AIRLINES
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PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving on the Pan American
yesterday were George Rathjens,
Charles Irwin, Marion Morelli,
James Adams.
Departing were George Kruse,
Gene Bourdon, Olaf Lundborg,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dobson, Betsy
Peterson and Herbert Jauch.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Mrs. Pete Satterlee and daugh
ter Marie were brought in from
Kotzebue on Monday.
Don Stewart was a passenger
from Pajara on Monday.
Jimmy Rogers was brought in
from Rainbow Monday afternoon.
Passengers from Fairbanks on
Monday were Mr. and Mrs. C. J.
Thorson, Lois Jund and Mr. Lub
king. Returning to Fairbanks were
Mr. and Mrs. Thorsen and Frank
Stinton.
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Yesterday a special flight was
made from Fairbanks with a ca
pacity load of freight. The plane
returned to Fairbanks this morn
mg via Kotzebue with L. A. Ste
vens.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers arriving on today’s
flight were: Allen Hofferbecker.
Rusty Annabel, Mr. McBride, Col.
Lintner, Mrs. Parsons, Marian
Earley.
Departing for Anchorage on the
return flight were: Mr. and Mrs.
E. K. Johansen, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Wuherman, Lynn Wuher- i
man, Irene Coe, Axel Johnson.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
P. J. Cutting, Anchorage. Geo.!
Kruse, Oakland. S. A. Grainger,
John Havenstrite, Candle. Don
Stewart, Pajara. Lois Jund. Jun
eau. Marion Morelli, San Francis
co. H. K. Carlisle, Fairbanks.
PIGEONS WERE AMONG THE
early foreign correspondents. Ac
cording to the Encyclopaedic Bri
tannica they were used extensive
ly as messengers during the
French Revolution of 1848. The
messages were then printed in the
French and Belgian newspapers.
Publisher Named j
Asst. Army Secy.
WASHINGTON, </P>—President
Truman yesterday appointed Gor
don Gray, Winston-Salem, N. C.,
publisher, to be assistant secre
tary of the army.
Gray is president of the Pied
mont Publishing company which
p u b 1 i shes the Winston-Salem
Journal and Twin-City Sentinel
and operates radio station WSJS.
He is a North Carolina state
Senator. Gray volunteered and
became an army private in May,
1942.
He rose to the rank of captain
after serving at the tactical head
quarters of the 12th army group in
Europe and was mustered out in
1945.
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Records of the federal old-age
and survivors insurance program
indicate that there are at least 36
different ways to spell the sur
name “Baer.” Each “Baer” »Bay
our, Bear, Beire, etc.> has his own
individual social security account
number.
SINCE 1924
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A Nome, Will Shop in Fairbanks
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BI-WEEKLY! Trips to Fairbanks,
MO?:DAY AND THURSDAY
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Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinitv
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, September 24, 1947
Forecast Nome: Mostly cloudy
tonight and Thursday with occa
sional light rain. Lowest temper
ature tonight 36, highest tempera
ture Thursday 45.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours,
trace. Total precipitation this
month 1.75 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 43, lowest 26.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
12 miles per hour from the W.S.W.
Sunrise at 5:57 a.m., sunset at
5:53 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
46, lowest 31.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest 19 in 1908,
highest 57 in 1926.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Point Hope 38 Cloudy
Kotzebue 33 Cloudy
Shishmaref 36 Cloudy
Wales 39 Cloudy
Gambell 37 Cloudy
Nome 35 Cloudy
Unalakleet 38 Cloudy
Bethel 33 Cloudy
McGrath 40 Rain
Anchorage 47 Rain
Fairbanks 44 Rain
Juneau 49 Cloudy
Whitehorse 48 Partly Cloudy
Ketchikan 55 Partly Cloudy
Edmonton 47 Cloudy
Seattle 66 Clear
San Francisco 58 Partly Cloudy
MASS TB. CHEST X-RAY
TO START MONDAY
Miss Lois Jund returned from
Barrow Monday where the mass 4
x-ray survey is now in operation.
She states that over eight hundred
people are being x-rayed at that
point, six hundred of them being
native population.
The appointment committee,
headed by a committee of Pioneer
Women members met Monday
evening and were assisted by Mis.
Lester Bronson, Mrs. Jerome
Trigg, Mrs. H. Longley, Roberta
Snyder, and Mrs. Sam Mogg, all
volunteers. Members of the Arctic
Native Brotherhood wso assisted '
were Chas. Fagerstrom, Robert
Okpealok, Sam Mogg and George
Tucker.
The committee stated that the
appointment cards would be* cir
culated over the week end and ap
pointments would start Monday
morning with the school children
and teachers being taken by class
on Monday morning with their
teachers.
Anyone wno has been missed
during the survey may make ap
pointments in the foyer of the
Post Office where Mrs. J. Kehoe
will have a registration desk.
The public is asked to use the
Clinic entrance on the west side
of the Federal building.
Anyone receiving an appoint
ment at a time which is not con
venient may have it changed at
the registration desk which wjll
be open from 10 a.m. until 5:30
p.m. Thursday and Friday and
from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on Satur
day.
Back seat: “You missed that red
light!”
Exasperated: “Want me to go
back and hit it?”
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