AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Pan American arrived late Fri
day with the following passengers:
Roger and Elizabeth Knipple, C. J.
Nagle, C. A. Scriven, A. L. Zum
walt, Dick Brown, Joe Skorfik,
Oren Dover, Mr. and Mrs. Ira
Downs, Margaret Brandt, Ann
Walsh, Betty McCormac and in
fant, Boyd Harwood, Dr. James
Ryan.
Round trip passengers were Elsa
Warblane, Genevieve La Barga
and Col. T. J. Tully.
Departing were Ada Echard, V.
J. Hayes, Paul McCarthy, Mrs.
Woodbury Abbey and son, Paul
Mandeville, Glen Warner, Lottie
Andlakstoat, Jack Faulkned, L. E.
Evans, Fina Ivanoff, Carolyn .Mc
Lain, Charles Rung, Peter Follette.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Last Friday the U. S. geological
party which has been working out
of Lava Lake were brought in,
having closed camp for the season.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dobson were
passengers to Nome from Bud
Creek where they have been min
ing this summer.
On Saturday a trip was made to
Wales and Buck Creek. Clyde
Smith and John Koomak were pas
sengers from Buck Creek to Teller.
Mr. McMasters was brought to
Nome from Teller for the C.A.A.
Sunday on a flight from Kotze
bue W. C. Van Mechel, L. C. Strin
ger and Ken Mills were brought
in.
Yesterday Edith Bulloch, John
Vollar and Gladys Whaley and
child were taken to Rainbow.
This morning Dr. James Ryan
was taken to Council, Haycock
and Candle.
A trip to Kotzebue this morning
took Bishop Francis Gleason, Mrs.
T. Kingeok and children.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Incoming passengers Saturday
were: Henry Oraock, Mrs. Ken
neth Hebert, Mr. Robinson and
Mrs. Robinson.
Passengers leaving on the return
trip were: J. E. Noonan, Fred
Brachen, C. A. Scriven, C. J. Na
gele, A. L. Zumwalt, Rochelle
Welsh, G. A. Herbert, J. W. Alder
son.
Incoming passengers today were
D. M. Chalmers, Carl Hoffman,
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, September 13, 1948
Forecast Nome: Cloudy with
rain tonight and Tuesday. Fresh
southeast wind. Lowest tempera
ture tonight 42. Highest tempera
ture Tuesday 46.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: Precipitation 0.09
' inches. (Total this month 0.30
! inches).
Temperatures: highest 46, low
est 42.
Maximum wind 20 miles an
hour from the S.S.W.
Sunrise at 5:20 a.m., sunset at
6:34 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera -
, tures one year ago today: highest
45, lowest 30.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: highest 61 in 1938,
lowest 22 in 1928.
| Data for other stations as of 7:00
a.m. today.
Station Temp. Weather j
Barrow 37 Rain j
Point Hope 42 Cloudy!
' Kotzebue 44 Cloudy
Shishmaref 43 Partly Cloudy
| Wales 44 Cloudy
Gambell 42 Cloudy
Nome 44 Cloudy1
Unalakleet 43 Cloudy
Bethel 36 Cloudy
McGrath 43 Partly Cloudy j
Anchorage 44 Clear ■
Fairbanks 45 Cloudy j
Whitehorse 41 Clear i
Edmonton 56 Partly Cloudy j
Juneau 54 Cloudy i
Ketchikan 53 Cloudy i
Seattle 70 Partly Cloudy j
San Francisco 66 Clear
Bethel Crowell, Michael Guzy.
Departing passengers today were
Mrs. Earl Drake, Mr. J. Perron,
Mrs. J. Perron, Mr. R. F. Hay.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
C. A. Scriben, Charles Nagle,
' Portland. A. L. Zumwalt, James
Ryan, Hale Belsher, Charles Rouse
Juneau. O. W. Dover, George Sko
rik, M. C. Smith, Fairbanks. Ted
Zeigler, Oren Scovell, Igloo. J. W.
Perrin, Walter White, Anchorage.
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To Re-Establish
Alaska Coast Guard
JUNEAU, (/P)—Governor Ernest
Gruening’s office announced Sat
urday that the Alaska coast guard
district will be re-established.
The announcement said the in
formation came from John W.
Snyder secretary of the treasury.
The location of the headquarters
was reported undecided. Juneau
and Ketchikan have been bidding
for it.
The district was made a part of
the Seattle district following the
war. Alaska groups have protested
the move.
Two F-80 Jet Planes
Crash In Germany
FRANKFURT, Germany, (#*)—
Two U. S. F-80 jet fighter planes
crashed today near Kaufbeuren
while enroute to England to take
part in “Battle of Britain” Day,
September 15.
Another F-80 jet is missing, the
U. S. air force headquarters an
nounced.
Pilots of both the crashed planes
were believed to have been killed.
The cause of the mishaps was un
determined.
Gets Snake Bite At
Religious Meeting
PINEVILLE, Ky. C/P)—A snake
bite suffered in a religious cere
mony sent Mrs. McKinley Bur
nett, 29, to a hospital, but she was
reported recovering satisfactorily.
Mrs. Burnett, who lives be
tween here and Harlan, explained
to a newsman from her hospital
bed she was bitten by a rattle
snake while “testifying” at serv
ice in the Free Pentecostal church
of East Pineville. She added she
believes “the spirit” leads her to
handle snakes.
For three years, Mrs. Burnett
related, she had handled snakes
but never had been bi ten.
Mrs. Burnett declared she be
lieves she was bitten because
there were "non-believers” in the
crowd.
Tex Zeigler, proprietor of the
Igloo Commercial Company, of Ig
loo, Alaska, is in Nome for a few
days on business.
Paul Mandeville. proprietor of
the Modern Laundry and Dry
Cleaners, left for ;he States on a
business trip.
NOTICE
BADMINTON
Badminton practice will begin
Tuesday night at 7:'30 p.m. in the
Noma Hi-school Gym. All are in
vited to participate.
Gordon Osborne, Chm.
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Three Eskimoes To
Go To Texas
DALLAS, Tev., (A3)—The Dallas
oilman who bet $20,000 that he
could bring three Eskimo women
back to Texas says “we’ve already
got ’em and they’re coming down
with a chaperone.”
L. L Horne, president of the
Horne Oil company, said the Eski
mos willing to come to Texas to
settle his bet had been found in
Alaska.
“My pilot in Seattle, Lew Leach,
is awaiting word from me to buy
a new plane and bring those Eski
mos down here,” Horne said. “And
they’re gonna be down in the
Blackstone hotel at Fort Worth by
Wednesday.
“I don’t know how or where
Leach got them, but they’re all
about 18 years old and they’ll be
here with their chaperone.”
Horne explained that recently he
had gone up to Alaska on vacation
and “phoned some friends back
home to ask them what they want
ed me to bring back.”
The friends—more oilmen in
Houston, San Antonio, Midland
and Waco, Horne said—all got to
MR. AND MRS. FRANK GLASER
BACK FROM NUNIVAK ISLAND
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Glaser, of
the Fish and Wildlife Service, who
have been living at Nunivak Island
in the village of Makoryuk for sev
eral months reutrned to their basei
at Fairbanks, glad to be back in
civilization. The Glasers have been
studying the experimental herd of
musk-ox on the island which now
number 56. Mr. Glaser states that
there are now over 10,000 reindeer
on the island.
He states that the island abounds
in bird-life with puffins, auklets,
cormorants, kittwakes, geese, duck
cranes, swans and the emperor
goose being the most common.
BOYD HARWOOD RETURNS
FROM STATES TRIP
Boyd Harwood, of the Nome
Drug Store who has been in the
States on business and visiting lus
family, returned on the Friday
Pan American looking much reel
ed.
He states that he left his wife
and daughter much improved a-.d
in a very satisfactory condPion.
gether and bet him $20,000 he
couldn’t bring the Eskimos to
Texas.
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