Kodiak Diary
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Bonnie, Kodiak's only Russian
wolfhound, owned by Frank
trick, was an outgoing and in
coming Alaska Airlines passenger
kast week. Owner Irick sent Bon
nie: to Anchorage for medical at
•nation. The diagnosis and some
medicine were tied around the
dog‘s neck for the return trip but
when Bonnie got back to Kodiak
they were gone—she had evi
dently chewed them loose.
While Fr&nk Kempton and
Barbara Allman watched, a
pigeon, with a P-40 complex or
something, came zooming through
fee air one day this week and
Sew bang into the glass in the
Sronfc door of the Idle Hour Bar.
‘The glass was shattered comple
tely
The pigeon, dazed by his at
tempt to crash the gate, then
€ew into an army truck parked
;by fee sidewalk. Then recover
ing tiis composure somewhat it
ifew over to the porch of the
Kraft residence and there it sat
and watched as Frank Kempton i
got out the broom and swept up
fee glass.
*‘It was amazing,” Frank said.
lie didn't mean amazing that
be swept it up, but that the
pigeon could break the heavy
glass,
ISomotime ago in this column
we bad an item about a plane
coming in, about everyone rush
ing to the post office, and about
there being only one bag of mail,
containing one letter, on the
plane.
Associated Press picked the
item up, and it apparently ap
peared under a Kodiak date line,
all over the United States We
are indebted to Marion Curtis,
local public health nurse, fora
copy cf the dispatch sent to her,
which was clipped from the New
ark (New Jersey) News.
The dispatch said that when
Kodiak GI's went to the post of
fice, there was only one letter.
Considering that GI’s can’t even
drop a letter into our local post
office, let alone get mail there,
the item was slightly in error by
the time it got to Newaik.
However, since the late Presi
dent Roosevelt was surprised to
find a civilian town here (said he:
“there is actually a small com
munity there") we can hardly
blame the press association too
much for associating Kodiak
with GI’s solely.
But now that the town has
passed its 150th birthday we are
sure that in just a few more cen
turies the news that Kodiak and
its civilians were here a bit be
foie the army will begin to leak
out.
What we started to say was
that a plane this week again ar
rived with one letter on the same
day one of our regular boats ar
rived with absolutely NO mail.
Now that we release this intel
ligence, if anyone receives a clip
ping 6aying the Esquimaux of
Kodiak rushed to a boat only to
find that there was not one piece
of blubber aboard, will they
please furnish us with a copy?
Social note: Vivienne Cross,
waitress at the Victory Cafe, cel
ebrated her birthday Wednesday
by missing the Nenana Ice Pool
by 3 minutes. She was the next
to the clo est to the winning
time, with a guess at 9:34 am.
End of social note.
Amanda Price, of the Dinner
Nook, was the next closest Kod
iakian, with a guess at 9:27 am.
Vera Pierce didn’t feel quite so
bad as the above two, as she
missed it by 21 minutes, having
a guess at 10:02 am.
It was interesting to us to note
that our boss, Editor Lamme, at
least got the right day, with a
7:22 am guess, a little over t wo
hours on the rosy side. Which
just goes to prove that, even ed
itors can come close sometimes.
The only other Kodiak name we
recognized on the same day was
Warren Flechtner, soldier in the
Aleutians, whose wife works at
Christy’s Bakery. He chose 4:04
am.
For the occasion, we have
written the following. It is
poetry.
Of all sad words
A soul can drool,
The saddest are these;
“I came close in the pool ”
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