Forecast And
Weather Report
N< mie an d Vicinity
Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Monday, March 4, 1946
Forecast Nome: Clear today and
Tuesday. Lowest tempera turc
Tuesday morning —15, highest
temperature Tuesday —5.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. to
day: Precipitation last 24 hours
0.01 inches. Total precipitation
this month 0.22 inches.
Total snowfall this month 5.3
inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 25, lowest —10.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 26
mile6 per hour from the W.N.W.
Sunrise at 6:57 a.m., sunset at
5:28 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 30, lowest 22.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest —32 in
1922, highest 34 in 1917.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —8 Cloudy
Point Hope —6 Cloudy
Kotzebue —5 Cloudy
Shishmaref —1C Clear
Wales —12 Clear
Gambell 8 Snow
Nome —10 Clear
i Unalakleet 8 Cloudy
Bethel —9 Cloudy
McGrath 17 Snow
Anchorage 32 Cloudy
■ Fairbanks —3 Cloudy
Juneau 36 Rain
Whitehorse 32 Cloudy
Ketchikan 40 Cloudy
An organized system of short
hand was developed and used by
the Romans as far back at 63 B.
C., according to Encyclopaedia
I Britannica.
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SPECIAL
CLEARANCE
SALE
REGINA KNIT SPORTSWEAR
LADIES’ 100% WOOL
S VY E A T E R S
331*3 % Discount
ORANGES . . .Per Case $9.00
Bon Marche
Store
DRIFTERS TO
REOPEN CLUBHOUSE
Do you have any “surplus prop
erty”?
The Drifters, a “teenage” club
is making an fefort to reopen the
clubhouse on Lane’s Way. and re
quire assistance of whatever na
ture you are able to give.
Primarily the most necessary
items are chairs, tables, drapes
and curtains, and even financial
aid will not be refused, as many
items will have to be purchased.
If you have something to offer
to the club, call Red 22, or Black
131.
BOY SCOUTS RAFFLE
1945 MODEL SNOPLANE
Factory built by the Price Sno
plane Company of Durango, Colo
rado, the “Snoplane” is equipped
with a Lycoming 65-h.p. aircraft
motor, and is successfully used by
many governmental agencies and
i public utility companies through
out the western states.
The U. S. Reclamation Service,
Moran, Wyoming, has travelled
| over 150,000 miles in three years
with one Snoplane without an en
gine overhaul. Yellowstone Park
has two snoplanes in operation,
one for transportation dflring the
winter months and one used as an
ambulance.
The Colorado Game & Fish
Commission use Snoplanes for
i feeding deer and elk during the
winter months and there are two
now operating on the Yukon and
i Kuskokwim by traders.
The Snoplane being offered by
j the local Boy Scouts has been
l clocked at 90 miles an hour,
j The telephone company through
I out Colorado use Snoplanes above
I timberline in repairing their lines
i during the extreme winter months.
Loss of hearing is most com
monly caused by the subacute in
fections of nose and throat.
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Friday, March 8
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KOTZEBUE, ALASKA
A N N O U N C E S
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OPERATING FROM
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