Forecast And
* Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the United States
.Veather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Monday, April 29, 1946
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
^ tonight and Tuesday with few
light snow flurries tonight. Low
est temperature Tuesday 10, high
lit temperature Tuesday 26.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours,
trace. Total precipitation this
4 month 0.45 inches.
Total snowfall 4.2 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 34, lowest 20.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 12
miles per hour from the northeast.
Sunrise at 3:36 a.m., sunset at
3:22 p.m.
Comparative data: temperatures
one year ago today: highest 29,
lowest 7.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —6 in 1924,
highest 64 in 1927.
Data for other selected stations
as ol 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —15 Clear
Po'nt Hope —1 Clear
# Kotzebue 17 Cloudy
Shisamaref 4 Cloudy
Gambell 7 Snow
Nome 23 Cloudy
| White Mtn. 22 Clear
Unalakleet 19 Clear
Retbel ip Cloudy
McGrath 36 Clear
Anchorage 40 Clear
Fairbanks 40 Cloudy
Juneau 45 Cloudy
Whitehorse 36 Cloudy
Ketchikan 40 Rain
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In 1790, only five per cent of
the U. S. population lived in cities
of 2,500 or more, as compared
with 55 per cent in 1940.
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No. 140
Meets First and Third
Thursday each month
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S. DAVID MAZEN. N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN. Secy.
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JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
* Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Mein 40
O. D. COCHRAN
‘Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
> Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome, Alaska
Seattle Office:
801 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6396
CROSS APPOINTED TO
VETERANS BOARD
John M. Cross of the Northern
Cross Airways at Kotzebue, a
former major in the Air Corps,
was recently appointed to the
Alaska World War II Veterans
Board, by Governor Ernest Gruen
ing.
Other members of the board
are Paul Solka, Fairbanks; Robert
E. Ellis, Anchorage; John S. Hel
lenthan, Ketchikan; L. Embert
Demmert, Juneau. The Board is
scheduled to meet in Juneau, Fri
day May 3, at 10:00 a.m. This new
veterans board was created to
h;indle affairs arising out of the
Veterans Bill passed by the recent
S aecial Session of the Legislature.
NOME CAB CO.
Formerly called Whiley's
Pick-up and Delivery
Service
New Rates
U.S.E.D. Camp $3.00
City Limits .75
Business Limits .50
Air Base Minimum 1.00
Maximum 2.00
Your Calls will be
Appreciated
Phone Black 141
Prim a ry Election
Tuesday. April 30th, 1946
POLLING PLACE .... CITY HALL
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POLLS OPEN . . . 8:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M.
VOTERS’ QUALIFICATION
And citizen with one year’s residence in Territory of Alaska,
30 days’ residence in Nome Precinct.
Call for a Democratic Ballot
Howard Lyng
Candidate Territorial Senate
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