Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, December 19, 1949
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday. Gentle south
easterly winds. Lowest tempera
ture tonight 10, highest tempera
ture Tuesday 17.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:40 a.m. today:
Precipitation .01 inch. <Total
this month .88 inch).
Temperatures* highest 25, low
est 15.
Maximum wind 25 miles an
hour from the east.
Sunrise at 10:01 a.m., sunset at
1:56 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 26, lowest 16.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: highest 37 in 1920,
lowest —36 in 1918.
a.m. today:
Data for other stations as of 7:00
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —3 Clear
Point Hope 17 Cloudy
Kotzebue 15 Snow
Wales 22 Cloudy
Gambell 26 Snow
Nome 17 Clear
Unalakleet 23 Partly Cloudy
Bethel 21 Partly Cloudy
McGrath 13 Snow
Anchorage 25 Sno'w
Fairbanks 9 Snow
Edmonton —16 Clear
Hospital News
New patients at the hospital ai'e
Annie Scott and Mrs. Robert
Treat.
AT THE POLARIS HOTEL
' James Hoffman. Bethel.
I
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving yesterday with Pan
American were Edith Lessee, Da
vid and Martha Markley, Esther
Henry.
Departing were Edward Ahko
lik. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jensen
and children, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ke
hoe, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lee,
Sr., Richard Lee, Jr., Douglas Lee,
Dianna Lee, LeWayne Jones, A.
W. Pierson, Archie Jones, Crest
Potland, Hilding Larson, Otto
Larson, Cecil Hagar, Agnes Gal
vin, Alice Hudson, Mr. and Mrs.
Art Gahagan, W. W. Farrington,
Mr. and Mrs. John Bahnke and son
John.
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TOURIST COMMITTEES PLAN
MANY PROJECTS
The tourist committee of the
Northwestern Alaska C. of C. held
their regular meeting last week at
the Bering Sea Club at which time
several sub-committee repo r t s
were rendered indicating progress
along several lines.
Joe Wallace reported that plans
■ are under consideration for skat
ing. dog racing and skiing clubs
while Ted Duffield reported that
housing of tourists will have to be
taken under consideration by the
Nome planning council.
| Some slogan suggested to date
are “Find new beauty, joy and ad
venture in Northwestern Alaska.”
“America’s four-season vacation
land." "The land of scenic splen- j
dor and majestic beauty.” “The i
I top of the world all-year play
ground.”
The first home in Nome this year
:o have outside lighting to cele
j brate the Christmas season is that
of Rube Cremer, who has Christ
I mas light in holiday colors fes
tooned all around his home on
j Second Ave.
Mr. and Mrs. Art Gahagan left
this week to spend the next few
months at their home in Hunt,
i New York, with . their families.
They plan to return in the spring.
NEW
AIRFREIGHT
RATES
BETWEEN NOME
AND KOTZEBUE
25 LBS. MINIMUM 7c lb
COMMODITY RATES
100 LBS. MINIMUM 5c lb.
flLRSKn niRuriES
INC.
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DON'T TAKE CHANCES . . .
One defective wire on your
Christmas tree lights may
mean tragedy to your home.
YULE SAFETY
Christmas, the merriest time of
the year, frequently is the time of
unexpected disaster.
In our effort to have a bright
and gay household, we burn more
lights than usual, taxing our elec
tric light circuits, we use lighted
candles and lots of paper decora
tions, all fire hazards.
There are very few Christmas
trees that really are flameproof
safety experts tell us, and the or
dinary Yule tree is one of the most
flammable objects known.
If you want to have a safe
Christmas observe these rules:
1. Keep the tree outdoors until
ready to install it. Place it in the
coolest part of the house, shutting
off the radiator closest to it. Do
not put electric trains around it.
Bt sure tree lights do not burn
when no one is in the house. If
needles near lights start to turn !
brown, change the location of the
lights. When needles start falling,
it is time to discard the tree.
2. Avoid decorations near chairs
where people may smoke. If
lights are desired*in windows, do j
not use candle. Keep curtains and ;
other flammable material pulled
back at least six inches from elec- j
trie light. Use non-flammable dec
orations of glass or metal and
“fireproof” snow in decorating.
Dispose of all gift wrappings and
packing materials after gifts have
been opened.
Alice Hudson of Munz Air Serv
ice left yesterday to spend the
holidays in Seattle with her fam
ily, and plans to return after a
short vacation.
“Hank" Farrington of the Alas
ka National Guard departed for
the States for the holidays.
ATTENTION
EASTERN STARS
Dec. 19. 8 P.M. Stated Meeting.
INSTALLATION 9 P.M. TONIGHT
Members, husbands, wives and
escorts of members, visiting Stars
invited.
Helen Dunbar, W.M.
WANT ADS
WANTED—Dish Washer. Call at
I North Pole. • 151-3tc J
It >R RENT—Good Cabin. Inquire '
Bjornstad, 411 3rd Ave. 148-tfc
FOR SALE—Oil Heater. Bargain
m at $20.00. Call at Nugget. 129-tf
Must Liberalize
Homestead Laws
To Settle Alaska
(By Charles D. Watkins)
<(/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, </P)—Rep. Tol
lefson <R.-Wash.) said yesterday
Alaska needs more defenses and
more attractions for permanent
settlers.
The latter, he told a reporter,
can be accomplished if the interi
or department and Congress will
librealize the homestead laws to
“cut out the red tape” that now
prevents many settlers perfecting
title to their homesteads.
“The situation is so discourag
ing,” Tollefson said, “that some of
the GI’s who filed on homesteads
have given up and gone home,
leaving their improvements on
the land.”
He said he had been shown dur
ing a recent trip to Alaska with a
House merchant marine sub-com
mittee one homestead where the
settler had built a house, a barn
and a garage. Then, because of
difficulty in perfecting a title, the
settler had abandoned it all, in
cluding furniture in the house and
a truck in the garage.
Tollefson said the interior de
partment has speeded issuance of
titles recently but still does not
•1
[ solve the problem. Getting titles
to homestead* ought to be simpli
fied.” Tollefson said, “and more
land opened to homesteading and
more access roads constructed.”
Based on visit to every city of
any size in Alaska with the sub
committee, Tollefson said Territo
rial defenses have been improved
but still must be vastly increased.
“Alaska is a vital point in out
defenses and it must not be ne
glected.” he asserted.
“The people of the Pacific North
west, which has been called ‘vul
nerable’ by the armed services,
insist that the Northwest, which
includes Alaska, must be amply
defended to the point that it is no
longer vulnerable.”
Tollefson said the people of
Alaska rightly insist on better
transportation, and especially by
water. He said many believe that
smaller, faster ships should be
used tin the Alaskan service to
permit quicker and more frequent
trips.
He said the sub-committee
reached no decision on bills to
abolish fish traps in the Territory
over a five-year period.
Rev. and Mrs. Robert Treat of
the Methodist-Federated Church
had a special treat this morning
when their son John Robert, was
born at the M. M. and M. Hospital,
weighing eight pounds and four
ounces.
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Watchmaker
Box 625 Nome, Alaska
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