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From the Fargo FORUM & TRIBUNE, Sunday, November 1 0, 1957 Nun's Home-Made Bread May Be by Hubbard Keavy The Associated Press Henderson, Nevada (AP) ?╟÷ Amid plenty, A1 Freeman was literally starving. He couldn't retain a bite of food in the Rose de Lima Hospital, here in an oxygen tent to clear up an ailment in his lung dating back to his combat service in Italy in World War II. Then a Nun fed him a piece of buttered and toasted bread. Freeman lived on this bread for five days, saying with the gratitude of a man freed from great hunger: ?╟úThis must have been made by an angel." And when he later went into the kitchen at the hospital to see who made the delicious, unusual bread, he found the baker to be a hard-working Nun, named, either by Providence or coincidence, Sister Angelita ! He missed the wonderful-tasting bread when he got home and often went back to the hospital to get a loaf. The Sisters of St. Dominic couldn't sell the bread, but Free- man, like many other ex-patients who had tasted the bread while they were ill, left a generous donation at the little chapel. Freeman, a publicist, represents the Sands Hotel in nearby Las Vegas, and had been trying for a year to raise funds for the badly needed extra beds at Rose de Lima. He thought up the idea of putting the bread on the commercial market with a royalty contribution going to build up Rose de Lima Hospital and then to build other hospitals all over the country. The bread seemed unusually good to him ?╟÷ but to make sure, Freeman sent hundreds of loaves out to people all over the country, asking for their frank opinion. When the sampling was done, Free- man knew he had something special in the way of bread. People wrote that they had never tasted bread so delicious in all their lives, that it was even better than their own homemade bread. The recipe used by Sister Angelita was 100 years old, first used by her Grand- mother in her native Germany. The trick was to get a commercial baker to make the bread as good as Sister Angelita. The Sands Hotel got behind the pro- ject, with its president Jack Entratter per- sonally heading the work, and finally 700 loaves were produced commercially at a cost of $20 each ! And Freeman knew he had started something when, during the first week the bread was on sale in Las Vegas, 5,000 loaves were snapped up. At three cents a loaf royalty, that meant $150 for Rose de Lima. Entratter set up a charitable Angelita Bread Foundation, with a trustee board composed of a Lutheran, a Mormon, a Catholic, a Protestant, and a Jew. The goal ?╟÷to market the bread nationally, to build Rose de Lima Hospital, then to build hos- pitals wherever needed. The Foundation is making contracts with quality bakers in most large cities ?╟÷ they get the recipe, the