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WA TEENS Craving For Salt Can Be Dangerous Would you use sodium, a caus- tic alkali, to season your food? Or chlorine, a poisonous gas? "Ridiculous say. "Nobody would be fool- hardy enough to do that!" Of course not. But the shock- fng truth is that most people do --- because they don't know that these powerful chemicals consti- tute the inorganic crystalline compound known as salt, For centuries, the. expression "salt of the earth" has been used as a catchphrase to designate something good and essential Nothing could be more erron- eous. For that apparently harm- less product that you shake into your food every day can actually bury you. Consider these startling facts: (1) Salt is not a food. There is no more justification for its cul- inary use than there is for potas- gium chloride, calcium chloride, barium chloride or any other chemical on the chemist's shelf. (2) Salt cannot be digested, as- similated or utilized by the body. It has no nutritional value. In- stead, it is postively harmful and disease-producing, especially in the case of kidney ailments. (3) Salt may act as a heart poi- gon. It also increases the irrita- bility of the nervous system, tends to aggravate epileptic con- ditions and lowers the bars against apoplexy. (4) Salt acts to rob calcium from the body and attacks the mucous lining throughout the entire gastro-intertinal tract. If salt Is so dangerous to the health, why is it used so widely? Mainly because it is a habit that has become ingrained over thous- ands of years. But it is a habit based on a serious misconcep- tion. The misconception is that the body needs it. But many people-- and, In fact, entire Traces of people, as the Eskimos -- never eat salt and never miss it. Once a person is free of the habit, salt is as objectionable and repulsive to the taste as tobacco js to a non-smoker. Among certain animal species, salt acts as a positive poison, particularly in the case of fowl. And swine have been kpown to die after large doses of it. How did the habit originate? The biochemist Bunge explains that in prehistoric times -there was a proper balance of sodium snd potassium salts in the earth, . But continued rainfall over the centuries washed away the more ~-gotuble sodium salts: In-time; all coils and land-grown foods be- came deficient in sodium but high in potassium The result was that ammals snd human beings developed a craving for something to replace this deficiency. They found a poor, ineffective and highly dan- gerous substitute in inorganic sodium chloride, or common salt. Swallowing salt to obtain na- - tural sodium is like taking cal- cium chloride to get calcium. Both are chemicals, and neither can be assimilated by the body cells. Since all chemicals are harm- ful to the digestive organs, we ean understand why the stomach develops a sudden and abnormal thirst after salt is consumed. The stomach is simply reacting to a foreign substance and Is tak- ing quick action to wash it out of the body through the kidneys. You can Imagine what effect this has on the delicate kidney tubules, Of all' the body organs, the kidneys are most subject to injury from salt. - This is why persons suffering from nephritis are generally for- bidden to use any salt in their diet. Salt-eating, in fact, is known to pave the way for kidney di- sease, writes Dr. Raymond Bern- ard in-"Tit-Blts." What happens when more salt js eaten than the kidneys oan eliminate? The excess is deposit. questions," you § ed in various parts of the body, especially in the lower part of the legs. To protect its tissues against this poison the body automati- cally seeks to dilute it by accum- ulating water in these areas, As the tissues become water- logged the body tends to swell up. Feet and ankles bloat pain- fully. Just as salt 1s harmful to the kidneys, so it is injurious to the heart. Even the small amount In bread is considered, in some heart conditions, to be danger- Ous. The action of the heart muscle is governed by the relative con- centration and balance of sodium and calcium salts in the blood. An excess of sodium will there- fore tend to disturb this action, increasing the heart beat and the blood pressure. In the same way, salt upsets the nervous system. The decalcifying effect of salt tends to rob the body of calcium by drowning calcium salts in thirst-quenching liquids and creating a predisposition to acld- 08IS. Salt starts its attack by biting into the mucous membranes of the mouth and then spreading its irritation all along the gastro- Intestinal tract. This is why salt of "various kinds, such as Epsom salts, act as strong purgatives. The body ac- cumulates water in the intestines in an effort to expel these harm- ful substances. The most dramatic case of salt injury occured recently in a New York hospital where a number of babies died when the chemical was inadvertently used in their food. Adults are not as vulnerable. But they cannot keep taking this chemical with impunity. It is dif- ficult to avoid consuming it be- oause it has been sprinkled into virtually every processed and canned food. But they must if they value their health. The body needs solium chlor- ide. But only when it is provid- ed. in organic form, such as in celery, sea vegetation, and so on, can this substance be utilized by living cells. Hills, Calif, For__hard-riding_ | _ All His Stunts Were His Own! "Tom Mix, Bill Hart, and Harry Carey were Western stars then," the old man recalled a few years ago. 'I'm the only one left of that old- bunch." There was none left of the old bunch last month. The old man --Hoot Gibson--died of cancer at 70 in the Motion Picture Country House at Woodland Hoot, whose formal name was Edmund Richard Gibson, the end came long after the fact of his Hollywood splendor, so long that his estimated $6 million in earn- ings were long since roistered away and his very image on the screen blurred, even for Ameri- cans who were kids in the "20s. Iivot Gibson was not the grim- ly handsome avenger of today's standard sagebrush parable. He stood 5 feet 9, hardly a giant among movie cowboys, and his smiling face could only be de- scribed as homely. He even shunned the standard low-slung holster; his outfit never called for carrying a Colt. When a plot called for gunplay, Hoot would simply slip the six-gun into his waistband or boot. Despite the lack of gunfire, Gibson's films wowed the Satur- day afternoon 10-year-old set. In his great years, between 1926 and 1930, he made eight a year --"Smilin' Guns," "Burning the Wind," "The Lariat Kid," "The Winged Horseman," "Gay Buck- aroo," "Spurs,"--and he earned ~ $143500 a week. © And Hoot lived it up with fast cars, -airplanes, a ranch in Nevada, and three marriages. He was married first in 1921 to Helen Johnson, in 1630 to actress Sally Eilers, and ih 1041 to rodeo performer Dorothy Dunstan, who was at his deathbed. In a career that dwindled fi- ao ATION'S LARGEST. -- Replica of France's Grotto of urdes 1s one of the features of the largest outdoor shrine the U.S., Our Lady of the Snows, in Belleville, 111. prover SIE ey STEP.{EN FOSTER'S INSPIRATION -- This staf 3 ely old house at Bardstown, Ky., is My Old Kentucky Home from which Stephen Collins Foster drew his inspiration for the song of the same name. Nightly during the summer, in crinoline and lace, in tailcoats and ruffled shirts, a cast presents "The Stephen Foster Story," a musical version of the com- poser's life. The correct name of the house is "Federal Hill," now a state shrine. $ SHAGGY DOG -- It's a wisp twist of emerald green i feathers that blows In the wind in. London. England. The hat is for fall. 'nally in 1944, Hoot had made 200 silents and 75 talkies--and never, he boasted, called for a stunt man. "You know," he would say, "I was the first stunt man in the movies." Hoot got to Hollywood in 1910. Born on a ranch in Tekamah, Neb., he toured briefly in vau- deville as a singing and dancing cowpoke comic, who may have acquired his nickname Hoot from a habit of hooting happily when- ever he drew a laugh. (Or may- be, as he also said, the name came from a boyhood hobby of hunting owls.) Hoot's cowhand qualifications were impeccable; he was the first all-around rodeo champion of the world and had a carved saddle to prove it. "I hired out to be an Indian in the morning," he said, "then turned cowboy -and chased myself all afternoon. They paid $5 a day and $250 extra to fall off a horse." Once asked to make a parti- oularly dangerous fall from a horse, Hoot said: "Make it $10 and I'll let him kick me to death," Gibson was finally tagged -as star of a series of five-reelers; a youngster named John Ford was director. Gibson's scorn for danger Roary did him in in 1933 when e flew a match race against another cowboy star, Ken May- nard, at Los Angeles Municipal Airport. Hoot's biplane banked sharply around a pylon and erashed. Carried off battered but grinning, he sald: "You can't kill me." . In the end, changing fashion in Western movies sidelined Gib- son. His simple dramas of good guys and bad guys gave way to the cowboy with a guitar at the pommel, Later, on television, cowboy Freudians with saddles for couches prevailed. Poor in- vestments beggared him' and Gibson spent his declining years as a greeter in a hotel in Las Vegas. For old times' sake, Ford ask- ed Gibson to play a bit role four years ago In "The Horse - Soldiers" and found his old play- -mate as tough as ever, "Five thousand dollars," Hoot demand- ed, and got it. Q. It Is all right to eat an 0) 3-140 sandwich with the rs i ' . When a sandwich is served in "open-face" style, it should and fork. always be eaten with the knife / Making pastry with a cheese flavour is a cookery "wrinkle" which gives a new tang and charm to your pies -- and espe- cially apple pie! CHEESE PASTRY 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 tsp, salt 24 cup lard . 12 cup grated sharp Cheddar cheese V4 cup ice waler Sift flour and salt together into mixing bowl. Add lard and cut in coarsely. Stir in grated cheese with a fork. Sprinkle with wa- ter, a tablespoonsful at a time, mixing lightly with fork until flour is completely moistened. Gather into a ball with fingers and roll out as directed in recipe wwhich follows. LJ -. . APPLE WITH CHEESE PASTRY Cheese pastry 14 cup-brown sugar 14 cup granulated sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon 6 cups sliced apples 1%; tbsp. butter Milk Granulated sugar Heat oven to 425 degrees. Line a 9-inch ple pan with half of -.Cheese_ Pastry. Combine brown sugar, granulated sugar and cin namon. Sprinkle over apples and mix through slices lightly. Plle apples into pastry-lined pan. Dot with butter. Roll out remaining pastry and top pie, fluting edge. Cut slits in top crust, Brush pas- try lightly with milk and sprinkle generously with sugar. Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until apples are tender. Serve cold.' * » - FIG LOAF 4; cup brown sugar tbsp, soft shortening [§:444 2 cups milk cups sifted all-purpose flour 315 tsp. baking powder -- ------ 1 tsp. salt 14 tsp. mace 34 cup chopped nuts 1 cup ground figs Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix sugar, shortenihg and egg. Stir in milk. Sift flour, baking pow- der, salt and mace together into first mixture and stir to blend. Add nuts and figs and stir to blend. Spodn into greased 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan and spread evenly. Let stand 20 minutes. Bake about 1 hour and 10 min- utes or until a toothpick stuck into centre comes out clean. * » * 1 WO et GINGER COOKIES 14 cup brown sugar ; 1 cup soft shortening 1 cup molasses 34 cup cold water 4% cups flour 3 tsp, soda - 2 tsp, ginger 12 tsp. cloves REA How Well Do You Know NORTHWEST AFRICA? ot 3 i [JABLE TALKS Jane Andrews. 15 4sp. cinnanton ) 15 (sp, salt Granulated sugar Cream brown sugar and short- ening, Stir in molasses and wa- ter. Sift flour, soda, ginger, cloves, cinnamon and salt togeth- er into mixture and blend well, Chili dough several hours or overnight. Heat oven to 400 de- grees. Roll dough into a square 14 inch thick and cut into 2-inch squares with a knife. Put on un- greased cookie sheet and sprinkle generously with granulated sugar, Bake «about 7 minutes or until" tops spring back when touched lightly. N . ' BRAN MUFFINS cup cooking oil cup brown sugar, packed cup molasses €KES cup milk cups natural bran cup sifted all-purpose flour 14 isp. baking powder ¢ 15 "tsp. soda p tsp. salt 14 cup chopped dates Heat oven to 400 degrees. Com- bine oil, sugar, molasses, eggs and milk in bowl and beat to- gether well with a fork. Add bran and blend well. Sift flour, h - SS pk DO SN RES -- -- ASN rose] baking-powder,.soda and salt. to- gether into first mixture. Stir just to blend, about 25 strokes. Stir in dates at end of mixing. Spoon into greased muffin cups filling 25 full, Bake about 18 minutes, ™ o CHOCOLATE CAKE 1 cup brown sugar % cup milk 3 squares (3 oz.) unsweetened chocolate, cut up 4 cup shortening - 1 cup brown sugar 3 eggs - 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 5 tsp. salt ' 1 tsp. soda - 15 cup milk 1 tsp. vanilla Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour- 2 98-inch round layer pans, 1% inches deep. Com- bine 1 cup brown sugar, 2 cup milk and chocolate in top of double boiler. Set over simmer- ing water and heat, stirring occa- sionally, until chocolate is melt- ed. Remove from heat and cool. Cream shortening and remaining 1 cup brown sugar. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. Add cooled chocolate "mixture and beat well again. Sift flour, salt and soda together and add to first mixture alternately with remaining % cup milk and vanilla, blending well after each addition. Stir in nuts, Spoon into prepared pans and bake about.33 minutes or until tops spring back 'when touched lightly in the cen- tre, Cool, put layers together and ice with your favorite topping. FOR SIMPLE LIVING For Sale: In quiet suburb, near churches, 22-room brick house; two bowling alleys, basement swimming pool; $10,000 bathtub cut from solid black Mexican onyx, gold-plated fixtures; six. bedrcoms, six baths; pipe organ, billiard room, roof garden; ga- rage has four-room, two-bath apartment; 6-foot iron fence sur- rounds extra-large landscaped lot; telephones are tapped; own- er seeking smaller quarters, may make extended trip. - Asking 90,000, That might have been ny.Accardo's ad, After lving eleven years in feudal semi- retirement, Accardo--elder sta- tesman of oh 0 Stime a etly put ver ant in the hands of 'a real-estate agent, Both daugh- ters married, his son set up in the travel business, 'Accardo ex- lained that he and his wife, larice, want smaller, less opu- lent quarters and more privacy. A Tough Ordeal For A Tiny Boy! "A small boy has been lost." The loudspeaker warred against the treble uproar of Cub Scouts on an outing last month in New York's Heckscher State Park, a 1,500-acre tangle of swamp and woodland along the southern shore of Long Island. "He is blond, 3 years old," wearing a "plaid shirt and brown shorts. His name is Stephen Papol." Hardly a picnicker glanced up from his potato salad. A stray child is routine for Sunday after- noon in Heckscher Park. But as the day wore on, the announce- ments grew even more urgent. Finally, near sundown, John Pa- pol, Stephen's father, took over the public-address system and pleaded: "Hasn't anyone seen him? He's wearing orange socks; one of therm is darned with brown thread. -I know. I darned it." It was at 8 p.m. that the search began in earnest. While a-Coast Guard helicopter beamed a searchlight over nearby Great South Bay, more than 1,000 searchers, including police and firemen with walkie-talkies and bloodhounds, = tramped through the oak and swamp maple, the bayberry and marsh fern. The Papols, joining the search themselves, explained over and over again how little Stevie had wandered away. His father, 32- year-old credit manager for an automotive-parts firm in Rock- ville Centre, N.Y., was umpiring a Cub Scout baseball game, while his wife, Jeanette, 29, presided over seven of their nine towheads at a picnic table, and little Vic- toria, 7, kept an eye on Stevie, When Victoria ran to get a sand- wich from her mother, Stevie vanished. A violent storm of rain" and lightning broke about midnight, halting the search until the fol- lowing morning. This time, near- ly 2,000 persons took the field, and again at nightfall a rain and electrical storm halted their ef- "forts. "I am beginning to fear that some love-starved woman took him," Mrs. Papol said, and the police were inclined to agree with her. Many others did not believe that a frail 3 - year-old could survive exposure to two such storms without food or water, Mrs. Rosemarie Finger, a grandmother and wife of a coun- ty auxiliary police sergeant, re- fused to believe it. She and her husband, Raymond, a hospital at- tendant, had been in on the hunt from the beginning, and they were back again on the third morning, armed with Mrs, Fin- ger's hunch that Stevie hadto be in a wooded area near the picnie grounds, And there, huddled un- der a cluster of wild grape vine, shoes and orange socks beside him, was Stevie. "He looked up at me," said Finger, "and said 'Mommy. I've never known such a feeling." Stevie was famished, dehydr- ated, covered with insect bites and scratches, but he had come through his 67-hour ordeal in re- markably good condition. In a 'hospital, 'where he stuffed him- self with ice cream and lollipops, Stevie did not volunteer any in- formation and his mother wouldn't let anybody question him. All he told her was "I look- ed for you last night, and you didn't come." Troubles Of A Poor Millionaire In Abilene, Texas, 240 1iles from his Pecos home, indicated financier Billie Sol Estes headed his white Cadillac up a one-way street--the wrong way. Police officer Don Slatton, parked in a patrol car, honked a warning. Billie Sol stopped, smiled, waved at the officer, backed up, and took another route. To Slatton, . the driver's face wasn't familiar but his actions were. As the law- man put it: "Sometimes when a man is.that friendly to a police- man, it means the man has no driver's license." Slatton casual- ly followed the Cadillac and saw it go through a stop sign. The patrol car's red lights flashed, the Cadillac stopped, and Estes sheepishly identified himself, Sure enough, he had no driver's license... What was more, the bankrupt ex-millionaire said he lacked the cash to pay $55 "in fines ($50 of it for driving with- . out a license). Billie Sol tele- phoned his brother, Abilene den- tist Dr. John Estes, who sent an attorney with $200 for a bond. The money can be reclaimed if Estes returns to pay or contest the fines, but Slatton said: "Somehow I don't expect him to come back." ; _ ISSUE 37 -- 1962 Frith Cie La SE EAC BE pea uli Fashive Jim i IE Er 4