The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-02-17


heavy wind strikes while it is
swinging ffbroadside, cit may hap
pen. tooD at least this open door
has already proved the major fac
tor in the unbalancing of our bud
get in the amount allowed for fuel.
consumption during the recent cold
spell.
That door has long merited some
recognition from this column. In
building that, mainly because of its
extreme age, is very unusual in a
number of respects, that door is
positively unique In the first place,
it must be the only door anywhere
that has its house number on the
INSIDE with no number at all on
the outside And in the second
place, the. number has no apparent
relation whatsoever to any numbers
on any other buildings located on
Seward Street. Situated in the most
southerly block of the entire street,
lit is No. TIC, despite the fact that
all the buildings to the north have
numerals moving along in routine
fashion with the zoos in the next
block to the north, the zoos in the
block beyond that, etc. From the
ANTIQUE status of the entire struc-
ture it has been suggested that per-
haps those digits TIC have never
been intended to stand for house
number at all-maybe it's the date
on what was originally intended to
be "a cornerstone, from which the
letters "AD preceding the numer-
ais have fallen off sometime in the
dim past. Could bel
How about it, some of you older
Presidents? What is your explana-
! tion? Seriously, we're curious and
we'd really like to understand:
Why is the number on the inside?
And why that particular number?
T ITEMS ON-A- O-REPORTER'S
! NOTEBOOK FOR -THE-WEEK: All
| alert observer of the past weeks
activities at the Clubhouse would
have jotted down notes for news
items of general interest about a
lot aof servicemen and ESQ girls.
Such a notebook would surely have
contained, among others, items
covering the hilarious jitterbug
dancing, on an overly slippery
floor, OF the one-and-only Pat Shat
fer and Navy Sailor Dick Mayer,
brilliant dancer and likeable fellow
from Los AneIeles = and the
skillful volunteer services donated
by lovely Jane English, who has
helped to type the copy for this
C o Ium n and the excellent
start being made by Norma Burtord
as she was initiated into the in
tricacies of pool at the USO by
these comparatively veteran cue
wielders, Merriam Cass and Bonnie
Klein and the it's-iike- odd
times-atinosphere on Tuesday night
when Marilyn Merritt made a hit
| by spending the whole evening at
the Club for the first time in many
weeks, and the conspicuous
populf1tY ALREADY achieved by one
OF the newest Of all the ESQ girls,
Pat Nelson and the enjoy
nlept Of everyone who has had the
pleasure of meeting, and listening
to Sthee piano-playing of Maxine
Ncstrand, who has paid nice COM
plirtent to the USO by spending
here a generous portion of her Ju-
neau holidays and the dis
tinct values invariably added to the
sessions of the Forum Club when
Ruth Brooks is present as was the
case on Monday and the
forceful and effective leadership
given that same meeting by Coast
guardsinan Bill Robinson $
and the keen regret being expressed
to Barbara Hermann by her many
friends over her contemplated early
departure for long stay in the