..Forecast And
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^Weather Report
Nome and Vieinitv j
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Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
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Friday, October 12, 1945
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
today and Saturday. Lowest tern-1
perature Saturday morning 18,
highest temperature Saturday 38.
Nome data as of 8:30 a.m. to
il day:
Precipitation last 24 hours,
none. Total precipitation this
month 0.17 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 38, lowest 18.
m Sunrise at 6:45 a.m., sunset at
^4.53 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 40, lowest 37.
, Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest 12 in 1929,
highest 58 in 1937.
Data for other selected stations
as of 8:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Point Hope 21 Cloudy
Kotzebue 26 Cloudy
Wales 31 Snow |
Gambell 32 Cloudy
Nome 27 Clear
Golovin 24 Clear
Unalakleet 9 Clear
Bethel 22 Clear
McGrath 16 Cloudy
Anchorage 37. Rain
Fairbanks 21 Cloudy
Juneau 48 Rain
Whi ehorse 42 Cloudy
Ketchikan 54 Rain
Edmonton 36 Clear
Seattle 57 Cloudy
San Francisco 56 Cloudy
Hospital Notes
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Haugan are
the parents of a baby girl born
yesterday at the hospital.
Robert <Bob> Peterson has been
a patient in the hospital for some
time and is leaving for the States
on the Baranof.
John Rapp and Jonas Johnson,
boht of Nome, are in the hospital
this week.
Mercy Jones, of Oereing, and
Dorothy Free were dismissed from
the hospital this week.
School News
Things are really jumpin’
around Nome Hi this year, with
the largest enrollment since the
start of the war.
A boys’ and girls’ Glee Club has
been organized and it wouldn’t
surprise us at all if you heard
some beautiful harmony around
Christmas itme. Need it be said
that Mrs. Cameron is our able in
structress?
This week the students of Nome
Hi welcome back Percy and Jack
Blatchford who have been in
quarantine for quite some time,
j Phyllis Roel is also back in Nome
and we are all glad to have her.
The girls <and boy) in Home Ec.
J have been very industrious lately
^nd have produced some very de
licious cakes which they gener
ously allowed the rest of the stu
! dents to sample. In case you’re
i curious as to who the domestical
! ly-minded boy is, well, it’s Sandy
' Mazen.
| Thursday evening at eight p.m., |
j a Parent-Teacher get-together
j was held in the High School Gym
j nasium. This enjoyable event was
' planned and held for the main
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Arctic Coast
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Arctic
Candle
Wales
TeUer
Kougarok
Circle
Deering
Shismaref
Taylor
Mines
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Solomon
White Mt.
Haycock
Unalakleet
Golovin
Council
Moses Pt.
Koyuk
Lower Yukon
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purpose of better acquainting the
parents with the teachers and
vice versa. Mrs. Dunbar was chair
man of the committee which or
ganized a splendid program in
cluding a piano solo by Juanita
Fagerstrom, a selection sung by
some of the high-school girls, pi
ano solo by Walter McCarthy, and
community singing. Short talks
were given by the principal, Miss
Bock, our school nurse, the teach
ers and members of the School
Board. A count was taken and it
was determined that the seventh 1
grade had the highest percentage
of parents present. A nursery was
in operation to care for the young j
children of the parents who at
tended.
1st and 2nd Grade News
The first and second grades
have been having fun with the
wind mills we made in school.
The first grade make work br>oks.
We enjoyed stories and pictures
about China on Wednesday. China
Friendship Day.
3rd and 4th Grade News
School opened with an enroll
ment of twenty-seven children in
the third and fourth grades. Ron
ald Anderson and Marion Bahr
are leaving the fourth grade soon;
Ron to go to Kingston, Washing
ton, and Marion to Anchorage,
Alaska. Christine Blatchford en
rolled this week after having been
quarantined for diphtheria. The
work in these grades is made
more profitable and interesting
with Mrs. Judish teaching art and
Mrs. Dunbar teaching music.
5th Grade News
On Tuesday the children of our
room sent home some invitations
to the parents to come to a “get
together” program Thursday eve
ning at the school house. Wednes
day a member of the class, Bet y
Bourdon, suffered a severe injury
to her ankle. She spraine ! it very
badly on the bottom step, when
going out to recess. At first we
thought it was broken. Betty’s
brother George and Bob Lewis
carried her to the doctor’s office.
We hear that Betty will have to
stay off her foot awhile and hope
she can come to school anyway.
6th Grade News
The sixth grade has an enroll
ment of twenty-eight pupils. Mrs.
Millard is our room etaeher. We
have been studying the North
Central States in Geography. For
an extra activity in our Language
Class we are writing letters to a
sixth grade in Grove City, Ohio.
STANLEY BARTLETT
VISITING IN NOME
i Mr. Stanley Bartlett, dispatcher
i for the P.A.A. in Fairbanks, and
i formerly stationed in Nome, is
* visiting here for a few days.
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