Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by trie U. S Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday. December 29, 1948
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
tonight and Thursday. Light vari
able winds. Lowest temperature
tonight —32, highest temperature
Thursday —20.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation 0.01 inches. ‘Total
this month 1.26 inches*.
Tern peratures: highest —10.
lowest —33.
Maximum wind 6 miles an hour
from the N.N.W.
Sunrise at 10:02 a.m.. sunset at
2:06 a.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
—6, lowest —28.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Highest 35 in 1941,
lowest —42 in 1911.
Data for other stations as of 7:00
a.m. today:
S ation Temp. Weather .
Barrow —24 Clear
Point Hope —12 Clear
Kotzebue —16 PartlyCloudy
Wales —12 Snow:
Gam bell - —10 Snow
Nome —31 Clear
Unalakleet —15 Snow
Bethel —29 Partly Cloudy
McGrath —35 Clear
Anchorage 3 Snow
Fairbanks —14 Snow
Juneau 22 Cloudy
Ketchikan 35 Snow
Seattle 41 PartlyCloudy
San Francisco 44 Cloudy
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AIRLINES
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ALASKA AIRLINES
Incoming passengers Monday
were Wilma Munz, W. F. Estill.
Departing was Charles W. Ir
win.
Outgoing passengers today were
Bill Peterson, W. E. Estill and
Robert Pitnalalik.
This will be the last flight for
Stewardess Evelyn Jadosh, who is
leaving Alaska Airlines to become
a bride.
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PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Incoming passengers today were
Pauline Gardner, Mamie Karmun,
Norman Johnson. G. L. Trow
bridge, R. L. Gillis.
Outgoing passengers were Don
Stewart, Jack Whaley, Joe Mich
els, Charlie Jones, Mrs. Scott and
Butch.
HOSPITAL NEWS
The only new patient at the hos
pital is Sig. Savok.
NOTICE
Leslie A. Stevens. Public Ac
countant. Auditor. Office now lo
cated in Room No. 1. The Nevada
Building.
Phone Main 11 P.O. Box 138
NOTICE
Formal Dance Friday. New
Year's Eve. Bering Sea Club.
NOTICE
HARP CONCERT
DELAYED UNTIL
JANUARY 14th
Purchasers of tickets please
hold same until that date.
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Tall Tale Wins
Free States Trip
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FAIRBANKS, (/P> — Brother,
was it cold!
Why one Alaska winter the
mercury fell so fast it jerked
i thermometers off walls and rail
road engines used frozen steam as
cord wood.
That was the biggest sourodugh
whopper of the year. It brought
.Berman Rinear, Alaska Railroad
i baggage clerk and part-time pho
J tographer, S500 in cash and a free
| plane trip to spend New Year’s
Day in Hollywood.
1 No one was more surprised than
Rinear when the three judges,
members of Fairbanks’ Igloo Pio
neers of Alaska, picked his story
as the best among 3,276 entries. It
j was en'itled “Moose Creek Char
lie and the quick freeze.”
Rinear had dropped around
Christmas Eve for the announce
ment, hoping to pick up a few ex
tra dollars by shooting a picture
'of the winner. He’d have had to
“mug” fiimself.
He said his astonishment at
j winning was even greater “be
cause every word of the yarn was
true.”
Sumner Welles
Freezes Fingers
And Feel
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The con- j
dition of Sumner Welles, former
undersecretary of state, was called i
satisfactory yesterday, barring
complications that could cost him
some of his fingers and toes.
Welles was found unconscious
in a frozen field about a mile from
his Oxon Hill, Md., home early i
Sunday morning. Police who ear
lier had planned to question him,
dropped the case last night. They
said Mrs. Welles told them she is
satisfied that there was no foul
play.
Friends believe that the 56- |
year-old former diplomat may
have suffered a heart attack or a 1
bad fall during the late-night walk
seeking relief from insomnia.
He is being treated in casualty
hospital here for shock and ex
posure. His fingers and toes were
frozen. A medical bulletin Mon
t
day night said his condit'on con
tinued “satisfactory” with the
“chief hazard possible complica
tions from exposure.”
Jack Whaley, of the Wien Air
lines, left today via Pan Ameri
can, for Fairbanks, after a short
business trip here.
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Navy To “Attack”
Kodiak With Large
Amphibious Force
Terminal Island Navy Base,
v’alif. i/P>—The biggest naval op
erations in Alaska Waters since
the Japanese were driven out of
the Aelutians will take 18,000 sail
ors and marines north soon.
Kodiak island will be ‘attacked’
in extensive amphibious “inva
sion” activities.
A fleet of 34 vessels, Rear Adm.
L. T. DuBose announced yester
day. will launch an assault on the
island, the site of the navy’s north
ernmost Pacific base. Vessels of
almost every navy type, plus 16,
000 sailors, 2,000 marines and 120
carrier-based aircraft, including
four jets, will take part.
The first units of the fleet will
leave San Diego January 17 for
operations against Kodiak Island
•ome time in February.
Defending the island will be
army, airforce and naval units di
rected by Rear Adm. A. E. Mont
gomery, commanding the Alaskan
sea frontier.
Not only clothing, but scores of
other items—such as oil, engines
and de-icing gear—as well as food
and personnel will be tested.
“This is not a major naval prob
lem,” Adm. DuBose told a oress
conference here yesterday. “It is
an exercise to test men in cold,
wet weather and rotten condi
tions.”
He said cold weather clothing,
sufficiently light and flexible to
permit its wearers to work and
move about easily, is one of the
chief objectives.
Vessels involved will range
from the big Essex-type carrier
Boxer, the cruiser Duluth, the
command ship Mt. McKinley and
the seaplane tender Curtis, flag
ship for the operation, down to a
submarine, landing craft of vari
ous types and a small rocket ship.
The entire force is due back in
San Francisco about March 1,
where another theoretical attack
is scheduled against forces headed
Jap Workers to Get
Cheap Clothing
TOKYO, (/P)—General Mac Ar
thur’s headquarters advised one
million Japanese workers today
they would be allowed to buy
shoes and clothing at cheap offi-fc
cial prices as an incentive toward
greater production.
Previously five and a halt mil
lion Japanese in coal, fishing and
farming occupation had been
given this privilege. Now the pro
gram will be extended to iron and
steel, chemical, metal mining and
freight workers.
The clothing will come from
surplus American army stocks.
The term “copper derives from
“cyprian metal,” the name given
by prehistoric tribes who mined
and used it on the island of Cy
prus. ^
by Vice Adm. George D. Murray,
commanding the western sea fron
tier.
Admiral DuBose said every bur
eau in the navy department and
every command has been offered
an opportunity to test materiel
and personnel problems under the
cv conditions to be encountered
during the month-long maneu
vers. He listed especially cold
weather clothing, food, survival
and oli and engine problems. .
Admiral DuBose, as commander
of the first task fleet, is setting up
the maneuvers but will be suc
ceeded on Jan. 8 by vice admiral
G. F. Bogan, now commander of
Atlantic fleet air force.
DuBose said the maneuvers will
complement in a sense last year’s
Byrd expeditions to the South
Pole, but will use many newer de
velopments in various fields.
Among the equipment to be tested
are four jet fighters, North Ameri
can FJ-1S to be placed aboard the
Boxer.
The admiral said at least one of
each type of navy vessel will be
included in the fleet to “adequate
ly cover all of the desired techni
cal phases.”
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