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Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinitv
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Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Monday, March 18, 1946
Forecast Nome: Continued cold
tonight and Tuesday. Lowest tem
perature Tuesday —25, highest
temperature Tuesday —5.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
F Precipitation last 24 hours,trace,
total precipitation this month, 6.2
inches.
Total snowfall this month, 6.2
inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest —5, lowest —23.
Sunrise at 6:07 a.m., sunset at
6:11 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest, 23 lowest 4.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907:
Lowest —29 in 1911, highest 34
in 1931.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —14 Cloudy
Point Hope —13 Clear
Kotzebue —27 Cloudy
Wales —22 Clear
Gambell —7 Clear J
Nome —14 Snow
Unalakleet —10 Cloudy
Bethel —19 Clear
McGrath —30 Snow ■
Anchorage 6 Snow
Fairbanks —16 Clear1
Juneau 30 Cloudy
Whitehorse 16 Cloudy
Ketchikan 37 Rain
Edmonton 34 Cloudy
Seattle 34 Clear
The earliest known system of
written laws was the code of
Hammurabi, king of Babylonia,
which were promulgated about
2,350 B.C.
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Jet-Propelled Lockheed
Established Record
Headquarters Alaskan Depart
ment—Some Army Air Forces will
be re-equipped with jet-prooelled
Lockheed P-80 “Shoting Stars,’’
one of which recently established
a transcontinental speed record of
four hours, 13 minutes, 23 seconds, j
AAF Headquarters announced re- |
cently.
Approximately 150 P-80s will
be assigned to the occupational ’
air units in Europe. The 13th Air
Force, which is helping to patrol
the Pacific bases in the Philip-,
pines, will receive 75 of the!
speedy fighters in April, and 75 i
more will be sent to the 5th Air !
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RECOMMEND PAYHIKE
FOR ARMY
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Headquarters Alaskan Depart
ment—A twenty percent increase
in the pay and allowances of offi
cers and men of all the armed
forces was recently recommended
to Congress by Secretary of War
Robert P. Patterson and Secretary
of the Navy James Forrestal, an
Army News Service dispatch
stated.
Army and Navy officials said
that the program will add approx
imately $600,000,000 a year to cur
rent expenditures. The reason for
the proposed money boost was
“to bring current pay schedules
more in line with the increased
living costs and also to provide
additional incentive to recruiting."
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needed new shoes so baby bought
them.
C. A. Fiscus, just released from
the navy, needed a new pair of
shoes.
His daughter, Charlene, 8, in
sisted on buying them with 900
pennies she had saved.
New AAF Jet Plane—Longest-Range Fighter
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Thia jet-propelled plane, the XP-83, combines speed, longe range,
end the ability to fly at high altitudes. Army Regulars assisted in the
development of this new plane.
Force in Japan this summer.
Instructors will accompany the
first shipment of the new planes
to both theaters.
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