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The Seaforth News, 1962-05-31, Page 6This Mala Quartet Sure Has It c'de1 At bottom, it's the sweetest idea fpr a Western since God made little purple sage. Take tof one hero or even two but our of them: A virile widower nd his three sons (by three dif- erent wives, no less), vigorous, usty, laughing he-men but min Lechler, sensitive, poetic he - en, Set them Up as lords of a Ievade cattle ranch the size of ulgaria — apartment -dwellers. sieed something grand to day - (dream about — and gussie the whole thing up with color and a slum -Liddle -dun 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 live different languages, in Eng- land, Sweden, Australia, Japan, and eighteen other foreign coun- tries, Fan mailurs po in from all ever 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 eke . the imagination of ''Bonan- za's" audience that " producer leavid Dortoet 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- wination • 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 Floss, Michael Landon , es 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 I 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 non." 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 for a. cozy domestic episode — the Cart. wrights do all the chores them- selves, just like poor folk. More (disturbingly, t h e 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 How Well Do You Know NORTHEAST ASIA? hints for the petted pie,l•Iore. they ere; Use 1 quart frozen cherries for a weii-filled 8- or 9 -inch pie, Mix 21; tablespoons of tapioca 1 with 134 '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 top much, Cherries sweetened with corn syrup and sugar will need slight- ly more thickener (about 1 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 unbaked pie shell and add latticed cover, So the pie' won'tbubble over In the oven, keep the tempera- tune at least 400' F. Put the pie on the lowest shelf In the oven to get a brown undercrust. Bake for 35 minutes or until„the top crust is light brown, Cannery Row Runs Out Of Fish! In "CanneryRaw,” john Stein ;;� TABLE TALKS Calif,, landmark as poem, a itink, a grating' noise, a quality falseivS.beck described the Montele AS,WORLD. TIANS—This "Glenn hat,. which depicts sig- nificant events involved in Glenn's orbital flight, is worn by its designer, Mrs" George, Knopp. Bonnet won first prize at the Newcomer's Club,'•in Arlington Heights, of light, a tone, a habit, a nostal gin, a dream," In his stories h celebrated the denizens of Lee Chong's crowded little groce - Doe's Western Biological Labora tory, the Palace Flophouse. an Grill, '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, r o w,,d y patch of waterfront. The'canner- ies — eleven In an in 1945 -when Steinbeck'wrote were strung out ; 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 .sardine's 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 so 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 .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 °ficial. "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. O. Lunde. who added that•the squid run will soon be over. After that? "We'll look for mackerel, or for whatever we can sell," Mrs. Aliene Miller, who has worked on the row for years, said: "Remember when the can- neries would set off their steam whistles when the fleet came in? That was the signal for us to come to work. That was a long trme ago," "Honey," said Mrs, Gladys Johnson working next to her, "'now they don't even have the steam for the whistles," Bank accounts and cookie jar e. have one thing in 'common — they seem to become eiri�pty al- ry, most overnight, As to the ;bank d 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 14 cup 'orange ,juice. 2 tbsp, grated orange rind 2 tapcups, opted all-purpose 'flour , soda tsp, salt 2 cups rolled oats 1 cup chopped dates e cup ehopped',pecans Heat oven to 375 degrees. Cream shortening, sugar and eggs until fluffy. A d d orange juice land 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 cockle sheet and bake 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly brown- ed and firm to the touch. (Makes about 7 dozen,) * * MOLASSES COOKIES 4 cup shorteriing ` cup .sugar 1 egg 1,cup molasses 3 cups:' sifted all-purpose flour 3 tap. baking powder 1 tsp. ginger 1 tsP. salt Vit_, Isp, soda '4 cup buttermilk or sour milk 1 cap raisins Heat oven to 400 degrees. Combine shortening, sugar, egg and molasses and beat until well Notice in front.af a Toronto clinic: "Please drive to the rear of the building for parking and accidents." ISSUE 20 -- 1062 blended. Siftflour, baking pow. der, ginger, salt ,and soda to- gether and add tocreamed mix - tore. 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. soda 34 cup hot water 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsP. cloves t/ tsp. salt 2 cups chopped dates Mt cup chopped nuts 34 cup chopped mixed candied peel 1/ 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 'and cher- ries and .stir to ,blend thorough- ly. Drop by rounded teaspoon- fuls on lightly -greased cookie sheet. Bake about 10 minutes or until firm to. the touch. (Makes about 7 dozen.) 5 5 5 PINEAPPLE COOKIES 34 cup'.' shortening 1% cupsbrown sugar 2 eggs ?a cup well -drained crushed pineapple 14 cup chopped candied cherries 1/2 cup chopped nuts 21,4,, cups sifted all-purpose. flour 3 tsp, baking powder * a. 11i txp, salt 4 tet?, nutmeg ha37: Creamat shorteningoventne, au5g'ardegreesa n tl • 'gg together until fluffy, Add neppple, cherries and nuts. it't 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 < tenon.) , CO 1 cul► butterCONUT COOKIES 34 cup aitteil icing sugar 2 tsp. vanilla .4 Datap, almond extract 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour tap. salt Pecans. Candied cherries us' 1 egg white, unbeaten Shredded coconut Heat oven to 350 degrees, Cream :better and sugar until tStir St r 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 2 dozen,) Real Progress In Highway Safety • A deluge of. ghoulish guessing and bloodthirsty reporting has obscured the veryreal 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 1I when the number of cars, trucks and buses on Ameica'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 wantseto — 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 principles of safe driving,—The Advertiser (Foun- tain,' Colo.) Hatching Eggs, In A FryingoPailli'l 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 arras, is becoming increasingly rare, So, when on a visit to the country Mr. Cox found two emu's eggs, , he was anxiousto save the ryes of the unborn chicks inside, Wrapping, the eggs carefully, he took them home, where the electric frying -pan in the kit cher gave him the idea' cf a par- manent hatchery. He'put the eg ;s in tee prn, set the temperature at 109 d glees. F,, and hoped for the best. Two week's later a chirpineand e thumping came from inside the pan. Mr.Cox lifted x rfted the n I'd thereere y^ two emu ca:cs, One 'died later, bet the other, named. Speedy by tee Ccx. £am- eeily, flourished:"'In 'frct,'"he grew much too fast, Emusare large, fli••hilees birds which reach a lie ght o' at least; six feet and Sncedy socra outs grew the Cox's suburban .garden, Regretfully, they solve him to a wild -tile sanctuar.,, we ere • he is a great 'ettracticn. Another kind -to -hire's stiry al so comes from Australia. ele_ent- ly, two families of Lards — 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•hest in the grass close to one of the main runways and hatched a family of three. The parents trained the:chieks 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 buildinga guard fence round the plovers' 'nest .and ,putting up warning flags. The swallows were treated with equal care. They' built a nest in 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. RIDE THE MONORAIL A 1.2 -mile trip: 96 -second view of Seattle One -rail train of the future The monorail system for trqins, tried and proved in Europe but as unfamiliar to Canadians as something straight out of science fiction, is one of the- features els Seattle's "World of Tomorrow" fair • At left is a pedestrian's view of how cars ride on one rail, The 1,2 - mile stretch from downtown Seattle to the fairgrounds cost the city $4 million, is expected to shuttle 10,000 Comfortable interiors in futuristic designmWmmf " - .s,,,n• people an hour to and from the grounds. * View of Upper right is through the front window of one of the cats. Driver sits at left, First impression may be ,an eerie feeling which ,passes quickly in the thrill of novelty and trying to catch a glimpse of the city during the 96 - second ride. • Shiny and cofnfortable, the interior of the cars, lower right, is far from conventional arrange- ment, leans to futuristic.