Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Fair and cool tonight and Tues
day.
Lowest temperature tonight 32.
Highest temperature Tuesday
50.
^ Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today.
Precipitation the last 24 hours
a trace.
Total precipitation this month
0.27.
Temperatures last 24 hours.
Highest 52. Lowest 32.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
25 mph from the N.
Sunrise 3:21 a.m.
Sunset 8:56 p.m.
Comparative data.
Temperatures on this day since
1907:
> Lowest 29 in 1932.
Highest 72 in 1935.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today.
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 32 Snow
Point Hope 40 Cloudy
Kotzebue 41 Rain
Shishmarel 43 Cloudy
Wales 44 Cloudy
Gambell 42 Cloudy
Nome 41 Clear
I Unalakleet 42 Cloudy
; Bethel 49 Rain
McGrath 45 Clear
Anchorage 55 Cloudy
Fairbanks 45 Cloudy
Juneau 55 Cloudy
Whitehorse 56 Cloudy
Ketchikan 57 Cloudy
; San Francisco 63 Clear
TWO SAILORS STEAL CAR
OWNED BY BANKS CROOKS
It is reported that last Friday
; afternoon two sailors on shore
leave stole the Hudson sedan of
Banks Crooks, which was parked
I in front of Mildred’s Beauty Sal
I on. They drove the car as far as
I B Street where it was wrecked in
| front of the Trigg’s residence.
The damage has been estimated
by Nome Motors to be about
S300.00.
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ACS OPERATED
ALASKA 46 YRS.
The Alaska Communication Sys-1
tern, drawing upon the experience
gained in more than *6 years of
successful operation, is continuing
to provide a high quality of .ser
vice at reasonable rates the Pub
lic Relations Office of the War
Department disclosed in a recent
release. Comparable service and
rates could not be provided by
private interests under the unique
conditions existing in this terri
tory.
Great distances, severe climatic
conditions and peculiar magnetic
interference create problems
which can be met only by the
use of the best available equip
ment - installed, maintained and
operated by an organization con
cerned more with adequate ser
vice than with profit. It is an
economic fact that tolls from the
commercial traffic alone would
not support this far-flung arter
ial communication system. Since
its basic networks must be op
erated anyway, as a military ne
cessity, it follows logically that
additional capacity for commer
cial traffic can be provided at
rates which private interests could
not approach. The report con
tinues, by saying, competitive pri
vate agencies, dividing the avail
able commercial business, would
be forced to higher rates or poor
er service. Furthermore, Alas- i
ka necessarily depends heavily up
on radio communications, whose
frequencies and procedures must
be rigidly controlled in the pub-1
; lie interest.
A single large agency, there
; fore, an agency serving both gov-I
ernment and individual require-,
ments - is the only solution to I
the Alaska communication'; pro
blem.
The Alaska Communication Sys
1 tern does not pretend to be infal
j lible. Occasional errors are in-1
I evatible in the daily handling of
thousands of messages, by any or-;
ganization. Despite an annual |
, turnover in personnel due to de-1
mobilization, however, the Sys
tem has made every effort to!
maintain its high standards of ser-I
vice. All complaints as to ser- i
vice or rates are given careful \
consideration for the purpose of
correcting errors and generally
improving the service. An ex
amination of rates has disclosed
that those in the Alaska area in
many cases are below the normal
rate structures for similar ser
vice in the United States.
To the knowledge of this or
ganization. (Bureau of Public Re
lations, War Department), no
group has complained of its ser
vice to the Alaska Communica
tions, the War Department, or to
the Federal Communications Com
mission.
The Alaska Communications
System, formerly known as the
Washington-Alaska Military Cab
le and Telegraph System (WAM
CATS), has provided the princi
pal communications for the terri
tory since 1901. Operated the
! entire time by the U. S. Army
i Signal Corps, the organization has
had as its primary peacetime mis
sion the provision of good com
mercial type communications for
both military and commercial in
terests. Many of its members
have been assigned to the system
for 20 years or longer, develop
ing in that time a thoroug ap
preciation of the needs of Alaska,
in addition to highly specialized
technical and operating experi
ence.
As a basic policy, to supplement
its main line service, the Alaska
Communication System has en
couraged and assisted individuals
and agencies in the establishment
of connecting circuits to its prin
cipal networks. This policy will
remain in effect, the report con
cludes.
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