Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, December 21, 1949
Forecast Nome: Fair and colder,
tonight, cloudy Thursday. Light
easterly winds becoming gentle
Thursday. Lowest temperature to
night —21, highest temperature
Thursday —12.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation, none. (Total this
month .88 inch>.
Temperatures: highest 6, lowest
—15.
Maimum wind 18 miles an hour
from the West.
Sunrise at 10:03 a.m., sunset at
1:56 p.m.
Today is the shortest day of 1949.
Comparative Data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 17, lowest 9.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907:
Highest 36 in 1913, lowest —22
in 1916.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —22 Clear
Point Hope —9 Clear
Kotzebue —9 Clear
Shishmaref 4 Cloudy
Wales 1 Ice Fog
Cambell 21 Cloudy
Nome —13 Clear
Unalakleet 3 Clear
Bethel —11 Clear
McGrath —13 Cloudy
Anchorage —6 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks —3 Cloudy
Juneau 40 Cloudy
Seattle 38 Cloudy
San Francisco 44 Partly Cloudy
AT THE POLARIS HOTEL
Jack Peck, Anchorage. Carl
Greidland, Jack Jefford, N. A.
Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. Kosball,
Anchorage, F. Barrell, Cape Nome.
Mrs. Paul Spurlock, Nome.
AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Monday Pilot Murphy made a
flight to Wales with Winfred Ad
loat, returning with William Sin
nok from Shishmaref and Jennie
Thompson from Teller.
Yesterday Pilot Murphy took
Col. Marston to White Mountain
and brought back Mary Tuerook
who is enroute to Point Lay
Arriving from Fairbanks yester
day was Robert Lewis, Tommy
Walluk who is enroute to Shish
maref was brought in from Kot
zebue and Albert Mazonna for
Wales.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Monday Dr. Vogel left for An
chorage; Mr. Ferguson and James
Nashalook for Unalakleet and
Tex Zeigler for Philadelphia.
Arriving yesterday from An
chorage were Mrs. Paul Spurlock,
Jack Peck. W. Adloat and Herman
Smith.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving with Pan American
this morning weer Mr. and Mrs.
Bohrer, Mrs. Harry Gottschalk,
Mrs. V. Dempsey, Willie Belta,
Bob Vreeken.
Departing were Curtis Jacobs,
Angelo Buffas and family, George
Morin, Chester Milligan, Barney
Crosby.
Hospital News
Issaac Larson, Helen Scott and
Albert Aukon are new patients in
the hospital from Nome.
William Sinnock was brought in
from Shishmaref.
Dad and his small daughter were
standing in front of a lion’s cage
at the park zoo. He was explain
ing how strong and fierce lions
are. His young hopeful took it all
I in, and then said: “Daddy, if it got
! out of its cage and ate you up,
what bus should I take home?”
For Good Printing Call Main 125
NEW
AIRFREIGHT
RATES
BETWEEN NOME
AND KOTZEBUE
25 LBS. MINIMUM 7c «>•
COMMODITY RATES
100 LBS. MINIMUM 5c »>•
RLRSKR RIRUI1SS
INC.
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
(Continued from Page One'
official communist party organ.
The theme often has been raised
by Moscow and has been greeted
by the west with extreme cau
tion.
In harmony with the peace
theme, the Supreme Soviet Presi
dium set up new annual interna
tional Stalin peace prizes. The
idea seems to rival the Nobel
peace prize which is valued at
about $21,000. However there will
be five to ten Stalin prizes award
ed annually, each valued at 100,
000 rubles ($20,000>.
Stalin has been given the most
tremendous celebration ever ten
dered one man. Gifts flowed in
from nearly half the world to the
man who wields more power than
the czars who preceded him.
Mao Tze-Tung, Chinese com
munist leader of 450,000,000 new
subjects brought almost total vic
i torv in China as his birthday pres
ent, along with silk scrolls, sculp
ture and other treasurer of the
East.
In Tokyo, Russia’s degelation
angrily walked out of the Allied
four-power council for Japan
whe nthe matter of repatriation of
Japanese war prisoners came up.
But the walkout, the eight Rus
sian delegates avoided hearing
Gen eral Douglas MacArthur’s
charge that 374,041 Japanese have
: died in Soviet prison camps from
1 brutal treatment.
The Soviet leader, Lt. Gen. Kuz
j ma Derevyanko, contended the
; four-power group—U. S., Britain,
China, and Russia—had no busi
| ness discussing repatriation,
i In Washington there was specu
lation on the successor to Stalin.
The secret is locked in the Krem
I lin. However diplomats close to
Russian affairs picked V. M. Mol
otov as the man most likely to
succeed in power.
1 They said he would be aided by
two top lieutenants Georgi M. Ma
lenkov, 47, who now controls the
communist party machine under
Stalin, and Lavrenti Beria. 50, a
super-chief of the Russian police.
The diplomats forecast an ultimate
' struggle for absolute personal i
NOTICE
I ________
Pioneer Meeting tonight at Ig
loo at eight o'clock.
Robert Baldwin, Secy.
NOTICE
To
Real and Personal Property
Holders
The tax rate on real and person
al property of the City of Nome,
has been set at lVic (.1025) by the
Boadr of Equalization. One-half
the property tax shall be paid by
January 31, 1950 and the other
half by July 15, 1950.
Board of Equalization,
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk.
Pub. Dec. 21 and 23, 1949
I WANT ADS
I WANTED—Dish Washer. Call at
North Pole. 151-3tc
FOR RENT—Good Cabin. Inquire
Bjornstad, 411 3rd Ave. 148-tfc
i_
WILL PERSON who traded size
7Vi overshoe for 9Vi overshoe at
the A.N.B. Dance Saturday please
contact Thompson at Phone Red 81
152-lc
power among these three.
Stalin, western authorities said,
is taking life a little easier. He is
now in good health and presum- I
ably able to carry on as the big
boss of the communist world for ■
some years to come.
In London at Buckingham Pal
ace last night the British King and
Queen threw their annual Christ
mas party for the hired help. The
queen danced with the footman
and Princess Margaret waltzed
with the clock-winder. The King,
recuperating slowly from a leg
ailment sat on the sidelines.
At Lake Success, the U. N. trus
teeship council closed shop for a
month long Christmas recess. Its
last act was to ask Israel to trans
fer its government offices back to
Tel Aviv. Israel had moved its
government offices to Jerusalem
in defiance of a U. N. decision to
internationalize the Holy City.
NUGGET ADS
GET RESULTS
Albert Aukon. grade school boy
was seriously injured yesterday
while helping to move a piano
from a classroom to the auditori
um.
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It is reported that the piano
tipped over on the boy accidental
ly, pinning him down and injuring
his face and head. He was rushed to
the hospital unconscious and is in
a critical condition according to
advises.
CHARITY GETS INAUGURA
TION SPLIT
WASHINGTON, 4/p) — Profits
from grandstand seats along last
January’s inauguration parade
route, and from the inauguration
ball are to be divided among the
Community Chest, Florence Crit
tenden Home and the Home for
Incurables. The largest part of the
estimated $30,00 to $40,000 will go
to the Chest, but exact shares
have not yet been decided.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
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ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
Phone—Shop: Black 76 — Residence: Main 52
WE CHECK YOUR TANK REGULARLY
Ben Young
A. & A. SANITARY COMPANY
Phone MAIN 85
“For Courteous, Efficient Service”
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NOME :: ALASKA
WE CARRY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FINE LIQUORS, BEER AND WINE
Out-of-Town Orders Carefully Handled
THE NOME LIQUOR STORE
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Watchmaker
Box 625 Nome, Alaska
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