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| T’S easy to achieve professional
* looking interior painting if you
prepare surfaces properly and use
quality brushes, rollers and paint.
Start with a clean surface as
paint does not adhere to dirt.
Wash glossy surfaces with a good
household or paint cleaner and
let dry before applying paint.
Paste down loose edges of wall
paper if you're painting over that.
Fill in tears on papers with plas
tic patch so the surface will be
smooth and even.
Plaster patch should also be
THIS WEEK’S RECIPE
Lemon Fluff
(Serves 8)
H4 cups evaporated milk
1 package lemon-flavored gela
tin
% cup boiling water
>4 cup sugar
% cup pineapple juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
\k cup fresh lemon juice
Chill milk thoroughly Dis
solve gelatin in boiling water.
Stir in sugar, juices and rind,
stirring until sugar is dis
solved Cool until slightly thick
ened. Whip milk in chilled bowl.
Fold into thickened gelatin and
heap into individually serving
dishes and chill until firm.
used on cracks and holes as paint
does not fill these Holes in wood
should be filled with putty. Smooth
off mars and chipped paint with
fine sandpaper.
All previously painted surfaces
should be sanded before starting.
They may also be wiped with a
liquid sandpaper to assure a tight
bond between old surfaces and
new paint coat.
If using a roller, paint narrow
strip at corners with trim brush,
then complete with roller. Roller
should be rolled in paint back and
forth several times until uniform
ly saturated. Shake excess back
in tray, then roll on paint, start
ing at corner, overlapping the
roll.
We-The Pioneers
by one Jessica Mather
This week,, we at the
Home mourn the passing oi
two of our Pioneers. Harold
Sherwin, 72, passed away
Monday, Sept. 8th at 8:50
P.M. and Adolph Anderson
75 died on Sunday, Sept. 7th.
Both men had been in poor
health for some time and had
been in the Hospital Wing
of the Home for several
weeks.
Mr. Sherwin, who came to
us from Juneau, in July of
last year had a stroke there
last year followed by several
months in at St. Anne’s Hos
pital in that city. He had
come to A m e r i c a in the
early 1900’s and lived in Bos
ton asd became an American
citizen in 1917. Arriving in
Ketchikan, Alaska in 1946 to
stay there until 1951 and
then moved to Juneau where
he was Librarian-Bailiff in
the U.S. District Court. Fun
eral services were conducted
Wednesday, the 10th at St.
P e t e r’ s Episcopal Church
w till the Rev. Chapman offi
ciating folowed by graveside
rites conducted by the Mas
onic Lodge and interment at
the Pioneer’s Home Ceme
tery.
Mr. Anderson came from
his native Norway in 1905
and to Alaska three years
later. He was a custodian by
occupation and lived in
the Fairbanks area. On May
29, 1952 he came to the
Home.
Funeral services were held
at 2 P.M. Monday the 8th
conducted by Rev. Gaenslen
at the Lutheran Church. In
terment was at the Pioneers
Home Cemetery.
Welcome Mrs. Emily Irene
Allen, the latest lady guest
to the Home. She arrived on
September 6th from t h e
Sitka Community Hospital.
Emily was bora in Niles,
Michigan and came to Alaska
in 1941. She has been a
seamstress in Sitka for many
years and most recently
worked as Desk Clerk at the
Sitka Hotel. Although she
has many friends in Sitka,
she is quickly making new
ones here.
Cranny Roberts tells us
she had a most pleasant out
ing last week. On a beautiful
sunny day she visited with
Mrs. Gail Davis on Dove Is
land. With a group she drove
to J ames to wn Bay; from
there to the island by a Hat
bottomed boat aad then a
walk to the cabin, “over hill
and dale” as Cranny said,
and “stepping around toad
stools”. After a lovely dinner
and a lovely day the group
returned to SPk-.
That seems to cover our
‘doings’ this week Our pro
files will begin is the next
issue.
Host & Hostess
of the Week
BY Victoria Ellis
It must be pure as an Angel
Strong as Love
Black as the Devil
And Hot as B—!”
That's what we were told
when we asked the West
tails aboard the Monterey,
what the secret formula for
boat coffee is. But perhaps
its that big dash of boat hos
pitality that really does the
trick.
Ethel and Jack Westfall,
who have spent many years
in Alaska and many years on
boats arc both outdoor en
thusiasts who have had many
interesting experiences in this
country which they recreate
with a narrator’s skill and a
biographers authenticity.
Boating has perhaps been
Jack Westfall’s chief inter
est and he has devoted a
good part of his adult life to
i variety of marine ex peri
net's; perhaps the most dra
made of these was a season
spent running a mail boat for
Archie Ferguson from St.
Michael to Kotzebue. While
o t h e r seasons have been
spent aboard Fish and Wild
life vessels either skippering
or engineering, running can
nery t e n d e r s, commercial
fishing and transporting de
fence workers from steamer
ports to outlying de'fence
ports during the war while
die Westfalls owned and
operated the “Stormy Petrol
and the “Messenger”. Inci
dentally a glance at Stormy
Petrol’s log for the day of
January 5th, 1944 indicates
that fifteen Coast guardsmen
were picked up by the boat
at the lower end of Lynn
Canal from their lifeboats af
ter they had abondoned their
ship “The Prince of Wales”
(C G 64017) which was burn
ing out of control and was
totally damaged.
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During the twelve years
that the Westfalls have own
ed the Monterey, a 112 foot
yacht cruiser, five seasons
have been devoted charter
ing for groups. It is interest
ing to note that while the
Monterey has been taking
out happy groups of hunters
and fishermen on leisurely
cruises she was actually built
as a sub-chaser in the Brem
erton Ship Yards during the
First World War. During the
wars she was sold and used
for civilian purposes but was
re-built .and put back into
“a c t i v e duty the second
W orld W ar. This twice vet
eran, sleek and sturdy vessel
is now a familiar sight in
many Alaskan ports.
Ethel Westfall, a tall, arist
ocratic looking blonde is also
a good “sailor” who often
acts as engineer while hus
band Jack skippers the boat.
A good hunter, she has shot
her own Alaskan brown bear,
trapped beaver with her hus
band along the Taku River &
canned e r a b commercially
aboard their boat. She enjoys
“boat-keeping” and boat-liv
ing and feels that it is parti
cularly attractive and con
venient when vacation time
rolls around-for there,s
packing to be done nor re
servations to be made, just a
leisurely cruise with all the
comforts of home.
Probably one of the most
unique and interesting exper
iences the Westfalls have had
was that of operatesg a trading
post in Golovin, Alaska, an
Eskimo outpost on the Bering
Sea, ninety miles from Nome.
It happened that in 1943
when Jack had spent almost
twenty years in Juneau, he
took a job with Loman Com
mercial Co. in Nome. But a
year and a half later decided
to buy the trading post at
Golovin; a village that con
tained a hundred and thirty
five Eskimo people, a school,
a church and the trading post
-the only commercial out
let in the village. Here every
thing was sold from whale
sinew to high octane gas for
planes and furs were traded
for groceries and all other
needs.
At Golovin Ethel was in
charge of the weather obser
vation station; an impossible
task when the roaring Bering
Sea went on its annual ram
page and usually washing out
the equipment. But in normal
times her duties were many
and varied. Besides measuring
the pereipitation and wind
velocity, perhaps the most re
sponsible task was deter
mining the distance of vis
ability and estimating the
ceiling. Tins was done every1
thirty minutes and the flyers
depended on it for in that
country the weather often
cnanges appreciaoiy in twen
ty minutes. And since the
trading posts post office was
the distributing point for
seven villages, there was a
certain amount of air activity
in and out of Golovin.
During this time the Bethel
Raindeer Owners Association
decided to locate and hunt
wolves by “Sno-plane”-a
venture that Jack participated
in and which resulted in a
rugged, but interesting 970
mile trip, made alone, from
Fairbanks to the Coast, fol
lowing the Yukon to the vill
age of Russian Mission then
across to Kalskay and along
the Kuskokwin to Bethel and
out to the Coast. Apparently
it was a source of bewilder
ment to many along the Yu
kon for it operated with an air
plane motor and propellers
and ran on skiis-not ex
actly a familiar sight at that
time.
it seems fitting that the
Westfalls who enjoy the sea
so much should particularly
enjoy cooking and serving
sea-food. The recipe the
Westfalls gave us is one that
they have used and improved
upon for many years. But to
us it sounded like an exciting
new way to fix crab.
Baked Crab in Shell
Serves Six
3 to 4 cups of shredded legs
and body meat
1 tablespoon Worcestershire
sauce and dash of tobasco
sauce
1 cup chopped celery
1 large green pepper chopped
1 large onion chopped
6 medium sized diced pot
atoes
Vz cup milk
xk teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
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