Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the l). S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, March 11, 1949
Forecast Nome: Continued clou
dy with intermittent light snow
tonight and Saturday. Moderate
to fresh SE. to S. winds. Lowest
temperature tonight 25, highest
temperature Saturday 30.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation 0.08 inches. (Total
this month 0.86 inch).
Temperatures: highest 36, low
est 21.
Maximum wind 38 miles an
hour from the E.S.E.
Sunrise at 6:30 a.m., sunset at
5:52 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 14, lowest —18.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907: Highest 36 in
1949, lowest —32 in 1947.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 6 Cloudy
Point Hope 26 Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue 27 Partly Cloudy
Shishmaref 20 Cloudy
Wales 27 Cloudy
Gambell 30 Snow
Nome 22 Clear
Unalakleet 28 Partly Cloudy
Bethel 18 Partly Cloudy
McGrath 34 Rain
Anchorage 34 Cloudy
Fairbanks 13 Clear
Whitehorse 15 Clear
Edmonton 32 Cloudy |
Juneau 31 Clear
Ketchikan 42 Clear j
Seattle 49 Cloudy
San Francisco 52 Rain
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AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Wednesday: Russ Apple Kotze
bue to Nome. Orrin Dover Kotze
bue to Nome. Hobo Jo Kotzebue to
Nome.
Thursday: O. F. Weinard, Nome
to Candle. Leonard Miraldi Nome
to Kotzebue. O. C. Brock, Nome to
Kotzebue. G. Fritz Nome to Kotze
bue. i
ALASKA AIRLINES
William Reese and Joe Guthrie
left today with Alaska Airlines.
Mrs. Andrew Nakerak arrived J
yesterday from Shaktoolik with
Pilot Seeds.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Inbound Paul Kakaruk, Igloo.
Leonard Baraldi, George Swan
son, A1 Mucciante, Frank Jensen,
Fred Weinard.
Outbound: William Cook, Orrin
Scoville.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Russell Apple, Fairbanks. L. J.
Miraldi, H. Kenny, Anchorage. A.
E. Muccianto, Calif. O. F. Wein
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art, Candle.
AT THE POLARIS HOTEL
George Swanson, O. Dover,
Fairbanks.
HOSPITAL NEWS
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Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Tweet of
Teller are the parents of a son
born this morning at the hospital.;
Gustav Hed of Nome and Henry
Titmatalik of Unalakleet are pa
tients in the hospital.
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HUGE FRUITCAKE SENT TO
POPE PIUS XII
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (JP)—
A 100-pound fruitcake* will be
sent from here to Rome Sunday to
commemorate Pope Pius XII’s
50th anniversary of the priest
hood.
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MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
Warm Weather Will
Bring Big Floods
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SIDNEY, Mont. {£*)—Army en
gineers said cooler weather caus
ed the Yellowstone River to drop
about 10 feet Wednesday night,
! but flooding of lowland in north
eastern Montana continued yester
day.
They are warning people th£ft a
sudden warm spell could cause se
• rious flooding over a wide region
where the Yellowstone meets the
ice-blocked Missouri river at the
Montana-North Dakota border.
A huge ice jam in the Yellow
! stone, unable to move into the
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Missouri continues to cause flood
ing of farmland near Fairview,
Mont. That’s where an estimated
25 to 40 families were evacuated
when more than 5,000 acres were
inundated.
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! Anchorage Flyer
| Air-Crash Victim
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — The air
J force has identified the victim of
: an F-80 fighter plane crash last
| Tuesday as First Lt. Melvin C.
i Boyd, 28, of Anchorage.
Boyd was killed in the crash of
a jet fighter plane near the shore
of Big Lake, a few miles west of ,
Anchorage, during a routine
flight.
Boyd’s wife, Marjorie, and
three-year-old daughter live at
Anchorage. His mother, Mrs. Arlo
Dean, lives at Waterloo, Iowa.
Boyd had served in the air force i
since 1941.
Funeral services and a memori
al flight will be held this after
noon.
NOTICE l
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CATHOLIC CHURCH
Lenten Devotions
Sun. eve, 7:30.instructions
Wed. eve. 7:30.Instructions
Fri. eve. 7:30, Stations of the Cross
NOTICE '
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GAY NINETIES PARTY
AT BERING SEA CLUB
SATURDAY, MARCH 12th
Prizes for the prettiest, most old
fashioned, and funniest dresses.
Derbys, straw hats, and mustaches
shipped in from Seattle by P.A.A.
for the men.
NOTICE
Dance at Arctic Native Brother
hood Clubhouse Saturday, March
12th. Admission 75c. Door Prize.
NOTICE
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Painting Party at the Arctic j
Club, Sunday. March 13th. 11 &.m.
Bring your Paint Brush. Paint
Can, and Lunch. Free refresh
ments will be served.
T. C. Du f fie Id. Pres.
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ICE POOL
FORECASTS
As the manager of Nenana Ice
Pool is supposted to give out all
the dope on conditions of the ice
in the Tanana River and just
when it should go ou‘, I have
asked these men listed below, all
of whom belong to Pioneer Igloo
No. 7, Pioneers of Alaska, and
who have put many years in Ne
nana and have seen the ice come
and go many times, so if any one
should know I believe they do.
Will also give a short history of
each man.
Let’s start with Tommy Jones,
ex-mayor and ex-ice pool manager
of Nenana, and about one of our
oldest residents. He was raised in
Johnson City, Wyoming, and I
know he left there on his own ac
cord. His father won the first pool
in 1917; there was $600 in the pot
that year, but as he had sold half
of his ticket to a man named Hoey
he had to split the pot. This is as
close to winning as Tom has ever j
come however. He seems to think
the ice will go early in May, pos j
sibly late in April. \ #
Charley Shade is another man I
that most always knows just the
month, day. hour and minute that
it should go out. He is a long-time
resident of Nenana, carried mail
for years and is about one of the
best river men in these parts,
hardly a bar on the Tanana or
Yukon River that he does not
know just where it is located. He
predicts the ice will go in May. j
Adolph Nelson, better known as
Two Cord Nelson, came here a
long time before the railroad and
has seen the ice come and go for
the past forty-five years and seems
to think that it will go late in
April, perhaps he does know. He
has followed mining for a good j
many years and is one of the best
carpenters in these parts. And a
fairly good wood cutter also. He
was cutting wood one winter and
when he came in from the woods
at night the boys would ask him
how much wood he had cut that
day. His answer would always be
“two cord,” hence the name Two
Cord Nelson.
Now comes the daddy of all the
Train Robber
May Recover
WASHINGTON, (>P)—A thrill
seeking "rich kid’* who helped
hold up a crack passenger train in
the West Virginia hills was given
a good chance today to survive a
police-inflicted bullet wound.
He is 23-year-old Luman Rams
dell, who was shot down after be
ing cornered yesterday by police
in a pawnshop near the White
House. Ramsdell’s buddy, "poor
boy” George L. Ashton, gave up
meekly.
Police fired when Ramsdell
drew a gun.
In Youngstown O., where the<
pair lived, friends and relatives
described Ramsdell as just "a wild
kid” who had plenty of money
and didn’t need the cash stolen
from terrorized passengers aboard
the Baltimore and Ohio’s Ambas
sador express.
Ashton, on the other hand, was
pictured as a poor boy who had
been influenced by “bad compan
ions.” •
Sourdoughs, Sidney J. Sheldon.
Sid as we all call him, worked for
the roalroad and was foreman of
a bridge gang for a good many
years, but is now retired. He came
over the Chilkoot Pass in 1898
with his bed roll, tent, stove and
grub stake on his back. His sour
dought pot in one hand and his
whip saw in the other. His guess
is lae in April or early in May.
Now I will give you my own
views of when the ice will go. Will
let someone else give my history,
but will say this, that when I came
to Alaska my hair wasn’t nearly
as white as it is now. The river
froze the lowest last fall that ever
was known and the ice is about
thirty-eight inches thick at the
present time. There is about four
feet of snow which will make lots
of water to raise the ice and
break it loose so I am playing
late in April very s’rong. Here's
hoping that you all hit the jack
pot. »
Floyd W. Avery
Manager Nenana Ice Pool.
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