By CHARLOTTE ADAMS
MEAT LOAF
34 pound beef, ground
Vfe pound pork, ground
1 clove garlic, minced
1 cup toast crumbs
1 egg
Vfe teaspoon rosemary
Vfe teaspoon celery salt
Vz teaspoon salt
Pepper
Mix all ingredients with wet
hands and a light touch. Form
into loaf shape and place in cen
ter of large shallow baking pan.
Place peeled potatoes around the
edge. Pour over loaf the following
basting sauce.
Basting Sauce
Va cup ketchup
2 teaspoons bacon fat
1 teaspoon minced onion
Heat bacon fat and saute onions
in it five minutes. Add ketchup
and simmer gently five minutes
more. Pour over meat loaf. Bake
at 375° one houf\ basting occa
sionally.
MOLE SAUCE FOR CHICKEN
1 green pepper
1 large onion, sliced
Va cup shelled almonds
2 cloves garlic
2 cups stewed tomatoes
Va cup coarse cracker crumbs
1 pimiento
Va cup salad oil
Vz cup stock •
Vfe teaspoon salt
lVi teaspoons chili powder
Va teaspoon cinnamon
Va teaspoon close
U. S. Music, Better
Than British, Says
Conductor Beecham
LONDON, (^P) — U. S. musical
organization is 50 years ahead of
that in England, charges Sir
Thomas Beecham, famous British
composer, who brands it a “scan
dal” that the London Philharmon
ic Orchestra received no support
from state or industry.
“The New York Philharmonic
Orchestra gets about $900,000 a
year from an industrial sponsor,”
Beecham says. “This enables it to
have the right number of concerts
and rehearsals.
“British musical institutions are
still walking in the old morass of
reactionary unbelief,” the conduc
tor adds, “and as a result British
orchestras are playing as badly as
ever.”
Soldier Uses Self
As Bait
CAMP DAVIS, N. C. (/P)—Cpl.
Walter Stevens’ job is catching
mosquitoes and as the human
guinea pig for the medical inspec
tor’s office, he goes out three
nights a week for 15 minutes, rolls
up his trouser leg and with a glass
and rubber device catches all the
njosquitoes unfortunate enough to
take a hunk out of him. Each is
examined microscopically and
identified at the laboratory.
Chances of 'contracting malaria
from the bites, the medical men
say, are remote.
Dash pepper
Put green pepper, onion, al
monds, garlic, tomatoes, cracker
crumbs and pimiento through
food chopper. Heat salad oil in a
saucepan. Add ground mixture.
Add stock. Add seasoning. Sim
mer gently about an hour. Serve
on chicken.
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Price-Study
Curtailment,
What It Means
(By Harold Ward)
<(iP) Features Writer*
WASHINGTON, </P)—'The gov
ernment statistician, a handy man
with a pencil and a percentage
point, may be seen hovering over
the market basket and payroll
sheet again real soon.
Slowed down by appropriations
cut out by Congress in July, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics <BLS>
gradually is streamlining itself for
the crucial wage-price measure
ments of the weeks ahead.
Soaring prices and demands for
more pay—aggravated by Eu
rope’s needs—are chief concerns
right now of President Truman,
the Republican party, the Demo
cratic party, and the wage earner
himself.
The bureau depends mainly on
(1) hired shoppers in strategic
cities who make their rounds pe
riodically and report prices, <2>
reports from markets, exchanges
and employers, <3» field agents
who examine local employment,
i wage and price schedules in key
industries.
Appropriation Cut'
Congressional appropriati o n s
i committees granted the bureau
I $3,373,400 for the fiscal year be
ginning last July 1 instead of the
$5,517,645 allowed for 1946-’47.
Ewan Clague, director of the
bureau, promptly did two things:
1. Sent word around to his peo
ple that there would be no crying
over the situation.
2. Asked those who use the bur
eau most which services should
be kept.
‘‘I think we have saved the
heart of the program,” Clague
says. Some of his associates say
privately that in some . of their
studies they probably will do a
better job by concentrating on
some essentials and letting the ex
tras go.
Ten Weeks Behind
The bureau is now 10 weeks be
j hind in its reports, instead of the
five weeks it has usually talten t
digest the statistics. The roasor,
oddly enough, is that when it be
came necessary to cut the payroll
the temporary wartime employees
who had the least civil service sta
‘ tus went first.
But they happened to be the
, ones most familiar with the tab
I les and studies carried an in re
cent years. So war veterans and
long-service career workers being
"bumped’' from other government
jobs had to be trained to do the
work of the bureau’s departing
employees.
The bureau has cut down from
1,700 to 1,000 employees since
spring.
The monthly Consumers Price
Index, formerly known as the
Cost of Living Index, measures
the costs of essential living items
in major cities as compared with
the base pre-war period, 1935-'39.
This index plays an important
part in collective bargaining be
tween unions and employers ev
erywhere.
Studies Juggled
So Clague held on to that na
tional study. He limited ‘.he
monthly city indexes to 10 instead
of 21 cities; continues a quarterly
report for 24 cities and retained
the monthly retail food price in
dex for 56. Other fringe studies
are out.
The wholesale price index—al
so a major report because it -hews
Encyclopaedia
Britannica Says
If the connecting nerve links be
tween a crab’s brain and its ven
tral nerve-cord are cut, the cr. b
will continue eating until it litei
ally bursts.
For 200 years during the Middle
Ages, the lower classes, practical
: ly speaking, were not allowed to
I fight during a war. The one excep
tion were townsmen who agreed to
| supply military units to the great
lords in return for free charters.
Most of the fighting was done by
i armed knights on horseback.
The architectural origin of the
minaret, the tower usually attach
ed to a Mohammedan mosque, has
I been traced back to the lighthouse
at Alexandria.
Sepia, a dark brown pigment
! used by artissts, is obtained from
I the “ink-sacs” of cuttlefish.
j The first mint was probably es
tablished in Lydia, a district of
Asia Minor, toward the end of the
8th century B. C. Here the coining
i of gold, silver and electrum, an al
loy of gold and silver, was carried
1 on.
The word sausage as used today
is derived from the Latin ‘salrus,”
meaning salter or, literally, pre
served meat.
Tablets of penicillin were devel
| oped last year which could be
taken by mouth in doses of 50,000
and 100,000 units. About three
i times the dosage is required when
i the drug is taken by mouth rather
j than by injection.
_
Certain species of beetles were
considered so sacred in ancient
times that they were mummified.
retail prices in the weeks ahead—
is being carried forward. But the
bureau’s financial support of ex
port and import wholesale price
stduies had to be dropped.
Employment and wage statis
tics programs both are consider
ably curtailed.
WORLD DIGEST
Routine weather reports from
the North Pole were inaugurated
last MarcflT20 when a United
States B-29 broadcast an uncoded
message available to all nations.
Location of the weather observer
was simply given as "position
North Pole.”
Only 97 Civil War veterans re
main on the U. S. Veterans’ Ad
ministration pension rolls this
year. This is 58 fewer than last
year. More than half have passed
the century mark in age. Albert
Hard, of Rochester, New York, is
the oldest; he was 105 on July 15.
The youngest is Charles Knecht of
St. James, Missouri, who is 94 and
was only 11 when the war ended.
An atomic subway train from
coast to coast in the United States
is predicted by Dr. Donald H. An
drews, a Johns Hopkins university
chemist professor. The only de
| terrent to the plan is the lack of a
“disintegrator gun” which would
make it possible economically to
blast a vacuum tunnel through the
earth’s surface, and a means of
overcoming radio-activity which
would be present after the use of
atomic energy. Once these prob
lems are solved it will be possible,
he says, to travel from New York.
City to San Francisco in less than
an hour!
The little German fortress of
Helgoland has been all but blown
off the map in a recent demolition
move by the British. In one of the
biggest nonatomic explosions ever
attempted by man, the $80,000,000
island submarine base in the
North Sea was demilitarized. Into
the intricate eight and a half miles
j of tunnels were placed 3,500 tons
| of high explosives, which con
sisted of 4,000 surplus torpedo
heads, 9,000 water bombs, and
1 50,000 grenades. A single atom
i bomb would have done more
: damage, but the British Navy was
: not bent on complete destruction;
they are content to leave the for
mer German Gibraltar as a haven
for fishermen and the birds. The
fortress was dismantled after the
first world war also, but this time
it looks as though it has been a
thorough job.
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