Forecast Ami
* Weather Report
Nome ami Vicinity
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Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, March 3, 1947
Forecast Nome: Clear to scat
tered clouds and slightly colder to
night and Tuesday with fresh
northerly winds. Lowest tempera
ture tonight 8, highest temperature
Tuesday 20.
(|) Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today;
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 29, lowest 12.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 4.1
miles per hour from the N.N.E.
Sunrise at 7:01 a.m., sunset at
5:25 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 26, lowest —3.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —31 in 1929
^ highest 36 in 1917.
Data for other selected station
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —26 Clear
Point Hope —4 Clear
Kotzebue —5 Partly Cloudy
Shishmaref —2 Clear
Wales —2 Clear
Gambell 4 Cloudy
Nome 15 Partly Cloudy
* Unalakleet 8 Clear
Bethel 14 Cloudy
McGrath —19 Partly Cloudy
Anchorage 20 Cloudy
Fairbanks —10 Clear
Juneau 23 Clear
Whitehorse 10 Cloudy
Ketchikan 35 Clear
Edmonton —6 Clear
Seattle 48 Cloudy
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Nome Directory
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Bud Harper, Pres.
Andy Anderson, Sec.
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Thursday each month
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Meets Second Friday
JOHN R. RAPP. N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN. Secy.
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JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
O D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
\ IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome, Alaska
Seattle Office:
801 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6396
“Krigidettes” In
|Sliam Bailie
_
Field Headquarters, Tu ,1; Forte
Frigid (Delayed)—100 track-type
vehicles and 325 men of las., 1 >.<
“Frigidette’ moved warily again.-1
a theoretical enemy over the hi'
end in the army’s largest cro s
I country operation over the i o/e ,
wastelands of Interior Alaska.
1 he ponderous mobile column,
under command of Lt. Coi. Walt •
J. Preston, Fayetteville, IS.
roared into the icy Arctic n .; i
Friday from a base camp at L i id
Field, near Fairbanks.
As plumes of wh.te exhaust v..
pors filled the chill air, the motor
ized unit rumbled down the R;e ,
ardson highway, across the Xana
na River ice bridge ancx tio.vn ih.
Bonnafield Trail.
In a surprise Planet:re’, the
spearhead element swung >.i o t e
, trackless frozen tundra to.to . od
by bulldozers and the main col
umn.
It had been expected that the
task force would follow Ine route
of “Tundra Trek” which returne i
recently after a three-day push
around a 150-mile loop in five
“weasels.” The change in tactics.
“Frigidette’ leaders told their men
was ordered after the “enemy”
had shifted its forces.
liy early morning the • lumn
had covered 2D miles and veh c.o
uero di*>pv. sed o well liia .. .
an .1 »ur belore they wit
by a helicopter pi'.o , CL ,
o i J-)o oks, Round Oaks,
!.;iiC* Sa.uraay aL..c;noo.i . .<.*
u ' s.ruc . oof a a.o i, .., •
sol;- ry snow lie.a*, Le~ 1..., toe c
uc.eiu y of men an.i in ic n •*
• ’<“ >. i ii ■ cold o. the Are
ter.
Accurate c.ieck of the caka i
■ <.. ( > will 'be kept at task i'o;. •
l ' gid headquarters woer •
commander, Col. Paul V. Kane
Corvallis, Ore., and staff of,a
are |> tilting its progress.
Aerial observation, made hi!"
cult by efficient camouflage, we;
t!'e duly responsibility ol in k
: m i I/., Isidro Va!de<, Lawto l,
()kla.
W. WILCOX IN TOWN
ON BUSINESS TRIP
W. Wilcox formerly with the
Alaska Steamship Co., and well
known here, arrived from Fair
banks last Friday for the Odom
Co., which he now represents, and
has been renewing friendships as
well as establishing business con
tacts.
Arclic (loasllinr
To Be Mapped
SEATTLE. (/I*)- "o .-<• rin I • ro
le- c s irvpy office:s t .t.iy were
i a. ipi :i.!i • arran^cm - a : > an
exp lition to comple . the map
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i iu: a ivunee pur.y will Ly t.»
i >ank.s Mar !7, wrukv cor '
r. ui < ! I. Cornd •. Edw n ('.
E;.um. and fly from there a H
row.
Lt. Comdr. II. \V. Woodw .
ii I another survey crew v, E U>
. * m here to Harm. A 5, vi J
to* urvey. slarte i in !IM
fa lest northern Alas’ a v l . *
will continue sout.nv.s. ■,
V.h i:;wr.t4 it. The > v y . i.i~
■ro: h swT.’y a.- * .• x
wee of open ware during ‘
hr.ef “summer” in that pa t <•»
the Arctic Coast.
Comdr. Charles K. Green, new
chief of the coastal surveys ^ v -
sion, will arrive from Washim ‘ > i
Tuesday for a two-day inspection
and conferences wdth locai offi
cers.
The Seattle station also announc
ed today that the survey ship
Miss l airlKink
Mrcl I'airhauks
SEATTLE, (^»l—Fair... n*s vtll
a Vs.t Fairbanks today.
The occasion will be ' • arrival
»! Mi'S Lulu Fairbanks, interna
i:nl secretary of the S nr lough.-;
' 1 Canada an I the Uni:-, d State-;,
• , ()-i *v-e ^uest of honor a! the an
mini Fa Thank- midwinter ice c.n
nival. She was schedule: to lea /♦
Seattle by plane tills morning.
' >n her return here. Miss Fair
bulks will escort the two girls
chosen “Mis- Alaska” and “Miss
^ i i aan’.s” at the carnival. They
be entertained at a series of
■ 'fairs sponsored by the Alaskan
lepartmen! of the Seattle chambet
)!' commerce and the daughters of
Ma k .-Yukon pioneer .
Pathfinder will operate in Bristol
I fay tins sea-on; the Surveyor will
work oik the Shumagin Islands,
and the Explorer will make sur
veys on both sides of the Aleu
tians. Plans for the wooden motor
a ])' Derrickson, Lester J >nes ami
r>atton have not been completed.
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