forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Wednesday, October 24, 1945
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
today and Thursday. Lowest tem
perature Thursday morning 13,
highest temperature Thursday 26.
Nome data as of 8:30 a.m. to
day: Precipitation last 24 hours
none; total precipitation this
month 0.66 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 29, lowest 17.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
16 miles per hour from the north
west.
Sunrise at 7:23 a.m. Sunset at
4:12 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 26, lowest 18.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907:
Lowest 1 in 1908; highest 49 in
1926.
Data for other selected stations
as of 8:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 10 Snow
Point Hope 23 Snow
Kotzebue 18 Clear
Wales 20 Cloudy
Gambell 20 Clear
Nome 18 Clear |
Golovin 19 Clear
Unalakleet 27 Cloudy j
Bethel 13 Clear
McGrath 19 Cloudy
Anchorage 24 Cloudy j
Fairbanks 23 Snow |
Juneau 39 Rain'
Whitehorse 29 Cloudy
Ketchikan 44 Cloudy j
Edmonton 38 Cloudy |
Seattle 56 Cloudy;
San Francisco 53 Clear!
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is not going to forget. In a letter
to his parents, the sailor related:
“This French African barber]
pulled me down on a seat like a
high chair with the legs knocked
off. With a wild look in his eye he
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started slashing with a razor. To
get him away from my throat, I
pointed to my hair.
“He’d take a clip here and a
slash there. When he clipped here
I was there. When he clipped
there I was here. Then he’d clip
and I’d duck. When he finished 1
still had some hair but it didn’t
look like I had it on straight.
“Then he asked me if I wanted
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“Promotes” Hybrid Cycle
Thanks To Beer, Cigarets
And Ingenuity
By EDWARD FRANKEL
A Coast Guard Combat
Correspondent
With The Coast Guard In The
Philippines (Special' — Speaking
of hybrid vehicles, Coast Guards
man Gerald C. Grant, 4733 Red
ding Street, Oakland, Calif., can
lay claim to one of the most
“crossbred” motorcycles in the
Southwest Pacific.
Its heterogeneous parts include
a Japanese outboard engine, a
pair of wheels from a Signal
Corps wire cart, a sprocket and
two chains from a Jap motorcycle,
a cut-down bicycle frame, and a
seat from an old life jacket.
Grant found the ingredients by
dint of a 15,000-mile search on a
half dozen Pacific islands and
some astute trading. The Japan
ese engine he secured from a New
Guinea native for six packs of
cigaret.es; the sprocket cost two
beers to a soldier on the Mindanao
beach; the bicycle frame was in
the ship’s hold, the property of
i his captain; the wheels “I just
scrounged,”
The home-made motorcycle can
travel 40 miles an hour and will
do approximately 100 miles on a
gallon of gasoline. Grant built it
between watches aboard a freight
supply ship that carried equip
ment ashore for invading troops
at Biak, Luzon, Zamboanga, and
Borneo.
Only two refinements are need
ed to make it an A-l, almost fac
tory-built model—a clutch and a
brake. Right now it’s a suicide
job, said Grant.
Brazil has 21.242 miles of rail
ways.
WORK CLOTHES
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best i n serviceable and
comfortable work clothes.
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WHIPCORD PANTS
TWILL PANTS
WORK SHIRTS
SHOP CAPS
WORK SOX
WORK SHOES
N. C. PRICES
Northern
Commercial Co.
Alaska’s Pioneer Merchants
TWO DELIVERIES 10 A.M.
DAILY 3 P.M.
Phone MA. 133
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