early Jaya at San Viege gee It was obvious that fire chimpanzee, Trader, bad totter developed business 111- atineta than Mast chiMpt# lie was. always searching his cage gor Odd bits of wood ea Other material which he would then offer to anyone who was stand- ing#areand. It was his way of shePPing# for he expected some tit-bit in return, And he got it, So much to that he went in continual danger of overeating. But Trader's stay at San Diego Old not last for very long. One day a psychologist happened to ViSit the zoo, and was most in- bigued by his behaviour. He egan to wonder h o w far Trader's business faculties might be developed, and he persuaded 'the authorities to sell him, At home he set about systema- tie training. The first thing to do was to develop a sense of money-- the idea that only cer- :ten thing& could be used to buy good T. and for this the psycho- logist chose poker chips, Trader soon got the idea, Whenever he wanted anything • fetched a poker chip from a box at one end of the room. He banded this over and was at once given his reward. Could Trader master the use 'at coins of different value? The dingle box of mixed poker chips was replaced by four boxes, each containing chips of a dif- ferent colour. Whenever he fetched a red chip and paid it In he was given a piece of atrange.A slice of banana cost a White chip, and a piece of bread tt green one. In a matter of a few weeks Trader had mastered this simple Monetary system, and certainly used it to the best advantage. At Yale University Dr. Wolfe las carried similar experiments with half a dozen chimpanzees a a• dd deal further. The animals lave learned to use, a slot ma- at !chine and also to work for their chips. A special slot machine Was devised that would deliver sa grape each time a chip was 5stserted. Small brass counters were also supplied, and although They would go into the slat, they did not produce a grape. After a very few lessons all alx chimpanzees had not only learned to put chips and cows- Urs into the slot machine, but were already discarding the tro • *I' a -1 " ........ . .r r, .0:410 agt r:' 'tfiltt 0.90 t clAti TASTE FOR ART—Unlike the Baltimore zoo's famed' fitiger.paint- ktibchkr,IP Aelsyra'jfie,tl.incit4tatc#oo's ,Ahlnpanzee, proved a fornpiete bust at an artist. He ate the art Stuff up — but only 'literally, In 'd sessibh Withliffiger paints and canvas he produeed NO salable paintings—just gooey smears. Then he proceeded to ' 14 hit own Worst critic and Started chewing up the carivat: Just How To Catch a Trout brass counters as they rOalized that these gave them, no re, ward. From then on whenever a mixed handful of chips and, counters was thrown down on to the floor there was an unseemly scramble for tho chips, and much snatching from ono another. But the counters ware completely ignored. Dr, Wolfe's next aim was to see how far chimpanzees could learn to work for a reward, and for this he constructed 4 work. machine. This consisted. ,of a handle requiring an 18 lb, force to move it, When it was lifted to its maximum extent, a grape was revealed and could be picked out. This happened every time the handle was lifted, so that the total reward was proportional to the amount of work done. The idea was mastered in two Or three day, The chimps had now learned the value of money, and they had also got the idea of work- ing for a direct reward. Were they capable of learning to work, not for grapes, but for money that could be then used to buy grapes? To find this out 12)r. Wolfe modified his work machine so that when the handle was lift- ed a poker chip appeared in- stead of a grape. The slot ma- chine from which grapes could then be bought was standing in another part of the room. Sure enough all six of them soon got the hang of this, and there was much rushing to and fro between work machine and got machine. Now came the stiffest test of all, designed to bring the chimps more into line with the wroking man, who does his work for money which he will not spend immediately but some'time later. First of all the work machine was made available on its own, the slot ma- chine only being brought in an hour later. This delay was grad- ually extended until chips work- ed for one day could not be spent until the next. Once again the chimps under- stood, but the interesting thing this time was that different in- dividuals showed different re- actions. There were the thrifty ones, who were quite content to work hard and save their money until the opportunity arose to spend its Others, though, obviously corresponded to the human spendthrift. They were most reluctant to work un- less they could claim an im- mediate reward, and conse- quently usually had very little money behind them when the slot machine appeared. Does security make people less willing to work to the best of their ability? Hard to say, but it seemed to be the case with the chimps, even the more thrifty ones. If he was broke when the owork machine arrived, the most energetic member of the party usually worked" very hard, lifting the handle at least 100 times. But if he was given thirty chips to start with he would only bother to work for about a dozen more. Money often brings out the worst in man, and it seems to have had a similar effect on some of the chimps. With in- creased money came moral de- gradation. Some attempted to monopolize the weak machine and amass fortunes they could not hope to spend, and although they would not think of snatch- "sing food from each other, they would stop at nothing in their efforts to rob one another of Friendly Foes NOSE KNOWS —.Still in 'per- fect condition after 45 years, this can of beans adds a final chapter to a tragedy. During current Antarctic explorations, it was found in a cache where it had been left by Capt. Robert Falcon Scott in 1911. The food was never used because the party of five perished on their return trip from the South Pole. The can is held by Peter Scott, son of the explorer, after it was opened in Greenford, England, How To Grow Dill If you have never had a big clump of dill growing among your flowers in a sunny, well drained bed, you might be sur- prised to know that this lovely graceful fernlike plant is more than merely a source of ripened seeds to put into a pickle jar. Not only will your dill season some of those cucumbers when pickling time comes around, but you will find a soft stem, strip- ped of its featherlike foliage, chopped into one inch lengths and dropped into a stew or laid in your roasting pan, adds a piquant and pleasing flavor "to many meat dishes. To be sure, after you have put just the right quantity of the ripened seed, vinegar, and brine into that jar you can label it "Dill" and let it vie with your Sour pickleS, you sweet piekles, your "bread-and-butters!' But all the summer a big plant of dill, in the flower bed, provides such a wealth of feathery green that it is a pleasing contrast to the bright /uses Of your Zinnias and rnarigolds. The dill laok.-s very Much like asparagus, which flower lovers often use with cut flowera. Fur- thermore, it has a spiey, pungent odor; not so strong as that which meets the nose tVheri a jar of dill pickles is newly opened, and it IS a fast growing plant In fact I begin outing back our dill in the early spring, or it would be too big for the space, It is an exceedingly generous herb, for once you have raised One fairly good-sized plant, you Will find any number of Si-nailer dills coming Op frerh the parent stalk where its Seeds have fallen or been blown in its vicinity, There Will be'enough seedlings to -give to many Of: you"'' gardening friends, for once their question: itwhat that?" liar been answered, they lee, Wilt Waist dill plants. Stuffed ham slices, baked in the oven, make delightful eat- ing. Of course you can use your own favorite recipe for ,the stuffing, but•this one, using pine- apple is really something spe- dial. STUFFED RAM SLICES 2 tablespoons shortening 3 tablespoons chopped onions 1 quart soft bread crumbs SA teaspoon salt Dash pepper 1 (1 pound) can crushed pine- apple, drained 2 center slices ham, %-inch thick 34 cup brows. sugar 34 cup dry bread crumbs 2 tablespoons melted butter '/4 cup water 1 tablespoon dry mustard 1 tablespoon vinegar: Melt shortening in a skillet, add onions, and sauté until- tender. Combine with soft bread crumbs,. salt, pepper, and pine- apple, Place 1 slice of ham in shallow roasting pan. Spread pineapple stuffing over it; cover with second harp slice. Combine brown sugar, dry bread cruinbs, butter, water, mustard, and vinegar. Spread this mixture •over top ham slice. Bake at 350° F. for 1 hour. Baste occasionally with pineapple juice drained from pineapple. 6-8 servings. * * * If you want to bake a whole or half ham, instead of ham slices, serve it with the raisin sauce. It's good too on slices, of course. RAISIN SAUCE , l43 cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch Vs teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons horseradish 1 tablespoon brown prepared mustard % cup vinegar 1 cup water )h, cup raisins Mix sugar, cornstarch, and salt in a suacepan. Blend in horseradish 'and mustard. Add vinegar and water and heat Un- til mixture becomes clear' and thickened, stirring constantly, Stir in raisins. Makes 11/2 cups sauce, * * Combine mushrooms, cheese and almonds in this Cas-# SerOle, cover it, and cook front 45 to 60 minutes without watch Mg, RICE-CREESE CASSEROLE i4 cup Wined MttaltrOonia) Sterna and pieces 1 cablespeon finely chopPed onioh 1/4 cup coarsely chopped al- monds 1 tablespoon butter 34 cup uncooked :ride 2 tahleapeeita finely thopfted parsley /A cup grated Cheese: teaspoon Salt FeW gtaltiar pepper 1 teaspoon 'Meat ekttaet, PA clips bailing Water and Mushroom liquid • Drain mUshroOrilt, and save liquid; Lightly brown MUSh rOOMS, onion and altriaiitia iir butter. Add riee parsley,. and. grated cheese. Mix thotoughly. Place mixture iii baking dish, Add salt, pepper and meat eXa. teed to the Water arid tritish, rboth liquid, and Dour over ride trilkittre# CoVet, Bake at 350°' it's far 4646' niiiititesj• de fled it After you've had a beef or pork roast for dinner, combine what is left with 'scalloped po- tatoes in an interesting cas- serole. MEAT-POTATO CASSEROLE 6 medium potatoes, peeled and sliced 2 tablespoons, flour 1% teaspoons salt Pepper 2 medium onions sliced 1-2 cups sliced beef or pork 2 tablespoons butter or other fat 11/2 cups hot milk Place a layer of potatoes in greased baking dish and sprin- kle with flour, salt and pepper. Add a few slices of onion and a layer of meat. Continue until all potatoes, anions and meat are used, making the top layer potatoes. Sprinkle top with salt, pepper and flour, and dot with butter. Add hot milk. Bake at 350° F. fore about an hour, or until potatoes are tender. (Bak- ing. time may be cut by par- boiling potatoes before prepar- ing casserole.)' Vessels of Hope It is a happy ceincidence that the good ships Susan Constant, Discovery and Godspeed, should arrive in Washington on the first day of spring, a time of hope and renewal. Nominally, the journey from. England of the pint-sized craft commemorates the 350th anniversary of the arrival of America's. first colon- ists at Jamestown. But it is more than that. The -graceful replicas also serve as a vivid reminder that this land was settled by men who dared to sail an uncharted sea to an unknown destination in • vessels little bigger than a lifeboat on a modern ocean liner. Visitors will be able to inspect the flagship, Susan Constant. A tour of the ship should give a first-hand savor of the great age of adventure and discovery in which the seeds of American democracy were first planted on Virginia's Shores. The pilgrim- age of the three wonderfully named ships acts as a salty tonic in a time when anxiety and timidity blind many of us to the new horizbris of adventure open- ed by the atomic age.-a-Washing- ton Post and Times Herald. -"I have 200 bucks worth of trout tackle, including rods that bend like the neck of a swan. and lures guaranteed to tickle the fancy of any squaretail the lake; I have yakked to tac- kle salesmen behind dozens of counters and X have batted the breeze for nights on end with trout anglers in every fisher- men's bar for 500 miles—but I can't catch a trout!" This annual tale of woe is as common a complaint with the growing army 'of novice anglers as fallen arches, It just isn't possible to solve thisa anguishing problem entire- lY in a few paltry paragraphs; if every new trout fisherman would follow a few common- sense rules there'd be far fewer wails of woe and a lot more fish in their brand-new creels; 1, Pick at first, a small brook known to have trout. It need only be a couple of feet wide winding calmly through a mea- dow. 2, Sneak up on the* stream with soft footfalls and never let your head come within the vi- sion of a potential fish. 3. Step as far from the bank as possible and, gently drop in the lure—such as a warm, a small minnow or one of those little gold spinners. Move the lure carefully, still keeping out of sight of the fish. Let it sink and jerk it slowly to the sur- face. Do this several times, If unproductive, move quietly to another spot. Keep doing this with infinite patience. You are bound to catch a trout. Once you take a fish, you will understand that they can be taken if they are not in the least alarmed and usually only then. 4. Once you have learned the initial lesson, go with confidence to a larger water and, watching how others do it, even attempt the use of flies. If you want to use a dry fly, sneak up on a little hole and drop it gently at the end of a four-foot line on the surface near'the bank. Soon you will understand how trout rise to a dry fly and then you can go on to master the art of casting in your own back yard. 5. To fish in big and heavily fished eastern streams note care- fully the hours, methods and spots used by local fishermen. Then act accordingly. 6. Never invade the fishing territory being used at the mo- ment by another angler and under no circumstances ever tramp heavily around in the water. This is like stalking deer with a 'dinner bell—and other anglers never Orgive ycu 7, Don't worry if early-seaSOn cold-water angling, is unpro- ductive. The colder the water the less the trout feeds. Yoe, should, begin to expect reaetior by around May 34th in northerr wate4s. The angler must rernembel that trout are ,like people. They normally eat only at certain times or when a free breadline (like a sudden hatch of insects) becomes available, The rising and waning light of da,wn and evening usually are the most productive but really large trout often feed only in the black of night. To catch a six-pound brown trout for example keep visiting a good stream until you deter- mirie where one habitually feeds, You can often hear him splash at night at the side of a big pool. Once located, wait for a moonless night, wade carefully in position and cast a big black fly, retrieving it in slow jerks after it has''sunk to the bottom. Do this until your arm is ready to drop off. Maybe sooner than you expect, you'll be fast to him. For' some curious reason, there are few night fishermen working the streams today. A few states do not permit night angling for trout, and certain waters are taboo in other re- gions. So be sure to consult local laws. But, by and large, most Amer- ican trout waters are open to the nocturnal trout angler, and these days they're the one most likely to take really large trout' —rainbows, browns and brooks. One further word of caution about this night-fishing busi- ness; make certain you have test-waded your locations dur- ing daylight so that you can avoid deep holes, The use of a flashlight—or even a match at night usually puts a big feeding fish down for hours, But remember—sneak up on 'em, keep out of sight, avoid vibration, present the lure na- turally and without fuss or fan- fare and don't try to handle, at first, a long line. — By Clay! Seegers in The Police Gazette, RICH DISH Sitting at a table in a high school cafeteria at Ann Arbor, Donald Taylor ordered chicken a la king. The dish was served to him. Imagine his surprise when his questing fork picked out a diamond and gold rim subsequently valued at $400. :assa CRA saa zY? a a n l a, -Tryig to get worndh ,off hitornind sseelna tough lob for. this nightmarish ; fissure in a surrealistic oil paint- ling exhibited in Antwerp, VI- slum, by Dutch painter Johari n, ... Husbands would approp- ;f6,,15:Mcin,S:,.BA,calis it riAte the whole of their wives' Abut' Issue')4`eihd says if'pOrr' egr'nin-gs, reluctantly returning ,copple tired of _each,- thesacialachip when they protest- Other but hopelesy boync14 Criminals and policemen ere not always deadly enemies,. This was clearly shown at the funeral of an old policeman when among the mourners there were several shifty-eyed characters who were certainly not fellow-officers!. In London, recently, ,a detee,. live bad. served as • geant-major in the Commandos arrested a man • for stealing , oOpper from a warehouse, Later, in court, the detective spoke on behalf of his prisoner. He said that the man had served with hint in the Commandos where he had found him to be honest, dependable and highly courag- eous, • "It was a shook for me," said the detective, to have to arrest him on these charges," The magistrate took a lenient view, but told the prisoner that he owed his leniency le what the • detective had said. In New York, in 1940, a girl' Was held up by three bandits and robbed just outside her home. At an identification par- este she picked out• a man as being one of. the bandits, His criminal record meant that ha Would get a. very stiff sentence, but a .detective was positive that the girl had made a mistake. He. spent all his spare time investia gating the case, tracked down a crook with an - amazing re- semblance to the accused, .and secnred , the release of an innocent man. Too Much Money Made Chimps Bums ► 0 ► r.