States Shiver
In Icy Blasts
(By The Associated Press)
Cold Arctic air, left behind by
Santa Claus as he sped 'back to the
North Pole, hit wide areas over
the eastern half of the nation to
day.
The cold covered all parts of
the country east of the Rockies to
the Atlantic seaboard—‘but Flori
da escaped the chill.
The winter-weary mid west
reeled under the icy blasts which
brought the coldest weather of the
season—deep into sub-zero levels
—to many areas. Not much warm
ing in prospect immediately.
The frigid weather followed
snowstorms over much of the mid
west on Christmas and over east
ern state yesterday .
The forward edge of the cold
air mass pushed southward into
the Gulf states and shoved tem
peratures below freezing over
parts of Dixie.
The north central states got the
real biting cold. It was 30 degrees
below zero at Rochester, Minn.,
—23 in Mason City, la.; —22 in
the twin cities of Minneapolis-St.
Paul and —18 in Madison, Wis.,
and —15 at Sault Ste. Mane, Mich.
Ohio got the first sub-zero read
ings of the season. Findlay report
ed a low of —12 and it was —9
in Columbus and —8 in Toledo.
Chicago—digging out of a nine
ich Christmas snowfall—shivered
in eight below, the coldest day of
the year. It was the lowest read
ing for the date since 1886 and
the coldest December day since
1933.
In New England, Caribou, Me.,
reported a low of —16 .New York
City’s early morning law was 12
above, but at Massena, in north
ern New York, it was 11 below.
The cold front centered in
Georgia and it was below freezing
as far south as Central Texas,
northern Alabama and Virginia.
Nome was enjoying compara
tively balmy weather with the
temperature at 23 above zero. J
CITY COUNCIL
A special council meeting was
held last evening as the regular
meeting night was on Christmas
Day.
By resolution Dan Jones was
appointed to fill the vacancy of
Howard Jonish on the City Coun
cil.
The fire committee announced
that Chief Laws and members of
the fire committee, in view of the
recent fires, would make a survey
and visit every home and business
in the community to investigate
fire hazards. A written report on
every building examined would
be made and a list made of oil
places which have fire hazards, so
that a written notification could
be made wherever necessary.
Find Three Million
Error In Deficit
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JUNEAU, (A5)—A $3,000,000 er
ror in Atesa’s expected deficit for
the 1951-53 biennium was pointed
out this week by Republican Sen
ator-elect Elton E. Engstrom of
Juneau.
Tax commissioner M. P. Mul
laney later admitted the error and
said he would submit a statement
with a revised total revenue figure
shortly.
The original report from the
budget board listed on anticipated
deficit of $567,561.28.
Then Engstrom, a fish broker
who is familiar with the earnings
of fish processors, double-checked
—and found a double listing of
$3,000,000 by the department of
taxation as expected revenue from
both fish processors and the sal
man cannery license tax.
He brought it to Mullaney’s at
tention, saying the deficit would
be closer to $3,500,000.
The total budget requested was
$20,128,311.28. Engstrom said the
revised figure would be approx
imately $16,500,000.
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Out-of-Town Orders Carefully Handled
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MEAT PROVISIONERS
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Phone—Shop: Black 76 — Residence: Main 52
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Airman Becomes
Midwife In Flight
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FAIRBANKS, (#)—Sgt. BUI L.
Coombs has flown more missions
with Flight D of the Ladd Air
Force Base’s Tenth Rescue Squad
ron than he can count.
But he logged up his first ex
perience as an aerial midwife’s as
sistant this week.
• Principals in the sky-borne
drama were Mrs. Sally Nesau, a
Nenana native woman; Mrs.
Glady Coghill, a nurse; Major
Gordon J. Bradburn of Evanston,
111., the pilot; 1st Lt. Marvin
Schliep of Ronan, Mont., and co
pilot; and Combs.
Bradburn was about to set the
C-47 down on the Ladd Base run
way on the return flight with the
expectant Mrs. Nesau when
Combs burst into the cockpit.
“Stay in the air,” he yelled. “A
baby’s ’being bom back here.”
Then, while Bradburn circled
over Fairbanks, Combs and nurse
Coghill combined efforts to de
liver a baby boy.
Commented Combs, 24, of
Kingsley, Kans., later:
“Now I can cope with any sit
uation.”
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ALASKAN JUDGES TO ATTEND
CONFERENCES AT CAPITAL !
(By Mary Lee Council)
Alaska’s four district judges
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will be permitted to attend the
Ninth Circuit judicial conference
thrugh legislation sent to the
White House.
Under existing law the attend
ance at conferences in each of the
circuits has been restricted to
judges residing within the con
tinental United States. The legis
lation which left Capitol Hill last
week gave Congressional approv
al to include the district judges
not only of Alaska but Puerto
Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Canal
Zone and Hawaii.
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Quarry Explosion
Buries Three Men
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REEDSPORT, O r e itfP) — A
quarry explosidn buried three
workers under thousands of tons
of rock and fatally injured a
fourth man.
Two men managed to cling to a
small ledge high on the 300-foot
wall when the premature blast
dadpped an estimated 10,000 to
15,000 tons of boulders to the
quarry floor. Witnesses saw the
three victims fall amid the mas
sive rock pile.
The fourth victim was one of
| two injured by rocks showering
j among some 40 men working on
I the job which supplied material
! :or an Umpqua River mouth jetty
' project.
Bethel Hospital
Recommended
A 70Jbed hospital has been re
commended to be built on the site
of the former Alaska Native Serv
ice building destroyed by fire qt
Bethel, according to ANS Director
Hugh J. Wade. The recommenda
tions have been turned over to the
Bureau of the Budget, Washing
ton, D. C., for approval. Sixty
beds will be used as a general
hospital with 10 beds for screen
ing tuberculosis cases.
The 10-bed emergency hospital
at Bethel is in the progress of con
struction. One of the buildings un
damaged by the recent fire is be
ing converted for the emergency
hospital. This hospital will be
used until such time that a large
hospital can be built.
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