Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Monday, April 8, 1946
Forecast Nome: Cloudy tonight
and Tuesday with snow and blow
ing snow. Warmer Tuesday with
strong easterly winds. Lowest
temperature Tuesday 20, highest
temperature 28.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours,
none. Total precipitation this
month 0.01 inches.
Total snowfall this month 0.1
inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 14, lowest —22.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 38
miles per hour from the East.
Sunrise at 4:51 a.m. Sunset at
7:15 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
30, lowest 21.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest —25 in
1920, highest 40 in 1929.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —30 Clear
Point Hope —11 Clear
Kotzebue —8 Clear
Shishmaref —13 Clear
Wales —20 Clear
Gambell 9 Cloudy
Nome 10 Clear
White Mt. 14 Clear
Unalakleet 11 Clear
Bethel 20 Clear
McGrath 3 Clear
Anchorage 24 Clear
Fairbanks 2 Clear
Legislators Enact
Forty Laws During
Tliirty-Day Session
The forty bills passed during
the extraordinary session of the
Seventeenth Alaska Legislature
iust completed include practically
all measures deemed of truly
emergency character and many
that probably had no place in a
special session.
In summary: Sixteen out of the
35 Senate Bills and one out of
seven memorials were enacted; 24
out of 69 House Bills were passed
along with five out of ten House
memorials and five out of five
House resolutions.
Enacted were: (Measures al
ready approved or transmitted by
the Governor marked by *>
HOUSE BILLS
No. 1—Liberalization of unem
ployment compensation.
*No. 4—Blanket Primary refer
endum.
*No. 5—Extension of Selective
Service re-employment benefits.
No. 16—Revising procedure for
admiss'on to practice of law.
No. 18—Increasing wolf and
coyote bounties.
*No. 20—Penalty clause for
health regulations.
No. 21—Consolidation of tax
collection.
No. 25—Increasing per diem for
Territorial employees.
No. 27—Providing housing for
veterans enrolled at University of
Alaska.
No. 28—Licensing amusement
devices, pinball and slot machines.
No. 31—Increasing pay of elec
Juneau 38 Cloudy
Whitehorse 33 Cloudy
Ketchikan 44 Cloudy
ARRIVED
By Air
New Dresses
e
and
SUITS
Bon Marche
Store
. A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A -A A A A A A A A -A A A A A A V A A A A A A A A A. A A A A A V ^
tion officials.
No. 35—Deficiency appropria
tion for payment of eagle boun
ties.
No. 39—Basic Science Law.
Boost Teachers' Pay
"No. 43—Increasing salary scale
of teachers.
*No. 45—Increasing tuition re
funds to school districts.
"No. 46—Extending consolidat
ed school districts.
No. 48—Increasing whiskey tax
and levying excise on consigned
shipments of liquors.
No. 53—Providing for potato
grading regulations.
No. 54—Extending duties of as
say offices.
No. 55—Imposing penalties for
protection of rights of persons un
der arrest.
No. 56—Changing provisions for
inheritance of real property.
No. 59—Supplemental appropri
ation for Attorney General.
No. 64—Rewrite to clarify mo
tor fuel tax law.
No. 68—Increasing pay of legis
lators.
HOUSE MEMORIALS
3, asking prohibition of
otter trawling.
*H.J.M. 5. asking for wide spots
in roads for emergency landing
fields.
*H.J.M. 7, asking abolition of
Katmai National Monument.
*H.J.M. 8, asking a Bering Sea
fisheries survey.
9. asking Bering Sea
navigation aids and Nome Harbor
improvements.
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS
*H.R. 1, commemorating the
late Joseph B. Diamond.
*H.R. 2, commending Gov. Er
nest Gruening.
H.J.R. 1, appropriation to pay
legislative expenses.
*H.J.R. 2, to pay legislators ab
sent at beginning of session.
*H.J.R. 3, supplemental appro
priation for legislative expenses.
SENATE BILLS
:;No. 1—Workmen’s Compensa
tion Act.
♦No. 3—Appropriation for land
registration expenses.
No. 8—$250,000 appropriation
to combat tuberculosis.
Committee Substitute for S.B. 9,
Veterans Loan-Bonus Act.
No. 11—Amending law regard
ing forcible entry.
No. 15—Prescribing qualifica
tions for police in cities of the
first class.
No. 20—Re-organizing Board of
Trustees of Pioneers’ Home.
♦No. 21—Providing for survey
of hospital facilities.
♦No. 22 — Health Department,
surplus property revolving fund, i
No. 23—Vocational Rehabilita
tion act.
No. 26—Providing for sale of
“Hygiene” and fitting of new
Health Department mobile clinic
vessel.
♦No. 27 — Supplemental Health
Department appropriation for san
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
itation and administartion ex
pense.
*No. 28—Additional levy on
packed salmon and fish traps.
No. 30—Rewrite of law requir
ing certificates of ownership of
motor vehicles.
*No. 33—Permitting Commis
sioner of Education to travel out
side Alaska.
No. 34—Supplemental appropri
ation to Alaska Aeronautics and
Communications Commission for
purchase of surplus radio equip
ment.
SENATE MEMORIALS
*S.M. 1 asking immediate re
moval of Gov. Ernest Gruening.
PEDER BERG PASSES ON
IN WASHINGTON
Word was brought to town by
recent passengers from the States
that Peder Berg, well known
Nomeite, died recently. He is sur
vived by his wife, a son and a
daughter. He has been living in
Bellingham.
ARCTIC AIR SERVICE
CANDLE ALASKA
Nome Headquarters — Wallace Hotel
— Contact —
JOE WALLACE, or GENE JACK
Frequent trips with passengers and freight between
Nome and Fairbanks via Deering, Candle, Kotzebue.
Kiana. Shungnak, Kobuk and Hughes.
CONTACT US FOR CHARTER SERVICE
SMALL AND LARGE SHIPS TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS
Kotzebue Sound Lighterage Co.
KOTZEBUE, ALASKA
ANNOUNCES
That Commencing JULY 1, 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-SKOBUK M-SNANUk M-S A-HAEI.Ik
POWER SCOWS AND BARGES
WITH
-PORTS OF CALL
Shishmarcf. Deering, Kcewalik, Baldwin, Noatak. Noorvik. Kiana,
Shungnak, Selawik, and Kotzebue