Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by -the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Friday, January 25, 1946
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
tonight and Saturday. Lowest tem
perature Saturday morning 20,
highest temperature Saturday 25.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today.
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.45
inches. Total precipitation this
month 1.23 inches.
Total snow fall this month 12.1
inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours,
highest 32, lowest 23.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 36
miles per hour from the east.
Sunrise at 9:04 a.m., sunset at
3:22 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 9, lowest —2.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —47 in
1919, highest 32 in 1946.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —4 Clear
Point Hope 25 Cloudy
Kotzebue 19 Cloudy
Shishmaref 25 Clear
Wales 33 Cloudy
Gambell 30 Snow
Nome 31 Rain
Unalakleet 25 Cloudy
Bethel 31 Cloudy
McGrath 15 Snow
Anchorage 25 Snow
Fairbanks 14 Snow
Juneau 30 Snow
Whitehorse 4 Cloudy
Ketchikan 30 Cloudy
Edmonton —9 Snow
Seattle 37 Cloudy
When the Swedish scientist Ar
rhenius submitted his thesis on
electricity for a doctor’s degree,
it was given the lowest grade that
$ould be granted without refusing
the thesis entirely, according to
the Encyclopaedia Britannica. 19
years later he won the Nobel
Prize—for the same thesis.
Nome Directory
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No. 140
Meets First and Third
Thursday each month
DONALD J. LYLE, W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS. Secy.
NOME LODGE
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Meets Every Friday
S. DAVID MAZEN. N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN, Secy.
HAGEN
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Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Mein 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:
801 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6396
Bundle Up When j
Hogs Tote Sticks
By ROBERT BERNICK
</F') Newsfeatures
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. — “I
look for the signs — when hogs
carry sticks in their mouths, we’re
in for a bitter cold spell.”
That’s part of the weather phi
losophy of Benjamin Franklin
Mitchell. 66. sharp-eyed son of
i generations of Missouri farmers;
1 and personal weatherman for the
State Supreme Court,
j Frank, as justices of Missouri’s
highest judicial body call him, is
a spare, bespectacled man who op
I erates the supreme court elevator.
He says the signs tell far more
j than most people imagine about
i the weather.
“You just have to watch close,”
| he says.
When a chicken runs into a coop
1 of a morning to get out of the rain
| you can bet it’s only be a shower.
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WAIT HEgMAN-THERAIN Will STOP IH AIA/A/UTE/
But if the old chicken walks right
out in the rain, it’ll probably be
raining all day.”
Frank says he picked up his
knowledge about what the wea
ther is going to do next from an 1
old farmer in Morgan County,
Mo., on the edge of the Ozarks.
“My pappy used to run a corn ,
grinding mill on his place and this
old fellow would come and sit
around and tell me all about the
weather,” he recalls.
“Take the sun dogs, for instance. I
That’s a little rainbow. When the
sun dogs are laying horizontal
over the sun. it’” generally get
warmer. But if two of ’me are
strung out beside the sun, you can
expect pretty cold weather.”
The elderly forecaster discounts
the accuracy of his predictions |
even though august judges have,
7BESSIE, GET OUT Wft
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worn rubbers and carried umbrel
las to work on the strength of his
guesses.
“Probably started some years
ago when I told everyone if we j
had a thunderstorm on the fourth
day of January, we’d have a frost J
on the fourth day of May. I'll be
danged if we didn’t-”
Frank says he amazed even him -;
self with that one.
The only scientific instrument
Frank uses is an ordinary ther-1
mometer. A close observer of wind
i the U. 5.; figures
from Department of Commerce.)
_
An AP NewjfeoturM Pictograph
directions, he comes out of his
house high on a bluff “overlooking
the Missouri river, checks his
thermometer and the wind, then
makes his predictions.
Freight car loading in the United
States reached a total of 42,000,
000 in 1945.
First Thief — Heh, someone’s
knocking at the door. What’ll we
do?
Second—Let’s jump out the win
dow.
First Thief—But we’re on th«
13 th floor of this hotel.
Second—Listen, brother, this Ss
no time to get superstitious!
OH, DIANA Friendly Enemies
FIGHTING
[ LIKE A TOMBCMi
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,AP1E LOU AGAIN ! WAT
CHI UP 1 WHY CAN'T YOU
PLAY WITH NICE LITTLE
GIRL* I i-—
WHY PONT YOU PLAY
WITH PRISSY WHITE?
SHE DOESN’T FIGHT f
I’LL BET SHE HASN’T AN
ENEMY IN THE WORLD !
SHE DOESN’T HAFTA HAVE -
— ALL HER FRIENDS »N TH’
THIRD GRADE HATE HER.
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SCORCHY Stand By For Action.
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? SCORCHy HAVENt
THEV SHOULD
OURS AGO, j
YOU KNOW 1 CHECK ALL 1
FLIGHT^--NO, miss HART'S
PLANE IS NOT IN THE HANGAR
...YOO 00NT THINK SCAROUS
MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO
WITH....
50 THAT'S WHY HE UEPT ~
OFF GIVING ME A GOING
OVER..TO GET HER—AND
SCORCH / C'MON, THIS IS i
POR THE POLICE--^/
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3
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5 PLANE MUST 8E ALMOST \
A OUT OP GO-JUICE, SCARPUS.
■3 THEy CAN'T STAY IN THAT /
T, FOG FOREVER—THEWES
I GOT TO COME OUT POT
j| ^-^SOON, HUH ? J
SOMETHINGS WRONG, LEFTY— \
WEVE CIRCLED THAT FOG-COLUMN 1
...THEY HAVEN'T COME OUT AND J
WE CARRY MORE FUEL THAN - /
THEY DO_WE'VE GOT TO
mr LEAVE j-"C ^r.
W3 HAVEN'T ENOUGH
TO HANG AROUND ANY
LONGER ourselves
— LOOKS LIKE WE
DON'T HAVE 10 WORRY
ABOUT MISS HART—OR
HER BOY-FRIEND/
M up to vou, \
« CELIA_IF YOU WANT V
A TO CHANCE IT— \
H THOSE KILLERS ARE 1
W still waitino out /
I THERE—IN HERE WE /
L; DON'T KNOW WHATS /•
6 WAITING...
rI feel terrible-.jT fosoet ^
<SOT you INTO THIS I tT._ AT
MESS_IF I HADN'T /LEAST WE
>£KED YOU TO HELP y«VDNT SEE
ME— j-those peaks
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