Forecast And j
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinitv i
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Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Monday, August 13, 1945
Forecast Nome: Rain today and
Tuesday morning, becoming part
ly cloudy Tuesday afternoon.
Lowest temperature tonight 42;
highest temperature Tuesday 55.
Nome data: Precipitation last
24 hours ending 8:30 a.m. today,
trace.
Total precipitation this month
to 8:30 a.m. today 0.30 inches.
Temperaures last 24 hours to
8:30 a.m. today: highest 50, low
est 37.
^ Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 55, lowest 46.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest 30 in 1924,
highest 80 in 1926.
Sunrise at 4:42 a.m., sunset at
9:29 p.m.
Data for other selected stations
as of 8:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
4 Point Barrow 35 Cloudy
Point Hope 41 Rain
Interior Dept. !
Favors Statehood
For Alaska
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than go with hat in hand ot com
mittees of Congress and to gov
ernment agencies which play so
vital a part in our Alaskan af
fairs.
Out of our immediate present
Kotzebue 45 Cloudy
Wales 43 Rain
Gambell 45 Cloudy
Nome 46 Cloudy
Golovin 42 Cloudy
Moses Point 43 Cloudy
Unalakleet 47 Cloudy
Bethel 48 Cloudy
McGrath 50 Rain
Galena 50 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks 55 Cloudy
Wiseman 48 Cloudy
Ft. Yukon 50 Cloudy
Summit 44 Rain
Anchorage 49 Cloudy
Cordova 47 Rain
Juneau 56 Cloudy
Whitehorse 58 Clear
Prince George 50 Clear
Seattle 54 Cloudy
Ketchikan 61 Clear
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Unala kleet
Every Thursday
Boeing Airliners
See us for rates from any
yoint on Seward Peninsula
to Fairbanks
Days: Main 46 Nights: Main 36
for Information and Reservations
may be cited any number of in
stances of discrimination against
Alaska which would not have oc
curred, had we been a state.
Among them are first the denial
of overseas credit points for dis
| charge to Alaskans in the Army,
| second, the attempt to remove the
1 twenty-five percent differential
i from Alaskan Federal employees
and yet give it to those coming
from the States to work in Alaska,
third, the difficulties that we have
to secure adequate shipping and
to permit us to continue to secure
♦he advantages brought by con
inued suspension of the Jones Act,
fourth, the failure to include
Alaska in the federal highway
act under which millions of dol
lars for road building have been
denied the Territory to which it
was rightfully entitled, fifth, the
denial to Alaska of the increased
appropriation for agricultural ex
periment stations recently granted
j to these stations in the States.
These are only a few of a long
i list, but I mention these because
1 they are all timely.
Finally it is not only proper j
and desirable, but in conformity
with the basic principles of the
Democracy that the people of
Alaska should have the right to
elect their own Governor, and
also the Secretary of the Territory
who is in effect the Lieutenant
Governor.
Statehood will be tangibly and
i materially beneficial to Alaska.
We need not argue that American
citizenship is the most precious
' possession in the world. We in
Alaska enjoy it only in part. As
long as Alaska remains a territory
we cannot vote for President, we
j cannot register our will effective
ly through the Congress of the
United States. It seems unthink
able that an area so vast, so (
varied, so important, both stra
tegically and as a reservoir of na
tional resources should any longer'
be keot from full self government
and the right to rule within its ■
own house, as a member of the
family of sovereign States of the
Union.
But apart from these abstract |
advantages Statehood would mean j
a great and steady increase in the 1
prosperity of Alaska. In this con-i
nection the statement in the In
terior Department’s announce
ment that “the enabling act
should transfer to the people of
Alaska the obligations and respon
sibilities of sovereignty on a par
ity with the other states of the
Union, The obligations include
providing the facilities which the
people require for economic and
social development and the finan
cial resources to procure and
maintain them.”
This obviously means that the
enabling act should provide for
the transfer to Alaska of a sub
stantial portion of the public do
main, over ninety-eight percent
of which is now in the hands of
the federal government. It should
transfer to Alaska the control of
our natural resources, the fisher
ies, fur and game, minerals and
whatever else in the States is
properly a matter for state con
rol, rather than federal. With the
availability to the forty-ninth
state of these resources, there can
be no question of Alaska’s ability
to maintain itself financially and
to develop an abundant and self
sustaining economy. Actually
with the additional powers given
House Committee
To Continue
Alaska Tour
JUNEAU, Aug. 13—UP>—Mem
bers of the House Territories
Committee, undecided whether to
return to Washington in view of
the war situation, voted to con
tinue the Alaska tour and plan to
leave at once for a hearing at Cor
dova.
H. L. Faulkner testified here
“the feeling against the develop
ment of Alaska by outside capital
is reflected in the policies of Secy.
Ickes and his subordinates,” and
is resented by bonafide Alaskans.
He cited the land reservation pol
icy as a bar to a huge pulp paper
development planned in the
Ketchikan area.
to the people of Alaska under
statehood will come a far greater
development of these resources
than we have had in over three
quarters of a century of federal
rule.
BATHER — A two - piece
swimming suit, featuring trunks
embellished with a seashore
view and gulls flying over the
ocean, is modeled by Marguerite
Chapman of the movies.
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