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8A Burlington (N.C.» T'mes-News. Saturday. AcrU 7. 1973 Ride Or Eat-The Horse Meat Controversy CLUTCH IS HERE Worn over the shoulder or tucked under the arm, the envelope clutch, large and flat, is coming on strong tor spring in bold plaids and soft pastels. SKIRT VARIETY The skirt is back with great variety and many styles.

There are pleats, A-lines. or long, straight skirts that button down the front or in the back- By HENRY R. DARLING Women's News Service PHILADELPHIA Lancaster County. tourists love those big. beautiful workhorses they see tilling the fields of Anush" farmers.

Parisians love those big. beautiful workhorses, too. although they've never seen them tilling the fields. love them for a different reason. They make great sieaks.

Increasing Number An increasing number of American horses--not just from Lancaster County--are finding their way to Canadian abattoirs where they are legally slaughtered for human consumption. Tne meat is then shipped to France and other European countries where it is considered a delicious item on the menus of many restaurants and in the boucheries chevaline Ahorse butcher shops) of Paris. The journey for an estimated 6.000 horses a year begins in a high-walled rambling old barn in New Holland. Pa. Largest In East This is the home of the New Holland Sales Stables the largest livestock commission auction in the East.

Monday is horses, mules and hogs day. Wednesday is dairy canle day. Thursday is butcher canle and calves day. Abe Diffenbach. president and general manager, says the Monday horse auction sale is the largest in the country.

Between 400 and 500 horses are sold on Mondays. About 30 Per Cent And. he says, in recent weeks about 30 per cent have been going for human consumption. On horse auction days, the wood bleachers on each side of the barn are crammed with young people in western clothes, well dressed couples in English riding boots, bearded and black-garbed Pennsylvania Dutch, farmers with horse-trading instincts, horse- lovers in general and others with an interest in horses. Mostly the interest is riding or driving.

But some of 11 is gastronomic. Bity Touchy" Diffenbaeh was reluctant to point out buyers who were seeking animate for the table instead of the stable. "They might be a bit touchy about it." he said. But he emphasized that it was all very legal. For years.

New Holland has been the scene of sad farewells between horseowners and their aged steeds, shortly to be taken to the knockers for conversion into dogfood. fertilizer, glue and a variety of other products. Pennsylvania Law And. although there is a How Nikita Khruschev Attacked Meat Shortage By SID GOLDBERG Women's News Service XEW YORK President Nixon might take a page from Nikita Khruschev's book in- easing the beef crisis. Faced with a severe meat shortage in 1964.

the late Soviet premier went on a cross-country tour promoting the virtues of horse meat (which, indeed, some beef- siarved Americans have been trying in recent days). "I have tasted horse meat and it is delicious." Khrushchev told a farm-belt audience in Kazakhstan in August. 1964. "Nothing tastes better than 'friendship he said. Imaginary Insomniacs Are Convinced They Slept Researchers are piling up sleep data, dispelling old notions and helping doctors guide patients with sleep difficulties.

The phenomenon of imaginary insomnia, for example, is easier to explain today because of tne many laboratory studies of sleeping subjects- Analyses of brain wave patterns show that there are gray periods of many shades between being fully awake and deeply asleep. Julius Segal. Ph. of the National Institute of Mental Health, points out. Tne imaginary insomniac arises in the morning with the sensation of not having slept at all.

saj's Dr. Segal. The moment of truth comes in the sleep laboratory, where it is possible to show the imaginary insomniac that he spent a night punctuated by frequent periods of light sleep on the border of waking. "Friendship sausage" is the name he gave to a wurst made from horse meat and pork. "Fried horse meat is remarkable." he went on.

"It is worthwhile to develop "horse breeding to supplement meat resources." The beefy premier concluded: ''He who cannot eat horse meat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horse The advice went down particularly hard in Kazakhstan, which has a heavily Moslem population. Moslems are not allowed to eat pork. Three years earlier, on the same theme.

Khrushchev pronounced in a nationwide radio broadcast, "Horsemeat is very nourishing and has many- calories and is very cheap." He said he felt sorry for anybody who hadn't tried horse meat. "But once they have tasted it," he promised, -you will not be able to drag them by the ears from this meat." Petula Clark Determined To Be A Good "Mummy Petula Clark. 39-year-old international singing star who lives in a house facing Lake Geneva in Switzerland, is making a real fight to be--not a better singer, but a perfect Mom to her children. Launched into showbiz at the age of eight. Pet firmly insists.

"I don't want my three children to turn into show business kids who don't get enough sleep. I know what iv's like and I've seen some come out of it rather badly." Married to her manager. Frenchman Claude Wolff, she admits, "A performer is something special--a bit mad and off-balanced. Once on the stage I become Petula Clark, not Mrs. Wolff.

I am nervous, sometimes difficult and hard on the people I work with. "But once the show is over I prefer to be alone for an hour or two, because I find it hard to turn into 'Mummy' straight away. But I'm determined to NEED WINDOWS DRAPED? NEED1EDS COVERED? Yards of Beautiful Fabrics Clearance Sale Priced Ready Made Draperies Bed Spreads REDUCED "If we don't have if DAILY- law against the sale of horse meat for human consumption in Pennsylvania, it's no less legal for a buyer to ship horses to Canada for whatever reason as long as the horses are healthy and not abused in transit. ''These people don't want expensive horses." said Diffenbach, "but they don't want the killers, either. Not enough meat on them.

''Still. I'll admit. I hate to see a good horse with a lot oi use left in Mm going to Mules Too Stringy Diffenbsch said the Canadian buyers shy away from mules and grey horses. say the mules are too stringy and grey horses have warts," he said. "Warts spoil the New Holland's business is selling horses.

And what happens later in Canada is of little concern to it. But Diffenbach was concerned about one aspect of the Canadian connection. "Every year we get a lot of people from summer camps coming here to buy horses for their riding stables." he said. "There's going to be a lot of competition for those horses this year. And the prices are going to be a lot higher." It's difficult to spot a bidder at a horse auction under any conditions- It's next to impossible to spot one who doesn't want to be spotted.

A slight nod. the waggle of a thumb or the flicker of an eyelid frequently are the only communications buyer and auctioneer. But it did seem at a recent Monday auction that an unusually large number of well-fleshed animals were going to one bidder identified only as Roger. From other sources, it was learned that the horses Roger bought were loaded on trucks and sent to the Cofranco Importing Exporting Yamchiehe, Quebec. Roger (not the same Roger) Forget, a vice president of company, said his firm and several others have been buying horses in Canada and processing them for human consumption in Europe for many years.

Only recently has the "industry discovered the potential of the U.S. horse auction market. "Already the price is going up." said Forget. "We are paying 12 cents a pound at the beginning of the year. Now it's up to 18 cents." Forget said his firm was pariia! to workhorses because of their size.

But he said it would take any kind as long as they were big, fat and healthy. "Racehorses are all right except they lend to be small and expensive," he said. On Monday at New Holland, where a sign over the auctioneer's head a "Horses S125 or less as is." Canada bound horses were selling in the to S150 range. That represents a tidy profit for a 1.200-pound horse selling for 18 cents a pound. Mr.

Forget said he himself, had not eaten much horse meat. Bui he said it is his understanding that in France. Belgium and some other European countries, where it sells for S1.75 or SL80 a pound, it is prepared much like beef, which now sells as high as S2.80 a pound. He insisted, however, that the high price of beef is in no way tied in with the hi- creased sale of horses for i human consumption in this country. "People in Europe have always enjoyed horse meat," he said.

People in America, however, are more likely to agree with former Mayor Fioreflo LaGuardia. of New York City, who told City Council in 1943. when horse meat was suggested as a wartime economy, that it's grading" to eat horse meat. you do. whether I am here or not.

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