Demos Make Fast Work
Of Ketckikan Meeting
Smoothness of action and un
nimity of opinion were charac
5 ristic of the Democratic con
e ntion at Ketchikan last week,
E. Huntley, delegate from
-.a area, reported upon his re
turn. Mr. Huntley said every
thing “went so well, we actually
finished our business about 12
hours earlier than we’d planned.”
Joseph Loyer of Palmer
also was a delegate at the ter
ritorial convention. Follow
ing his return to Palmer, and
at the request of party heads,
Mr. Loyer filed for the ter
ritorial House of Representa
tives. It is his first bid for a
political office.'
Mr. Huntley reported that the
Democrats pasased a resolution
endorsing the re-appointment of
Governor Ernest Gruening,
whose term in office expires in
March. The convention endorsed
Governor Gruening through a
roll call vote. This particular ac
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tion resulted in the only dis
sension of the entire meeting,
for three delegates from south
eastern Alaska walked out of the
convention hall when they failed
to kill the resolution before it
reached a vote.
The six territorial delegates to
the national convention were in
structed to support President
Harry Truman for the 1948
presidency nomination. Alaska
was the first of the states and
territories to go on record in
favor of President Truman. Alas
ka was also the first to endorse
Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, thus
leading Governor Gruening to
comment, “As Alaska goes, so
goes the nation.”
In other business the Demo
crats decried the Congressional
plan to lease fish traps on a 15
year basis, asking that the peo
ple of the territory be allowed
an expression of opinion first.
The fish-trap question is to come
before Alaskans as a referendum
on the fall ballot.
A three-point tax program was
proposed, consisting of an income
tax, business tax, and limited
property tax. The delegates ex
pressed themselves in opposi
tion to the territorial sales tax.
The convention also went on
record as favoring an amend
ment to the Jones act to permit
Canadian ships to serve Alaska,
called for improvement of Alas
kan housing conditions, election
of the territory’s governor pend
ing statehood and the passage
of the municipal airport act.
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A habit of Eskimos that Out
siders often regard as a sign of
their queerness is their liking
for fat as a delicacy. Many per
sons who come to live in Alaska,
however, discover that they, too,
have an increased taste for fat.
Experienced Alaskans save
and use every scrap of fat they
get. Fat from all Alaskan game
is much too useful to be wasted.
Bear fat is the most valuable in
cooking, because of its sweet
nutlike flavor and low melting
point. Tallow from moose, cari
bou, sheep and goat is quite brit
tle when cool.
All the tallows can be saved
and used, even for pastries, if
they are carefully rendered,
strained and mixed with equal,
or one and a half times their
volume of bear grease. This mix
ture may be successfully substi
tuted in any recipe calling for
lard or vegetable shortening.
Cooks who use these fats like
to keep several grades for dif
ferent uses. Pastry with sheep
or goat tallow in the fat is good
for meat pies and biscuits.
Straight bear fat is best for
sweet pies, but not necessary.
Even when the weather is cold
enough to hang out bear or any
other game in the meat house, it
is advisable to trim off every pos
sible shred of fat, as the fat is
first to take on a strong flavor,
that in turn spreads to the meat.
As soon as it is trimmed the fat
should be cut into small cubes
and rendered out in a iarge iron
kettle with water in the bottom.
The cook stove oven is a good
place for rendering fat.
If the hot fat is strained into
sterile fruit jars and filled to
overflowing and sealed, it will
keep fresh longer. The jars
should be stored where it is cold
and out of the sunlight. The
cracklings should never be
thrown away, for they make a
delicious flavoring for a batch
of beans, or as an addition to
stew made with lean meat.
Below is a method of making
extra-flaky pie crust for a nine
inch pie using bear-grease and
tallow mixture. (You can blend
this with fingers, chilling not
necessary.)
1 Vz cups flour
Vz teaspoon salt
Vz cup shortening
4-5 tablespoons cold water.
Sift salt and flour together,
mix shortening coarsely. Set
aside a little less than a third of
this mixture in a separate dish.
Add water to main mixture and
divide into two parts. Roll oul
lower crust, sprinkle on some of
i dry crumbs mixture, fold and
roll again. Repeat three or four
times. Save half of crumbs for
upper crust, and roll and fold
alternately in same way.
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Wasilla Superintendent
Plans Further Study
WASILLA—James Pendleton,
superintendent of schools at
Wasilla, has announced that he
is not a candidate for reappoint
ment to his present position. Mr.
Pendleton, who has been in the
Wasilla school system for six
years, plans to go Outside next
year for further study.
He said it was his hope to
spend a year working on his
master’s degree. At the end of
that time he expects to return to
Alaska, but he does not plan to
teach again in Wasilla.
GOING, GOING GONE
Saturday’s the last last-chance
for purchase of 1948 vehicle li
censes before the penalty dead
line. Lou Henke has enlisted the
help of Mrs. Henke that day, in
anticipation of a last-minute
rush. He’ll keep the usual day
time office hours in addition to
the 7 to 9 p.m. evening stint.
Any motorist caught driving
after Jan. 31 without new license
plates may be severely fined, he
warned.
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