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The Brussels Post, 1961-04-06, Page 6TABLE TALKS Jane A:rdttews. Witch-Doctors Cash In On Surgery Some African witch-doctors are turning modern surgery, for- merly their most dreaded enemy, into a lucrative money-spinner. Recently, a 63-year-old tribes- man was led to a hospital in Baragwanath, Johannesburg. He couldn't sec because of ca- taracts in both eyes. A surgeon removed the growth from his right eye and Kleinbooi praised the witch-doctor's magic, He could see again. "In a day or so," said the sur- geon, "I'll take out the trouble from your left eye." "Oh, no, that's impossible," re- plied the tribesman. "I must see my witch-doctor first." Then the story came out. Go- ing first to his witch-doctor, the African was told: "Yes, I can make big spell, so bringing back sight to one eye. But first you. must pay me a full-grown goat for . my magic wore." The Afri- can paid the tribute demanded. The spell was accordingly ,made , and the witch-doctor ordered him to report to the hospital for the white doctor's treatment. Three months later he reap- peared, asking for the same sur- geon to operate on 'the other eye, You see," he explained, "I've 'now paid my witch-Octer withe another goat. He make new spell, and says new opera- tion will be completely success- ful." Asa witch-dtocor had premis- ed, the tribesman now sees clearly through both eyes, and his faith in black magic remains unimpaired. You can tell when the youngs- ters are grown up—it's at the point where you stop winding up their cars and start buying gas for them. of 20,009. Was of reinferved coo- erete, The Italians estimates that it will take nearly sir years and $00, million to do the job (which includes lifting the smeller temn. pie Ramses built a few yard,, downstream for his wife, Ne, fertart). UNESCO is also now trying to raise the nrernaielnie $15 million, it needs to Salvage other., treasures. !SO. far it has re- ceived money from six countries. Congress has recommended U.S. participation, but no funds have yet been authorized, Those court, tries whist do not participate might well remember the words carved into one of the temple's Pillare, "Hearken to • what I tell you. I am Re, lord of heaven, on earth, who does things of benefit to you accordingly as you work for him," + Editor's Note—It is hoped that the whole thing will not end in something like Kipling presaged in his verse "And the secret that was hid Under Cheops' pyramid, Was that some contractor did .Cheops out of several millions". • • Big Lift To Save Pharaoh's Temple Suggestions For The Phone Company HE STICKS TO HIS. POST — New York City Patrolman Mathew Lyons stands up to his knees in snow as he telephones his station house. The recent weekend storm paralyzed the city. soup in deep bowls placing cheese; toast on 'top just before s e r i ti g. Additional grated 'cheese may . :passed at the table. Maleeen8 aervings. 4, That old !favourite, salt cod, takes on new interest when served in a tangy, delicious, to- mato cream sauce. COD IN TOMATO SAUCE 1 pound boneless salt cod I tablespoon vinegar I cup chopped. onion 2 tablespoons melted' butter 1 can (10'ounces) mushrooms, drained I . can '(7 1/2 ounces) tomato :sauce Yt'.eup' butter Ys'vup flour 1 cup milk 1-teaspoon. Worcestershire sauce Salt to; taste 3 .cups 'hot cooked 'rice Rinse cod well under cold, running ,water. Soak overnight in cold water, to cover. 'Drain. Add fresh cold water. to cover and slowly` bring to simmering temperature. Siinmer for 2 to 3 minutes, or until the fish can readily be s eeparated into flakes. Drain and flake, Sprinkle with vinegar. Cook onion in melted butter until tender but not brown. Add mushrooms and to- mato sauce. Heat .and stir until bubbling hot. Meanwhile, in a seParate saucepan 'melt 3/4 cup butter and blend in flour: Add' milk gradually. and, cook; over low heat, stirring. constantly un- til smooth 'and thickened. Stir in Woreeetershire sauce, flaked' cod, and tomato sauce mikture; blend swill, Add salt to taste. Serve piping hot' over cooked rice. Makee'6 servings. * • * * KIPPERS TAKE' THE. CREAM For a auick. delicious luncheoin dish try this. Combine Ye cup, each of chopped onion and, green pepper., Cook ine 2 tablespoone of' better; until tender. Add the .drained contents. of ,a l-pound ran of .kippered herring and heat t'ior about 5 minutes to 'Warm thoroughly. Add ei cup of cream seasoned with 3/4 teeepoon of pepper and, continue 'to heat un- til the cream bubbles. Serve over hot buttered toast. Depend- ing on •appetite, this dish will give 4 to 6 servings." For three millenniums; the ancient Egyptian temple of Abu sStiaimtbieesi of with fouralin t4sesIguarding n massive statues entrance has survived the ravages of desert winds and the shifting sands of the Nile only to be threatened with death by water in the twentieth century, When, the Aswan Nigh. Dam, which the United Arab Republic is building with. Soviet assistance, Was planned, it'seemed Abu Sim- bel would be drowned in a 300- mile-long lake covering t it e Nubian Valley of Egypt and the Sudan, Last month in Cairo, UNESCO recommended to the U.A.R, a plan to save Abu Simbel that was breath-taking in its boldness. The idea 'is to raise the 300,000 7 ton monument built by Rainses, II 186 feet into the air, from the. Nile's present level to the edge of the lake which will be creat- ed by the new dam. The plan was drafted by a trio of Italian engineering firms led by the Milan• engineer Prof. Piero. Gazzola. It was recommended to the U.A.R., over a French scheme to protect the temple with, its own dam, by an inter- national committee of experts appointed by .UNESCO. This group is werking'io'preserve the priceless heritage of Nubia's monuments, states a writer in NEWSWEEK. Abu Simbel is carved into a sheer sandstone cliff 200 feet high at the mouth of a long rock corridor on the banks of the up- per Nile: Its • brilliantly frescoed halls, and chambers, depicting the glories of the' 67-year reign of Ramses (for whom the chil- dren of Israel toiled in bondage), pentrate some 180 feet into the cliff. Its facade stretches 124 feet across the face of the cliff. The first phase of the plan to raise the temple will mean shearing off a chunk of mountainside above it two-thirds the size of a football field. Then, from a work- pit 50 feet deep, more than 1,000 workers will gradually, dig out Abu Simbel's underpinnings, re- placing' them section by section with a solid base orreinforced concrete and steel beams, The rock masses from the sides and back of "the temple' will ,be cut away and the eetire• structure 'will be wrapped in a' cocoon of reinforced concrete and steel girders. To elevate Abu Simbel, the foundation's steel support girders will be replaced by 300 electroni- cally - coordinated hydraulic jacks. Almost imperceptibly, at the rate of one-eighth of an inch a •Abu Simbel will rise into the air. When it has been raised a foot, the jacks will be tem- porarily removed one by one and a base of 1 foot of reinforc- ed concrete set dawn under them, 'Then the jacks will be re- placed and the entire cycle be- gun again. Finally the temple will rest , on an enormous shaft LIGHTHOUSE - KEEPING — Japanese miss introduces some- thing new' in home banks. The model lighthouse lights up when coin Is inserted. company's arrangement, no pro-- vision is,made for peeling pote- toes as there, is, with Ours. What I wish they would come up with is a telephone that I Could drop a coin, in and settle the argument about who'll do the dishes, (Oh, we manage to settle it now, but there must be a better way.) Meanwhile, more good things are in store, from what they tell me, Just recently, the tele- phone company announced that "right in the midst of America's population explosion, telephones have been ,multiplying faster than people," I don't know about that, but if you happen to be on .a party line with a family that has teen- agers you cannot deny that tele- phone calls have been multiply- ing faster than anything, Today's, teen-agers barely speak when they meet on the street, believ- ing that anything worth saying can wait until they reach home and can get to a telephone, writes J. Norman McKenzie in the Christian Science Monitor. One of the peachy electronic surprises that AT&T has up its sleeve is a machine that can use the telephone. If I understand this promised blessing aright you will be able to hook up a machine to one telephone and a second machine to another tele- phone, then 'let them jabber away for hours on end. All you have to do is keep feeding thcse rolls. of swiss-cheese cornputer paper into the machines and they never get tired of . talking to each other. In our neighbour, hood the same thing is accom- plished with a pair of teen-agers and some' milk and cookies. It's messy, but in the long run it's cheaper. As if ;things weren't bad enough, the communications in- dustry now promises us a small receiver that can be carried in a pocket and when somebody is trying to reach you on your home telephone, the thing in your pocket starts to buzz. They don't say what you can do about it, except wonder' if it's the boas calling or, possibly, some- body you'd like to hear from. As things stand now all you car, do is worry about that call. Of course if you happen to, be in your backyard and the receiver in your pocket starts to buzz you can do what you 'have al- ways done — rush like mad in- doors and scramble' to pick up the telephone. Naturally, just` as you do, the telephone will stop ringing. And, good servant that it is, the buz2er will stop buzz- ing. Some more development is needed on this project. But the thing I'm looking for- ward to with the greatest eager- ness ii that project the boys, at Bell are working on behind closed doors. It's a machine that thinks. I want to ,get my order in early for this one because that's something 'we could really use around our house. Maybe, it ,can think of a way to get 'my wife back from the beauty pat- lour in time to put the roast in herself. I em constantly being amazed et how hard the telephone corn, pany works to make things. feast, or for the rest of US, You might think they had their hands full aleeady, what with Putting in coloured, telephones and exten- sions wherever they can find, a bare wall. But no; now they're talking about sending up their own satellite so they can bounce telephone calls back and forth between it and my house. Al- ready they have, bounced a few tentative what - hath - God' s wroughts from Echo I to the moon and back. That is what probably gave them the idea for putting up their own version of Echo to handle not just tele- phone messages but '1'V pro- grams as' well, It is rather a dismaying thought that one of these days they may be bouncing Ed Sulli- van off the moon. It is a dis- maying thought, but it is a tempting one, too, Working with the telephone company, one of the big appli- ance manufacturers has come up with a ghnmick that they call "dial-an-appliance." Stated, in the simplest terms (so people like me can understand it) what this thing does is let your wife spend all afternoon at the beauty salon, thumbing through the cul- tural literature that abounds in that communications center. She can apply herself to the busi- ness at hand with never a thought about getting dinner. If it grows late all she has to do es stroll over to a telephone, drop in a dime and dial her own number, plus a couple of other digits. This combination sets a lot of transistors to transisting like fury, a light beams in the kitchen range and — presto — the oven turns itself on and the roast begins to cook merrily. (One household hardship re- mains — she has, to put the toast in the oven before she goes galavanting off to the beauty shop.) Now this may be news to the telephone company and that ap- pliance manufacturer, but I've got news for them. In our house we already have a gadget that accomplishes,the same thing without spening a dime for the phone call. It's a disarmingly simple device consisting of a place of paper (the brown wrap- ping kind often does very nice- ly) and a pencil. My wife scrib- *les the code on it before she takes Of for the beauty parlour end — presto — when I get home I put the, roast 'in and turn on the oven. With the telephone GEISHA GIRL — Not a new doll from Japan but actress Shirley Maclaine. Blue-eyed and red- haired Shirley is transformed by make-up and costume, and brown contact lenses, for her role in the film "My Geisha." Measles And Bumps Don't Respect Rank Minding the throne back in. England • while Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were getting. a royal welcome on their tourist Pakistan, 12-year-old Prince. Charles saw spots — nwhich turned out, to be measles, land- ing him in Cheam School's in- firmary. As for 10-year-old Prin- cess Anne, she saw stars; taking ice-skating lessons in a public rink. — but in a private section of it reserved for classes — the Princess had the beginner's us- ual ups and downs. Was she making progress?' Rink director A. V. Hopkins said tactfully: "She's quite a good little skater, but even champions fall some- times." Sir Winston Churchill once described fish and chips as "the good companions." Generations of. Briton as With a need 'for warming sustenance and little time for cooking have. thrived on this hearty combination. However, one doesn't need to live in England to enjoy puffy, golden fish' fritters served with crisp French-fried; potatoes. For many years fish and chips was principally regarded as a snack, but since World -War II it has graduate& to' main dish status. A homemaker. who has deep frying equipment can very easily' serve this dish crisp and fresh from her own fryer. Here are simple directions for prepar- ing the fish. As a busy-day time you may use, heated, fro- zen. French' Fries. FISH ,AND CHIPS 2 poundi fish fillets Salt 2 packages (9 ounces each) frozen French-fried potatoes . 1 egg, beaten 1 cup water 1% cups of sifted all-purposs flour If fillets are frozen,• allow to thaw. Dry fillets 'Well and cut, into portione of uniform size. Sprinkle with salt. Heat pota.; -Wei as directed' on the package and keep warm while fish is being cooked. Make, a batter by combining egg and water then lightly stirring in flour 'with three' or four. stirs. A 'secret of succese, with this batter 'is not to overmix it. Dip fillet portions, in batter. Place, single• layer deep, in frying basket and fry in deep, •hot vegetable oil at 375 degrees F. until puffed and golden brown, turning once. Drain on absorbent paper and keep cooked portions warm in a slow oven. Repeat until all of the fish, is cooked. Serve imme- diately witle French-fried pota- • toes. Makes 6 servings. • * GARNISHES To give a 'finishing tough to a seafood, creation,. consider.` these • Sprigs of fresh ,parsley, wa- tercress, mint or dill. ¤ Lemon or lime elices, wedges, or twists. • Slides of tomato, cucumber; or, hard cooked egg. • Sauteed thin prange slices, sauteed c a,nn, e d pineapple rings. • Sticks or curls of carrot or celery, radish`: roses.; • Rings Of .thinly .sliced onion or green • pepper. • Stuffed olives, dill pickle fans. • A sprinkling of paprika, chdp- ped chives, or minced parsley, • Golden' brown croutons. • Toasted e u t m eats, whole, halved, slivered, or chopped. Reluits Of Giant Research Effort For eighteen months, 30,000 persons from 87 nations took part in •the gigantic research •ef- fort known as the International Geophysical Year, which came to an end on Dec, 31, 1059. What did they accomplish? Last month, Capt. Elliott B. Roberts of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey gav,e the ans- wer: They accomplished plenty. The army of scientists. left a veritable mountain of material behind: Sixty tons of records, tapes, reports, graphs, and cor- ings from, earth, ice, and sea- `bottom— enough data to occupy researchers for years to come. The cost of the.project to the U.S. Government, Roberts cal- '(in the annual report of the Smithsonion Institution), was $543,5 million. Big as 'this is,.he enoted that many ,participating nations 'event. even more money in relation to their 'populations, Total 'contributions of all nations came to, about $2 billion. Totting up the balance, Roberts concludes: "We have learned that the oceans may become a primary food source, `faimed' by man, and that their datk reaches may deliVer up vast new 'riches for his benefit . , that solar processes may revolutionize our` approech to energy problems... The• list could be well nigh end less. To keep its frinn straying into scientific fantasy, we have a legicY of planning bodies at national and international levels . 'for the fullest exploitation of the possibilities. "We may now, for once and all," Roberts says vigorously, "have laid 'the ghost, of that stupid old question whether' re- search and pure science pre worth their men support." 'Next Time, ,Mr. Fox Please Sell Tickets For centuries the British have been hunting 'foxes, to the thun- derous baying of their hound dogs. It, has been a great sport, proviallig ,the gentry with a thence to Wear pink: coats, and shout:-"Tally hot" AlWeei detnumbered.and ally subjected to the, final ihdigs nity" of having their tails Chop- ped off, the foxed have not found this sport so exhilarating, Now they are getting even, Scurrying beneath One of the unguarded wires which run alengside Britain's electrified tailroadS, fox near Dover led 37 hounds of the West Street peek into a trape When the hounds hit the unshielded Wire, ilineteeii of theme died. And sly Old Fleynard just loped away, The Masters of Foxhounds Association ,promptly warned against this peril but by then, enfiatently; the loetee had ,told the rabbits. When the iesiii beagle pack picked up the scent of a rabbit near Faversham, Kent, the tab)* else. headed lor the nearest tail line. This titne eight of the bea'g'les taupe Vend. 'it mote thinel„000 41660' Were electrocuted; War' 'Rabbit hoPPeet SENTIMENTAL — Lacy valentines were back again, at they joined the contemporary "intuit" cards on the racks this year. Elaborate, ;carrying sugary verses, they've been popular, off end on, since the Gay 90s. A ii0UNDEOMONIE- 'and' Mrs. C. Wacker this round .house' heel' ieeisseitie worth K hOnte. hag a iiVing raden at the ebeilee which is 'C.IrCuircif,, All eithee inedene *LAD -HAITElt Nancy t*Gant Ways hurnari sunburst' iii'ihe stiriiyy surf' at typietta Gardens,, the tberld living item, tirici have onts curved Wail, 'There's POUnd baseitieht, 'round rUg in /Ott i .466• bit it tsarist 'MPnk lo the bathroom hie round 'bedie • * * * COD AND ONION SOUP t pound cod fillets 4 chicken, bouillon cubes 4 cups boiling water 4 tune thinly eked onion cep butter, Melted 2 tablespoons flout, teitepoedi salt Fein grains *poet Vinety grated cheese slices French bread (optional) Cut fteeh fillets, or partially thaWed block of frozen fillets in- to 14neh cubes. 'Ns-solve bouii, ion cubes in boiling water. Cook onion slowly in melted butter Until tender hut not browned, tossing frequently. Blend in flour and seasonings. Add bouil,. ton graditally, Heat to boiling point, stirring; constantly. Add .ffehi Wing to simmering tette' perature,'and` &lifter. for 10 Min- , Oa, Serve piping hot with .e little :grated eeheeee over the top. If desired, sprinkl bread SitOe-S. with grated. glees* and toast in the