Colorful Party Fare
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On Washington's Birthday
CHEERS for red and white cherry fluff.
By CHARLOTTE ADAMS—Associated Press Food Editor
George Washington’s Birthday, particularly this year when it'falls
on a week-end, is a good time to have a party. It’s a Friday, so per
haps you’ll like to have a fish for the main course, and if you want
to keep things toward the red-white-and-blue color scheme, red sal
mon gives you a good start.
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Here’s a suggested menu for a
real party meal:
Tomato Juice Cocktail
Boiled Salmon with
Hollandaise Sauce
Potato Puffs
Green Peas
French Bread
Cherry Fluff
BOILED SALMON
For six people, buy a three
pound piece of salmon. Clean the
fish and tie it in a piece of cheese
cloth. Boil in water to cover, with
salt and the juice of one lemon.
The fish is done when it separates
from the bone, which should be in
about 35 minutes. Remove skin
after cooking.
CHERRY FLUFF
Cake
2 cups enriched all-purpose flour
2/3 cup sugar
2»/2 teaspons double action baking
powder
1 teaspoon salt
H cup soft butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Vz teaspoon almond extract
cup milk
2/3 cup light corn syrup
2 eggs
Sift, measure flour and return
to sifter with sugar, baking pow
der and salt. Sift into bowl. Add
butter which has been in a warm
place until soft but not melted.
Add flavorings and the milk
mixed with syrup. Beat vigorously
by hand or mixer (slow speed) for
two minutes. Add eggs unbeaten
and beat two minutes more. Turn
into eight-inch square pan, greas
ed, lined with paper, and grease
the paper. Bake at 350° 45 to 50
minutes. Cool. Press down into
Cherry Fluff.
Fluff
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
Vi cup cold water
34 cup boiling water
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup maraschino or canned cherry
syrup
Vi cup sliced maraschino or canned
cherries
Cherry halves
Soak gelatin in cold water and
dissolve in boiling water. Add
lemon juice and cherry syrup and
chill until mixture is “quacky.”
Whip until light and fluffy. Fold
in sliced cherries. Have ready a
nine-inch square pan lined with
waxed paper extending above the
edges. Turn fluff into pan. Press
cake down until Fluff comes up
around sides and covers edges.
Pull paper straight if cake extends
above pan. Chill until firm. Turn
out on serving plate and garnish
with cherry halves and if avail
able, three cherries on stems and
mint leaves.
Relief For
(odd Operators
Delegate Bartlett has testified
favorably in behalf of a bill pro
viding financial relief for owners
of gold miners who had to close
their mines or curtail operations
as the result of restrictions im
posed by the limitation order
L-208 of the War Production
Board.
The bill, H. R. 4393, was in
troduced by Congressman Engle
of California, and hearings are be
ing held before the subcommittee
of the House War Claims Commit
tee of which Mr. Engle is chair
man.
The measure provides that
within six months after it becomes
law a gold mine operator may
submit claims for the amount of
loss, including the costs of placing
the mine in its pre-L-208 condi
tion, caused by closing the mine or
curtailing operations.
All claims would be considered
and certified by an examiner ap
pointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, and provision is made
! for appeals from the examiner’s
decisions through the United
States District Courts.
Carl Lomen of Nome and Seat
tle and Philip Bradley, Jr., inter
ested in several mines in Alaska,
including the Alaska Juneau Gold
Mine, also appeared before the
sub-committee in endorsement of
the bill.
ALASKAN ARGOSIES?
WASHINGTON — The covered
wagons are preparing for a ren
dezvous again, only this time they
will be LSTs and C-47s for the
pioneers of 1946. Destination:
Alaska.
Ever since the Alaskan Coast
and the Aleutians became impor
tant to our defense, GIs and their
officers have been bombarding
Alaskan Delegate E. L. Bartlett;
his predecessor, Anthony J. Di
mond, and the Department of the
Interior with questions about op
portunities in Alaska.
So far, obstacles in the way of
pioneering in Alaska have been
too great to be overcome by the
average individual. The expense
of getting there alone is consider
able. The additional expenses of
maintenance, housing and trans
portation while one “is looking
around” make the experiment al
most prohibitive.
Although the Interior and the
Delegate’s office in the Capitol
here have been generous in doling
out information whenever it is re
quested, the residents of Alaska,
their chambers of commerce, etc.,
have not been too eager to encour
age migrations.
There is good reason for this.
Nobody knows better than the
Territory’s inhabitants what the
problems are of locating and mak
ing a living there. To invite an in
flux of persons ill equipped by
temperament, physique and fi
nance to withstand the vicissi
tudes of Alaska would be only to
increase its problems of relief and
unemployment a thousandfold.
Alaska’s Gov. Ernest H. Gruen
ing once said that a decent, inde
pendent living could be worked
out in the Territory by any man
“with the pioneer spirit, equipped
with initiative, courage, brains,
brawn, patience, persistence—and
some capital.” That’s a whale of
an order.
On the other hand, Harold L.
Ickes, while secretary of the in
terior and other officials have
been singing the song of Alaska
for years. Ickes, writing recently
<in This Week Magazine* again
cried “shame” that we hadn’t done
more to skim something more
than three billion dollars off the
cream of natural resources in the
Territory for which we paid less
than seven and a half million dol
lars.
Alaska is our last great frontier
of untapped natural resources. Be
fore the last thunder of the bombs
of Pearl Harbor has died, the Ha
waiian islands will be as popu
lous, or possibly over-populated,
as many of the States. The Philip
pines are going back to their peo
ple and promise to be an econo
mic problem for years to come.
Puerto Rico never has been any
thing but an economic problem.
But in Alaska, there are un
dreamed-of natural resources, un
told opportunities for capital. It
may become the great crossroads
of the world’s skyways. It might
provide many jobs.
I know of no one who has de
nied these facts; but the Alaska
boom is on a slow fuse. It is only
in the last few months that there
have been definite indications
here that the "covered wagons”
are headed for a rendezvous for
the United States’ last great pio
neering trek.
Rivers AihI
Harbors
Construction on twelve rivers
and harbors projects in Alaska au
thorized by Congress in 1945 is
not contemplated for the fiscal
year 1947 following drastic cuts'
made by the Bureau of the Bud
get and the House Committee on
Appropriations on sums requested
by the Chief of Engineers.
The Chief of Engineers, in draw
ing up requests for funds for all
projects throughout the United
States, including Alaska, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Is
lands, authorized by Congress in
1945, submitted a program calling
for an appropriation of $117,000.
000 which the Budget reduced to
$28,000,000. This program includ
ed funds in the amount of $1,000,
000 for the Wrangell Narrows pro
ject out of the twelve territorial
projects authorized, but this sum
was eliminated when the program
was finally submitted to Congress.
In view of this action and be
cause of the existence of an econ
omy bloc in Congress, it is impos
sible to predict when funds will
finally be appropriated so that all
twelve Alaska rivers and harbors
projects will be constructed. The
Chief of Engineers had submitted
an advance six-year program on
maintenance and improvement of
rivers and harbors works which
now will undoubtedly have to be
revised because of action of the
Budget and Congress.
The Chief of Engineers included
in his budget a total estimation
of $67,871,500 for maintenance
and improvement of existing pro
jects and other continuing and
Civilian Attendance At
Army Theater
According to War Department
Regulations, it is held that those
civilian persons eligible to attend
the Army Theater are limited to:
a. —Members of families of mil
itary personnel assigned or at
tached to this post.
b. —Those civilian employees
residing on the Post.
c. —One legitimate “date” for
each unmarried officer or enlisted
man. if accompanied by the offi
cer or enlisted man.
d. —Annual War Departme n t.
civilian employees, with members
of their immediate households,
who are forced by circumstances
to reside off the post.
The adherence to these rules is
mandatory to avoid violating the
patronage eligibility regulations
which are agreed upon by the War
Department and the film industry.
NUERNBERG. Feb. 20— UP> —
Soviet prosecutors told the inter
nation military tribunal today that
632,253 residents of Leningrad
perished of hunger during the 900
dav siege of Russia’s second larg
est city by the German army.
An additional 16.747 were re
ported slain and more than 33,000
wounded by artillery fire and air
bombardments. At the height of
the siege, the daily ration of bread
—the only available food—drop
ped to about a fifth of an ounce,
the Russians said.
routine operations. Passed by the
House. $900.00 has been made
available for the Stikine River
project and $55,000 for Nome
Harbor.
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