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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Colorful Old West Lives Again In Omaha Historical Museum Railroad Exhibit Is Visual Record By BAUKHAGE Of Pioneer Days News Analyst and Commentator. WNU 1616 Eye Street, N.W to find out why they housewives werent serving more rice at their dinner tables. He learned that they were tired of burned pots and pans and sticky gummy rice. If we could only buy canned rice, ready of its greatest curse, malnutrition? to heat and serve, they would sigh. Do you know how it happened Malek tried to oblige. For several that some of the most beautiful clasmonths, he cooked rice and canned sics of Middle in his own home, in indusrice literaEastern trial kitchens, in government labture came to be But the rice invariably oratories. in a written looked and tasted like flour paste. Aramaic once the vulLong Memory gar patois of the Pacifics historical muse- um located in the companys headquarters building here. Fascinating documents, maps, relics, weapons, furniture, books, household articles, farm implements, personal possessions and other mementos of the Nmen and events which carved an empire out of a wilderness comprise a dramatic and graphic visual record of the struggles, tragedies and triumphs of the pioneer West. Portray Progress. Interwoven with the faded relics and ghosts of d pioneers and heroes of the West are exhibits portraying the epic record in the building of the Union Pacific, which played an instrumental role in the westward expansion of the empire. from the Shunning away musty and moldering atmosphere of the typical museum idea, all the exhibits are designed to preserve all the color and adventure which prevailed in the pioneer days. Since this valuable historical collection was opened to the public in 1939, approximately 200,000 visitors representing every state in the union and 41. foreign .countries have registered at the museum. Reminisce on Careers. Bearded oldsters wander through the exhibits musing ovfer items which recall their own picturesque careers when they and the West were young. In contrast are school children and , street urchins, intrigued by the drama in the winning of the West. Side by side come scholars and business men, housewives and railroad executives, while during war years many a serviceman discovered that browsing around the exhibits provided an ideal means of whiling away the seemingly endless wait for trains. Curator of the museum is Mrs. Ruth Cultra Hamilton, , former school teacher who has been dated with the railroad for many years. Lauds Womans Role. True to her clan, Mrs. Hamilton admits that her one regret is that the museum collections are almost wholly a memorial to the great men of the past. No one remembers those anonymous women who ranked with their men as courageous pioneers, she Service, Washington, D. C. Do you know WASHINGTON. that an invention of a young may rid the orient WNU Features. OMAHA, NEB. The roaring, hectic days of the Old West are not dead they still live in all their flamboyant glory in the Union Oriental Scholar Improves Nutritive Value of Rice lan-gau- ge Aids Research people? t The same man both answered those questions for me and its possible that had he not been able to answer both, he would have been able to answer One day, however, he tried cooking and canning the patna variety of rice from India. The results were somewhat more encouraging. The quite canned kernels seemed less gelatinous, almost fluffy. Then he remembered something hed read about the natives of Assam. It seemed these natives suffered less from beri beri than did natives ol HISTORY WAS MADE . . . With the rifles, saddle and other equipeither. other oriental regions. Malek took ment included in this general view of a section of the historical It was the inventor, himself, M. to the research books, and discovmuseum. Yonan-Male- k who enlightened me ered that the Assamites parboiled two in a half hours of the most their rice. That is, they soaked it and with of and shot sew, rear children pouches and other pieces help the farming. charming and informative conver- for days in water to loosen the tough equipment used in pistol shooting. Modern-da- y A rare old book showing the trails sation in which I have indulged in hulls, then they steamed it. houswives stare politics-cloude-d at such primitive from Texas to Ellsworth, Kas., one many a Up to that point Malek had afternoon. sauerof devices as candle molds, a the roaring cow towns of the Washington been trying to can polished Briefly, he has invented a kraut stomper, a broom of hickory 70s, and a collection of branding white rice. Rice whose vitamin-fille- d process which keeps the nutrisplints, a spinning wheel and reel irons highlight the mementos of the bran layers had been tive value of rice in the kernel, dating back to 1859. Typical of the day of the cattleman and cowhulled, milled, scoured cleaned, boosts the rice yield by 25 per hardships which the pioneer wom- boy. and polished away. This was g beetles cent, cheats an endured are exhibits of crude Mute symbols of a still earlier the first mention of the treatand weevils out of their annual farm implements an awkward flail, day when the buffalo and bison ment of rough paddy rice bemillion dollar banquet, but clumsy hoe and handmade barley roamed the western plains by the fore it was milled. He leaped fork. probably most important of all, on it as a possible clue. leaves the Vitamin B factors in The old iron Dutch oven and grill He managed to get from a friend each grain of rice intact. in the museum once were the only a bag of rough paddy rice prepaid acg Since the countries cooking utensils owned by some for by this time, Malek count for half the worlds popula- fortunately, to and Mormon family, which carried them from his experiwas walking tion and since malnutrition is a seriacross the plains on the historic to afford unable mental ous problem in all of them, the in- even a laboratory, migration from Nauvoo, 111., to token. car vention seems a little less than revUtah. He soaked the rice for days. Recall Indian Raids. olutionary in its potentialities. It is When he needed to parboil the rice already the basis of a going concern. in steam, he found an unused sterMany souvenirs of the constant guerrilla warfare between the hosilizer at a nearby hospital where the Polish Vitamins tile Indians 'and workmen who internes were glad to help him. Even Out of Product pushed the rails ever westward also his neighbors in his apartment are on display. Supplementing the My acquaintance with rice has building were on hand to help him tomahawks and arrows is the handibeen a nodding one, furthered by spread the parboiled rice on the ' work of Indian women who enperiodic visits to Chinese restau- roof to dry. in more gaged peaceful pursuits rants. When I ate the underpinning Now he had his precious parboiled than their warriors. Included in the of the celery sprouts and strips of paddy rice. But the tough hulls on display are fine baskets and bead-worchicken, I didnt realize that the the kernels posed a problem. An tobacco pouches, medicine ancient Pharaohs of Egypt would ordinary rice mill handles rough bags, amulets and other articles have approved its polished white- rice in carload lots. The only way fashioned by Sioux women and decness. I didnt realize that that pol- for Malek to mill a hundred pounds orated with embroidery of flattened ished whiteness had been achieved was to find a hand mill. Well, he porcupine quills dyed with roots and by 19 different cleaning, milling and found a hand mill and ground the berries. polishing operations. And I cer- hulls from the rice. The rice was Wild-eye-d youngsters gaze m awe tainly didnt guess that those 19 op- canned, and this time the kernels at the pistols which spat flame erations had robbed my rice of 76 that rolled out were hard, dark, and lead in the hectic early days THE AND WOOLLY WILD per cent of its thiamine, 56 per cent chocolate colored and separate. but which now rest peacefully in the for of its riboflavin and 63 per cent of At that time, Malek didnt know Is WEST museums display cases. and most of its food he had accidentally driven the in this its niacin goggle-eye- d youngsters Many Guns Shown. oluble value. bran layers into the rice display of guns and knives. A huge .69 horse pistol is on White rice, it seems, is a fetish kernel itself. He only knew this rice display, along with flintlocks dating millions are the watch and scissors that goes back to the days of the was distinctly different than any he complains. back to the American revolution and used by Old Jim Bridger and a Pharaohs when white was the sym- had canned before. To museum visitors, howpepper-bo- x types, derringers, ball money belt and autographed pic- bol of royalty. Some unnamed chef What he had to do then was to and cap and muzzle-loadin- g ever, she can point out a few types. ture of Buffalo Bill Cody. with a deep sense of the fitness of determine the length of time to soak household articles which serve In one case are guns taken from The epic migration of piothings didnt like the idea of his the rice, what temperature to use, as mute reminders that even train robbers while another case neers over the Mormon trail, Pharaoh partaking of crude, under what steam pressure to parwhile heroes conquered the contains bullet molds, cartridge and other pathrice. So he ordered the boil it. It took Malek months, worktrail Oregon West, someone had to cook and loaders, powder flasks and horns, royal millers to polish the grain to a ing with makeshift equipment to ways to the West is represented by many relics. Attracting pearly whiteness. The millers com- hit upon the right formula. plied, never realizing they were polmajor interest is an original Finally he obtained rice which, to westbound issued pioishing the food value out of the food. when canned, came out fluffy, with map The poor people of Egypt went each grain separate and perfectly neers, showing every place on eating their rough unpolished across the prairies where food tender. The layers of bran driven could be obtained and the locarice. And nobody guessed why into the kernel imparted a differe tion of blacksmiths. ent bran flavor and the they were healthier than their rulers. This situation lasted Rare and original photographs long cooking at high temperature until the French revolution when had made the rice sterile. But the of the Great Emancipator hold the revolutionaries insisted on the colbest part of all which he discovLincoln in an extensive spotlight their right to keep up with the ered through scientific analysis lection. A replica of the Lincoln was the fact that this new rice was royal Joneses. They wanted polfuneral car also is displayed. too ished white rice white (and unbelievably rich in vitamins. Tribute to Rails. The army and navy were interbread). They got it, and have With the building of the West irbeen getting it ever since. The ested, and Malek offered them his retrievably linked with the developcustom has persisted until today patents for the wars duration. At ment of rail transportation, the muwe still require our rice when the present time hes busy licensing seum features mementos in the histo more millers than rice mills here and abroad to use away strip tory of railroading. half the vitamins from our rice his process. teleis a item yellowed Principal and wheat. About the only thing he has gram bearing a single sentence, This is not so important in potato left to worry about now is how You can make affidavit of completo obtain the rice in order to America, but tion of road to Promontory Sum- ahd in oriental countries where freprocess it. The rice supply, as GrenThis sent mit. by message, housewife any grocery-hauntin- g ville M. Dodge, chief engineer, to quently the word rice and food are not else will is what it used its synonymous, know, something Oliver Ames, then president of the to be. The world supply of rice U. P., signified completion of con- - again. Six hundred thirty million is sUort this year, and a large struction work, and on the follow- - orientals derive more than 40 per cen of their food calories from rice percentage of rice raised in the Golden drivthe was ing day Spike United States has been allocated he is rice polished, they en to join the Union Pacific and the to countries where rice is a staEN ROUTE TO PROMISED LAND . . . Mormon pioneers used these Central Pacific as the first trans- - are losuiS val nutritional values crude farm implements and household utensils on their historic trek ple food. This scarcity explains continental railroad linking the East a i.16 Malek became back from Nauvoo, HI., to Utah. why rice, along with sugar and and West. in 1938 when one of his friends syrup, is the only food still rewished aloud that he could figure maining under price control. out some way to increase rice con-- . But once the world supply inthe' in United therell be more rice, more States, creases, sumption to give chiropractic treatments, re- a result ugh PAINESVTLLE, being struck by a stone At that time, tons of rice were nutritious rice, more flavorful rice. blind since he was seven, Robert pair chairs and sell greeting cards. thrown by a playmate, Bixel refuses rotting in the California rice Furthermore, Malek guarantees that Bixel is one of the most industrious At home he mows the lawn, fires to acknowledge the He fields for want of a market. Each the brand-nehandicap. bride wont have to men in this community. After work- the furnace and helps with house- now plans to learn typing to this rice make season, switches in permit countrys growers any rubhold tasks. ing throughout the week at a to keep up with his immense were being left with a surplus of the dinner menu because the rice him An ardent sportsman, Bixel rides ber plant, he continues the pace on at least three million bags of rice. she cooked turned out all wrong. amount of correspondence. Sunday by rushing off to church, horseback, goes fishing and coon was slowly going Oh! what about the Aramaia e. industry Formerly the regular' preacher where he is an evangelist and sing- hunting. On coon hunts he asks only I couldnt do justice to classics? Nov. for a stout club about four feet in at Riverview church in nearby . Malek went at the er. one without a little more the that in problem and with these regular length Not content Ill get along all right elty, Ohio, Bixel turned the pastor- approved American tradition. He space and not a lot more help from ate over to a brother-in-laand now i activities, Bixel utilizes a guide dog by myself. Malek. California polled representative Blind since seven years of age as acts as a traveling evangelist. to help him around the community long-dea- strike-darkene- d, rice-eatin- rice-eatin- k, ... ed water-s- -- nut-lik- bread-conscio- us a, , rice-conscio- us Blindness No Handicap, Industrious Ohio Man Proves OHIO.-Altho- w last-minu- w te |