Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1946
Forecast Nome. Cloudy with
snow and continued mild temper
ature tonight and Wednesday.
Strong easterly wind, decreasing
tonight and becoming westerly and
northwesterly Wednesday. Lowest
temperature tonight 20, highest
temperature Wednesday. 25.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.99
inch. Total precipitation this
month 1:52 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 25, lowest 12.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 39
miles per hour from the east.
Sunrise at 10:00 a.m., sunset at
^2:09 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
12, lowest —24.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —30 in
1920 highest 33 in 1923.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —8 Fog
Point Hope 16 Snow
Kotzebue 12 Snow
Shishmaref 21 Snow
Wales 25 Snow
Gambell 27 Snow
Nome 20 Snow
Unalakleet 15 Snow
Bethel 33 Snow
McGrath 2 Snow
Anchorage 22 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks —5 Cloudy
#uneau 21 Partly Cloudy
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Thursday each month
DONALD J. LYLE. W.'M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS, Secy.
NOME LODGE
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S. DAVID MAZEN. N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN. Secy.
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Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Mi.in 40
O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
* Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Noma, Alaska
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Seattle Office:
80 i Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6396
STRONG FORCES
URGED BY DAV
A strong eight point national de
fense program was adopted by the
Disabled American Veterans at its
25th national convention in Port
land, Ore.
The convention, which elected a
World War II veteran, Lloyd F.
Oleson of Ventura, Calif, as its
! national commander, decried “ap
athy toward a state of prepared
ness’ and approved these recom
mendations of the DAV National
Defense Committee:
1. Unification of the armed
forces.
2. Universal military training
for a period of one year.
3. Cutting off the supply of
strategic materials to belligerent
and aggressive nations.
4. Exnand the National Guard.
5. Establish a strong Merchant
Marine.
6. Appoint a disabled veteran
, with combat experience to the
peace conference,
i 7. Keep atomic bomb secrets.
8. Provide orientation courses
Whitehorse —10 Fog
Ketchikan 33 Partly Cloudy
Edmonton 16 Snow
San Francisco 45 Partly Cloudy
for members of the armed forces.
Delegates to the DAV national'
convention in other resolutions.
condemned the Ku Klux Klan and J
urged prosecution of its members: i
resolved that November 11 should
be known as “Veterans Day” to |
observe the ending of both world
wars.
The convention also resolved
that veterans priorities on govern
ment surplus property remain in
effect and asked that the War As
sets Administration cut red tape to
make purchases easier.
Additional resolutions asked the
Civil Service Commission to make
a survey to determine if all per
sons now getting veterans prefer
ences in government positions are
actually veterans: urged ten year
suspension of immigration until
the present desperate housing
shortage is alleviated: commended
the un-American Activities Com
mittee of the House of Representa
tives; and urged universal finger
printing.
Testing Atomic Medicine
Carbon 14, the radioactive mat
ter produced at the U. S. Regular
Army atomic laboratories. has
been released to hospitals for tests
in the treatment of goiter, diabe
tes, cancer and other diseases. i
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NOME :: ALASKA
RAY-BAN’S —
Just received a large shipment of Bausch and Lomb
Sun Glasses and Anti-Glare Glasses, in large gold
filled frames and the skeet model, in metal con
structed pocket cases.
Lenses Duplicated — Eye-Glasses Repaired
New Frames Installed While-You-Wait
Reading Glasses
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(32 years experience)
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