age and athletic field and grand
stand.
Funds for five Juneau projects
have been approved for an airport
administration building, a library,
a fire station and municipal build
ing and for parks.
Ketchikan has received funds
1 >r planning a library and has ap
plied for funds to blueprint streets
and sewers.
F unds for a water supply dam
and sewers have gone to Wrangell,
and planning a municipal building
at Petersburg is now under way
funds already allotted.
Fairbanks and Sitka have
#ioney advanced for one project
each, a high school at Fairbanks
and power facilities at Sitka.
A community building and a
school at Seward are on the list of
approved funds, and an applica
tion is now being reviewed by the
F'ederal Works Agency for money
to plan an airfield there.
DELEGATE'S STAFF
Mrs. John H. Dimond, the for
mer Bobbie Dooley of Cordova,
Juneau and Anchorage, has joined
^legate Bartlett’s staff.
VISITOR
Mrs. Ed Bartlett, Delegate Bart
lett’s mother, is in Washington for
an indefinite visit with the Bart
lett’s .Mrs. Bartlett has been living
in South Wenatchee, Washington,
for the past two years, and re
cently visited in Nelson, Wiscon
sfn.
DIVORCE GRANTED
In District Court Thursday
morning George A. Bayer was
granted a divorce from Nina L.
Bayer.
NOME,
And Vicinity
The following is a report of the
Chamber of Commerce on Nome
and vicinity to be used in the book
being printed through the efforts
of the Alaska Development Board.
The report was prepared by John
McNees and Mildred Webb.
Nome is probably the best I
known town in Alaska due to its '
colorful history and the fact that '■
at limes the eyes of the world have
centered on this far Northern
town. At one time it was a bustling
tent city of over 15,000 people but
has now reached a stable popula
tion of about 2,000, of which about!
one third are native Eskimos, one
third white and the remainder of
mixed blood. Nome is the econo
mic, transportation, and govern
mental center for North Western
Alaska, as well as being its largest
town. There are about 14,000 peo
ple in the Second Division, for
which Nome is the headquarters.
Nome can be reached the year
around in one day from Seattle by
air, the fare is approximately
$170.00 (one way), and the visitor
to Nome has a choice of route
either through Fairbanks or An
jchorage. It is also possible to take
| the water route to Nome during
. the season when Norton Sound
and the Bering Sea are not frozen
lover, roughly, this is from the first
of June until the end of October.
The trip is of about ten days dura
tion and the fare is approximately
$135.00 'one way'. The air route
is year around and by far the most
popular.
While Nome is only about two
VI’S DRESS SHOP
“Special Orders
yiven Special Lare
Hours
10 A.M. to Noon Phone
1 P.M. to 6 P.M. MAIN 26
Winter Time is Freezing Time
Freezing Time is Skating Time
and
r We Have tlie Skates
NOME HARDWARE
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Dorothy’s
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Parcels packed and
wrapped for mailing
“The only shop on Lane s Way
hundred miles from Siberia and
only slightly less than that south
of the Arctic Circle its climate is
tempered by its coastal location
and is not as cold as that of many
places in the Midwestern States.
Its winters are long, but suitable
to many winter sports and people
find much enjoyment in skiing,
dog-sledding, ski-mobiling, wolf
hunting from airplanes and tom
codding and fishing for crab
through the ice in Norton Sound.
The summers are short but the
long days of sunlight soon turn
the surrounding tundra to a rich
green spotted with nearly three
hundred varieties of wild flowers
and numerous varieties of berries.
The summer months are a period
of intense activity, and it isn’t un
til the last boat sails that the city
settles down to its social season
which lasts on through the winter
months.
The visitors to Nome will find
much of interest here in this city
which is still truly Alaskan, its
people are friendly, and interest
ing. On the streets will be Eski
mos in their beautiful fur gar
ments, the women with their
youngest child nestled under the
parka on their back, the man per
haps pulling a sled as he comes
back from a sealing or fishing ex
S pedition out on the ice just South
: of town. On the East end of the
town in the summer months will
be found King Island Village,
where the natives from King Is
land set up their ivory carving un
der their up-turned walrus skin
boats. Known as the best ivory
carvers in the world, they offer
many varieties of their handiwork
for the tourist trade. The native
skin sewers will be found in the
Native Service School where many
types of fur garments and foot
wear and made for general .-ale lo
cally and for export. Parkas, muk
luks, wolf-head mittens, fur coats,
fur caps, and other practical ar
ticles as well as novelty items
such as Eskimo dolls, model ky
aks, baskets, model sleds and other
things are offered for sale.
The principal stores are of th
“general mercantile” var i e t y
where everything can be found:
bales of dried fish, a summer’s
grubstake, fur clothing, ivory
carving, native art work, to the
most modern dinner ware, dress
clothing, electrical gadgets and so
on. Nome also boasts dress shops,
gift shops, curio stores where
Alaska nugget jewelry, pictures,
curios, ivory items and basketry
can be purchased. There are sev
eral restaurants and two hotels
catering to local as well as tourist
trade, as well as garages, radio
shops, photographic stores, elec
trical shops, dry cleaning shops,
barber shop, bars, a newspaper,
drug store, and numerous airline
offices.
i
The winter tourist will find many
sports of interest: dog-sledding,
skiing, ice-fishing, crabbing, and
hiking out over the mountainous
pressure ridges on the ice in Nor
ton Sound, where he can watch
the Eskimos sealing, fishing, crab
bing, and dog-sledding. There are
unbounded opportunities for the
DISCHARGE BUTTON
STAMP APPROVED
Postmaster-General Robert
Hannegan has announced that the
Post Office Department will issue
a stamp bearing the honorable dis
charge emblem, originally pro
posed by the Disabled American
Veterans.
Vivian D. Corbly, national DAV
adjutant, first proposed the issu
ance of the postage stamp in a
wire to Postmaster- General Han
negan in which he pointed out that
one of the most effective means of
bringing the emblem to the pub
lic’s attention has been overlooked.
Corbly’s original proposal was
followed by the submission of a
suggested drawing and the DAV’s
suggestion was brought to the at
tention of the nation through the
press and radio.
amateur and professional camera
enthusiast. The beautiful Northern
Lights of the winter months are
of much interest to the oldtimer
and newcomer alike. The North
western Alaska Fair is held in
Nome during the Spring months
when exhibits from all over this
section of Alaska are on display,
'competitive dog team races are
1 held, and some of the finest pri
I
vate and public collections of
handiwork ever collected are on
public exhibition for a full week,
offering the tourist who’s time is
limited an ideal opportunity to see
the most in the least time.
'Continued Monday)
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