Forecast And i
* ^ rather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, ol
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, April 7, 1947
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday, slightly cold
er Tuesday. Lowest temperature
tonight 20; highest temperature
Tuesday 32.
* Nome data as of 7:30 a.m., today:
Precipitation last 24 hours trace.
Total precipitation this month 0.01
inch.
0 Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 38, lowest 28.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 1 t
miles per hour from the northeast.
Sunrise at 4:55 a.m., sunset at
7:12 p.m.
Comparative data: Temperatures
# one year ago today: highest 14,
lowest —25.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest —25 in
1946, highest 44 in 1940.
Data for other selected stations
a< of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —6 Clear
Kotzebue 8 Partly Cloudy
Shishmaref 2 Clear
Wales 8 Clear
Gambell 12 Cloudy
Nome 30 Cloudy
Unalakleet 27 Cloudy
Bethel 23 Clear
McGrath 13 Cloudy
Anchorage 31 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks 26 Clear
Juneau 40 Cloudy
Whitehorse 36 Partly Cloudy
Ketchikan 43 Rain
Edmonton 49 Partly Cloudy
Seattle 57 Cloudy
San Francisco 60 Cloudy
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Thursday each month
KARL DEWEY, W. M.
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JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
O. d7 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. 6396
FAIR NOTES
A1 ,/ersons owning a dog tean
should start training their tean
for the races to be conducted 01
the ice of our Bering Sea on Sun
day, April 20. The first race wil
start at 1:30 p.m. and will be h
Cape Nome and return. A firs
prize is offered of $150.00, a secon<
prize of $50.00, and a third priz
of $25.00.
The other race will be held sooi
after the Cape Nome race start?
and will be a short speed rac
with a first prize of $50.00 and
second prize of $25.00. Entrant
for these races must file their en
try at the Nome Nugget printin
office between 10 a.m. and 12:0
noon on Friday, April 18. In aridi
tion to the cash prizes given, al
winners will receive troph;
awards. These races are to be con
ducted by both the Arctic Clui
and the Fair Association, wit!
prizes given by both these organ
izations.
John McNees heads the commit
tee for the racing events, will Bil
Boucher the official timer.
It is sincerely hoped that all per
sons under the weather of lat
with all the colds and flu sicknes
occurring in our little town, wi
be full of vim and vigor to partak
of the many and varied events c
the Ninth Fair!
GOSPEL MISSION GIVES
NOON CONCERTS
A cheerful melody was hear
every noon during the past wee
from the chimes tower of theNom
Gospel Mission on Stedman Ave
and was enjoyed by many goin
to and from work. Music at thi
time of day is inspirational an
we hope Rev. George Loveless con
tinues to play music at this hour
Floods Receding
In States
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1 'By The Associated Pess*
i Floods which forced thousands
- of persons from their homes into
1 a throw-back of wintry weather
> over the Easter week-end were re
t ceding or cresting today, with con
t 1 biued “quite cool” temperatures
■ 1'.. recast for most of the stricken
areas.
1 In Michigan, hit by its worst
flood in history, Flint and Lansing
2 were in a state of emergency as
i and bagging crews built up dams
s and railroad rights of way against
. the flood crests expected today.
Three deaths were reported in
1* the jkvake of gales which leveled
communications in many sections
1 ot the state.
*• At Meadville, Pa., more than 150
- families were evacuated from
) their homes and factories shut
i down as French Creek began over
- flowing in the business district in
the worst flood on record there. In
. nearby Warren, large sections of
1 the business distict were inun
dated and 100 families fled their
homes.
f. Most stricken areas of western
and southern New York were re
i ported out of danger with floo i
crests having passed yesterday,
f The thousands driven from their
homes in the Chicago area Satur
day by a torrential night-long
downpour went back to the job of
cleaning up.
1
< WALLACE McIVORS
e RETURN FROM VACATION
., Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Mclvor
2 and three daughters arrived last
s Friday on the Pan American. They
I have enjoyed most of the past
month visiting former Nomeites in
. Washington.
Army Flies Great
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FAIRFIELD, Calf. <#) — Truf.t
ing in bad weather landing aids,
: the army’s air transport command
is Hying survey missions over the
great circle route to Tokyo, via
Anchoage and Adak, "prior to reg
ularly scheduled operations de
signed to save 23 hours flying time
for the round trip.
Central Pacific operations will
not be abandoned, ATC said, but
will be curtailed as more planes
are transferred to the great circle
route.
Brig. Gen. Archie J. Old, Jr., re
turned yesterday from piloting a
C-54 to Tokyo and return via the
Aleutians and announced he was
highly optimistic about the north
ern swing, shorter by 2,300 miles
on the round trip.
He acknowledged that “weather
in the Aleutians is normally bad,”
but said ATC soon would be able
> forecast weather quite accurate
" ly and ATC olanes would have the
advantage of GCA <ground-eon
tr died approach* at all fields.
Old made three landings with
help of GCA, one at Adak, where
ie encountered a 200-foot ceiling,
id the others at Chitose, Hokkai
do, and Shemya, near Adak. Chi
tose and Shemya probably will be
used as emergency fields.
Old said two roundtrip survey
flights by the great circle are being
flown weekly “starting now,” and
in two or three months the flights
will be on a regularly scheduled
basis. Cargo will be delivered at
Adak and additional gasoline taken
on there for the long overwater
hop to Tokyo, 2,457 miles. This is
70 miles longer than from Fair
VF.W. CALLS IVTKKTING
OF VFTKRA NS
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f th’? meeting is to dc
lenrhii* v/lu th' < a V. !•' W Post
js desired : * i\h Lie.
Ai All Kin *<t officer
i m s* nt to un.s',yer any
Ouev’ o"s ar I *•> outline the notes*
..'.‘..p • tor the n t.elation of
a nev/ po: t.
A ! !< <*;.l /• t. ,ans aie cordially
.invited tj ; tt» »• * Any /ho m.ght
belong to <.'h« ^ o.-ts a e also in*
viteci to oil’1, i Iheir 'instructive
».d. ij T!i ; »in‘*,ting is to be el
vital iupoi t. •< imcQ it v/ill there
be determined the 1V*a* ibllity cl
organizing a l< <- . V.F ./ unit.
Nationalists
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, pie;:;: reported today ti t govern
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-street igniting with Red
. troop... ;hutch " J*4 mihr northeast
! of Yanan.
The main i/ommunud tody wa*
j reported in Sh usi pro/inee.
Mi;.. 7< \ ii i-Shan, £■ v or nor of
, Mi...I*.;;, \7t:i laid to h.. /.? ordered
| strengthening • t defer? v of hifl
provincial capital, YangfiJ.
SLIGHT DAi tAGE
BY FIRE SATURDA 4
| Fare Saturday night about 9:00
j p.m. did slight damage to the horn#
<)i I tar ?on • t North * Street.
field to l’< i o!uIu, p reviously
AW'1' I. ng. t . verwrd- , flight.
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