Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Wednesday, February 6. 1946
Forecast Nome: Clear today and
Thursday. Lowest temperature
temperature tonight —25: highest
temperature Thursday —10.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours none.
Total precipitation this month .02
inches.
Total snow fall this month 0.2
inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest —12, lowest —26.
Maximum wind last 24 hours:
7 miles per hour from the north.
Sunrise at 8:31 a.m., sunset at
4:03 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
12, lowest 3.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —35 in
1925, highest 38 in 1929.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —14 Snow
Point Hope —16 Cloudy
Kotzebue —31 Clear
Shishmaref —16 Clear
Wales —14 Clear
Gambell —13 Clear
Nome —21 Clear
Unalakleet —36 Clear
Bethel —24 Clear
McGrath —23 Cloudy
Anchorage 9 Snow
Fairbanks —14 Snow
Juneau 18 Cloudy
Whitehorse —1 Cloudy
Ketchikan 35 Cloudy
Edmonton —9 Cloudy
Seattle 33 Clear
GEN. IKE STOPPED T«E
SHOW—AND HE NEEDS
NO ENCORE
WASHINGTON — Your Capital
in Peacetime:
In spite of all preceding pros
and cons, when Gen. E:senhower
finished his long explanation or
the Army demobilization program
to more than 200 members of Con
gress recently, and then asked far
questions, not a one was asked.
Although the General came with
scores of pages of prepared state
ment, he threw them aside after
only a few minutes and ad-libbed
the rest of the way. Probably not
since George Washington has
military leader been more effec
tive on a speaker’s platform.
* * *
It’s time somebody started pass
ing the accolade along to OPA Ad
ministrator Chester Botvles. He
has struck in a job that was too
hot for all of his predecessors, in
cluding Leon Henderson who isn’t
chased easily even from a dog
house.
Nobody would have charged
Bowles with desertion if he had
! joined the exodus of business big
leaguers as soon as the war was
over. Instead he has stayed on
; through the period when criticism
of OPA has reached the zenith and
authority of the organization has
been steadily waning.
* * *
It wouldn’t be fair to mention
his name, but one of the nation’s
top lawmakers had this to say
when I mentioned the telephone
and telegraph strikes: “Goodness,
what a relief. If the postoffice em
ployees would just walk out now
for a couple of weeks, maybe I
could catch my breath.”
* * *
Washington has had as many
housing laughs as any of the cities
but none struck the capital funnier
than the fact that the National
Housing Administration is house
hunting.
NHA has had quarters in a pri
vate building on Eye St., N. W.
The owners sold. The new owners
told NHA they could get out and
the sooner the better.
* # *
Post-War note: The State De
partment passport division is ex
panding frantically. It has been
given a No. 1 priority on clerks,
typists, etc., but is pretty glum
about the prospect of getting
enough new workers to meet the
increasing demand for passports
and visas.
♦ * *
The talk is going around and
around here that Interior Secre
tary Ickes soon will leave the cab
inet to join that other out-spoken
little man, Fiorello LaGuardia, as
a radio commentator. The gossip
ers also are positive, but not quite
as much so, that Henry Wallace
will leave the Department of Com
merce soon to take the stump for
the liberals in the 1946 Congres
sional elections. All you can get
out of either of them is Ickes’ of
fer to bet a dollar that he can
come closer to naming his resigna
tion date than any of the news
men.
The great barrier reef lying otf
the north-east coast of Australia
is the l^r^est continuous mass of
coral in the world, according to
the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It
pvfon^s 1 260 miles and is still
"owing.
MINING, CONTRACTING
And INDUSTRIAL
EQUIPMENT
*
LOMEN
Commercial Co.
AP NtwtUaturp*
HREE-QUARTERS of the U. S.
goes in for heavy duty sneez
ing each winter and loses mil
lions of dollars in pay because
of colds. This is the story of the
villain who causes colds and
how to beat him.
SO TINY that he can get through
filters stopping other bacteria,
the cold germ is known as a
Filterable Virus to doctors.
CROWD LOVER, he swarms
wherever people gather in big
throngs, likes to get a r o u n d
from person to person.
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For Good Printing Call Main 125
NOME DRUG STORE
]\<>w Open
Ijnder New' Management
BOYD HARWOOD GLADYS SEEDS
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
\\ e will he glad to meet the people of Nome
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Mail orders given prompt attention
ALASKA TELEPHONE &
TELEGRAPH CO.
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE SERVICE
NORTHERN
LIGHT & POWER CO.
“BETTER LIGHT . . . BETTER SIGHT”
C.-E. Mazda Lamps Refrigerators
Electrical Appliances Washing Machines
Wiring Material
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