Forecast And
Weather Report
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Nome and Vicinitv
Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Wednesday, August 8, 1945
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
to cloudy today and Thursday
with a few light showers this af
ternoon and Thursday afternoon.
Lowest temperature tonight 32,
highest Thursday 52.
Nome data: Precipitation last
24 hours ending 8:30 a.m. today
trace.
Total precipitation this month
to 8:30 a.m. today 0.25 inches.
Temperaures last 24 hours to
8:30 a.m. today: highest 47, low
est 33.
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 60, lowest 36.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest 32 in 1908,
highest 68 in 1916.
Sunrise at 4:26 a.m., sunset at
9:47 p.m.
Data for other selected stations!
as of 8:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Point Barrow 32 Ra;n
Point Hope 38 Rain
Kotzebue 40 Cloudy
Wales 40 Cloudy
Gambell 40 Cloudy
Nome 39 Clear
Golovin 39 Clear
Moses Point 41 Clear
Unalakleet 42 Cloudy
Bethel 53 Clear
McGrath 47 Cloudy
Galena 45 Cloudy
Fairbanks 55 Clear
Wiseman 55 Cloudy
Ft. Yukon 50 Cloudy
Summit 47 Rain
Anchorage 55 - Rain
Cordova 47 Cloudy
Juneau 53 Rain
WASHINGTON
IN WARTIME
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By HOWARD FLIEGER
WET GOODS FAMINE
LAID TO DRYS
WASHINGTON— The whiskey
shortage has made liquor buyers
of people who normally wouldn’t
give two bits for all the bourbon
in Kentucky.
In fact, this hoarding by non
drinkers is one reason why the
man wrho really wants a drink
often can’t find a drop to take
home.
The situation came out as a by
product disclosure of a Senate
committee’s investigation into the
national liquor supply. One wit
ness, a liquor administrator in an
eastern state, said the stimulated
buying of whiskey by those who
never touch, the stuff is an estab
lished factor in the growing de
mand for a scarce product.
Paradoxical it certainly is, but
committee members can offer an
explanation—in fact, several:
Hoarders, they say, will be
hoarders. It seems to be a psycho
logical thing. When something
starts disappearing from counters
the hoarders start laying it in.
So when whiskey started gett:ng
scarce, hoarders started buying.
It isn’t that they want the whis
key so much. They just don’t want
to get caught without it.
That takes care of the out-and
out hoarder. But there are syn
thetic hoarders among the non
drinkers. some committee mem
bers think, who jumped into the
retail liquor market because they
saw a chance to turn a good thing
for themselves. The profit motive
Whitehorse 48 Partly Cloudy
Edmonton 54 Clear
Prince George 52 Clear
Seattle 57 Clear
Ketchikan 52 Cloudy
The NEVADA FOUNTAIN
AND SANDWICH SHOP
Open Daily from 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 A.M.
SOFT DRINKS, SANDWICHES
AND LIGHT LUNCHES
PHONE BLACK 20
THE COFFEE
CUP
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“A TRULY
GOOD CUP
OF COFFEE”
ALSO
SANDWICHES, PIE, CAKE
Cigars, Cigarettes, Soft Drinks
Open Nine A.M. ’till One A.M.
MEMORIAL AT BACUIO — Soldiers of the 33rd U. S. infantry division pay tribute to
fallen comrades in the cathedral at Baguio, recently liberated Philippine summer capital.
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probably sent some abstainers off
to the liquor store to lay in a pre
shortage supply.
They’re the potential hip pocket
bootleggers. When whiskey sup
plies become short enough their
liquor brobably will go on sale on
a “Joe sent me” basis at prices
that will make the Office of Price
Administration’s bottled goods
ceiling prices look like well worn
carpets.
Another non-drinking liquor
buyer is the close friend-in-need
of the citizen who likes to take a
couple before dinner. He buys a
bottle for his neighbor. He prob
ably is most prevalent in liquor
monopoly states where the state
government runs the retail whis
key business. In most such states
the dwindling liquor supply is ra
tioned and a bottle is the ration
for each adult. The drinker can
manage to get two, however, by
buying the second through a non
drinking friend.
C.A.A. Seeking
Men, Women For
Alaska Jobs
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 8—UP)—
The Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration is seeking men and women
to fill jobs as aircraft communi
cators in United States, Alaska
and the Pacific islands. The sal
aries range from $2,414 as com
municator trainee to $4,378 of
chief overseas communicator for
Alaska jobs.
Twenty percent of the commu-1
nicators chosen for training may
be man and wife without children.
Communicators prepare a record
of information concerning wea
ther navigation, facilities, aids,
landing fields, potential and ex
isting hazards.
LADIES AID TO PUBLISH
NOME COOK BOOK
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Federated Church have completed
their plans for the publication of
a Nome Cook Book and a com
mittee is busy compiling recipes
used by Nome’s many good cooks.
It is the plan of the committee to
have the publication on sale in
time to be mailed to the States for
Christmas.
MINING, CONTRACTING
And INDUSTRIAL
EQUIPMENT
Lomen Commercial
Company
WORK CLOTHES
Shop at the N. C. Co. for the
best in serviceable and
comfortable work clothes.
BIB OVERALLS
WAIST OVERALLS
FRISCO JEANS
COVERALLS
WHIPCORD PANTS
TWILL PANTS
WORK SHIRTS
SHOP CAPS
WORK SOX
WORK SHOES
N. C. PRICES
Northern
Commercial Co.
Alaska's Pioneer Merchants
TWO DELIVERIES 10 A.M.
DAILY 3 P.M.
Phone MA. 133