Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vieinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, February 17, 1947
Forecast Nome: Cloudy with oc
casional snow squalls tonight, be
coming partly cloudy Tuesday.
Strong southwesterly wind de
creasing Tuesday and backing to
easieny. Lowest temperature to
night i :>, highest temperature
Tuesday. 22.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
1-rec piiation last 24 hours 0.14
inch. Total precipitation this
month 0.41 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours,
highest 38, lowest 21.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 48
miles per hour from the east.
Sunrise at 7:50 a.m., sunset at
4:40 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 24, lowest 8.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —34 in
1932, highest 38 in 1947.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 3 Cloudy
Po nt Hope 26 Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue 27 Snow
Shishmaref 23 Cloudy
Wales 28 Cloudy
Gambell 18 Snow
Nome 21 Snow
Unalakleet ' 29 Snow
Bethel 16 Cloudy
McGrath 26 Cloudy
Anchorage 30 Cloudy
Fairbanks 27 Cloudy
Whitehorse 18 Cloudy
Ketchikan 31 Cloudy
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Nome, Alaska
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Royal Family Gets
Big Welcome
(By Russell Landstrom)
CAPETOWN, South Africa,
A joyous multitude of 200,000
packed Capetown streets today
and roared a friendly welcome to
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth
and their daughters. It was the
youngest dominion’s first sight o/
a British royal family.
The royal party stepped ashore
into the sweltering South African
heat from the battleship Vanguard
after a 6,000-mile cruise from fri
gid, coal-shy England. Blacks and
white.-, stood siae by side, yellin''
and waving South African and
British flags. Nowhere was there
a sign of disdain.
The family rode in motor cars
from the docks to Government
House, evincing interest in al1
along the three-mile route.
The queen was the most ani
mated in the party. She was dress
ed in her favored blue, with flut
tering ostrich feathers in her hat
and a small umbrella protecting
her from the sultry sun.
King George wore a white naval
uniform. He was responsive to
every show of good will and seem
Metal Lathers
Strike In New York
NEW YORK. f/P)—1,000 metal
lathers today began a strike which
was expected to force immediate
suspension of work on half the
construction projects in New Yo~k
City and result in a complete shut
down of building work within a
few days if it continued.
The strikers are member of Lo
cal 46, metal lathers union <AFL>.
who are demanding $2.50 an hour
and a seven-hour day. The pres
ent wage is $2.10 an hour.
The lathers place reinforcing
rods in concrete foundations and
handle straight metallic lath for
olcster so that a strike on their
part could hold buildings in sev
eral phases.
ed touched as his limousine passed
slowly by long line sof former
service men, some of them grey
beards, standing at attention.
Princesses Elizabeth and Mar
garet Rose were on their first trip
abroad and appeared to find nov
elty and stimulation in all they
saw. The pageant was unrivalled
in South African history.
Seattleite Has Many
Jobs Near Barrow
SEATTLE, i/P)—A former Seat
tleite who has never studied law
has, during the past year, found
himself acting as a U. S. Commis
sioner, judge, justice of the peace,
notary and coroner in a top-of-the
world precinct covering 35,000
square miles.
This man, Judge Hugh Salts
man, who is a civilian working
with the navy department in the
: development of an oil field within
a thousand miles of the North
Pole flew in from Barrow, Alaska,
! yesterday. He was accompanied by
; an Eskimo youth, Stephen Ahvak
ana.
Steve, who was educated in
Alaska and speaks and reads the
I English language, made some pur
chases right off. He bought an Es
1 quire magazine and two suits in
Seattle. His first meal here was
I ham and eggs.
In the year that Saltsman has
been in Alaska, he has never heard
of a divorce.
“The people up there are 99 per
cent religious,” he said.
DR. ROBERT VALLE
NEW T.B. CONSULTANT
Dr. Robert Valle of Gillespie,
Illinois, has arrived in Seward to
serve as Tuberculosis clinician and
surgeon and as consultant for the
tuberculosis cases at the sanator
ium.
Dr. Vallee is a graduate of the
University of Buenos Aires Medi
cal school. In addition he spent
one year at the College of Physi
cians and Surgeons of Columbia
university, and three years special
iz:ng in chest surgery at Washing
ton University Medical School, St.
Louis working with and as the
assistant of Dr. Evarts Graham,
the distinguished chest surgeon.
Dr. Valle also studied broncho
scopy under Dr. Chevalier Jackson
in Philadelphia.
He is the author of numerous
articles on chest diseases, and a
fellow of the American College of
Chest Physicians, and the Associa
tion of Thoracic Surgery.
New telephone equipment per
mits a toll operator in one city to
dial a subscriber’s phone in an
other city without the assistance
of an operator in the second city.
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