Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, February 27, 1950
Forecast Nome: Cloudy today
and Tuesday with occasional light
snow. Fresh to occasional strong
Easterly winds. Lowest tempera
ture tonight 12, highest tempera
ture Tuesday 22.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 Ea.m. today:
Precipitation .12 inch. (Total
this month .46 inch).
Temperatures: highest 15, low
est 2.
Maximum wind 35 miles an
hour from the cast.
Sunrise at 7:17 a.m., sunset at
5:13 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 14, lowest —5.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907: Highest 35 in
1928, lowest —29 in 1946.
Data for- other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —30 Cloudy
Point Hope 2 Snow
Kotzebue 5 Snow
Wales 0 Snow
Gambell 2 Snow
Nome 15 Snow
Unalakleet 9 Blowing Snow
Bethel 17 Cloudy
McGrath —25 Partly Cloudy
Anchorage 17 Cloudy
Fairbanks —20 Partly Cloudy
Whitehorse 4 Clear
Juneau 33 Snow
Seattle 39 Cloudy
U.S. Commissioner’s Court
Grace Barger was given a sen
tence of thirty days by the U. S.
Commissioner for being drunk
and disorderly.
Iraq's chief cities are Baghdad,
Basra and Mosul.
AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving with Pan American
Sunday were Steve Anderson,
Capt. Stan Morgan, Lt. C. Sparks,
Sgt. Walter Garvin, Pfc. Martin
Barnes, Pvt. James Doddemade,
Capt. Nye Scoffield and Mrs.
! Frances Petry.
Departing were Harold Dim
mick, Mr. and Mrs. L. Milhouse,
Archie Ferguson, Beulah Levy,
Bill Levy.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Friday, Father G. E. Carroll
who has been visiting here re
turned to his station at Kotzebue.
Wm. Laws and Thomas Rich
ards were passengers to Kotzebut
on Friday.
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ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving Saturday from An
I chorage were Vernon Carlson and
Gloria Carlson.
Departing were Mrs. Paul Grey,
and daughter Susan, Col. M.Mars
ton, Tex Zeigler and Henry
Shade.
Arriving from Teller were Mrs.
Grey and daughter, Mrs. Lee and
two children from Teller Mission,
l Issaac Oksik from Teller.
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AT THE POLARIS HOTEL
Ellen Marcum, Juneau. Louis
Seffions, Anchorage. Henry Shade
Vernon Hillicher, Clarks Point.
Mr. and Mrs. Holt, Galena.
SEATTLE, (TP)—Soldiers of the
156th transportation port com
pany will head for Whittier, Alas
ka, at the completion of their cur
rent 1-week longshore training
course.
The 223 men are studying the
operation of equipment and safe
ty measures at Fort Lawton under
the direction of the Seattle Port of
Embarkation. The unit was under
the wartime command of Capt.
Fred J. Plain of Walla Walla,
Wash.
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^Proposed Iloine
Htcad Law W ould
Ruin Alaska"
<(/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (A3)—The wild
life management institute has
called for defeat of the Alaska
homestead bill introduced by Rep.
Lemke (R.-N. D.i.
"Ic would throw Alaska open to
the most vicious sort of exploita
tion and would result in making
veterans mere tools of speculators,
the organization of sportsmen and
conservation enthusiasts said in a
statement.
“Harmless on the surface, it ac
utally threatens the entire future]
of the Territory which it purports I
to develop.”
The bill would permit any war|
veteran to patent a homestead
claim of from 320 to 2,500 acres
for agricultural and timberland
use on about 243,000 square miles
—including most of the national
forest lands of Southern Alasxa,
the Institute said.
The statement said a wet cli
mate and rough topography make
the area unsuitable for agricul
ture. It added that timber home
steads are proposed “although se
lective lumbering is impossible in
Alaska.”
\L,arge diocks oi lanu wouiu uc
denuded and huge tracts of tim
ber would fall into the hands of
speculators,” the Institute said.
“There is no market in Alaska
for the volume of timber and
pulpwood which this bill would
produce. Orderly development of
Alaska’s forest industries, now
under way, would be disrupted.
“Since small valleys produce
the best timber stands, these
would be the first cleared by
homesteaders.
“Small streams are the spawn
ing grounds of salmon, and the
passage of the bill would soon de
stroy Alaska’s most important in
dustry by removing protective
forests from the watersheds, rais
ing water temperatures, and per
mitting the flow of silt over the
spawning beds.
“In short, it would destroy the
livelihood of thousands of veter
ans already in Alaska in favor of
a few hundred others who might I
move there in order to take ad
vantage of the provisions of this
bill.”
The bill awaits action by the
House rules committee. The Insti
tute said it has been opposed by
the Alaskan Legislature, all ma
jor American Legion posts in
Southeastern Alaska, and the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars of Ketchi
kan and Juneau, and by the sen
ior and junior chambers of com
NOTICE
Women's Society < Ladies Aid>
of the Methodist-Fe derated
Church will meet with Mrs. Leise,
Fridey evening at 8:00 p.m. All
ladies of the community welcome.
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AMERICAN LEGION
POST 19
MEETING
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 28ih
at 8:00 P.M. in the Post Hall
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Fisheries Will Con
centrate On Pink
Salmon Research
'(^Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, UP)—The inte
•ior department has focused its
Alaskan fishery research program
'or next summer upon the $44,
'VOO-a-year pink salmon indus
try.
Interior Secretary Chapman
said last week that research funds,
which have been divided three
ways—on the Alaska herring, the
r d salmon of Bristol Bay and the
Knrluk River area, and the pink
sr lmon of Southeastern Alaska—
will be concentrated this year on
*he latter.
He said this is being done on
the recommendation of Albert M.
Day, director of the Fish and
Wildlife service.
“The pink salmon fishery re
cently has received only $39,000 a
year for research, permitting the
employment of only one full-time
biologist and a staff of temporary
assistants,” Day said.
By concentrating its efforts, the
service now plans to invest three
times as much money and place
10 professional biologists in the
pink salmon research program.”
A spokesman for the service ex
plained that the broad research
program of the past has resulted
in “shoestring investigations that
have not been too successful.”
Day said that after pink sal
mon research has been sufficient
ly advanced “we will take up an
other species, using the same con
centration technique.”
Meanwhile, he said, the routine
observations of red salmon es
capements in Bristol Bay and on
the Karluk River of Kodiak Is
land will be continued, as will
routine sampling of the herring
catch.
“I he routine samplings will
provide all the necessary infor
mation for the planning of fishing
regulations, and will provide the
continuing records necessary
when these fisheries become the
merce of Petersburg
“Both the department of the in
terior and the department of ag
riculture have submitted unfavor
able reports on this bill,” the In
stitute said.
| Puerto Rico Wants
To Become State
HONOLULU, (yP)—Puerto Rico
would like to be a State, but is
soft-pedaling the issue at present
to avoid hindering the chances of
Hawaii and Alaska, a Puerto Ri
can emissary said this week.
He is Jesus Pinero, former gov
ernor of Puerto Rico, who is in
Honolulu to attend the celebra
tions this week marking the 50th
anniversary of the arrival of
Puerto Ricans in Hawaii.
“Of course we want statehood,"
Pinero told reporters, “but we are
anxiously waiting to see what
happens in Hawaii first.
“We have strong hopes that Ha
i waii will get statehood, because
that likely will have a favorable
influence on our own statehood
hopes. Meanwhile we are prepar
ing for statehood obligations by
making ourselves as self-sufficient
as possible.”
Some 275 members of the Hono
lulu Puerto Rican community wel
cofed Pinero with a dinner-dance.
Mrs. Frances Peiry arrived from
Long Island, via Juneau, to visit
with her daughter Mrs. James
Walsh and get acquainted with
he rthree grandchildren.
KEEP AWAY FROM SKUNKS!
MUNCIE, Ind. (/P)—It didn’t ap
pear necessary, but health officer
W. J. Molloy warned Delaware
county residents Saturday to stay
away from skunks.
Dr. Molloy said the danger of
rabies had been added to the
usual reason for avoiding the ani
mals. The state board of health
reported a skunk caught on John
Cromer’s farm was rabid.
‘It’s not just the odor,” Dr. Mol
loy said in issuing his warning.
object of future study and re
search,” Day said.
The; service plans two new field
operations in the pink salmon in
dustry—a large-scale tagging pro
gram in the ocean fishery, and a
program of marking salmon, by
clipping their fins, as they come
down the streams.
Research will be conducted
along two additional streams—
Humpback Creek, on Icy Strait,
and Harris River on Clarence
i Strait.
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