The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 2, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 6, 2009 Page: 11 of 16
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Altus Times • 3B
Sunday, Dec. 6.2009
emember When...
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Remember these war time recipes?
Quality Flowers—Friendly Service
BOOT CAMP SPUD SOUP
GIRTS
Published for the P"
JACK and MARGIE ORR
Oklahoma
Altus,
ALTUS
Box 392
HU 2-0210
BUTTERLESS BUTTER SPREAD
BROASTED CHICKEN
59
each
0
.m.
Ad originally ran in the Altus Times on Aug. 9, 1970
SUES
The following recipes were found in a vintage recipe book by Jane and
Michael Stern called “Square Meals.” After reading the story at left
about the attack on Pearl Harbor, you may want to try one of the war- •
time recipes below.
V2 cup fresh or evaporated milk
1/2 cup mayonnaise
V2 pound margarine
%/2 teaspoon salt
I tablespoon enriched all-purpose
flour
1V2 teaspoons salt
‘/s teaspoon pepper
i tablespoon chopped parsley
* Population: 21,840
* Schools: Grade schools
- 9, Junior Highs - 2,
High Schools -1, Junior
Colleges -1.
* Telephone: All dial
* Hospital: Jackson
County Memorial with 65
beds plus 35 beds in
adjoir ing nursing home.
* Lodging: Hotels - 4,
Motels - 4, Lodges -1.
* Restaurants: 32, serv-
ing meals from 60 cents
to $5.
* Service stations: 43 - all
major companies.
* Air: Altus Airport.
Charter service.
* Bus: Mid-Continent
Coaches, Inc.
* Rail: Atchison-Topeka &
Santa Fe, Frisco,
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Railroad Companies.
Freight only.
Amusements: Craterville
Park at entrance of
Quartz Mountain State
Park.
Bowling: 34 lanes.
Community Concert
Association: Four con-
certs each year.
* Special Clubs:
Quarterback Club, Gun
Club, Archery Club,
Rock-Hound Club, Go-
Kart Club, Ladies’ Bridge,
Flower and Study Clubs. •
Laughter is the best medicine
Billy Azlin brought in this old book of cartoons and jokes that was given to
patients at Jackson County Memorial Hospital back in the day. Here’s a
joke from the book: An old farmer, asked why he had never married,
explained, “Well, I’d rather go through life wanting something I didn’t have
than having something I didn’t want.”
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others. School photos, old business photos and items, etc.
If you have something you want to share, bring it to the Altus
Times office or E-mail: altusmemories@yahoo.com.
COUNTY
HOSPITAL
'A SMILE For YOU
From Your Friends .
JACKSON
MEMORIAL
4 cups milk
2 tablespoons grated onion
2 cups mashed potatoes, buttered
and seasoned
3 tablespoons butter or
fortified margarine
1 tablespoon
unflavored gelatin
i tablespoon cold water
3 tablespoons boiling water
IOME
OF
EM AD BUTCHER
• Scald milk with onion, mix slowly with potatoes. Melt half the butter or
margarine, add dry ingredients, mix well. Add to hot soup. Stir well. Boil
I minute. Add rest of butter or margarine and sprinkle with chopped pars-
ley.
Serves 4 to 6.
Delicious, Whole
BROASTED
CHICKENS
Statistical Data
for Altus
from 1960
The following was printed
on a 1960 map of Altus
brought in by Billy Azlin:
New York Times food editor Margot Murphy, also known as Jane Holt,
suggested that men who wanted to keep their budget low and nutritional
intake high ought to eat 7%2 pounds of potatoes per week; a moderately
active woman required 4 pounds; for a growing teenager, 7 pounds was
enough.
And if, somehow, the family couldn’t finish all their mashed potatoes at
dinner one night, the conscientious housewife would never throw the left-
overs away. She brought them back to the table the next day, made into
this potato soup, a surprisingly delicate bowl of economical richesse, from a
1943 Meal Planning Guide.
ORR'S
FLOWERS
A IN UTE M RR K ET
501 West Broadway
HU 2-3020 603 N. Main
Altus, Oklahoma
The following bit on the "Wit and Wisdom" page is a real eye-opener:
“Everybody is now endowed with life, liberty and
some $2,000 worth of national debt.”
U/hat was this
used for?
It’s a hair crimper
Women would heat this metal device up
on the stove, then use it to crimp or put
waves in their hair. Often times, if it was
too hot or left in the hair too long, the
hair would burn off!
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ALTUS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
They knew what
this was...
"Your butter points don’t go far enough?” Don’t complain "We folks at
home are pretty lucky after all," said the March 1944 Meal Planning Guide.
"Be glad you're not in China, where butter costs $500 a pound in Chinese
money if by hook or crook, one can find any at all.” This inexpensive
butter substitute tastes like a cross between butter and mayo. From Coupon
Cookery's chapter on "Lunch That Packs a Punch.”
shop everyday
10 HlUHILI
♦ Soften gelatin in cold water, then add boiling water and stir until gelatin
is completely dissolved. Add milk, then gelatin mixture, gradually to may-
onnaise, stirring until smooth. Cool until thickened.
Soften but do not melt margarine. Add mayonnaise mixture, one-quar-
ter at a time, and add salt, beating with rotary egg beater after each addi-
tion. Store in covered dish in refrigerator
Makes about 2V cups, or enough for 20 sandwiches, 2 tablespoons
each.
Gayle Starkey Jim Ingram
Floyd Bush Linda Frye
Billy W. Magouyrk
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