Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinitv
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Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
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Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1945
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
tonight with fresh northerly winds
becoming clear Thursday and
cooler. Lowest tmeperature to
night 30, highest temperature
Thursday 43.
% Nome Data: Precipitation last
24 hours ending 8:30 a.m. today
0.37 inches.
Total precipitation this month
to 8:30 a.m. today 0.40 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours to
8:30 a.m. today: highest 51, low
est 35.
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 41, lowest 29.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest 22 in 1927,
highest 61 in 1909.
Sunrise at 5:56 a.m., sunset at
8:07 p.m.
Data for other selected stations!
as of 8:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Point Barrow 30 * Rain
Point Hope 35 Cloudy
Kotzebue 41 Cloudy
Wales 35 Cloudy
Gambell 36 Cloudy
.Vome 36 Rain
Moses Point 42 Rain
Unalakleet 47 Cloudy
bethel 47 Cloudy
McGrath 47 Rain
Galena 49 Cloudy
Fairbanks 42 Cloudy
Wiseman 42 Rain
Ft. Yukon 43 Cloudy
Summit 40 Rain
Anchorage 49 Rain
Cordova 50 Rain
Juneau 52 Cloudy
Whitehorse 53 Cloudy
Edmonton 49 Clear
Prince George 46 Cloudy
Seattle 54 Rain
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| San Francisco 59 Rain
Ketchikan 56 Cloudy
The word luxury Is derived
from a Latin word, luxus, mean
ing “superfluous abundance.”
Clear Heads Choose Calvert’s
“Starliner Nome” To
Arrive Here Soon For
Alaska Airlines
Added to Alaska Airlines’ fleet
""is a third Douglas, arriving at
Merrill Field in Anchorage Mon
day evening at 6:58 o’clock. The
new 21-passenger plane will be
flown to Nome soon to be chris
tened “Starliner Nome.”
Pilot Bob Long and co-pilot
Larrv Curry flew the plane from
Atlanta, Georgia, to Seattle and
then to Anchorage. The new plane
is completely equipped for instru
ment flights and will be placed on
regular runs within a few days.
Twenty passengers, all employ
ees of Alaska Airlines, arrived on
the plane. Those who arrived
were:
Mr. and Mrs. E. Tank, A. W.
Ford, Miss E. H. Carter, all of At
lanta; Mr. and Mrs. F. S. South
wick, Miss F. Southwick, Mr. and
Mrs. M. A. Reisbeck, William
O’Shea, and Mr and Mrs. T. H.
Wheaten, all of Denver; Mr. and
Mrs. G. S. Patterson, F. Perrine,
T. Southerland, A. Doerr, R. Col
f
• lin, M. J. Lamanuzzi, and R. Skin
ner, all of New York.
WIEN Alaska Airlines
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Lower Yukon
See Alaska First
Let WAA have the pleasure of presenting
you with your diploma for
Crossing The Arctic Circle
BOEING AIRLINERS - GULLWING STINSONS
LT. VARNELL KILLED
IN PLANE CRASH
IN TEXAS
SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 4—<yp)
—Second Lieutenant Wade Var
nell, son of Logan Wade Varnell
was killed twelve miles north of
San Antonio, Texas, in a plane
crash. He was 31 years old and
was bora and raised in Kotzebue.
CITY COURT KEPT BUSY
PAST FEW DAYS
The City Court has been kept
very busy the last few days with
drunk and disorderly cases, liquor
to minors and other charges. Fines
yesterday amounted to $600.00.
“Utility” beef is just as high in
nutritive value as are the top
grades of beef.
Cpl. Ralph Willoya
Infielder In Post
Championship Team
WHITTIER, Alaska, Sept. 5—
Cpl. Ralph D. Willoya, son of Mrs.
i Emma Willoya, Box 484, Nome, is
! an infielder with his company
I softball team, which won the Post
| championship here and will com
pete in the Alaskan Armed Forces
i Softball Tournament at Fort Rich
| ardson, Alaska, this week.
A catcher with the Alaskans'
softball team at Nome before en
tering the Army, Willoya was em
ployed by the U. S. Smelting, Re
fining and Mining Company in
Nome. He came into the service
in December, 1944.
More than half of all U. S. fires
occur in homes.
ALASKA TELEPHONE &
TELEGRAPH CO.
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE SERVICE
Victory Is Never Cheap In Lives Or Money
PATTERSON HOTEL
TRANSIENT and PERMANENT ROOMS
REASONABLE RATES
FRONT STREET NOME, ALASKA
WORK CLOTHES
Shop at the N. C. Co. for the
i>es t in serviceable and
comfortable work clothes.
BIB OVERALLS
WAIST OVERALLS
FRISCO JEANS
COVERALLS
WHIPCORD PANTS
TWILL PANTS
WORK SHIRTS
SHOP CAPS
WORK SOX
WORK SHOES
N. C. PRICES
Northern
Commercial Co.
Alaska's Pioneer Merchants
TWO DELIVERIES 10 A.M.
DAILY 3 P.M.
Phone MA. 133