SOCIAL NOTES
— Homemaking _
Happenings About Town
— Gardening —
Of This and That
By BETHA DIGREE
Bill (William) Howard was real
ly pleased when he came home last
Saturday, July 25„ after spending
a week at the Boy Scout camp on
the Naval Station. It was Bill’s
thirteenth birthday, so he decided
to spend it with his parents, Ldcr.
and Mrs. John L. Howard, and his
two younger sisters. Mrs. Howard
had ordered a special birthday
cake for Bill, which featured the
Boy Scouts motif — complete with
tents and campfires. Following the
birthday festivities, Bill returned
to camp for another week of Boy
Scout activities . . .
Another happy person last week
end was Mrs. Beulah Short, who
is employed at Knudsen's Kodiak
Outfitters store . . . Her sister,
Mrs. Ronald Mays of Anchorage,
and daughter spent the weekend
with Beulah and her daughter. The
sisters last saw each other two
years ago . . .
At last we have found someone
who agrees that more trees sho$d
be planted in Kodiak! Not only
agrees, but is eager and willing to
drive out into the countryside and
dig them up... then replant them
and give them tender, loving care
,. . Grace Healy is very proud of
her beautiful birch tree that she
worked so hard to dig while the
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hot sunshine beat down on her,
and the insects had a field day.
“It was worth every bit of work,”
she explained, “And I want sev
eral more.” We are pleased with
our own birch with a double trunk,
and only hope t|iat the song birds
and magpies will utilize it for nest
ing and resting. . .
“We are really impressed with
Alaska,” and “We especially like
Kodiak,” commented Dr. and Mrs.
A. P. Desautels of Pittsfield, Mass.
Dr. and Mrs. Desautels have been
visiting their daughter, Joan, and
her husband, Gus Gorton, the past
two weeks . . .
Ed Rockney
Goes Outside
Ed Rockney, accompanied by
granddaughter Terry, left yester
day for Portland, Oregon, where
he will spend a month with son
Tommy and family.
Rockney will visit other rela
tives in Oregon and Minnesota
while Outside. He plans to be gone
several months.
Terry, who is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Rockney of
Portland, has been visiting her
grandparents the past month.
The first 18-hole golf course in
the tj.Sl was opened for play in
1893 at lyheaton, III
By JANE ASHLEY
Chocolate flavored milk favorites are popular with most chil
dren. Grownups not only like them too, but the added food value
from milk and a fortified chocolate flavored syrup gives every
reason to enjoy these same treats at home.
Chocolate Nut Sundae
2 scoops ice cream
2 tablespoons Bosco chocolate
flavored syrup
Sweetened whipped cream
Chopped nuts
Cherries
Put two scoops of ice cream in
serving dish. Pour on Bosco
syrup. Add a dollop of whipped
cream; sprinkle on nut§; top
with a cherry. Makes 1 serving.
Allow 1 quart ice cream for six
servings.
Chocolate Ice Cream Soda
1 tablespoon Bosco
2 tablespoons milk
% cup carbonated water
2 scoops ice cream
Pour Bosco and milk into s
tall glass; mix until well blehdea.
Slowly add about one-half the
carbonated water or f^l glass
about % full, using a thin stream
from a carbonated beverage dis
penser. Stir until well mixed.
Float in the lot cream; stirring
slightly. Slowly fill glass to brim.
With a little practice you'll get a
high foam on each giaes with no
spilling. Makes 1 soda.
Banana Split
1 banana
3 scoops ice cream
2 tablespoons Bosco chocolate
flavored syrup
2 tablespoons corn syrup
Chopped nuts
Whipped cream, evaporated or
dry milk
Cherries
Peel banana, slice \enStllwis®
into halves. Place halves cut side
up, side by side in a semi-circular
salad plate or bone dish. Use a
large deep saucer if bone dishes
are not available. Place scoops
of ice cream side by side in the
center on top of banana halves.
Pour corn syrup over center
scoop of iee cream and Bosco
syrup over other two scoops.
Top with whipped cream, not*
and cherries. Makes L.
Relatives Visit
Breckberg Family
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Davis,
Douglass, Kansas, and Mr. and
Mrs. Lowell Mason of Belle Plaine,
Kansas, are house guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Breckberg.
Mr. Davis is Mrs. Breckberg’s
father and the Masons’ are her
aunt and uncle. The visitors plan
to spend at least two weeks In
Kodiak.
Cocktail Party '
Honors Jacobys’
A cpcktail party honoring Capt.
and Mrs. Raymond Jacoby was
hosted Sunday by Adm. and Mrs.
Arnold McKechnie at their quar
ters on the Naval Station.
Guests at the affair, a farewell
party for the Jacobys’, who left
for New Orleans on Tuesday morn
ing, included several townspeople
and naval personnel.
Potluck Dinner
Planned By Club
A potluck dinner is planned for
•the next meeting of the Coast
Guard Junior Wives Club, begin
ning at 7:30 p.m., August 4, at the
home of Mrs. Cheever.
Anyone wishing to attend, but
without transportation, is asekd
to phone Mrs. Cheever at 6892 in
town and Mrs. Vail, phone 543 on
the Base. Each is asked to bring
a covered dish.
Mrs. Cheever resides at 1288
Maple Street, in the Aleutian
Homes area.
Mr. & Mrs. Sorum
Vacation Outside
Leaving today, Mrs. Mary Sorum,
cashier at the Bank of Kodiak,
will join her husband, Lester, in
Seattle. Lester, who is employed
on the Naval Station ,left for Seat
tle a week ago.
They will visit Mrs. Sorum’s
son, Robert Lear, and his family
in Anaconda, Montana, while Out
side.
Dinner Party Held
For Group Leaving
A dinner party in their honor
was held for Mr. and Mrs. George
Ellensick, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Vinnick
and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Norris, at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Jackson. Vera Pierce was in at
tendance.
The Ellensicks and Vinnicks are
from Connecticut and Norris’ from
Florida. Mr. Norris is a nephew
of Mrs. Jackson. All three men
are attached to the Coast Guard
Cutter Bittersweet, and leave for
duty elsewhere.
More Beekeeping
Being Tried Now
More people are trying beekeep
ing in Alaska these days, if letters
of inquiry to the University of
Alaska Agricultural Extension Ser
vice are any indication.
Honeybees assist in the pollina
tion of small fruits, such as crab
apples, raspberries, and bush cher
ries. “Anyone considering grow
ing small fruits and those interest
ed in seed production of legumes
such as red clover can benefit
from having several hives of
honey bees to supplement the wild
bee population,” said Dr. Richard
H. Washburn, entomologist at the
Universitys’ Agricultural Experi
ment Station.
• Dr. Washburn said that large
scale prospects for beekeeping
in Alaska are not too favorable
due to climatic conditions. Bees
can be overwintered, but most
beekeepers kill off bees in the
fall and import packages in the
spring. “It would require most of
the honey produced to maintain
the hives from frost in the fall
until pollen and nectar sources
are first available in the spring,”
the entomologist said.
On a smaller scale, however,
honey production “is worthwhile,”
Dr. Washburn said. “There is al
ways a demand for a limited
amount of high quality honey.” He
explained that except for the
bumlebees, many of our wild bees
are found mainly in the spring
and are not available for pollina
tion when needed. As more fields
are cleared and enlarged and
stump rows eliminated, favorable
sites for wild bee nesting become
less each year.
“Alaskan honey is of excellent
quaity and rather viscous, thoygh
not strong flavored. No unfavor
able comment has ever been made
by anyone who has sampled it. It
also makes an excellent mead for
those interested. The maximum
yield per hive thus far has been
about 100 pounds of extracted
honey with the average consider
ably less. One beekeeeper’s year
ly average has ranged from 30 to
100 pounds per hive over a 10
year period.”
“SOCIAL DIET” FOR WEIGHT
REDUCTION DESCRIBED
CHICAGO — You can diet and
your friends don't even have to
know about it, a New York phy
sician said recently.
A “social" diet—in which you
eat normally with only a few mod
ifications—was described Dr. Mil
ton ploiz in the current (July 25)
Journal of the American Medical
Association.
The modifications include the
following:
—Not more than one slice of
bread is to be eaten at any meal.
—At breakfast, cereal or one
slice of toast—not both—may be
eatenL
—Variety can be added to the
lean meat, green vegetable routine
at dinner by small portions of rice,
noodles, creacked wheat, or spa
ghetti, a small baked potato, or
portions of peas or lima beans.
—No gravies are to’ be added to
food.
—Portions of everything should
be reduced by about one-quarter,
and “seconds” are not to be taken.
—Desserts should consist of one
portion of fresh fruit, one ounce
of any suitable cheese, or a small
slice of angel food cake.
On this routine, almost every
determined patient will lose
weight, Dr. Poltz said. In 100 suc
cessive patients, this routine re
sulted in a reduction of about
1,400 calories a day, he said, add
ing, “In many instances, the pa
tient’s friends—and sometimes his
family—did not know that he was
on a diet."
Dr. Poltz noted that the dietary
management of obesity “is evolv
ing today in much the same way
as that of diabetes some 20 years
ago.”
In the treatment of diabetes,
the use of highly artificial diets
with special preparation, with
special or even exotically prepared
dietetic foods, and food substi
tutes has been superseded by diets
resembling normal diets as closely
as possible.
A similar evolution is taking
place in the management of obe
sity; artificial and complicated
routines are being replaced by
those which throw less burden on
the patient’s family and which
enable the patient to be a more
acceptable member of society.
Diets cannot be prescribed for
a short time, Dr. Plotz said. The
dieter must realize that he will
have to change his eating habits
for a long time—perhaps for life.
The dieter at first may need the
help of a drug in suppressing his
appetite. When newer eating hab
its are well established, the sup
portive medicine can often be
withdrawn. %,
Dr. Poltz is associated with the
State University of New York,
Medical Center at New York, and
Kings County and Goldwater Me
morial Hospitals.
- The human race is mysterious,
partly because of the number of
people who say One thiftg an<t
mean another.
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whose ambition is to be as suc
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the physical attributes and now
the role to give the same advan*
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Marlene skyrocketed to fame im
the film, “The Blue AngeL** May
re-enacts the same role in a re
make of the picture..
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