Sugarplum Tree for Christmas
Wonderful centerpiece for a hoi <3
idav party table is a Christmas
candy tree. Everyone will be de
lighted to admire it first, then
munch a piece of it! Shape the
tree yourself,.for that needs fast'
work, but let the youngsters stud ;
it with “lights” in the shape of
gum drops, cherries, dates, and j
pecans. Center the tree on the
table and arrange green pine
boughs around it. Then put tiny
surprise package favors in among
the boughs and tie them with gay
ribbons that lead to each place.
Candy Christmas Tree
Ingredients: One 4 l/S> ounce
package puffed rice, 2 cups light
corn syrup, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 tea-1
spoon, vinegar, Va cup butter, 21
teaspoons vanilla, gumdrops, can
died cherries, dates, pecans, can
died pineapple.
Method: Put the puffed rice into
a shallow pan. Heat in a moderate
'350°^ over for 10 minutes. Pour
puffed rice into a large greased
bowl. ?vlix the syrup, salt and vin
egar together in a saucepan; cook
until a few drops in cold water
form a hard ball <255°). Remove
from heat; add butter and vanilla,
stirring only enough to mix. Mix
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ing quickly, gradually pour cooked
syrup over the puffed rice. With
greased hands shape into a large
cone-shaped tree. Decorate with
gumdrops. candied cherries, dates,
and nuts. Cut star for top from
candied pineapple. Place decorat
ed tree on a base about two inches
high—a small can, a glass, or a
custard cup words fine. Wrap base
with Christmas paper.
Note: Make the tree no more
than a day or two before the time
it is to be used.
And here’s another holiday con
ction that’s delicious to taste and
easy to make
Chocolate Marshmallow Bars
Ingredients: 6 cups puffed rice
or puffed wheat, Vi cup butter,
1/3 cup peanut butter, Vz pound
•about 32) marshmallows, 1 six
ounce package semi-sweet choco
late pieces, Vz cup peanuts.
Method: Put puffed rice or
wheat into a shallow pan. Heat in
a moderate (350°) oven for 10min
utes. Pour into a large greased
bowl. Melt butter, peanut butter,
and marshmallows in a double
boiler, stirring occasionally. (It
may take quite a little while to
! Let's Go Cycling
In The Air
LAKEHURST. N. J. (/P)—How’d
you like to take a bicycle ride in
the air?
A Woodbridge attorney did it
Friday.
He flew through the air with
the greatest of ease inside the big
hangar of the naval air station on
a foot-operated bicycle type de
vice suspended from a 5,000 cubic
foot helium bag.
Charles K. Paul, the inventor,
and the man who took the ride,
said the device which he calls a
pedalcopter, is the safest flying
machine imaginable.”
The navy, in the person of Capt.
G. F. Watson, said it ‘‘has no opin
ion pro or con as to the present or
potential value of this device.”
The demonstration was permit
ted as an accommodation to Paul,
a civilian employee of the Navy,
Watson said. Paul is a civilian at
torney for the navy.
Paul pedalled away, swooping
around the hangar at a height of
100 feet and made an easy landing.
He made the machine out of bi
cycle parts at a cost of about $400
and said he used about $60 worth
of helium in the bag.
The pilot sits in the fuselage
and operates with his feet a bicy
cle style sprocket which rotates
the helium bag and two flying ro
tors of the type used on a helicop
ter.
The helium bag is above the pi
lots head, the rotor blades are be
low his feet. The apparatus on
which Paul sat looked like a baby
carriage with a horizontal shaft in
the center.
Ed. Note—Our local bicycle
merchant, Gordon Swanberg, said
when consulted, that he will not
stock the new type bicycle for the
present.
melt the marshmallows'*. Pour
over puffed rice or wheat, stirring
until the cereal is evenly coated.
Pack half of mixture in a greased
7 x 11-inch pan; cover with choco
late pieces. Place in a moderate
(350° * oven for 2 or 3 minutes, un
til chocolate pieces are softened.
Remove from oven. Spread choco
late with a spatula; sprinkle with
peanuts. Top with remaining puff
| ed rice mixture. Cool and cut into
bars.
Search For Canvas
Shelter Of Long
Missing Pilot
ANCHORAGE, (^) —Four ser
geants from the air force’s 10th
Rescue Squadron were enroute
Saturday to reach for the canvas
shelter in the rugged Talkeetna
I Mountain area for a trace of Fran
cis Brownfield, airplane pilot
missing since Sept. 5.
Two Talkeetna men sighted the
collapsed shelter earlier last week.
Friday a break in the weather
allowed two Cessna ski-equipped
planes to take off from Lake Hood
for the area with four trail crew
members of detachment A, 10th
Rescue Squadron, from Elmendorf
air force base.
The sergeants were to be drop
ped off at Lake Watana, east of
Mt. Watana, approximately ten
miles from the lonely bench on
Big Kosima Creek where the can
vas shelter was spotted. The crew
will go overland from the lake but
the going will be rugged due to
the deep snows.
urew memoers are a/sgx. l,. j.
Storney, Holyoke, Mass.; Sgt. C.
R. Hill. Wauconda, Wash., T-Sgt.
Keith R. Clemmons, Flat Rock,
Mich., and S-Sgt. M. E. Shepherd,
Thornburg, la. Plane pilots were
Capt. Roy E. Holdiman, Anchor
age, and Lt. John Shifferer, Tur
ner, Ore.
Meanwhile, a fund to aid the
Brownfield family went over the
$2,000 mark today,
A benefit dance will clear over
$1,000: thePatti-MacDonald Con
struction Co., and employes added
another $500; and previously
more than $1,500 had been dona
ted by Anchorage firms and resi
dents.
Newspapers and radio stations
are aiding in the drive for funds
to relocate Mrs. Brownfield and
her six children at Sequim, Wash.,
where the parents of the lost flyer
reside.
Brownfield has been missing
since flying into the Talkeetna
area to make a rendezvous with a
hunting party, which later hiked
back to civilization. Wreckage of
his plane was found a few days
after he left.
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Plan 18 New Sea
plane Bases For
Southeast Alaska
A N C H ORAGE, (/P) — Alaska,
where the airplane is the chief
maens of intra-Territorial trans
portation, has prepared master
plans for seaplane base expansion
to augment recent plans for im
proved land plane facilities.
The new master plans were for
18 new seaplane bases, three in
the Anchorage area and the re
mainder in Southeastern Alaska.
Previously, plans were forwarded
to Washington, D. C., for eight
land-based airplane fields.
Both master plans and construc
tion plans for the bases got pre
liminary approval from Edward
G. Fisher, acting administrator of
Alaska airport.
Washington approval is antici
pated by the Alaska Aeronautics
and Communications Division,
which expects to call for bid-; on
all projects—land and sea bases—
about Feb. 1.
Proposed seaplane bases in this
area will be at Whittier, Seldovia
and Latouche. Others are sched
uled for Tenakee, Hoonah, Todd,
Hood Bay, Angoon, Ketchikan,
Kake, Craig, Tongass Harbor, Gus
tavus, Sitka, Baranoff. Hyder,
Hydaberg and Metlakatla.
The seaplane base plans are the
culmination of all federal airport
aid projects proposed for construc
tion in the Territory under the
1950 program. Tony Schwamm,
director of aviation, said.
Previously forwarded to the
CAA in Washington were master
plans for new fields or extensions
of existing runways at Fort Yu
kon. Kotzebue. Palmer, Ninilchik,
Seldovia, Skagway, Dillingham
and Seward.
All are designed to accommo
date any aircraft up to a fully
loaded DC-3.
Schwamm said the proposed
seaplane base sand ramps are de
signed specifically to accommodate
twin-engined craft.
In addition to drafting federal
aid plans, the Territorial Aeronau
tics Division carried out in the
pase season improvements at a
dozen small airfields serving iso
lated communities.
Chairman of the division is Gov.
Gruening. Other members are
Jack Carr, Anchorage; William
Lavery, Fairbanks, and Sheldon
Simmons, Juneau.
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