Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, January 16, 1950
Forecast Nome: Continued clou
dy, fog and snow. Freezing drizzle
tonight and Tuesday. Moderate
easterly winds, fresh tonight. Low
est temperature tonight 17, highest
temperature Tuesday 25.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation none. (Total this
month 1.7 inches).
Temperatures: highest 21, low
est —2.
Maximum wind 24 miles an
hour from the east.
Sunrise at 9:30 a.m., sunset at
2:53 p.m.
Comparative data
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest —3, lowest —19.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Highest 33 in 1922,
lowest —33 in 1934.
Data for other stations as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 1 Cloudy
Point Hope 12 Clear
Kotzebue 10 Partly Cloudy
Shishmaref 9 Clear
Wales 20 Clear
Gambell 31 Cloudy
Nome 15 Partly Cloudy
YJnalakleet 18 Clear
Bethel —8 Clear
McGrath —4 Cloudy
Anchorage 8 Cloudy
Fairbanks —4 Partly Cloudy
Whitehorse —25 Clear
Edmonton —22 Partly Cloudy
Juneau 13 Clear
Ketchikan 14 Clear
Seattle 18 Cloudy
San Francisco 51 Rain
Freedom means doing what you
please without considering any
one but your wife, relatives, neigh
bors, boss or government.
i AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving late last evening with
Pan American were Vernon Rich
j ards, Ed Ahkolik, George Beacom,
William Angell, Wm. Rumple.
Departing about eleven o’clock
last night were Carl Glavinovich,
Walt Wiedman, Ben Hyndman.
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WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Saturday Pilot Richards brought
in V. J. Broze from Kotzebue.
Sunday the same pilot made a
flight to Candle with Teddy Jo
hanson and brought Mrs. L. J. Me
Currin in from Teller Mission.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Two passengers arrived on the
■ Saturday flight: William Hurlan
from Anchorage, and Stewart Wil
liams from McGrath.
WEATHER SUMMARY
FOR DECEMBER
The weather at Nome during
! the early part of December was
marked by the small amount of
precipitation and relatively mild
temperatures. The last part of De
cember gave us both precipitation
and colder temperatures. Three
well-developed storms influenced
the weather during the month,
but only one of these caused
heavy precipitation. This storm on
Dec. 31 gave Nome its highest
wind reading for the “fastest
mile” since Jan. of 1949. This wind
was 72 miles per hour from the
East. The 4.8 inch snowfall which
occurred on Dec. 31 was almost a
third of the precipitation for the
whole month, and brought the
monthly total up to a plus depar
ture from normal of 1.10 inches,
i Temperatures for the month aver
aged slightly below normal. Clou
dy skies were prevalent; the per
centage of possible sunshine was
only 14. I
The Great Lakes have a sur-1
face of 96,000 square miles in a
drainage basin of 300,000 square
miles.
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NEW
AIRFREIGHT
RATES
BETWEEN NOME
AND KOTZEBUE
25 LBS. MINIMUM 7c «>•
COMMODITY RATES
100 LBS. MINIMUM 5c lb
RLRSKR RIRLinES
INC.
Miners Refuse To
Obey Lewis* Back
To Work Order
(Continued from Page One)
Utah stayed away from work in
an unexplained strike. Last week
Lewis suggested they resume pro
duction today.
Some of the 11,000 western
Pennsylvania diggers who came to
work were warned roving pickets
would come around and pull them
out again.
In Washington, John D. Battle,
executive vice-president of the
National Coal Association, termed
the miners’ action "a rebellion
against Lewis."
"It looks like the first revolt
against Lewis," Battle told a re
porter. "There’s been no com
plaint from the men to their em
ployers about their hours or wages
or working conditions.”
The United States Steel Corpo
ration said all its captive mines in
| Pennsylvania, employing about
11,000 men, are closed.
The hard core of resistance to
the United Mine Workers presi
dent’s suggestion appeared to be
in Greene and Fayette counties in
the southwestern corner of Penn
sylvania. The great bulk of the
state’s 100,000 soft coal miners are
working.
In West Virginia, where 110,000
soft coal miners are employed,
pickets stopped operations at five
mines which sought to reopen
when sufficient miners answered
the come-to*work whistles.
Paul Terreta, president of the
UMW local at Isabella mine of
Weirton Steel said of his 850 mem
bers: “They are disgusted with
the present situation and want a
five-day week. They want the sit
uatoin to come to a head. That’s
the only reason they voted to stay
out.”
Lewis ordered the miners on a
three-day week last July 1 when
the UMW’s contract with the coal
industry expired.
Hospital News
_
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Ezukancuw
are the parents of a son Fred Ron
ald, who arrived yesterday weigh
ing 7 pounds.
Ruth Ahgapuk was admitted to
the hospital.
WARNING
_
Anyone caught damaging the
chairs or other property of the ^
Dream Theater will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law.
Dream Theater Management
NOTICE
|
Traffic Violators will be issued
Citation. If bail is not posted with
in 48 hours warrants will be is
sued for the Violator.
CHIEF OF POLICE.
City of Nome.
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Puget Sound Gets ;
Aleutian Weather
And Training
OAK HARBOR, Wash., (/P) —
There’s Aleutian-like weather at j
the Whidby Island naval air sta
tion, but it doesn’t chill the wives
of the 500 officers and men sta
tioned here.
It burns ’em up.
Because Rear Adm. John Perry
has ordered “advanced base” con
ditions on a 24-hour basis to train
the squadrons on how to operate
in Aleutian weather while such
weather is nipping the base.
All hands are restricted to the
base. All social engagements are
off. The Officer’s Club is closed.
The men are inside. The wives are
outside. The island has a “cold
war” of its own.
You can’t train the squadrons in
cold weather conditions on an
eight-hour-day,” an official
spokesman said, “when the wea
ther, like that in the Aleutians, is
changing capriciously around the
clock.”
Unofficially, the word is around
and about that the cold clamp
down came after Admiral Perry
showed up for duty one morning
last week and found snow on the
wings of the squadron’s planes.
Of this, another source said it
was true there was snow on the
wings when the admiral “came
aboard” at 8 a.m., but he added
that the snow hadn’t stopped un
til a half-hour before.
He denied there was anything
disciplinary in the admiral’s ac
tion.
How long will it last? “Maybe a
day, maybe a week—depending on
weather condiitons.”
So it is with Whidby’s la guerre
froide.
The Nome Hardware Co., an-:
nounces that their Christmas con
test has been won by Dan Jones,
Harold Jacobsen and A. Castell, in
the order given but that the win
ners have not decided what prize
they will take as yet.
The fourth prize remains un
claimed with the number 23822
still outstanding. j
Glider Crash
Kills Thirteen
In Georgia
(Continued from Page One)
was unknown—was the first fatal
accident in the glider training
school since teh death of one man
in 1946.
The glider, one of two released
by a C-82 tow plane, was settling
on the runway normally when,
witnesses reported, one wing dip
ped sharply and struck the
ground.
First Lt. Melvin L. Minnix, pi
lot of the companion glider, said
the crack up came at a 30 degree
angle and scattered wreckage over
the field ‘like confetti after a pa
rade.”
“His gliding speed seemed nor
mal,” Minnix continued in describ
ing Henley’s landing. “His altitude
looked perfect and his angle to
glide appeared the same of mine.
“He was still in his turn
though,” Minnix related, “when I
noticed his glide angle had be
come fairly steep. He lost altitude
fast and then hit the ground at
about a 30 degree angle with his
left wing down.
Other witnesses reported the
glider hit the runway, bounced
into the air and began to disinte
grate. Debris and bodies were
scattered over 700 feet of the run
way.
Capt. A. C. Parker of the infan
try training center public informa
tion office said 15 of the men were
taking glider training in conjunc
tion with their six weeks training
as paratroopers.
The students all were members
of Company A, Airborne Battal- *
ion.
During a railroad strike a vol
unteer engineer performed the re
markable feat of bringing the
train in 25 minutes ahead of time.
The passengers went forward in
a body to thank him. A pale-faced
man tottered down from the cab.
“Don’t thank me,” he gasped,
“Thank God. I just found out five
minutes ago how to stop this
thing.”
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