j Therefs "A CITY OF WOMEN" On Adak ■.
I By A1 Stein
I send a copy of this paper home
i every week and the first thing I(d like
: to say is "Hi Baby, If 11 be ;home soon".
•! That was for myself and anyone.else who
\ sends the Adak. Sun Home . . ,, * : .
j' I found out last night that there is
r a city of women on Adak, the, far side- of
i Adak. Population;/ one girl .for every
| single man on the island Area just small
; enough not to-be seen while, looking for
I.it;' Resources; Nothin1 but girls, girls,
I girls,'and last but not leasts girls...
The funny thing about this, island is
i that the women are stationed here on
• Adak ' for period of one year or.longer,
pdepending on whether they extend.. Theres
j absolutely no way to get. to this city,
: but fortunately, the women can comp over
; here. However, that mode of ■■ transports
! tion is ih the source of DREAMS* , . •
Each girl in the city of women is
: assigned to a particular .guy., oyer here
i on our side, however, the only, way she
; can visit him is in his dreams.The Girls
•; are required to stay ,in. the dreams -of
: there dreamers until the dream.is fin-.
: ished. Sometimes the girls .get mad, so
; I hear, and they leave the dreams, temp
! orarily. They are punished by the head
I matron for this and it is rare.that.it..
happens. - - ~ . /./ «
^ I had an argument with.my gal before
™coming to Adak and we hadn’t been speak
ing until last Tuesday, when she wrote
. and said she forgave me and would, take
me back. (Smart’girl). It was last night-,
'when'I dreamed about her and she told me
' of this city of women. I asked her what
; all the girls did in the. daytime and she:
told me they had a couple of factories
' there to keep the girls busy.. One was a
feather factory, in which they, made all
;the feathers for the Northern birds and
•the second plant was where,they put.tp
: gether all the good tin pans.(Otherwise
;all the tin can duty in the VNayy would :
ibe lousy). The ' feather plant also put
: out pillows stuffed.with dreaming feath
jers so.the contact would be better for•
\ the personnel on this half of the island.
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She said the matron in charge of the j
I city of women has been here quite a |
[ spell due t6 the fact , that she was en-i
[• gaged to one of our better known civili-i
an employee’s and he just wouldn’t go I
back to the states for anything.' (Snow [
'any civilians who haye been having weird |
dreams).. She also’ said some of her best j
'friends were.movie stars and she roomed [
with Bridgette Bardot and Kim Novae. [
r(There goes my dreams of Kim down'the [
drain). j
I asked her one more question, and j
that was, ’’Didn’t the girls have trouble j
from married men dreaming about them and j
mdvie stars”., she replied in an honest I
tone ”no” she didn’t believe so* As soon!
as I had quit [ dreaming, about Baby, the j
Supervisor of Aleutian dreams came to me j
■.and said ’she’, meaning Baby, was very ;
"Unaware of the fact but.they had a lot |
of trouble from brown baggers bothering j
her> movie stars in their dreams. All !
'those dreams were piped into the Bering j
Sea however, to make salt for the old- j
timers *
PROXY CEREMONY
Something new to the Island of Adak.
One Sailor by the name of George R.
Blakeman, Gunnersmate Third Class, now
with the Public Works department of this
station was married to Miss. Lora Cutrer
from Mississippi in a proxy ceremony
performed by a long distance phone call
from Pensacola, Florida and Adak.
The ceremony was performed. Wednesday,
18-February 1958 by the City Clerk of
Pensacola.
The pretty, brown-haired bride went
to' Pensacola for the ceremony because
Mississippi does not- recognize proxy
ceremonies.
We wish to extend to the newlyweds
our heartiest congratulations and we do
hope them all the -success and happiness
for many years to come. I’m sure that
everyone on Adak joins us in.this wish.
Don’t tempt the Fates!
Lower accident Rates!