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The Brussels Post, 1960-08-11, Page 5IN OPERATION A,UNDER CONSTRUCTION, DESIGN IR CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS FLANNINdi STAGES NWT!. Phone Coll 1.11061 A Murder Ring The Bushmss Of Barbecv g ee se. tee „eatisree :sate WHERE IT BEGAN—For Richard Nixon lit storied oon Jon. 9, 1'913, in this frame house at Yorlaa Linda, Calif. Perched on a knoll above an irrigation ditch bordering O. lemon grove, the dwelling was built by Nixon's father. The town [eur- Chased the birth home as a historical site, The Vice President is sihown speaking' at the dedication lost year. total cost of these two programs is, over Ite00 million a year. Premier tee a t teepledeat bombshell at the 9peolog of the • conference with a (emend for e 09-50 split of income and cor- poration taxes. of the present ,system of ecntalteatten payments • was to be maintained. — and #1,1 provinces .except Ontario fay.or them in principle — the total cost, to the F ?dere 1, Government would be around $1.6 bill pp 4, year. As Mr. Frost is aware, the chances of a constitutional. amendment on the F,edreral, Gov- vernment sharing income and corporation taxes on the basis he proposed were nil. Hls Mai 1Mr- pose appeared to he to put the • Provincial ..Government into position where it could impose a sales tax and put the blame on the Federal Conservative -Gov- ernment Any move of this kind could not help 'but further undermine what appears to be ,an, increas- ingly shaky position of the Pie- terfbaker administration. The regent linitdaY we0k-emli, 1.104Y well :have ittnagurairci the. season ,of ibarbecuing for this And whether your equip.- merit is most 'elaborate or very „simple, .satisfactory results are cAttite• possible when a few baste requirements are met. Generally, steaks. .or chops of top grades of beef, pork or lamb, which are cut from the loth and rib sections, are preferred' for barbecuing. Broiling over an open Are is a dry-heat eookieg method and Is best suited to tender cuts of meat. cont.lin ng a reasonable amount of fat inOr- apersed in the lean. • Hamburg patties are very Ceptable when cooked over open .fire, -and Ao are ',spareribs. With ,Oritarlo broiler :and turkey groWere producing abundant tender young birds most suitable. for barbecuing, poultry barbe- cues are also popular. Steaks and chops should be nicked in several places around: the outside to prevent curling during cooking, A little fat on a hot, clean 'grill will keep the -meet from sticking.. Since salt, tends to draw tbe moisture to. the surface and loss of juiciness is to be avoided, don't salt the meat before cooking. For the same reason, use tongs for turn- ing instead of forks which pierce the meat. A - sprinkling can of water for slowing down the fire' is often :useful. Specialists have this to say About the safety angle of barbe- cuing. The fire should be welt clear of brush or buildings, Lighter finid must not be added, to aftre After lighting, Loose, in- flammable clothing should not be worn when one is cooking with an Open fire. The fire should net be left. unattended, especially When accessible to .children est% pets, Barbecue grills shout(' firmly mounted to prevent -tip- ping. The fire should be tom. pletely •exingnished after the meal, 'by. soaking with water. If 'charcoal is the fuel, It' may be . re-used after drying, threatens to become Worse Ws winter than at any time since the "start of the lest war. ftecOgnizing the danger that lies ahead * even if it is 'not Prepared to admit it — the fed- eral government has., already taken steps to meet, 'the problem Restrictions on federal funds for housing construction 'have been eased, The trunicipel winter works construction program has been expanded. The likelihood is that this ,Le only the beginning, An informal committee of cabinet and AA inter-departmental committee of federal officials have been sit- ting for weeks devising ways and means of combatting time prob- lem. It is by now virtually certain that instead of a ,$'12,000,000 Stir- plus, Finance Minister Fleming will produce his fourth budget deficit in a year by the end of the fiscal year. If Quebec Premier Jean Le- sage goes ahead with his plans to introduce .a hospital insurance scheme in January, that alone would wipe out the surplus as a result of an additional cost being placed on the federal treasury of $15,000,000. The verious schemes •adopted by the Govern- .ment to combat unemployment, combined with falling revenues as a result of the failure of the economy to climb by the fore- cast six per cent, are almost cer- tain to add to the deficit. The Government's recent con- cern over unemployment has not been prompted solely by the gloomy forecasts it has been re- ceiving from its economists, An- other factor has been its sharply declining popularity - and the awareness it must take some de- cisive action if it is not to be de- feated at the polls in the next election. The election of the Liberal Government in Quebec came as a crushing blow to the Conserv- atives, who counted heavily on the Union Nationale for support. The defeat of the Conservative Government in New Brunswick was staggering to Prime Minister Diefenbaker and his colleagues, since it was so totally unexpect- ed, On top of this bad news came a report that augered even less well — the Gallup Poll for June. This showed the Conservative support across the country slip- ping badly to 42 per "Cent. From the 22 percentage points that had divided the Conservatives from the Liberals in July, 1958, the margin had now been reduced to two points. In Ottawa late last month the Federal'Government ran into more trouble as it came fete to Pace with its most effective op- position in the cutlery, 'the Pre Mieleof the 10 ptevittes, Prime Minister Diefenbaker had resumed the abortive Do- minion-provincial fiscal confer- ence which 'he adjourned nearly three years ago for "two months" and never reconvened again un- til July in order to begin work- ing out terms for a new tax shar- ing agreement after March, 1961 Strangely enough, Mr. Diefen- baker faced the most trouble from his one-time friend, Pre- mier Leslie Frost of 'Ontario, who had played an Important part in the election of the Fed- eral Conservative Government in 1957, Under the present agreement, Ottawa turns over to the prov- inces 13 per cent of income tax, nine percentage points of cor- poration profits and 50 per cent of succession duties collected within each province. In addition, it provides for the payment of an equalization grant — otherwise known as a subsidy — in order to bring the revenue of each province from these tax sources up to the average of On- tarth and British. Columbia. The WHERE: IT 'BEGAN — For .John F. Kennedy life begun on May 29, 1 917, in this frame 'house on Beals St„ Brookline, Mass, His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, borrowed the dowrt payment on the $6,500 home, Whith today is owned by. Mrs, louts Pollack. Best Fish F. Outdoor Cooking in the fog and dumped it in the kiosk, When I called that day about half-arehour •later, you' couldn't leave well alone. You saw what you thought was the perfect alibi. You had already left the receiver off in the kiosk. You went out, with the excuse you were going for cakes. You got the cakes — then telephoned me from downstairs." "But you would have recog- nized my voice—" I shook my head. "I foetid out about your talent for mimicry when you were at the art scheol." Suddenly, Simon stood up. He nodded. "Okay — I'm sorry I did this to you, Frank — truly sorry. But I don't regret killing that swine. "By the way," he added as we left, "you had one thing figured wrong. The girl Wasn't my sweet- heart. She was my sister. Hindle changed her from a sweet, good girl into a depraved harpy." I knew what he meant. I had found out Hindle's business, too. He traded In human lives — es- pecially good, sweet girls with nice figures. —From "Tit-Bite ; I A SALE TAX FOR ONTARIO About The Coming Grouse Season. South of No, 17 highway there is an eight-week season, Sep- tember 24th to the 19th of No- vember is the open season here, South of a line drawn along the north boundary of Freeman Township to and along No, 69 highway to highway No, 12 and along the highway through the townships of Rama, Mara, Thor- ah, Buck and Reach, in Ontario County. The line then extends along the north boundaries of Whitby, East 'Whitby, Darlington and Clarke Townships. The season here lasts for only seven weeks from October 1st. to November 19th. Bag limits in these areas are five grouse per day with the possession limit of 20 birds. With the advent of the rnuskie and bass season there are bound to be some very large fish caught, specially rnuskies. Who knows, it may be you who will be the lucky one. If this did happen to you and you had no scales you would quite properly feel frustrated. In my notebook I have kept a formula to get me out of this problem. It is surprisingly ac- curate. It looks like this: W equals 1,G2 over 800. W is the weight in pounds. L is the length in inches. G is the girth of the fish in inches. Just suppose that you were lucky to latch onto a trout or bass 2Q inches =long with a 10 inch girth, It 'would weigh as follows (G) girth squared would be 100 inches multiplied by (L) length would give you 2,000. Divide this by 800 and you Will get (WI weight 2.5 or teeo and One halt pounds. A very important thing to re- Member this Strniter, while out tallying is hot 'to be a "litter- bug". 'Clean up all of your *gar- bage; bury it if possible. 1DOn't throw this trash into the water Or bushes, burning it is a good idea. An empty bottle has been known to start a bush fire. The sun's rays magnified and re- 'fleeted through the glass can do the trick, 'When this happens, thousands of dollars worth of damage is ca_ used: NM Only is the valuable bush land destroy- ed but the consequent loSs of wild life is tremendous. Speaking of camping I recent. 13r received brothure of a cattip ing-club. This club seems to file a lot of peoples' wants regarding Wee/nation on where to go, what to buy and where to got the things required, If any reader wishes more retails drop a line to this address. ramily Cavapint Club of America, 808 S. Ned Street, Champaign, Mine& easeteemee ISSUE 38 — 190 Out 'door 'eating has 'torte 1a long "way .since Grandinothell Day, The backyard grill' s stand. and equipment in many families today, As , is portable cooking gear that goes along on a fatuity outing to favorite country, ;sea- shore or "Lakeside haunts, Tlae range of menu item's rot outdoor cookery is increasing too as we experiment With many foods previously 'Considered, strictly for indoor cooking. Fish fillets and steaks don't demand. any particularly fussy treeta malt and they take on 'delight- ful new appeal when cooked Ott a grill Oyer glowing coals, Because of its lefty- tete* Salitioe is one of the best vanes ties lot outdoor beating, Italt hilt; haddock and other Mkt* may be used, although thOr inuar be basted frequently, and it tit beet to rase more oil lit the MO- 1"lisek, rbeeud Salmon Steaks 4 to ft salmon gott, at least Va le& thick Juice of Union tablespoons, salad oil Vs teasPetet tet teaspoon pepper tettaPben dry theater A,teatilett salmon steaks in re. filgerator am; eeinginr tug ingredients and and over" Cover dishand :let htarin. ate in teftigeratot, abont 4 hours. ?Ike on greased Mil ever low glowing toga. dill' ten minutes, tuft and grill Atiotheitt ten min, utes ter until salmon kites easily When tested with a fork. Baste dUring grilling with marinade. Makes 4 to 6 servings. Menus Note: If grill is large enough, grill whole tomatoes along'with salmon, Medium sized tomatoes take about the same length of time as salmon steaks. Cut off stem ends of tometoee scoop out a little of the tomato and add a pat of butter, salt and pepper; Frozen French fries also take smite length of tittle to Cook in oven, Follow direetiont On package. If picnic is away from hbitie, serve with potato china' instead of French fries. had gone. Simon was busy on a new picture. • "Hello — thought you'd never get here. Have some vodka," he greeted me, and. went on paint- ing. I helped myself, then put the drink down without touching it. Simon turned, "You're quiet, and worried. Case getting you down?" I nodded. "Yes — 'and no. ,At least I think I know who killed Charles , . Hindle." "I looked for a sign, but Simon, gave nothing away. "So that was his name? I wonder why he call- ed himself what was it — Fothergill?" "He didn't," I said flatly. "His murderer did that," Simon went on working at the painting. "How did you find out who he was?" "He was identified . . by a girl." /taw his shoulder-blades con- tract for a second. "h?" ' "Yes — someone you ,know • . . It was the girl you painted, Simon." He shrugged, and smiled. "Se? Perhaps I did paint her. I paint many people." I went on, heavily, "The game's up, Simon. Stop play-act- ing. I know you killed Hindle. I think I know how and why you killed him." Ire sat down, pouted a large drink and swallowed it, He was sweating now and his eyes were glazed. "Hindle took the girl. You kill- ed him, You drove his body out sufficiently for me to actOkieze through. Getting the body out was even snore difficole But be- tween us we managed it. Something about the whole set- up seemed weetig — more than filet — ludicrous, The man who had called himself Charles Foth- oral bad been murdered .ap- parently in the last half-hour or so. But my mind was filled with doubts. From experience, J knew how difficult it was to estimate. ac- ' curetely how long .a man has been dead. But I had a feeling this man had been dead ',for much longer than half-an-hour. Yet he had 'phoned me a little over'half- atehour ago, The receiver in the 'phone box was dangling on its wire n which suggested the man had been tele- phoning, And -- 'if I .could pew Have what ,saw, he had been , stabbed inside the box. My trouble is I have a neat sort of mind. And there was noth- ing neat about this case. Hew had the killer managed to •get into the box to stab his victim? How had he found room to de- liver the death blow? For all the .attention it had at- tracted, the murder might have taken place in the middle of a desert — except they don't .have fogs there. The street .eorner, normally quiet, was deserted, "Do you know him?" I asked Simon. He evinced some surprise. "No — should I?" I .explained exactly what had happened. Simon looked con- cerned. "I can't imagine why he 'phoned me. He's a complete stranger to me. Of course, people get to know of my work. Perhaps he was a prospective customer;" I used the kiosk 'phone to re- port to my department, wearing gloves and handling the instru- ment carefully so as to leave 'no prints. My chief ordered me to take charge. I replaced the 'phone and turn- ed to Simon, "Mind if we try an experiment?" I suggested, "Go ahead — anything I can do . , ." Simon entered the box and I squeezed in beside him. A's I'd expected, -it was a job for two men as hu,sky as Simon and my- self. The dead man was a big fellow, too. But it could 'have been done . . . just about. And that was presupposing the dead man wente into the kiosk with someone he knew and didn't suspect.- I saw nothing of Simon for the next week:, My inquiries found nothing but dead-ends at first. There were no prints in the booth — except for the usual hotch-potch one would expect to find. There was nothing on the body to'identify him, not even a tag on his clothes. I instituted the usual routine inquiries and put in some pretty solid foot-slog- ging, Still nothing turned up. The inquest was adjourned and I took the unusual step of issuing a picture of the dead man and a description, appealing for 'infor- mation. On the fourth day I got my first lead — and I didn't like where it led. A young woman offered to identify the body. When I saw her something click- ed. She seemed familiar — yet I knew we had never met before. She cried a little at the morgue. "I know him," she sobbed, "I was afraid something terrible had happened: He's been missing for days." "Then why didn't you report it? Who is he?" "His , name is . . was . . , Charles Hindle." We took her address and let her go. The information was alt I needed to get my teeth into the case. By the fifth day I was sure — but hadn't the proof, I spent two more days going over my facts before I went to see Simon, I looked for the portrait, It MOW Story CYSIL lt)ONSON ei.urctererh have one th.wg in t,,,iturien, Their Grime is always intended to be the perfect One the oho stupid coppers like reeetil wili never solve. Settle 11c wevar, make more eettenete plans then others. The elieslea -tabbing ease nig— oted the letter type of crim- 41,1f mind. On the Lace of it, it wee straieln:torward. But to me, yretbing eves too elaborate, I'm not enre when 1 first be- „ten to suspect that the case tail all it should he, But the roe-tern of events slowly linked eeether fur the . . Simon Bardsley and I had been ..21f,se fiends for a good many i-ors...I-le had a studio in. Chelsea tired was an up-and-coming art- ht and sculptor, Being very much 4, bachelor with no family ties, I 'vein most of my free time at nis place. I experienced an inner satis, ,feetion from the Bohemian et- rnosphere of his flat. Perhaps it was something to do with the fact that my working life was so different — the complete oppo- eite of Simon's unregulated ex- istence. Maybe I was pandering to some hidden inhibitions, I don't know. But I liked his company — and he seemed to like having me around. It was a cold February after- noon. What with the fog that hadn't shifted :for two days, and the icy Conditions underfoot, I was more glad of his brightly lit and cosy flat than ever. When I arrived he was putting the finishing touches to a por- trait. I helped myself to his vod- ka. "You having one?” I asked. He shook his head. "No. I'll nip down to the corner -shop in a minute and get some cakes. Won't take long." studied the portrait—a beau- tiful woman, Simon had •captur. ed. a vitality'and strange 'quality, • something that centred in the eyes and continued, compelling into every feature. "Won't you tell an old friend who she is?" I asked, for the twentieth time since he began ft. Simon stared dreamily into apace, and with poetic exaggera- tion, quoted: "I did but see her passing by . » ." grimaced. "Okay. It's your secret, Go and get your cakes." The telephone rang about -five• minutes after he had gone out. unhooked the receiver without leaving my seat. "Simon Bae'ds- ley's studio. Who is it?" I said. The voice at the other end was unfamiliar. "Is Simon there, please? This is Charles Fother- gill . „ I want to . u gbh . ." The words were choked off. Not gradually as they might when a man has a sudden fit of coughing, but suddenly. I put down my drink and jerked up- right, tensed, "Hello . are you there? Is something wrong? — , The same voice, seemingly pain-filled, croaked with some difficulty: "I . . . I . 'phone. box . . . corn . . . corner ... Sly Street , ." Then I heard a metallic clink and a dull thud. I slapped down the 'receiver and ran to the door. X almost knocked Simon over do the stairs: "Come on! Emergency!" I shouted, We found the body slumped in a corner of the telephone kiosk. There was a long-bladed 'knife aticking out between the shoul- der blades. Simon returned to his car and switched off the engine. Instinc- tively r glanced at my watch. Ratting to crawl threugh the fog, it had taken us the best part of half-an-hour to get to the kiosk. It was a job to get inside the box — and a gruesothe one. Bit by bit we managed to ease the corpse over till the door Opened Oven cleaning may be inat'e easier by placing a ante!! bowl containing half a cup of Ammonia inside and leaving Overnight. The fttrilea Will •loosen the [stetted Mid a,t4ilick flick With a damp clott will leave the enamel Olean And sparkling. Adoleseencet the eeried dat- ing which children begin tilf clue:Atkin the anettrefit. The Federal Government -e never far out of trouble -- le , moving back• into the storm s once again, Soon after it took office in June, 1957, the Diefenbaker ad- ministration had to weather a sharp recession, record postwar unemployment and three stic- cessive deficits of alarming pro- portions, Earlier this year the govern. rtient hopefully believed it' could see a break on the horizon. -Finance Minister Donald Flem- ing predicted, the economy would climb to uhprecedentect heights and that for the first tine in three years he svoald, be able to prodtide a tiny surplus of $12,- 0e0,000. Uneteployrneet, continuing last Winter at levels close to the rec- ords set in the 1953 recession, re- mained as a perplexing problem, but Mr, Fleming expressed con- fide/ice it would vanish in the midst of botattifui prosperity. Tetley the daekeithig clouds are it:Oiling in over the horizon ageht There is a Strong. possi. Witty, as the economists have al- ready forecast, thet Ceiteda is hovering on the brink of the Most serious teeesSiert shied the depression days, tinenitticeettent OILYMtite PRIZE This is the face side — of one of the .6i041* coveted rd 3 In dtillie,kg, tho 01 ti Medal', The figure of Weary hold's the tiadition IdUrel *Wreath. The OM et thli yeas' are l,t Rome„