Forecast And
Weather Report
Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Saturday, December 23, 1950
This year, according to the U. S.
Weather Bureau, there was no
shortest day—for allpractical pur
poses, Dec. 21, 22, and 23 were all
exactly the same in length.
Forecast Nome: Mostly cloudy
today and Sunday with occasional
very light snow. Moderate easter
ly winds, rising temperature to
day, dropping tonight. Lowest
temperature tonight —8, highest
temperature Sunday 2.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 ajn. today:
Precipitaiton, trace. (Total this
month 0.82 inch).
Temperatures: highest —2, low
est —14.
Maximum wind 26 miles an
hour from the E.N.E.
Sunrise at 10:04 am., sunset at
1:57 pm.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest —12, lowest —23.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907. Highest 34 in
1944, lowest —21 in, 1923. :
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 am. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —10 Snow
Point Hope —6 Snow
Kotzebue —3 Blowing Snow
Gambell 3 Sncrw
Uome —9 Partly Cloudy
Unalakleet —12 Partly Cloudy
Bethel — Partly Cloudy
McGrath —8 Snow
Anchorage 14 Snow
Fairbanks —10 Partly Cloudy
AIRLINES
ALASKA AIRLINES
Departing for Anchorage Tues
day were: D. Matthews, R. Gro
ver, C. Lilly, G. Bourdon.
Gene Gallagher was a passenger
from Anchorage Wednesday.
Departing for Anchorage on the
return flight were Rose Gristas,
R. Peterson, G. Bourdon.
John Olson left for Anchorage
Thursday.
Truman Holds Out
Hope For Peace
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (JP) —
President Truman, home for
Christmas, -holds out hope of “a
world that is safe for you and my
self, and everybody else to live
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He says the American people
are “in excellent shape” to meet
the challenge of world-commun
ism, as the nation has met every
crisis since Washington’s time.
“All we need now is time, and
that is what we are fighting for,”
the President told a hometown
audience of Masons, mostly old1
| friends and lodge brothers, last
night.
He unexpectedly spoke out on
the world crisis at a dress-suit
banquet after flying out of a
Washington snowstorm into what
he plainly regarded as an atmos
phere of goodwill and unity, quite
different from the Washington
sharpshooting (he is accustomed to.
Whitehorse 14 BlowingSnow
Edmonton 34 Cloudy
Juneau 27 Cloudy
Ketchikan 41 Rain •
Seattle 52 Rain |
San Francisco 48 Cloudy j
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can no more reach Washington in
force than we can reach Moscow,”
he declared.
At another point, he expressed
the opinion that the atomic bomb
is “a far less dominant weapon
than it was once thought to bt.M
The only living ex-President,
making one of -the most important
addresses of his long public ca
reer, said “It is clear that the
United Nations are defeated in
Korea.”
It would be “inviting another
Korea,” he declared, to send more
troops or money to Western Eu
ropean nations before they had
armed themselves as a “sure dam
against the Red flood.”
Defense of Western Continental
Europe rests primarily on the Eu
ropean nations thetaiselves, the 76
year-old former Chief Executive
told his audiences across the na
tion.
“We have little need for large
armies unless we are going to Eu
rope or China,” he said. Land war
with the communist masses in
Asia or Western Europe “would
be the graveyard of millions of
American boys and would end in
the exhaustion of this Gibraltar of
western civilization.”
Mr. 'Hoover said Western Euro
pean nations should arm them
selves with combat divisions of
“huge numbers” before the United
States land “another man or an
other dollar on their shores.”
His demand for a new foreign'
army policy came one day after
President Truman named Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme
commander of Western European
forces and said additional U. S.
troops would be sent there as soon
as possible.
Mr. Hoover said his suggested j
foreign policy would make it pos
sible for this country to carry on
indefinitely, even if the commun-;
ists attacked its defense rim.
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Billy Waldheim sends Christ
t
mas Greetings from where he is
receiving special training in Den
ver, Colo.
ANNOUNCEMENT
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Bering Sea Restaurant announc
es that they will be open from 5
p.m. until 1 o’clock a.m.
Steaks, Chops, Short Orders,
Sandwiches, Chili Con Carne* and
Special Dinners by reservation.
They are featuring this week:
Turkey, Fresh Oysters, and Lou
isiana Prawns.
NOTICE
K. K. Library
Closed this weekend.
Books may be left in box placed
by the door of the library.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
GREETINGS
TO THE CITIZENS OF NOME
In appreciation of the enthusias
tic co-operation of everyone in
making our Roof Garden the won
derful success it was and realizing
the drain which has been made
upon us all by the various drives,
the Pioneers have decided not to
ask for contributions toward a
Christmas Fund for the old Pion
eer Home, but will make the same
from out of the funds from the
Roof Garden.
Thanking You One and All!
Pioneer Igloo Number 1
Gen. Walker, 8th
Army Commander I
Killed In Jeep
(By William J. Waugh)
SEOUL, (/P)—:Lt. Gen. Walton
H. Walker, U. S. Eighth Army
commander, was killed almost in
stantly in a head-on collision of
his jeep and a truck.
Walker, a fighting protege of
the late George S. (Patton, Jr., died
while enruote to the Western Ko
rea front where his forces are
bracing against a threatening new
Chinese Red attack.
General MacArthur immediate
ly announced the selection of Lt.
Gen. Matthew T. Ridgway, the
U. S. army deputy chief of staff
for administration, as the new 8th
Army commander.
Ridgway, now in Washington,
was a pioneer of airborne opera
tions in World War II. He planned
the first large U. S. airborne as
sault, the 1943 attack on Sicily,
and jumped with his men in the
Normandy campaign.
He commanded the 82nd Air
borne infantry division and the
18th Airborne Corps.
Stuffs Ballot Box;
Truman Pardons
ASHLAND, </P) — Edward F.
Prichard, Jr., Paris, Ky., attorney
and former administrative aid un
der President Roosevelt, was re
leased from the federal correction
al institution near here on or
ders of President Truman.
Warden iR. O. Culver said Pric
hard’s two-year sentence was
commuted by the (President to the
time already served.
The 35-year-old attorney en
tered the prison last July 14' after
Xmas Dinner, No
Matter What Day
VANCOUVER, B. C. <Jf) — An
air-age Christmas can be a confus
ing thing, indeed.
For 36 members of the Unite d
a
States army, it will be a da6h be
tween tradition and the quirks of
time.
On their flight from here to
Tokyo, the soldiers will put down
briefly in the Aleutians, taking off
on the morning of Dec. 24.
Approximately 30 minutes later
they will cross the international
dateline and—presto—it will be
Christmas Day.
And because they will be flying
westward, -gaining time all along,
Christmas for them will be a 27
hour affair.
But one thing sticks to form,
Christmas dinner.
The menu will include: roast
turkey with cranberry sauce;
Christmas pudding and mince
pies.
A cocktail will be served to each
before dinner.
And that, Santa, is Christmas
in the air.
conviction of ballot box stuffing
in Bourbon County in the 1948
Presidential election.
Warden Culver said the text of
the order received from James V.
Bennett, director of the federal
prisons, said:
“The President has commuted
the sentence of Edward F. Pric
hard to the time already served.
He may be released immediately.”
Reports of Prichard’s release
circulated in his home town. In
response to questions, Warden
Culver said earlier “he’s gone. I
had instructions from my superi
ors to release him.”
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