Forecast And
4 Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the United State:
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Friday, February 22, 1946
Forecast Nome: cloudy tonight
and Saturday. Lowest temperature
tonight —10, highest temperature
Saturday 10.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours, none.
# Total precipitation this month 1.06
inches.
Total snowfall this month 10.6
inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 19, lowest —4.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 22
miles per hour from the northeast.
Sunrise at 7:36 a.m., sunset at
4:56 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 25, lowest —12.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907:
Lowest —33 in 1916, highest 35
in 1940.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
* Barrow —8 Clear
Point Hope 5 Clear
Kotzebue 5 Clear [
Shishmaref —5 Clear
Wales —9 Clear
Gambell —3 Clear
Nome —1 Clear |
Unalakleet 11 Cloudy
Bethel 14 Cloudy
McGrath —12 Clear
Anchorage 19 Clear;
Fairbanks 5 Cloudy
Juneau 35 Rain
Whitehorse 14 Rain
Ketchikan 39 Rain1
Seattle 48 Rain
San Francisco 50 Cloudy
Infantile paralysis was more i
widespread in 1944 than in any
preceding year to 1916, according
to the 1945 Encyclopaedia Britan- ;
nica Book of the Year figures for 1
the United States. 19,268 cases |
were reported during 1944.
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Nome Directory
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Meets First and Third
Thursday each month
DONALD J. LYLE, W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS. Secy.
NOME LODGE
A-5
Meets Every Friday
S. DAVID MAZEN. N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN. Secy.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Mein 40
O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome. Alaska
Seattle Office:
801 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6398
Pan American Announces
Commodity Rate Prices
On Produce And Milk
r, -
| Bringing fresh fruits and vege
j tables within the reach of the av
erage Alaskan pocketbook, Pan
American World Airways today
announced new commodity rates
on shipments of fresh produce and
milk.
“Pan American has long advo
cated commodity rates on produce,
so that Alaskans may enjoy fresh
fruits and vegetables on their
tables all year ’round,” said J. D.
Fessio, traffic manager for the air
WALLACE HOTEL & TAXI
NOME, ALASKA Phone MAIN 55
ARCTIC AIR SERVICE
CANDLE ALASKA
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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
line’s Alaska Region at Seattle.
“We were just this week granted
permission from the Civil Aero
nautics Board to put these rates
into effect.”
The present arrangement is in
the nature of an experiment, Fes
sio said, and it is expected that
additional points in Alaska will be
given commodity rates on fresh
produce in the near future.
Cancer causes about 163,00®
deaths a year in the United States.
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