Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
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Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, April 17, 1950
Forecast Nome: Continued high
cloudiness with little change in
temperature. Moderate North
westerly winds decerasing to gen
tle tonight. Lowest temperature
tonight 26, highest temperature
Tuesday 35.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation, none. < Total this
month .98 inchi.
Temperatures: highest 32, low
est 26.
Maximum wind 30 miles an
hour from the north.
Sunrise at 4.21 a.m., sunset at
7:43 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 35, lowest 29.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907: Highest 40 in
1945. lowest —14 in 1924.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today: I
Barrow —4 Cloudy
Point Hope 9 Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue 11 Cloudy
Wales 6 Snow
Gambell 9 Snow I
Nome 32 Cloudy
Unalakleet 28 Cloudy
Bethel 25 Snow
McGrath 34 Cloudy
Anchorage 34 Cloudy j
Fairbanks 34 Cloudy 1
Whitehorse 30 Cloudy 1
Edmonton 32 Snow
Juneau 39 Rain
Ketchikan 42 Cloudy j
Seattle 47 Cloudy j
San Francisco 64 Cloudy
Gene Margraph, son of Mr. O. I
iMargraph of this city, arrived on !
Pan American to be here this ;
summer.
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Diomand shoals, off the coast of
North Carolina, is called the
“graveyard of the Atlantic” by
sailors.
AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Pan American passengers ar
riving on Sunday were H. Luotto,
O. E. Margraph, Otto Wineard,
Mrs. Zenko and son Michael, Mr.
and Mrs. Milhouse, Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Lee. Sr. and two grand
children, Herbert Fink, Joe Bea
ver, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kehoe, Gra
ham Lammers.
Departing, Jack Molyneaux.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving Friday on the Doug
las was G. A. Modrow from Fair
banks. Departing on the same
plane for Kotzebue was Alex
Skoropad and Frank Williams
continuing on the same plane for
Fairbanks were Charles F. Lewis,
Mrs. H. Miller, C. T. Brehm,
James A. Williams, Michael Reil
ly and George Megrath.
Arriving Saturday from Kotze
bue with pilot Murphy was
George Francis.
Sunday departing for Deering
with Pilot Murphy was Florence
Taft.
This morning Graham Lammers
was a passenger to Ungalik with
Pilot Murphy.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving on Saturday from
Unalakleet was Jacob Ahwinona.
Passengers from Anchorage were
W. H. Kirklin, Helen Kirklin, Joe
Mickel, Ben Aleosick, Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Wolford. Aurora Es
cholt was a passenger from Mc
Grath to Nome.
Passengers from Nome to An
chorage were Peter Fidjeland,
Gilbert 'Fidjeland, A. A. Daue,
Cecilia Maloney, Mr. and Mrs. Ja
cob Lencer, J. I. Noble, Allan
Marcum.
POLARIS HOTEL
Graham Lammers, Spokane.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kirkland.
Mr. and Mrs. Wolford, Tony Hau
kes, Unalakleet.
Hospital News
Joe Maloney has been admitted
to the hospital.
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Now for the First Time
SCHEDULED
DC-4
4-ENGINE STARLINERS
Anchorage, McGrath, Unalakleet, Nome
TUESDAY - THURSDAY - SATURDAY
DC-4 STARLINERS
Specify DC-4 for Faster Service
More Space for Express, Freight, Passengers
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Interior Points
MONDAY
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Redwoods Survive ,
In S. K. Alaska
PETERSBURG, Alaska, t/P) —
; For the first time in 35,000,000
! years, redwoods are living and
thriving in Alaska.
This was made known here this ■
, week by Petersburg officials of!
the U. S. forest sefvice who plant- i
ed seedlings of the prehistoric
Dawn Redwood near their office
last July.
Throughout the summer and
fall the tiny plants received all
the care a loving mother could
tender. They weer sheltered from
, the weight of last winter’s snows,
I and as those snows melted this
spring, the seedlings emerged, ap
parently brown and lifeless.
Hope had almost been given up
but someone decided to take a fi
nal look last week. He found
small traces of green visible on
all the seedlings and here and
there definite shoots of new
growth.
In prehistoric days the Dawn
Redwood thrived with birch, oak,
beech, and chestnut trees in the
then temperate forests of Alaska, I
Greenland, Iceland, Spitzenber- i
gen, northern Siberia and the
Arctic islands of North America.
Climatic changes, scientists say,
eventually killed off the giant
trees. In recent years traces were
found of what were thought to be
ancestors of the giant Redwoods
of California. Prof. Ralph W. i
Chaney, paleobotanist at the Uni- j
versity of California investigated
simultaneous reports from China.
In the Chinese interior he found
the trees growing in a locality
known as the Valley of the Tiger.
The tree was named metase
quoia glyptostroboides and seed- I
lings were taken back and germ
inated at the University of Cali
fornia. Sixty tiny shoots were
sent to the forest service and the
Petersburg office planted ten of
them.
All ten are alive today and ac
cording to officials they are the
first to have been reported as sur
viving an Alaskan winter in 35 ;
million years.
MUSIC STUDIO
Tillie Stangroom
Teacher of Piano
Call MAIN 108
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NOTICE
There will be a religious sound
motion film at the Federated
Church at 7:30 tonight.
NOTICE
Anyone caught damaging the
chairs or other property of the
Dream Theater will be prosecut
ed to the full extent of the law.
Dream Theater Management
WANT ADS
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Motor in excellent condition.
Call Mclver at Hospital, 9 to 5.
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derful opportunity. $15 to $20 in
a day. No experience or capital re
quired. Permanent. White today.
McNESS COMPANY, Dept. B,
Magnolia St., Oakland St., Oak
land 7, Calif. 43, 45
FOR SALE—Nome Radio Service.
Inquire evenings. 45-3tp
Was 6KiIroy* There
LOO Miles In From
Point Lay In 1842?
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A pilece of flat sandstone with
the names “Weir Ward” and the
date 1942 etched into it arrived
at the Territorial Museum after
being discovered by a Geological
Survey party last summer some
100 miles inland from Point Lay,
high in the Arctic.
The sandstone, about a half
inch thick and about nine by 12
inches in area, has been in the
Smithsonian Institute since being
found but was sent to Juneau on
request of Museum Curator Ed
ward L. Keithahn.
The words, which Keithahn be
lieves are the surnames of two
men, are written in faint capital
letters, the date being scratched
in beside the words in much smal
ler size.
There is no way of ascertain
ing the slab’s exact age by telltale ,
weathering marks, because sand
stone wears down evenly. If a
vein of quartz or other hard ma
terial were in the slab, it would j
be an easy matter to ascertain if
the date were genuine, he said.
Russian explorers of Alaska
had not reached even the Yukon
in those early days, Keithahn said,
but American whalers were quite
active then in the Bering and
Arctic seas.
He believes the stone may have (
been etched by two men from a
whaler frozen in at the mouth of
the Utokok River and who went
inland to hunt for caribou, there
being none on the coast. The Uto
kok is known as the Carbon River
near its headquarters.
TRUMAN WILL MAKE STUMP
SPEECH-MAKING TOUR
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman will make at least four
and possibly six sch e d u 1 e d
speeches on his cross-country trip
starting May 7.
Tiie White House said today he
has accepted an invitation to
speak at Madison, Wis., May 14 on
the way back east.
Other speeches already set are
in connection with dedications at
Kortes Dam near Casper, Wyo.,
May 9; at Grand Coulee Darn in
southeastern Washington, May 11;
and at a Democratic rally in Chi
cago, May 15.
Other speeches may be made at
Grand Forks, N. D., and in one of
the twin cities of Minnesota—
Minneapolis and St. Paul — al
though officials will not confirm
these plans yet.
EUROPEAN RECOVERY
HURTS WHALING INDUSTRY
COAL HARBOR, B. C., </P) —
European recovery and the march
of civilization have put the whale
market on the skids, officials of
the Western Whaling Corp. said
yesterday.
Douglas Souter, company presi
dent, said the situation is so bad
that operations off the British Co
lumbia north coast may be can
celled. The season is scheduled
to open in May.
Souter blamed the lack of de
mand on three things:
Return of fresh butter in some
European countries to near pre
war levels is lessening the need
for oil for margaine.
Use of detergents in the clean
sing field rather than the oil
using soaps.
Use of substitute for vitamin A.
PLUMBING and STEAM-FITTING
Call Vem Miller • Phone Main 79
JACK LENCER
Watchmaker
Box 625 Nome, Alaska
VOTE FOR
NELS SWANBERG, JR.
BORN
IN ALASKA
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LIVED
IN ALASKA
ALL MY LIFE
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MINED
IN ALASKA
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RAISED MY
FAMILY
IN ALASKA
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE for
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Primary Election, April 25,1950