SOCIAL NOTES
— Homemaking —
Happenings' About Town
— Gardening —
Of This And That
By Betha Dfgree
How did the change in the new
postal rates go?
“Fine,” says Acting Postmaster
Bill Lamme. “With all the splen
did publicity about the change it
seems 99% of the patrons were
Teady for it. There were a few
surprising and amusing features.
Despite the ordering of special
stamp stocks and Base post office
ran out of 1 cent stamps in the
first few days and the town post
office ran out of 4 cents. But
both have new supplies now.
“For some odd reason a lot of
people began putting 8 cents on
airmail, although 8 cents had nev
er been mentioned. And people
are still using airmail envelopes
without putting airmail postage
on them. But the same ones who
used to put a 3 cent stamp on
them did start putting 4 cent
stamps on them! As airmail enve
lopes must have airmail postage
no matter where they are mailed
to, such letters continue to be sent
on postage due which does delay
them on the receiving end.
“And speaking of adding stamps
when placing more than one on an
article, any stamp partly hid
den cannot be counted, for obvious
reasons. One patron seemed to
like the effect of putting one
cent stamps over half the old air
mail sixes on a whole handful of
letters.
“We still have the same trouble
with people mailing letters to
foreign countries. While Canada
and Mexico airmail and first class
were raised a cent each to con
form with ours, the 15 cent a
half-ounce to Europe, the 10
cents a half-ounce to South Amer
ica and the 25-cents a half-ounce
to Asian countries remains the
same.
But the rates are for a half
ounce, and patrons should have
the weight checked at the window.
Also, so many times they forget
fully put one of our. regular air
mail stamps on a foreign letter
foreign mail cannot be sent post
age due. So we return the letter
to the sender, but too often there
is no return address and the letter
must go to the dead letter office,
unless we can guess who could be
writing to Gertie Pilllow in Malta!
Because of our volume of foreign
mail there is not a day goes by
without wrong postage showing
up on several letters.
As for amusing things, that old
joke about what time does the
midnight train leave? got its postal
counterpart when a lady asked us
“How much does a six cent stamp
cost now?’
“But the prize goes to the cus
tomer who mailed three airmail
letters at one time. He put three
of the old 6 cent airmail stamps
on each. Then took a 3 cent stamp
Recipe Of The Week
Bice Consumer Service
Piggy Bank Franks ‘n’ Rice
You ca^ “put on the dog” with
this “hot dog” casserole. That is,
this is a dressed up way to use
convenient and savory frank
furters. This is a casserole
recipe so it’s made ahead, ready
1 for the oven. The cheese and
slices of frankfurters make an
interesting decoration over the
top. Wonderfully inexpensive
rice and slices of onion accent
the frankfurter flavor, and the
mushroom soup gives the cas
serole a tempting and creamy
texture.
INGREDIENTS:
V2 to 1 lb. frankfurters
3 tablespoons cooking fat
2 cups thinly sliced onions
1 cup uncooked white rice
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups water ,
V% teaspoon black pepper
1, 10*2 oz. can mushroom soup
1 cup water
4 to 5 slices American cheese
(about % lb.)
METHOD: Sli<;e frankfurters
into 1 to \Vz inch pieces. Make
slantwise cuts for a more inter
esting shape. Melt the cooking
. fat in a skillet. Add the onions
and frankfurters. Keep out some
of the frankfurters to decorate
the top. Cook until the onions
are tender and the frankfurters
are browned.
While the frankfurters cook, put
the rice, salt and water in a 2
quart saucepan. Bring to a vig
orous boil. Cover. Turn the heat
down low. Simmer over this
low heat 14 minutes. Remove
the saucepan from the heat but
leave the lid on 10 minutes.
After the rice cooks, stir in the
pepper, mushroom soup and
water. Stir into the frankfurter
mixture. Spread over a greased
shallow baking dish holding at
least 5 cups. Cut the cheese into
triangular pieces. Arrange the
cheese and the remaining un
cooked slices of frankfurters in
an interesting design over the
top. Cover and store in the ‘re*-,
frigerator until mealtime.
Remove baking dish from re
frigerator and allow to come to
room tempez^tqi$u Broil until
hot through and until the cheese
is browned. Serve immediately.
This recipe makes 5 to 6 gen
erous servings.
and snipped it Into thirds, aiu
carefully put one-third on each o
the letters, hoping Jto make seven
“Needless to say, ;v the letter;
were dispatched postage due on<
cent each.
The necessity for contributinj
to the Cancer Crusade w a;
brought out by the death of Bil
Fitzgerald this week.... Bill wa:
a victim of that disease that kill;
so many each year_Many of u:
have lost loved ones to cancer...
an agonizingly painful death ir
most cases... So let’s each oper
our hearts and pursestrings auc
contribute as much as possible..
even pennies will help swell the
fund.... DROP A COIN IN THE
CANCER CRUSADE COLLEC
TIGN CANS....
There is dog trouble in towr
again-even worse than usual.
.. and many are now being pick
ed up-Several, no doubt wil
not live to roam the streets...
The Chief of Police tells us thai
many people move and leave theii
pets to fend for themselves_he
urges that anyone not able to fine
a home for a pet when leaving
call the dog-catcher instead 01
leaving them without a home anc
food- Then there are thos<
dogs that are traffic hazards...
chasing cars-others snap anc
snarl at children and grown-up
alike-often biting.. .’. We hac
a nasty one snapping when w<
tried to chase it out of our owi
yard-Packs tear through towr
in pursuit of a female_the nei
result is that the owners that d<
try to control their dogs to i
great extent are penalized for the
carelessness of others, and manj
quiet, inoffensive pets must suf
fer the indignity of being tied...
so many dogs are well-trained
minding their own business, bul
they, too, must be restrained
from leading a normal life...
Chief Vickery also informed uf
that the dogcatcher will pick ui
all dogs running lose... and he
added a special word of warning
to owners of female dogs that arc
the cause of packs forming.... he
warns that they must be kept a1
If the Editor and Publisher oi
the Kodiak Mirror doesn’t get out
of the hospital soon, his wife
might easily be tempted to sell out
lock, stock and newsprint for a
low price-we are grateful for
the loyalty and dependability ol
our employees- without them
there would be no paper this week
- Of course, there are some
that would say, “That would be
good”.... but we will do our
best
Summer Short Cuts
-By Betty Barclay—..
JF you find your “spring” cleaning
x is stretching through into sum
mer, speed up the e-leaning of alum
inum doors and
windows with
S.O.S. — the
sudsy oval
scouring pad.
• * *
And don’t for
get to clean the
stove the sim
ple way. A soap
tilled scouring
pad is excellent
for cleaning ovens, racks, grates,
and broilers.
Have you tried scrubbing new
potatoes with one of those little
plastic mesh balls? Good, too, for
cleaning all root vegetables.
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‘ Cook-out days are here, the sea
son for transporting cooking
equipment, coffee; pots, $nd fry
for campfire cooking. Be
to take along a couple, of.
oval seoartag pada to sako the
[ Preston Paint!""
■ Is Displayed Here
5 5 * • *• : - •
> Now on display at the Kodiak
Insurance'* and Building Corpora
tion office is an oil painting by
Mrs. Eudora Preston, one of
1 Alaska’s best-known artists.
5 The painting is the first Mrs.
I Preston has done pertaining to
> the fishing industry, and shows the
> hauling aboard of crab onto the
> “Tippy” before an oncoming
storm. Her oils of the interior and
i the Arctic coast have captured the
i feeling of those areas, as does this
l one of the Kodiak area.
Mrs. Preston has exhibited in
; Fairbanks, Anchorage, Juneau,
' Ketchikan, Pasadena, St. Augus
tina, Fla., New York, and Wash
ington, D. C., as well as Los An
geles. Eudora Preston is the only
woman who has ever been invited
to exhibit in the Los Angeles
Tower Gallery.
One of her oils, “Story Time” is
owned by President Eisenhower
and now hangs in the White
House. Others hang in KEN I Stu
dio at Anchorage; the University
of Alaska; both banks in Fair
banks each own two, and many
other business firms in Fairbanks
possess one or more of her pic
‘ tures.
: Mrs. Preston, who is the wife
• of City Clerk Douglas Preston,
: taught painting and drawing at
! the University of Alaska. She now
! has several pupils in Kodiak.
: The Preston’s, who lived in Fair
1 banks thirty years, have one son,
1 one daughter and eight grand
children. They came to Kodiak
* last year, and recently purchased
1 a home overlooking the Channel.
In addition to her painting,
Mrs. Preston is busy with a land
scaping program. They expect to
move into their home, which they
purchased from Tony Perez, with
in the next two weeks.
Other hobbies enjoyed by the
artist are cooking, driftwood and
seashell collecting, and collecting
glass fish net floats. She also'ha*
an extremely well-rounded and in-,
teresting collection of Alaskan
artifacts, including some that are
very rare.
The painting of the “Tippy',
owned by Tommy Clampffer, win
be on display at the Insurance Of
fice, Bank of Kodiak, for the next
two weeks.
Artists Varied
Coming Season
Plans for the forthcoming Alas
ka Music Trails series of concerts
sponsored each year by the BusV
ness and Professional Women's
Club were made at a special meet
ing Monday at the home of Presi
dent Mary Sorum. Twenty-two
members were present.
This year the series will be *
memorial to the late Max Shapiro,
of Anchorage, agent for the ar
tists, who died recently of a bean
attack while performing in CaB
fornia. Mrs. Shapiro is carrying
on his work.
Depending on availability of the
new high school gym, the four
concerts will be held on Mondaj
nights or. dates to be announced
in October, November, March and
April.
The artists are a harmonica
virtuoso, violinist, pianist, and »
soprano and tenor combined in aw
evening of song done partly
costume.
Further details and ticket salt
plans will be announced later..
KODIAK GARDEN CLUB
NAVY WIVES CLUB TO MEET
There will be a meeting of tbe
Navy Wives Club Monday, August
11, at 7:30 pm at the Chapel Air 4
nex. •
WILL MEET MONDAY
The members of the Kodiak
Garden Club will meet at tb»
home of Mrs. Millicerit Kulberg,
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