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Passenger Asset To
Driver, Magaine Says
Chicago W The back
seat driver has been maligned
too long, according to an insur
ance company publication.
An article in Home & High
way magazine says a passenger
can be an asset to a driver.
But driver and passenger
should work as a team, the mag
azine added, with the passenger
assuming the role of "co-pilot"
to point out dangers not easily
seen from behind the wheel.
The driver should be In
charge, the article said, but
should assign certain duties to
the passenger. On cross-country
trips, for example, the passen
ger can do the map reading and
read the route signs, .leaving the
driver to concentrate on the
road. When changing lanes, the
"co-pilot" can help the driver
by covering blind spots on the
right.
But the magazine offered this
advice to backseat drivers:
"Be specific about dangers you
see. If you just yell, 'Look out!'
you only startle the driver with
out giving him any idea of what
he has to avoid."
And don't nag or distract the
man at the wheel with needless
advice.
Blacksmith Not Worried
About Horses Leaving
Sebewairig, Mich. HP) A
68-year-old blacksmith who has
been in the business almost 50
years and has never shod a
horse says he is not the least
bit concerned that his trade
faces near extinction because
Dobbin is passe.
"In fact, I don't like horses,"
Frank H. Kaatz said.
He operates one of the last of
the blacksmith shops in Michi
gan but considers himself a ma
rine blacksmith because he con
centrates on fashioning ice
spuds, fish spears, gaff hooks
and anchors.
Dog Visits Home, But
Not With Its Owner
Detroit HP) Margaret
Boone grimaced when a mud
covered dog followed a guest
into her home.
But she decided a good host
ess should extend hospitality to
the pet of a guest, even when
the dog bounced onto her sofa.
When- the guest, Mrs. Mary
DeMeulenaere, started to leave
without the dog, Miss Boone
asked:
"Aren't you forgetting your
dog?"
"My dog?" replied Mrs. De
Meulenaere. "I thought it be
longed to you. It was gnawing
on a bone on your front porch
when I got here."
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Zoo Director Says
Feeding Don't Hurt
Chicago OP) The director
of suburban Brookfield Zoo dis
agrees with the theory that pub
lic feeding of zoo animals results
in an unbalanced diet which may
harm their health.
Robert Bean believes visitors
to zoos are missing a privilege
if they've never tossed peanuts,
popcorn and the like to zoo ani
mals. "Wild animals don't founder
on food. They know when to
stop."
Bean said that since the Brook
field Zoo opened in 1934, he has
never known any of its animals
to have become sick from over
eating food offered by the pub
lic. However, he agrees that there
are certain times when animals
do need special diets and, on
these occasions, the animals are
placed behind glass and the pub
lic asked not to feed them. The
public generally is "wonderfully
cooperative," Bean said.
Most zoo animals like a hand
out, Bean said.
"Bears seem to be natural
beggars," he added. "They put
on quite a show."
The Winnipeg river, within
Manitoba to Lake Winnipeg, has
a total drop of 271 feet and it is
a major source of hydroelectric
power in that area.
The Alps mountain range ex
tends through parts of the five
countries of central Europe,
mostly in Switzerland.
German Buyer Goes
On Bicycle Tour
Cleveland OP) Walter A.
Hamann, who left Germany on
a globe-girding bicycle tour to
study merchandising methods,
said he found worthwhile new
ideas "only in Canada and the
United States."
Hamann, 36, is a buyer and
group-manager for a German de
partment store chain. He began
his tour two years ago and has
cycled 26,000 miles. He expects
to keep traveling for another 18
months.
"I'm particularly impressed
here by your services to keep
the customer happy and comfor
table," he said. '
"The Germany people are so
conservative that they still want
clerks to serve them," the mer
chandiser said.
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He explained that big neigh
borhood shopping centers
"wouldn't suit Germany because
our cities aren't spread out, like
yours." o
Starting out with $500, Ham
ann has kept his traveling fund
virtually - intact by selling dis
patches to a German newspaper
and by working in a Colombo
mineral water factory and in
Singapore and Sydney depart
ment stores.
His travels have taken him
through Germany, Austria, Yug
oslavia, Greece, Turkey, Syria,
Jordan, Iraq, Iran West md East
Pakistan, India, Burma, Thai
land, Malaya, New Zealand,
Fiji and Hawaii.
Boat Operators May
Get $2 Million Back
Chicago (ID The nation's
boating operators will have
a chance to collect as much as
$2,500,000 in refunded fuel tax
money from the government this
year.
The estimate was made by the
Outboard Boating Club of Amer
ica, a national association of
boating enthusiasts and manu
facturers and sellers of marine
equipment.
The association estimated that
about 250 million gallons of gaso
line were consumed from July
1, 1956, through June, 1957.
It was pointed out to members
that the highway revenue act of
1956 boosted federal excise taxes
on gasoline from two to three
cents a gallon, with the increase
earmarked to help finance the
new federal highway program.
However, the bill provided
that the one-cent increase was
refundable if the fuel was used
otherwise than in a highway ve
hicle. This includes gasoline
used by motorboats, the OBC
said.
Camels are essentially animals
of the arid deserts and have a
great aversion to water, only
with difficulty being persuaded
to cross even the smallest stream.
The panda is a member of
the raccoon family. The word
"panda" is said to be a corrup
tion of the native Nepalese name
when means "bamboo eater."
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Nuclear Power Group Mot
Known Among Local People
worle s population, the united
Chicago m Not many per
sons have heard of the Nuclear
Power Group, Inc., or, for that
matter of Grundy County. Yet,
this group in a relatively ob
scure Illinois county is making
history in one of the most excit
ing adventures ever undertaken
in the field of peacetime atomic
science.
Grundy County lies some 50
miles southwest of Chicago.
Here, eight companies, including
utilities providing electric serv
ice in 12 of the 48 states, have
banded together to form a co
operative enterprise known as
Nuclear Power Group, Inc.
Their purpose is to build the
largest all-nuclear plant in this
country, the Dresden Nuclear
Power Station.
Dresden, which is now under
construction, will occupy a 950
acre site at a point where the
Kankakee and Des Plaines Ri
vers join to become the mighty
Illinois.
Ready in I960 '
At its completion late in 1960,
Dresden will harness and put
into action atomic energy to
add 180-000 kilowatts to north
ern Illinois' reservoir of electri
city. Main contributor to the Dres
den project is Commonwealth
Edison Co., which will pay 30
millions of the 45-million-dollar
contract price plus site and over
head costs.
Although Commonwealth Edi
son will own and operate the
full-scale nuclear power plant,
all members of Nuclear Power
Group are participating in its
design, planning and' construc
tion. Dresden's makeup is some
thing from a science-fiction
magazine. Although the turbine
room is like that of most power
plants, the reactor will be en
closed in a sphere - type steel
building 190 feet in diameter.
Engineers say conventional
coal-fired generating plant the
size of Dresden would burn
about 1,700 tons af coal a day, or
about 600,000 tons a year. Yet,
a 60-ton core loading of slightly
enriched uranium is expected to
last six years. o
Private Funds
In other words, Dresden
eventually will use 10 tons of
uranium fuel a year to do the
work of more than 600,000 tons
of coal, or about 10,000 carloads.
To make the project even
more interesting to taxpayers,
Dresden is being paid for entire
ly by private funds. No govern
ment subsidy is involved.
As for the "why" in Dresden,
Commonwealth Edison explains:
"With only six per cent of the
States produces shout hlf of the
vorld's energy and industrial
output a major reason why we
enjoy the highest standard of
living the world has ever
known.
'cAbundant electricity has
been the lifeblood of this pheno
menal achievement, ad th4
mand for more po-r is wt itb
creeinf.
By 175, it's estimated thfC
the United States will bfj usinjf)
nearly four times as much eltio
tricity as today."
Thus Dresden.
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years and may be stripped evr$
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50 years old.
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and meats thaw in minutes instead of hours.
YOUg WHOLI COOKING ROUTINI It TUENED AROUND. Now you
set the table first, then cook the food. You make the salad before
baking the potatoes . . . and it means minutes in the kitchen
instead ef hours. Those unexpected guests are no problem. This
is particularly true with a freezer ia the family. Frozen cake
thawed and heated in seconds tastes fresh as the day it was baked.
Microwaves create heat in food. The only heat produced is in the
food. The air in the oven, the oven itself, and the utensils remain
at room temperature, except the small amount of heat picked up
from the food or when using the browning unit.
JUST STUDY THE COOKING TIME LISTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE
BLOCK IN THIS ILLUSTRATION. HOW DOES YOUR PRESENT TIME
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CORN Roasted in the husk 3 minutes
CAKE - S minutes
5 lb. ROLLED ROAST - 30 minutes
31 lb. ROAST CHICKEN -15 minutes
1 6 lb. TURKEY - 90 minutes
Fresh Frozen BROCCOLI 4!6 minutes
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