Forecast And ,
^ Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
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Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, February #19, 1947 I
Forecast Nome: Cloudy with oc
casional light snow or rain tonight.
Partly cloudy Thursday, with de-1
creasing wind and continued mila
temperature. Lowest tonight 25,
highest Thursday 35.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
^ Precipitation last 24 hours 0.04
inch. Total precipitation this!
month 0.48 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:!
highest 37, lowest 4.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 33
miles per hour from the northeast. !
Sunrise at 7:43 a.m., sunset at!
4:47 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
^ day: highest 28, lowest 13.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest —34 in
1912, highest 45 in 1934.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —1 Snow
Point Hope 14 Cloudy
Kotzebue 28 Snow
Shishmaref 23 Snow ]
Wales 16 Snow!
* Gambell ' 11 Snow;
Nome 34 Cloudy
Unalakleet 29 Cloudy,
Bethel 29 Partly Cloudy
McGrath 11 Cloudy i
Anchorage 31 Snow'
Fairbanks 7 Cloudy j
Juneau 27 Cloudy i
Whitehorse 9 Cloudy1
Ketchikan 35 Rain
Edmontop —3 Snow j
Seattle 42 Cloudy
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20-40 CLUB BINGO PARTY
FRIDAY NIGHT
The 20-40 Club bingo party
scheduled for eight o’clock Friday
evening in St. Joseph’s Hall pro
vides a chance for a lively get-to
gether of those persons wishing ;
*ood time, so make it a date for
oingo at eight with refreshments
ater on.
Commemorate
Dead On Iwo Jima
* IWO JIMA, (A*) — A thousand
American soldiers stood at atten
tion before a sandy graveyard here
today to pay homage to the 4,000
Marines who died two years ago
to secure this strategic island for
their country.
The troops now garrison the is
land and maintain the army air
force base, but the ceremony was
in honor of the Marines who took
the island from the Japanese
Three Marine divisions part ci
pated in the costly operation—in
February of 1945. Its main objec
tive was to obtain an air field close
to Japan’s home islands.
The cemetery lies at the foot of
grim Mount Suribachi, its rows of
white crosses and stars of David
in orderly rows across the vol
canic sands where thousands fell
before the concentrated morta
and machine gun fire of Japanese
gunners.
Nine B-29s, the huge bombers
whose crews in later stages of the
war often used Iwo’s landing strip
in emergencies when their fuel
was running low or their engines
were disabled, wheeled overheac
NWA CHAMBER MET
TUESDAY NOON
The Chamber of Commerce met
Tuesday noon at the regular
luncheorf with vice president Paul
Mandeville in the chair.
Communications concerning the
legislature were read and discus
sion led to a motion of the cham
ber to place before the members of
the Second Division in the Lower
House the wishes of the chamber
for unanimous approval of the
Alaska Development Board and
that the House should kill SB4 for
the good of the Territory.
The committee report for send
ing the high-school basketball
team to Anchorage was read and
a mot'on made to donate to the
fund, both as a chamber and indi
vidually. As reported, the team
will leave early next week, so sup
port the fund by going to the
dance this coming Saturday and
see Roger Johnson about two tick
ets to Anchorage.
as three service men laid wreaths
at the base of the cemetery monu
ment and an honor guard fired the
traditional three-round salute.
Tax Cut Debate
To Be Postponed
WASHINGTON, (^—Postpone
ment of any consideration of tax
cuts until Congress determines
how much to slash the 1947 spend
ing budget was announced today
by Chairman Knutson (R.-Minn.)
of the House ways and means com
mittee.
In a statement, Knutson said
that when Feb. 19 was selected to
open tax considerations “it was
anticipated that final action would
be had by that date” on fixing a
Congressional budget ceiling.
Knutson announced that the
controversy over how much to
trim President Truman’s $37,500,
000,000 budget also will cause de
lay in hearings on reciprocal tariff
operations. These hearings had
been set tentatively to begin Feb.
24.
Hearings previously had been
set to begin Wednesday on Knut
son’s House bill No. 1, calling for
a 20 per cent “across the board”
cut in individual income levies.
No new definite dates for tax
or trade hearings were set imme
diately.
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