Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1949 — Page 13
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Believes With Grain of Salt *
ORDINARILY, if men of such high reputation speak, I'll believe what they say. With a grain of salt. Even salt wouldn't have helped in this case, The dislike of the three vegetables is deep, fotense and has been part of me for a long time. “Most women cook the way their mother taught them and a lot of the time the information was
“I'd rather eat it raw than have someone who doesn’t know how to cook it.” “Most indigestible stuff in the world when it's
overcool “The secret is low heat.”
Vitamins by the fon... Vegetable experts examine a basket of plenty. Pinchers (left to right) are A. L. Towson, L. W. Yonderau, Walter F. Sass and Marye Dahnke.
Like Old Times
“Cookery is not an art in this country Dahinke whispered. “No more foreign chefs are BaD Sadi ol saat ia are going into the business.” ° © Mr. Lloyd from the conversation | informed those who didn’t already know, me, that lettuce was .a complexion food. . Bayp gyptians used it in the preparation of cos-! metics,” he added. “Let's stick to the theme of the convention,’ Mr. Towson cautioned. “Let's not forget ‘It's the green stuff that counts.’ ” “People should learn that the closer the vege-| Ybis Indo thie Taw state he Dettan') The Sper were gunning their motors. “ “Carrots are cooked to death.” Mr. Sass was most concerned with corn ‘at| the moment. He had something to say just as soon as he could get the floor. Mr. Towson was speaking. The gentleman from New Jersey said it was most discouraging for growers to harvest ex. quisite vegetables only to havé them ruined. “That's what I was coming to,” said Mr. Sass. “Corn is about the greatest victim of ignorance. Corn is always overcooked,” No one interrupted. The Windy City grower told what to do with corn. “Let the water come to a boil. Place the ears in the water—ears that are as fresh as possible—and let them boil from three to four minutes. Not longer than four.”
Pot Needs a Cover
“DO YOU recommend a cover for the pot?” “By all means cover the pot,” answered Mr. Sass. "Best thing you've ever eaten.” Mr. Vonderau passed out his hothouse tomatoes and asked that we notice how tender the skin was, how solid the meat was and what flavor the tomato that was grown under controlled condltions had. I ate six, Pretty good. The sixth one lacked some A “Isn't that -the finest tomato you've ever eaten?” asked Mr. Vonderau. Everyone nodded. Mr. Lloyd threw statistics at us. In the last 20 years the number of pounds of vegetables consumed in the United States per capita had risen from 87 pounds to 121. “Not enough,” was Mr, Towson's comment. “During the same period,” continued Mr. Lloyd, “Kraft salad dressing production is up from 27 million gallons to 80 million.” On and on. Never did find out what they really intend doing about Brussels sprouts, broccoli and asparagus. Probably keep growing 'em. .
By Robert C. Ruark
DENVER, Nov. 16—The hotel business, for so many of the past years a grim nightmare for the transient, finally seems to have settled into its old courtesy and os 1h ’ The genial host is actuadly genial now, and not a snarling opportunist with supreme contempt for the folk who feed dollars into his establishment. The help seems pleased to have you aboard, rather than sullenly bored with you and your scattered largesse. The service is generally dependable, courteous and in some instances, eager. This even may be a slight harbinger of return to the old days of elegance in hotel living, Certainly a few of our better hostelries are sneaking quietly back to the frills and furbelows of the early century-—of which, I assure you, I have only read and rarely experienced. The Ritz-Carlton in New York still clings stubbornly to the old European grace of service and accommodation, with a board of push-buttons in every room and the waiters lurking outside the door, eager to spring in to serve you without beckoning for a tip. #
A Gracious Tavern
THE ST. CHARLES in New Orleans is a gracious and unhurried tavern, with moré emphasis on the customer's happiness than on Cap O'Leary's cash register. There is a wonderfully sedate and service-wise place chilled: the Vernon Manor in Cincinnati. The St. Francis in San Francisco is a home-from-home in the old fashioned sense and the Broadmoor at nearby Colorado Springs operates on thé basis that nobody expected a tourist camp when he checked in. But my favorite of all favorites is the gingerbready old Brown Palace here in Denver. It was built in 1882 by an itinerant carpenter named Henry C. Brown who struck it rich in real estate and wound up owning a great deal of the land on which the city now sits, The old boy searched the world for building
Ahoy, Yucatan
materials and decorations to make his boarding house a palace in the old opulent sense. Even its tremendous waste space of gallery was a curtsy to his idea of elegance—possibly to erase the fact that the three-cornered old building was erected on a cow lot, Ever since a baleful date in 1906, the Brown has made a steady practice of convin the customer that he is right. On that day the hotel was on the receiving end of a fine object lesson. There was a rich old codger around, named Myron Stratton, who liked to come in from the mountains on a week-end to see the elephant and hear the owl. He loved music, ladies and whisky, in approximately that order, and he was a free and heavy spender.
‘Recital’ Irks Guests
ONE WEEK-END brother Stratton and his cronjes raised the roof with an impromptu piano recital and half the guests m the hotel screamed murder. - The assistant manager was instructed thereafter to see if he couldn't shoo old Stratton away from the door. |
Next week-end the miner came in. wearing a blond on one arm. The blond was flanked by a poodle dog. Mr. Stratton attempted to register and was informed that the place was full, so sorry. Mr. Stratton turned away and climbed into his buggy. He went to see old H. C. Brown and asked him how much he'd charge for his hotel. ; - Mr. Brown said $1,500,000. Mr. Stratton whipped out a checkbook and scribbled his name on the bottom of the check.
at the hotel and fired the staff. He kept the hotel until 1923 when he sold it to C. K. Boettcher. But they still remember Mr. Stratton around the Brown and the customer since generally has been awful right. Hoteis ‘are fine things, indeed, but utterly useless without patrons, and patrons are notoriously cantankerous people.
By Frederick C; Othman
EN ROUTE TO MERIDA Yucatan, Nov. 16— I'am on my way to the home of the hammock, the land where the cocktail was invented, and the jungles where the bees, which have no sting, dine on orchids exclusively. Washington and its politicians already seem far behind. That's why, if you want to know the truth, I'm on this flying machine. Those babies at home weren't doing much but snarl at each other in private, They did this "discreetly, ‘Busted no windows, . v Finding a piece for the paper under these circumstances was getting tougher and tougher, A wild look was gleaming in my eye. Charles Nutter, the director of International House, New Orleans’ unique trade promotional organization, must have been a mind reader. He said what I ought to do was look in on the Mayan country and write some items about those temples where the ancients used to drop their most beautiful maidens into a well. This struck me as a waste of maidens, but Mr. Nutter said Yucatan was a ‘more interesting place than Capitol Hill, where nobody's at work now except three shifts of carpenters. I guess it must be. I am prepared to be awed.
2-Passenger Hammocks
FOR ONE THING I understand the hammock was invented in Yucatan, Everybody sleeps in hammocks. For man and wifs there is a twopassenger job. For those with families there are bammocks with six stalls, Because of engineering difficulties I intend to Investigate. The hammock makers never have been able to produce one which would hold more than a sextet. The cocktail tale I also intend to look into, periodically. The story is that at one of the coastal grog shops the native bartender stirred his drinks with a tailfeather plucked from a rooster. . The pirates who patronized him, not speaking
The Quiz Master
.for somebody to figure out what it says. The,
Spanish, called the drinks cocktails, Exactly what! was in ‘em I intend to find out. Maybe a distilla-| tion of honey, Yucatan is full of jungle, which is full of orchids (I expect-to pluck one and toss it away as though it weren't worth $15). And all the native honey bees can do is buzz. ‘No stingers. At last reports Yucatan was shipping out 4 million pounds of jungle honey a year and still sweelening was gumming up the countryside.
So now the Yucatecans ferment this honey, much as the British did in the making of mead|
in the 14th Century. The fellows I'm going to see then go one step further. They distill the mead. The result is said to be refreshing. know,
Mr. Nutter reports that one. of the leading eiti-
zens has invited me to a native dinner. He says this consists of 50 (count ’em) courses. I am in good appetite, but even so I'll skip breakfast that morning. This also is the lang of the chewinggum tree.
manager of the Fountain
Tolle. soy Webster's unabridged, is “chiefly Brifith.” But
the most familiar toffee bar chom
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from Britain but from right here in Indianapolis, made at the Homer J. Williamson Candy Co., 1720 E. 38th St. Here Homer Dunn, foreman of the toffee department, and Les Johnson, 33 Fora’ 2 sandy maker, mix the ingredients for the Almond Butter
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. Some 50 million nickel candy bars are sold yeatly from the Williamson plant, which was started here in 1908 and which has outgrown four factories. Originally Homer J. Williamson made and delivered the candy himself but now the bars emerge on a production line. Here Arthur Jack. son (left) and William Coulcombe put a die cutter over a sheet of toffee and presto, they have - some 700 bars all ready to be chocolate coated and wrapped. The toffee bar, started in nt the oldest product of the firm,
Lucille Kirby, Eva Isenberg, Nerwan Wares Fareman and Dorel Prater feed the bars inte
a chocolate coating machine, after the toffee
dentally, pumps 750 gallons of
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water per minute from two deep fresh water wells for ifs opera-
tions, instead of using city water.
Member Submitting
Make Most of These Clues On Earl Cunningham's Age
Next morning with title in hand he appeared!’
Closest Estimate
‘Of Year, Hour, Minute of Birth Will Win By ART WRIGHT Here are those promised clues for members of the Roy’ Rogers
club.
Riders Club attempting to determine the age of Earl Cunningham. Square Theater and “daddy” of the local!
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and minute of the birth of Mr. Cunningham will Teceive a $10 cash
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one of a series of activities for the|
club members. mailed or left at the Fountain Square Theater.
Mr. Cunningham is older than
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and younger than President Truman. |
He started in the motion picture business. when the first full. length movie, “Queen Elizabeth,”
starring Sarah Bernhardt was introduced. Today. .is Mr. Cunning. ham's birthday. Any boy or girl 12 years of age and under may join ‘the Roy Rogers Riders Club free by clipping the membership blank from The Times, Take it to the toy department of the Wm. H. Block Co. store, the Fountain Square Theater or The Times to receive the official membership card signed by Roy Rogers.
Ample Swimming Pools
IN THE MARTS of commerce the gum is known as chiclé, Those who gather same in small bucks ets are called chiciéros. I intend to be a chiclero one afternoon and’get myself a pocketful of free chewing gum. The countryside is dotted with swimming pools provided by nature and ruins buflt by the mysterious Mayans thousands of Yedrs Some of their writing chipped out of stone tablets, even as in the Bible, still is there, waiting |
scientists have been working on it for 50 years, without luck. ; All in all I think it'll be a newsy trip. More interesting certainly than the capital of the U. 8. A, where the maidens at the federal typewriters mostly have little to do at the moment because their bosses are out mending political ferices.
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Ann Ostermeyer (right) packs the toffee Bars into the fa-
down the line Virginia Daniels
feeds more bars info the machines. Watching the operation is Earl T. Williamson, president of the company and son-of the founder. His father, who has watched his firm grow from a 384. square foot factory to the present building of 65,000 square
Mayor Names Five To Housing Group
Mavor Al Feeney today i inounced appointment of the {Housing Authority. Under a resotution adopted last week by City Council, the Mayor was authorized to appoint the committee and make Indianapolis eligible for participation in a féderal low-cost housing program. Named to the body today were Loren J. Houser, 3537 Orchard
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{pected to sign a settlement within the framework of the steel peace
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18 (UP) ~The CIO United Steelworkers and the Aluminum Company of America were expected to reach [an agreement tomorrow ending a 30-day strike of 20,000 Workers 19 nine cities. The union and Alcoa are ex-
ALCOA to Meet Steel Unionists
sending another 15,000 riers back to the mills. The agreements, both ‘calling for the “pattern” $100-a-month pensions:and a contributory social
! ber on the fusion. insurance program, left only e8lon member in the Post Of-| "fo 6, .11v reached Merida dnd! was married. a
when h 8 nis’ bride. “returned or flr re n he a and a here hunting for a job. =n ‘the Nor
15,000 basic steelworkers still idle. About 514,000 USW members were affected at the start of the nationwide walkout on Oct, 1. :
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fice department, not been of A authority Hn no n nam ol the group will be A ting earliest convenience of the memUnder ‘housing
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Bridegroom ‘Wins Police OK on Effort To Ship Self by Air
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Nov. 2o/l0 {{UP) — Carlos Garcia Leal, 21.
V€ihroke no law when he tried to
ship himself 500 miles by alr freight, police sald today. Authorities released the youth when ha told officers he no longer (had an ‘urgent need”. to get to Merida, Yucatan. Two weeks ago, Mr, Garcia Leal wanted’ to get to the penin-|pieq sular city in a hurry to get married but couldn't afford the fare,
Mint Supreme’ and others.
Bond Sobs of Love For Slain Magnate
industrialist Found Murdered in Auto
PARIS, Nov. 18 (UP)—Edward De Muralt, influential industrialist, was beaten to death a few hours after he said good. by to a blond American night club singer at her cabaret, police reported today. Investigators still were wres« tling with the romantic tangle in Mr. De Muralt's last days of life. It included a rejected proposal to the singer, Sylvie St, Claire. _— A milkman found the body; the head shrouded in a burlap bag:
|in an automobile on a Etreet
yesterday. i
Investigators established that the 41-year-old Paris representa. tive of the Federation of British Industries. went on a bar tour after he said good-night to Miss St. Clair,
Miss St. Clair, who sang at the pre-wedding banquet of Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan, said Mr. De Murait asked her to marry him last Friday. She didn't give him an answer. “He spoke about our with such enthusiasm he was like a little boy,” she aot “He was a wonderful guy.”
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tioned her for six hours. Miss St. Clair sald she
De . Muralt two th o 80 through an ya ge “You know, hn hot let hori tat took is
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