AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
On Saturday a flight was made
from Fairbanks with a full load
of freight and J. Prescott as pas
senger. Departing for Fairbanks
on the plane were E. Paluska and
Ralph Ulrichson.
Yesterday a plane arrived from
Kotzebue with Dale Minner, en
route from Wainwright to Fair
banks and Freida Howarth and
two children passengers from Kot
zebue to Nome.
This morning there was a flight
to Kotzebue with Mr. and Mrs.
Thompson and two children, Joy
and Judy, who are en route to
Shungnak for the C.A.A.; Gene
Remington was a passenger for
Kotzebue.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers arriving on the Alas
ka Airlines plane Saturday were:
Mrs. Williams, R. W. Oliver, Mar
tin Sloane, Lloyd Morley, Lowell
Lambert.
Passengers departilng for An
chorage on the Alaska Airlines
plane Sunday were Arthur E.
Johnson, Raymond Urvine, Mrs'.
Ray Urvine, Gilmer Urvine Rich
ard Urvina, Mr. Cacek, Pauline
Bergamaski, Elizabeth Cross, Pa
tricia Cross, Ann Thompson.
Durocher Again
Dodgers’ Manager
BROOKLYN (/P)—Leo Durocher
Saturday was returned to his old
job as manager of the Brooklyn
Dodgers by President Branch
Rickey, succeeding interim pilot
Burt Shotton. after serving out a
season-long suspension by com
missioner A. B. Chandler.
No salary terms were announc
ed. Durocher was. said to have
signed a 1947 contract calling for
$50,000 last winter before his sus
pension. The Dodgers never an
nounced whether he was paid
while ‘‘sweating out” the ban in
California.
Durocher, always a stormy pe
trel during his 20 years in the ma
jor leagues, was suspended April
9 by commissioner A. B. Chandler
for the entire 1947 season for
‘‘conduct detrimental to baseball.”
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Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. 3. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
—
Monday, December 8, 1947
Forecast Nome: Cloudy tonight
with occasional light snow flur
ries. Partly cloudy Tuesday with
fresh northeast winds. Slightly
colder. Lowest temperature to
night 18, highest temperature
Tuesday 24.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours,
trace. Total precipitation this
month 0.44 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hour:
highest 31, lowest 26.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
32 miles per hour from the east.
Sunrise at 9:43 a.m., sunset at
2:04 p.m.
Comparative data: tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
—2, lowest —21.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest —24 in
1916, highest 40 in 1934.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today.
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —12 Snow
Point Hope 12 Clear
Kotzebue 14 Cloudy
Shishmaref 23 Fog
Wales 16 Cloudy
Gambell 22 Cloudy
Nome 29 Snow
Unalakleet 28 Cloudy
Bethel 32 Clear
McGrath 14 Cloudy
Anchorage 25 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks 14 Cloudy
Juneau 33 Snow
Whitehorse 20 Cloudy
Ketchikan 35 Cloudy
Edmonton 14 Snow
Seattle 41 Cloudy
San Francisco 51 Clear
The low reading of 15 below
zero at Pembina, N. D., was the
coldest spot on today’s early wea
ther map.
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Oil Played Big
Role in Wrecking •
Of Transport
SEATTLE, <#*) — Oil from the
broken army transport Clarksdale
Victory played the role of both
villain and hero in the moments
immediately following the vessel’s
grounding and breaking up on
storm-battered Hippa Island two
weeks ago, three of the disaster’s
four survivors disclosed here last
night upon their arrival from
Ketchikan, Alaska, by plane.
The three men, brought here for |
a coast guard investigation into
the tragedy that took the lives of
49 shipmates, were 2nd officer,
Henry H. Wolfe, 45, Oakland, Cal.,
3rd officer William M. Rasmus en.
21, Modesto Cali., and seaman
Carlos Sanabria, 23, La Ceiba,
Honduras.
All were taken immediately bv
ambulance to the Seattle Mar ne
hospital to continue their recup
eration. Two still are on crutches, i
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The fourth survivor, 3rd officer
Clair E. Driscoll, 34, Los Angeles,
is expected to be able to make the
trip in two weeks. He still is crip
pled with “immersion foot” and
was left behind in a Ketchikan
hospital.
Rasmussen, in recounting the 20
to 30 minutes of terror spent
aboard the doomed transport, said
it was but a second after the
grounding that everything was
coated with oil. The men could
neither cling to the rail nor stand
amidships.
But when the men finally were
knocked from their tentative saf
ety into the sea by towering com
ers, he said, it was this same oil
that provided a protective coating
against the icy waters of the North
British Columbia coast.
Pending recovery of survivors,
no date for the hearings has been
set.
JOAN OF ARC WAS ONCE
sued for breach of promise by a
young man who had sought her
hand in marriage, according to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
NOTICE!
Martin P. Sloane, Jr., Special Representative of
WEST COAST LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
is in Nome for a limited time only.
Question on Life Insurance.
Policies analyzed.
Are you getting the most for your investment?
C. DEWEY ANDERSON
Phone MAIN 160
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