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The Brussels Post, 1961-08-24, Page 6JULY 75 JULY 30 killed in jet JULY 21.,? dit rain taid 18 floods rn '':11ciritilt1114Y4Yat liner Crash of Deliver. • .:•",c1•' s,•,.1,1 Russia announces 20-year program to achieve "me tominunism." President addresses notion on Berlin mks for.3,4 billion hike In defense spending. JULY 11 JULY b 4,55,14 Red China sign military pacts with N. Kama, JULY 8 108 miners killed In Czechoslo- vakian coal mine explosion. Author Ernest emtrigaay killed in' shotgun blast at his home Ho, 1 in basa Ty bill Cob ' bi, Holt of Faine# dies ot74, imarimiEr JULY ZI Copt, Virgil Grissom be comes 2nd U.S. man in space With successful Mercury capsule ride. JULY 1 JULY 12 72 die in Clads airliner crash at Casablanca. JULY 24 Britain lands troops in Kuwait in face of annexation threati from Iraq. U.S. airliner hijacked to Cuba by Castro sympathizer; 37 passengers released but plane is held. afnae,ea, JULY 19 Tunisian and French troops clash at Bizerte; hundreds of Tunisians killed, JULY 22 U.N. calls ceasefire, JULY 9 237 killed in fire and explosion on Portuguese liner off Mocambique.. Antigovernment mobs demon- strate, in Dominican Republic far first time in 31 ears. TABLE TALKS aneAndvews. Bird Population hi A Desert As the days warmed, 1 WW1- dere4 how I could. have thought. the desert empty of birds, Strange and •charming bird trills had begun to fill the silence so imperceptibly I had scarcely no- ticed them, Now that the winds had settled down, soft ,sym- phonies waxed into medleys, Many birds had peen here all the time, but like other creatures Of these wastelands, were adept at hiding and hadn't made them- selves known u n t II they had grown used to our -intrusion,. As I became acquainted with these birds and others, I realiz- ed that the bird population of our desert was enormous, Aug- mented by winter and summer residents that came and went in season and by transients that summered north and wintered south, the total number of birds in this dry country was aston- Gainhers sparrows, the .fniend- ly little birds with! the black- and-white ,striped crowns that had boldly scratched on the house finches bounced about in flacks among the trees fringing the 'washes, were gone. Chipping and Brewer's sparrows and lark • buntings that had basked in the warm winter .stavor fed in flocks •• and sung in chorus among the bushes were thinning out. Atidu- bon's warbler's'were .gathering in restless flocks. Blue jays, 1 a r e r, sassier, a deeper blue t h a n those back home and without the topknot, called everybody "thief" just ae. their northern cousins • 00, Ra- vens ..and eraava practiced flying &ilia and 'policed, the washes in blatant flocks, 'Doves mourned from the tops of the giants in .the plaintive tones of all doves, Palmer thrashers sang even. more sweetly than the mocking bird that caroled from the iron- wood near my tent, Rosy - crowned, reay-.hteasted ground •around, camp, or sung in the chaparrai, swinging on saga and mesquite.; warbling like ca- navies. Orioles flashed orange. gold plumage and piped to their adored ones by the hour. Ver- milion flycatchers, named by the. Spanish "Little Coals of Fire," flitted up bright sparks from the gray tans of the shrubbery, There were pliainopeplas, chic as patent leather; so black as to be almost indigo in the sun, preening their glistening fea- thers on the topmost branches of desert t r e e s, singing their flute-like song, their white patches flashing as they swoop- ed at passing insects. And wonder of all desert wonders, there -were Costa's hummingbirds, zooming about and dipping long bills into the scarlet blossoms of the trumpet- like chuparosa, or whistling their wings in courting dives, their iridescent plumage of royal blue, purple and blue-green glinting like jewels in the sunshine — From "Gold on the Desert," by Olga Wright Smith. Shortstop John Gcchnauer ot Cleveland made 95 errors in 125 games in 1903. LIGHT OF HOPE — Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold lights up a cigarette in the U.N. He expressed. r e g r et over France's refusal to cooperate on the Bizerte crisis, Saved The Queen From Melting Pot! Tawarda the end of the,last century, Queen Victoria, wbo rarely ventured outside Brigs land, paid a visit to Aix-les, Ballast a faahictaable Watering Ape in the French Alps, It was an enjoyable visit, and ahortly after her departure the British colony in the town erect- ed a staute of the sovereign to commemorate the occasion, Years passed, The Vietorian age came to an end, and the :first world war was fought. Meanwhile the statue of the Queen remained undisturbed on its pedestal overlooking the municipal park of the Alpine spa, Then came the second world conflict. As the tide of the war flowed against Germany and metal grew short for the manufacture of arms, the German occupation troops in France were ordered to seize every pound of scrap metal they fould find, and send it home. Public statues were an Obvious prize. One day late in 1944, a-lorry loaded with German guards and French workers pulled up beside the statue of the Queen. The bust was chopped down and thrown into the back of the lorry, destined for the German melting pot. By chance, several days later, the railway car containing the statue, together with tons of other scrap metal, was shunted into a scrap-metal yard in Gren- oble owned by Fernand Tagnard, it forty-year-old French patriot. Partly out of a spirit of pan- ache -- a Gallic mixture of courage and showmanship—and partly because he had worked with British people in Egypt years earlier and like them, M. Tagnard decided that one piece of German loot — the statute of Queen Victoria — would never leave the country. He took Jean Vernaz, his for- ty-eight-year-old foreman, into his confidence. At eight o'clock one morning, M. Tagnard, wear- ing his working clothes, and M. Verna; in blue overalls, walked through the gates of •the scrap- metal yard to start the day's work as usual. In order to get near the statue, let alone steal it back, they kenw that they would have to wait until the German guards, who patrolled the yard night and day, were out• of sight and earshot. They waited nervously, doing odd jobs. Then at last the guards moved to 'the far side of the yard. The two Frenchmen moved quickly. The statue was in a car which had been loaded, weighed and sealed ready for dispatch to Germany later in the day. The men untwisted the wire and lead seals on the cat's slid- ing doors, and pulled them open. The statue was close to the en- trance. The men sturnibled across the wrap yard with the 160-pound weight, not daring to stop for a moment 'in case the German ISSUE 33 -- 1961 LOVING CARE IS NEEDED when you're driving, tool Corn Helped Build New World It is impossible to overestimate the importance of corn in the set- tlement of America. . . . Wheat, too, had many uses, but was not adapted to the new ground field. Corn, unlike the small grains, throve in rich new ground soil; the higher the nitro- gen content, the blacker and deeper the humus, the better the corn. Much of the land on the Cumberland was so rich it had to be reduced with corn two or three seasons before any small grain would grow and make grain in- stead of merely rank grass. Nor could the small grains compete with the heavy growth of sprouts and big weeds such as bull nettles and Spanish needles that sprang to life in every new ground field. Corn was not only a proud and mighty plant of al growth so rapid it could lift itself above the weeds, but it •could be 'planted with a hoe or grubbing hoe in ground too filled with roots and strumps for a plow to make a planting furrow. Once planted in this fashion in hills four feet apart, and these in the rough field in rows about the same dis- tance between, it could be culti- vated with the hoe. . . Another advantage of corn was that it would grow into a tall but sturdy plant able to hold its ears well out of reach of turkeys or raccoons, but down - hanging and so well! wrapped no damage could come from rain or snow and the smaller birds. Corn by the time of the Revo- lution had, more so than any other crop, left its mark on the speech of the people; by it the farmer away from the sea divid- ed his years; men did not always speak of spring but corn-planting time, followed by the replanting; Midsummer meant the time of laying by. , . Stories of two hundred years and more ago, like many of my childhood, or even now among the older people in the hills, were marked in time by the growth of corm "The cornfield beans had not uticroOked ." "The corn was in the silk," or knee high, or just up enough "you could fat- loW the rows across the field," Or in the Milk, bt trapped, Corn WAS always there, under all life' Os was the earth itself, The riarne tort, instead of Maize Of Indian dorrio alieWed that it WAS to the Settlers, not one of the cereals, but the cereal; the wheat, of the Englishman, oats of the Scotch, aa Frani "Seedtime on the Cumberland," by fratriette ten Arne*. "What's the best way to save one's fade' asks an eriabarraSSed reader. keep the loWee part of it ishut. ea. artistically around melon ring; garnish with fresh berries or cherries. This chicken salad serves 4, and will be just right for your small luncheon. Use honeydew Persian, or casaba melon. WESTERN CHICKEN SALAD 2 cups diced, cooked chicken 1 cup finely chopped celery 1 cup chopped green pepper 2 tablespoons lemon juice 11/4 cup each French dressing and mayonnaise 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 melons Lettuce 1/3 cup toasted, slivered almonds. Combine chicken, celery, green pepper, lemon juice, dressings, and salt. Chill. When ready to serve, cut melon into wedges and top each wedge with the salad; sprinkle top with almonds. Serve on lettuce. * CANTALOUPE PRESERVES ....2,,pounds prepared cantaloupe 134 pounds sugar 2 tablespoons lemon juice Wash and cut firm-ripe melon into 1-inch slices crosswise. Re- moVe rind and seeds. Cut slices into even pieces; weigh. Mix melon and sugar. Let stand 12- 18 hours in a cool place. Add lemon juice. Boil until canta- loupe is clear. Pour boiling hot, into hot jar; seal at once. * CANTALOUPE SHORTCAKE If you want to try- something new with cantaloupes, try this delicious shortcake. The short- cake is plain biscuit dough, cut to individual size for serving, and baked. Split and spread with butter. For filling, mash 4 cups cantaloupe and mix with 1, tablespoon almond flavoring. Spread in and on shortcake. Add additional balls for effect and top with whipped cream. PINEAPPLE REFRIGERATOR TORTE 2 cups graham-wafer crumbs cup sifted icing sugar 3/2 cup soft butter 1 envelope (1 tbsp.) unflavored gelatin 1/4 cup cold water 6 egg yolks 1/2 cup sugar • 3/1. cup pineapple juice 1 tbsp. lemon juice 1A cup. salt 1/ alt 1/1 crushed pineapple 6 egg whites 34 cup sugar Combine crumbs, cup icing sugar and butter, blending well. Press into the bottom of a 9-inch spring form pan. Chill. Soak gelatin in cold Water. Beat egg yolks in top of double boiler. Beat in aa cup sugar, pineapple juice, lemon juice and salt. Cook over simmering water until thick, stirring constantly. Add soaked gelatin and stir to dissolve. Cool. Fold in crushed pine- apple, Beat egg whites until frothy, add 3/4 cup sugar gradually and continue beating until thick and glossy. Fold into pineapple mix- ture. Pour over crumb Mixture in pan and chill several hours. (Serves 8 to 10.) 0 FROZEN PittNE WHIP: egg whites 3d cup sugar cans strained prunes (baby feed) 1/2. cup orange jsriee 1 tbsp. lemon Alice 1 0)0. grated orange rind 1th cups stale plain take eittinbs 1 cup Whipping eream Beat egg whites and sugar Un- til thick and glossy, raid in Strained prunes, blending. Well. Add 'orange juice; lenten juice, orange rind and cake crtlitbS, Whip, cream and fold in,. Pour late ice-cube trays or 11/2 -4t, and freeze until firth. (Serves 6.) Can you imagine a pile of ripe cantaloupes as high and wide as a 2-story house right in the middle of a town square? Many years ago, I happened to be passing through Rocky Ford, Colo., on "Cantaloupe Day," when melons were stacked as I have described. Long before we saw them we smelled their sweet fragrance, coming to us on a gentle, sparklingawith-sunshine breeze. Everyone in town was invited to eat all he wanted and, as our hosts cut into the yellow meat, an even more pungent fra- grance reached us — and the sweet flavor of those melons has always been hard to duplicate. * One of the most popular melon varieties is the sweet-tasting cantaloupe with salmon-colored meat. When you buy one in your store, there are two definite things to look for: First, a slightly sunken, smooth, well- calloused scar at the stem end of the melon. This means that when the melon was ready for harvest, it separated cleanly from the vine—a sign that it was picked just at the right time. Second, the netting on a vine-ripened melon should be well raised and stand out in bold relief all over the surface. The color should be corky gray and the background between the netting should be light in color. * When you get your melon home, wash and dry it well be- fore you refrigerate it. Wrap it in waxed paper, foil or trans- parent film wrap to keep flavor out .ef other foods. Do not chill cantaloupes so cold that the flavor is lost, and never chill by filling cavities with ice. *, Before telling you of several ways you can serve cantaloupes, I'll describe some other types of melons that are on the market from June to November, in which you may be interested. The honeydew is perhaps the most widely used. The ripe hon- eydew should have a creamy yellow rind with a definite vel- vety feel. The blossom end may yield slightly to pressure. A ripe honeydew has a faint, pleasant fragrance; flesh is a delicate green, very juicy and sweet, fine-grained and with an almost melting texture, writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in the Christian Science Monitor. The Persian melon is large and round with deep green rind evenly covered with a fine net- ting. It is green and gold, point- ed at the stem end and round at the base, Rind is smooth, and ripeness is shown by a deepen- ing of the yellow color in the rind. The flesh is salmon-col- ored and is thick and juicy with a spicy flavor. The casaba is large, ahriost globular—sometimes pointed at the stem end. The rind is rough and wrinkled in furrows length- wise, It has no netting. When ripe it has a buttery-yellow rind with soft creamy white melting- ly juicy flesh, It has little fra- grance or aroma, Melons are versatile, and can be used in many ways; here are a few dishes to be made with them. SNOWEEATI SALAD Peel a chilled Melon and cut into wedges. Top each wedge with a scoop of Cottage cheese and sprinkle with fresh berries, Garnish with little bunches of White grapes and a wedge of lime, Serve with an ail dressing Made with orange, Or lemon juice. guards returned and emptied rounds of ammunition into their backs. The bullets were never fired; the guards heard nothing, They half-dragged, half-car- ried the statue to a pile of coal which lay next to the high brick wall enclosing the yard. They slipped a sack over the bust, dropped it in a hole scooped out of the coal, and covered the area with brushwood. M. Tagnard loaded on the freight car 160 pounds of bronze from his personal store to make up for the loss in weight, and that afternoon the wagon rolled out of the scrap-metal yard on its way taa Germany — minus the statue of the British sover- eign. When Grenoble was liberated in 1945, M. Tagnard dug up the statue. It was dirty but unharm- ed. He placed it on board a small lorry, a tired, rattling contrap- tion which the German occupa- tion troops had not confiscated, and with Jean Vernaz pedalling alongside on a bicycle, he drove from Grenoble to Aix-les-Baires where the statue was restored to the hands of the town mayor. The return of the long-lost Queen was celebrated publicly on Empire Day, 1948. A detach- ment of the Black Watch Regi- ment, complete with pipers, par- aded through the streets, The B r i t is h consul - general from Lyons thanked M. Tagnard and M. Vernaz for their wartime bra- very in a short address. The band played the national anthem — and t h e statue of Queen Victoria in Aix-les-Bains was unveiled for the second time. Then came a final touch which brought tears to M. Tagnard's eyes. He was handed a personal letter of thanks from the Queen of England, now the Queen Mo- ther, who wrote: "Due to your braveryathis his- toric' monument escaped the vile hand of our common enemy." A letter from King George VI, also thanking him for his Coura- geous act, reached the French- man a few days later. When you buy something for a song, watch out for the accom- panist. A Big Drive For Seat Belts — BUT, What Took Us So Long? by Ward Cannel Newspaper Enterprise Association • NEW YORK — Suddenly, as though it were a new idea, the U.S. is in for an immense six- month campaign urging us to use seat belts in our cars the way we do in our airplanes, After years of relentless re- porting by newspapers, univer- sity traffic accident researchers and the National Safety Council, the message seems to have come through: .If you drive, it's 7-in-10 that you'll have an auto accident within the next five years. Chances are .heavy that it will be a serious accident. Auto crash is the1 third biggest killer in the nation after cancer and cardi- ovascular disease. 'For young people between 15 •and 25 years of age, it's the No. 1 killer. But if you and your passengers use seat belts, you're upwards of what took so lon g? Especially since Dr. James Malfetti, Safety Research program chief at Teach- ers College, Columbia Univer- sity, says that the need for seat belts is one of the few positive findings in safety investigation. One big obstacle, experts say, has been public indifference — locked in by a fishy stare from the auto dealer at the request for seat belts. But with manu- facturers installing all the gear except the strap, that problem is solved. The second road block: a, wealth of misinformation about who needs seat belts—"Not me. don't drive fast. I never drive long distances. And I sure don't want to be strapped in if the car goes into a river or catches on. fire." The way out of that falls to the Advertising Council which will have to explain that more than half of fatal accidents hap- , .. 'Qiere are 'so 1440 ways to etOttii.S1out' 149a Si ete.:='abtl ilied thern,,we eiffile overt johko child—amuse him, caress him, underetend , %uteri ._y one• r eat is ?-1.094:11/012.B him, protect him from litirttnittherair Because drivers kill and Minis more Alia' 011 oarIt'skta4rlavilebylei, rtnithdl)6tioiiiitolortdtrttleetractofkOri:1061 than any disease, a atm potentially one of the mast in Nay tows, for where !awe '9 stticti$1 fk7 most dangermis ',kites yourehiki an everla, Oa orbited, teeldelite end desalt gii Isai Bak Protect him whenever he in in the car44ith A enriaperentWhotrante to protootht, , til mini t'•. seat belt, and hinielf postilf4r-overlook tho irtorector1 if every car owner in Ai6010W seat tells lel afforded by net heifer Published to ,or Brae, in Ntlicilliari, tath pp bi,,,,,i4,61t 0004 004 50 Ma080ISOING(fig.iti -I ' '. . FIESTA, MELON RING Cut a chided peeled Melon into thick slicet. Pate and slice Some oranges arid 'peaches; Make melon balls from a honeydew. Place sliced Melon` on bed of ice- berg lettuce and fill tenter of each Slice with melon balls, Ar- range Oath and Orange sliceS pened under 40 miles per hour —and thoSt, were right in town or no more than 25 miles away from drivers' homes. And, if you're belted you'te riot only five times safer than if you were thrown clear, but you're also probably coriteicittai arid cart free yourself if that 1-in-100 fire or submersion be- Curs, But easily as big at obstacle to getting seat belts installed has been the lack. of pressure by law or voluntary associations oil the der industry. Car Makers to man have been behind the idea, of Course, But until now nobody has installed 'the gear, Why hal Oh, plenty of good teasel-la -a- from indisputable economics to dossiers on all the seat belt salesmeh who didn't have their seat belts fastened When they drove past the auto ulaiit guard house, • 60 per cent safer. If everybody used them, we would have 5,000 fewer fatalities arid at least one, third fewer severe ,injuries each year. And 80, this year for the first time, auto manufacturers will be installing seat belt anchors as standard equipthent °iri new ears. The National Safety Council be joined by all array of endorsers including the U.8. Department of Health,. Education and Welfare, the 11.8. Public Health Service, the American Medical Assri. And to Sell the idea, the Advertising Council will get at least itIO million worth of co- operation .from all media. Evert the Central federation of Women's Clubs is out getting the ladies to pledge that they'll have seat berth installed, It's all Vera inttressive. 1N k . A CARPET OF WATER' Hundreds of gallons of water ragO OIOWri the turns of this San Francisco a partnieht house Staircase. The rapids were caUged by firemen who were 'battling at 'Stub, born Wain an thea upper floors.