I
Forecast And
Weather Report *
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the United State;
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Wednesday, March 6, 1946
Forecast Nome: Cloudy and
light snow showers today and
Thursday. Lowest temperature to
night 0, highest temperature
Thursday 10.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
\ Precipitation last 24 hours 0.02
inches. Total precipitation this
month 0.31 inches.
Total snow fall this month 6.2
inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 11, lowest 4.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
20 miles per hour from the E.N.E.
Sunrise at 6:50 a.m., sunset at
5:34 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
5 lowest —6.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest —28 in
1937, highest 34 in 1921.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Kotzebue 5 Snow
Wales 15 Cloudy
Shishmaref 13 Cloudy
Gambell 11 Clear
Nome 10 Cloudy
ITnalakleet 1 Clear
Bethel 1 Clear
McGrath —22 Clear
Anchorage 11 Cloudy
Fairbanks —5 Cloudy
Juneau 27 Cloudy
Whitehorse 19 Cloudy
Ketchikan 33 Clear
Edmonton 18 Cloudy
San Francisco 49 Clear
The first electrical hearing aid
was made by Alexander Graham
Bell.
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Bon Marche
Store
HOLLYWOOD—Ouch- My ach
ing bones! If Laraine Day ever in
vites me to another square dance
I know just what I’ll say: "Yes,
thanks, I’ll come. Don't know
when I’ve ha dsuch a wonderful
time!”
Some 50 of us bowed, clogged,
gyrated, swung our partners and
kicked up our heels in a large,
bare hall which Laraine rented in
Plummer Park, a country play
ground in a Hollywood residence
district.
Laraine was cute, as gay and
eager as a child in her blue jeans
and flowered shirt, as light and
sprightly a creature as ever danc
ed the two-step with you.
Ann Rutherford’s billo wing
striped dress sometimes whirled
high enough to disclose most of
her beautiful legs.
Her escort. Bob Hutton, was
sleek and smiling in jeans and
high-heeled cowboy boots.
Paunchy Edgar Buchanan, in a
flaming plaid shirt, danced sedate
ly with his blonde wife.
Forrest Tucker was in cowboy
clothes.
The others were assorted movie
friends of Laraine’s — writers,
agents, film cutters, cute office
girls and their boy friends.
Our music was recorded, our
instructor and caller Ray Shaw.
62-year-old vice-principal of near
by Venice High School.
In his red cowboy shirt, yellow
neckerchief and high-heeled boots
he’s a ringer for the late Will
Rogers.
Jolly, gray-haired, indefagita
ble Shaw learned square-dancing
as a student at Colorado College,
he told me as both of us perspired
WASHINGTON experts be
lieve U S payments to
veterans of World War II will
reach peaks in 1948 (because
of school and job benefits,
which then will drop) and 1975
(because of more disabilities
and dependents)
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and pulfed for breath between
dances.
A revival of interest in square
dancing keeps him busy at parties
an average of three nights a week.
His fee is $10 and he supplies
his own records and amplifying
equipment. He shouts his instruc
tions over a hand microphone,
then calls the maneuvers while he
dances.
Hardly anybody knew the com
plicated steps better than my wife
and I did. which was not at all.
There were bottled cokes and
beer in dishpans of ice on the side
400 Servicemen Wer
Naturalized In Alaska
Headquarters Alaskan Depart
ment—More than 400 servicemen
were naturalized as American cit
izens while stationed in the Alas
kan Department since the begin
ning of World War II, a spokes
man for Lt. Gen. Delos C. Em
mons, commanding general of the
Alaskan Department, announced
recently.
In the entire Army, 110,000 sol
diers, including 13,500 in overseas
theaters, took the oath of allegi
ance to the United States. Citizen
ship was conferred on members of
the armed forces from the Aleu
tians to Suez and from Iran to
Guadalcanal, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service said re
cently.
Several GIs traveled nearl>%
1,000 miles through weather rang
ing from 20 to 74 degrees below
zero to be naturalized in 1943.
George W. Tyler, then assistant
director for the Naturalization
Service’s Seattle, Wash., District,
conferred citizenship on these men
at Dawson City, British Columbia.
Canada.
“On Second Thought”
TOKYO—bP>—Admiral Kichi
saburo Nomura, who was Japan’s
ambassador in Washington when
the Japanese attacked Pearl Har
bor, is writing a book about the
fateful negotiations which pre
ceded war in the Pacific.
porch.
Laraine’s handsome husband,
Ray Hendricks, a flying instructor
and former dance-band singer,
crooned “I Love You Truly" over
the hand mike duing the good
night dance.
It was a swell party.
Jitterbugs, you are missing
something.
Kotzebue Sound Lighterage Co.
KOTZEBUE, ALASKA
ANNOUNCES
That Commencing JULY L 1946
M-S KOTZEBUE of Nome
U.S.Mail Freight and Passenger Boat
OPERATING FROM
St. Michael, Nome, Kotzebue, and Way Points
NOW OPERATING TUGS
M-S KOBUK M-S NANUK M-S A-HALLIK
POWER SCOWS AND BARGES
WITH
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Shishmaref, Deering, Keewalik, Baldwin, Noatak, Noorvik, Kiana,
Shungnak, Selawik, and Kotzebue