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The Seaforth News, 1957-06-20, Page 2Saved His Skin By Out -staring Tiger The sky was dark and menac- ing; a bitter wind blew; the ther- mometer stood at 35 deg, C. be- low. In weather such as that tigers were said to roam in broad daylight, feeling as safe as if it were night. George Yankovsky, East Asia's fabulous hunter, would never have ventured out on such a day, but he was on the trail of man- eating tigers which were terror- izing the district of T'u-Men-Tzu, pear the Korea -Manchuria bor- der. Reaching a wood. the hunter and his men found tiger tracks in the freshly fallen snow. A little later they found splotches of blood and goat hair, A big tiger had left the spot only an hour ago; they were getting closer. The dogs showed signs of nervousness they would not go forward. Yankovsky, out ahead of the party, suddenly saw in a clearing the magni- ficent form of a tiger, standing perfectly still, unaware of the hunter's presence. Yankovsky took careful aim and fired: the tiger dropped instantly, a bullet in its heart. It was a male cub, two years old, and not the Great Van, the "Spirit of the Mountain," to whom superstitious .peasants made human sacrifices, said Yankovsky, as quoted by Mary Linley Taylor, in her enthrall- ing biography, "The Tiger's Claw". And then, before the hunters could pull themselves together, another tiger appeared. Yan- kovsky fired, but in a flash it had gone down the hill and into the bushes. Rifle at the ready, the great hunter followed, eyes searching the undergrowth. He had run about 400 feet when he heard a terriffic roar. He turned and saw the tiger, its mouth wide open showing fangs and tongue, amber eyes burning, ears laid flat on its neck. He fired, and then, with the full force of its 300 pounds or more, the tiger struck his elbow with its muzzle. "My rifle fell, the tiger em - REAL HAIR -RAISER — Paris model Jacqueline Bertrand dis- plays the latest in fantastic and fancy-free hair -dos at the Grand Fellowship Fantasy Com- petitionof the National Festi- val of Hairdressing held in London. The "cool" coiffure is by Raymond Deschamps. braced me with both paws, his hot breath on my fate and neck, his claws piercing into my 'shoulder and side, crushing me to the frozen ground with the weight of his; body," said Tan-' °kovsky. "Luckily I struck the ground with my shoulder and:. not with my head, otherwise it wouldhave been crushed. My face was in his wide-open mouth!" Tiger and man rolled down the hill until they struck a tree stump, and the beast released its grip. Then it crouched to spring again. "Our eyes met, now four feet apart ... those moments while waited for his leap I'shall ;lever forget as long as I live," said the hunter. "There was nothing left to' do but to 'stare him in the eyes. This -I did, trying to master him. Then I saw that my shot had gone through his right eye, and that blood from his head was running down on the snow...." For what seemed like hours, Yankovsky waited for the sound of a shot from Yura, his son, who was hunting with him. At last it'cams: the tiger leapt into the air and dropped, but then to his horror it rose again. One of the dogs finished it off, however. But that tiger was not the Great Van, either, and so the hunt went on. The Great Van was known because he left the marks of a broken claw on the right forefoot. A few weeks later, Yankovsky and Co. spot- ted their quarry and after a long chase, trapped it in some bushes. The hunter edged forward, saw the striped body and squeezed the trigger. The gi- gantic tiger rose momentarily above the bushes and crashed to the ground, Yankovsky tried to raise his gun again for the safety shot, but his arms which he had strained on the climb refused to respond. "I stood helpless," he said. "The bushes moved and parted. The head of my enemy appear- ed. I was paralyzed—I died. The sound of a shot brought me back to life. Yura had fired from close behind me. It was deafening. I waited. Yura came up and fired again. In a hash the dogs were on the tiger, but the magnificent creature had been struck in a vital spot, and he was dead." There was the time he was hunting a panther and followed it into a cave. Suddenly, in the semi -darkness, he saw it crouched to spring just above him. Sts ears were pressed back against its head and its eyes were burning as it tried to hyp- notize him as it would have any animal. Yankovsky levelled his rifle. The shot entered the pan- ther's right eye and it dropped from the ledge like a sandbag. "Never can I forget him," said the hunter. "I have only to close my eyes now, to see his shining and to sense again the pity that he had to die." By the blazing fire at "Novi - lea," his mountain home in North Korea, George Yankov- sky told Mary Linely Taylor many other thrilling stories of hunts for tigers, leopards, pan- thers and boars. And thanks to her amazingly retentive me- mory she has been able to re- cord them for adventure -lovers. Tramp — "Lady, I haven't eaten for days." Lady — "Oh, if I only had your will -power." an STATUE OF LIMITATIONS RUNS .OUT — During the judging of fraternity house decorations at Emory University, the water fountain sculpture, left, decorated the lawn of one of the houses. The "classical" work was a huge success until the "statues,' Paula Foer and Charles Rumble in real life, began to wilt under the strain and the statue became a bust, right, when they had to take time oue for a break. After all, they're not made of stone. LIVIN' DOLL — Mickey Necroto, 3, casts an appreciative eye on a beautiful doll. The "doll" is his two-year-old sister, Peggy. All decked out in her "Sunday best" and staring straight ahead with those big blue eyes, Peggy looks lust like a doll. 41' TABLE T4LKS - dam And»ews sl.�7 There are two types of omelet — the French and the fluffy ones — the latter are almost a souffle. To make omelets individual, you'll' probably want a filling or a sauce. For sauces, use either tomato, cheese, mushroom, onion or fish. For mixtures, vege- tables, cheese, fish, and diced meat are good. Among the meats that form good omelet partners are bacon, chicken. dried beef, ham, sausage or veal; fish that are suitable are an- chovy, cod, herring, lobster, salmon, shrimp, and oysters. The United States Department of Agriculture suggests three different methods for mixing these ingredients with omelets: 1. Melt butter in frying pan, add ingredients; stir until in- gredients are thoroughly heated, then add omelet mixture. 2. Add chosen ingredients to the omelet mixture before cook- ing, Be sure to stir in quickly, and do not overstir. 3. Spread heated ingredients on the cooked omelet before folding in half. These recipes for making two types of omelets serve 2. French Omelet 3 eggs 3 tablespoons water or milk 54 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper—scant 1 tablespoon fat Mix eggs, water, salt and pepper with a fork. Heat fat in skillet (about 8 -inch) just hot enough to sizzle a drop of water. Pour in egg mixture. It should set at edges at once. Reduce heat. As the mixture at the edges thickens, draw these por- tions with the fork toward the center so that the uncooked por- tions flow to the bottom. Tilt skillet as it is necessary to has- ten flow of uncooked eggs. Shake skillet to keep omelet sliding freely. Keep mixture as level as possible. When eggs are set and surface is still moist, in- crease heat to brown bottom quickly. Carefully loosen edge. Fold in half and roll. Cooking time—about 5 minutes, * * * Puffy Omelet 4 eggs, separated 1/2 teaspoon salt 34 cup water 1/2 teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon fat Add salt and water to egg whites, Beat until stiff and shiny and whites leave peak when beater is withdrawn. Add pep- per to yolks and beat until thick and lemon colored. Fold yolks into egg whites. Meanwhile heat SALLY'S SA LIES 'I used all my ingenuity to buy; now you use yours to pay" fat in large skillet (10 -inch) until just hot enough to sizzle a drop of water. Pour in omelet mixture. Reduce heat. Level surface gently. Cook slowly until fluffy and lightly browned on bottom, about 5 minutes. Lift omelet at edges to judge color. Place in 325° F. oven. Bake until knife inserted into center comes Out clean -12-15 minutes. To serve, omelet may be fold- ed in half; or tear gently, using two forks, into pie -shaped pieces. Invert wedges on serving plate so that browned bottom becomes the top. * •* Other egg favorites are: Creamed eggs In toast cups served with bacon are good for breakfast, Iunch or supper. Vary them by adding any of the in- gredients suggested for omelets if you desire, This recipe serves 4. Creamed Eggs 1 cup butter 1/2 cup flour 34 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 34 teaspoon paprika 2 cups milk 6 hard -cooked eggs Melt butter, add flour and seasoning. Blend well and cook over low heat until bubbly. Add cold milk all at „once and, cook, stirring constantly, until thick- ened. Slice or chop eggs and add to sauce. Heat a few minutes longer stirring gently. If de- sired, add more seasoning. Combine mashed potatoes with hard -cooked eggs in a pie that serves 5. Egg -Potato Pie 2 tablespoons fat 1 tablespoon flour 3s cup milk 34 teaspoon salt Dash pepper 6 medium potatoes, cooked and mashed 5 hard -cooked eggs 2 tablespoons chopped persley lA cup grated sharp cheese Melt fat. add flour, blend well, and cook over low heat, until. bubbly. Add cold milk all at once and cook, stirring con- stantly, until thickened. Add salt and pepper. Line bottom and sides of a greased 8- or 9 -inch pie plate or, shallow 'casserole with half the well -seasoned mashed pota- toes. Arrange sliced eggs in po- tato shell. Top with parsley, cheese, sauce, salt and pepper. Cover with remaining mashed potatoes, Brush top with milk. Bake at 350° F. until browned and thoroughly heated about 30 minutes. If desired, garnish top with slices of hard -cooked egg. * * Here are a few figures which are ,worth tacking up on your cupboard for reference. They're all about butter. 1 lb. butter equals' 2 cups Ye ib. butter equals / cup To substitute for butter: 1 cup butter equals 34 cup hydroge- nated vegetable shortening plus 1/2 teaspoon salt, or 34 cup lard plus 1/2 teaspoon salt. Best insurance Against Moths Warm weather has prompted a rush for summer wardrobes. We tend to move winter cast-offs to the back of the clothes closet and forget about them. But there isn't a tastier hot -weather dish for a moth than carelessly, stored woollens! Cleanliness is the best insur- ance against moths. Have you noticed that mothlarvae always seem to attack first on a spot where there's a good stain? All clothing to be stored should be washed or dry-cleaned. Dry cleaning is quick and ef- fective these days. The modern cleaning agent perchlorethylene makes possible one -day service because it is non -inflammable and can be used on a cleaner's premises, It also means odorless cleaning since little of the sol- vent retrains in the garments. And quite apart from the moth menace, cleaning actually pro- longs the life of garments, by removing dust and dirt particles which rub between fibres and weaken them. Some dry cleaners are help- ing with the storage problem. by returning cleaned clothes In polythene bags. By sealing the bottom of the bag with a me- dium -hot iron, you have an ex- cellent protection against dust and moths. And in the fall, when winter clothes are returned to active service, they can easily be identified through the trans- parent plastic covering. Their Love Beached' Lofty Heights , The youpng lovers led the mayor . and the parish " priest higher and higher up the scaf- folding of one of the fine new buildings of Maubeuge, North- ern France. Under starry gkies young Jacques Drancourt and pretty nineteen -year-old Louisette Terre had carried opt their courtship on the site, and they wanted to. be 'married there. So the officiate obligingly climbed ladders to, the rooftops and pronounced Jacques and Louisette man and wife. It's strange how often the per- suasive setting of love the scenic background of courtship — proves spell -binding for life. Only recently a staid business man paid far more than he could afford, as he said, for a stately home in the eastern counties merely because he had courted his wife in the kitchen garden. The mansion has twenty-four bedrooms, a private organ -loft Ad a swimming pool. The ro- mantic -minded purchaser can- not swim or play the organ. In fact, he intends to turn the man- sion into flats for the romantic young husbands of a near -by airfield. But he reserves the for- mer stables as a home for him- self, overlooking the garden where he and his wife first found happiness. In the heart of London, too, the Savoy Hotel has a similar custom. During the summer waiters emerge with napkins laden with crumbs to feed the birds in the near -by public gar dens. A wealthy American, Alexan- der Angus, loved to watch his wife feeding the birds. Every summer the couple came to Lon- don to relive the experiences of their honeymoon. When his wife died, Mr. Angus created a trust fund, making an allowance to two waiters to feed the birds for all time. A would-be Menuhin sat in a corner every evening with his violin. Holding one finger rigid- ly on the same spot, he drew the bow back and forth tor hours on end. "Henry," said his wife, "I've noticed that when other people around and use all four strings." "Yes, I know," Henry replied. "They're looking for the place. I've found it" Maine, Idaho and California grow nearly half the country's potatoes. iiieeee 1' i:i!ikiliiii;iii ' !i i E41 ::: iili'Tete! MAIN ST. 8 BROAD ST. IT S AMAZING This looks like a puzzle on paper — but it can save children's lives. Traffic expert Robert J. Kelly devised this one-way street plan for residential areas to reduce "short cut" travel by trucks and autoists attempting to bypass traffic lights. The residents soon accustom themselves to the right or left turns at the end of each block. But the frustrated short-cut artists avoid the area after one try. Very first 'city to use the "maze" was Johannesburg, South Africa, the second was Grand Rapids, Mich. DON'T BE A STATISTIC — This "disaster" scene is in Odeshog, Swedes.,, where 35 men, women and children join in a grimly realistic plea for highwaysafety. These victims" represent 35 per- sons actually killed, or injured in auto accidents near the town, at erre of the most dangerous sections of a highway linking Stockholm and Halsingborg.