Weather Report
Friday, December 24. 1948
Forecast Nome: Cont i n u e d
cloudy with light snow and blow
ing snow tonight and Saturday.
Strong easterly winds tonight be
coming fresh to strong southerly
Saturday. Lowest temperature to
night 22, highest temperature Sat
urday 26.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: Precipitation 0.14
inch. 'Total this month 0.71 inch.'
Temperatures* highest 12, low
est •—5.
Maximum wind 45 miles an
hour from the east.
MARKS FIELD AIR BASE TO
GIVE KIDS XMAS PARTY
The G. I.’s of Marks Field Air
Base are throwing a cTiristmas
party Monday afternoon at one
thiriy at the Service Club for the
small Eskimo folks of Nome be
tween the ages of 3 and 6 years of
age.
According to reports its to be a
wonderful party, complete with
Santa Claus, candy, pop—as well
as extra special gifts sent in for
the occasion from David Tewkes
bury of Seattle, publisher of the
Alaska Almanac.
The children are instructed to
meet at the Nome school at one
thirty where transportation will be
provided and where they will be
returned at 5 o’clock after being
entertained at the post. The party
will also include a movie show
stated Jane Sniffen, hostess of the
Service Club.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Don Stewart, Seattle. Sam Shaf
sky, Fairbanks. A. R. Ferguson,
Kotzebue. R. E. Leise, Moses Point.
G. H. Luttkehaus, Anchorage.
Gene Joiner, Candle.
Helicopter Rescues
Expectant Mother
ANCHORAGE, (#*)—A helicop
ter flew through a raging blizzard
Wednesday to rescue an expectant
mother from an airplane forced
down on a frozen Alaska lake.
Winds filled with blinding snow
blew 70 miles an hour, bir the
10th rescue squadron helicopter
flew 10 feet above Cook Inlet va
ters, set down and brought Mrs.
Frieda Johnson out again,
i Three other rescue ships had
tried and failed.
One was turned back by zero
visibility. The other two a C-64
i Norsemen and a second helicopter,
landed but were unable to take
off. Their occupants are being
sheltered in nearby trappers’ cab
ins.
i Mrs. Johnson, wife of a Kenai
homesteader, was being flown to:
Anchorage aboai'd a Pacific North
ern Airlines plane when it was j
forced down on the lake 2Vfc miles ;
southeast of Point Possession,
i Cook Inlet.
Lt. Charles Weir piloted the
successful rescue ship. It carried
; Capt. Don Brown, a flight surgeon. ;
JUDGE FOLTA TO REGULAR
FIRST DIVISION DUTIES
ANCHORAGE, </P)—Judge Geo. j
i Folta is returning to his regular
duties in the First Division after I
helping Judge Anthony Dimond j
with the Third Division calendar j
during Judge Dimond’s illness.
Judge Folta handled five major
cases here including two second j
degree murder trials. He will con- ,
vene court in Juneau, Dec. 27.
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says Brian Donlevy, “are the
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I’ve lived in Milwaukee
and I outfht to know!”
Try Blatz Beer today!
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U. S. DISTRICT COURT
Yesterday the Nome Mercantile
and Mining Co. withdrew their
appeal in the U. S. District Court
in connection with the giving of
liquor to an intoxicated person.
The conviction and fine of one
hundred dollars in the City Court
therefore still stands.
NOTICE
Posfoffice will be closed tomor
row. Christmas Day.
EXPRESSION
OF THANKS
The officers and members of
Igloo No. 1 Pioneers of Alaska
wish to express our thanks and
appreciation to the people of Nome
who so geperously contributed to
the Pioneer Christmas Cheer
Fund, recently collected for the
inmates of the Pioneers’ Home at
Sitka, Alaska. Nome has again up
held its record of liberality, long
established, having contributed
the substantial sum of $850.00,
which has already been transmit
ted to the superintendent of the
Home for distribution. We feel,
that if you could hear the expres
sions of gratitude on Christmas
morning from the lips of those
who were once among us, but now
in the twilight of life, you would
feel amply rewarded.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA,
Igloo No. 1, Nome,
By F. J. Rohn, President.
NOTICE
Important Teen-Agers meeting
Wednesday. Dec. 29. at 8 p.m. in
the American Legion Hall.
There will be no Teen-Age
Dance Dec. 25.
NOTICE
The K. K. Public Library will
be closed Friday and Saturday
due to holiday.
It will be open on Wednesday
evening at 7:30 p.m.
EDA DEWEY. Pres.
NOTICE
HARP CONCERT
DELAYED UNTIL
JANUARY J4!h
Purchasers of tickets please
hold same until that date.
HOME ARTS CLUB
Midnight M*ss foFcwojd by a
'•'■rond Ma*', Jb;~5 'rh’ldren'
3*00 o'clocV fhr's'nr? Morning.
Confession:.' F'lday ev?rdrg 7 O'1
Jo 3-SO: children’*: coofo- ions rr:
day afternoon 4:00 to 5:00.
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It’s easy to buy inm us- -we cl.>
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Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
For Good Printing Call Main 125
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
May Old Saint. Nick
‘urnish your home with
the most joyous Christmas
blessmgs . , . The happiest
of holidays to you and
yours!
i NOME CAB CO. j
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SCOTTY’S I
j BAR AND LIQUOR STORE 1
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