SOCIAL NOTES
— Homemaking —
Happenings About Town
— Gardening —
By Bet ha Digrec
Cellist May Come
To Kodiak Later
There is a possibility that Aldo
Parisot, Brazilian cellist, will be
able to appear in Kodiak, before
completing his tour in Alaska with
the Music Trails series.
Parisot’s concert, scheduled here
for last Saturday evening, was
hastily cancelled on the morning
of the event due to his sudden
illness.
Should Parisot not be able to
schedule Kodiak, another artist
will be supplied to round out the
four concerts of the current
Alaska Music Trails series. Sea,son
pass holders will be notified as
soon as practicable of the date of
the postponed concert.
Of This And That
Attention ... all Business and
Professional Women’s Club Mem
bers . . . make your dinner reser
vation for Monday evening before
noon today with Lila Lester at
phone 2146 . . . There will be ini
tiation of new members in addition
to the program . . .
If anyone has a stray hunk of
Kodiak Bear around the house, we
can tell you how to dispose of
it ... The following letter was re
cently rt>ceived by Postmaster
Briggs, who turned it over to Art
Brooks, Chamber of Commerce
Secretary, for action: “Dear Post
master, Will you send me a post
age stamp? And if you can, will
you send me a piece of Kodiak
Bear? Thank you.” The letter was
sent by a youngster in Chenango
Forks, N. Y. . . . Evidently New
York parents, and teachers need
further education so that they can
teach the children that Alaska
really isn’t a foreign country.
Surely no one can blame the
youngsters for their lack of know
ledge . . .
There is a brighter side to the
picture, tho, as shown by a letter
we had a few days ago from a
school boy in Dayton, Ohio who
wrote, ‘‘Dear Sirs, I am a Fourth
Grade student at Harmon School
and we are studying about Alaska
and I thought I would write to
you. If you could send me a copy
of your newspaper I would be very
grateful. If we could vote we
would vote for you to be the forty
ninth star on the American flag.
Sincerely, Greg Bonner.” Perhaps
we would get quicker action on
Statehood if we referred it to the
school children, rather than to the
slower-thinking, slower-acting poli
ticians in Washington, D C. . . .
Greg deserves a compliment, too,
for his neat looking letter and his
legible handwriting ...
Happy Birthday wishes were in
order Monday for Leon (Ole)
Johnson ... and for Tenora Hock
ney and Rupert Gurley on Tues
day . . . Tenora and Rupert were
honored at a birthday dinner party
at the Montmartre Tuesday even
ing, with Ed Rockney and Eddie
RECIPE OF THE WEEK
Alaska Cherry Pie Contest Champ
Carol Ann Buzby, 16, Fairbanks, who baked
Alaskan championship, admires her cherry pie baked in an
Admiral electric range. Here is her winning recipe:
Cherry Pie
2 (16 oz.) cans red tart
cherries, drained
(3 cups)
1/4 cup cherry juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar*
3 tablespoons cornstarch
4 drops red food coloring
1 tablespoon butter
In saucepan, mix salt, sugar, cornstarch and cherry juice. Cook
until mixture begins to boil vigorously. Add cherries, stirring
well; boil 2 or 3 minutes. Remove from heat, add food coloring
and butter. Cool while preparing crust by placing saucepan in
bowl of cold water. Pour into 9" pastry-lined pie pan, cover with
lattice top, sealing edges by crimping with fingers. Bake in 450°
oven for 10 minutes, reduce heat to 375° and bake 15 minutes
longer or until golden brown. Remove from oven and cool for
2 hours. Serve.
•If frozen cherries are used, reduce sugar to 1/2 cup.
Crust
1-1/2 cups sifted all-purpose 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
flour 7 to 8 tablespoons cold
1/2 teaspoon salt water
Mix salt with flour in a mixing bowl. With blender, cut shorten
ing into flour until mixture is in even bits no larger than peas.
Sprinkle water over flour by tablespoonfuls, tossing with fork
until just enough water has been added so that you can pat the
dough lightly together to form a ball. Handle as little as possible
and do not knead. Divide into 2 balls, one slightly larger than the
other. Roll the larger one for the bottom crust, on a floured pastry
cloth to an inch larger than pie pan. Line pan with dough and trim
«venly; roll remaining pastry and cut in strips with lattice cutter.
and Grace Pecore helping them
celebrate the occasion . . .
Why prepare ftmch at home to
day? Just take the entire family
to the Emblem Club luncheon at
the Elks Hall for some of that
good food prepared by Anna
Mueller . . . You can save some
baking time,, too, by buying a pie
or cake at the bake sale . . .
Lunch will be served from 11 am
until 2 pm, and the public is cor
dialy invited . . .
Clam chowder . . .steamed
clams . . . baked clams ... all the
clams one could eat. That’s what
we found at the Montmartre^ Mon
day at their FREE clam bake . .'.
mighty tasty food; prepared by
Chef McDowell ...
Vera Pierce, who has been in
Washington, Oregon and California
since early last May, returned to
Kodiak Sunday . . . Vera is now
employed as cashier at Sport
land . . .
We were relieved to learn that
A. L. Sienko was paying our office
a friendly visit instead of an
official one ... he is from the
Anchorage office of the Internal
Revenue Service, and spent the
past week in Kodiak on business
... We are happy to report that
all IRS personnel are NOT in
human, as many people may
think . . . many of them are
mighty nice and helpful . . . like
Mr. Sienko . . .
GRANDMOTHERS CLUB
SPONSOR SMORGASBORD
The Kodiak Grandmothers Club
is sponsoring a Smorgasbord, to be
held at 7 pm Saturdav. March 22,
at the Civil Service Club.
The Smorgasbord, which will be
open to the public, will feature
home cooking. There will also be
music for dancing.
Tickets are $2.50 each. For re
servations, call the Civil Service
Club, 233, \Vilma Shaw, 326 or
Ruth Bushaw at 628 not later than
noon Thursday, March 20.
HOW CAN I??????
Q. How can I remove white
stains on furniture caused by
water and heat?
A. Mix a half-and-half solution
of turpentine and linseed oil, dip
a cloth in it, and rub the spot. Or,
cover the spots with camphorated
oil for ten minutes, then rub dry
with a soft cloth. Still another
method is to cover the stains with
mineral oil and let it stay for a
couple of days before polishing
it with a cloth.
EXPERTS RECOMMEND
USE OF VERMICULITE
Northwest garden authorities
are recommending vermiculite
more and more as a soil condi
tioner.
Vermiculite ;s a lightweight
sterile mineral which loosens soil,
holds moisture.
With spring gardening time
here, the following list of the
most popular uses of vermiculite
will be helpful to the Northwest
home gardner:
SOIL CONDITIONING—If you
have heavy garden soil, spade in
vermiculite to create air channels
and enable plant roots to penetrate
the soil. If soil is sandy, vermicu
lite will give it body, hold the mois
ture.
NEW LAWNS—Work vermicu
lite into the seed bed, then use it
as a top dressing to increase and
hasten generation, and to protect
the lawn from drying out.
PLANTING VEGETABLES,
FLOWERS—Instead of covering
your seeds with dirt, use vermicu
lite. The soil over the seeds will
not crust, the moisture will be re
tained and the seeds will germin
ate faster, root better.
STARTING SEEDS IN FLATS
—Seeds started in vermiculite
germinate better. Being sterile,
vermiculite assures against losses
caused by soil-borne plant diseases,
including damping-off. Mixed half
and-half with soil, no additional
feeding is required up to the time
of transplanting.
ROOT CUTTINGS—Easily start
ed in vermiculite. Once the root
system is developed, cuttings can
be easily lifted and transplanted
without damage to the tiny roots.
TRANSPLANTING — Vermicu
lite worked into the soil before
transplanting shrubs or trees per
mits the roots to branch out and
penetrate deep into the ground.
Used as a mulch around shrubs
and plants it will hold the moist
ture this summer—protect against
the cold next winter.
Vermiculite costs little to use.
For example, soil conditioning
costs from 1 to 2Vz cents a square
foot, depending on rate of applica
tion. It is available at practically
all hardware, garden, feed and
seed stores throughout the North
west.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all our friend*
for their sympathy and assistance
during our recent bereavement
(s) The Olsen Family
NOTICE
If you can not get us on phone
3131. call 4303 for oil dedvery. Of
fice hours, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Mon
day through Thursday, 1 p.m. t® J
p.m. Friday.
THOMPSON TRANSFER
NOTICE
The Christian Science Society
in the Chapel Annex on the Base,
of Kodiak holds services & Sun
day School every Sunday at 11 am
Mirror Classified Ads get fast
results.
ART WALDRON,
Republican Candidate
for
Territorial Legislature,
suggests:
“A little good sound busi
ness thinking mixed in with
Juneau politics may be just
what we need.”
Pd. adv.
Dog House
Now Open
6 a.m. To 2 a.m.
Breakfast Served All Hours
Soft ice cream
Try our Sloppy Joe's
'P’UUttfat Stop
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Artificial flower Wreathes,
Sprays and Crosses
Hours — 9 to 6 — Week days 10 — 8 — Fridays
Phone 2631
Emblem Club
Luncheon & Bake Sale
10 a.m. To 2 p.m.
TODAY
Elks Hall
Adults: SI.50 Children: 75*
The Public Is Invited