Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of j
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, February 26, 1947
Forecast Nome: Con t i n u e d
cloudy with occasional rain or
snow tonight and snow Thursday.
Continued strong southeastern
winds tonight. Fresh southwester
ly wind Thursday. Lowest tem
perature tonight 28, highest tem
perature Thursday 32.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.06
inch. Total precipitation this
month 0.63 inch.
Temperatures last '24 hours: i
highest 39, lowest 32.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 46
miles per hour from the E.N.E.
Sunrise at 7:19 a.m., sunset at
1 5:09 p.m.
Comparative Data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest —4, lowest —23.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —34 in
1.938, highest 37 in 1947.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Ba ’ow —7 Cloudy
Point Hope 35 Cloudy
Kotzebue 33 Cloudy
Kotzebue 33 Cloudy
Shishmaref 35 Cloudy
Wales 38 Cloudy
Cambell 32 Snow and Rain
Nome 35 Rain
Unalakleet 37 Cloudy
Bethel 33 Rain
McGrath 32 Cloudy
Anchorage 35 Cloudy
Fairbanks 24 Cloudy
Juneau 30 Partly Cloudy
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AMERICAN RED CROSS
1947 CAMPAIGN
A PROCLAMATION
The American Red Cross, which
carried out so admirably a tremen
dous job of service to our armed
forces during the war, now face^
an equally challenging task—dial
of continuing the same fine e
ices to hospitalized veterans and
their families, occupation troops
abroad and home town communi
ties throughout the nation.
Here in Alaska we know what
the Red Cross has done. We have
seen it in action in disaster relief,
in Army and Navy establishment,
in Red Cross clubs and in hospi
tals. Red Cross workers and the
services they offered have been an
important factor in boosting the
morale of the military and the
civilian.
If the Red Cross is to continue
these vital services, it must have
our support. The goal of the 1947
Fund Campaign which starts
Whitehorse 16 Partly Cloudy
Ketchikan 40 Partly Cloudy
Edmonton —2 Partly Cloudy
Seattle 48 Partly Cloudy
March 1st has been set at $60,000,
000.
I am confident that the citizens
of Alaska, who gave so generously
to the American Red Cross during
the war years, will continue to
maintain their notable record of
support to this great organization
in its 1947 campaign.
By the Governor:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto subscribed my nand
and caused the Seal of the Terri
tory of Alaska to be affixed. Done
at the City of Juneau this .seven
teenth day of February in the year
of our Lord, nineteen hundred and
forty-seven.
ERNEST GREUNING.
Governor of Alaska.
LEW M. WILLIAMS,
Secretary of Alaska.
THE HOMICIDAL MANIA
known in Malaya as “running
amok” is now believed to be a type
of suicide rather than a sudden at
tack of insanity, according to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cir
cumstances such as domestic jeal
ousy or gambling losses may re
sult in the typical “amok” during
which the Malay rushes into the
street slashing and cutting at ev
erybody he meets until he is
killed.
NSLI ACT FURTHER
LIBERALIZED
President Truman has signed
legislation further liberalizing the
National Service Life Insurance
Act for some ten million World
War II veterans who have permit
ted their term policies to lapse,
Ernest Lincoln, manager of the Re
gional Office of the VA in Juneau
announced today.
The new law gives the Adminis-,
trator authority to determine the
conditions of reinstate by adminis
trative regulation. General Omar
Bradley, Administrator of veter
an’s affairs, immediately announc
ed that NSLI term policies which
have lapse! at any time may be
reinstated by payment of two;
monthly premiums, provide! the,
holders are in a> good health as
they were at any time the policy
lapsed. These reinstatement pro
visions will remain in effect until
August 1, 1947. Previously a dead
line of February 1, 1947, had been
set for such reinstatements.
Under the old law the Veterans
Administration was required to i -
sue NSLI originally on a term
plan only and it had to be carried
on that basis for one year before
it could be converted to a perm
anent plan. Under the new law a
veteran may obtain any perman
ent NSLI plans from the VA with
out the necessity of previously
holding term insurance.
Under the new law all NSLI
policies provide for a waiver of
premiums for veterans who be
come totally disabled for six or
more consecutive months. Even
though premiums are being
waived these veterans can convert
their term policies to all types of
permanent insurance except for an
endowment plan. The premiums
will be waived during the contin
uance of the total disability. Under
the old law if the totally disabled
veteran failed to convert his in
surance within the term period the
insurance protection ceased.
AN APPALLING NUMBER OF
lives were lost during the f:rst part
of World War II because many
servicemen of the warring nations
did not know how to swim, ac
cording to the 1945 Encyclopaedia
Britannica Book of the Year. As a
result, efforts have been made in
several countries to introduce com
; pulsory swimming courses in all
schools and colleges.
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