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The Brussels Post, 1962-09-27, Page 7MOROCCO ARRAKECH e Even The .grook$ Are Big Texas: In the midst of great prosper- ity, Texans 'Lave become increas- ingly aware of a lapse in ethics which appears to have developed in the conduct of business and in some segments of college sports, It is an awakening that is prod- ding the state to make a self- analysis and has turned up a. slackening in morality which Is striking at the very basis of th e proud boast of the westerner that a man's word is his bond. It is a serious blow to a busi- ness community which has con- ducted thousands of transactions on a verbal basis where written statements and agreements have been seldom required except for formal, legal records. The first inkling that some- thing was wrong in the state came almost a year ago whoxl rumors began to spread that ref- erees in some college basketball, games evere under suspicion of trying to shade points in favor of certain gamblers. A legislative probe turned up evidence which partially confirmed this. Then came the Billie Sol. Estes scandal, involving not only shady business practices, but also abuses of cotton-acreage allot- ments, This was followed by in- dications of illegal practices in rice-acreage allotments. As these scandals began to unfold, thefts of crude oil on a grand scale were being found in the East Texas Oil Field. This one promises to put the others in the shade as far as the amount of money is involved, writes Bicknell Eubanks in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. The current legislative probe down in Dallas into the East Texas oil field practices is lead- ing to some deep scrutiny of practices which have developed in the oil industry and agricul- ture. There are two spheres of economic activity where rugged individuality and independence have been linked with the accep- tance of a man's promise as some- thing which is as good as a writ- ten document, perhaps even bet- ter. In the oil fields especially this has been an accepted part of do- ing business. The dealings and transactions leading up to the conclusion of negotiations might ISSUE 39 — 1962 be,.*Iierp and disastrous to the 141". wary trader. But they were lion eat and oe i secid At deviated t he eriatecdo.4frooltonsio7 accepted of a deal .among Independent oil: operators,. there would be a veP.. 141 aoreement, a shake of the. baget' 4 Texas. rA 4. O4tli at wwas. it.comment on the change as they watch in dismay the unfolding of the East Texas oil scandals at the Dallas hearing. A. House committee is gathering evidence on slant-hole wells which are being used to steal oil from. neighboring leases, • It is looking for Information to be. used nt preparing laws to tighten regulations, The bearing has received tea-. tei:On entrusted tba ts own? with e state40r egoploori:. production regulations have re- ceived bribes to look the other way when slant holes are drilled for illegal purposes, Regulations Permit a certain degree of devi- ation, As the hearing progressed, the -committee's chief counsel, Davis Witte of Dallas, denounced, what ..he said. mUst have been an apathy .on the part of the communities involved, He said that stealing oil through 350 de- viate wells must have been known generally. He ,added, how- ever; that "it flourished for years without action by local law-en-! tri,xcs ent officers or state ciai. Attorney General Will Wilson said state laws need strengthen- ing. He described the situation as a "major theft." The value of the stolen •oil ranges in estimates 000,00C) to $50,000:000 af7Ynl $1(1,ear„ (Modestly): I often quote my- self. It adds spice to the conver- sation, George Bernard Shaw,. Fashion Hint FAMILY EFFORT — Lack, of funds forced 0. E. (Ozzie) Herkner, left, a cherry farmer to turn down a chance to visit Russia with a group of agriculturists. But his neighbors, and family opened a "Get-Ozzie-to-Russia" booth• and soon sold enough baked cherry pies, bread and cherries to get Ozzie on the trip. Children, from left, 'Lynda, Warren, Sue Allen and Mary Jean, sold more than 1,000 pies and loaves of bread. A Lost -Rivor. Of= : .Old London • The Fleet River, although . it WAS later known, by the less, imposing name of Fleet Ditch, was the largest and the most ieneortant. of leondoree lost rivers, Many Londoners ais vaguely aware of its existence, .and there. is, by comparison with the other rivers, a large body of reliable literature: upon it. In addition, it is clearly shown on many maps. The Fleet rises on Hampstead. Heath. by two heads, separated by Parliament Hill. •The .western, or Hempstead, source is near the, Vale of Health (said. to be so named because it was unaffected by the great plague of 1605), arid forms the Hampstead Ponds be- fore going underground near Hampstead Heath station and running down the line of Fleet Road to Camden Town, , . The eastern, or Highgate, source is in the grounds of Ken- wood :Rouse, whence the stream flows southwards; forms the chain of Highgate Ponds, and. after a sweep round to the east curves back to the west and crosses the Highgate. Road, At this point it was 13 feet wide at flood, according to the report of a Committee of Magis- trates on, the Public Bridges of Middlesex in 1825, Near here it was joined by a small tributary from Gospel Oak, and it is prob- able that when the area around Fleet Road was built upon, an attempt was made to divert the waters of the Hampstead stream along an eastbound canal to join this little tributary. . The two main sources united just north of Camden Town, forming a stream which was 65 feet wide at flood in 1826 where it crossed under Kentish Town Road. An anchor has been found in the bed of the river near here, so it may have been navigable for small boats even as far up, as this. The Fleet crosses under the Regent's Canal, which shows the change in level which has taken place; the. Fleet is 25 below street level in some, places, . The history of the Fleet River b.as, been described as a decline from a river to a brook, from a brook to a ditch, and from a hitch to a drain. It is therefore- not • surprising that when the .Rornans. came to LondOn it was 4 tidal inlet perhaps 600 feet NEWCOMER—Worth watch- ing for on movie screens is voluptuous Teresa Velasquez, a 21-year-old Mexican beauty making her film debut in "Valley of the Swords," a 10th century adventure story now being shot in Spain. wide at its mouth. ..On it east was steep gravel hill, but to the west was a wide . strip of ,marsh known as London Fon: this was later reclaimed by .oner- getio bodies such as the Knights Templar who owned the land, There seems to be little doubt that the name "Fleet," which is frequently f o u n d along the Thames, is. an Anglo-Saxon word Meaning a tidal inlet, Capable of floating boats, it should strictly. therefore; be applied only to this wide lower part below Holborn Bridge. An alternative name by which the river was known was the Hole-bourne, or stream in the hollow, referring to the deep valley of the lower part of its ,course,-From "The Lost Rivers of London,' by N. J. Barton. Six-Year-Old Julie Tells Trap'. Tale The wind i„ gusting across the air-strip at Big Bear City, on the pine-studded slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles, as William II, Clark helped his 32-wife-old wife Jacqueline and their two young daughters climb aboard his green and white Piper Cherokee, Bill Clark, an execu- tive of the TravelLodge Corp, had been given the plane a month before by his father-in- law, and he had flown his family up to the timbered resort for a Labor Day weekend. It was al- most dusk as he took off for the 110-mile flight back to San Diego, Minutes after take-off, the single-engine craft plummeted into the steep, densely wooded slope. The fuselage crumpled into a grove of firsi Clark and his wife were killed. Thrown clear of the plane and miraculously alive were 8-year- old Laurie and 6-year-old Julie, and for 65 hours the two little girls stayed waiting for rescue. In a San Bernardino hospital, while Laurie underwent surgery for a broken leg, little Julie told her story: "The plane went down real fast," she recalled. "Mommy and Daddy didn't have a chance to say a thing. It happened all of a sudden. When the plane hit, Daddy and Laurie and me was thrown out. Mommy stayed on the plane." (Rescuers found.Mrs. Clark still strapped in her seat; Clark was lying near the plane.) Julie said she helped Laurie sit up against a log. "She was crying because her leg hurt, but after a while she quit crying. Laurie said I should go over to the plane and try to find some water. I looked all over because we always carried water, but I couldn't find any. I couldn't find any food either. "Then Laurie told me to look for something for us to keep warm with. I went to the plane and found a suitcase. Mommy and Daddy's clothes were in it. We put them on and huddled together to keep warm. We didn't get cold." At night, the bruised s-year- old said: "I slept by Daddy to keep warm. He didn't do any- thing • . • He was dead," She told of watching search planes ,cross above them. "But no one seemed to know we were down there . , ." Then the heli- copters came. As the search party approach- ed, Julie, her blond hair matted, her reddish-brown sweater tat- tered and grimy, stumbled up and asked for a drink of water, "They didn't have any water but they gave me some coffee. They asked me if I was all right, and I said I was. Then they gave Laurie some coffee . . ," Through all the hours, the children had not despaired, ."La- urie said the helicopters would find us," TABLE TALKS ,r- iAtrilf` , Is there a lunch carrier in your home? It's a 40 per cent likeli- hood there is, Someone interested in such statistics has learned that in that percentage of homes someone carries a lunch at least every other week day. It may be to school, to factory, or to office. Children 13 or under carry 20 per cent of the lunches, teen-agers 11 per cent, women 15 per cent, and — look at this — men carry 54 per cent! "There are three men in my family who just plain don't like the food they get in the restaur- ants near their work," a neighbor told me," so I have to pack three lunches a day, All three men have fairly big appetites, so I al- ways give them a vacuum bottle of soup to go with their sand- wiches and fruit." Other lunch carriers, like salads as well as sandwiches, but most are contented with one hot item, a soup or a drink — or both — and a good sandwich with a little easy-to-eat fruit such as bananas, grapes, or apples. Experts on .packing school lunches say there should often be a "surprise" tucked in between such standard foods as sandwich- ep and soup. Cookies are a favor- ite surprise, or a special piece of cake, a pickle, a couple of olives, a cup of salad, or a packet of vegetable sticks — anything to spark what threatens to become monotonous fare. N. * In fact, the taste of the indi- vidual needs to be considered along with the nutritional value of the meal. Soups prepared with milk often take the place of a glass of milk, if the school child needs a change of menu. If there. are no vegetables hi a salad or sandwich filling, a bottle of vege- table-filled soup meets that need. If there is no meat in the sand- wich filling, a vegetable-beef or beef-noodle soup will round out the lunch. In other words, con- sider the lunch as a whole when deciding on types of soup or sandwich fillings to combine with 'each other and with other lunch ingredients, and you'll be popular with the lunch-toting members of your family, writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in the Christian Science Monitor, If you're packing, lunches for men, these liverwurst and cheese 3-decker sandwiches may be just the thing, but many children won't like them MAN-SIZED TRIPLE DECKERS 12 slices white bread 2 tablespoons soft butter 2 teaspoons prepared mustard with horse-radish 8-12 slices liverwurst 4 slieeS snappy cheese Mayonnaise Lettuce 8 tomato slices Combine butter and mustard; spread on 4 slices of bread, Top with Sliced liverwurst and cheese. Cover with second slices of bread, Spread with mayon- naise.; add lettuce leaves and to- mato slices, Top with third slices of bread. Cut in half diagonally. Wrap in foil or transparent paper. Makes 4 sandwiches, * Vey a school lunch, make these peanttt butter arid apple sauce sandwiches; and iput a beef or chicken noodle soup in a Wide- nionthed vacuum bottle, CilINCRY APPLE-PEANtIT itUtith gANtIVVICII 3 ctip peanut biatter cup aPple sauce 2 stripS babtiri, Cooked and ernhuliled 8 slices- white or raisin bread, Cornbine peanut butter, apple Sauce, and bacon. Spread on 4 Slices of bread. Top with remain.- ihg bread, Wrap each sandwich, Makes Yeti may like• softie MOUNTAIN DEW — Ray Sid- dle, 7, couldn't resist trying the fresh •mountain water which runs continuously from an ornate water fountain at a crossroads in Millheirn, Pa. binations, for lunches. Here are two for you to try. ASPARAGUS-CHICKEN GUMBO 1 can condensed cream of as- paragus soup 11/2 cans water 1 can chicken gumbo soup Blend cream of asparagus soup and water,. in a saucepan; add chicken gumbo soup. Heat, stir- ring occasionally. Pour into a wide-mouthed vacuum bottle that has been rinsed in hot water. Serves 4, CHICKEN VEGETABLE SOUP 1 can condensed chicken vege- table soup 312 soup can tomato juice 1/2 soup can water Combine soup, tomato juice, and water. Heat, stirring now and then. Pour into wide mouth vacuum bottle which has been rinsed in hot water. Makes '2-3 servings. Want to combine meat with your soup for a hearty meal? Try adding frankfurters to bean soup, BEAN AND' FRANK LUNCHEON SPECIAL 1 frankfurter, thinly sliced 1 tablespeon butter 1 can condensed bean and bacon SOup 1 soup can water. Lightly brown frankfurter slie What Do You Know About NORTHWEST AFRICA? es in butter or margarine, Add soup and water. Heat, stirring oc- casionally. Pour into wide-mouth- ed bottle that has been heated with hot water, Serves 2-3, « Here is a man-type salad for a packed lunch, Spoon each serving into small plastic or wax-lined containers with tight fitting cov- ers. Serves 3 to 4. TANGY BAKED BEAN SALAD 1 can (1 pound) pork and beans with tomato sauce 1 cup chopped celery 2 tomatoes, cut in hedges 11,4'2 teaspoons vinegar fi„, teaspoon salt Dash of black pepper Lightly mix all ingredients* to- gether, Chill. * . If your lunch carriers like tole slaw, try this, packing it in cups, COLE SLAW 1/2 cup sugar or corn syrup 1/2 cup weak vinegar Salt 2 cups shredded cabbage 1/2 cup evaporated milk Stir sugar and vinegar togeth- er until sugar dissolves. Stir in milk, Season cabbage with the salt; add dressing and mix well. Serves 4. * • * Here is a pea salad that serves 6, TASTY PEA SALAD 2 cans (17-ounces each) sweet, peas, drained 1/2 cup chopped celery 34 cup chopped sweet pickles 3/2 cup cubed Canadian cheese 2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped 3/ teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons mayonnaise or salad dressing 1 tablespoon cream Blend salt and salad dressing; cream together, Mix other in- gredients; fold dressing through them. Serves 6. So, Ladies, You Think • YOU Have It Hard Women today, whose most dif- ficult washday chore may be getting the soap carton open, can get some idea of how far things have improved since great grand- ma's day from the following item out of the past. It's an authentic Kentucky "receipt," in its original spelling, for washing clothes, contributed by a reader to the Colorado In- terstate Gas Co. magazine: I. bild a fire in `back yard to beet kettle of rain water. 2. set tubs so smoke won't blow in. eyes if wind is pert. 3. shave one hole cake soap in bilin Water, 4. sort things, make three piles, I. pile white.' 1 pile cullord, 1 pile work britches and rags. 5. stur• flour in cold water to smooth then thin down with bilin water, 6, rub dirty spots an board, scrub hard. then bile. rub cud- lord but don't bile — just rench and starch, 8. speed tee towels on grass. 9. hang old rags on fence, 10, Pore rench water in flower bed, 11. scrub 'Dora with hot soapy water. 12, turn tubs upside down, 13. go put on elects dress — smooth hair with side combs brew cup of tee — set and rest and rock a spelt and Count bleS- sins_ — The 15ally Times (Mel- bourne, Pia.) Modern Eflicrue#te itv Anne Ashley (/„. it nil tight for a bride to have both a Matron and Maid of honour at her Wedding? A. Yes, it the wedding is a very large arid formal one. Q, How late et night is It pro- per tot a pining man to Phone it girl at her home? A, This depelids entirely upon the custom of the girl's family, and their usual hour forrotit4 ..2 Mg,. Probably ten o'clock should be the latest, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY — Lying in a bed, a patient Munich, West Germany, Clinic weaves acarpet on a special 66111. Occupational therapy entourages the patients to do haridiCratt, weaving and other work tee exorcise hitISCIeS,