Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
February 1, 1950
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
to cloudy. Strong Northwest
winds decreasing to moderate to
night. Lowest temperature to
night —15, highest temperature
Thursday —10.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation .01 inch. (Total
this month .01 inch).
Temperatures highest 22, low
est 6.
Maximum wind 50 miles an
hour from the NNW.
Sunrise at 8:45 a.m., sunset at
3:47 p.m.
Comparative Data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day highest 11, lowest —5.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: highest 33 in 1926,
lowest —38 in 1910.
Data for other stations as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow* 19 Snow
Point Hope —4 Blowing Snow
Kotzebue 5 Snow
Shishmaref 3 Snow
Wales 9 Snow
Gambell 14 Snow
Nome 9 Blowing Snow
Unalakleet 19 Cloudy
Bethel 26 Snow
McGrath 12 Snow
Anchorage 3 Partly Cloudy
Navy Conducting
Cold Weather Tests
KODIAK, Alaska (/P)—Marines
have the situation in hand on
land, and naval vessels and “frog
men” are taking care of the fri
gid Bering Sea phases of the
navy’s cold weather exercise.
They’ve gathered at an unin
habited stretch of beach on the
bleak northern side of the Alaska
Peninsula.
The U.S.S. Burton Island, an
ice breaker, arrived from Kodiak
after being held up there for re
pairs to one of two helicopters.
High winds at Kodiak damaged
the rotor blades of the ’copter.
The reconnaissance unit of the
First Marine Division, command
ed by Maj. F. R. Stewart of Camp
Pendleton, Calif., pushed ahead in
a pea soup fog while surveying
and mapping the beach and in
land areas. <His men are living in
sub-freezing temperatures, testing
cold weather eqpuipment.
Also operating with the unit
are the frogmen of underwater
demolition team one, commanded
by Lt. Com. D. F. Welch, they’re
swimming in the near-freezing
waters of the Bering, measuring
and plotting water depths adja
cent to the beach area.
Fairbanks —1 Snow
Whitehorse 5 Partly Cloudy
Edmonton 0 Cloudy
Juneau 27 Snow
Ketchikan 31 Cloudy
San Francisco 40 Partly Cloudy
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| - NOTICE
A double header is scheduled
for tomorrow evening at the
school gymnasium.
The 632nd ACWS will play the
AACS and the Officers Team will
play the High School. Which
game will be played first has not
been decided.
The first game will be at 7:00
and the second game at 8:00.
NOTICE
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
Meeting of Igloo No. 1
Wednesday. February 1. 8:00 p.m.
In the Pioneer Hall
NOTICE
QUIAMNA CLUB
Barn Dance starting at 11:00 pjn.
Friday. February 3rd
Wear your old clothes!
QUIANNA CLUB
NOTICE
The Women's Society (Ladies
Aid) of the Methodist Federated
Church will meet Friday evening
at the home of Mrs. Claus Hole on
Second Ave.
Karen Baldwin. Pres.
NOTICE
I will not be responsible for any
debts contracted for by any other
person except as authorized by
myself from this day forward.
J L. A. Stevens
Jan. 20. 23. 25. 27. 30. Feb.l
NOTICE
The Fire Alarm System is not
; in operation. All fire alarms must
be phoned or brought directly to
I the Fire Station.
NOTICE
To Catholics. Father Murphy
has cancelled his trip to Feb. 6.
Services will be as scheduled this
week.
NOTICE
In lieu of licenses formerly ob
tained from the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court, persons in business
must comply with Ch. 43, SLA
1949 and secure Alaska Business
Licenses for the calendar year
1950. With certain exemptions,
the term "business" means any
activities, personal, professional
or corporate, engaged in for pecu
niary gain or benefit, rentals of
real and personal properties in
cluded. Applications for such li
ce n s e s and the initial fee of
$25.00 are due by January 31st,
1950.
Department of Taxation
Box 259
Nome. Alaska 11-3 tc
Waters of the Dead Sea have
seven times more mineral content
than the Atlantic.
WANT ADS
FOUND — Single key. Call it
Nugget.
FOUND — Keys, 3 on ring. Call
at Nugget.
Army Sgt.’s Wife will care for
children by hour, day, week or
month. Good care guaranteed for
I am a mother myself. Have nice
set-up in home for baby setting at
night, for parents to go out. For
other information call Main 54.
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impair Paris-Moscow ties.
Informants said the joint chiefs
of staff firmly supported Presi
I dent Truman’s decision to make
the powerful hydrogen super
bomb.
The chiefs visit demonstrated
I the Asian problems were not to
be dealt with piece meal but as
part of the global military picture.
The military conference will be
followed in mid-February by a
meeting of American diplomats in
the Far East at Bangkok, Thai
land. They will discuss the politi
cal problems presented by the!
communist thrust toward south- j
east Asia.
The Russian representative of
the four power council for Japan
boycotted another meeting in
Tokyo. Lt. Gen. Kuzma Derev
yanko stayed away because the
council was probing the fate of
276,000 Japanese war prisoners
unaccounted for by the Russians.
The Western European public j
and press reacted favorably for ■
the most part to President Tru- !
i I
man’s announcement that the
United States would make the
I hydrogen bomb.
The BrPsh foreign office ans
| wered a request from the Briti .o
j Society of Friends (Quaker) tr,--t
I a new' approach be made to Rus
j sia in an effort to reach an inter
national agreement that would
AIRLINES
ALASKA AIRLINES
A flight was made to Gambell
yesterday with Elmo Miller of the
ANS, Patricia Parker, nurse of
the Public Health Service and
Howard Slwooko. The plane wat
detained there by weather.
Hospital News
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Mctvor
are the parents of a daughter -bom
at the hospital. The young lady
makes a foursome of pretty
daughters for the MTcIvors.
Joe Wheeler is a patient In the
hospital.
Patients dismissed fKom the
hospital are Isaac Larson, Wrtfcan>
Ozenna, Gilbert Ozenna, MY* .
Carter and baby.
stop the atomic aramaments rabb.
The British reply said that,
judging by their past conduct, th»>
Russians “are domine‘ed bjp the
Marxist theofy of an mevitArVe
clash between the two systems
into which the world is divided.”
Some European newspajiert
said President Truman's H-bbmb
decision was inevitable because
of the Soviet Union’s stubborn
refusal to cooperate. The Com
munist press in Britain and the
Continent charged the United
States is preparing for a •''mon
strous war” against the Soviet
Union.
Berlin reports said Russia it
continuing her “creeping bfock
ade" of western truck traffic.
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