Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, January 6, 1947
Forecast Nome: Incre a s i n g
cloudiness tonight and followed by
snow flurries Tuesday. Fresh west
wind tonight becoming northeast
erly Tuesday. Lowest temperature
tonight —10, highest Temperature
Tuesday 0.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours .02
inch. Total precipitation this
month .46 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 18, lowest 5.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 39
miles pe rhour from the north.
Sunrise at 9:52 a.m., sunset at
2:23 p.m.
► Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. weather
Barrow 4 Cloudy
Point Hope —3 Clear
Kotzebue 4 Snow
Shishmaref —8 Clear
Wales —13 Clear
Gambell —9 artly Cloudy
Nome 5 Partly Cloudy
Unalakleet 23 Cloudy
Bethel 14 Cloudy
McGrath 25 Snow
Anchorage 32 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks 27 Snow
Juneau 36 Fog
Whitehorse 33 Cloudy
Ketchikan 39 Rain
Edmonton 31 Cloudy
Seattle 34 Cloudy
Lignite, or brown coal has the
ft least carbon of any variety.
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Nome Directory
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ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon1
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
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. 6368
Juneau Grocer
Slain; Robbery
Believed Motive
JUNE/vU — Expressing belief
that Jim Ellen. 52-year-old opera
tor of a small grocery and liquor
store, was murdered during the
coarse of a robbery police today
said they are investigating a re
port that the dead man had a large
sum of money in his establish
ment several days ago. Ellen’s
body was found yesterday morn
ing in living quarters at the rear
of his store. His throat had been
slashed.
University Gets
FWA Grant
WASHINGTON (/P) — Federal
Works Agency has approved the
following appropriations for pro
ject planning:
The University of Alaska, $26,
300 for buildings at College, Alas
ka, and new agricultural experi
ment stations at Fairbanks, Matan
uska and Petersburg. Estimated
cost of project is $795,000.
The grants are exclusively for
planning and must be repaid when
construction is started.
Fairbanks Suffers
Two Disastrous
Fires In Ten Days
•
FAIRBANKS, i/P)—The second
serious fire in ten days gutted two
buildings in the center of Fair
banks early Friday morning, caus
ing damage estimated at one hun
dred fifty thousand dollars.
The flames originated in one of
four apartments above the River
side bar and spread to the adjoin
ing Silver Dollar Bar building.
Ladd Field firemen aided the
city department to save the build
ings adjoining on either side and
1 the rear.
The businesses destroyed in
: eluded two bars, a restaurant, the
Veteran’s club, seven apartments.
A man was overcome by smoke
in one apartment and was rescued
when his groans were heard by
neighbor returning at the last min
ute to get prized pictures.
In the previous fire on Christ
mas Eve, Fairbanks was without
telephone service; the fire destroy
ing the Northern Commercial Co.
garage and the telephone building
at an estimated damage of $350,
000.
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