Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, January 27, 1947
Forecast Nome: Mostly cloudy
tonight with occasional light snow
flurries with increasing east wind
Tuesday. Rising temperature fol
lowed by snow Tuesday evening
with strong east winds. Lowest
temperature tonight —10, highest
temperature Tuesdhy 10.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours trace.
Total precipitation this month 1.27
inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest —8, lowest —18.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 1L.
miles per hour from the east.
Sunrise at 8:58 a.m., sunset at
3:29 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 24, lowest 17.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —42 in
1919, highest 34 in 1936.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —24 Clear
Point Hope —19 Clear
Kotzebue —35 Snow
Shishmarei' —24 Clear
Wales —6 Clear
Gambell 3 Snow
Nome —9 Snow
Unalakleet —21 Clear
Bethel —13 Snow
McGrath —56 Partly Cloudy
Anchorage —29 Clear
Fairbanks —51 Fog
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O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome. Alaska
Seattle Office:
801 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6398
Land For Veterans
In Alaska
Vast areas of land in Alaska
would be available for settlement
of veterans through provisions of
a bill introduced by Congressman
William Lemke of North Dakota,
and tracts of land as large as 1920
acres could be claimed “as an eco
norn.c oa/e to support a family of
seven according to the American
standard of living.”
Mr. Lemke’s measure would
throw open for settlement all
southeastern Alaska, portions of
soutn central Alaska, the Aleutian
Ixland", not nciuding Una las/, a
and Umnak, thirty miles on both
sides of the Alaska Hignway, the
Alaska Railroad and the Richard
son Highway. Excluded from set
tlement would be national park: |
and monuments, milita y and
naval installations, t »wnsites, An
nette Island, airfields, and ce -
tain other reservations.
Provision is made for agricul
’ tural claims as large as fidt) acre ,
grazing and timber claims up to
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Juneau —3 Partly Cloudy
Whitehorse —49 Clear
Ketchikan 25 Snow
Edmonton —G Cloudy
Flashes of Life
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FIRE HAZARD
CHICAGO (/P;—An unidentified
Indiana motorist made a mistake
in parking his automobile in front
of a fire hydrant on Winthrop
Avenue last night.
Firemen summoned to put out a
t re in an apartment ho'el across
tne street from the car bearing
Indiana license plates were unable
to move the car or get the hose
around it.
But they solved their problem
by smashing the windows of the
car and ran their hoses through
the machine. Damage to the apart
ment was $1,500, but the car’s
damage was not estimated.
WORTH IT!
LESTER, Pa. bP>—A robbery at
1920 acres, mixed claims of agri
cultural, grazing and timber lan
of not more than 1230 acres. A
new type of claim to be known as
a fur-farming claim is embraced
in the measure and may be estab
lished on islands not exceeding
9G0 acres.
An office of First Settlement
Assistant for Alaska with five as
sistants would be created to carry
out the administration of the act
Lester grammar school netted a
thief only $3 but it meant a one
day holiday for the 250 pupils.
Police ordered the school closed
after the thief made off with milk
money and junior Red Cross con
tributions yesterday, in order to
preserve fingerprints and conduct
an investigation.
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FIREMEN BURNED UP
ROCKVILLE, CENTER, N. Y.
<VP»—For the past 51 years, the
Eureka fire company — oldest of
Rockville’s six volunteer fire
groups—has been collecting tro
phies for its fire fighting skill.
Yesterday, while no one was in
the fire house, the trophies, fire
records, a pool table and other ac
cessories went up in flames.
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QUICK RESCUE
SEATTLE, Wash. (R*)—Firemen,
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responding to a call to rescue l i
vid Wyman, Jr., 2, from a locked
bathroom met the youngster cod
his mother on the porch.
The embarrassed parent ex
plained David unlocked the d<ror
and headed outside on the run
when he heard the siren of the ap
proaching truck.
HOME PLANNERS
PULLMAN, Wash. Co-au
thors of a bulletin written at
Washington State College were
Stanley A. Smith, head of the ag
ricultural engineering department,
and Miss Esther Pond, then exten
sion economist in extension in
home management.
The bulletin, recently published,
is entitled, “Planning Your Home.”
The authors apparently wrote
with conviction.
Now they are married.
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
Phone—Shop: Black 76 — Residence: Red 153
100-GAL. OIL TANKS FOR SALE
WE CHECK YOUR TANK REGULARLY
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