AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving today with Pan Amer
ican were Mr. and Mrs. Holgar
Jorgenson, Miss Sanford.
Departing w’ere Marie Staffan,
Clifford Smith, Roy Earling, Wal
lace Johnson, D. D. Hopkins, Ed
Alton, Mr. and Mrs. Herb Jenks,
Florence Bingham, B. W. Neillv,
Mrs. E. Towner and children, Sig
JLantto Charles Gustafson.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Wednesday Harry Palmer and
■daughter were passengers from
Candle to Nome.
Thursday, Leo Tony was
brought in from Coffee Creek;
Roy Snyder from Wales and Mrs.
T. A. Peterson from Teller.
Mrs. John Cross and Col. M.
Marston arrived from Barrow on
Thursday.
Departing yesterday for Fair
banks were David Tewkesbury.
Morton Tahlor, Vera Nelson. Mrs.
John Cross and Karl Reinsich from
Candle to Fairbanks. Gerald Mo
drow came in from Kotzebue on
the flight.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Mrs. L. M. Browning was a
passenger from Nome to Unala
kleet. Braham Lammers was a
passenger from Nomt to Anchor
age.
Mrs. Hess and Rosie Hess were
passengers with Pilot Seeds from
Nome to Kotzebue and Bert Beltz
was a passenger from Kotzebue
to Nome.
AT THE HOTELS
WALLACE HOTEL
D. K. Joselyn, Anchorage. Harry
Palmer, Candle.
POLARIS HOTEL
Miss Sanford, Savoonga. R. L.
Rogers, R. A. Rivers, Wm. H. Jor
genson, Anchorage. Sgt. L. Kruch
meyer, A. N. Guard. Sgt. Duck
worth, Chicago, 111. E. D. Hopkins,
Fairbanks.
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The love-bird is a small short
tailed parrot.
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept. oJ
; Commerce, Weather Bureau.
i
Wednesday, October 26, 1949
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
today and Thursday. Moderate
i northerly winds. Lowest tempera
| ture tonight 22. Highest tempera
; ture Thursday 34.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation, none. (Total this
month 1.32 inches).
Temperatures: highest 40, low
est 27.
Maximum wind 15 miles an
hour from the west.
Sunrise at 7:31 a.m., sunset at
4:02 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago t.»
day: highest 27, lowest 16.
Extreme temperatures on Inis
day since 1907: Highest 46 in 1911,
lowest 9 in 1927.
Data fo rother selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 32 Cloudy
Point Hope 32 Snow
Kotzebue 29 Cloudy
Shishmaref 34 Partly Cloudy
Wales 34 Cloudy
Gambell 33 Fog
Nome 34 Cloudy
Unalakleet 27 Clear
Bethel 26 Clear
McGrath 20 Clear
Anchorage 37 Rain
Fairbanks 21 Clear
Whitehorse 36 Cloudy
Edmonton 44 Partly Cloudy
Juneau 46 Rain
Ketchikan 48 Rain
Seattle 49 Rain
San Francisco 54 Cloudy
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Hospital News
Mr. adn Mrs. James Oksokturuk
are the parents of a daughter, E1
len Alice born Oct. 25.
Marcella Johnson and Judith
Jensen are now patients in the
hospital.
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Information and Reservations
NORTHWEST AIRLINES
Westward Hotel, Anchorage
NORTHWEST
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I Bush Pilot Warns •
i Prospectors Of
Rigors Of Winter
FISHWHEEL OP)—A bush pilot
gyve a grim warning today of the
' severe hardships and possible
tragedy ahead unless gold-happy
prospectors swarming into this
central Alaska region take proper
precautions to withstand the rig
orous Arctic weather.
Jim Magoffin, owner and opera
tor of Interior Airways, urged to
day that all pilots bringing pros
pectors into the strike area screen
them for sufficient heavy clothing,
bedding and food before taking
them away from the populated
centers into the open.
“The temperature here can drop
to 20 below overnight,” Magoffin
asserted. “If it does there is ter
rible suffering in store for many
of these fellows.”
“There’s not enough planes to
get them out before they freeze.
Should the weather close down at
the same time ther would be no
chance of even helping them.”
ALASKA MERIT SYSTEM
Anounces open competitive ex
aminalions Clerks-typist and ste
nographers to be held on Dec. 3,
1949. Vacancies to be filled are in
A.nchorage, Fairbanks. Juneau,
Ketchikan, Nome and Wrangell
for positions with Department of
Health. Department of Public
Welfare and Employment Secur
ity Commission. Salaries range
from S240.00 to $350.00 per month.
Call at Nugget for further infor
mation.
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ATTENTION BOXERS!!
All Persons interested in Box
ing are urged to attend the Walrus
Club Meeting Thursday at 8:00
P.M. in City Hall.
Wes Welsh. Pres.
NOTICE
Chamber of Commerce Dinner
will be held Thursday evening,
Oct. 27th at Pioneer Hall. Several
important topics to be discussed.
Reservations with Nome Motors
and Vi's.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Child’s Crib complete
with mattress. Call Army 240.
128-ltp
FOR SALE—4-Wheel Drive l1 •_>
Ton Dump Truck. Various extra
parts. Call Bill Major. 128-3tp
FOR SALE OR RENT—5-Room
House, 3 Bed Rooms and Bath,
furnished except living room set.
Inquire Nome Liquor Store. 122-tfc
FOR SALE—Hairseal Jacket, prac
tically new, size 36, $60.00. Call
at Nugget Office. 120-tf
FOR SALE—Cub Cruiser, J-5, 75
Hp. Engine recently majored.
Fabric in good condition. Alcan
Skis. Asking $1000 cash or $1200
terms. Make me an offer. Call Bob
Leise at Main 176 or 118. 123-6tp
CALIFORNIA
If interested in buying property
in Sunny California write Rose
mary Olson, Real Estate Broker,
P. O. Box 9809, Los Angeles 5,
Calif. 125,28,31,34
BIG MAIL—Let us fill your mail
box chock full magazines, sam
ples, offers, money making plans,
catalogs, tips, offers galore. One
time 25c. Three times only 50c.
GLACIER ENTERPRISES, Dept.
E, Whittier, Alaska. 124-26-28
A Hike On
The Mountains
I
(Olaf Halvorsen)
Last Saturday 1 hiked out from
town on the Road (ommission
railroad.
Just north of the old army hos
pital and secluded amongst the
willows, I saw a flock of ptarmi
gan. They were white in color, in
dicating an early fall of snow.
Further along the t^ack, I came
across an ingenious machine built
in the early days by some miner.
The large wooden wheels were all
hand made by nailing several lay
ers of shaped boards together.
At the foot of King Mountain
just north of Anvil Mountain, I
had a delicious lunch. Because it
was a cool, windy day I sought
protection on the leeward side of
the willows. I then ascended the
mountain being rewarded by the
grand scenery only possible on the
mountains.
After placing a stone on the
summit marker, I descended in the
direction of Mount Newton. At the
foot of Newton, camouflaged in
the low branches of a willow, were
four plump ptarmigan. They were
very tame and permitted me to
approach within a short distance.
A flock of ptarmigan flew by at
the summit of Newton.
I continued a summit hike of
all the mountain range from New
ton to the Nome River. It was
dusk by the time I reached the
Osborne road. I discovered an old
abandoned quartz mine on this
same hike. It was necessary to re
turn in the dark on the Osborne
Road. At the farther curve of the
road a ptarmigan’s warning note
led to discover another large flock.
JOHN McNEES RESIGNS FROM
WEATHER BUREAU
The pleasant voice of John Mc
Nees is no longer heard from the
U. S. Weather Bureau where John
has been in charge for some time.
He has resigned, we are informed
to devote full itme to his own busi
ness. the Nome Beverage Co.,
which supplies Nome with all
kinds of pop.
Old Sourdoughs
Doubt Value Of
Fishwheel Strike
SEATTLE, </P)—A bunch of the
boys were whooping it up—in an
octogenarian way—in the Savoy
Hotel lobby.
Subject? Alaska’s new F.-h
wheel gold strike.
Conclusion? Doubtful, but wait
and see.
The old-timers, all veterans of
the Klondike gold rush of 1897-98.
weren’t holding a formal conven
tion. They just gather from time
ti time in the Savoy lobby, a tra
ditional sourdough hangout, to re
hash the old days.
Spry little John Palm, who car
ried the mail for 35 years from
Fairbanks to Circle, some 20 miles
from the Fishwheel discovery on
the broad Yukon River flats, said
he’d believe it when he saw the
gold. John is 83 years old, and an
alumnus of the Klondike.
L. V. Stanelv, 73. another for
mer Fairbanks man. said:
“This place they call Fishwhee!
is smack out in the Yukon flats. 50
miles wide and split with chan
nels. It must be 150 to 200 feet to
bedrock there, and you won’t find
the mother lode under those con
ditions. I’d like to believe it. but
I think this is what happened:
River ice knocked otf soiru
gravel way up in the hills and de
posited the nuggets down there at
Fishwheel. Not much of it there
and no point in wasting your time
looking for it.”
R. E. “Dupont” Murphy, a com
parative youngster in his 70’s—he
ony retired in 1943—tried to chide
the old timers into rallying their
old battle cry of “Gold”! But Tony
Stanich, 87, wouldn’t hear of it.
“You don’t find gold worth
stampeding for on the Yukon
flats,” Standich said. “I hope it’s
true, but \ don’t think it can be.”
Standich founded the famed
Pack Train Restaurant in Skag
way in 1897 and later made a for
tune in the stampede in Atlin, B.
C. “Make your money in business
—not out of the creeks,” he coun
seled.
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