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March 3rd. 187i».
FRIDAY, MAY 77 1KJT
WHY W AS OPHIR I.EFT OI T?
We are extremely well pleased to-hear that the Tia*
kotna-Nixon Forks road is to become a reality and that.
$5,000 has been allotted from government relief furriw
for the improvement or construction of a new landing
held at Takotna. and *10,000 for the same purpose, at
McGrath and *50,000 for the Bethel field, but we canH
understand why the landing field at Ophir was overlooked..
If any place in this cSuntryi is as deserving of con
sideration when funds are being allotted for airfield im
provements than the community of Ophor, we don’t know
where it is.
It is said that a very small expenditure would pat
the present field into satisfactory condition whereby the=
large planes would not Gesitate about landing there <**
they do now. If this is true, this work should be done
without loss of time for. mining activity will be much
greater in and around Ophir this year than: for many
seas** past. Proof of this- statement is borne out wherr
one checks ujy-on the new mining equipment and supplies
which are scheduled to be shipped into the district this
summer, most of which will a'rriveron the first boat.esrly
in July. Verily, Ophir is the hub of practically all'of the
mining in this section of the Kuskokwim — oper
ations being carried on right around the town itself. An
enormous amount of' etgapmera and other freight is
landed at Ophir every season and a good landing field
should have been established there years ago.
A. petition is being circulated in Ophir this week as
a-result if the funds which' have been-allotted to Takotna
and McGrath, asking only foe some badly needed im
provements to the present field. Me sincerely hope that
the powefs that Be, favorably consider Ophir’s plea. and.
that these improvements will be made this season.
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DELEGATE DIM ON D NOW fS FOR
-THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE” POLITICALLY—
If anyone has douated the sincerity of purpose of
Delegate Anthony J. Ditnond. they will probably chance
their minds when they read of his latest bill introduced
in the House recently which, iff passed" will allow the
people of Alaska to vote on tKe question-of whether the
Alaska Legislature sfoeld be composed of only one house
instead of two a; at present. If the bill passes, this
proposition will be placed vt the ballot in the general
election in 1938.
If Delegate Dim.>nd was- “just another politician'”1
ji£ certainly never would have advocated sueh a step.
In the months to come, one can expect to hear- volleyw
,>f vituperation heaped upon the Delegate s head by the
majority of the politicians, their relatives, would-be pol
iticians and all others wh'o are striving to keep them
fingers in the political grab-bag in the Territory.
The one house legislature is one of the most sane
and progressive proposals which has been suggested in
many a day. That it would reduce tfie cost of: govern
ment to a great degree and would speed up the work of
the lawmakers immeasurably and permit the general pub,
lie to gair a better uralerstanding of the proposed bills
up for “Jiassage. canrtet be denied. There is only one fair
argument we can think of against the- proposal. Thar is
the contention ‘hat two houses a>e nee*« mr - to seCve as
a check on each other and prevent the passage of detri
mental laws. History, however, disproves this. We ask
you. dear reader, if such was the case at the recent ses
sion of the Territorial Legisiature. In fact, the legisla
tors stayed in session far too long and passed altogether
too many laws. (Some of these days, the people of Al
aska will send a group of men and women to Juneau
pledged not only to NOT pass any laws whatsoever, but
to repeal a large number which are now on the statute
books and part of the law of the land!.
We believe the onw-heuse legislature piarr will prove
more efficient and effective in many ways than the pres
ent system, and that the veto power of the governor is
sufficient check and safeguard against “haywire” legis
lation. If this plan were put into effect throughout the
United States, millions of dollars of savings would be
ICoEtnnzad to last coluatc «n this &afc-‘
SIXTEEN YEARS A60 THIS WEEK
(TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF THE KESKO TIMES)
; Sherry Edwards came down from |
l*Takot/ia yesterday. He reports a wet
trail.
Walter Stephens after a few days
lire st here in overcoming: influenza,
returned to Candle yesterday.
Mrs. E. P. Werner has been con
1 fined to her home for several days
on account of the flu but is reported
(somewhat be* ter today.
> Dan MeGinty, -who has been in J
town recuperating after an attack of
influenza, returned to his work, at
Candle this morning.
Warren Stewart arrived from Ta-1
kotna early Thursday and returned
to that place almost immediately.'
taking with him a quantity of short
ages.
R. Richardson, from Nixon, arriv
■■ed in McGrath Monday, and started
on his return trip Tuesday morning,
after attending to a few business
matters.
A report fnom the Outside states
that Dutch Blankfield of Nenana.
held a night conference with a ban
dit while in Los Angeles recently
and had to get help from a friend
to get to 'Frisco.
J. A. Slippern, well known North
erner, who is now in Los Angeles,
is very anxious to learn the present
whereabouts of Johan Rumahe, said
to have been located in the Koyukuk
district at oite time.
Owen Gray returned today from a
trip to the Yukon, to which he had
as passenger Superintendent Wer
necke, of the Treadwell Mining Com
pany. Returning from Ruby, Mr.
Gray brought with him all the first
class mail at that place destined for
McGrath and' points enroute. in which
to say the least, he showed a most
kindly consider6t:on for the residents
of this entire section.
SELECT FOOD RECIPES
BY T. S. (TED) Mc.ADAMS
(The Kusko Time* C’>eT)
PRUNE SOUFFLE
*-2 cup chopped nuts.
!-j cup grated bread crumbs.
2 tablespoons sugar.
, *4 teaspoon salt.
1-6 teaspoon cinnamon,
i H cup prune juice.
1 tablespoon lemon juice.
1 cup prune pulp.
2 eggs.
Gra&ed rind 1 lemon.
Mix the first 6 ingredients. Re
move the stones from the cooked
prunes and force the pulp through
a sieve. Add lemon juice and prune
pulp. Stir in dry ingredients. Add
yolks of eggs beaten until light and
lemon-colored. Fold in whites beaten
until stiff.
Tern into greas e baking dish and
bake in a slew oven. Set baking dish
in pan of cofd water.
CHEESE FONDU
1 cup stale bread crumbs.
1 cup cheese (cut fine).
1 cup milk,
i 2 eggs.
1 tablespoon butter.
H teaspoon salt.
Va teaspoon mustard.
hi teaspoon paprika.
Mix milk, bread and Cheese in a
double boiler. When cheese is melted,
add eggs, beaten until well mixed.
Add seasonings. Cook until thick
and perfectly smooth.
KIDNEY STEW
1 pound kidney.
1 carrot.
1*8 medium-sized onion.
2 cups water.
2 tablespoons flour.
2 tablespoons drippings.
Scrape and slice carrot, peel and
slice onion, and cook together in two
cups of water until tender. Soak kid
neys in water for one hour. Drain,
clean and dry.
Dredge with flour, slice, and brown
in frying pan with d*-irpings. Re
move kidneys from frying pan, arid
flour to th£ fat and brown.
Add to this the two cups of water
in which the carrots and onions are
cooked. BolJ until thickened. Add
kidneys, onions and carrots. Season
with salt and pepper, cook for three
minutes and ser*e_.
Mike Bozich returned t ■ Candle
Thursday, after spending few days
in McGrath.
WASHINGTON, I'. C.--H. Roth
acher was today appoints d ] ■ s'.mas
ter at Iditarod.
John Heine came down fr. m Nix
on Forks yesterday on > ness. He j
will start work at the mill as
R««jn as weather conditi "s permit.
To the best of our knowledge and
belief, Walter Stephens was the last
man to cross the Takotna ice this
season, which he did Tuesday even
ing when he returned to Candle.
Robert Hart and Jack Stevenson
expect to leave shortly after the ice
on their way to Bethel, where they
will build a boat suitable for this lo
cality and return under their own
power.
The ice in the Kuskokwim com
menced to move Friday afternoon.;
about 4:45, and came to a stop with
in an hour afterward. Shortly be- !
fore noon today it again commenced
to move, being joined shortly after
ward by the Takotna ice. After a
general movement of perhaps an
hour, more or less, the flow again
came to a halt. At this writing, how
ever, i, looks as though both rivers
woull be fairly clear of ice within
four or five days.
AI Thoms, who recently made a
•rip to the Steamer Tana, near Tu
luwiksak, returned to Takotna Mon
day. He reports both the Tana and
the Quickstep afloat and the Tulu
wiksak clear of ice with but 500 fe«t
of ice on the main river between the
boats and the mouth of the Tuluwik
sak. Captain Langley expects to
thaw his way through this ice and
have both boats safely in the Tulu
wiksak within a few days. The boats
may be expected to arrive here short
ly after the river is clear of ice.
BANGOR BROWNIE'S
cup melted shortening.
1 cup molasses.
1 tgg
2 squares melted bitter chocolate.
I cup flour.
1 teasro n baking powder.
Few cr- ns salt.
I cup nuts.
."itt flour, baking powder and salt
together. Mix the ingred:ents in or
der given and beat thoroughly.
Spread the mixture tveniy on a take
pan that has been lined with oiled
paper. Bake about IS ntin in a slow
oven 325 F. Remove the paper from
.he cake as soon a- it is taken from
the oven and cut into small squares
or strips with a sharp knife.
(The following recipes were con
tributed by Mrs. Leila McGowan, a
reader of The Kusko Times, who re
sides in Nampa, Idaho. We will glad
ly publish any recipes our readers
might care to send in to this depart
ment. If you have a good recipe,
why not pass it on to others?*
YELLOW ANGEL CAKE
5 egg yolks beaten.
3 tablespoons cold water; continue
beating for 10 minutes.
1 cups sugar sifted twice: add
to the above and beat. Add H cup
boiling water and beat slightly. lVi
cups flour, hi tsp. baking powder;
tsp. salt sifted together four
times.
To whites add 1 tsp. cream tartar;
beat until very stiff and fold into
batter.
1 tsp. orange or lemon flavoring.
Bake in angel food pan 50 to 60
min. in slow oven 270' to 325'.
Leave in pan until eoki before re
moving.
ORANGE OR LEMON CREAM
FILT ING
1 cup sugar and 5 tablespoons flour
mixed.
1 egg slightly beaten.
Grated peal of 1 orange or lemon.
1-3 cup of juice of either.
\ cup warm water.
Cook in double boiler for about 25
minutes until thick.
When cold add 1 cup of cream
whipped or beaten wdiites of four j
eggs.
Serve oa cake after cake is cut.
TIMELY EDITORIALS
Culled From Our Exchanges
NORRIS C ASE STRESSES
TARDINESS OF JUSTICE—
(The Alaska Daily Press 1
Tlit* Supreme Court, did a number of things when it
had that field day on decisions recently. One job which
almost escaped attention in the rush of bigger things
was its disposal of the case of Mr. George \\". Norris,
grocer, of Broken Bow. Nebraska.
The court’s ruling in this case proved that it is pos
sible, after all, to punish a man for perjury in this coun
try—if you don’t care how long it takes you or how
much money it costs.
The fate of Norris as an individual is not particu
larly important. He was just a well-meaning man who
was played for a sucker by the big boys and was left
high and dry on a sandbar when the waters recedel.
First and fortmost. it was his name that got him into
touble.
If you remember the case, you will recall that in
the early summer of 1930 Nebraska's famous Senator
Geoge W. Norris was running for renomination in the
Republican primary. The party big-wigs, who had been
keeping a rod in pickle for Senator Norris for many
years, hit on one of those ultra-slick ways of beating
him—-too slick as it turned out.
They hunted around until they dug up thi- nnocent
grocer. George W. Norris, and they persuaded him to
tile for the Senate. Thus, when the voter got to the polls
he would find two George W. Norrises on the ballot, and
would have no earthly way of knowing which was which.
In that way Senator Norris' vote would be split and the
‘regular” candidate might slip in.
The people of Nebraska gagged at this bit of slick
ness, the stake supreme court ruled Grocer Norris off
the ball>«t, and Senator Norris went on to renomination
and re-election.
Meanwhile the Senate campaign committee began in
vestigating. It held hearing.- in Nebraska and summoned
Grocer Norris as a witness. Norris first told the com
mittee that he received no money from anybody for of
fering himself as the sacrificial lamb; later, he changed
his story and admitted that he had been paid $550.
For this he was indicted for perjury by a federal
grand jury in June, 1931.
After long delay the case came to trial, and in the
late fall of 1935 Grocer Norris was convicted of perjury,
fined and sentenced to three months in jail. Nearly a
year laur an appellate court reversed the conviction and
ordered a new trial. The government took the case to the
U. S. Supreme Court—and now-, nearly seven years urt-er
th? oTense was committed, the Supreme Court has sus
ta.r. d the conviction and ordered Grocer Norris to take
h:- medicine.
Th little case t, Us you much about the tricks of
American polities; it tells you even more about Ameri
can criminal court procedure.
Perjury strikes at the very foundation stone of jus
tice. If men can lie under oath and get away with it,
the courts are crippled. Vet in an open and -hut case,
it took six and one-haif years to convict a man of lying
and make th,- conviction stick!
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Then there's the annknt legend of the two pipe
| smokers in the opium-den.
One (ir.amy gent said casually: “I’ve just decided
to buy all the diamond and emerald mines in the world.”
The party of the second part considered this serious
ly for a few moments, and then murmured softly; “I
don't Anow that I'd care to sell."
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Auto- plates should be good for at least two years
to give a man a chance to memorize the number.—Ohio
Stake Journal.
Send in your communications to the editor on any
subject. We’ll gladly publish them.
PLACER LOCATION NOTICES now on -al- at •
• he kurk. Times office. Get yours today.
OCAL EDITORIAL—CONTINUED)—
effected. And that, we belisve, is sufficient Argument in
itself in favor of the one-house proposal.
There is, to our knowledge, only one stale, the state
of Nebraska which is operating under the one-house plan,
and it is working out very successfully so far. The pol
iticians are too well entrenched in other states to enable
the plan to be put into effect—and that is j'Jst what we
■re afraid of in Alaska. The politicians will leave noth
ing undone to defeat the proposal, as it naturally nar
rows the scope of the politicians.
Therefore we believe that Delegate Dimond will now
be engaged in “the fight of his life," using !he words of
President Roosevelt this winter, when he commented oa
his fight for change- in the setup of the United Stats*
Supreme Court.