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The Seaforth News, 1959-01-08, Page 2Shooting Stars Really Travel Have you seen any shooting stars lately? ,Although we call these bright objects shooting' stars, they are not stars but meteors and they pre among the most fascinating of heavenly phenomena, On a telear dark night it is sometimes possible to see up to thirty or even forty of them in the Bourse of an hour, say the experts. • They are being studied with Riedel attention, in the hope that they will east new light on PRETTIEST — Hailed as the prettiest diplomat in London is Senora Virginia Gallegos of Costa Rica, The 39 -year-old mother of two teen-age sons has been given the rank of minister by her country. Her job? Sell tea -loving Britons on the merits of coffee. the origin and ,form of the solar system, Shooting stars — small stony pellets which move through Space at a speed often exceed- hie sixty miles per second -- pre usually ,first seen from earth when they are at a height Of about eighty miles, "'Though the atmosphere at this height is extremely thin, a shooting star rushes through it at such a rate that there is sue-• ficent friction to snake it white- hot," an astronomer explained. "By the time it has fallen to a height of about fifty miles, the shooting star has usually dis- appeared. "In the course of the few se- conds it remains visible, it may have travelled 200 miles, Some. shooting stars are fragments of comets that have broken up, and the breaking up of a comet has actually been seen from earth." Some time ago the Astronomer Royal revealed that the weight of the earth steadily increases by something like 100 tons every day as a result of the numerous shooting stars that enter and are dissipated in our atmosphere, "Occasionally the earth en- counters a fragment much larger than the average shooting star," he added. "We then see a fire- ball, a brilliant ball of light, easily visible in broad daylight, which is usually dissipated in an explosion of considerable vio- lence to the accompaniment of a loud report. "If the fireball is very large, fragments may fall to the earth as meteorites." Whistler, the famous painter of "Whistler's Mother", was exasperated -when he came home one night and found his mother sitting on the living room" floor. "What's the matter, Ma?" he demanded, "You.eff your rock- er?" Doli House Furniture Aids Doctors by Jerry Bennett Dollhouse furniture is taking its place' alongside the surgeon's scalpel as an effective tool for treatment ailments due to brain damage. The new vitae use !or this popular children's toy is being applied to the treatment of aphasia, a complicated but com- mon result of brain injury. Aphasia is caused by injury to the part of the brain that enables a person to talk, write and comprehend the written or spoken word. It may be caused by a cerebral stroke, a brain tumor or a sharp blow on the head. Many of its victims may have little difficulty in speaking or understanding but are complete- ly unable to write. Others may lose their ability to read or com- prehend anything that's said to them, Some are completely un- able to speak and can utter only garbled, incoherent sounds. Often an aphasia victim can pronounce words but uses the. wrong ones in trying to express himself. This is because he has lost the knack for associating Things in groups or categories. This ability is one of the prin- cipal requirements for memory. it's in treating this affliction that the miniature furniture is proving effective, Dr. Joshua Ehrlich, aphasia rehabilitation expert for the Veterans Admin- istration hospital in Albany, N.Y., has designed a group of rninature stage settings to rep- resent the rooms in an ordinary house. His special treatment technique calls for patients to select the right pieces of furniture to go into each room. Purpose of this play -type therapy is to give pa- tients practice in learning how to ✓ organize their thoughts so they won't confuse things that are completely unrelated. The system is now being tried out on 30 aphasia victims at the Albany hospital, And VA 0±11- cials report that results so far have been highly encouraging., For instance, a 63 -year-old pa- tient had to work for 30 minutes She eat time he tried of furnish a bedroom. On his next attempt , he did the job in half that time. As the drill continued, the pa- tient improved his ability to mentally group other things be- sides furniture. When he was finally dischraged, he could an- swer questions about his wife, the hospital and his home with- out confusing the subjects ashe had done when he was first ad- mitted. One of the biggest tragedies of aphasia, doctors believe, is that so many of the 400,000 victims in the U.S. don't realize that effective medical treatment is now available. They explain that many of these people let their lives turn into years of silent loneliness when they could be receiving medical care that might offer them partial or even com- plete recovery. The treatment. process, how- ever, is often a slow, tedious business that requires the ut- most patience from both pa- tients and members of the hospi- tal staff. This is specially true when aphasia _ victims must be taught to . read, write or speak again. The Veterans Administration Operates large therapy centers in Boston, Minneapolis and Long Beach, Calif., that specialize In aphasia cases. Treatment time at these hos- pitals ranges from a few months to several years depending upon how badly a patient's brain has been damaged. But after receiv- ing the specialized care, many persons have been able to re- turn eturn to their old jobs and live normal Ives. AT THE ALBANY, N.Y., Veterans Administration hospital, speech therapist James M. Norrix uses the ned "dollhouse furniture' ferhnique in teaching a victim of aphasia how to tock again. TABLE TALKS dcn Possibly by this time you're a bit tired of chicken or turkey; so next time 'you fancy fowl, why not, a duck or goose? Both should be cooked at 325° F, and may be roasted either stuffed or unetuffed,•If stuffed, the most. popular. ,stuffings con- tain celery, onion, `apple; prune or cranberry. Spoon or siphon off fat' ;ta accumulates during roasting, Carve so that each per- son receives a portion of breast and either thigh or drumstick. Garnish: • with fresh, crisp water • cress or parsley and sur- round on the platter with orange slices topped with .cherries (pie- tured).. If you like 'an orange, mustard'glaze ore your duck, .try it, this. way: About % hour be- fore the bird is done, spread it thickly with 1/2 cup orange mar- malade blended with 2 table- spoons rich prepared mustard; return .to oven and continue roasting until done, If you want to stuff the duck here are a few recipes for the stuffing. . * o APRICOT -RICE STUFFING 1/ cup chopped onion 1 cup chopped celery r/!. cup butter 8 cups cooked rice 1 cup .coarsely chopped . dried apricots 1 teaspoon salt Dash pepper R tablespoons chopped parsley Cook onion and celery in the butter. Combine rice, apricots. salt, pepper and parsley. Add onion -celery mixture to rice mixture, mixing lightly. * . * ORANGE -BREAD STUFFING 3 cups dry bread crumbs r/a oup melted butter 1 teaspoon salt Vs teaspoon pepper 2 cups chopped celery Grated rind and pulp of 1 orange. Vk to -Vs cup water to moisten Place bread crumbs in mix- ing bowl and pour melted butter over them, . Add seasonings, celery, orange rind and pulp. Mix lightly. Add enough water to moisten stuffing lightly. Coarsely chopped pecans may be added to this stuffing, if de- sired. 1f you don't stuff your duck, place a few celery leaves and a few slices of onion inside the duck for flavor. It is an old Chinese custom to skin cluck before cooking, and. if you'd like to serve braised duck for your holiday dinner it is best if skinned. With a sharp pointed knife, cut skin from neck to the vent, first along breast of duck then along the backbone. Loosen skin by run- ning knife underneath, close to flesh of duck. Peel skin back as it loosens, cutting skin where necessary but keeping flesh in- tact. BRAISED DUC3 . WITH ORANGE -CURRANT SAUCE Skin duck and cut into serv- ing pieces, Place a few table- spoons duck fat in Dutch oven or large skillet. Brown duck in Fat for about 45 minutes. Pour off Meese fat and add sauce (recipe follows). Cover and cook ISSUE 1 — 1D59 over low heat for about 30 min- utes or until tender. Sauce r/a cup red currant jelly Grated rind of I orange ei teaspoon salt Pinch cayenne pepper 1 tablespoon :prepared mus- tard ' Juice of.2 oranges. Break up jelly with fork; add grated rind, salt, and cayenne. Dissolve mustard in orange juice; add and beat well. With either duck or goose, serve this herb rice if you do not make a rice dressing. It will be popular and unusual, This serves 6. • • HERB RICE. 3 tablespoons butter. 1 cup chopped onion 1 scup uncooked white rice V: teaspoon .each, marjoram and summer savory 1 teaspoon rosemary % teaspoon salt .. 2, chicken bouillon cubes. 2 clips water. • Melt butter in 2 -quart sauce- pan. Add onion and ,rice. Cook until onion turns yellow and rice begins to • brown. Add all other ingredients'. Bring to vig- orous boil. Stir to dissolve bouil- lon cubes. Turn heat as low as possible. Cover.' and leave over low heat 44 minutes. • Remove from heat. Leave covered 10. minutes before serving, *' * MUSHROOM DISH FOR BRUNCH OR LUNCH Mushrooms, scientifically :nur- tured in their own • specially built, - dark houses to meet the demand, are available . all year around in fresh and canned form, One of the most versatile ways Of - preparing mushrooms is in a medium cream sauce, Either fresh or canned mushrooms may be used successfully in this recipe. ' CREAMED MUSHROOMS. (3 to 4 servings) Via, pound fresh mushrooms Ye oup water 2 tablespoons butter 2 teblespoonsfuls flew: % teaspoon salt 1 cup licluiil — pert' ]Wilk and the water off mushrooms Wash mushrooms (peeling is not always necessary); slice or cut large ones in pieces but leave small ones whole. Simmer in water until tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Remove from pan, Measure liquid and add milk to make 1 cup, Melt butter, blend: in flour and salt and gradually pour in liquid, stirring, until sauce thickens Add mushrooms, re -heat and serve. (Note; 3f desired, use one 10- ounce can of mushrooms whole, sliced or pieces — along with their liquid, in place of the eresh mushrooms and water, Do 'not simmer as canned mush- rooms are all ready cooked,) * * w For a meal in minutes, make ' double the amount of medium cream sauce (using 2 cups milk and 4 tablespoons of each but- ter and flour) and stir in 1 cup canned shrimp, saImoe, tuna - fish, turkey or chicken, along with the mushrooms (either fresh or panned) called for in the recipe. Serve on toasted, split hamburger 'rolls with slic- ed tomatoes and cucumbers on the side. Grateful Thieves Thieves frequently get their teeth into their spoils, but per- haps seldom so appetizingly as some South African gangsters recently: Breaking. into some auction rooms in. Rodney Street, Port Elizabeth, these crooks first helped themselves to watches and cash, valued at $3,000. Then, forcing theirway, into a restaur- ant upstairs, they put :a clean cloth on a corner table and help- ed" themselves liberally to a three -course dinner of cold chicken, roast beefand straw- berry flan. Nor did they stint themselves of drink, .• Sitting down cosily, with the restaurant neon signs suitably dimmed, they washed down their meatswith cham- pagne. A similar spirit of cool cheek characterized some French burg- lars in Angouleme. After ran- sacking a house and pocketing a large haul of jewellery and cash, they drank their unsuspect- ing host's brandy. ' This induced a generous mood, for one poured out some milk 'into a saucer, gave it a dash of brandy, and left it for the house- hold eat. Another wrote "Merci" in toothpaste across the kitchen floor. Insulation Cuts Heaiting Bills There ' is nothing mysterious about insulation, It earl be de- scribed simply as a wall betweele. warm air and cold air. Air moves from warm to cold: Therefore - the better job a wall does oo slowing down this movement o warm air, .the better insulation it gives. Applying these facts to your home, insulation works in two ways In thewinter the heated sir in your home tries to escape to the outside air through the floors, walls, and ceilings, In the summer, the warmer outdoor air tries to enter . your home the same way, Unfortunately, stone, brie k, concrete, and platter—materials used in home construction—are relatively poor insulators be- cause they are porous and air passes through them easily. Rock wool, on the other hand, is made up of millions of dead -air cells, which effectively prevent heat from entering or leaving your home, A section of rock wool four inches thick, for example, has the insulation effect of 125 inches of stone, 120 inches of concrete, 70 inches of brick, or 15 inches of wood, according to research- ers. By lining ceilings and walls with a sufficient thickness of tack wool, you can snake your house much more comfortable in both winter and summer, and bring about •considerable savings in both fuel and air-conditioning .costs. A University of Illinois sur- vey shows how much was saved by insulating a five -room ranch home with four inches of rock wool in the ceiling and three inches in the walls. Immediate savings were ob. tained in the installation of e home air conditioner because the insulated homes needed only a two -ton unit compared to the six-ton unit- required by the same home without .insulation, Savings: Between $700 and $900, depending on the make. Savings on cooling costs in the insulated . homes ranged from $258'a'year in Jacksonville, Fla., to $116 a year in St. Louis, to $50 a year in New York City. During the winter, the same. homes showed savings in fuel bills ranging from $24 a year in Jacksonville to $95 a year in St. Louis and $110 in New York. How much did it cost to insu- late these houses? Approxi- mately $240. The cost of insulation varies, depending on the size and need; of your hone. Insulation -cost; less when it is installed while the home is being built. DRIVE WITH CARE I PA OE AIR BASES -41, ROCKET SITES NEWSMAP KIST t' REDS' MOUNTAIN FASTENESS — Reports coming out of Com- munist -seized Tibet indicate that the Red Chinese are turning that remote land into a great elevated missile platform. They are carpeting the "roof of the world" with a pattern of launch- ing pads and air bases. The missile sites are hewn out of solid mountain rock in the impregnable Himalayas. This gives their users a three to four -mile start in a launching, .extra height which could add considerable distance to ICBM ,ranges, • PA NTED BY FIRE — Fire flicked its brush across ,a fuel storage .field at Bethesda• , Md;, ti produce this firemen braced ba+ k -to bock as water is poured aA the inferno. p "painting" of Scene is actually a photograph of the million dollar -plus blaze.