AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving yesterday morning on
the Pan American Airways were
Ike Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Charles'
Pennycook, Helen McShan, Mar
garet Corlin, Constance Riley and
infant, Perl Brown.
Departing were Ed Vaughan,
Dorothy Russell, Elton Ball, A. W.
Harvey, Lester Purcell, Guy Boyd,
Walt Taylor, Malcolm Farrell, Joe
Pasquini, G. Jermaine, Robert
Sanford, Walter Johnson.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Monday afternoon a trip was
made to Fairbanks with Mildred
Rainey and L. G. Vinson.
On the same day G. Germaine,
R. S. Sanford. F. Rutledge of the
Bureau of Mines were passengers
to Tin City and Wales.
Jim Rogers was a passenger to
Rainbow on Monday. On the re
turn trip Mr. Anderson and Mr.
Edwards were brought in from
North Fork.
Two flights were made to Can
die on Monday taking Mr. and
Mrs. Larry Johansen and son, and
a load of freight for them. Lewis
Mills was a passenger to Deoring
on the same flight.
On the return trip Dan Garnie
was brought to town.
Tuesday Frank Williams was a
passenger from Kotzebue and E.
Vaughn, tourist was brought back.
This morning Herk Edwards
was taken to Teller.
DOROTHY RUSSELL
LEAVES FOR PITTSBURGH
Dorothy Russell, deaconess at
the Lavinia Wallace Young Mis
sion for the past year left for the
States yesterday on the Pan Amer
ican.
Miss Russell ly»s spent many
years working with the native
people in this vicinity and has
made many friends wit i the
whites as well as the Eskimos with
whom she worked. She leaves re
luctantly but found it necessarv
due to her health.
She plans to go to Pittsburgh,
from where she will receive an
other assignment in a warmer cli
mate.
Canned Salmon
Arriving In Slates
SEATTLE, (/P)—The passenger
ship Aleutian will resume service
Saturday after a two-week layup
for repairs.
The Aleutian is scheduled to sail
on her regular run to southeastern
and southwestern Alaska, Alaska
Steamship company off:cia!r said.
The ship missed only one trip dur
ing her stay at Todd Sh pyard.
The freighter Ring Splice was
scheduled to arrive in Bellingham
late yesterday with a full cargo
of 154,000 cases of canned salmon
from southeastern Alaska canner
ies.
Due in Seattle tomorrow with
another full load of canned sal
mon is the Rose Knot from Prince
William Sound and Kod'ak Island
points. She also is carrying herr
ing meal and herring oil.
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Ike Taylor, Juneau. Capt. H. C.
Acton, Seattle. Richard Hadke,
Moses Point.
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Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
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Wednesday, September 17, 1947
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
tonight and Thursday with few
scattered rain or snow showers.
Lowest temperature tonight 28.
highest temperature Thursday 40.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.81
inch. Total precipitation this
month 1.68 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 47, lowest 32.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
33 miles per hour from the north.
Sunrise at 5:33 a.m., sunset at
6:22 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
52, lowest 44.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest 20 in 1930,
highest 55 in 1911.
Data for other selected start ions
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 30 Cloudy
Point Hope 33 Cloudy
Kotzebue 34 Cloudy
Shishmaref 36 Cloudy
Wales 32 Cloudy
Gambel) 44 Cloudy
Nome 33 Partly Cloudy
Unalakleet 39 Cloudy
Bethel 42 Rain
McGrath 46 Cloudy
Anchorage 53 Rain
Fairbanks 41 Cloudy
Juneau 49 Cloudy
Whitehorse 46 Cloudy
Ketchikan 57 Clear
Edmonton 37 Cloudy
Buyer's Strike
Necessary To
Cut Food Prices
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$2.761/4. Corn was 1 Vi to two cents
lower, September $2.61Vfe, and
oats were to 27/» cents lows*.
September $1.18.
In New York, the board of
managers of the New York Cocoa
Exchange, Inc., agreed that ef
fective tomorrow margin require
ments on cocoa futures should he
doubled.
In Washington, Rep. Benda*- <R.
Ohio) said a buyers’ strike might
be necessary to bring down prices.
“It is time lor the buyer to
do something more than beware,”
the Congressman said. “It may be
recessary for the ho use wive1- of
America to take the issue into
their capable hands once more
with an old-fashioned buyers
strike.’’
At the same time, in Boston, a
Congressional committee investi
gating living costs prepared to
seek inventories of sever:* 1 food
producers to determine if ilocks
were being hoarded. The commit
tee moved in that direction after
Malcolm McCabe, executive sec
retary of the Massachusetts retail
grocers’ association, asserted that
certain food supplies, particu’arly
eggs and butter, were in the hands
of speculators.
It is imperative to find all per
sons having tuberculosis in the
community so that something can
be done to check the spread of the
disease.
Seattle 55 Partly Cloudy
San Francisco 59 Partly Cloudy
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