Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Wednesday, August 15, 1945
Forecast Nome: Occasional light
rain this afternoon, becoming
partly cloudy tonight and Thurs
day. Lowest temperature tonight
36, highest temperature Thursday
48.
Nome Data: Precipitation last
24 hours ending 8:30 a.m., today
0.34 inches.
Total precipitation this month
to 8:30 a.m. today 0:64 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours to
8:30 a.m. today: highest 47, low
est 39.
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 48, lowest 46.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest 29 in 1929,
highest 75 in 1926.
Sunrise at 4:51 a.m., sunset at
9:22 p.m.
Data fo rother selected stations
as of 8:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Point Barrow 34 Cloudy
Point Hope 44 Cloudy
Kotzebue 48 Rain
Wales $1 Cloudy
Cambell 43 Cloudy
Nome 45 Cloudy
Golovin 45 Rain
Moses Point 46 Rain
Unalakleet 47 Rain
Bethel 49 Clear
McGrath 47 Cloudy
Galena 50 Cloudy
Fairbanks 53 Cloudy
Wiseman 54 Cloudy
Ft. Yukon 55 Cloudy
Summit 44 Rain
Anchorage 50 Cloudy
Cordova 48 Cloudy
Juneau 51 Rain
Whitehorse 56 Cloudy
Edmonton 54 Clear
Seattle 55 Clear
Ketchikan 55 Rain
MARY ELLEN DOYLE
NOW A WAVE
Mary Ellen Doyle, daughter of
Gene Doyle of Nome, who was
raised in Igloo, Alaska by Sister
Helen Frost and later sent to the
Jessie Lee Home in Seward is
now a WAVE and stationed in
San Diego, California. She plans
to return north on her furlough.
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lor Information and Reservations
“Alaska Not Yet
Ready For
Statehood”
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15 —
(K*)—The people of Alaska are not
vet ready for Statehood, and they
won’t be until they become suffi
ciently informed on the principles
of economics and fair government,
Rep. Jed Johnson, Oklahoma
Democrat and Rep. John Rooney,
New York Democrat said.
Johnson is chairman of the
House Sub-Committee Appropria
tions of the Department of In
terior. Rooney returned last week
from a tour of Alaska where the
committee inspected Interior De
partment projects in Interview.
Rep. Rooney said “the people
are not ready for Statehood when
they allow the fishing industry to
| take sixty millions a year from
the Territory and return only one
million. They are not capable of
governing themselves.
The people themselves and the
Territorial' Legislature are at
fault. The Legislature is controlled
by absentee owners of the fishing,
and mining industries. They levy
no land tax, nor maintain roads,
schools or public health.”
Johnson said ‘‘the people of
Alaska think just because the
committee went up there that
Congress is going to appropriate
money for roads, school ancThos
pials, but we won’t. They are go
ing to have to do something for
themselves.”
I —
Henri Petain
Sentenced
To Death
PARIS, Aug. 14—iJP)—Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain was con
victed and sentenced to death
early Wednesday, Paris time, by
three judges and a twenty-four
man jury who deliberated almost
seven hours.
The High Court of Justice
added it “hoped the sentence
would not be executed.”
Five Million To
Return To Civil
Life In 18 Months
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15-^(/P)
—President Truman last night
forecast that five million or five
million five hundred thousand
men now in the army may be re
turned to civilian life within the
next twelve to eighteen months.
Furthermore the President said
only the lowest age groups are
now to be drafted and Army re
leases will be speeded by air and
sea transportation.
Selective Service
Quotas To Be
Reduced
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—{JF)—
President Truman disclosed tha^
the Selective Service Administra
tion is taking immediate steps to
slash inductions from eighty
thousand to fifty thousand month
ly. Only those under twenty-six
will Ha HrqftAH fr»*> fHj» a/1
MRS. N. A. LAHTI AND SONS
LEAVE FOR STATES
Mrs. N. A. Lahti and two sons
left yesterday for their home in
South Bend, Wash. Mr. and Mrs.
Lahti have been employed by the
U. S. Engineers this summer. The
two boys have been very active in
Boy Scout work.
HARRY SWANTON INJURED
IN PLANE CRACKUP
Harry Swanton, flyer for Wien
Airlines, is in the hospital in Fair
banks with a broken leg. His plane
cracked up last week while land
ing there and burned completely.
He was freighting for the com
pany with a Stinson plane.
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