APPROPRIATION FOR A.N S.
It has been announced by the Territorial
Department of Health that Confess has
A: proved an amendment to the suiol oriental
appropriation act at the snecial session
of Con'-re S3 in the amount of )l7 5,000.00
for the hospitalization of A -ska Hntive
S'rvice beneficiaries at Surard S-.nator
ium.
T' 't these funds are novr available to
hospitalize additional atients cones as
gocd news to all Alaskans for it is an
other indication of the support the Fed
eral. Government is giving to the efforts
of the Alaska native Service and the Ter
ritorial Department of Health to meet
some of the over-rrhelning problems facing
Alaska,
The A.TT.3. has already started negotia
tions mith the I.'ethodist Church "omen,
on- rators of the Semard Sar.atoriur., for
e contract to hospitalize A.F.S, bene
ficiaries immediately,- At a conference ]
attended by Hr. Foster, Dr. Albrecht, Dr.
Korard Rufus, I'edical Director of the
A ”.3. , and Dr. Donald HcHininy, Tubercu
losis Consultant Department of "ealth, a
hospital and hospitalization program mas
adopted. The most urgent tuberculosis
problem cases from the mainland of Alaska
mill be hospitalized at Semard as soon
as details and transportation, can be ar
ranged ar.fi .he Sanatorium is able to ob
tain personnel to replace those released
mhen hospital activities were curtailed
last October.
A NEW flour
A ne" sreet potato flour has beer, develor-j
ed by the Alabama Experiment Station and
named Alamalt. This is a fully cooked
flour and differs in rroperties ar.d uses
from thetfldur made from dehydrated .sreet
potatoes.
Alamalt is made by baking sreetpotatoes,
peeling, pulping, and then drying, toast
ing and finally grinding the ulp. 3t is
light ycllo-" In color but mhen moistened
turns to a deer ora;, e bronn. Cakes,
muffins and soft cookies ade rith’iit do
not dry out ran idly because the flour
absorbs and holds moisture rail. .
Alamalt has been found especial1 ~T good .
for fruit cakes, layer cakes, ‘•■iioftthern
brom bread, cookies, biscuits, uffi. s,
icirr.s ar.d pies—in tests at the Alabama
Scat ion. In cakes it ay be used to re
place nart of the eggs, butter and sugar
at considerable saving in cost. ’ ith im
provement in flavor and texture. Cakes
prepared this ray have a rich creamy fla
vor, fine texture and grain, and elusti- j
city. They hold moisture about t'-ioe as
lour as lair, cakes.-. Light color'd cokes
rale rrith Ala;‘.alt have'a clear orange
yello- color.
Ioir cs to rkieh AT anaIt is added are •smooth
and- creany in texture and retain freshness
much longer than other icings.
Tho station finds that off-grade potatoes
rake just.- as satisfactory a product as
i'o. 1 rotatoes, provided they are sound and
re 11 cured. This is of importance to
Kroner”?, shir pars and manufacturers.
Other uses for Alar-alt., suggested by the
Station, are in prefixed rie bases for
ir.'stitutional use — iv.oludin,;, a nix of
pumpkin dnd sroetpotatoe, -in ire ere or. to
rive a rich color and caronel flavor, and
in milk shakes
HCSPITAL CONS JRUCTION
Delogato Bartlett has introduced a bill
which if enacted would guarantee for the
next four years a minimum of 1250,000
for hospital construction in the Territory.
Under the "hospital Survey:and Construc
tion Act" of 1946 a sum of )75,000,000
a year ras authorized for a reriod^of five
years to he ailoted on a regulation per
centage basis to the States and it3 ter
ritories for building and operation of
hos- -'tals. Under the allotment system
Alaska rould receive )4i,400 a year*
delegate Uartlett’s measure placos a floor
on the minimum amount to be received by
any state or territory at 1250,000.
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NEW INSECTICIDE
KITCAC" TLC10CYCL0 S'JZZ,
sounds good enough to eat, but, don't let's
try it. And, lot us call it by its trade
■ name, TC. This is a com arat ivel'y nor
chemical rhich scans to be in serious com
petition *-ith DDT, horevor,. they have hit
a Tcomronise in many "laces and are rork
in£ together.
,BEC is a.ner insecticide "i.th a very epra
plicated chemical .ake-u^. It is said to
hold a three ray runCh, in that it is
' deadly as a contact poison, As equally
! lethal as a stomach poison, and is a
riororful fumigant,- being a poison gas to
imany insects. . t .
. The r.art rhieL rill interest, the Alaska
• farmer is the.fact that, it is a.sure knock
out for rire.roms and root maggots. A
Pennsylvania farmer rritcs.that he corplo
. toly eradicatedVire -orns in a potato
field at a cost of from )5.0C'to >6 ,00
per acre, including'both chemical -and
labor. (Pro- the -Dptone ion “ervicoV
C.-cortunity merely knocks. T natation
l icks the door in.