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O O (TKLTS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, October 14, 1337 Pat American Lady Tourist Grumbles Over Lack of Bacon and Eggs in Rome By DOC QUIGG United Pres Correspondent Aboard Rubberneck Bus, Rome IP "You can't even get bacon and eggs for breakast," the fat American lady tourist said in a voice heavy with disgust. "I'm getting so tired of this food." "That too bad. but it's not America it's Italy,"! said. "If you want to know where found one."' she continued. 'It s a place opened by two ex-GIs where you can get a hamburger good, solid meat." "I think Italian cooking is wonderful," I said. - "Oh, I'm sick of the whole business," she said, undaunted. "I can't sleep at night because of the noise. And everything you get to eat, even the meat, is you can get some real food, I've wrapped in doughy paste. Why -v..-.-:" n me HO REFUSAL AT THE WHITE HOUSE President Eisenhower shakes hands with K. A. Gbedemah, Finance Minister of the new African nation of Ghana, after a White House breakfast Gbedemah wore his native robes to the breakfast, to which the President invited him after a Delaware restaurant had refused to serve him. Is That So? While chasing smoke in the Olympics as a forest ranger in Washington one of my main duties was to investigate all smoke within my territory I was occasionally caught off base for the night and had to cook whatever came to hand such as trout and rabbit without bene fit of seasoning or utensils. But it was good and it always put me in a league with some of the primitive peoples living scatter ed about the face of the world today. With these differences: Among most primitive people, women do all the cooking. Men are usually served first in a sec tion of the house reserved for them; women and children eat next. Only among the Samoans did I see this order slightly re versed; there the men did all the cooking in their own special hut. Similarly, they ate alone. Their food was cooked in a clay oven, the food being wrapped in leaves and placed in the hot coals and covered. Meat courses consisted of fish, water fowl, tortoises and the lone do mesticated pig. (In former days, as you'll read in my book, The Last King of Paradise, like the Polynesians they kept little dogs, called poi dogs, which were hand-raised for eating.) Vegetables consisted of bread fruit, which grows on large trees, bananas, coconuts and taro root. The drink is kava and made from water and chewed-up roots of pepper bushes. In the Australian bush, the aborigines singe the hair off their kangaroos in the flames of the fire and then roast their meat in the hot ashes. When food is scarce, I'm told, every thing not poisonous necessarily becomes fare roots, beetles, grubs, maggots, grasshoppers, worms and termites. Berries and grass seeds are staple fare. "The favorite food is honey the only sweetening thev have much as in the European coun tries for the many centuries pre ceding the coming of sugarcane from southern Asia. Reindeer Pouch Delicacy In the far north where I covered the Alaskan campaign I saw Eskimos cook their food in their igloos over an oil lamp the flame being controlled by the size of the wick. Meat con sisted mostly of fish some of it pretty ripe reindeer, seal. Walrus, and occasional piece of whalemeat. The pouch of the reindeer was considered a deli cacy. Another favorite is thick blood soup. During the short three-month summer, there are sweet huckleberries which are a treat. For a time, the war took me to northern Africa. There the nomadic people like those of the Sahara drink the milk of crmel, sheep and goats when it i 'n't being converted into but ter or cheese. Kaffir corn is pounded in a mortar and made into a flat cake baked in the hot ashes With it, they nibble on a dry hard cheese and dates. The dates. I can testify, are By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist delicious. Vegetables consist of onions which are popular throughout northern Africa in fact, they may have origi nated in Egypt. And melons, which were excellent. On our West Coast, the Totem Pole Indians of Queen Char lotte Islands, cook their food in wooden tubs adding hot stones to the water until it boils. Mostly, it's a big meal call ed a potlatch when many come together of halibut, salmon, cod, and herring. There are many berries huckle berries, gooseberries, salmon berries, thimble berries, straw berries many of which are dried and stored for winter eat ing. Cooking water is carried in close-woven watertight bas kets. New Guinea Meal Good In New Guinea some of our troops partook of the natives' one big meal of the day usually in the late afternoon and it was good. Cooking is done in the ground. A hole is dug. Hot coals and hot stones are raked to one side. Then upon some big fresh leaves sweet potatoes, bananas and meat is placed the meat being little kangaroos, cassowary birds, and if it's a feast, pig; then another layer of leaves, hot stones and various vegetables and meats. This goes on, layer upon layer, depending upon the amount of food and the size of the gather ing. Over this, some more leaves are placed and then the hole is sealed with earth. After two or three hours, the hole is opened by the men who have dressed in their best. After all, it's an oc casion. (Copyright, 1957. by Eugene Burns) (Released by.JlcClure Newspaper Syndicate) can't they serve some meat?" ''Why did you leave home?" I said. It was a fair question. There was no answer. However, hers was the lone complaining voice heard among Americans during two days of riding guided-tours. The sight-seers from the U.S.A. on the whole seem well man nered, and intensely interested in soaking up the historic resi due left by centuries on the seven hills. Bewildered Impressions After being squired around here for a while under the tutel age of tourist guides, you begin to get the bewildered impression that, instead of being founded by Romulus and Remus, Rome was built in a day by a couple of guys named Michael and An gelo. The great Michaelangelo is so much on the guide's tongue that the average tourist gets to feel ing that Mike just lifted the city out of his mind and set it down astride the Tiber. He performed unsurpassed miracles of sculp ture, painting, architecture, landscaping. If given a broom, he probably would have swept out the place every morning. One of his supreme achieve ments was his famous heroic statue of Moses which sits now in dusty grandeur inside the un used "Church of St. Peter in Chains," where the floor is be ing due ud on suspicion that some of Nero's courtyard may lie buried underneath. So Perfect The old storv is that when Michelangelo finished the Moses statue he taoped it on the knee and said: "You are so perfect, why don't you speak?" On our way out of Moses' presence, the Italian lady guide turned to me and said: "Have you seen the new film 'The Ten Commandments' in America?" I said I had, and that the actor who portrayed Moses was Charl ton Heston. "They tell me," she said, "that Hollywood made him up tn look like this statue. Does he?" "Most like," I said, "and if the statue had spoken, it prob ably would have sounded like Heston." The Italians are extremely friendly people and possessed of a wry humor that bubbles forth in the guides. One of them, pointing to the magnificent gold en ceiling of the old Basilica of St. John Lateran, said thought fully: "This is not American gold. It is only cheap local gold." Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30 volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your let ters to: Is That So: cc Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausa lito. Calif. UN Force Needs Financial Support United Nations, N.Y., Oct. 12 (IP) United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold said Saturday a lack of money for the U.N. peacemaking task force in the Middle East was a threat to peace there. Hammarskjold, in a 49-page report to the General Assembly, said the 6,000-man emergency force guarding the demarcation line between Israel and Egypt was the only thing preserving peace in the area. But, he said, the United Na tions had failed to contribute enough money to keep the inter national army in the field and warned that there were "grave risks inherent in the present in adequate and insecure basis of UNEF financing." The Secretary General esti mated it would cost 24 million dollars to maintain the emerg ency force this year and that only 6.5 million dollars had been contributed so far. OFF THE WAGON London 'W Moscow Radio said Saturday a Soviet peasant claiming to be 150 years old is confident he will live to cele brate the 40th anniversary of the Russian Communist revolu tion on Nov. 7. Mahmud Eliva zov, from the mountains of Az erbaidjan, north of Iran, says he will celebrate the occasion by drinking his first glass of wine. Moscow Radio said the old peas ant has 200 descendants. His old est daughter, a milkmaid on a collective farm, is 110 years old, the broadcast heard here said. 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Dionne Quintuplet In Serious Shape Montreal (W Yvonne Di onne, one of the four surviving quintuplets, was reported in se rious condition in a hospital Sat urday with a severe pulmonary ailment brought on by an attack of Asian influenza. "Her condition is serious but not yet desperate," her physi cian said. Yvonne was too sick to attend the wedding of her quintuplet sister, Annette, Friday. The new lyweds visited her for a few minutes after the ceremony. A few hours later, her condition took a turn for the worse, Dr. Real Gelinas said. The hospital said her condition improved slightly Saturday. . The 23-year-old quint was stricken with Asian flu early this week. She went immediate ly to the Notre Dame de L'Es perance hospital, where she and quintuplet Cecile recently com pleted their nurse's training. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- World Still Spherical Scientists Discover Cambridge, England IW Just 465 years ago Saturday, Columbus convinced just about everybody the world was round. But some scientists have been forgetful. Saturday, the Mullard Astron omical Laboratory at Cambridge admitted that for two days its experts had been making faulty calculations on Sputnik by as suming the world is flat. They forgot to allow for the curva ture of the earth. The situation has been corrected. ALLEN came up with this thoroughly scrambled list at IikeTy lest-sellers at an Author's League dinner: "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit" by Gen. Robert E. Lee. iou can t oo nome Again" by Juan Peron. "Of Time and the River by Willie Sutton. "Something of Value" by Bobo Rockefeller. "The Day the Money Stopped" by Charles Van Doren. "The Bad Seed" by Lu ther Burbank. "Don't Go Near the Wa ter" by Joe E. Lewis. "Auntie Mame" by Robert Montgomery. H. Allen Smith tells about a suburbanite who returned home to discover this note from her 8-year-old son: "HK mom. When you were gone our cat came all apart in the garidge. Love, Harold." She rushed to the "garidge" to find the cat had given birth to a litter of kittens. 1957, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Cutler, 111. OP) Thirty-five coal miners at the Bradbury Mine of the Zeigler Coal and Coke Co. turned farmers for a day to help put up the hay crop for their boss. Clifford Thomas, mine manager, was injured in a mine accident. OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS Perfect for Camper, Fisherman, Logger and other uses. 5 colors in most accurate detail available. In stock. Complete Coverage Southern Oregon and Northern California SWEM'S 217 EAST MAIN Medford Oregon 35c Per Sheet 'See Our Indexes' j Fs& l:" lA.M.Huggins Likes Competition Many of you may know M. M. "Hug' Huggins. He's worked here in Medford for 8 years supply ing Mobil products to independent Mobil dealers in your community. Like almost every businessman, "Hug" has com petitors . . . other petroleum distributors who also work hard to win steady customers. 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