AIRLINES
ALASKA AIRLINES
Monday Levi Mills and James
Reilly were taken 'to Kotzebue.
Rev. Trautman was brought in
from Unalakleet.
For Anchorage were William
Lieberman, Richard Krepps, B. J.
Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. Orrin
Felmlev weer passengers to Mc
Grath.
Arriving from Anchorage Tues
day were R. Prescott, D. Gallo
way, J. Dillon, Sam Baker. Mrs.
Ryan was a passenger from Una
lakleet.
Departing for Anchorage on the
return flight were Jarry David.
Nellie David, Mr. and Mrs. Potos
ki. Mr. Winham, Mr. Behall, K.
Hedreen, A. Saario. Sam Godfrey,
P. R. Merrifield.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Tuesday Tim Wallace, Mr. Cros
by, A. Swenson, Don Swenson,
Walter Van Heuvel and G. Mo
rrow were Nome to Fairbanks
passengers. G. Griffith, Leo Geffe,
G. L. Hemre and Ronald Barr
weer brought from Kotzebue to
Nome.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving today from Fairbanks
was Carl Dewey.
Departing for Fairfbanks were
Pete Wirum, L. Parker, Roy Earl
ing, George Hellerick, Mrs. E. W.
Hardenbrook.
For Seattle Mr. and Mrs. George
Waldheim, F. R. Anderson, P.
Meyers, Clarence Tjernagle, Jack
Burke, Roy Schneider, Harold
Moore, Abe Den Adel, Leland Hal
verson, Fred Farmer, Levine Bra
then, Bert Crandell, Mr. and Mrs. j
Ted Grotha and children.
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Refinery Explosion
Rocks Texas Plant
PORT ARTHUR, Tex. (JP)—A
series of seven explosions rocked
a sprawling oil refinery near this
Gulf coast city early today. Three
men were injured, one critically.
The blasts set off fires which
were brought under control about
6 a.m., and extinguished about!
two hours later.
The huge refinery and tank j
farm belongs to the Gulf Oil cor
poration of Houston. A company
spokesman said the explosions
and fire began as escaping gas
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
"ommerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, November 15, 1950
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
tonight and Thursday with mod
i erate northeasterly winds, becom
i ing easterly tonight. Lowest tem
perature tonight 5, highest tem
perature Thursday 20.
Nomt data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation, none. (Total this
month 1.15 inches.
Temperatures: highest 19, low
est 4.
Maximum wind 16 miles an
hour from the northeast.
Sunrise at 8:34 a.m., sunset at
2:58 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 25, lowest 15.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907:
Highest 39 in 1907, lowest —13
in 1948.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 15 Snow
Point Hope ’ 25 Cloudy
Kotzebue —1 Partly Cloudy
Shishmaref * 9 Partly Cloudy
Wales 24 Cloudy
Gambell 26 Cloudy
Nome 18 Cloudy
Unalakleet 3 Partly Cloudy
Bethel 6 Clear
McGrath —11 Clear
Anchorage 17 Clear
Fairbanks —25 Clear
Seattle 39 Rain
struck a fire box.
Morgan Swinney, 42, was crit
ically burned. Francis Lawrence,
49, and R. T. Smith, 58. were se
riously hurt.
The refinery is only 70 miles up
the angling Texas coast line from
the site of the 1947 Texas City
disaster in which more than 500
persons were killed.
The explosions forced Gulf ter
close down its huge catalytic
cracking unit, vital in processing
petroleum for aviation gasoline.
The firm sai dthe unit may be
back in operation Monday or
Tuesday. The huge refinery can
process up to 230,000 barrels of
oil daily.
NORTHERN GRILL
at Scotty’s
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and Have Your Fill!
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VERA LONERGAN
Sole Owner and Manager
Martial Law
In Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela (/P)—The
government decreed a state of
emergency yesterday and pressed
a hunt for all the assassins of act
ing (President Lt. Col. Carlos Del
gado Chalbaud, a member of the
ruling three-man military junta.
The alleged leader of the assas
sins, Rafael Simon Urbina, was
arrested with some members of
his group, it was announced.
The state of emergency indefin
itely suspended civil liberties.
The official version of Monday’s
slaying said Delgado and his aide,
navy lieut. Carlos Bacalao Lara,
were seized by a group of 20 men
as they were leaving Delgado’s
home. The two were taken to an
abandoned house in the eastern
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section of the city, where they
were brutally beaten. Delgado was
shot in the back| and Bacalao was
critically wounded.
Meantime, Venezuela closed her
borders and suspended civil lib
erties.
A dusk -to-dawn curfew was
clamped on the oil-rich country’s
4,000,000 population after the
government announcement that
Delgado, head of a three-man mil
itary junta which seized control
of Venezuela in 1948, had died of
gunshot wounds.
CARACAS, Venezuela, <JP) —
Venezuelans planned a state fu
neral today for their slain acting
President Carlos Dalgado Chal
baud as the leader of his assassins j
lay dead at the hands of a prison j
guard.
All federal and municipal offices
were closed in mourning for Lt.
Col. Delgado.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Groiha and !
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children have left to make their j
home in the middle-west. Mrs.
Grotha is the former Ellie Nelson.!
ARE COLDS MORE
PREVALENT IN ALASKA?
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Are colds
more common in frosty Alaska 3
than in temperate climates.
Scientists just can’t answer that
one at preesnt. Dr. Jack C. Halde
man of the U. S. Public Health
Service’s Arctic Health Research
Center at Anchorage, Alaska,
said Friday.
.He told a conference of scient
ists that to try to get an answer
there is an acute need for a large- i
scale survey embracing a good
cross section of the Alaskan popu
lations.”
The 1950 census shows Charles
County, in southern Maryland,
gained in population for the first
time in 160 years.
MINERS & MERCHANTS
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