Forecast And
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Weather Report;
Nome and Vicinity
Monday, March 5, 1951
Forecast Nome: Mostly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday. Moderate to
fresh easterly winds. Lowest tem
perature tonight 3, highest tem
perature Tuesday 10.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: Precipitation,
trace. <Total this month, trace).
Temperatures: highest .11, • low
est 2.
Maximum wind 30 miles an
hour from the E.N.E* * I
Sunrise at 6:56 ajn., sunset at
5:32 p.m. ** 4" * j
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
25, lowest **-A.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907:
Highest 32 in 1943, lowest —30
in 1922.
Data tor other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Point Hope *" 0 Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue —8 Blowing Snow
Shishmaref —3 Cloudy
Wales 3 Blowing Snow
Gambell 17. Cloudy
Nome 7 Snow
Unalakleet —1 Cloudy
Bethel 5 <Snow
McGrath —29 Clear
Anchorage. —11 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks —27 Clear
Whitehorse —38 Clear
Edmonton —24 Snow
Juneau 5 Partly Cloudy
Kc-.chikan 10 Partly Cloudy
Seattle 31 Partly Cloudy
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Indict Anchorage
Realtor For
Embezzlement
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(Anchorage Times)
Audrey I. Cut.ing, local realtor,
has been indicted by the grand
jury for “embezzlement by agent.”
The indictment was published
in listrict court last week. It had
been one of three secret indict
mtnts returned.
The grand jury charged Miss
Cutting with embezzling and
“fraudulently converting to her
ow ^se” $1,000 belonging to Nels
O. Nelson who had engaged Miss
Crating as his agent in connection
with the purchase of real estate at
Thirteenth Avenue and East G.
Street on or about May 4, 1950.
Miss Cutting was picked up on
a bench warrant issued following
the return of the secret indict
ment. She was held in federal jail
for a short time until a $4,000
cash band was posted for her.
airlines
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers arriving from An
chorage Friday were R. L. Wood,
H. J. Bennett, Jarrett Lawhom,
Joseph Olynyk. Departing for An
chorage was Mabel Nuipok.
Arriving from Anchorage on
Sunday was Dr. M. Holland, and
departing for Anchorage was Lin
coln E. Ost, David Smith and Joe
Hunt.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving Yesterday with Pan
American Were Dr. !M.v Kennedy,
G. R. Jackson, Charles Gustafson,
James Andrews, Ralph 2owlsman.
Departing Was William Skeitofa.
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KEY WEST;-Fla. (JP)—A cheer
ful gray-haired ihah in loud
sports shirt ahd "light blue sum
mer trousers took over this haVal
submarine station Saturday:
j' Harry S. Truman, President of
the United States, was back in his
favorite Winter vacation spot for
his ninth visit. * ‘
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He got a friendly welcome from
the*. citizens erf Key West as he
rode through Duval and other
business street senroute to his
quarters from the Boca Chica air
port where he flew in from Wash
ington Friday. ‘
Mr. f ruman lost no time getting
. into light blue slacks and a gray,
tail-out sports Shirt’ wifh a huge
figure of a fish.
And he demanded his official
pass to* be 'sure he could get in
and out of the tightly-guarded
entrance gate to the submarine
station.
It was produced immediately.
Mr. Truman then announced he
would go swimming at the enlist
ed men’s beach and lie on the
sands for his first sunbath here
since his visit last March.
The submarine station was more
| tightly-guarded than on his eight
previous visits. Official passes of
newspapermen were carefully in
spected. The secret service detail,
ix>creased since the attempted as
sassination at the Blair House,
was the heaviest ever seen here.
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Dwight Milligruk reports from
Fortuna Ledge that on the night
of Feb. 21st, the wind was so se
vere that it tore aluminum sheet
ing off of the Ost building and a
tent off of sacked cement also be
longing to L. E. Ost.
Even the “wind-charger could
1 not stop it blew so hard.” One
plane in the area was badly dam
laged he stated.
WE CARRY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FINE LIQUORS, BEER AND WINE
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Out-of-Town Orders Carefully Handled
THE NOME LIQUOR STORE
. SOMETHING GOOD
EVERY DAY
Arctic Lunch
“The Hone of Fine Foods”
i ---and Coffee
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Bethel Weather
man Accidentally
Shoots Self
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ANCHORAGE, (iP)—A Tennes
see weatherman at Bethel in in
terior Alaska, accidentally shot
and killed himself with 'his shot
gun Sunday, the weather bureau
regional director disclosed yester
day.
Le Grand Lee, 27, meteorologi
cal ' aid, Whs pulling hi$; shotgun
front4 d closet pi¥pdTatory t6 walk
fog a half-niiie to Work when the
accident oC6tirt*ed. Lee was ih the
habit of ''hUfttilig " ffcfc* ’ptarmigan
alhng the trtffh’ *'
Lee bad been in Bethel about
18 months, Mack A. Eifthrson; re
gional director,* said Wfete*. *
The widow, Juanita Xee, and a
four-year-old son; Le Grand, Jr.,
survive.
-They left with the body last
night for Clarksville; Tenn., Mrs.
Lee’s hbme. - -
Pilot Falls 4,000
Feet From Plane
DALLAS, <iFH"A youthful Air
Force veteran, checking an un
latched door .on a 'Pioneer Air
lines plane, plunged 4,000 feet
ffom the craft early today over
the little town ctf Exell, Texas.
Around him were 20 sleeping
United States airmen, unaware
that the flier had fallen.
The victim wds Joseph Henry
Dowd, 27, of Dallas. He was co
pilot of the chartered plane. It
was eriroute from Lackland Air
Force Bdse, Sfctt Antonio, to Low
ry Field, Denver/ ■ - 1 '
The plane’ar captain, Glenn C.
Edds of Dallas, said he felt the
plane lurch -shortly after Dowd
went to the rear to check the door.
LILY SALE TO START FOR
CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S ASS'N
Mrs. Don Lyle, iocal representa
tive of the Alaska Crippled Chil
dren’s Association, has announced
that the annual sale of Easter
Lillies, a traditional project of this
outstanding organization, will get
unde* way this week.'
The miniature lillies will be
sold in the foyer of the Post Office
by members of the Nome High
Schooir starting Wednesday.f- •
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WILLIAM J. VIERA PROMOTED
TO SERGEANT IN GERMANY
FRANKtfTJftY, Germah/ —Wil
liam J. Viera, whose Vnother, Mrs.
Nellie M. Veira,- *esides at' Nome,
Alaska,' has' recently been pro
moted to the grade of Sferg&ant.
He is assigned t6 a Lobaf'BUpet
vision Company m Frankfurt.1'
A' native of Nome, former mem
ber of Nome High ^School, Vi§ra
first entered'the service in 1946.
Sgt. Viega left'the States in
September 1947, ort his rourrent
totir of duty ill the European com
mand.
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From the Alaska Sourdough
News published in San Francisco,
we learn that Albert Bamhard of
Teller is visiting there for the first
time since *98. He is Quoted as
saying err his arrival that the
streets seemed narrower or maybe
the buildings were taller. He was
enjoying a visit with his friend of
the early days, Arnold Liebes.
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RANGOON, <^P) — Burmese
Prime Minister Thakiri Nu . has
urged Karens and Burmese to
come to terms in the interests of
national security.
The Kerens; Burma’s largest
minority group have been fighting
the Burmese government since
January, 1949. Hostilities began
over the isstie of a-separate state
for the Karens.
Anchorage Owes
Delinquent Taxes
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ANCHORAGE, <£>)—Anchorage
may lose its $30,000 annualM^cmrfe
from Merrill Field air port unless
it pays $20 in delinquent rentals.
Chester W. McNally,‘adjudica
tor for the bureau of land Aiaflajge
ritentfs Andhora^? dffWfe,f *ttid
Washington;’*D: C., fiedc^uafW#s
have notified -him thht^^e^ "Otty
owes two? yeaTs rdht. retttil
is $10 a year. v ’ '
A memorandum ftom Washing
ton aT^^MedAhb city 'fbf ^tte
glectinfe to ttOtity the eecifetfei^bf
interior fakV&frts'bt-m?im Ssifes
field had been subleased/' »n*v*
1 McNally ‘fcaid 4h^ufh\ess \ the
city7 complied -With requifements
set forth in its ledSe wftir the bur
eau of land management 'Within
30 days, tile lease Wodld b^fcan
eeired.p*: vr‘»A ■ - Ai? i .$.«
•;f Anchorage’s 20-year lease of the
airport land wasvfeigii£&4xrt*l982.
- City revenues ftbtii : Merrill
Field last year totaled $30,142
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NEW SCHEDULE
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY— Flights to Teller
I WEDNESDAY— Wales and Shisliinaref
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I WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY— Solomon, Council,
| White Mt., Ungalik, Shaktoolik, Koyuk, Haycock,
I Unalakleet and Golovin '
I TUESDAY— Deering, Candle and Kotzebue ;
■ Anchorage, McGrath, Unalakleet and Nome ■ I
I MONDAY— Mose? Pohtf and Kotzebue I
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