Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinitv
J
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, ol
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, February 22, 1950
Forecast Nome. Continued fair
with little change in temperature
with strong northerly winds. Low
est temperature tonight 2, highest
temperature Thursday 12.
Nome data last 24' hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation, none. (Total this
month .34 inch).
Temperatures: highest 10, low
est —11.
Maximum wind 52 miles an
hour from the N.N. E.
Sunrise at 7:31 a.m., sunset at
5:00 p.m
Comparative Data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 12, lowest 3.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907:
Highest 38 in 1928( lowest —27
in 1926.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —19 Clear
Point Hope —13 Clear
Kotzebue —8 Clear
Shishmaref —6 Clear
Wales —12 Clear
Gambell 3 Clear
Nome 7 Blowing Snow
Unalakleet —8 Clear
Bethel —2 Partly Cloudy
McGrath —24 Clear
Anchorage —19 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks —25 Partly Cloudy
Whitehorse 13 Cloudy
Edmonton 13 Snow
Juneau 33 Snow
Ketchikan 38 Rain
Seattle 45 Rain
San Francisco 51 Rain
Tex Zeigler of the Alaska Air
lines, who has been away on va
cation since Christmas, returned
yesterday stating that he visited
all but two of the States and took
in Mexico as well.
Although he enjoyed his travels
and the sunshine in (California he
stated he still thinks Alaska, es
pecially Seward Peninsula is the
place he likes best.
Arthur Bensell, superintendent
of the White Mountain ANS
school passed through Nome on
route to Juneau.
AIRLINES |
ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving yesterday from Unala- j
kleet, Mr. Lindstrom, from Kotze
bue Mrs. Hugo Eckhart, from J
Scuttle Tex Zeigler.
L. O. Tate and Tom Cockriel,
contractors from California who
arrived Sunday with Pan Ameri
can left on the first part of a sur
vey trip which will take them to
White Mountain, Candle, Deering,
Ko.zebue and Cape Lisborne.
They also plan to visit Wales, Tel
ler, Shishmaref and later at
Hooper Bay.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving this morning with
Pan American were Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Tweet and family, Mrs.
James Manning and two employ
ees for the ACS.
Departing were Ed Erskine, H.
W. Starling, Mrs. Frances Long
ley, Donald Miller, S. L. Lund
wall, Jack Dowd, Arthur Bensell.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Round trip passenger Tuesday
from Fairbanks was Richard
Webb. Departing for Fairbanks I
on the same plane were Mrs. Rob
ert Vreeken, Albert Vreeken, Adra
Vreeken and Carl F. Hanley.
Gov. Gruening
Endorses Sales Tax
KETCHIKAN, i/P) — Gov. Er
nest Gruening endorsed a one per
cent sales tax for city projects in
a speech to the Rotary Club here
yesterday.
Several Alaska cities plan elec
tions on the sales tax issue this
year under the authority granted
by the 1949 legislature.
The Governor said local resi
dents should have a chance to de
cide whether long-needed im
provements in public facilities,
civic centers, libraries and hospi
' tals justify the local financing
I which a sales tax would permit.
The Governor said the Alaska
I public works act offers a rare op
1 portunity for towns and schools to
build permanent improvements
with the federal government pav
| ing half the cost.
Gruening explained that he had
| opposed the theory of a general
| sales tax for the Territory so long
as no ‘basic” tax program had
been enacted. The so-called basic
program of income and property
taxes was enacted by the last leg
islature.
PIONEER WATER DELIVERY
For BETTER EFFICIENT
WATER SERVICE
f'Ahh MAIN 24 or MAIN 70
JACK LENCER .
Watchmaker
Box 625 Nome, Alaska
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME :: ALASKA
George \\ ushinglon
Fells Fibs To Keep
Peace In Family
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CALDWELL, N. J., (/P)—George j
Washington says he doesn’t mind
telling a fib now and then if it
will help him avoid his.mother’s
hairbrush.
That’s George Washington, Jr.,
of course—the son of Martha and
George Washington, Sr.
Today is not his birthday. And
he’d rather you c a 1 led him
“Skeets.”
Ten-year-old George’s home is
in the heart of territory once trod
by his illustrious namesake dur
ing the Revolutionary War.
George admits he’s getting a bit!
tired of jokers who ask him if his
hatchet is sharp and if the cherry
tree is ready for chopping every !
time the birthday of our first
President rolls around on Feb. 22.
The modern George Washing
ton calls the gags “corny.”
As for General Washington’s
fabled veracity, George says:
“Why, they say he never told
a fib in his life and any smart kid
knows it doesn’t hurt to tell a lit
tle one once in a while if it will
keep peace with your Mom.”
NOTICE
C.A.P. members and prospec
tive members will meet Wednes
day, February 22, at 8:00 p.m., at
the City Hall.
NOTICE
ARCTIC CLUB MEMBERS
Annual meeting for election of
Board of Trustees and other busi
ness on Friday, February 24, at
8:00 p.m., at the Arctic Club. All
members urged to attend.
Ted Duffield
Pub. Feb. 20.22,24.
NOTICE
I have sold my interest in Polar
Supply Co., to Jack Estes. I will
net be responsible for debts of
this company from this day for
ward.
Grant Nelson.
Publish Fob. 20, 22, 24, ’950.
ATTENTION
MASONS AND EASTERN ST/vRS
Washington Birthday Party at
Masonic Temple, Wednesday. Feb
ruary 22, 1350, at 8:00 p.m. sharp.
All Masons and their families.
Eastern Stars and their families
cordially invited to attend. Single
Masons and Eastern Stars may
bring escorts. Visiting Masons
welcome.
NOTICE
The Fire Alarm System is not
in operation. All fire alarms must
be phoned or brought directly to
the Fire Station. •
Bering Sea Bar opens at
10 A. M. Buck behind the
Bar.
Peggy's Snack Bar open
for Merchant Lunches —
Something different every
day! Also Short Orders.
WANT ADS
FOR RENT Furnished Apartment.
Nevada Bldg., Phone Black 11.
19-4tc
FOR RENT—Small office in Wien
Bldg. For further information
call Main 46. 21 -3tc i
Americans Walk
Into Trap In Sweet
Briar Exercise
YUKON-ALASKA BOR DER,
GP)—A position reminiscent of
bitter World War II fighting in
Italy bogged Exercise Sweetbriar
smack on the Yukon-Alaska boun
dary for hours Monday.
Retreating aggressor forces es
tablished themselves on a hill
overlooking a broad sweep of
snow and tree-covered country
and walloped American infantry
men who walked straight into the
trap in the early morning hours.
The Americans were withdrawn
and the exercise halted for hours
while the umpires figured out
what to do. The consequence was
an early darkness attack by two
companies of the Princess Patri
cia’s Canadian light infantry.
The assault carried the Cana
dians across the Alaska border
into the rolling, rugged country
with trading posts and lodges scat
tered sparsely along the route to
Northway, 52 miles away.
The joint Canadian-American,
counter-attacking units found the
hill the sort of a position that cost
many Canadian lives in Italy in
the second world war—a domin
ating piece of ground where the
defender could sit back and let
the attacker come to him.
GEORGE ANDERSON
DIES IN JUNEAU
I
George Anderson, owner of the
Anderson Music Shop of Juneau.
, and resident of Alaska for the
past 34 years, died at his home in
Juneau last week.
George Anderson, covered the
Territory as a piano tuner for
many years unti lhis age kept him
at home and has rented pianos in
all the principal cities of Alaska
, during that time.
He was given a Masonic burial
at Juneau and is survived by his
wife and several sons and daugh
ters, some of whom reside in
Juneau.
r'or Good Printing Call Mam 125
Fear Parachuters
May Have Dronncd
VANCOUVER, B. C. {&)—Fear
grew today that at least some of
the five men missing since leap
ing from a burning B-36 bomber
last week may have perished in
icy Hecate Strait.
The possibility, long feared by
many of those participating in the
search, was strengthened yester
day with discovery of an aban
doned life raft floating between
Princess Royal and Gil Islands.
Royal Canadian Air Force offi
cials, while unable definitely to
tie it with the abandoned B-36,
said the raft was identical with
“four or five” others found on
Princess Royal Island after the 17
men leaped early last Tuesday. It
was the same type, they said, as
used by U. S. A. F. aircraft on the
West Coast run.
The inflated raft was found by
George Reader of Vancouver, a
'•row member of the fishing boat
Cape Bathurst. Reports from the
search area, some 400 miles north
west of here, indicated it had
been inflated after hitting the wa
ter. Its supply of provisions had
been opened but it had not ship
ped any water.
West Has Air Raid
e arniHg System
I -
SAN FRANCISCO, i.4J)—A civil
air raid warning system will be
operating in all cities west of the
i rookies within a matter of weeks,
' Mnior General Horn P. Rush,
commanding general of the West
ern Air Defense Command, said
yesterday.
j Reactivation of the wartime
i program already has been an
| nounced in Washington, Oregon,
j Idaho and California.
Operation of the program will
i be eoordinately by the air force
which will provide reserve offi
cers to train civilian personnel
and finance twice-a-vear week
long exercises.
Strategic areas, generally those
with the heaviest population, will
be ringed by observation posts.
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