AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving this morning on the
Pan American were Jack Moly
neaux and Bartha Ellinger.
Departing was James Manning
of the internal revnue department.
P.A.A. delivered to the Nome
Nugget this afternoon at 2:30 a
copy of this morning’s Seattle P.-I.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Wien Airlines arrived at one
o’clock today bringing in the fol
lowing passengers: Mrs. L. Do
heny, and three children, Jenny,
Mike and Kathleen: Louis Rolman
and Mrs. Long.
The plane was scheduled to de
part about two-thirty for Fair
banks.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers arriving on today’s
plane were Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Whitmore. There were no outgo
ing passengers.
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Jack Molyneaux, veteran trav
eling representative for several
manufacturers is in town on his
annual trip from headquarters in
Seattle.
McGoverns INot
In Parade
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NEWARK, N. J. <£>)— Thirty
• thousand of Newark’s Irish—ex
> eluding the McGoverns—marched
through town yesterday for an
• early celebation of St. Patrick’s
f day.
i Some 150,000 watched the pa
raders, but the McGoverns were
, nowhere in sight. Irked because
they were assigned to the rear for
the second year in a row, the
Frank McGovern Association and
its auxiliaries withdrew from the
! ceremony.
Instead they said they would
hold their own parade here Easter
Sunday.
Forecast And
I Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
—
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, March 17, 1947
Forecast Nome: Cold tonight
with strong northerly wind and
blowing snow, partly cloudy
Thursday morning with decreasing
wind; cloudy and warmer Thurs
day afternoon, followed by snow
Thursday evening. Lowest tem
perature tonight 5, highest tem
perature Thursday 25.
# Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.06
inch. Total precipitation this
month 1.12 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 33. lowest 8.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 17
miles per hour from the north.
Sunrise at 6:09 a.m., sunset at
6:13 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one yehr ago today: highest
20, lowest —8.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —27 in
1930, highest 33 in 1924.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 4 Snow
Point Hope —11 Clear
Kotzebue 10 Cloudy
Shishmaref —7 Cloudy
Wales —8 Fog
Gambell 5 Snow
Nome 13 Partly Cloudy
Unalakleet 27 Snow
Bethel 12 Cloudy
McGrath 26 Cloudy
Anchorage 25 Cloudy
Fairbanks 20 Snpw
Juneau 33 Snow
Whitehorse 23 Snow
Ketchikan 38 Cloudy
Edmonton 13 Cloudy
Seattle 50 Cloudy
San Francisco 50 Clear
Japs Allowed To
Hear Criticisms
Of MaeArtlmr
TOKYO, {aPi — Japanese were
both bewildered and surprised to
day over the first criticism of Gen
eral MacArthur to appear in their
newspapers.
Adverse as well as favorable
comments on MacArthur’s willing
ness to run for President have ap
peared in all Tokyo newspaper- in
disnatches from the United States;
and Russia. This followed the su
preme commander'- relax'tion >!
censorship by h:s staff of all1
“American political attack s ’’
against him. The press still is not,
permitted to criticize him as occu
pation commander, however.
“MacArthur is showing us now
how democracy works,” a radio
shopkeeper told a reporter. “We
Japanese got so we considered him
a demi-god. But that is not right.
This acceptance of criticism by
leaders is one reason why democ
racy is strong.”
—
Chris Roust who arrived here
Monday with his family from An
chorage states that he will be here
until about the tenth helping the
new manager, Don Lyle, who offi
cially took over yesterday as local
manager.
Carrington and Co. chose wisely
a man well known in the com- (
munity, born nad raised in Nome
and well versed in the business,
having been with the Road Com
mission and the Northern Com
mercial Cat shop ever since he fin
ished school, and well acquainted
with the lines of merchandise
stocked by the company.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Ahkolik, which was burn
ed last Thursday morning will be
buried in a private ceremony Fri-,
day unless a priest arrives at the
Catholic church.
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Wein Alaska Airlines
ANNOUNCES... j
A NEW SCHEDULE
i Effective March 16,1948
FAIRBANKS TO NOME TRIPS
on !
TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
OF EACH WEEK
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MERCHANDISE SHIPPED FROM SEATTLE !
MONDAY WILL REACH YOU
IN NOME ON TUESDAY
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Buckingham Pal
ace Hit By Strike
LONDON (/P)—Strikes hit Buck
ingham Palace, Parliament and
government buildings today.
Building maintenance workers
walked out. depriving the occu
pants of heat and hot water, wa
ter. Elevator men later joined
them.
Forteen stokers fade l to report
for work at the Palace. The king.
Queen and Princess Margaret
spent the week end at Winds >r
and were to reach Buckingham
Palace later in the day.
A total of 1,209 engineering at
tendants, stokers, ventilator men
and storemen struck. They de
manded wage increases from the
equivalent of $19.50 a week to $22.
Their unions were not supporting
the strike.
California Gets
Welcome Rain
SAN FRANCISCO, I/P)—Week
end rains refreshed California’s
drought parched lands but the
power shortage remained critical.
A spokesman for the Pacific
Gas & Electric Co., said “the
power shortage was not solved”
by rains totaling an inch or so in
much of the state.
The only tangible result was a
temporary slight decrease in use
of electricity for irrigation pump
ing, he explained.
The state went on daylight sav
ing time yesterday to save power.
The rains, welcomed by agricul
turists, were insufficient. They
said at least two inches are need
ed to soak the soil.
U. S. Commissioner’s Court
Toby Kazingnuk was sentenced
by the U. S. Commissioner to six
months in jail for being drunk and
disorderly in the Federal bldg.
A marriage license was received
from Gambell announcing the
marriage of Victor Campbell and
Inez Apatiki of that village on
Feb. 27.
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Citizen Hospital
Committee Gets
Quick Action
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the necessary arrangements for
carrying on the project. Meeting
was adjourned.
The City Council met at 1:00
, on Tuesday to receive the re
port of the Citizen Committee
which has been active throughout
th." past several days, on the pro
ject of temporary housing for a
hospital. In the matter of the Alas
ka Native service -chool building
which is at present idle, C. C.
Tanner, city attorney, advised the
Council to get permission from
Don Foster, head of the ANS in
Juneau, before anything is done
with the building.
A resolution was passed to re
quest Governor Gruening’s assist
ance in securing emergency funds,
and to assist in getting equipment
from Army Surplus in Seattle, for
Nome’s hospital.
Carl GlaVinovich, w!io was ap
pointed supervisor in charge of the
rehabilitation of the ANS build
ing, stated that the estimated cost
of putting the building basically
in shape for occupancy by the
Mission Board which operated the
hospital prior to the fire last
i Thursday night, would be approx
imately $1800 for materials with
labor additional, (most of which
will be donated).
It was reported at the meeting
that the Non-Commissioned Offi
cers Club at the Nome Airbase has
offered $1000 from their funds for
the local hospital fund, and the
American Legion of Nome are
turning the proceeds of a dance
given tonight also to the fund. A
vote of thanks was given these ac
tive organizations for their gen
erous offerings.
A meeting is scheduled for this
alternoon to hear a report on the
necessary permission from Don
Foster for use of the ANS build
ing.
—
i I/egal Blanks at The Nugget office
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FRANK A. METCALF
CANDIDATE FOR
TERRITORIAL HIGHWAY ENGINEER
FRANK A. METCALF, of Juneau, who is seekinq the Demo*
cratic nominaiion of Territorial Highway Engineer has been a
lesident of the Territory continuously since 1913. He holds a Mas*
Ur's Degree in Civil Engin
eering and has License No. 1
of the Territory registered
engineers.
Upon coming to Alaska he
worked for the Bradley in
terests until the First World
War when he was commis
sioned in the 20th Engineers.
In the summer of 1919 Mr.
Metcalf went into business
for himself following Gener
al Engineering and making
mineral and non-mineral
patent surveys. He served
four times as City Engineer
of Juneau. At the outbreak
of World War II he was ap
pointed Director of Civilian
Defense and Secretary of
Local Draft Board. In 1942
Mr. Metcalf joined the en
gineering staff of Siems
Drake and had charge of the
dredging of Sitka s harbor.
In 1945 he went to Adak as Chief of Party. In the fall of 1947 he
was appointed to fill out the term of the late Leonard Smith as
Territorial Highway Engineer, the office he now seeks. Few men
in the Territory are better equipped by education, experience
and professional ability to handle the work of Territorial High
way Engineer and Superintendent of Public Works.
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