Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Monday, November 12, 1945
Forecast Nome: Clear today and
Tuesday. Lowest tempera t u r e
Tuesday morning —5, highest
temperature Tuesday 10.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. to
day:
Precipitation last 24 hours,
none. Total precipitation this
month 1.5 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 14, lowest 5.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 24
miles per hour from the E.N.E.
Sunrise at 8:26 a.m., sunset at,
3:09 p.m. I
Comparative Data:
Temperatures one year ago to- j
day: highest 21, lowest 5.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —4 in 1942,
highest 38 in 1937.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —12 Clear
Point Hope 8 Clear
Kotzebue —2 Clear
Wales 1 Clear
Gambell 23 Cloudy
Nome 6 Clear
Unalakleet 4 Clear
Bethel 3 Clear
McGrath ' —4 Clear
Anchorage 10 Clear
Fairbanks —9 Clear
Juneau 16 Cloudy
Whitehorse —5 Snow
Ketchikan 32 Snow
Edmonton 6 Cloudy
San Francisco 55 Cloudy
The coldest place in Alaska this
morning was Fort Yukon with a
temperautre of —35.
Members of the Women’s Army
Corps on duty with the Army Air
Forces get flying pay—50 per cent
over their base pay—if their jobs
require them to fly rgeularly.
Nome Directory
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No. 140
Meets First and Third
Thursday each month
W. H. CAMERON. W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS. Secy.
NOME LODGE
A-5
Meets Every Friday
STANLEY R. MORGAN. N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN. Secy.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court Houso Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
O D COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome. Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome. Alaska
Seattle Office: ,
SOI Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6396
Robert J. Gleason
Made Communications
Superintendent of P.A.A.
Robert J. Gleason, pioneer Alas
ka communications man, and a
frequent Nome visitor, has been
appointed communications super
intendent of the Pacific-Alaska
Division of Pan American World
Airways, headquarters in San
Francisco, L. C. Reynolds, mana
ger, announced today.
Gleason, who served with the
U. S. Army since September, 1942,
has recently been released from
active service, in which he was a
Lieutenant Colonel.
During the past three years he
has served successively in Alaska,
in the Aleutians, where he was in
charge of all airways communica
tions and responsible for installa
tion of all radio communications
in the Aleutian chain, in India
and China, where he has been in
charge of the 69th Army airways
communications system and the
63rd AACS group in Kunming,
China. These radio ground facili
ties served the 14th Air Forces
under Major General Claire Chen
nault and the Indo-China Wing of
the ATC. “Over the Hump” fly
ing between India and China was
dependent on the Kunming com
munications center.
Originally joining Pan Ameri
can in 1932, Gleason helped pio
neer developments in Alaska first
as chief operator in Fairbanks!
and later as communications su
; perintendent for the company’s
i operations throughout that area.
He supervised installation of I
! communications facilities from
! Fairbanks to Juneau—a feat un
dertaken in 30 to 60 below zero
weather—as well as 14 of the ra
dio stations throughout Alaska
and Canada.
— - -
I Catherine the Great of Russia
was neither Russian nor named
, Catherine—she was born in Stet
i tin, Germany, and was christened
Sophia.
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