WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce,
Weather Bureau
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Mostly cloudy today. Partly
cloudy Saturday. General variable
winds. Lowest temperature expect
ed tonight 35, highest tomorrow 50.
Nome data l-ast 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation, none.
Month total .12 inch. Tempera
tures: highest 50, lowest 30. Maxi
mum wind 12 mph. from the NW.
Sunrise at 2:10 a.m., sunset at
12:50 p.m.
Comparative data: Temperatures
one year ago today: highest 46,
lowest 35. Extreme temperatures
on this date since 1907: highest 53
f m 1942, lowest 24 in 199.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 15 Snow
Point Hope 31 Part Cloudy
Kotzebue 30 Cloudy
Shishmaref 29 Snow
Wales 28 Snow
* Gambell 32 Fog
Nome 38 Clear
Unalaklee: 44 Part Cloudy
Bethel 33 Snow
McGrath 50 Part Cloudy
Anchorage 49 Part Cloudy
Fairbanks 44 Rain
Whitehorse 46 Part Cloudy
Edmonton 54 Cloudy
Juneau 52 Part Cloudy
Ketchikan 48 Rain
San Francisco 75 Clear
♦ LAND OFFICE APPLICATIONS
Applications received in the
Land Office, Nome, Alaska:
Homesite by Eugene Tetinek,
Russian Mission, Alaska.
Homesite by Mrs. Olive Miller,
Teller. Alaska.
Trade and Manufacturing Site
by George Sheppard, Mountain
Village, Alaska.
Trade and Manufacturing Site
by Harry O. Brown, Kobuk, Al
aska.
Notice of Location for Head
quarters Site at Kotzebue by
Floyd J. Brown, Anchorage, Al
aska.
Purchase of Timber of 29 cords
by Andrew I. Bango, Unalakleet,
Alaska.
Grueiiing Protests
Slashing of Cost-of
Living Allowances
Following last week’s action by
the House of Representatives in
discontinuing payment of the 25
percent cost of living allowance
to Department of Agriculture em
ployes recruited in Alaska, Gover
nor Ernest Gruening has sent a
detailed protest to each of the 21
members of the United States
Senate Appropriations Committee.
Highlights of the protest were:*
The allowance, in the case of
Agriculture dates from 1924. Cost
of living surveys demonstrate its
justification, the latest showing
Fairbanks to be 47 percent and
Anchorage 40 percent above Seat
tle costs. Discontinuance of the
allowance to employes hired lo
cally would promote a colonialism
i and a caste system by establishing
a higher paid class recruited from
the ‘‘motherland” to work with a
lower paid, presumably inferior,
class of resident Alaskans.
me proposal wouia aeny me
capacity of Alaskans to govern
themselves, by providing greater
pay for imported officials. It
would be inefficient in favoring
locally uninformed employes over
resident employes. Direct increas
* ed costs would result from outside
i recruitment, travel co9ts being
met by the government from point
of hire to job location. A greater
, turnover rate, and longer training
periods would add to such costs.
Finally, the proposal undermines
national policy which aims toward
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permanent settlement of Alaska.
It would mean the domination of
%
federal (agencies by transient
workers having roots and basic
interests elswhere.
The governor pointed out that
the matter is of general interest
to the business community since
federal employes are so widely
distributed that their loss of buy
ing power would be felt through
out Alaska.
The danger of Alaska’s economy
is real and immediate. It is, I
think, obvious that this discrim
SCHOOL'S OUT—OR IS IT?
In case you didn’t, kids the Fed
erated or Community Methodist
Sunday School has planned a
real jim-dandy of a Vacation
Church School -for this year, be
ginning next Monday morning at
9. All the departments will meet
at the church for the first meet
- ing, and then split up for classes
! where there will be lots of room
i for handwork, map making, dra
1 matics, story -telling, singing, and
| games. Some of the basic chapters
| of the bible will be learned, and
' the intermediates will put on a
I play with sets.
It’s mornings only, and every
one 4 years old through inter
mediates are welcome. Say, come
to think about it, it sounds good.
I ....
That empty feeting at the pit of
my stomach is gone;
There’s something to do, and I’ll
be the first guy on
The steps of the church. When you
pull on the bell,
You can count on me too—I guess
you could tell.
—The Preacher, Robert Treat
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So efficient were old Indian
I wilderness routes that practically
all of today’s transportation lines
east of the Mississippi are based
on them.
inatory treatment would not occur
were Alaska a state with two sen
ators and a voting representative.
Meanwhile Alaskans can, how
ever, express themselves by pro
testing to* the members of the two
committees.
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(Back of Jinx Cafe)
Haircut . 1.25
Shave .75
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Six flights weekly combined service from Nome
Connecting schedules at Fairbanks
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ARCTIC COAST EXCURSIONS
Genuine Native Handcraft Active Gold-Dredging Operations
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Nome is a mining community,
and every miner knows that “Clean
Up” means getting the pay out of
the dirt,
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It will pay us to CLEAN UP the
accumulation of dirt and rubbish
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after the long winter-pay us in San
itation to CLEAN UP the yards,
cache, even the inside of the cup
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boards-a coat of DuPont paint will
do wonders-even a scrub brush and
soap will help. It will pay us in per
sonal satisfaction and Civic Pride.
Now is a good time to paint
those window casings-or why not
the entire house. Remember those
articles about the “drab, unpainted
houses of Nome” that made us so
mad!
Well, wliat are we £oin« to do
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about it?
Come in and see our full stock
of DuPont paints, brushes and
t
cleaning tools-Also see what an in
•provement one coat of DuPont
paint made in . . .
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