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Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, August 31, 1949
Forecast Nome: Mostly cloudy
tonight and Thursday with occa
sional light rain showers. Gentle
to moderate westerly to north
westerly wind. Lowest tempera
ture tonight 43, highest tempera
ture Thursday 50.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation 0.52 inch. (Total
this month 6.08 inches*.
Temperatures: highest 53, low
est 42.
Maximum wind 14 miles an
hour from the SE.
Sunrise at 4:43 a.m., sunset at
7:22 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day highest 48, lowest 34.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Highest 65 in 1923.
lowest 26 in 1919.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a<m. today:
Barrow 37 Rain
Point Hope 42 Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue 48 Cloudy
Shishmaref 46 Cloudy
Wales 45 Cloudy
Gambell 46 Cloudy
Nome 48 Cloudy
Unalakleet 51 Partly Cloudy
Bethel 42 Cloudy
McGrath 51 Rain
Ancohrage 55 Cloudy
Fairbanks 57 Cloudy
Whitehorse 58 Partly Cloudy
Edmonton 69 Clear
Juneau 54 Rain
Ketchikan 51 Rain
Seattle 66 Partly Cloudy
San Francisco 67 Clear
Hospital News
New patients in the hospital
are Marvin Thomas, Candle, and
owell Anagik of Unalakleet.
For Good Printing Call Main 125
AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving with Pan American
this morning weer Marvin Trout
man. Mr .and Mrs. LaDonna and
infant, Ruth Gottschalk, Mrs. L.
Skitzke, L. Johnstone, Mrs. W.
McCarthy. Round trip passengers
were D. W. Reid, Richard Geisler,
Clarence Uldrich, R. Smith.
Departing today were Sidney
Lund wall. Jim Moody, Mr. and
Mrs. Boyle, Mr. and Mrs. Les Ste
vens, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Robin
son, Jr.. Phyllis Roell, Tom Swee
ney.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Monday Arthur Gahagen and
Johnny Reader were passengers
from Million Creek to Nome. J. A.
Nyman was brought in from Tay
1 lor.
Yesterday Donna Modrow was
I a passenger from Fairbanks and
, J. E. Presley as round trip passen
i ger.
Leaving for Fairbanks were D.
! Ramos. George Luetkehane and
, Burt Rexford. Phila Helt, Marian
I and Terry Baker.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving from Anchorage on
Monday were Mr. Lundwald and
Don Ford.
Scheduled to depart today is
Leif Kvile.
Yesterday pilot Seeds made a
flight to Kotzebue with Slim
Evans and Robert Knight as pas
sengers. returning with Robert
Knight, Mrs. Elizabeth Chamber
lain and daughter.
Monday the mail flight was
made to Candle, Deering and Kot
zebue with inspector Brewel.
Today the Teller, Wales and
Shishmaref mail run is being
made.
Bob Baker of the Fish and Wild
life service was in town on Mon
day and stated that duck stamps
will be available at the postoffice
as soon as they arrive. They will
cost the hunters $2.00.
NOTE—Migratory Duck Stamps
have arrived at the Postoffice and
are available for the sum of $2.00
each.
WE CARRY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FINE LIQUORS, BEER AND WINE
Out-of-Town Orders Carefully Handled
THE NOME LIQUOR STORE
RLRSKR RIRLMES
Phone MAIN 66
FARES SLASHED
ADDITIONAL SERVICE BY
ALASKA AIRLINES
Or Connecting Services
NOME to SEATTLE $115*
NOME to PORTLAND $123*
' Plus Federal Tax
Other Reduced Fares to
GREAT FALLS - MINNEAPOLIS - CHICAGO
NEW YORK - SAN FRANCISCO
EXPRESS PASSENGERS
This service will be operated under the recent Cease and
Desist Orders. Serial Number E-3134.
AT THE HOTELS
WALLACE HOTEL
Jack LaCrosse, Fred Dent, Coun
cil. Douglas Owens, Taylor. Ed
Holbrook, Ungalik. Claude Rhodes,
Anchorage.
POLARIS HOTEL
Ralph Lomen, Council and W.
Brewer of Kentucky.
SHIPPING NEWS
The Sailor Splice of tht Alaska
Steamship Company, left for St.
Michael today to discharge cargo
at that port, and will return to
Nome about Saturday to finish
discharging remaining cargo here.
I^ocal agent Wm. Wood, states
the general cargo for Nome has
all been discharged, the balance
of the cargo being for the army.
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Magnetic North
Pole Travels
I
! OTTAWA, </P)—A team of Ca
nadian scientists and airmen re
: turned yesterday from their annu
| al pole patrol and reported that
the magnetic North Pole is still
' functioning normally,
i The magnetic pole, which jumps
1 around a daily orbit of about a
i 30-mile radius, is some l,0z0 nau
i tical miles soiflh and slightly west
; o fthe geographic North Pole. Its
i location is about 73Vfc degrees
north, 100 degrees west.
Head of the two-month expedi
tion was Ralph D. Hutchinson,
chief magnetician of the Dominion
observatory. He found the phe
I nomenon carrying on normally
with its center in Ownmanney
Bay, on the northwest side of
Prince of Wales Island.
The object of the trip was to
produce more precise inforrrration
for magnetic charts for aerial nav
igation, studies of radio interfer
ence, and on movement sof the
pole.
Glenn Madill, head of the Do
1 minion observatory’s terrestrial
magnetism section, said he believ
ed the magnetic pole—which has
moved about 200 miles north over
1 the 120 years it has been studied
| —is moving in a northwesterly di
i rection.
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Mrs. Fred Bourdon left for An
chorage to visit with her daughter
1 Lydia and three step-children and
plans to return home next month.
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NOTICE
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Ladies Aid Society will meet
I Friday evening at the home of
Mrs. Robert Treat at eight o'clock.
All visitors are cordially invited
to attend.
WANT ADS
FOUND—Overshoes. Call at Nug
get. 97-tf
WANTED—Piano and Refrigera
tor. Breakers Bar. 98-tfc
FOUND— Wedding Ring. Identify
at Nugget Office. 98-tf
CAMP COOK, Experienced, wants
Work. Contact Polaris Hotel.
103- 2tp
FOUND—One man's shoe, almo t
new, brown. Owner claim at
Nome Nugget. 10.3-tf
FOR SALE—Mont. Ward 2 Sheet
Washing Machine. Call Red 7.
104- 2tp
FOUND—Key on B Street across
from the Polaris Hotel. Call at
Nugget. 104-tf
Mother And Three
Children Drown
Near Spokane
SPOKANE, i/P)—A 46-year-old |
mother and three young children
were drowned last night in the
Spokane river.
Officers could only speculate on
the cause of the drownings. When
the bodies weer found a six-year- i
old girl still was clutching her ;
mother’s hair.
The victims were Mrs. Mabel G. j
Ashby and her children, Ruth, 7; :
Eharon Ray, 6; and Robert 5.
Walter F. Ashby, the husband
and father, was fishing 300 yards
downstream. He arrived on the
scene just as officers were recov
ering the bodies.
Dr. A. E. Lien, coroner, said the 1
mother and children were having
J a picnic on the river bank while
Ashby and an older boy were fish
ing.
Lien said he believed one of the
children must have slipped into
the river and that the others were
carried off trying in a rescue at- 1
tempt.
He said there were no witnesses.,
Ray O. Riddle, another fisherman, j
first discovered the tragedy when
he saw the bodies floating down- j
I stream.
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A. M. Hartford, local manager j
of the U. S. Smelting Co., left for
the States this week on a business '
trip and plans to return before |
the close of the company’s season |
if possible.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Result?
Soviet Pilot Volun
tarily Returns To
Russia And ?
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July 28 when he told the Soviet
embassy in Washington he “re
pented” his desertion and wanted
to go back to Russia.
Barsov was flown here from the
U. S. on Aug. 24. This morning
American army authorities receiv
ed instructions from the state de
partment to return Barsov to the
proper Russian authorities.
Barsov and his navigator Piotr
Pirogov flew their bomber from
an airbase in the western Ukraine
after what they said was more
than a year of planning. They
were accompanied by a Russian
sergeant who was handed back to
Soviet authorities at his own re
quest.
The two officers were taken to
the United States last February.
American circles in Vienna
speculated on Barsov’s probable
fate.
It was noted that Russia’s latest
note to Yugoslavia contained a bit
ter denunciation of deserters.
American sources said they ex
pected Barsov to be used for prop
aganda attacks against the United
States for a few weeks and then to
drop from sight.
Phyllis Roell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Roell. who spent
her summer vacation working at
the post office left today with Pan
American fro Missouri, where she
attends Stevens College.
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