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The Seaforth News, 1960-06-23, Page 6Hairpins Slave, Many Lives A hairpin supplied by an air l ostess helped to prevent a crash landing by an aircraft with sev =teen passengers in Australia a ethort time ago. "The hairpin was plaeed across *Aro electrical points to short- eircutt the system to the nose - wheel, which had jammed in its Musing," says a report from Brisbane. "The pilot managed to jolt down the wheel in a series at dives The 'plane landed safe- A waled -famous surgeon, Dr. Charles T. Hove, recalls how two hairpins were used to save a bay's life. One night Dr. Bove was summoned to see the son of a fanner forty miles from Paris. Re found the eight-year-old lad choking to death with a block- age of the windpipe. When he left Paris the surgeon had not anticipated surgery and .hadn't an instrument with him. He borrowed a razor and two hairpins. He sterilized his hands in bran- dy and fashioned the hairpins int° clamps to keep open the hole he cut in the throat of the boy. Later the bay was rushed to hospital — and survived. The man who first kinked the prongs of his wife's hairpins be- cause when straight they kept dropping out of her hair was enterprising Mr, S, Goldberg. He found that after being bent the pins remained in place no mat- ter how much she shook her head. Goldberg became known as America's Hairpin King. He fin- ished up with a fortune of many trillions. SMART OPERATOR "By the jade Buddha of Tem- ple Shan Chi, honoured friend of my heart," said the Chinese businessman, "I have lent a tricky mandarin in Carden Street 2,000 dollars, and he has not given me a receipt. What shall I do?" Write sternly and demand the payment of the 4,000 silver pieces," suggested his friend. "But, most careless listener, it was only 2,000 pieces." "I know — but he will indig- nantly tell you so. That will Serve as your receipt." Famine, Strife Tear Reds' Silk Curtain ut Revolution In China Still Remote By WARD CANNEL Newspaper Enterprise Assn, Hong Kong — If the free world's fence against Commun- ist Asia was in better repair, Mao Tse-tung's China pasture could be a lot greener. Or red- der. Refugees stream into Hong Kong at the rate of at least 300 per week — and perhaps twice that number, according to volunteer relief workers. The penalty for not making it is certain (Teeth. The penalty for making it is poverty and daily famine. British businessmen, back from their annual trips into Red China report that a new, sullen look is apparent on faces wher- ever you go. "It wasn't like that last year," one leather dealer reminded himself. "I was constantly be- ing told how good life was, how clean and progressive. I wasn't reminded once this trip." Agents of Chiang Kai-shek'e Formosa government tell you happily that the gap is widen- ing between Red Chtna'a army and the people. To preserve his power, Mao is giving the ibllitery luxuries at the expense of the people. "Before everry�thing else in China," one ffnines4 reporter said, "comes the family. It is traditional for overseas Chinese to send money home to their families, even it they haven't seen each other for 50 years. This all makes for bad feeling. "AIl the more so as the army la growing older and officers and men are being retired to their homes and starvation." Agriculture experts, reading, listening and discussing Mao's land reform program in the ideal form in which it reaches Hong Kong, are frankly amazed, "He's got them planting sweet potatoes instead of rice. It's per- fectly logical. Rice requires far more bends to cultivate. With sweet potatoes you free men and women for industry. "The only trouble is that the Chinese don't like sweet pota- toes. They want rice. Ice's hit - Ung his people in the stomach." In the meantime, spies, agents and refugees report that the Red Chinese army is at its peak, Mao can boat 1,900 jet places in his air force, three million [nen in his army. Training and discipline are more intense than they were two years ago during the con- centrated shelling of the off- shore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Alternate -day shelling of these islands has continued since then. His gunnery crews are in ex- cellent form. But with the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization on his south flank, the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces at the ready from Manila to To k y o, and the Seventh Fleet patrolling his shoreline, Mao'e army is used only to haggle over the Indian border. 'This kind of containment can be a prison to a dictatorship; a military observer in Hong Kong explained. 'Without the turmoil of military campaigns, you can probably hear the grinding in- ternal problems quite clearly," In addition, China's ill-wishers find new signs of disagreement batween Mao and Khrushchev each day. Taken all together, it should add up to the beginnings of re- volution inside Peiping, if not all of China — all the 'more likely with China's ancient tra- dition of rival provinces and warlords. It would be comforting to think so. But seasoned army and jlrtelligenee men here laugh at. the idea. "You Americans," one British intelligence officer said, "must get awfully tired running be- tween the poles of admitting Red China to the U.N. and wait- ing for an overthrow of her government." The closest anybody will come in reliable Hong Kong observa- tion posts to predicting internal trouble for Mao is,in the words of one U.S. political expert: "Three successive years of fa- mine — and then, maybe, But only maybe. And three years like that come very seldom. "As for the refugees: 300 per week isn't much compared with 050 million Chinese still inside. And about the differences be- tween Mao and Khrushchey: there's a modern political pro- verb which says: 'They'll cut our throats before they cut each other's.'" HONG KONG — This Free world window on Communist Chines je lifted weekly by 300 or more refessees fleeir)g, from the Redl regime. They often face poverty and famine in the crowded streets or on the sampans and junks in the harbor of this. SritIsh-run Chinese city. But still they choose this Ole to one behind the Silk Curtain, GOING MY WAY? — Marge Chapla makes an engagingly ma- rooned hitchhiker. Her car bogged down In Denver. TABLE TALKS 1a,eAnatieav Now that the U.S. national survey — listing apple pie, cherry pie, and ice cream as favourite desserts — agrees with my local survey, I've decided that if I'm ever in doubt, it will be easy just to decide on apple pied la mode! However, there are other des- serts that pushed for a place at the top in the recent national survey. Such delicacies as straw - b e r r y shortcake, pecan pie, cheese cake, Boston eream pie, and gelatin desserts may be con- sidered as universal favourites too writes Eleanor Rickey John- ston in bbe Christian Science Monitor. * 4 And on the subject of desserts, Mrs. Gladys Field sent a banana pudding which, she writes, "my family used to make when we lived in the South." ' BANANA PUDDING Si, cup sugar 2 tablespoons flour 3g teaspoon salt g cups milk 8 eggs, separated 1 teaspoon vanilla Vanilla wafers g bananas Combine 1 cup sugar, flour and salt in top of double boiler. Phar in milk. Cook over boiling water, stirring constantly, until thickened, Cook, uncovered,' 15 minutes more, stirring occasion- ally. Beat egg yolks and gradu- ally stir in hot mixture. Return to double boiler and cook 5 min- utes; stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Line the bottom of a casserole with vanilla wafers; top with a layer of sliced bananas, Pour: a portion of the custard over bananas. Continue to make lay- ers of wafers, bananas and cus- tard until bananas and custard are used up, ending with a layer of custard. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Gradually add remaining Ye cup sugar and beat until they form stiff peaks. Pile on top of pudding in cas- serole. Bake at 425 degrees F. for 5 minutes or until delicately brown. Serve either waren or chilled. Serves 6-9. Want to try a new cookie? Here is if recipe sent by Mrs. Helen Harmon. PIXIES 1 package (le -pound) creast cheese 1 cup butter 2 cups flour 1 cup confectioners' sugar. Blend together thoroughly lee }:utter and cheese, Work in the flour. Chill thoroughly. Roll out to about Mi -inch thick on board or waxed paper, using the con- fectioners' sugar instead of flour. Cut dough in 1x3 -inch strips. Place a piece of walnut (cher- ries, dates and raisins may be used also) on end of each strip. and roll up. Place folded side down on bilking sheet. Bake nt 375 degrees F. for 1.5.17 minutes, Rift confectioners' super over Pixies immediately. A recipe snimwhut similar but with the sugar omitted was sent by Mrs, Lydia A. Crump. • CRESCENTS package. cream cheese 1 stick butler 1 cup rake flour Raspberry pre"•ever Cream cheese and butter to- gether, then add flour and mix well. If too soft to roll, put in refrigerator for about 30 min- utes, Roll dough very thin and cut into rounds with a crinkle - edge cookie cutter about fl- inches in diameter. Put a scant teaspoon of the raspberry pre- serves in center and fold half the dough over and crease the edges with fork to hold together, Use same fork to prick top to let steam escape. Place on un - greased cookie sheet and bake until light brown — about 10 minutes — at 350 degrees F. 9 '' Here are some quiek cookie squares — "easy to make, eco- nomical, and a favourite with all who taste them," Mrs. Bette E. Shepard writes. DUTCH CRUMB COOKIE 23h cups flour 1 'cup brown sugar 1 cup shortening X egg, separated Pinch of salt 1 teaspoon vanilla Put all ingredients except egg white in a large bowl; knead all together, Spread on ungreased 9x12 'shallow cookie pan. Brush top with the egg white. Place in 425 degrees F. oven !Tor 10 min- utes. A few minutes before it's done, curt into 2 -inch squares; let bake 3-4 minutes longer. Makes 2 - 21 dozen. Here are two ways of making brownies, sent by Mrs. Joseph Beals, Jr. CHEWY BROWNIES .1 cup sugar 2 egg's, beaten Si cup pastry flour 2 squares chocolate, melted ? cup melted butter 1 teaspoon vanilla X cup walnuts, broken Combine sugar and beaten eggs; sift in the flour. No bak- ing powder is needed. Add cho- colate and butter and mix well, Stir in vanilla and nuts. Spread in 8 -inch -square greased pan and bake at 350 degrees - 400 degrees' F. for 25-30 minutes. When cooled s little, cut in 16 squares. COCOA BROWNIES 'k. cup shortening Sicup cocoa Risked Murder For A Drink! Two Australians camped on a barren island oft Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, One died, the other endured weeks of terror for the sake of a few hun- dred pounds of wolfram •--- tin ore, The two men—Formasini and Ms mate—depended for stores on the supply ketch Spray, which visited them every three months, weather permitting. At first aborigines had brought their drinking water frons the mainland, accepting payment in twist tobacco, But later they be- came hostile, so the two diggers had to row across and fetch their. water themselves, One would stand by their whaleboat, rifle at the ready, while the other stumped across the beach to a swamp to fill the kerosene tins. The man with the rifle had to cover his mate as he hurried through the tall grass, and at the same time watch the islet in case the natives raced their canoes across to cut them off. When they did the diggers only just got their first by blaz- ing away at them with rifles. Then the natives tried to steal the boat, and the two men had to guard it day and night. Then, worst of all, Formasini's mate sickened with fever. Formasini nursed him, begged him not to die. The sick man, in turn, im- plored the other not to leave him, One night, hearing the rattle of kerohene tins as Forrnasini set forth for water, his mate kept screaming out; "Don't leave me!" He had to be hushed lest his cries betray them both to the watch- ful natives. They were dreadful nights, Ton L. Idriess says, telling For- masini's story in "The Tin Scratchers": hushing the sick man, sneaking to the mangroves with the tins wrapped in bags to deaden noise, launching the heavy boat, pulling it to • the mainland with muffled oars, crawling to the swamp and dipp- ing the tins in the darkest spot he could find, never knowing if a murderous blade would strike between his shoulders. After sleepless nights Forma- sini had to tend to his mate, snatch a few hours' sleep, and put up at show of working as if all were well, wheeling a barrow - load of stone out of the tunnel damagommanwalieneio 1 cup sugar 2 eggs ria cup sifted flour Se teaspoon baking. powder Se teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla ?4 cup chopped' nuts (optional) Melt shortening is saucepan; remove from heat. Stir in cocoa and sugar. Add eggs, 1 et a time, beating well. Add vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt and nuts. Put into a greased 8 -inch - square pan, Bake at 350 degrees F. 30 - 35 minutes. Cool; cut into 16 squares. every now and then -••- for the natives spied down on the islet from the mainland hills. His mate died, and the night Formasini buried him was one of terror, He dragged the body from the tunnel, dug a hole far it and covered it with stones and mangrove leaves. Then he car- ried all he possessed into this tunnel, ready to withstand a siege. Not until he was on his last tin of water did he dare to creep clown to the beach ane night with his empty cans. The boat had gone. When the supply lug- ger picked him up a week later he was raving. But he survived to tell his story to (driest; when they met, Don't Try To Beat This Eating Record The tiny, mouse -like shrew, smallest of all mammals, is also the world's host prodigious trencherman. Driven by a ter- rific metabolism rate, the shrew consumes its own weight in food every three hours. Mankind cannot match that — but Ameri- cans are doing their best. The average ITS. citizen, the Federal Trade Commission reported last month, eats a total of 1,600 pounds of food' each year — about ten times his weight. Food intake, the FTC survey shows, has not changed very much since the high -on -the -hog boom of 1925-1929 (actually, it has slipped). But the American diet has changed drastically is the 1939-1959 period. Today, they are eating 25 percent more meat, fish, and poultry than 30 years ago; 50 per cent more citrus fruit and tomatoes, 12 per cent more dairy products and eggs, and 31 per cent more coffee, tea, and cocoa. In the same period, the typical American's consumption 02 flour and cereal products has de- creased 37 per cent, and of po- tatoes, 33 per cent, the survey shows. "Potatoes are almost cer- tainly down for diet reasons," Tom Lanahan, a Department of Agriculture marketing expert, commented. "Too many calories — although one of the phenome- nons of the frozen -food business has been the big spurt in frozen French fries. They lead the list of frozen foods." Surprisingly, fats and oils, in- cluding butter, remain at about the same average — 66 pounds per person a year. Apparently ignoring the possible relation be- tween fatty foods and harden- ing of the arteries and coro- nary attacks, the American still orders his sirloin steak with charcoal -blackened succulent fat and asparagus dripping with rich hollandaise sauce. Scarcely a meal to thrill a shrew, whose favorite food is insects. "What is a sense of humour?" asks :a reader. When you laugh at something which makes you furious when it happens to you. ISSUE 25 — 1960 WEIGHT AND LONGEVITY Averesiny About 25V. Overweight; Reduced Weight Cases Mortality Retie: (Ratio all standard risks 100°1) Averaging About 35.40% Qverwaieht: Reduced Weight Cases 36% 151% WEIGHTY MATTER — Relationship of overweight to mortality in ono recent study is graphed, above. "Reduced weight cases" referred to are those of men who had paid a higher -than - standard premium before reducing made them acceptable at normal rates. "All cases" groups the mortality experience for both the men who reduced and Those who remained overweight, Though incomplete, data for women indicated a similar ex- perience. Data from a Society of Actuarles study. 3195 IJP AT ATLANTIC CiTY -- The Russian fishing trawler Masalsk rests beside the Coast Cu; rd sla:ion at Atlantic City, The trawler was escorted by a Coast Guard boat to port with an nl!Inrx seaman.