Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, October 30, 1946
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
with few snow flurries and fresh
westerly winds Thursday. Partly
cloudy with decreasing winds.
Lowest temperature tonight 16,
Highest temperature Thursday 24.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.03
inches. Total precipitation this
month 1.82 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 31, lowest 13.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 38
miles per hour from the E.N.E.
Sunrise at 7:43 a.m., sunset at
3:50 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
27. lowest 13.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —3 in 1929.
highest 43 in 1911.
Data far other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
20-40 CLUB
GIVES BASKET SOCIAL
In order to provide an evening
in which to forget our troubles
this fall, the 20-40 Club is having |
a basket social and hard times
ball at 9:00 o’clock tomorrow, j
Thursday, night in St. Joseph’s
Hall. If the gals will all bring box
1 inches they’ll be auctioned off
to the lucky fella. So everyone
wear your old clothes and a smile
rnd let’s have fun for a little
while.
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 14 Snow
Point Hope 25 Cloudy
Kotzebue 24 Cloudy
Shishmaref 22 Cloudy
Wales 22 Snow
Gambell 23 Snow
Nome 21 Partly Cloudy
Unalakleet 27 Cloudy
Bethel 28 Snow
McGrath 2G Cloudy
Anchorage 34 Cloudy
Fa rbanks 28 Snow
Juneau 43 Rain
Whitehorse 38 Cloudy
Kc-tchikan 46 Cloudy
Edmonton 35 Clear
Seattle 46 Cloudy
PIONEER WATER DELIVERY
Phone Main 94
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Want To Buy
A Dinosaur Track?
(Associated Press)
Many New Englanders deal in1
antiques, but Carlton Nash un-,
doubtedly deals in the oldest of
all.
The South Hadley geologist ad
vertises and sells ‘dinosaur tracks
for moderns” — fossil footprints
made by giant reptiles supposed
to have died up to 125 million
years ago.
He quarries the tracks out of
two acres of rock in the near-by
foothills of the Mt. Holyoke range.
Mr. Nash discovered the rich de
posit of fossils and has been work
ing it since 1939.
He has taken out more than
2,000 prints. Some of them still
can be seen in the curio room of
Mr. Nash’s 235-year-old home
stead. But most have been sold—
to collectors and householders,
who use them for ash trays, door
stops, paperweights, and in rock
gardens, flagstone walks and the
like.
In Mr. Nash’s three-page cata
j log he prints a photograph of a
fireplace with a panel of two
tracks on the mantel and remarks:
“A fascinating conversation evol
ves from this idea.”
Prices for twenty-four num
bered items range from $5.75 for
“No. 4, a five-inch track” to $1,250
i for “No. 202,” a long panel of
seven huge footprints.
“Prices change as the supply is
depleted,” a note explains, “for
stock is out of production, since
the dinosaurs became extinct
many years ago.”
Mr. Nash learned geology at
Amherst College. Back in 1802,
an ancestor of his had uncovered
what he called tracks of “Noah’s I
t
raven.” Mr. Nash, at nineteen, dug
in a spot about a mile from there
and found the rich deposit of fos
sils from which he now makes a
living.
He figures the place must have
been a dinosaur waterhole. The
tracks petrified in iron-bearing
clay, sinking under newer soil
layers, and came to the top again
through volcanic action and ero
sion. One footprint he found is
twenty-three inches long.
—
Engineers recently proved sci
entifically that glass is some 300
times smoother than satin, and
about 475 times smoother than
silk.
Queen Dies
BIKINI — (Soundphoto) Sur
rounded by the target ships in the1
lsgoon of Bikini, the USS Sarm-j
toga slowly settles to a water;
grave. The “Sara” was too “hot ,
to be boarded by salvage men in
order to prevent her from sinking
after the underwater bomb test.
YACHTING IN GERMANY — At a former German
yachting basin British Tommies forming part of the Allied occu
pation forces indulge in a little sailing. Boats and other equip
ment were found intact when the Nazis fled.
CHILDREN GOING FOR
T. B. TREATMENT
Several children have been sent
for treatment in the new hospital
alter thorough x-rays by the Alas
ka Native Service nurse, Miss,
Clara Gaddie, who states that a
complete survey is being made
and more afflicted children will
be sent in the near future.
Those who have already been
sent are Bobby Lawrence, Alfred
Milligruk, Siegfried Larson, Cece- j
Turning The Rocket
Into Furniture
KATOWICE. Poland. (/P)—Poles
are finding a new use for the V-I
flying rockets left behind by the
Germans at Olsztyny in Lower
Silesia. They're making furniture
from the wooden parts of the wea
pons.
lia Olanna, Alice Amatoolik and
John Sahlin.
ALASKA TELEPHONE &
TELEGRAPH CO.
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE SERVICE
I tell you
w*
Dorothy’s
is the place to buy
Gifts and Baby Clothes! i
“The only shop on 1 -