Show ' ’ i j - ipi n1 ! i-- rr O I f i t X Pag 28-- The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday December 11 1988 Remote Eskimo island gets closer to rest of America first call using Little Diomede's new telephone system "She was surprised to hear from me’’ Ahkinga said in a telephone interview from Little Diomede "I told her I was calling from home from my own house I call other places too" The Inupiaqspeaking Eskimos of Little to Diomede live in a virtually cash-fre- e economy and survive by hunting walrus and polar bear and other sea creatures and some expect to pay their telephone bills by barter — trading walrus Ivory carvings to Mtuduk Telephone Co president Bob Blodgett as payment Blodgett— who calla himself "the white trader at Teller" an Alaska mainland village on the Bering Sea coast — said he has long wanted to American city expand his small telephone company to Diomede in "1 called my sister-in-ladistance long Mukluk provides telephone service to 13 south of town Alaska Cooper Landing (an western Alaska Eskimo villages places like Anchorage)" said Dora Ahkinga who made the Alaska (UPI) — America's most remote community just got a little closer Little Diomede Island — a speck of land sticking oat of the Bering Strait between Asia and North America Just 2 V4 miles from the Soviet Island of Big Diomede — now has something moat Americans take granted Telephones Little Diomede is home to 178 people most of them Alaska Eskimos who live in a village that faces west toward the Soviet Union In winter when the Bering Strait Creeses it is possible to walk across the International Dateline to Siberia But only now has it become possible from the comfort of your Little Diomede home to pick up the telephone and call another ANCHORAGE 1: r- w Elim Golovin Koyuk Shishmaref Shaktoolik and Wales "We’re bringing a touch of modern America to those people in remote Little Diomede" Blodgett said Blodgett 88 left Union County Iowa to come to Alaska in 1848 serving in the first state legislature in 1859 He has lived in Teller S3 years running the store and the utilities and serving as thelocal "white trader" "WeTve taken furs ivory carvings and mukluks (boots made from animal suns and furs) and treat it like money” he said "Ivory is Just like money We ship it to shops all over the black-and-whi- non-vall- ey - Now half the homes have phones said Howard Osenna the local Mukluk agent "I'm real happy about it" said Roger Kunayak Sr village store elerk "Now we don t have to wait in line 2 or 8 hours to order food We ' Bar (Stour ng both re not ui thdrTVson te post-weddi- years will not be published unless the wedding or reception will be in the valley Tim fact that a resident has family members including grandparents livlag in Cache Valley is QQt sufficient reason to The Herald Journal to publish an announcement Weddings cannot be announced by in the village buildingJJnes formed to use it and it often went dead 'When someone received a call the Diomede city clerk paged the person system wired into using an intercom-typ- e sets" so residents often kept television people's can keep the store better supplied'' Some Diomede residents nave mixed feelings about file phone system state” Blodgett said Mukluk spent $100000 to install "Answering the phone takes away from nay Diomede's phone system and hi ges $115 teaching if you waist to know the truth" said to a hook-u- p $1520 monthly not count llMl high sc hod teacher Larry Presxler "But distance calls communication between us and the school Until now Diomede got by with a single phone district is better" anyone under the age of 18 the wedding information and a 5x7 photograph must be delivered on the or are bride stories groom in person to the Herald Wedding published Sundays by by The Herald Journal Journal office 75 W 300 North no later than Wednesdai Wedding articles are pubiisi service to current Cache valley residents or to your w former residents whose weddings or receptions charge will publish either an engagement story before are being held in the valley the wedding or a about residents former who articles story but not Wedding Wedding story rules People who miss the deadline may announce a coming wedding reception in one or two sentences Tuesday or Thursday with no photo “‘—“ol accompanying the short announcement For more information call Christene 8 am Helpingstine or Jennifer Hines to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday Sale Good December 752-21-21 01 1 2-- 7 1 1 988 mcoTm M' rsgL $i” taco POHIOIN WMUT ? epoo pizza ana YouXan Find Christmas 1 ' ' i M’V MEAT ? 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