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Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, February 12, 1947
Forecast Nome: Clear and colu
er tonight and Wednesday. Stronfa
north wind tonight, decreasing u
fresh Thursday. Lowest tempera
ture tonight —8, highest temper
ature Thursday 0.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today.
Precipitation last 24 hours none.
Total precipitation this month O.lt
inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 30, lowest 5.
. Maximum wind last 24 hours 4,
miles per hour fi*om the northeasi.
Sunrise at 8:07 a.m., sunset ai
4:24 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 27, lowest 19.
Extreme temperatures on thL
day since 1907: lowest —33 in
1919, highest 41 in 1927.
Data for other selected station,
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weathe:
Barrow —21 Clear
Point Hope —4 Clear
Kotzebue 5 Clear
Shishmaref —7 Clear
Wales —8 Clear
Gambell —7 Clear
Nome 7 Clear
Unalakleet 0 Clear
Bethel —1 Clear
McGrath —8 Clear
Anchorage —2 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks —6 Cloudy
Juneau 24 Snow
Whitehorse —5 Cloudy
Ketchikan 39 Rain
Edmonton 4 Cloudy
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Thursday
Bud Harper, Pres.
Andy I- nderson. Sec.
ANVIL LODGE
NO. 140
Meets First and Third
Thur"J'*v each month
KARL DEWEY. W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS. Secy.
NOME LODGE
A-5
Meets Second Friday
S. DAVID MAZEN, N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN. Secy.
HAGEN
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
CHAMBER ELECTS
NEW BOARD MEMBERS
The NWA Chamber of Com
merce last night elected three new
directors to the board at a meet
ing in the Nevada Lounge.
Those elected were W. A. Bou
cher (re-elected), H. J. Bernier and
Murlin W. Day.
The officers made annual re
ports giving a complete resume o.
the activities of the chamber to:
the past year.
Roger Johnson, chairman of tne
committee in charge of the Hign
School Basketball team’s trip to
Anchorage, reported that the out
look was favorable and that the
team was making preparations to
take the tournament by storm.
John McNees (nominated for
the board, but declined) made a
ve.y fine talk on the activities,
and need for more concerted ef
fort on the part of local business
people, in the Chamber of Com
merce.
When the membership drive
commences, he stated, there should
be more of an effort to encourage
active participation in the Cham
ber.
High-pitched sounds can extin
guish a flame.
Texan Wants
>AIaska Broken Up
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WASHINGTON, (A*)—’Thirteen -
year-old Nancy Huval of Pampa,
Texas, wants Alaska divided so it
can never become a larger state
1 than Texas.
Miss Huval wrote President Tru
man:
“We like our state and we are
i all very proud of it.
“Lately I have been reading old
newspaper clippings about Alaska
becoming a state. Is it true?
“I don’t mind this at all, but
please, sir, if Alaska must come
into the Union would you mind
cutting it up into states? I ask
this because Texas just has to re
i main the largest in the Union.”
The letter was referred to In
i terior Department. Miss Huval
i <who lives at 436 North Ballard,
Pampa) was a little out of Texas
character when she recognized
I that Alaska is large, but that is
the fact: Alaska, 58G.400 scquare
miles; Texas, 267,339 square miles.
Rebecca West was born Cecily
Isabel Fairfield in County Kerry,
Ireland. She took her pseudonym
1 from a heroine of Ibsen’s while
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she was on the stage.
Alaska Looking
Forward To Era
Of Prosperity
Alaska’s industries of tomorrow
are looking forward toward a more
stable, prosperous and progessive
era than the Territory has ever
.uiown, according to George Sund
bog, general manager of the Alas
ka Development Board, who re
turned to Seattle on his way to
Juneau this week from 20 days ol
conferences with industrial and
trade prospects on the Pacific
Coast.
“Everywhere I found business
leaders with Alaska development
intentions counting on statehood
and the changes which self-gov
ernment, year-round industry and
a larger population will bring,”
3undborg said.
He mentioned that several West
Coast pulp and paper group
which are actively figuring on
Alaska operations now include in
their long-term payout plans al
lowances for Alaska taxation more
or less in line with that prevailing
generally in the Seates, and say
they are happy to do so.
“It was encouraging too to find
that these concerns recognize that
the fishing industry in Alaska
must not be made to decline as
other activities advance,” Sund
borg declared. He said the pulp
prospects were being careful to
provide in original designs provi
sions for eliminating any pollution
danger to fish or other aquatic
life from sulfite liquor or other
wastes.
Sundborg met with pulp and pa
per officials in San Francisco ami
Los Angeles. He found their plans
for early operation in Alaska shap
ing up steadily, he said. The De
velopment Board head also partici
pated in hearings and discussions
at Seattle on water transportation
to Alaska, explored Alaska trade
possibilities with business leaders
at Portland, met with the new
Alaska Development Committee of
the Governor’s Advisory Commis
sion of the State of Washington,
and consulted with numerous in
dustrial contacts of the Alaska De
velopment Board up and down the
coast.
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sun 300,000,000 years ago.
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