Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, oi
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, March 14, 1947
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
and continued cold tqnight am.
Saturday. Lowest temperature to
night —25, highest temperatuu
Saturday —5.
Nome data as of 7:30 u.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hour.,
trace. Total precipitation tnr
month 0.02 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest, —13, lowest —35.
Maximum wind last 24 hours I
miles per hour from the east.
Sunrise at 6:22 am., sunset at
5:59 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest —7, lowest —25.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —35 in
1947, highest 34 in 1937.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —7 Cloudy
Point Hope —22 Cloudy
Kotzebue —24 Snow
Wales —18 Cloudy
Nome —28 Partly Cloudy
Gambell —16 Snow
Unalakleet —25 Clear
Bethel —22 Clear
McGrath —28 Partly Cloudy
Anchorage 26 Snow
Fairbanks 2 Snow
Juneau 47 Rain
Whitehorse 42 Cloudy
Ketchikan 49 Ra:n
Edmonton 35 Rain
Seattle 47 Clear
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ROrARYCLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon1
Bud Harper, Pres.
Andy Anderson, Sec.
ANVIL LODGE
NO. 140
Meets First and Third
Thursday each month
KARL DEWEY,
NORVIN W. LEWIS, Secy.
NOME LODGE
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Meets
JOHN A. BAPP. N.O. .
BOBBBT BALDWIN. Secy.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phono 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:
•01 Low man Building
Telephone EL. 639€
School News
FIRST GRADE
"North, East, South, West, The
wind that blows, that wind is!
best.” The North Star gives the
first point from which the first
grade is studying direction.
THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE
In the third grade we have been
'studying division with remainders.
T;ie fourth grade is learning di
vision of fractions.
The girls are doing spool knit
ting. They plan to make mats for|
hot dishes and pot holders.
FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADES
The fourth grade has been draw
ing maps of the United States j
show ng how ou- country has de
veloped.
The fifth grade has been study-!
lug addition, si:ht action, and mul
■p.iration of fractions.
Tne fourth and fifth grades have
been having a spelling contest dur
ing tie last lew weeks. For each
five perfect papers in spelling the
child gets one star. At present
Maureen Hudert and Marion Her
bert have the most stars.
SIXTH GRADE
We have a very interesting rcc
reational reading book called "An
Island Story” by H. E. Marshall,
brought to us by Jackie Bodle. I:
has some of the most interesting
true stories about events and
heroes in England.
We are studying about South
America in geography class and in
conection with this study our
‘cacher is teaching us how to say
omc* things in the Spanish lan
guage.
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH
GRADES
Clara Jorgenson has returned to
class after being in the hospital
for some t:mc.
Joe Felder has been bookkeeper
as far as people being late to class
is concerned. He rounds up those
who forget to write sentences, and
g;,,es passes to those who are late
and must report to him.
HIGH SCHOOL
Nome High is proud to hear that
Julia Silverman made one of the
highest grades in Alaska in the
Pepsi-Coia Scholarship test and
has a chance of getting one of the
two scholarships for Alaska.
Those on the high school honor
roll for the fourth six-week period,
are Berta Bjornstad, Margaret
Bjornstad, Elinor Dowd, Bonnie
Dunbar, Walter McCarthy, Arthur
High School Play
Is Lively Comedy
Complications enough generally
arise when a young man falls in
love with two girls at the same
time, but just imagine how in
volved things would be if he fell
: i love with five and couldn’t, for
the 1 fe of him, make up h s mind
which one td marry! Well, t.iat is
what happens in the roll eking
tree-act comedy, “He Couldn’t
Marry Five.” which is to be pro
duced by the Nome High School,
on the evening of March 21 in the
high school gymnasium.
Ponald Regan i the only son of
a wealthv businessman. Donald
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has just recuperated from a ner
vous breakdown brought on by an
overindulgence in sports. His
father wants him to go to a small;
: town .and rest while trying to de
cide what he would like to do in
life.
So an important member of Mr.
Regan’s firm, Ralph Barton, who
! McLain, Bo Mozee, Phylis Roell,
Jane Scott, Julia Silverman, Lor
etta Snyder, Roberta Snyder, and
Tom Tucker.
MR. AND MRS. A. KOONZ
ENROUTE TO BETHEL
Mr. and Mrs. A. Koonz., employ
ees of the U. S. Weather Bureau,
v. :i » have been stationed at Wales,
ai r ved in Nome yesterday enroute
to Bethel their new station They,
have been replaced by Mr. and
Mrs. Oroville Johnson. They state
that they enjoyed their winter in
Wales and liked the native people
who were so friendly. Most of the
time they were the only whites
in Wales.
about to be promoted to a partner
.ship Jakes Donald home with h.m,
where Donald meets Mr. Barton’s
five eligible daughters and pro
ceeds to fail for first one and tnen
another until he is courting ail
five!
From then on. one hilarious sit -
uation comes tumbling a'i'er an
other until things seem utterly
hopeless. But everything on.es out
ail right in the last act, and Don
ald gets the right girl. Here is a
play that every man, woman and
child should see. It abounds in
clever dialogue, fast ac’ion and
true-to-life characterizations. A
record attendance is expected to
see “He Couldn’t Marry Five.”
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