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FRIDAY”, APRIL 23, 1037
''OST IMPORTANT PLANK IN DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM IS CAST ASIDE BY LEGISLA'fCITE—
Thor prelection pledges and planks in the party’s]
platform mean but little to a majority of the members
of the recent Territorial Legislature, -was evident when
one scans the record.
If a man ever got double-crossed, it was Delegate
Anthony J.lbmend. This able, sincere and hardest work
7-:*■ Alaska ever had, came out strongly about
; a year x«f ere the election last fall to have the fish traps
- ’ abolished immediately. The Territorial Convention of]
the Dec.-crats held last spring, endorsed the Delegate’s
stand ICO per cent. Then the party's candidates went
i -a- - ^ people and pledged themselves to support
‘.te Ttanks in the platform and particularly the plank
ir_ .stmg on the immediate abolishment of the fish traps. ■
The campaign was fought out largely upon this issue.;
There is Tittle doubt hut that the successful candidates
£ were swept into office by a landslide because of their
promises on the fish trap issue, than on any other single (
^■.factor.
Y Yet, what -id they do when they got to Juneau?
I Not- once, but three times they refused to pass the mem
orial supporting Delegate Dimond’s Resolution to ^abol
ish the fish traps in the waters of Alaska. Was that a
betrayal of the wishes of the people, or, just what would
you call It? We hava thus far sought in vain for a valid
reason fot this aetion.
There are just two possible reasons for this action.^]
i -One is that the cannery lobbyists were powerful enough
- t» eaitrol the votes of the majority, or, that there is a
conspiracy afoot to discredit Delegate Dimond—to jar
him loosfe from his hold on the people of Alaska which
- he -now enjnys by his honest and capable efforts in Wash
ington, D. C.
And that isn’t all this Democratic (there were only
two Re'ab’.lcrns and one Independent in the session)
Legislature did in a further effort to discredit the Del
egate. .
It turned him down fiat on his bonding bill, by which
he proposed to bond the Territory for some two millions
of dollars to be used as a development fund for worth
while projects in the Territory. The House did pass a
resolution supporting the measure after it had been
turned down twice in the Senate. They further hampered
Delegate’s efforts when they turned “thumbs down”
cn the appropriation to operate school buses in the Pal
mer district. However, in the special session, the Legis
lature reconsidered this childish action and put the ap
- propriation bill through.
Aside fom all this, what do you think of the Gold
Tax Bill as an aid to mining development in Alaska?
\ i that happened was the Territory needed some taxes
to take care of the tremendous expenditures authorized
bv this celebrated (?) legislative body, which, by the
way. was the “sptndingest” group of individuals ever to
sit in the legislative halls in Juneau.
And. how do you like the clause in the Social Se
tuynl." legislation passed during the extra-ordinary ses
sion, which sets up a Welfare Board which cannot estab
lish a- uniform allowance, but takes into consideration
the needs of each individual applicant. The Board has
the -per. er to grant any sum or can discontinue the al
lowance at its own discretion. The Board is also given
the power to increase or decrease the amount of aid at
Us own pleasure. The following is a clause from the Act.
“In ail cases of denial of the application, or the dis
continuance, modification or dissatisfaction of the amount,
the applicant shall have an opportunity for a fair hear
ing before the board or a responsible agent, designated
by it, and when such hearing is requested it shall be
granted and b'ld within a respectable time; provided,
however, that where an agent is designated by the board
to conduct said hearing, this agent shall be governed by
the rules ain> ivgriations of the Board.
Then U goes-on directing how this money shall be
paid, monthly if the Board sees fit; otherwise the agent
-.r snooper can carry these warrants in his pocket-ipntil
v ._Continued to last column on this cage '
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
(TAKEN FROM THE FII ES OF THE KI KKO TIMES)
Billy Jones and Herb -Kearney
have purchased the Higgins pool hall
-at Takotna.
_
Harry Yeager, weD known repre
sentative of the Union Construction
Company, arrived in McGrath from
Anchorage.
Dr. W. F. Green, who has been at
tending to professional work over at
Flat, is expected to arrive home on
Monday. While in Flat, Dr. Green
purchased the splendid dental equip
ment of Dr. Biehla. which will arrive
with him on Monday.
Captain Wallace G. Langley, man-,
ager of the Alaska Rivers Naviga
tion Company, and Captain George
Green, well known navigator, arriv
ed yesterday from Anchorage.
L, F. Bullard, assayer of the
Treadwell Company, arrived here cn
Monday from Nixon, coming down
with Owen Gray.
Jack Stevenson returned to Mc
Grath today from Anchorage, hav
ing as a passenger Mrs. Stottman,
who comes to join her husband at
Nixon.
Harry Johnsru and Dave Mirteh
ler arrived in McGrath from the
Outside Monday, and are now on
their way to Flat.
Among those arriving in McGrath
Monday was Sid Renner, enroute to
Flat, Mr. Renner comes to take
charge of the Thrift Mining Com
pany’s operations, at the mouth of
Crooked Creek.
Paul Heinrich left Sunday morn
ing for Candle.
John Auld and Jack Dunn are re
cent arrivals from Anchorage.
A1 Walsh arived in McGrath over
the trail from Anchorage Monday.
Frank For returned today from a
trip over to Flat.
At Takotna, Frank McCaffrey was
the most seriously affected, but was
somewhat improved yesterday. Mrs.
Joe Oates was also confined to her
bed.
SELECT FOOD RECIPES
BY T. S. (TED) Me AD AMS
(The Kusko Times Chef)
POP-OVERS
I cap flour.
1 % teaspoon salt.
% cup milk.
i 2 eggs.
*4 tablespoon shortening.
Mix salt and flour, add *4 . the
milk; heat until smooth. Add re
maining *4 of milk, well beaten eggs
and shortening melted. Beat two
minutes with egg-beater. Turn into
hot greased iron gem pans and bake
about 35 minutes in a hot oven 500‘
F. until they pop. Then reduce the
temperature to 350“ F.
Creamed meat or vegetables may
be served in pop-over cases; or
! prune whip, blanc mange, chocolate
cream filling may be served ia the;
1 pop-over cases.
SPLIT PEA SOUP
One cup split peas.
3 quarts cold water,
onion.
4-in. cube salt fat pork,
i 1 ham bone.
2 tablespoons flour.
2 tablespoons fat.
V4 teaspoon peppier,
teaspoons salt.
Pick over peas and soak qvemight;
drain; add cold water, pork, him
I hone and onion. Simmer 3 or 4
: hours, or until peas are soft, iiub
| through a seive. Add the flour mix
ed with:, fat to soup. Boil 5 minutes,
stirring constantly. Add seasonings.
> Thm with milk if necessary.
CODFISH BALLS
1 cup sail codfish.
2 cups potatoes.
1 egg
1 tablespoon butter.
% teaspoon pepper. j
Wash fish in cold water and pull
into small pieces, keeping fish in
1 water while doing so. Wash and pare
[ the potatoes and cut into pieces be
: fore measuring. Cook the fish and
potatoes together in boiling water
until the potatoes are tender, then
drain and shake over the fire until
fry; mash .and beat thoroughly with !
Manager Soupe, of the Flume
Dredging Company, Yankee Creek,
arrived in McGrath today.
A new recordmg precinct is to be
established at Eetnel, on the lower
Kuskokwim, and in all probability
a wireless station erected there dur
ing the coming summer, according
to a note from Judge Charles E.
Bunnell to The Kusko Times.
Herb Kearney arrived in McGrath
from Takotna Monday, bringing the
mail from Ophir with him, and re
turned to the up river town yester
day.
Dr. Green, who returned yester
day from Ophir, where he had been
called professionally, reports that
most of the residents of Ophir were
suffering from the flu, many being
confined to their beds.
Among those reported ill by Dr.
Green are Mr. and Mrs. Sid Paul
son, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Jones. Andy
Hansen. Bob Evans, Arthur McClure,
Fred Roethlis'aerger, John Vogtor
and B. B. Smith. Andy Hansen and
Boh Evans were seriously ill, pneu
monia having developed.
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a wire potato masker; add the but
ter, pepper and salt if needed. Cook
slightly, then add beaten egg. and
beat until light. Take up mixture in
a spoon, molding slightly with a
knife and drop into deep hot fat. Fry
until brown, about one minute. I)rain
on absorbent paper.
Mixture for codfish balls may be
served hot, without frying or turned
into a buttered baking dish and
browned in the oven and served as
a baked dish, or shaped into flat
cakes and sauted in frying pan. To
make codfish puff, prepare in same
manner, only use two well-beaten
eggs. Cook like an omelet.
JELLY BOLL
2 eggs.
14 cup sugar.
Grated rind of lemon. •
1 cup flour.
It* teaspoons baking powder.
’4 teaspoon salt.
3 tablespoons milk.
Beat eggs, add sugar and beat
•well. Add lemon rind. Sift flour with
baking powder and salt; add alter
nately with the milk. Bake 15 to 20
minutes at a temperature of 360' F.
in greased bread pan and turn _ out
on a damp cloth. Spread with jelly
and rolL Dredge top with powdered,
sugar.
RAISIN PIE
1% cups raisins.
1 tablespoon flour.
114 cups boiling water,
t* cup sugar.
hi cup finely chopped walnjtts
1 tablespoon lemon juice.
Grated rind of hi lemon.
Wash the raisins carefully and
cook in the boiling water until ten
der. Mix the flour and sugar - -and
add to the cooked raisins, stirring
until it thickens. Add the lemon
grating* end walnuts, cool sl'ghtly
and bake in a double crust pie in a
hot oven 450” F. Reduce the heat
during the last 10 minutes. The nuts j
may be omitted.
TIMELY EDITORIALS
Culled From Our Exchanges
ALASKA’S EXPERIMENTAL FIR FARMS—
LCordova Times)
The last, legislature passed one bill which was es
pecially . noteworthy—that providing for the establish
ment of an experimental fu. farm or farms in the Ter
ritory, to be looked after by a man with extensive ex
perience and familiar with fur animals and their habits.
An appropriation of $15,000 was made, with the expecta
tion that it would be matched by the federal govern
ment.
We have had appropriations for fish hatcheries, ap
propriations for agriculture and mining, but one of the
greatest industries in the Territory has been left to be
developed largely by guess work and with no help from
the Territory or from the United States government.
Furs are third in wealth production for the Terri
tory, with fish first and minerals second. Since the time
of the Russian occupation, millions of dollars worth of
furs have been shipped out to foreign and domestic mar
kets. During late years, propagation of fur bearing an
imals, chiefly foxes ami minks, has been tried with more
or less success, owing to the knowledge and experience
of the grower. The fur market offers a tremendous field
for the young man of judgment and industrious habit—
To the mac who studies his subject and reads up on ail
phases of animal life, there is a sure return.
_ But what success has come is through experimenta
tion on the part of the grower and largely from guess
work as to their food and care. Had there been some
place where research work was conducted, where accur
ate information could have been furnished, it would have
saved many a fox rancher from the shoals of adversity.
! Veterinary instruction and practical training should be
taught at the university with other courses.
There is a vast stretch of land along the Richard
' sod highway where fur farms can he established, and
where almost anything can be raised for feed for the
animals Fish are plentiful, as well as rabbits and other
small game. Great sections of marshland can be obtain
ed where muskrat* would, do well, and where fox and
mink could be noised in their native habitat. Homesteads
of 160 acres may be taken up almost anywhere. It is
also true of dozens of othc districts in Alaska.
Tbe young man. who likes an active outdoor 1 if
with plenty of sport, connected with his work, could make
money and become independent in a way, by coming to
Alaska and engaging in fur farming. It is a fascinating
life, full of .hard work and worry, but what business that
is successful is not?
With an extensive course in for farming, at tbe Uni
versity, Alaska would soon be dotted with fur grow,.r.
This would -add both to our. wealth and our _populat.cn
An industry greater than gold and surpassing the fish
could be established
Send in your .communications to • tfce editor on an:
subject. We’ll gladly publish them.
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All l>r. Townsend asked for the old people was $2 '
a month. §2400 a year. But "Congress has just pa. sed f
j l ill giving members of the Supreme Court only $20,006
i a year old age pc 'don.
What was that you said about equality?—A!a.ik*
Labor Diapatefc
“Hiller luces to steal away to his .mountain retreat/
It is odd if there are any peaks Left there, as he always
caBeKgnes back with a new bluff.
"Ai -Pennsylvanian sought a button for ten years."
If it -was a collar button, he might have tried tramping
about in toe .dark in his bare feet.
-o
The- N^zis have banned “It Can’t Happen Here." It
I wouldn’t- U* to have Germans writing the author that he
; is a Bai
-o
“If a man were a flea, he could jump 3f'0 yards.” A.
it Is, he can’t unless a woman driver approaches.
-For longevity, a 101-year-old Californian cr
diet o’ ?girlic and onions. It does seem a goo 3 rue" hoc
o£ Beeping the Grim Reaper at arm’s length.
l.\ in Russia the Supreme Court is centered in one
mao. And when the one-man coart says, “Off with
th'tit heads’” the heads come off.
r PLACER LOCATION NOTICES now on sale at
.Tfca. &mako Times oflftce. Get jours today.
(LOCAL EDITORIAL—CONTI.NUED>—
he feels like parting with the much needed relief money
_• Again, we ask you, bow do you like it?
Cfc-V hazard the prediction that Delegate r'ur.onH
tritt he ejected for a third tern "in the next election, out
there wtD be lots of new fa«to among the legislators
when they again meet in Juneau in 1939.