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The Brussels Post, 1962-05-17, Page 2MILTS 0 250 JAPAN 1E1 TABLE TALKS Jam Ancbews. 1 A 1.2-Inile 6-s_econd Vie? pf Seattle RIDE THE MONORAIL One-tail trout of the More The monorail system for trains, tried arid ':',royed in , Europe but as unfamiliar to Canadians as something straight oat of eciehee fiction, is one of the features of $eattlel* "World of Tomorrow" fair • At left is a pedestrian's view of how tars ride on one r‘.:111, The 1.2, toile "4 fretch from downtown Seattle' it) toe' fairgrounds 460. the city $4 million., is 0,vected S'llIttld 10,000 Coniforiciblo interiors in futurist's design people on hour to and from the grounds. • VieW at upper eight is through the front window of one of the cars. Driver sits at left. First impression may be On eerie feeling which posses quickly in the thrill of novelty and trying to catch a glimpse of the city during the 96. second ride, • Shiny and 'comfortable, the ihterior of the cars, lower right, is far from dahverifiarial arrange- Merit, leans to fiAtutittid. RECEIVE OFFICIAL GIFT — Shah of Iran, left, and his wife, Queen Farah, stand •beside oil painting presented them as official gift of .the City of San Francisco. The moniaged photo, done in oil, was made by local photographer George Shimmon, right,, who was of- ficial cameraman at the royal wedding in 19-59. Cannery Row Runs Out Of Fish! In "Canner/ Row," John Stein. beck described the Monterey, Calif., landmark as °a poem, rd stink, a grating noise, a qtiality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostal- gia, a 004m," In his Stories he Celebrated, the denizens of Lee Chong's crowded little grocery, Doe's Western Biological Labora- tory,, the Palace FlOpheuse and CieII, and Dora's Bear Flag Res- taurant, a house for fancy ladies.. And in its heyday, cannery Row did not lack for color; it was A roistering, rollicking, rowdy patch of waterfront, The canner- ies — eleven in all in 1945 when Steinbeck wrote — were strung put on stilts along a crook of Monterey Bay just down from the old adobe Custom House, which dated from Spanish times. Almost 1,000 fishermen manned the fleet of purse seiners that put to sea to haul in the rich catch of sardines which schooled along the continental shelf from Vancouver Island to Baja California. When the can- neries sighted the sardine fleet returning from the Pacific deep- ly laden down, their whistles screamed -- the signal for can- nery workers to come running. Underneath the canneries the boats funneled up their silvery catch to be cut up and packed into the familiar oval tins, and shipped throughout America. Afterward, the brawny fisher- men went out on the town and had themselves a time, In those days the canneries employed 3,500 workers and the catch used to run as high as 12,- 000 tons a day — a $50 million- a-year industry, Then, almost overnight, the sardines ceased running along the coast. No one knew why. The state of Califor- nia, the Federal government, and the fishing industry spent $3.5 million to learn what happened to the sardines. "All we found out," said Rich- ard Crocker, chief of the marine- resources board of the State Fish. and Game Dedepartment, "is that It isn't what it used to be. Maybe the fishing was too heavy. Maybe conditions in the ocean changed tee that spawning was affected. Maybe it was whales, atomic bombs, ordinary bombs (thous- ands of surplus shells were dumped into the Pacific off the Golden Gate), or anything e you can imagine. All we know is that the fish just petered out." For years, the canneries strug- gled to keep open, waiting for the return of the sardines. Then, one by one, they began shutting down. In mid-April the death knell was sounded when the big California Packing Corp. an- nounced that its Cannery Row plant, too, was finished. "We're sad this had to happen," said a Calpak oficial, "But you can't run a sardine cannery indefinite- ly without sardines." Last month there was only one cannery left on Cannery Row, and it — Hoyden Food Products Corp., once the largest sardine canner in the world — was subsisting on a diet of squid. "There's not much of a market for squid," said president W. 0. Lunde, who added that the squid lam will soon be over. After that? "We'll look for mackerel, or for whatever we 'We can IYfrs. Allent who he* worked on the Tow far year, toaicit "liernernber .where the can aeries would, !et off their steam, whistles When the fleet came lnt That was the signal for PI rose to work, That was a lone. time ago." "Roney,,"' said 'Nfra, • Gistdene Jahnson working: next to her, "now they don't even have the steam for the whistles." Hatching Eggs In A Frying-Pan! What do you do when you want to hatch an egg but have no incubator? Try an electric frying-pan, That is what Mr. George Cox, of Melbourne, Au- stralia, did. And with complete success he hatched out an emu egg in the family frying-pan. The emu, Australia's national bird, and, with the kangaroo, part of the national coat of arms, is becoming increasingly rare.'So, when on a visit to the country Mr. Cox found two emu's eggs, he was anxious to save the lives of the unborn chicks inside. Wrapping the eggs carefully, he took them home, where the electric frying-pan in the kit- chen gave him the idea of a per- manent hatchery. He put the eggs in the pan, set the temperature at 100 degrees. F., and hoped for the best, Two weeks later a chirping and a thumping came from inside the pan. Mr. Cox lifted the lid and there were two emu chicks. One died later, but the other, named Speedy by the Cox fam- ily, flourished, In fact, he grew much too fast. Emus are large, flightless birds which reach a height of at least six feet, and Speedy soon out- grew the Cox's suburban garden. Regretfully, they gave him to a wild-life sanctuary, where he is a great attraction. Another kind-to-birds story al- so comes from Australia, Recent- ly, two families of birds — one of plovers and one of swallows —set up house on busy Sydney airport. Unperturbed by the scream of giant jets, the plovers built a nest in the grass close to one of the main runways and hatched a family of three. The parents trained the chicks to keep clear of the runway, but they were in danger from big motor-mowing machines used to cut the airport grass. Tarmac workmen managed to avert this danger, however, by building, a guard fence round the plovers' nest and putting up warning flags. The swallows were treated with equal care. They built a nest en a light-fitting in an old hangar that was being demol- ished. Workmen tore down' the rest of the hangar first, leaving the swallows' home until their four eggs were hatched. Then, nest and family were carefully moved to a new hangar, RELUCTANT PRINCESS Only four weeks after Mo- naco's Princess Grace agreed to return- briefly to Hollywood—to play a kleptotnaniac in a film called "Marnie"—the deal was off, at least until next year. From Monte Carlo came: rumors that the former Grace. Kelly had bowed to opposition from Prince Rainier, from Monegasque blue bloods, and even, from the Vati- can. Officially, however, the explanation was that producer Alfred Hitchcock asked for a postponement so that he could complete his current opus, "The Birds." A formal statement from. Hitchcock's press agent dead- panned; "The Princess has graci- ously acceded to the request from Mr. Hitchcock," Bank accounts and cookie jars have one thing in common — they seem to become empty al- mast overnight. As to• the bank account, I'm afraid I. cannot give you any helpful advice; but the following suggestions may be of aid in keeping the cookie jar re- plenished. OATMEAL-DATE COOKIES 1 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 4 cup orange juice 2 tbsp, grated orange rind 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 tsp, soda 3/42 tsP. salt cupsrolled oats 1 cup chopped dates 3ae cup chopped pecans Heat oven to 375 degrees. Cream shortening, sugar and eggs until fluffy. A d d orange juice and orange rind. Sift flour, soda and salt together into creamed mixture. Add rolled oats, dates and pecans and blend well. Drop by rounded tea- spoonfuls on lightly - greased cookie sheet and bake 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly brown- ed and firm to the touch. (Makes about 7 dozen,) MOLASSES COOKIES cup shortening cup sugar 1 egg 1 cup molasses 3 cups sifted all-purpose 3 tsp, baking powder 1 tsp. ginger 1 tsp, salt 3,4 tsp. soda IA cup buttermilk or sour milk 1 cup raisins Heat oven to 400 degrees. Combine shortening, sugar, egg and molasses and beat until well blended, Sift flour, baking Pow- der; ginger, salt and soda to- gether and add to creamed mix- ture alternately with buttermilk or sour milk. Stir in raisins. Drop by teaspoonfuls on lightly- greased cookie sheet. Bake about 10 minutes. (Makes 7 to 8 dozen.) ** SPICED COOKIES 1 cup shortening 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp; c up soda li 44 water 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 tsp, cinnamon I tsp, cloves ctsuPps. 8:hopped dates cup chopped tints 34 cup chopped mixed candied peel 44 cup candied cherries Heat oven to 375 degrees, Cream shortening, brown sugar and eggs together until fluffy. Dissolve soda in hot water and add, Sift flour, cinnamon, cloves and salt together into mixture. Add dates, nuts, peel arid cher. ties and stir to blend thorough* ly. Drop by rounded teaspoon- fide on lightly-greased cookie sheet, Bake about 10 minutes or until firm to the touch. (Makes about 7 dozen.) * I PiNtAPPLE'COOKIES Oi Cup shortening 1.4/./ cups brown sugar eggs' V4 Op Well-drained ettiehed pineapple' cup chopped 0,111(1101 cherries 34 Op 401)0 magi eilie sifted all-pitrpeee italic 448 ist,,Sori., ,sbadikt the powder lr iSP, huinto aoot overt 4tAtidit, This. Male Quartet Sure Has It Made! At bottom, it's the sweetest Idea for a Western since made little purple Sege. Take not one hero or even two, but four of them: A virile widower and his three sons (by three dif- ferent wives, no less), vigorous, lusty, laughing he-men — but also tender, sensitive, poetic he- men, Set them up as lords of a Nevada cattle ranch the size of Bulgaria — apartment-dwellers need something •grand to day- dream about — and gussie the whole thing up with color and a dum-tiddle-dum concerto for gui- tars by David Rose, It'll run for- ever. It has worked out just that way, too, In two and a half years, NBC's "Bonanza" (Sunday, 9. p.m, EST) has climbed near the very top of U.S. ratings charts, It also draws huge audiences, in five different languages, in Eng- land, Sweden, Australia, Japan, and eighteen other foreign coun- tries. Fan mail pours in from all over the world, and it gets deliv- ered by the U.S. Post Office even when addressed only to the "Pon- derosa," the entirely mythical cattle empire owned by the en- tirely mythical Cartwrights. So strong is the "Ponderosa's" hold on the imagination of "Bonan- za's" audience that producer David' Dortort refers 'to .it as his "fifth character" and spends $250,000 a year shooting geogra- phically authentic outdoor scenes near Lake Tahoe on the Nevada- California border. "Ponderosa" motels, souvenir shops, and hot- dog stands have sprouted like cactus near Lake Tahoe, and guides in the vicinity cheerfully lead tourists out to an old shack in the desert that was, they say solemnly, the "real" Ponderosa ranch house. As final proof of its power, the "Ponderosa" maintains this fas- cination in spite of being sur- rounded, week after week, by an almost comically inept show. None of the three half-brothers (Pernell Roberts as Adam, Dan Blocker as Hoss, Michael Landon as Little Joe) bears any resemb- lancce to papa (Lorne Greene), and only Pernell Roberts bears any resemblance to an actor. Each speaks in a different ac- cent. Although the scene is set in Nevada in the 1860s, the dialogue is borrowed freely from different places and centuries — a good prospect is called "a live one," and a scared man is "all shook up." In public, all four Cart- wrights talk loudly about the huge sums of money they carry on their persons, which is one way to get a plot rolling. In pri- vate, though, the talk is all soft and soapy. Eldest son (thoughtfully, three hours before he is to be hanged): "I was just thinking about Little Joe. I sure ribbed him a lot — I hope he knows I didn't mean it." Dad (all choked up): "He does son." Possibly because of the show's lugubrious mist, even the "Pon- derosa" has trouble staying in focus. Sometimes it crawls with ranch hands; at other times — when the script calls felt a cozy domestic episode — the Cart- wrights do all the chores them. selves, just like poor folk. More disturbingly, t he Cartwright spread is either (1) famous throughout the Southwest or (2) unknown in the next town, also depending on plot requirements. Seems like they'd pay some mind to the "Ponderosa's" reputation. It's all they've got. Can She Bake A Cherry Pie? With frozen sour red cherries available the year round, it's al- ways cherry-pie season nowa- days, So, to help the cherry-pie maker make a success of her endeavor, home economists at Cornell University have been test-baking frozen red cherry pies with various kinds and amounts of thickener in them, The results were a set of helpful hints for the perfect pie, Here they are: Use 1 quart frozen cherries for a well-filled 8- or 9-inch pie. Mix 21/2 tablespoons of tapioca with lee tablespoons of corn starch, Sugar to taste. But remember, you probably have already put some sweetening in the cherries when you froze them, So don't add too much, Cherries sweetened with corn syrup and sugar will need slight- ly more thickener (about 1,e tea- spoon each of cornstarch and ta- pioca). Now — to make the pie: Thaw the cherries only until most of the free ice has disap- peared. Drain off the juice and add to it the thickener and sugar mixed together, Heat rapidly un- til thickening is complete, Pour into unbelted pie shell and add latticed cover. So the pie won't bubble over in the oven, keep the tempera- ture at least 400° F. Put the pie on the lowest shelf in the oven to get a brown undercrust, Bake for 35 minutes or ujetil the top crust is light brown. ' How Well Do You Know NORTHEAST ASIA? Cream shortening, sugar a n d eggs together until fluffy. Add pineapple, cherries and nuts, Sift flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg together into mix- ture and stir .to- blend. Drop by. teaspoonfuls on lightly - greased cookie sheet, Bake .12 to 15 minutes or until nicely browned and firm to the touch. (Makes about 5 dozen.) COCONUT COOKIES 1 cup butter 1/2 cup sifted icing sugar 2 tsp, vanilla 14 tsp. almond extract 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 3/2 tsp, salt Pecans. Candied cherries Dates 1 egg white, unbeaten Shredded coconut Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Stir in flavorings, Sift in flour and salt and blend well. Shape the dough into small balls around pecan halves, candied cherries or pieces of date, mak- ing each ball about 1-inch in diameter. Dip each ball in egg white, then roll in coconut to coat' all sides. Put on lightly- greased cookie sheet and bake, 12 to 15. minutes or until lightly browned and firm to touch. (Makes about 3 dozen.) It is reported that an Austra- lian schoolboy has been bitten by a dead shark—as'he took its jaws to school. He fell between them and. they closed on him. He was taken to hospital for stitches. ' Real Progress In Highway Safety A deluge of ghoulish guessing and bloodthirsty reporting has obscured the very real progress that has been made in U.S. "auto- motive highway safety._ From a high of 11.5 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles in 1945, the rate was slashed to 5.3 in 1960. In 1961, it was reduced even more, with a record low of 5.1 posted in the first 11 months, This outstanding progress was made during the decade and a half since World War II when the number of cars, trucks and buses on America's streets and high- ways soared from a little over 31 million to more than 74 mil- lion. With the automotive safety rec- ord constantly improving, it's time to stop screaming death and destruction. It's time to call a halt to creating the impression that the only safe place for the family car is,home in the garage. There's no minimizing the im- portance of highway safety — and nobody wants to — but sen- sational reports of wide-spread carnage, instead of making driv- ers safer and more competent, can make them more tense, more nervous and more accident-prone. What makes betters drivers is not horror but help; not scares but suggestions; not terror but teaching. Safe driving is a skill which, once mastered and re- membered, provides great plea- sure. America's automotive safe- ty record can be improved still more, without horror and hyster- ia, by the conscientious applica - tion of the prince). -; of safe driving.—The Ache ' • r (Foun- tain, Colo.) ISSUE 20 3962 - AS WORLD iukNo •I his "Glenn hot, Whitten depicts sig. hificant events involved in Gidein'S orbital flight, is worn by' Its designer, Mrs. George Knopp. Bonnet won first pried at the Newcomer's Club in Arlitigttni 1/2 V2 flour