We did have "houseboys" to clean the huts, make beds, clean and shine 
boots and lay and start fires. Turkey being a Muslim country and Sinop being 
both geographically and culturally remote, all of the laborers on post were 
men. This included all of the houseboys, the kitchen help (KPs and dining room 
servers), the construction force, etc. Also, our houseboy took dirty clothes with 
him at the end of the day and returned clean, pressed clothes in one or two days. 
(I keep saying "houseboy," but Maumet was probably 35 to 45 years old, and to
a 26-year old, that seemed ancient.) 

Of interest, just before I left in March 1958, they began constructing single-story, 
wooden barracks and had moved some of the lower ranking EM into them. In
conversations with those who had moved, it was obvious that they didn't at all 
like the barracks, preferring instead to remain in the Jamesway huts. The
reason given was the lack of privacy in the barracks, where there were open 
bays with double-decked bunks. 

As far as organized sports, there were none. The field between the quarters 
and the road to town, probably about six acres, was rocky and muddy. That
summer we fashioned a drag with large bolts through it every six inches or 
so and, with two or three guys standing on it, pulled it behind a jeep over 
the field. This worked to get most of the rocks out of the field and we were 
able to set up a primitive softball diamond. Also, over by the EM club, they 
set up a volley ball net. Because of the weather, i.e., windy and rainy,
outdoor sports were mostly chancy anyway. The Hallmark piece had it right,
the wind did blow constantly and half the time we were squatting in a cloud
bank. I don't remember. however, that much snow, so the ".. flakes fly[ing] 
horizontally," is not a memory. That's something I heard in a description of 
our sister station, Shemya, Alaska.

Of course we didn't have the paper, we got our news from Radio Moscow,
The BBC, and the English version of Voice of America. Halfway through
my tour a fellow who worked in personnel had the idea to collect donations 
from the troops to build a chapel. He had checked and found out that there 
was no chapel in the master plan for Diogenes Station, so our donations 
were used to buy the materials and hire the labor to build that chapel. I did 
read sometime later (probably in The Hallmark) that the chapel was 
completed and in use.