SOCIAL NOTES
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— Homemaking —
Happenings About Town
—. Gardening —
By Betha Digrt#
Save Your Poinsettias
With Careful Handling
There is no need to let you:
Christmas poinsettia die. Instead
with proper care, it will bloon
next Christmas, and you can als<
start others from it
After the poinettia is througl
blooming this winter and it
leaves are yellow, put it where th<
air Is dry and the temperaturi
SO to 70 degrees. Give it no wate:
until May.
Bring it out then, cut it bad
to a height of six or eight inches
remove it from its pot, and picl
away as much of the old soil a
you easily can.
Re-pot in a container just largi
enough to hold the roots comfor
tably. Use a general purpose soi]
Place in a sunny iplace where thi
temperature is 60 to 70 degrees
Water sparingly at first and mor
freely as growth starts. Let n
more than three strong shoot
develop. When the container i
moderately filled with roots, trans
fer to a larger pot.
Place Outdoors
After the wtather is re all’
warm, you may sink the pot to it
rim in a sunny place outdoors. D
■ot remove the plant from the poi
' but fertilize regularly during the
, summer. In early August pinch
i the shoots or cut them back. Now
> let develop only a few strong ones
and remove all weak growth. Bring
i indoors before nights turn cold
5 and place in full sun.
J When the shoots are cut off it
i is easy to start new plants from
them. Just pot them and cover
with a glass and keep soil real
* wet
’ Probably the most important
^ thing in getting a <poinsettia to
* blossom is to give it a long night,
almost 12 hours of complete dark
i ness. This must be uninterrupted
* by even the briefest illumination.
* If a light is, turned on for only one
5 minute each night it will prevent
* blooming. Either grow your pom
; settias in a room not lighted at
5 night or else construct a light
5 proof cover of black cloth or dark
s paper for them. The critical pe
h riod is from Oct. 10 on.
Poinsettias are sensitive to tern
peratures below 60 degrees and tc
r drafts, dryness of'"soil, excessive
s wetness. Any of these condition*
a may cause the leaves to turn yel
; low and drop off.
It’s Easy to Make Gay
Christmas Card Mobile
CAROS
TO-EACK
ON HANGERS
WITH CLOTHESPINS
you toss your Christmas cards into a heap after a quick glance
sender’s name, you’re passing up a good chance for a highly
Christmas decoration.
how you can use them to {make an attractive mobile, put
cards on display and brighen mg up your room at the same
£ k® seen in the illustration above, the project is simplicity
t gather up a few wire co it hangers and paint or spray them
"hg gold. Paint a few dozen spring-type clothes jpins the same
' *
the hangers together as shown on the diagram with colorful
clip the cards to the horizontal sections as illustrated. Be
cards, back to back, at each spot so that no matter
card faces will always be in view,
with three hangers. A third tier can be add
more hangars at either end and center of the
Coblos Injured
In Car Accident
Two former residents of Kodiak,
Roy and Cassie Coble, were in
jured a week ago Thursday in a
four-car collision near Renton,
Washington.
According to word received here
by dose friends of the couple, Mr.
Coble has a broken leg and body
injuries. Mrs. Coble was even
more seriously injured, with both
legs broken, head, chest and other
injuries. They are both in the
Renton Hospital.
Our informant stated that Mrs.
Coble had been in a critical eon
ditiin, but that she is now slowly
improving. He added that he hop
ed the Cobles’ many friends will
send notes or card!;, especially to
Mrs Coble.
Bake Sale Today
The Liinnea Circle of the Com
munity Baptist Church Women’s
Society are having a Bake Sale
today at the Donnelley and Ache
son store. The sale will begin at
11 a.m. and continue until the
baked goods are sold. * Special
items for sale will be fruit cake,
chess tarts, Christmas cookies, and
popcorn balls.
Chases To Spend
Christmas Here
After spending the past several
mofiths at King Salmon, John and
Dorothy Chase returned to Kodiak
Tuesday.
They will go to San Francisco
soon after Christmas to visit their
son-in-law and daughter, Bob and
Nell Waage.
Following their stay in San
Francisco, the Chases will travel
to Ketchikan, Alaska where John
willi work for Maori Company.
On This and That
Not only will there be enter
tainment, food, and an exchange
of gifts, but prizes will be award
ed at the Kodiak Garden Club
annual Christmas party. Mrs. Hel
en Hall will be hostess for the
iparty Wednesday evening, Decem
ber 18 at her home.
Using the ^theme, - 'Holiday
Time”, each member will make
a Christmas arrangement, with
ipriaies being given for those judg
ed best.
Attention, knitters! Just heard
of an easy way to take kinks out
of yam that you want to use
again .... wind it around a glass
jar and dip the jar in warm water.
When the yarn dries, it is straight
and soft.... ready for knitting
again.
Now and then someone will re
mark, "It must be nice to own a
business and be your own boss"
.... About that time one feels
like offering the speaker the en
tire business, including the atten
dant eadsdhe® .1.. . . especially
when a letter comes from the In
ternal Revenue Service to ask if
the last quarterly return has been
made (one that had been made
more than three months ago).
Then begins the time-consuming
task of digging: through countless
files to get all the required data
for the reply. Check number,
amount, date mailed, date receiv
ed by IRS, numbers on face of
ch<sck (which you can’t possibly
read because they have very
thoroughly punched most of the
check full of tiny holes). Then
you look for the certified letter
receipt because you havte gone
through the whole thing before,,
and have learned to ALWAYS;
send returns that way, and you
try 'to decipher the fignature c
the person signing, and the dat
received.
About that time one is read
to offer someone a bonus to tak
away the whole business, fil
cabinets and all ... . especial]
tax returns and reports of al
kinds.
We usually don’t give any fre
advertising, but we will, give
word of praise to the (person ii
the Postal Department wh<
thought of the certified lette
system. Those return receipts ar<
fine things to have, especially
when the returns have been mad*
before the due date.
Anyway, its so nice to know lha
we aren’t the only ones tliat mak<
errors.... even our toss. In
•bernal Revenue Service, mtekes
them!
Mother Saves Tree
For Gl Dead 6 Years
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Cfl—Fo:
seven long years a Christmas tre<
has been standing at the Salvadoi
Lopez home here, waiting for ;
soldier boy who never will see it
Its needles, brown and brittle
still cling to the branches. Its gay
colorful ornaments are dusty. It;
limbs are shrouded with cobwebs
But Mrs. Lopez has no plans t<
take it down.
“Richard told me to save it,’
she tells visitors.
Richard was a corporal in Kore;
in 1950 wh*en Gen. MaeArthu
thought the war would be over b:
Christmas.
“Save my Christmas for me
Mom/’ he wrote. “I don’t wan
presents, just a Christmas tree.”
Homecoming Delayed
The Chinese Reds spoiled -pro
spects that Christmas for celebra
tions at home by U.N. troops, bu
Mrs. Lopez saved the tree.
Prospects for Richard becam<
darker when word arrived that hi
had been trapped with the Marine
in the Chosen Reservoir area, bu
brightened with the news that h<
had escaped uninjured.
“Mom, I'm coming bogne,” h<
wrote joyously in the early sum
mer of 1951.
The tree was then still sturd:
and green, although tnoih planted
in dirt or water.'It was waitinj
for Richard.
Then that July Richard drown
ed off Kobe, Japan, whiJle on th<
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f way home. It was; on the day that
e Mrs. Lopez received word of
death that she :first rioticed the':.
y leaves turning hrowh. But he had
e asked her to save the trcht attd
p save it she would.
y Special Shelter
J Now the tree is sheltered i*
its own home, the Christmas Tree
s House, erected by the Lopez family
l in 1953. To Mrs. Lope2 it is as
r much a part of her son as are thr
Bronze Star, the National Defense
p Medal, the Korean Service Medal,
, the divisional citation, the letters
' and the pictures showing a daxfc
s haired, bright eyed youth.
This year, for the seventh
straight year, the lights of the
[ tree will glow again on Christmas
; Eve and Christmas day.
TEENIE TEE CLOWN TO
ENTERTAIN AT XMAS PART*
Teenie the Clown and his do&
1 Weenie, will entertain the children
at the Navy Wives Christmas
» iparty December 15. The party will
be held at the Community Center
from 2 until 4 pm.
; Each member of the club is re
uested to bring a $1.00 gift for
1 her own child, and one dozes
■ cookies. -
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; PILLSBURY BETS ON
? TEEN-AGE COOKS
j Teen-agers may soon be turning
from rock-and-roll to cooking and
’ baking—rolling up their sleeves
to whip up a delicious batch of
i cookies instead of rolling up the
* rug for a hot jazz session.
r How come? It’s all due to a new
twist which Pillsbury Mills has just
, announced in its popular Grand
t National Bake-Off. This year, for
the first time, the famous cooking
and baking contest features a pro
gram especially designed for home
" economics students in high schools
t throughout the country.
For nine years now American
homemakers have been dreaming
i up new dishes and adapting ctaer
[ ished family recipes for a crack at
* Pillsbury’s Grand National prize
1 of $25,000. Now their teen-age sows
5 and daughters in home economics
classes can also participate—and
* there will be additional prizes for
* every high school.
The new student Bake-Off pro
f gram begins in February, 195B
I Under the guidance of their home
' economics teacher, students will
participate in preliminary Bake
- Offs to be held in each high school
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