EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, May 25, 1958
'Miss Minnie's' Apparent Need
For Affection Prompted Thefts
Editor'! note: Thli li tYtr Ut In a
fnrt of articles on Ml! Minnie
Mancnm, who Is charted with steal
Int soma (2,000,000 from her employers.
By H. D. QUIGG
United Preif Correspondent
Norfolk, Va. U.R.' Miss
Minnie Clark Mangum, a plain,
gray spinster from a plain, gray
neighborhood, was known as a
soft touch. She showered gifts
on others, spent little on herself.
It made her feel good to give
things to others.
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wealth of Virginia, she felt good
to the tune of nearly $2,000,000
during the last 22 years. It ac
cused her of embezzling the
money from the Commonwealth
Building and Loan Association,
of which she had been assistant
secretary treasurer for 26 years.
In court this week she ad
mitted taking more than $1.1
000,000 million about the same
amount that the federal govern
ment is suing to collect from her
friends and relatives to whose
"use and benefit" she allegedly
diverted the funds.
"She always seemed to be
having the time of her life, giv
ing things to people, said a
woman who knew her. "She was
real sypmathetic, and she made
a lot over children. At Christmas
time, she was more than gen
erous. And you can bet the de
partment stores snapped to at
tention when she called them
Miss Minnie reared a nephew
and sent him to college. She
gave expensive gifts. One auto
mobile dealer said she bought
S30.000 worth of cars in on
year and gl them away. One
sister and her family allegedly
got $287,000; another $128,000
I Told You So
Although there were some "I
told you so's" voiced by male
acquaintances in her neighbor
hood when the crash came for
Miss Minnie, the general reac
tion of those who knew her
socially and in business was
shock. "It must be a horrible
mistake she's a real fine wom
an."
Why did she do it? The most
plausible theory of her gener
ous gift giving is that she had an
inbred hunger for affection.
Miss Minnie's father died
when she was in her early teens,
and life for the family was grim.
Neighbors don't recall any girl
hood romances for her, nor does
she seem to have had other than
business relations with men dur
ing her middle ag. She lived
with-and for-her job. She sup
ported an aged mother and blind
sister in her plain, frame house.
Her pastor, the Rev. Clayton
Pitts, who has a Ph. D. in re
ligious psychology, puts it this
way:
"Due to the fact that she had
to become very early in life the
main support of the family and
had the responsibility as she
matured of a widowed mother
and a young brother and a sister
who was losing her sight, the
ordinary girlhood associations
with men were largely denied
her.
"Consequently, it's possible
that an inbred hunger for affec
tion may have somehow affected
the taking of money and giving
it to others for which she
would get outward affection. It
made them look on her as a very
fine person."
Lived Quietly
Miss Minnie lived quietly,
Neighbors don't seem to have
been too well acquainted with
her.
"I never heard anything about
her," one said, "except that
every once in a while somebody
would wonder where she got the
money to do some of the things
ihe did."
She gave toys to poor children
at Christmas, was active in the
women's bible class at the Port
Norfolk Baptist Church, and, for
a time, taught a Sunday school
class. Her regular church offer
ings were modest, but she did
give $8,800 to the church build
ing fund over an 11-year period.
Roy F. Phillips, president of
Commonwealth Building and
Loan for the last 10 years, says
"Miss Minnie was good natured
and met the public well. People
were crazy about her. They'd
shout, 'Hi, Miss Minnie' as they
passed by. I heard that a man
who came in the office one day
had said of her, 'There goes a
saint, if there ever was one'."
'Medic TV Show,
Losing Sponsor
Hollywood (U.R) The pro
ducers of "Medic" today put the
partial blame on a controversial
Caesarean program for report
edly losing the sponsor of their
television show.
Frank La Tourette and Jim
Moser, creators of the medical
series, Thursday said they had
been informed by an NBC of
ficial that the sponsor had quit.
They said the official also told
them the network would drop
the show rather than find a new
sponsor.
An NBC spokesman, however,
said the network hadn't decided
what action to take "and per
haps another sponsor and time
slot will be found."
The program recently caused
a furor when the network at the
last minute cancelled a sched-
duled filmed program showing a
Caesarean birth.
"We think this was on fac
tor in the present situation,"
Moser said. "However, we had
other difficulties with NBC."
RACE COURSE CLOSED
Brussels, Belgium (U.R) A
public works inquiry committee
has ordered Chimay race course
closed until a modification is
made on Salles Bend where four
persons were killed and 19 in
jured last Sunday.
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Feeding the Family
By ZOLA VINCENT
Food Editor
Vegetable Scallop
That Is Different
Everyone fixes scalloped pota
toes and everyone likes them.
Here's a version that is certain
to become a family and a party
favorite. Keep this recipe handy.
For each six generous servings
(eight if there's another vege
table), peel and slice eight or
nine good-size potatoes, five or
six carrots and two medium size
onions. Mix one can cream of
mushroom soup and two cups
milk. In a buttered baking dish,
put a layer of potato, carrot and
onion, sprinkle lightly with salt,
pepper, bits of butter; now ' a
light sprinkling of flour or crum
bled crackers and add part of
the soup and milk mixture. Re
peat until everything is used.
Add more milk if necessary so
that it comes up just to top of po
tatoes. Cover and bake in moderate
oven, 325 to 350 degrees, about
45 minutes; uncover and bake 30
to 40 minutes longer, until pota
toes are tender and well-browned.
Wall Buffet. In the garden, it
is a good idea to place the table
against a wall. Flowers or other
table decorations can be a flat
arrangement close to the wall;
takes up little room, gives a dra
matic effect, isn't so likely to
blow away.
Picnic Salad In-a-Jar
For outdoor salad serving,
take along this quart-jar salad
mix that is quite filling, together
with a washed and chilled head
of lettuce wrapped first in a
damp cloth then jn waxed paper.
At the scene, break lettuce into
bits on picnic plates and heap
with this bean and cheese mix
ture. Six to eight servings, again
dependent on variety in other
foods.
Blend one-half cup mayonnaise
and one-fourth cup French dress
ing in a bowl, add two cups
drained, cooked or canned green
beans, one cup thinly sliced cel
ery, one cup diced American
cheese, two tablespoons minced
onion, salt and pepper to taste.
Toss together until well coated,
then put in a quart jar, cover and
chill thoroughly ready to go in
to picnic basket along with wrap
ped lettuce.
Picnic Sandwiches. Carry slic
ed bread of several kinds to the
picnic spot or back yard, along
with the various sandwich
spreads so that each can make
his own sandwiches.
Pickles Perk Up Picnics
And Most Other Meals Too
The pickle packers are cele
brating National Pickle week.
Being a pickle enthusiast, we
think it a fine idea to remind
people that pickles perk up pic
nics and every other meal, too,
with the possible exception of
breakfast.
Pickles have been popular
since ancient times. Both Egyp
tians and Romans prized them.
More pickles are sold in Ameri
ca than any other vegetable;
that's what a pickle packer told
us. Most pickles are packed in
clear glass jars with small infor
mative labels in order to allow
a maximum of pickles to show.
Pickle packers feel that a good
looking pickle is its own best
salesman. And we agree.
Pickle Varieties
Walking down a pickle aisle In
a local store, you're likely to
find nearly two score varieties
of good-tasting, crisp, .piquant
pickles to choose from. There are
three kinds of fermented dills;
genuine dills, genuine Kosher
dills and overnight dills. Then
there are processed dills. ' Dills
are to hamburgers as mustard is
to ham. There are whole sour
pickles, sour mixed pickles, sour
relish, chow chow. There are
whole sweet pickles, sweet mix
ed pickles, candied dill sticks,
strips or chips, cut lengthwise or
in slices, sliced . sweet pickles
(sometimes called cross-cuts) and
sweet pickle relish. There are
fresh-packed pickles, sweet fresh
cucumber pickles, pasteurized or
Polish-style dills and there is ve
getable relish in variety accord
ing to individual packers.
Easy to Digest
Pickles are packed with good
food values and are very easily
digested; so let the children eat
all they want! Keep a variety
handy for adding zest to sand
wiches and mixed green salads;
for fresh crisp flavor contrast
for roasts, chops, fish, poultry.
Grill Notion. Problem in gar
den grill cooking sometimes is
how to keep meat or fish from
sticking to the hot metal mesh.
To avoid this, use a folding wire
toaster and set its corners on
small stones so that meat is an
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inch or so above the hot grill.
When meat or fish is done on one
side, flop toaster and all. We
needn't remind you that charcoal
must have burned down to red
gray coals before you start grill
ing. Picnic Season Finds Record
Poultry, Eggs, Pork, Beef
Before we get over in the edi
bles departments, we remind you
to put in good supplies of waxed
paper, aluminum foil, paper
plates, cups, napkins and other
time and energy savers for fre
quent use from now on.
Whatever the weather, we
westerners stretch the summer
season just as far as we can as
we take to the woods, the near
est waterways, picnic grounds or
any other handy outdoors spot
where food tastes so much better
than indoors.
Fryers and Broilers. Twenty
six ways of fixing fried chicken,
says a book on our desk; and all
of them probably will be in use
as record supplies of poultry
continue to come to market. In
doors or outdoors, charcoaled,
grilled, fried, barbecued, broil
ed, hot or cold, poultry makes
superlative eating at surprising
ly low cost. While you're about
it, pile it high, hoping to have
enough left over for another
meal tomorrow or the next day.
Cold chicken with bread and but
ter sandwiches for eating at
home, taking to work or to
school.
Plentiful Eggs. For myriad
uses including hard-cooked,
stuffed, deviled and for going in
to potato and macaroni salads,
eggs are a good buy. Buy from a
dealer who sells graded eggs in
cartons and who keeps them re
frigerated. Look for "good buys."
Use Grade AA and A top quality
for poaching, frying, cooking in
the shell. For ingredient purpos
es such as scrambling, in omelets,
for baking, cooking, salad dress
ings and cooked dishes, grade Bs
are completely satisfactory, rep
resent considerable savings.
Plentiful Poik. Pork bonanza
is nearing an end, so enjoy it
accordingly. Most of the surplus
has been eatep which means
prices are due to rise. Current
supplies of 'bacon, pork sausage,
hams and smoked shoulder cuts
are good; prices low.
Quality beef continues plenti
ful but lower grades will in
crease as summer advances. Now
is the time to stock the freezer
with a good assortment of both
plain and fancy cuts.
Other Good Buys. Dairy pro
duction is rising. Food fats and
oils are plentiful. Among fruits,
fresh oranges and grapefruit are
plentiful, reasonably priced.
Plenty of bananas. Eating apples
Attorney Genera Rules
On Married Pupils
Salem U.R The attorney
general has ruled that any
must not be "held"; eat them
right away. Vegetable displays
feature asparagus, lettuce, ro
maine, carrots, radishes, green
onions, potatoes, cabbage, celery,
cucumbers, cauliflower. Field
grown rhubarb is a bargain.
school board rule or regulation
excluding married pupils who
are otherwise eligible would be
arbitrary and unreasonable and
therefore invalid.
"There is no law of Oregon
which authorizes the exclusion
of a pupil by -reason of the mar
riage of such a pupil," the ruling
stated.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday; other days 5:30 previous day.
HELPLESS EIGHT HOURS
Jackson, Miss. (U.R) W. O.
Whalej", 76, lay helpless for
eight hours Thursday with in
juries suffered in an automobile
accident. Whaley's chest was
crushed and his leg broken when
his truck turned over on a coun
ty road about midnight, but no
one heard his shouts or honking
of the truck horn until a passer
by found him long after sunup.
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