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The Brussels Post, 1961-01-05, Page 4()lymph; Athletes Call The Tunes Italian Bald Must Play Thera EAKNIF4X OLDFI E.4) snglitly horrified, "I, now !rave individual mmr.vegz-., .004ppiogozpvp4411gR=sTams* lawn specialists. If • you do, you may get ridges or irregular: growth on the turf, The thing to do is alternate the chrectioh of mowing from .1IMO, to time. promotes uniform .appettrance and helps control creeping week as welt more than 102,000. sheets of Masic," Whose ..enthein will be oulnner oite On. the 1900 Olympie "hit peeede?" "We expeet to play American. and Soviet music the most," he says. "I hope. it will be a little. more American than 'Russian." Batter That's Bread Different EYES ON THE FARMER.' -e-Captein of John Kennedy's national agricultural committee is Cov, Herschel Loveless of Iowa, He stands with the Democratic presidential nominee In le a eee Pore Tvlass., where the two diecussed agricultural phlicy. Toothie Took His Chickens Along Newspaper Enterprise. lion, (NEM — Could you live with, 10.2„000 sheets of musie. OreWaing you? If yew name is: maestro Do- eneniee •Fentini„ you must. The • thousands. of Olyeeme ietitletes assembled iu Rome for the .Ceeinee will call the tune — or national anthem — which. will be played in honour of their victory performances. It's up to maestro Fantini and his Carat binieri band, or any one of 4,v0 others, to play .any of •throe :longs. • If the International Olympic Committee accepts Ethiopia, 8e nations will be represented here. • Whether the country has only five men entered. (Liberia) or some 400 (United States and the Soviet Ueionn it has a national anthem which might be played.. In addition to playing these songs, the ,Carabinieri band also will perform in the • Olympia. opening and closing ceremonies, both heavily loaded with music. At one point, the band will synchronize with the 100-voice National Academy of St. Cecilia choir. During the Oamese the Cara- binieri band, along with those representing the Italian air force (90 Pieces): the guardia di •fin- One reason for poor stands ot. grass beneath shade trees Could be this; competition from the. tree for $93 nutrients; the, tree will naturally come out on top, Horticultrlsts suggest fertilizing the tree, riot, punch bo10# (about 3 feet deep) around the tree as far out as the spread of branches. Then add any lawn• grade fertilizer to the, • holes, Rates may be based on the trunk diameter at shoulder • height; about 3 pounds for every. inch. of diameter, Don't use paint to cover those bark wounds on your trees; it's a common, but useless, remedyi and often does the tree harm, Here's what to dot trim the bark off with a sharp knife to form a boat-shaped wound rather than a ragged one. Coat the bark and cambium with shellag,. Smooth, off the wood and paint it with a disinfectant such as creosote or corrosive sublimate, Avoid the use of -these materials on 'the cambium itself, e :0 Cockroaches at the cottage? Entomologists suggest chlordane for control. Direct it as spray or dust into cracks and crevices, Where the cockroaches often hide out, Don't let the chemical come into contact with eating utensils, etc. Campers' are re- minded that cleanliness is the most effeetlye control measure; clean up scraps, ,crumbs or any food material that the pests could feed on. C. If lawns don't respond to fer- tilizer treatment, it might be due to high soil acidity; a soil test from the Ontario Department of Agriculture will tell the story, Send samples to the Soils De- partment, Ontario Agricultural College; Guelph, High acid cone • ditions can be corrected with finely ground limestone, applied as a topdressing, When rose blooms fade, cut them, say horticulturists. By so doing, you'll get more flowers, Make sharp, slanting cuts, hear the top five-leaflet leaf. Hot Tips. For The .Gardener ivg00. comA(`'ooNs: Collecting IMd. mounting weeds can • be an interesting and 're- warding hobby to anyone whlo enjoys roaming about the coun- tryside, particularly if he makes e point of learning some new fact about each. plant in his col. lection.. Right now, there is. probably • the greatest variety of weeds in bloom. Wild Carrot is often the most common. It may not be the most beautiful, hut it's. good enough to be sold as an ornamen- tal under the pseudonym of Queen , Anne's Lace.. Toadflax., with the • two-tone yellow flowers, beers • a close eesernhiance to the snap- dragon family, Chicory, blue, weed and a variety of thistle's. may all be found blooming un. Choose specimens that eve. in bloom; ieclude flowers, stem; leaves and, if possible, a section of root. Your first trip will probably yield about twenty of the commoner weeds. After that, build up your collection with rarer species, To make a fairly complete collection, you'd need to start in the spring, so keep in mind this. is to be a continuing project. Set a goal, probably a sample of each weed described in "Weeds of Ontario'„ Bulletin 505, avail- able to adult residents of On- eerie f r ore the Information Brandh, Ontario Department of Agriculture, Parliament Build- ings, Toronto. Fresh weed samples should be pressed and d r i e d between sheets of newspaper or blotting paper. Several weeds may be dried at once; use a -flat board on top and Weight it down,. Dried specimens sho u Id be mounted on stiff paper, using narrow strips of cello-tape, At- tach a note with name of weed, place collected and date for each weed, :One warning: Don't col- lect poison ivy, APHID KNOWS NO SEASON The .aphid is one garden pest that makes the most of the gar- dening season, He's in business from early spring till late fall, And it seems that his taste in- cludes every garden. plant you can think of.. Aphids, or plant lice, are small, • 'soft-bodied, .sap-sucking insects, Most species are green in colour, although some may be • red or black. Usually, you can find them ea new, tender plant shoots, at the base of the flower buds, or on any part of the plant that shows rapid growth. Young rose shoots are often victims,. There's plenty of damage, too, The leaves of attacked plants become curled ands yellow or reddish in colour. Growth is often retarded and, in severe cases, plants 'have been known to die. Entomologists suggest mala- thion or nicotine sulphate for best control. Both materials will do a better job if applied dur- ing hot weather. Use one of the following mixtures, • 25% malathion wettable pow- der—. 4 level tablespoons per ' 'gallon of water, • 50% malathion sulphate-11/2 teaspoOns per gallon of water. 4 40% nicotine sulphate — 1 dessert spoon plus 2 level tablespoons of soap chips per gallon of water. If you prefer to use dusts, try 4% malathion dust • or • 3 or Sces • nicotine dust. GARDEN SHORTS Out thing that's bound to spark up any meal is a beme• baked loaf (af bread. But many housewives hesitate to bake their own bread because they don't have the time to spend long hours in preparation, especially If they are unstire of the end re- sult. However, nowadays baking with yeast is not nearly as com- plicated as some people think, Many recipes are so simplified that the time involved is no more than that required for ordinary baking. And rigid testing of recipes before their publication ensures even the novice baker of successful results. Typical of the many yeast products that can be made in double quick time is this recipe for .Anadema Bread, Families who enjoy the unusual will love, this robustly flavored bread made with cornmeal and molas- ses. And there's no need to knead the dough. The ingredients are mixed in one bowl, turned into the baking pan and allowed to rise just once before baking. Af- ter the bread has baked, the top is brushed with butter or marg.. arine and sprinkled with corn- meal. For a special treat, serve Anadama Bread with butter and jelly, while it is still warm from the oven. ANADAMA BREAD Yield — 1 loaf 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal 2 teaspoons salt 3 tablespoons shortening N4 cup molasses 1/2 cup boiling water 1/2 cup lukewarm water 1 teaspoon granulated sugar 1 envelope active dry yeast 1 egg 21/2 cups once-sifted all-purpose flour Measure. cornmeal, salt, short- ening, molasses and the 1/2 cup boiling water into a large boWl; stir until well blended. 'Keep at room temperature. Measure the S'S cup lukewarm water, Stir in the sugar. Sprinkle with yeast. Let stand 10 minutes, then stir well. Stir dissolved yeast, egg and 1a . cups of the flour into lukewarm cornmeal mixture. Beat until smooth and. 'elastic. Stir -in remaining 1 3/4 cups flour and blend well. Turn• out the rather sticky batter into a greased loaf pan (41/2 x 81/2 inches,' top inside measure) and spread evenly. Cover. Let rise in a warm place, free from draft, until doubled in bulk — about 11/2 hours. Bake in a moderately hot oven (375 deg. F,) 45 to 50 mina-es, co'ilering -loaf double thickness of brown paper after the first 20 minutes. To test loaf: tap the top crust (which bee comes quite brown) with the knuckles; when bread is baked, the sound should be hollow. Turn out immediately and place on a wire rack Brush top with melt- ed butter or margarine and Sprinkle with a little cornmeal, Allow the loaf to cool complete- ly before storing. Don't always cut the same way when mowing the lawn, advise TIGHT- L IP PE D—A concerned Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S, am- . bassador to the United Nations, sits tight-lipped during emu• gency session of 'the Security Council on the Congo situation. Lodge is the Republican vice presidential nominee. "There are too many young men who think the world owes them a living," states a news- paper. They invariably grow up into old men who blame the world for their failure. Toothie is a small Pakistani boy who lives next door to us with his eight brothers and sis- ters. Ile is around seven, with black hair and shining eyes, no teeth at all in front, and a smile to charm the birds from the trees. He Is a dreadful person. Ile has intimidated twelve men working on 'a new apartment house next door. There is no ex- change of conversation. Toothie speaks solely ' what might be called Edentate Urdu — but he watches them. His critical eye trues up wall faces and floor planes (the plumb line and spirit level seem to be used but spar- ingly in Turkish building). And I have seen grown men, after the boy's stare, go back and reshape surfaces and angles, cold eye meeting cold eye. Toothie does not go to formal school, though he has been at- tending some classes run by an- other Pakistani mother for her own children. She is a graduate in pedagogy and she told me recently: "I teach them English, French, and a little beginning arithmetic. The boy learns so fast I can't keep up with him, I was giving them the tables of threes, I turned my back and there he was, acting out three tithes three, Something will have to reduce him to size, but what? And to leave him untrained," she added quietly, "is to waste an intelli- gence which is one of our most precious-assets." And Toothie seems to be an ar- dent disciple of the current Ame- rican shibboleth, "entering in," I came home one 'day to our fourth-floor apartment to find the boy standing in our draw- ing room, band in pockets, sur- veying the preee: I had the door- key still in my hand. He grinned, unconcerned, and taking my hand, showed. how he had climb- ed from his balcony to ours — it is a sheer drop to the Street over a waist-high balustrade of iron lace. He climbed back and I swallowed hard when he stood clear on. his own balcony again, But in the late afternoon, when the whole family goes out for a walk, a flower garden of small heads nodding above taw- ny and scarlet and pale green trousers and jackets, the boy marches behind with a proud strut. He kicks at boulders, pos- sessively, stern eyes upon the world; at this' moment he Is an anachronism of seven, watchful, pompous, and tough. And at this moment his favorite sister, about anza (90); the public security police (90); streetcar and bus employees (75) and the traffic police (70), will be rotated to play the national music Of event winners at all stadiums where medals are awarded. Maestro Fantini (Captain, if you like military titles) is con- scious of his responsibility, He has conducted the 102 - piece Carabinieri band for 13 years. Fantini and his band toured e-ice Usse York, Washington, St, Louis, Chicago and., as, he puts it, "en Oklahoma even." Even before he donned his Carabinieri uni- form, Fantini was considered to be one of the country's finest musicians and professors of music, of La. Scala and Milan Opera caliber. A year before Fantini was to pick up his baton and lead his band in Olympic numbers on Aug. 25, 1960, the International Olympic Committee began dra- gooning piano copies of the an- thems from countries represent- ed. From these versions, Maestro Fantini worked up •instrumental copies for his Carabinieri band and the other five groups, "In my • library," he says, ered his arearn-and coffee-col- ored legs to the boot-heels. And bootheels they were, for some- one had equipped the boy with an American cowboy suit, He clanked with small hardware, On his head sat a cowboy hat; in his arms he carried a shapeless paper sack, It was seething with frustrated life. We were tote far above the street to hear more than some -feeble noises. But Toothie's fa- ther, walking ahead, turned and looked at his son sharply, He said something crisp in Urdu. Toothie looked up from under the wide hatbrim and answered. The father jumped as if he had been pricked, but the five young uncles, looking up from their loading, exploded into a roar of laughter, And suddenly we knew. A lean and raffish cat had been living with her kittens in our basement. She had a clagage, bootless air which had apparent- ly endeared her to Toothie, for we used to see them together, the cat defiant and yowling, Too thie patiently picking up her young and forcing her to cherish them. He hadn't gathered the mother into his sack, wise enough intuitively' to know she'd make her way somehow, But Toothie, a gentleman, couldn't abandon his dependents; he was intent on conveying them to se- curity in Karachi. The six tall men stood looking at the child, his face small and pale under the hatbrim. The mother had emerged from the doorway, her soft face strained and unhappy. Then the father said something quietly, to his younger brothers, and solemn- eyed, they nodded. The man leaned down and kisSed his son, and one of the uncles, quick and tactful, swung the child up into the loaded wagon. Toothie's tall scholarly father put an arm around the mother's shoulders, We couldn't hear what he said, of course, but it must have been something like; "Don't cry — the boys will be good to him. And my mother will see him often, It's only a little way from our village, remember? And you can go home next fall and see the boy." The mother nodded and stood patting mechanically the sleep- ing baby, We expect sonic time to see Toothie again; perhaps when he's fifteen and probably running an . overall factory. At thirty-five he'll be a dead certainty as can- didate for Prime Minister. At fifty — oh, we needn't worry about that — it will he Toothie's world by that time and he'll know what to do with it! three — the one we call The Doughbaby — conies up and takes his hand, She is fat, with black hair always in her eyes, but he picks her up and holds here, kicking, against his flat stomach, a proud paternalism in his gaze. What happened was that Ave youne ° uncles arrived suddenly from Pakistan. They had driven overland from Karachi and -their dusty station wagon was piled high with food cartons and gas drums, water bottles, sheepskin coats, copper trays and bright- colored bundles. The tall, un- shaven crew -tumbled out, hand- some, dark, ilith flashing white teeth. They 'began to pound themselves free of dust, shout- ing greetings at all nine of Toothie's family waving franti- cally at the windows. The children came frothing out to carry things in, Behind them marched the young men, laugh- ing and embracing shoulders and scattering magic like charac- ters from a fairy story. We didn't see much of the fam- ily for some days; there was party after party. The young men went to their Embassy in proper dinner clothes, with girls in exquisite saris. There was tea at all hours and homesick young wives earning to call for news from upland villages; rides out to the park at the water darn; songs at night which sent up memories of evenings of our own in the high Hindu Kush when the nomad tribes were passing. At last, of course, the day of parting, I met Toothie's mother in the hall: she gave me a ceremonious how, her head turned aways She had been. weeping,. Toothie's fa- ther and one of his 'brothers stood talking, quietly. The moth- er stayed a little apart, her face covered, But she nodded silently as they all turned and went in, And then, of course, the news was all over • the apartment. Toothie was going home with his uncles. He was to go to' school in the Himalayan foothils, up near Rawalpindi, where his fa- ther and his uncles had been educated, writes Hazel Bruce in the Christian Science Monitor. "He is all for it, excited," my slight teaching friend told me as we met in the hallway. "It is, of course, what must happen, The child is too Valuable to let him waste here ... he will speak good Urdtt and some other lan- guage when he is through there — English and French, of course, and a little Arabic — enough to read the Koran, certainly. And he will be trained for govern- ment; our. capital is moving up that way, you know, and we must have more able Young peo- ple to serve in it." "I know," I protested, "you are right. But how is Toothie going to get along, thrust out of this * warm nest of young puppies?" Her thin face finished. "I know," she said. "I went through it, too, But I was older. Ile is young enough to forget .— may- be!" The gaiety went on for another day: then at five in a chilly dawn, We heard the station wagon be- ing loaded. All the Toothie Pants ily was up, cerryifig things out and. running back for things for- gotten. Toothie's mother stood, ti silent, shawled figure just in-' side the doorway. She held The Doughbaby in her arms. The competent young men were packing; one was checking With a skilled hand things :tie, chanical, A aroalI brightly ,paint- ed tin trunk Wild Out to the arms of a young 'uncle, And then came TOOthie. Ito was in clothes such as 'We hod navel' seen him Wear; topper, rivoicd pair of levls Which cove DRIVE CAREFULLY The life you save may be your own. How Can , I? by Roberta Lee Q. How can I make easier the job of Scouring the inside of an oven that is encrusted with bait, lug drippings? A, After first turning off the pilot lights, place a, bowl of household am/noble in the oven And close the door, Fumes from the aMe1011ie will loosen the charred drippings, making them niuch easier to remove. Fat Seldom able to use Mote than about half my tubes of howeliold cement, beetuise they become hardened. How can I remedy this situation? . A. You can keep your tubes Of household cement usable to the last drop, if, after using it yon replace the cap Carefully, Put the tube into a small screw, top jar, and Close it tightly. Q, Do yell have any good eitge geatiteis on hiw to keen- glass coffee-table tope tied Mirrors emitting? A. YOU can accomplish this With a rhinitrium attend of *voiles just by wiping them with a dampened neWspaper, then Pelfebing with a dry one. Thil systetzi leaVes tie residue, Is seS es, MODON botniteettrig the Scene at Munich,. West Gen. Morey, a highly rOcidernistk portrayal of The Loot Sinter' rises above MUnidh Archbishop Wendel a. fie ceiebnatcs in ass tiurItiO the: Oetinerietic Congress, The iJuitetioy olltr wag sal' reboot% I ste'inz r6lciiietro HUI). TOTAL INC THE R LTS--drice President Richaid M. Nixon, right, the OOP piicsi. tlentiza nsrairee, talks over .results of his enninekst Rees to 1Thwaii with Stn. Hiram L. Peng' (11-Haweil). ;I:s`r.ar4, acconupt-tletl 4:(.,11,1t