Forecast And
„ Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
* Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, April 2, 1947
Forecast Nome: Clear tonight
and Thursday with fresh easterly
winds. Lowest temperature tonight
5, highest temperature Thursday
20.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 22, lowest 3.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 20
^ miles per hour from the east.
Sunrise at 5:12 a.m., sunset at
6:57 p.m.
Comparative data: Temperatures
one year ago today: highest 14.
lowest —23.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —23 in
1946, highest 42 in 1930.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —21 Cleai
Kotzebue —4 Clen
Shishmaref —13 Clear
Wales —5 Clear
Gambell 15 Clear
Nome 10 Clear
Unalakleet 10 Clear
Bethel 19 Cloudy
McGrath —4 Clear
Anchorage 20 Clca”
Fairbanks 5 Clea"
Juneau 34 Cloudy
Whitehorse 24 Clou b
Ketchikan 38 Riin
Edmonton 25 Cloudy
Seattle 47 Cloudy
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Nome Directory
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Bud Harper, Pres.
Andy Anderson, Sec.
ANVIL LODGE
NO. 140
Meets First and Third
Thursday each month
KARL DEWEY. W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS. Secy.
NOME LODGE
A-5
Meets Second Friday
JOHN R. RAPP, N.O.
ROBERT BALDWIN, Secy.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 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. 6396
FAIR NOTES
Arc you getting that exhibit
ready to enter in one of the many
and varied departments at the
Fair? Remember, the exhibits are
to be on display on the afternoons
and evenings of April 17 and 13,
and with the way time flys in the
Fur North, all interested parties
should be getting their articles
ready for display.
If handcraft and needlework are
your best accomplishments, by all
means bring out a sample of your
work for exhibit in this depart
ment under the supervision of
Mrs. Roy Snyder. Needlework ex
hibited will be limited to articles
not previously shown!
Those persons whose talents run
to cooking, better practice making
their favorite dish for the house
hold economics division, super
vised by Mrs. Ole Hay.
Perhaps your interests are in
mining and minerals. Unusual 'and
varied displays of Alaska minerals
or mining.models are desired for
this department, under the direc
tion of Ben Gillette, Rube Creamer,
and Frank Love.
If you are a foto bug and have
any colored 35 mm. slides or mov
ies; entries may be left with Wood
bury Abbey, Jr., who is in charge
of that department.
Students of the arts are provided
for under the art department su
pervised by Mrs. Ben Gillette, Mrs.
Don Lyle, and Mrs. Bob Baldwin.
You sportsmen are aLo taken
care of, at least if you fish, with
the fish division, managed by
Binks Seiffert, Fred Hyde, and
Stanley Morgan.
Gus Johnson is the man to see
if you have any furs to exhibit,
alive, mounted, or otherwise.
Antique, relic, and curio collect
ors should bring their prized pos
sessions out of moth balls and en
Bronx Bus Lands
In Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. i/P) — The
driver of a 44-passenger bus from
the Bronx was in jail here today
while authorities who impounded
ins empty conveyance when they
took him into custody awaited
word from New York as to what
disposition will be made in the
case.
Police chief Philip A. Thompson
identified the driver as 37-year
old William Lawrence Cimillo of
the Bronx, N. Y. Cimillo gave no
reason why he started out on a
routine run Friday morning and
wound up in Hollywood, more than
1,300 miles away.
TWEET BROTHERS FLY TO
NOME FROM TELLER
Harold and Wilbur Tweet flew
into Nome Tuesday from Teller,
where they are mining with other
members of the Tweet family.
They say‘the equipment is nearly
ready to begin the mining season
as soon as the breakup comes.
The brothers have been wry
busy this spring hauling supplies
and getting the equipment in shape
for a big season.
ter them for display in this depart
ment supervised by Harry Long
ley.
Naturally, the preceding infor
mation only partially covers trie
many and varied departments un
der which exhibits may be placed
at the Fair, but gives all interested
parties a preview of what is t<»
come. The forthcoming Fair book
let will give complete detailed in
formation on each and every de
partment. Just remember that this
is your Fair, and you will benof'
by any interest shown.
Everyone Flies
In Alaska
U/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Alaska is
the most air travel-minded area in
the world, the Civil Aeronautic
Administration reported today.
CAA said the number of Alas
kan airline passengers last year
equalled 60 per cent of the Terri
tory’s 80,000 population. The num
ber of airline passengers in th<
United States was less than 10 per
cent of the population.
CAA said Alaskan air travel can
be expected to increase in volume
as mining activities grow. Alaska
has very little surface transporta
tion.
The average Alaskan resident
flew 233 miles last year, compared
with 52 miles for residents in the
States. There is a plane for every
133 residents in Alaska, while the
ratio in the States is one to 1.647.
Lodge Refuses Hall
To Communist
SEATTLE, m—Walton G. Lec
kcy, Moose lodge secretary, said
today the lodge had denied use of
its hall for a speech by Mrs. Hilda
Ei=ler, wife of Gerhardt Eisler, al
lowed Communist leader.
Alter renting the hall to the
C;vil Rights Congress for Mrs.
E .-!e: ’s appearance, Lockey sqid
the lodge learned that other organ
izations, “some of which are known
to he infiltrated with Commun
ists” also were sponsoring the
speech.
Mrs. John Caughlan, Civil
Rights Congress executive secre
tory, said the meeting would be
held in the shipscalers’ hall.
Chinese To Take
Over Dairen
NANKING, (A*)—Foreign v. e
spokesman Chang Yuaj-Zang I
today that Soviet Ambassador . ri
drei Petroff had been notifie; »n
March 31 of “the Chinese go'^
ment’s decision to take over
administration of Dairen and
Arthur in the immediate future
He added that "as regards
takeover delay, it may be rec
that it was the intention of
Chinese government to take <> <
Port Arthur as the first step it
recovery of Manchuria as earl;
October, 1945, I think it is nee' • s
to dwell upon the reasons for
lay in this matter.”
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