Kodiak Diary
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Shalley. The writer served as
tnjtfce-up artist for the cast.
Ain't human nature a funny
thing or has somebody already
said that?
Right now we are thinking of
bouse numbers.
For years Kodiak residents
have had trouble finding where
the other half lives because the
streets weren't labeled and the
homes weren’t numerated.
There has been endless confu
sion caused by the antiquated
numbers placed on houses for
evacuation purposes, with 217
winding up next door to 398; for
years when you wanted to tell
someone where you lived with
gestures you had to describe it as
‘ do you know where Olsen's
t ive? No. well, you know where
the road goes up the hill? No.
VPell, its the first or second,
we’ve forgotten which, road after
you leave Alaska way and we’re
the little house behind the red
one (only 59 per cent of the
liouses are red, so you’ll have no
trouble)—the one with a porch";
for years meat and grocery deliv
erers, garbage haulers and oil
providers have been haunted by
looking for houses.
. So when the system of num
bering the homes and business
places in Kodiak was finally ev
olved on a scientific basis you
«an just imagine the rush of res
idents to get their numbers In
fact, you'll have to imagine it,
because there wasn’t any. So far,
approximately 12 souls have I
irecked to the city hall to find .
out where they live.
Well, if there's no use there's
no use. and the implication fol
lows that the city wasted its time
when it put up the street sign
posts, too. The new city council
might still salvage something
from both projects. They could
sell the leftover house digits to
Hitler to number his days with
and perhaps dispose of the sign
| posts to Alaskan army camps—
I they could use them to mark the
City Limits of Los Angeles.
Sometime ago before the be
ginning of the school year, one of
the lady school board members
made a trip to Anchorage, and
while there decided to interview
one of the lady teachers who had
made application to come to Ko
diak.
She found the apartment where
the teacher lived alone, and rap
ped on the door. From within
came a reply asking the koocker
to wait just a minute. She wait
ed. And waited. And waited.
The woman inside had had
time to don a formal complete
with make-up before she finally
opened the door, but a glance
showed she hadn’t, so the school
board member couldn't help won
dering what took so long.
The interview lasted briefly
and the school board member
left.
It just happened that the wo
man being interviewed did not
come to Kodiak, but accepted a
teaching position at another spot
on the island. En route there
from Anchorage she stopped over
in Kodiak, and decided to look
up the lady school board mem
ber she had met.
The first thing the school
board member did was offer her
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a cigarette. When the teacher
found out it was all right to ac
cept it; she did, and then she ex
plained why it had taken her so
long to auswer the door in Anch
orage. She had been smoking and
she had been swooshing around
the room flailmg her arms to get
the give away smoke out.
People Outside, where a female
teacher who smoked would be
considered persona non grata,
can appreciate the woman’s con
cern; in Kodiak, where women
teachers who so desire smoke in
public places, it is a bit amusing.
A businessman in our town
who makes frequent trips to the
States was somewhat inconven
ienced during his absences by
not being able to send any in
formation about steamships by
wire.
So to evade the censorship
harmlessly (?) he devised a little
system. The two boats he was
most concerned with were the
Lakina and Cordova, so he evolv
ed the scheme of referring to the
Lakina by the name Lester, be
ginning with the same initial let
ter, and to the Cordova as Con
rad, in a similar fashion.
It worked fine. When in Seat
tle he could wire to Kodiak a
bout Conrad arriving, or his
friends in Kodiak could wire him
about Lester, or both.
After making a number of
trips the businessman began to
wonder if the code might bei
overworked a bit, so before lie
left on another jaunt he changed
his signals. He told his friends
that henceforth it would be
“Lewis” and “Clarence” that he
would be interested in
After he had been gone for
some time the occasion arose for
a friend to wire the man to tell
him to meet the Cordova. The
wire simply said: ‘Important you
meet Clarence Seattle.” The wire
went through without a hitch.
The next day, however, the
man who sent it got one back
from the absent businessman.
It said: “Who the - is
Clarence?”
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