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The Brussels Post, 1961-01-26, Page 6eseeeSee. ^!.7.'"••• Suffering Africa"... Wgtor Cconversion Rooms: Strin the Christian Science. -Everyone knows •that' if salt. water is boiled and the Steam es lea n e ( 41 ve distilled it isf irtnosill e( water Sr ips. for a t years. The problem is the cost, The Vatjleirtewdill States s hOOfw itsfiee of. Saline Free- port, Texas, plant turns put and will then turn attention to San Diego, California, Its plant there starts prodncing next summer, It uses what is called a multistage flash distillation distillation process capable of producing fresh water at a million gallons per day, The At- Energy Commission will supply the necessary heat at _San Diego from an experimental IOW- temperature, low-pressure atomic reactor, So that's the science fiction hint for the •future, Atomic en- ergy turns salt water to drink- ing water so more people can- live on a crowded earth! As time goes on„ the OSW will bring in new plants — which it hopes will be gushers one at Webster, S,D., one at Roswell, N.M., and finally one somewhese on the East'Coast, site- not_select- ed. This. fifth one will use a freezing process for conversion. „CONTROLLED BY • LUMUMBA SUPPORTERS THE CONGO SQUAT OS, CONTROLLED'BY KASAVUDU GOVT. ‘r, '"?.'•'‘..s. . Kivu.': •ieoessenvseee --• „ 0 .• • -17I NMARM B LEOPOLDVILLE -: -4* v. - • :%,,,44;ek :LUALAA vcz, "New State CONTROLLED by MWAMOA and UMW MA MONO VseaZ3 ...... fieita .4'"--:CONTROLLED BY TSHOMBE GOVT. The Congo,• one-third as large as , the United States, has been sliced up by differing factions. New state of Luplaba has been formed ,by followers ,af depos- ed Premier Patrice Lumumba. It followed the breakaway ex- ample of Katanga State under MOishe Tshombe, Albert Kasai 's Kasai mining 'state 'and Atoine Gizenga's pro-Lulumba, regime in -Kivu and, Oriental •province. • An emaciated., Baluba .tribes- woman and her son sprawl on a road above, near Bakwan- ga, too exhausted to continue. Hundreds of natives are starv- ing because of intertribal War- fare. A refugee center took them in. GINGER ALE SALAD 2 and we fairly gasp With wonder at the magnificence of the scene below us, 'Here are coral gar- dens that might have been plant- ed and tended by fairies; so strangely different eteeethey from the gardens Of our previous ex- perience, Delicate, finely branch- ed coral trees and shrubs, corals like giant mushrooms, corals re- sembling enortriatts fans, corals arranged in tiers like a Buddhist temple, coral grottoes, coral c a v'8 S, corals infinite In their variety, pass by as we slowly and quietly move ever the ,sur- face. . Their colours are, restful sr4- ther than brilliant. A hedge of likht blue - itegheene coral con- 'Vests with one of, s,,itik; branches of lavender are thrown into re- lief by.bOrders ofrose red, Here ,' and there thestoval shettbs are variegated,; palegreee stems are tipped with ntaities,..„ like buds about to bureeinfarbloom; bright •yellow lerae4hee tipped with pale ,bluee pale „fawe ; (,toped with . 'heliotrope. The'shape and colour I are limitless , ! , : Whenever we look, fishes, un- ' aware of, or at least undisturbed by, our presence, wino e lazily about the Maze of eprel growth. afepareiftly proud of the beauty that surrounds them, Or is it pride in their own beauty? They at least have every reason to be proud, for nature has adorned ' ,them, , with lavish prodigality. . . s . • Their, colours , are indescrib- able' — they liVe; ‘nd their shapes and patterns 'beggar des- caption' Small depoiselles, three oedloitr 'inches long aderned with a • bale of 'evonderfee. purity, , some :with golden Oils, vie with others of a'uniform. green shade rare in the world above , . Rere we, see coral rood, brilliant scarlet inleid mp „withe,line -blue Spots; red eeror of a pearly lustre with red bands in the shape of a broad arrow;, sweet- lip emperor iridescent silvery ,-, blneswith bleed -red markings on "' the fins and 'body; parrot fishes adorned with the coat of Joseph, and many others equally beauti- ful. Beautifei 'Bridge. Promotes Suicide Ws the longest single span, in the world, and the :Most tel. Rust-red, it soars across the Oolden gate „.frorn, the green Slopes of the Presi•ditio of San rraneisca t.:4,-1<arkn''44.41,b1.•pwa bills, 8,940 feet. Vi„ all, Tourists come from all over the world to • look upon it, especially at sun- set when it glows,---but some • come Seeking. death.. The .first was Harold Webber. On Aug. 8, 1937, just '73 days after it opened, Wobber went for. a Stroll across -• the'.Golden .. • Gate Bridge with -Sucl- defiln tie tOele raft;' his ,Coat and vaulted the shouting: "This -where Ie,get,' ()ff.". l lc .lied' en instant ,after hitting the water; 238 feet ' inonth,• -1,Wo across the 'bridge saw a • woman climb the rail and jump.; • Mrs, Iva' L. -Mazueeli, a 394,eer- stsid housewife, • the „wife o1 printer, didn'e leppw it, bet she was establishing a milestone -, of sorts, She was the 200th person to plunge from the bridge, make, ing it poseibly, the most, lethal span in the watid as as the longest and most beautiful.. • The -'2006 Wave • included dis- Iraeghe'smert a end ''.w6inenl' frOm. `all walks of life—businessmen, laborers, Skid. Row bunisc• hotiee- ! • • eieivese the ydttni and the • (Their average age: 47). Only one oe,thern survived the plunge, • - pretty' Cornelia Van Terland. Oh 'September afternoon in 19,4,, he 22-year-old San Pranciseo. „girl jumped from the bridge "on' eudden impuleeee Falling feet first, At body :ea:planed by the sts that .swirl..aronme the *Golden Gate; she slice& cleanly' ::into the water, suffering - only bone. fractures in her arms and back. - What is this fatal attraction the Golden Gate --Bridge has? Why did. Webber, jump lt?: Or Miss ".17.-an Ieeland? Oz''' Mrs. 141a-zurek, who-didn't leave A note explaining and whose husband said "she had been, very cheer- ful"? San Franciscans, who take a grisly pride in the span's re- cord of death, have a dozen dif- • fererit theories. Dr. s.-r. Haya- kawa, the noted - authority bn general Semantics and professor of language arts at San Frail- -eine State College, thinks it's the very beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge that draws those bent on self-destruction, if only unconsciously. "The fact that suicide is many times more fre- quent off the Golden Gate Bridge (than any othet).. is a com- ment on both •the esthetics and psychology of suicide." — From NEWSWEEK. 2 tablespoons unflavoured gelatin cup cold water Vs. cup sugar 1,1 teaspoon salt el/4 cup lemon juice -tee cup orange juice 2 cups ginger ale 2 cups diced fruit—pineapple, banana, orange 3,4 cup chopped celery I/2 cup chopped nuts Soak gelatin in cold water, dissolve over hot water. Add su- gar, salt, and fruit juices; dis- solve -sugar and salt thoroughly. Cool and add ginger ale. When mixture begins to thicken, add fruit, celery, and nuts. Pour into lightly greased molds and chill, Serve with -mayonnaise. Serves 8. TABLE TALKS Jam- Ancir ew We return from our tour of the submerged coral gardens filled with intense satisfaction, feeling that we have come to earth from another world, a etrange world entirely different fforn that to which we belong, and we wonder whether it can all be true. — From "Wonders of the Great Barrier Reef,' by T. C. Roughley. If You've Got A Cold — Just Be Patient Coral Gardens Under The Sea The batter should be poured into a greased, floured pan, pre- feralely 8 inches square. A 9- inch pan can be used, but the brownies will be thinner, of course, and should be cooked less long. For an 8-inch pan, I-cook them 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees F. Mine is a quick oven, and 20 minutes often does the trick, but a little experience will tell you how long you want to cook them. I'd rather undercook than over- cook, for they tend to continue cooking after they are removed &ern the oven, and overcooking produces the. dryness which I like to avoid. tion expanding PeePle are g°". At the rate the World's popula- tion to use more fresh drinking water before long, let alone the water needed for industry. There is some hope that as population expands the waters of the ocean, can be tapped to drink. There are some 50 million peo- ple today in Italy. Every year the earth adds a new Italy in the form of increased population, ac; cording to the Bulletin of the Population Reference Burea u, ine,, a nonprofit reference organ= ization here, There were an 'estimated 100 million births in 1959, according to the Btilletin, of - whom about one-half survived, leaving a net gain of 50 million. The survival rate will climb as hygiene im- proves in backward countries, Latin America is grbwing faster than any other major area at present, There are empty spaces on earth still, some of them arid areas close to the ocean, Soon improved technology will redeem these sections: the people will drink the ocean. The National Conference on Water Pollution met in Washing- ton last month with optimistic re- ports on saline water conversion. The standard commercial cost of fresh water, runs from 20 to 40. cents per thousand gallohe, won't be long, experts -Say, be- fore converted~, saline, water; ,can compete with that price. For example, there's the Free- port, Texas, plant. Building start- ed Aug, 30; it should be operat- ing next spring. 1t should pro- duce fresh water at about $1 a thousand gallons with a capacity of a million gallons a. slay. This will be a new. low commercial- price forix,obetereed Water.' .0- Some 18 salt water conversion plants operate in 15' countries and produce up to 3.5 million gallons of fresh water a day. All but one use distillation; the exception is a plant in South Africa which uses an "electradialysis mem- brane" process and converts 2,- 800,000 gallons of salt water a day for industrial purposes. e The United States Government went into the water conversion field, in 1952. Congress voted money to. the Interior. Depart- ment to 'start experiments and the latter planned five pilot plants — three kir sea water and two for brackish water, If you are interested in technicalities, sea 'water normally has between 10,000 and 35,000 parts of dissolv- ed salt per million parts of water, and brackish water 1,000 to 10,- 000 parts of dissolved salt. Final- ly there is "brine" — more than 35,000 parts of dissolved salt. The United States Public Health Ser- vice says anything over 1,000 parts of dissolved salt per mil- lion parts of water (ratio of one to a thousand) can't be consider- ed potable, writes Richard L. His Grandchildren Beat Hint *`'To It Of the dozens of gifts pre- eentecl to West German Chancel- lor Konrad Adenaeter on his .birthday}, the e one that seeme.d te'e-ppeieleto him most — a treetteliyareet by Fopc1 Minis- ter Wer'ner SChWari — disap- peared While Adenauer was greeting callers, "Where are the doughnuts?" he asked suddenly. Taking in 21 sweete toathd e . cul- prits with a sweep of' her 'hand, Adenaudr's daughter .Libet plied: "Sorry, but they've al- ready been eaten by your grand- ' children." Easily the most in- triguing of Adenauer's presents came from his bitterest foe, it was a lacquered box on which— symbolically or, not — two lovers -were displayed in embrace. Donor: Soviet Premier 'Nikita Khrush chew. This 'Booboo Was Small But Costly While taping the "Porgy and Bess" sequence in New York for CBS's "The Gershwin. Years," a technician accidentally erasd a five-minute section of tape. For days, producer Leland. Hay- ward waited vainly for good weather to repeat the outdoor scene. Finally he gave up and. ordered the cast to Key West, Fla, Then he ran into another snag: Carmen de Lavallade, who plays Bess, was appearing in an off-Broadway show, "Ballet Bal- lads." How to free her? CBS solved the problem by buying out the entire house one night —$907,80 for 227, seats. Estimated cost of the booboos $8,000. PEAR SALAD 8 canned Bartlett pear halves 2 pounds cottage cheese 2 tablespoons chopped candied ginger Mandarin orange segments Blueberries Toasted sesame seeds Salad greens ,Combine ,cottage cheese and ginger; mound on lettuce-lined salad plates, Arrange 2 pear halveS on apposite sides of cot- tage cheese with stem end to- ward the. center. Garnish with orange segments and blueberries. Serve, with creamy honey, dress- ing. CREAMY HONEY DRESSING Combine 3/4 cup cream with -1/2 cup honey. Mix well : Serves 4. ORANGE - CRANBERRY MOLD itablespoons plain gelatin 1/1 ,cup cold water cup hot water 3 cups orange juice ,4 cup sugar 1 cup cranberries, chopped Grated rind of 1 tertian and ,1 orange 1 orange, peeled and cut into chunks 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans Soak gelatin in cold water -.5 minutes; add hot water and dis-- _solve gelatin. Stir in orange juice and sugar. Pour enough of this mixture into mold to form 1/2 -inch layer (for a party touch, decorate this layer with a few halved cranberries), Allow - to set: Stir cranberries, fruit peels, orange chunks, and nuts into re- maining gelatin mixture. Gently spoon over clear layer of mold. - Chill until firm. Serves 6-8. If you like a ginger flavour, try this fruit _salad made with ginger ale, pineapple, banana, and orange. ► • • I, • Despite the varied cleims made for antihistamines, painkillers, antibiotics, decongestants, vita- min pills, cough medicines, and folk cures, the current issue of Today's Health republished last week this medical truism: "There is no known drug whibh will cure a cold." What can you do for a cold then? "Stay home, take a hot bath, go to bed, avoid drafts, keep well covered," advised the popular journal. "Treat your cold as an infectious disease: Cover all coughs and sneezes. You can't drown, dry up, or starve a cold, so eat an adequate diet. When you have to, blow your nose gently through both sides. Use a steam kettle or vaporizer to re- lieve' nasal congestion, If your cold persists for more than a a week, or if you have more than three or four colds a year, see your doctor." The following day we decide to explore the deeper water bee- yond the reef and requisition a glass-bottom boat for the pur- pose. Although it is July, and mid- winter, the cloudless sky provides a comfortable warmth as we lazily paddle our boat over the mirrorlike surface beyond the reef where the water is twenty or thirty feet deep. Here the coral, never exposed to the re- garding influence of the air, never battered by waves churn- ed up by an angry wind, is free to grow in almost limitless pro- fusion and it reaches a size never 'attained in the shallow water of the lagoon. As we gaze into •the cool green light of the liquid depths we are transported into a new world e • ISSUE 4 — 1961 We now have a generation of youngsters that are sure the "Five-and-Ten" is a place where they handle five- and ten-dollar items, MOURNING ITS DEAD -- The, stern section of the ill-fated tanker Pine Ridae lies tied up at a Newport News, Va., deck, Its flag' 1/4 flies at half mast for the seven crewmen who were swept to their deaths by the mountainous seat which broke the ship in two off Cape Hatteras, N.C. The 29 remaining members of the , crew were saved. it -A Candy Recipe Worth Trying This adaptation of a Southern recipe more than a century old has been my candy• specialty for ' many years. It is • simple and easy, almost foolproof, and bet- ter than the average commercial• variety. It keeps well, too, 'if hidden successfully! The original recipe calls for pecans, but lack- ing these• I use English walnuts, and even prefer them. Melt 1/a stick butter or mar- garine in a small iron skillet or thick pan that will retain heat. Into the hot butter empty lee to 1 cupful of broken nut meats; stir, and turn, over a low fire, until nuts are heated through but not brawned. Keep these in a warm place while preparing in a saucepan• a syrup of • one cup brown sugar, one cup white sugar, and 1 /2 cup evaporated milk. When syrup reaches 203 or a good, stiff., soft-ball stage, add nuts and butter and cdok about three minutes longer, stir- ring constantly, Remover tram fire and beat about si minute, as you would fudge, to tool par- tially, Then quickly drop the candy by teaspobrifuls on a cold, Smooth surface — preferably a sheet of thin aluminum far enough apart to rellow the blobs '‘i.) spread out in as thin cooky-shape in cooling, • You may find the first ones do not harden readily, or the last ones thicken and roughen by the time you get them all out, If net consistently hard and smooth, or even if the nuts were alloWecl scorch a bit, the randy still tastes good! M.D.A. in the Clitistien Selence Monitor. Brownies — those delectable chocolate concoctions midway between cooky and cake — are almost universally enjoyed in Canada and the United States. 'Vet, More often than not, one finds them poorly made. Of course there's always the possi- bility of difference of opinion in what • makes a good brownie I'm of the school which' con- tends a dry brownie something to give the birds for their morn- ing feast of crumbs. Some years ago?, I found ,a pratically fool- proof recipe whith makes moist, tender brownies; and, because the stirring together •takes only cne dish and requires no cream- ing it'is simplicity itself. * The recipe calls for hale a cup of butter, which in this country is. I/4 ref- d pound, or •one "stick." This is to be melted with 2 "squares," or ounces, of unsweet- ened baking chocolate. I put the stick of butter in an aluminum saucepan, perch' the squares of chocolate, cut in half, on, top of the butter, and place the pan over very low heat. By the time most of the but- ter has melted, the chocolate is soft and melts too. Doing it this way keeps the chocolate from sticking to the pan, and elimin- ates the necessity of using a double boiler. Be sure to stir it now and then as it melts. * * e Remove the pan from heat, add a cup of granulated sugar, and let the mixture cool 2 or 3 minutes. Then put in tea- spoon of salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla flavouring and 2 eggs, one at a lime and unbeaten.. Stir the mix- ture until the first egg is well blended then add the other egg and stir again thoroughly. The only other ingredients are % cup cake flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, and % cup chop- ped nuts. It's a good idea to pre. pare the nuts (I always use walnuts) before you start the rest, of the recipe, for these brownies go together very quick- ly. And I usually sift and mea- sure the 41Our beforehand, ton, writes Gertrude P. Lancaster, in the Christian Science Monitor. 0 This recipe can be made With ordinary pastry flour, but if you do, use a skimpy % cup, for pas- try flour is heavier and will make brownies more solid unless less flour is used. Perhaps I should add, for the benefit of our British friends, that the "cup" used here is an 8-ounce fluid measure. The flour, baking powder, and walnuts should be added in that order to the chocolate iniXture. I usually add flour in two por- tions, stirring after the first, and toss the baking powder in with the second, portion. WS a good idea to add the Mils before the etcoricl portion of eiletie Sig all gifted up. This lots the nett Meets become coated with flour' and prevents their sinking to the bottom of the battef. CAREOUL1 — Sandra Freeman apparently, enjoys precarious paeltiens. She is balancing on a fishing pieta rail irt Pensacola" Beach, Fla, Sandra Woe Mite Cltrui Oueekt of i954., FLEE CUBA--Among the Cuban ref ugees arrivittg in Miami, Fla., Joh, 4 Were n' thie Weincin and her daughter (left), and a mart (right) who didt want to leave behind Cuba's Most well kreawil beverage—runt An airliner flown to Cuba to bring out Ameri- Can employes of the U.S. embassy in Havana returned with only one ernbassy clerk, a Cuban, aboard: Authorities Said Bhe 76 American employes apparently decided to leave aboard a freight ferry cchedUled to leave Hcfvtirie fate Jan, 4 oh 115-hour voyage to West Paint' Beach. TA'-!;(ER ;IRE-ANS UP 114 ATLANTIC - Niewsrnap Spo t s area where, the Anierictle ienkes Pine Ridge snapped iri two Dec. 21 during, .gale off Cape Hatteras,. N.C.