Forecast And !
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
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Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
May 1, 1946
Forecast for Nome and vicin*!
ity:
Snow tonight .and Thursday with
■* increasing Southeast winds and
warmer.
Lowest temperature Thursday
20. highest 35.
^ Nome data as of 7:30 am., to
day:
Precipitation last 24 hours a j
trace.
Total precipitation this month
trace.
Total snowball this month a
trace.
Temperatures last 24 hours,
highest 25, lowest 6.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
17 mph from the ENE.
Sunrise 3:32 a.m.. Sunset 8:23
p.m.
Comparative data—
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 10, lowest -2.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest -6 in 1914,
highest 48 in 1941.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
^ Station Temp. Weather
* Barrow 8 Snow
Kotzebue 11 Clear
Shishmaref 8 Cloudy
Gambell 17 Show
Nome 13 Cloudy
Golovin 19 Cloudy
Unalakleet 24 Cloudy
Bethel 25 Cloudy
McGrath 36 Cloudy
Anchorage 43 Clear
Fairbanks 45 Clear
Juneau 46 Cloudy
Whitehorse 44 Cloudy
Ketchikan 49 Cloudy
Edmonton 55 Clear
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NWA CHAMBER
HELD NOON LUNCHEON
The Chamber of Commerce
held their regular noon luncheon
meeting at the Nevada Grill.
Guests of the Chamber were
the faculty of both local schools.
Teachers of the Territorial
School were introduced to the
members by Superintendent J.
W. Thompson, and Mr. Williams
introduced the teachers from the
Bureau School.
Other guests were N. Sayre,
U.S.Coast Guard recruiting of
ficer, and Chaplain York of the
Air Base.
John McNees reported for the
committee on the Tuberculosis
hospital for Nome, giving a very
comprehensive survey ineltding
reports from other parts of this
Division, indicating the unanim
ous opinion that the hospital in
question should be in the vicinity
of Nome. A complete report of
committee findings will be sent
to Dr. Albrecht on his return
from Washington, D. C.
Chairman of the meeting, Rich- (
a r d, Webb, introduced the
‘Cheer-io Trio', of the Nome Ter-,
ritorial School, whe entertained*
with several song selections, after
which there was a short discus
sion on the ’Sales Tax’.
A. M. Hartford, manager of the
U. S. Smelting company, stated
..e was girt’ to be back home!
again. j
BOARD OF TRADE HAS
EARLY MORNING FIRE
The fire alarm which sounded
early this morning called the
Fire Department to the Board of \
Treda Bar, thre doors east of the
station. The room was dense
wood of the bar, which had burnt*
from unextinguished cigarettes. !
A hole was burned through the
bar.
FAMED CYCLIST DIES
AT AGE OF 72 YEARS
Felix Raney, the man who rode
a bicycle from Nome to Skagway
and return, died recently in Mod
esto, California, at the age of 72.
Raney was one of the 12 men
who entered the Klondike in
1397 via the water route. He
spent four years in the two cities*
of Nome and Dawson.
He made a bicycle trip from
Nome to Skagway and return, a
distance of over 1600 miles.
Mrs. Raney, his widow, resides
in Modesto, where Mr. Raney
has been in the real estate bus
iness for the past 34 years.
MINING COURSE
NIGHT SCHOOL 7:30 P. M.
The extension mining course
which is being conducted at the
Nome Territorial School starts
promptly each evening at 7:30
P. M.
Japs Mob Soldiers
Sunday Nnght
TOKYO, May 1, — (A3)—1Two
American soldiers were beaten
Sunday night by a mob of Japs,
One of whom said he would not
“take anything from the GI’s”
the army paper ‘Stars and
Stripes” reported.
Captain Frisch, Chief of the
Criminal Investigation Division
of the Provost Marshal’s Office
was quoted as saying, "The two
Americans were painfully but not
seriously hurt.”
LADIES AID SOCIETY
WILL MEET FRIDAY
The Ladies Aid Society will
meet Friday at 2:00 p.m., at the
home of Mrs. A. Polet.
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