AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving yesterday from Seattle
were F. W. Buff, Barbara Haselby,
Marjorie Haselby; Fairbanks to
Nome, Mike Walsh and Tom Tuc
ker.
Round trip passengers were Don
Milligan, light steward of P.A.A.
from San Francisco and Kay
Byrne.
Otbound to Fairbanks were
Nick Kane and Arthur Coffin; for
Seattle Paul Rasmus, William El
wing, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Glass,
LeRoy Taylor and Carl Bachner.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Friday a flight was made from
Fairbanks with Reece Ringman
from Galena; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. |
Pressly and H. N. Phillips as
round trip passengers and Mrs. H.
Scheffer from Nome to Fairbanks.
Saturday Carl Reinish and Wil
liam Ewing were brought in from
Candle.
Passengers from Kotzebue on
Saturday were Frank Bingham.
B. B. Mozee and Thomas Sours.
Sunday Col. M. Marston, of the
Alaska National Guard was taken
to Kotzebue.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving Saturday by Alaska
Airlines were Ken Mulpok, Frank
Hinsey. Hans Arp. D. McDonald.
Ed Holbrook.
Departing for Anchorage on the
return flight Sunday were A. L.
Zumwalt and A. Olsen. Mrs. War
below was a passenger to Unala
kleet.
Scheduled to depart today are
F. Pedersen and G. Gould.
Mrs. Nick Ezekameun was
brought in from Wales yesterday.
A commercial traveler staying at
a small hotel wished to catch an
early morning train, and asked the
proprietress for the loan of an
alarm clock.
She produced the clock and re
marked:
“We don’t often use it sir, and
sometimes it sticks a bit. but if it
doesn’t go off. just touch the little ,
hammer and it’ll ring all right.”
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, ol
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, October 10, 1949
Forecast Nome: Continued clou
dy with rain and drizzle tonight,
snow showers Tuesday. Moderate
to fresh southwesterly winds, be
coming westerly Tuesday. Lowest
temperature tonight 30, highest
temperature Tuesday 37.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 ajn. today:
Precipitation .13 inch. (Total
this month .40 inch).
Temperatures: highest 40. low
est 29.
Maximum wind 34 miles per ,
hour from the S.S.W.
Sunrise at 6:38 a.m., sunset at
4:58 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 34, lowest 25.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: highest 47 in 1932.
lowest 12 in 1939.
Data for other selected stations
■as of 7:00 a. .m today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 7 Clear
Point Hope 33 Snow
Kotzebue 27 Snow
Shishmaref 22 Cloudy
Wales 34 Cloudy
Gambell 35 Snow
Nome 38 Cloudy
Unalakleet 27 Cloudy
Bethel 26 Partly Cloudy
McGrath 14 Clear
Anchorage 36 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks 26 Snow
Whitehorse 32 Cloudy
Edmonton 44 Partly Cloudy
Juneau 43 Cloudy
Seattle 54 Partly Cloudy
San Drancisco 63 Partly Cloudy
Hospital IVews
New patients admitted to the:
hospital over the week-end are
Paddy Bille. Karl Reinish, Candle
and Rebecca Nuglenne of Elim.
SERVICE CLEANERS
4ih and B Streets—Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mickelson. Props.
Prompt and Courteous Service
Phone RED 90
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AT THE HOTELS
WALLACE HOTEL
Esther McCoy, Laramie Wyo.
O. E. Caruthers, Courtney Har
rington, Will Tomlinson, Col. M.
Marston, Anchorage. Max Ellin
son, Council. William Ewing, Can
dle. Carl Bachner, Buck Creek. F.
W. Buff, Seattle.
POLARIS HOTEL
Bert Bourret, Seward. Mr. Bea
ver, Bethel. Frank Hinsey, An
chorage. Ralph Lomen, Council.
Marie Steffan, Council.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
TO ALL SHIPPERS
All cargo destined to bo shipped
outside via the MV Coastal Mon
arch must be received at the Lo
men Commercial Company ware
house or on before October 15th.
No cargo can be accepted after the
arrival of the ship in Nome.
Alaska Steamship Co.
W. R. Wood,
121-122-123 Agent
NOTICE
Theer will be a formal dance
at the Bering Sea Club on Satur
day. Oct. 15. Dancing starts at
9:00 with music by a two-piece
orchestra, Helen Cherry and
drummer.
—
NOTICK
ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE
Donations of clean used cloth
ing in good condition are being so
licited for the Third Annual Rum
mage Sale sponsored by Lavinia
Wallace Young Mission. Other
household items are also accepted.
Contributions may be left at my
home between 6 and 8 p.m. durinq
the week. Sale will be in the Mis
sion Club House, Saturday, Octo
ber 15, beginning at 10 a.m.
MRS. A. H. NERLAND
WANT ADS !
LOST—Keys on ring with leather
string attached. $5.00 reward.
Phone Black 172. 121 -3tp
FOR SALE—2 Yak Hut . 16 x 16,
on >kids. Call Ben Hyndman or
Main 76. 121-3tc
WANTED — ARMCHAIR, uphol
stered. Used or new. Contact
Nugget Office. 121-tf
FOR SALE — Radio-Phonograph,
Play Pen, Diaper Washer, Basin
ette. Baby Bed, Buggy, and Crib,
Lionel Electric Train. Call Army
247. 120-3tc
FOR SALE — Woman’s Muskrat
Parka in good condition. Call
Red 70. 120-3tc
* __
FOUND—One woman’s overshoe.
Call at Nugget. 120-tf
FOR SALE—Hairseal Jacket, prac
tically new, size 36. $60.00. Call
at Nugget Office. 120-tf
WANTED—Used trumpet in good
condition. Call Nome Nugget.
116-tf
RELIABLE MAN wanted to call
on friends and neighbors. Won
derful opportunity. $15 to $20 in a
day. No experience or capital re
quired. Permanent. Write today.
McNESS COMPANY, Dept. B.2423
Magnolia St., Oakland 7, Calif.
118,121
FOUND—Keys in container. Call
at Nugget Office. 121-tf
NUGGET ADS
GET RESULTS
Flood, Snow And
Tornadoes Do
Much Damage
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sion of the Minidoka National For
est in Idaho Friday, the opening
day of a special hunt. Some 3,000
deer hunters had entered the for
est. National guard trucks from
TWin Falls headed for the forest,
carrying emergency food, blankets,
clothing and car chains, hundreds
of hunters weer isolated and their
cars stalled in drifts.
Tornadoes, rain and fog com
bined to kill at least eight persons
and injure 54 others last night
and early today.
The swirling tornadoes took one
life and injured four persons last
night in the Great Plains.
A Rock Island passenger train
roared off the rails at a track
washout caused by heavy rains
near Meade, Kas., killing four and
injuring 50.
Near Cheyenne, Wyo., a Slick
Airways plane diverted from its
Denver destination because of
limited visibility due to raih and
fog. hit a knoll, killing its crew
of three.
From the Dakotas southward in
to Oklahoma and Texas, the
clouds unloaded their moisture in
thunderstorms. The bayous around
Houston, though were getting back
to normal as flood waters receded.
In a suburb of Lincoln, Nebr., a
Sunday pusch tornado dipped to
earth and leveled a house. Mrs.
Stella Morris, 78, was killed. Two
others in the house were treated
for injuries.
The damaging winds hop-skip
and-jumped over Oklahoma. One
woman was injured at Slapout,
Okla., a small farm community 20
miles northwest of Woodward.
In Russell, Kans., a small tor
nado ignored the outskirts — it
lashed down Main Street. One
woman was critically injured.
M. J. Walsh, returned Sunday
from a meeting o fthe Board of
Regents of the University of Alas
ka of which he is a member.
Four Mysteriously
Shot At Ft. Worth
FORT WORTH. Tex. (>P)-^Foui
persons were found shot to death
today at their home in suburban
Oak Knoll.
They were identified by neigh
bors as:
Mrs. Richard G. Finch, about
33; Penelope Finch, 8, her daugh
ter; Allan Finch, 7, her son; a
' Mrs. Walker, identified as the
children’s maternal grandmother.
A next door neighbor, Mrs. T
IC. Hukill discovered the bodies
when she went to inquire about
the children whom she usually
drove to school with her own
child.
Mrs. Hukill said she last saw
the family Saturday. Neighbors
said the grandmother had come
here recently from Florida.
The grandmother’s body was
found on a bed in a well-furnished
east bedroom. She apparently had
been shot through the mouth. A
.22 Colt revolver was found about
three inches from her body.
Neighbors said the husband and
father had not been home for sev
eral days. He has been on a leave
of absence for two years from
American airlines, with whom he
was a pilot.
The airline said Finch was re
ported at the home of his parents.
Mr .and Mrs. F. R. Finch, in Ann
Arbor, Mich.
An acquaintance of Finch’s, Bill
King, an American Airlines co
pilot, said Finch was a colonel
with the air force’s air transport
command during the war and was
a top-notch flier.
SYDNEY, Australia (.4*)—A man
in South Australia is greeted with
“Hullo. Cockie” by large numbers
of wild cockatoos wherever he
goes in his district. He is H. J.
' Castinia, caretaker of a closed
down mine at Evanstown. With no
neighbors within 100 miles, Mr.
Castinia has made friends with
the birds. For a number of years
he captured young galahs. a spe
cies of rose-breasted cockatoos,
kept them for a time, taught them
to talk, and then released them.
They, in turn, have “taught” their
wild companions.
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