Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, ot
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, February 18, 1949
Forecast Nome: Mostly cloudy
and warmer tonight and Satur
day. Intermitten light snow Sat
urday. Fresh to strong east wind:
Warming temperatures to 20 above
Saturday.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation none. <Total this
month 0.97 inch.)
Temperatures: highest 9. lowest
0.
Maximum wind 26 miles an
hour from the east.
Sunrise at 7:47 a.m., sunset at
4:43 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
2, lowest —22.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907: highest 39 in
1934, lowest —34 in 1932.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —23 Cloudy
Point Hope —16 Clear
Kotzebue —6 Partly Cloudy
Shishmaref —11 Cloudy
Wales —17 Cloudy
Gambell 10 Cloudy
Nome 2 Cloudy
Unalakleet —4 Cloudy
Bethel —6 Cloudy
McGrath —35 Partly Cloudy
Anchorage —8 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks —32 Partly Cloudy
Whitehorse —36 Clear
Edmonton —19 Cloudy
Juneau 0 Clear
Ketchikan - 13 Clear
Seattle 37 Cloudy1
San Francisco 4 Cloudy
UNION SEEKS DAMAGES
FROM PACKERS ASSN.
SEATTLE, </P)—A legal action
seeking $451,581 damages p om the
Alaska Packers association was
filed in superior court Wednesday
by the cannery workers and farm
laborers’ union, Local 7, and Er
nesto Mangoaang, its business
agent.
♦The complaint said the packers
salmon cannery operators, paid 70
employees part of their wages
when they returned from Larsen
Bay, Alaska, August 1946, and
most of the balance due them in
February, 1948.
The union asks that the men be
paid wages and subsistence for the
interval between payments.
AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving Thursday with Pan
American Airways were Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Gottschalk, Wallen
Chapman, Jimmy Otiyohek, Frank
| Degnan and infant June Bahr,
Floyd Olaneo.
Departing were Antonio Polet,
W. C. Richey, Mr. and Mrs. Axel
Edman, Major Terry, Mr. and
Mrs. H. Harper and Floyd Olaneo.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
1 Wednesday a flight was made
from Kotzebue bringing in Ed
Mears, Herb Pickering, Major R.
Terry, and Mrs. Roy Seradlook
was taken from Wales to Kotze
bue.
Yesterday the Golovin mail run
was made.
Yesterday Mrs. Peterson was a
passenger to Teller and Mrs. Ver-:
non Konukpeok was brought in to
Nome.
The basketball team was taken
to Anchorage for the Fur Rendez
vous.
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ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers departing for Una
lakleet today were Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Degnan, and An drew
Bango.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Preston Stocum, Moses Point.
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AT THE POLARIS HOTEL
Herb Pickering, E. L. Neares,
Fairbanks. Marie Stafford, Ta
coma.
HAWAIIAN GOVERNOR GIVEN
NEW 50-STAR U. S. FLAG
HONOLULU, (lP)—A flag with
50 stars, the gift of the Anchor
age, Alaska, central labor council,1
was preesnted to Gov. Ingram
Stainback at the opening of the
25th territorial legislature Wed
nesday.
The flag symbolizes the hopes
of Hawaii and Alaska to become
states of the Union. The flag has
six rows of seven stars and a row
in the center with eight stars.
WiLfred C. Tsukisama, Hawaii
•born Japanese, was elected presi
dent of the Senate and Hiram L.
Fong, Hawaii-born Chinese, was
named speaker of the House.
Tsukisama is the first Japanese
ever elected as a presiding officer
of the Hawaiian legislature.
Home is a place where some
men go to raise cain because
something went wrong at the of
fice.
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BULLETINS
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district in which it is collected.
JUNEAU. (TP) — The Se n a t e
passed unanimously memorials to
Congress or federal officials; to
i put an Alaskan on the internation
al fisheries commission; for a road
across Prince Wales Island; to im
prove the transportation in the
Unalakleet Island area by cutting
; a channel through Unalakleet bar
; or building a ninety-mile Unala
kleet-Kaltag link to avoid the six
[hundred mile trip up the Yukon
to Kaltag. Jones Memorial asked
the study of one or both of Unala
klet projects.
The Senate killed nine to five
this afternoon the proposed doub
ling of motor fuels tax. The only
votes for it were by Barr of Fair
banks, who introduced it and all
the Senators from the Third Divi
sion—Huntley, McCutcheon, Riv
ers and Engebreth.
JUNEAU, (/P) — Alaska’s first
general property tax was assured
this afternoon when the House
concurred Senate amendments a
few hours after Senate passage.
The House vote to concur was
18 to 6. Governor Gruening smil- !
ing broadly and shaking legisla-!
tors’ hands, said he would sign the
bill as soon as it reaches his desk
tomorrow or Monday.
Votes against concurring were:
Gundersen, Hope, Jensen, Frank
O. Johnson, Frank L. Johnson and j
Rydeen.
—
Although Milan, Italy, w a s j
founded in ancient times, its relics j
of antiquity are few because the !
city was burned several times.
NOTICE
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Chaplain Darling will be the
guest speaker at the Nazarene
Church Sunday evening.
ATTENTION ‘
Arctic Native Brotherhood
members. Important meeting to be
held at the Club House. Friday at
7:30 p.m.. Feb. 18.
Sam Mogg, Secy.
NOTICE
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The Poll Book for the registra
tion of voters for the forthcoming
Municipal and School-board elec
tion will be open Wednesday. Feb.
16th. 1949. EHection takes place
April 5. 1949.
CARRIE M. McLAIN.
City Clerk.
Publish Feb. 14, 16, 18, 1949.
Classified Ads !
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Truman Optimistic
For Continued
U. S. Prosperity
(By Francis E. Le May)
WASHINGTON, (/P»—President
Truman’s confident forecast of
continued prosperity brought this
reaction today from his Capitol
Hill critics: the best way to help
the nation’s business is to leave it
alone.
The President also renewed his
request yesterday for a four bil
lion dollar tax boost—a proposal
vvhich appeared to be picking up
support from Democrats, but only
if necessary to keep the treasury
out of the red. There is a lot of
opposition, however.
Mr. Truman told his Thursday
news conference current price
drops are only the leveling-off
that everybody has been hoping
for, and he spoke confidently of
the business outlook. He said the
business situation is nothing to be
alarmed about.
Some critics agreed that the
levelling off is healthy. But they
said the President’s economic con
trol program, if approved by Con
gress, might turn a healthy re
cession into a depression.
While Mr. Truman took the
economic temperature, there were
these other developments:
1. Buying interest in the New
York stock market 'sharpened yes- |
terday and the market moved
ahead for the best overall advance 1
in six weeks.
2. At Cleveland, the Chesapeake
& Ohio Railroad announced tem
porary layoffs for more than 4,000
employees in four areas. A spokes
man blamed declining passenger
business and slower movement of
coal due to a mild winter.
3. The Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road ordered a five-day furlough
late this month for 2,521 of its
shop employees.
4. A majority of the 17 private
Fire Does Much
Damage At Hawk
Inlet Cannery
j JUNEAU, Fire of undetermined
origin destroyed the commissary
and bunkhouse of the large P. E.
Harris Co., cannery at Hawk In
let, 15 miles southwest of here on
Admiralty Island, late Wednes
day.
The plant itself, valued at
$1,500,000 to $2,000,000, was still
un'ouched, latest reports said. The
burned buildings were south of
the main cannery installations
and a still north wind was blow
ing away from the cannery.
W. C. Arnold, manager of the
Alaska Canned Salmon Industry,
Inc., said the fire was still burn
ing. He said the main buildings
were dispersed so well there was
a good chance they would be spar
ed. No water was available for
fire-fighting because of a freeze
up.
The plant is one of the largest
in Southeastern Alaska. First re
ports said only a caretaker and
his wife were stationed there.
The Bermudas were discovered
by Juan de Bermudez in 1510.
industry economists attending a
Capitol Hill conference spoke out
against the administration’s re
quest for higher taxes and wage
price allocation controls.
The House yesterday voted to
let the President keep part of the
power he now has. A bill extend
ing export controls for 28 months
was passed and sent to the Sen
ate, which has approved a similar
measure with slight differences.
Mr. Truman told his news con
ference, in answer to a question,
that he has no plan now to modify
installment buying controls. Rep.
Patman (D.-Tex.’ has argued the
controls are hurting business.
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME :: ALASKA
NORTHERN LIGHT & POWER CO.
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
G-E Dial-the-fabric Iron - G-E Steam Iron
G-E Automatic Roaster - G-E Hotplate
G-E Washing Machine - G-E Sun Lamp
G-E Electric Clock - G-E Mazda Lamps
Wiring Materials
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
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UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
THE NOME LIQUOR STORE
WILL REMAIN OPEN
FOR COLLECTION OF ACCOUNTS ONLY