Forecast And
Weather Report
, Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, December 20, 1946
Forecast Nome: Cloudy with
snow tonight and Saturday with
fresh easterly winds. Lowest tem
perature tonight —5. Highest tem
perature Saturday 5.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours trace.
Total precipitation this month 0.10
inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 1, lowest —18.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 17
miles per hour from the northwest.
Sunrise at 10:04 a.m., sunset at
1:56 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: '
> 35, lowest 30.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —28 in
1918, highest 36 in 1920.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow . —11 Clear
Point Hope —4 Clea.
* Kotzebue —12 Clear
Shishmaref —5 Clear
Wales —5 Clear
Gambell 3 Snow
Nome —4 Snow
Unalakleet —12 Partly Cloudy
Bethel —19 Cloudy
McGrath —36 Clear
Anchorage —11 Clear
Fairbanks —10 Partly Cloudy
Whitehorse —7 Partly Cloudy
Ketchikan 36 Cloudy
# Edmonton 35 Cloudy
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SPORTS
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forms over the wek end. At 1. p.m.
Monday, the public sale of Rose
Bowl tickets will open. By 1:30, .*
probably wi1! bo over, t^or lo-.s
than 8,030 ducats will be avail
abb, two to a customer.
'’’’\SHTMGTON, 1/P) — First
baseman Mickey Vernon of the
V.rnsVnr/ton Senators, whose .313
batting average topped the Amer
ican league this year, has weighs'
in with a $25,000 salary demand ,
for 1947.
“Ridiculous,” said owner Clark
Griffith. “He never hit .300 in his .
life before last season.”
Vernon’s 1946 contract called
for S9.000, to which Griffith added
an unspecified bonus.
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SAA’ FRANCISCO. (/P)—Ed Me
Kerver. former grid coach of Cor
nell, ;s the No. 1 prospect for the
football coaching job at the Uni
v>rsi‘y of San Francisco, chair-!
nv>n Uhnrles L. Harney of the U.
S. F. athletic board said today.
Harney said no announcement
would be made before Christmas.
McKeever left last night for his
Ithaca, N. Y., home with the chief
ob tacle to agreement being his
stipulation of a three or five-year
contract.
The Vancouver Hornets hold a
full-game lead in the Pacific Coast
nrufe.ss:onal basketball league to
day, and Salem is deadlocked with
Seattle for fourth place.
"he Canadian entry widened its
first place margin with a hard
fought 53-47 triumph over Ya
kima, while Salem crippled Seat
tle 58-49 in the first of their two
, game series.
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