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Mrs. Kathryn Erickson ,shown with her ;son Bernard was refused
citizenship at Enumclaw, Wash, when she refused to take an oath
to bear arms for the United States. “I couldn’t shoot anyone”
she said.
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Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Fair and not quite so cold toni ght, Friday Fair with rising temp
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp 12 Lowest temp —22 Precipitation—0.00
Total precip this mo — 0.20 Total pricip since Jan. 1 — 0.65
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight . -21 44 S-2 Clear
Sam . -14 58 NE 2 Clear
12:30 p m . -10 47 E-5 Clear
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp 24 Lowest temp 10 Precipitation 0.04
Tomorrow: Sunrise: 7:54 AM Sunset: 4:37 PM
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind Weather
Candle ...». -20 Calm Clear
Council . -8 W-19 Clear
fikdovin . -23 SE-2 Clear
Kotzebue . -50 WNW 3 Clear
Solomon ... -8 NE-22 Clear
Teller . . -19 E-10 Clear
Wales ... -14 NE 25 Clear
Weather Elsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time ’
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage . 25 NE-6 Cloudy 0.00
Ft. Barrow . 4 NE-20 Pt Cldy 0.00
Bethel .... 35 Calm Rain 0.22
Dutch Harbor . 21 N 3 Cloudy 0.03
Fairbanks . -5 N 3 Cloudy 0.02
Cordova ... 40 SE 20 Clear 0.00
Juneau. -30 SW 10 Clear 0.00
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL ^
About the only change in the
general pressure distribution for
the past 48 hours is a slow gen
eral rise throughout the field of
observation—Cloudy weather pre
vails over eastern Alaska and
south coastal regions. Some scat
tered light precipitation has fell
in those regions during the last
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12 hours. Temperatures are show
ing some signs of moderation,
The expected movement of
present meteorological conditions
are favorable for fair weather
tonight and Saturady with in
creasing high clouds late Satur
day. Slowly rising temperature,
Suggestions and Criticisms Invited
Ski Activities
(Contributed)
Most thrilling rumor of the
week is that Mayor Kubon may
represent Nome in the skiing
contests at the Fairganks Ice Car
nival.
According to an official state
ment from one of the local air
plane companies, a plane cannot
be chartered for use over an es
tablished air route. This means
that it will probably not be pos
sible for Nome to send a ski
team, as such, to the Ice Carniv
al.
From coment heard in the var
ious eating places in town, it
seems that both mirth and ire
were aroused by Monday’s caus
tic ski comment. The idea that
Council can clean up on Nome
at skiing, for instance—The fact
remains that there are six good
skiers in the tiny village of
Council, two of them girls, two
of them in grade school.
Nome skiing interest is increas
ing. There are many more pairs
of skis in town than last year.
The stores are sold out of their
better grades of equipment.
Cable bindings, ski boots, and
steel-edged skis are increasingly
in evidence. It used to be that
mukluks were the only skiing
footwear. All this is prompting
many lively arguments among
old-time skiers, some who scorn
controlled downhill skiing as
“kid stuff’ while others are do
ing their best to learn it.
A common statement around
Nome is that there is no good
skiing as a rule, compared to oth
er parts of Alaska. It might be
answered, yes, and no. True en
ough, the thinly covered tundra
around town is not very sporty
skiing, but it is pretty safe to
predit that within a year or so,
a trip by dogteam to places such
| as Pilgrim Springs for spring
skiing in the Kigluaik (Saw
tooth) Mountains will be con
sidered by many as one of the
high spots of the year.
At present, the best place in
town for practicing on skis is
the steep short slope between
the graveyard and the Center
Creek dredge. There is plenty of
snow on this slope, and it is not
wind-swept.
Last Sunday, skiers at Dry
Creek were noticeable by their
absence. This Sunday it is plan
ned to take a truck, as it is pos
sible to drive within half a mile
of the ski cabin. Those who are
interested might give a thought
to the following—that it is not
always 25 below at Dry Creek,
when it is at Nome. That there is
more snow at Dry Creek, as well
as a good ski cabin. And that it
is just as easy to recover from
Saturday night at Dry Creek as
it is in bed.
Coming to Nome recently, part
ly through curiosity and partly
beause of a small dog-team that
needed the exercise, Ted Coom
ara, a wellknown ski instructor,
formerly from “outside” has
been seen coaching individual
skiers during the week on small
slopes near town. If enought peo
ple are interested he could be
engaged to coach Nome skiers at
Dry Creek on Sundays. Last win
ter Ted divided his coaching be
tween the Juneau and the An
chorage skircluibs. He will be in
town for about six weeks. Way
back East, in Vermont, they say
that the time to catch bears is
when they are around.
In Europe, especially in the A1
pine region, many of the best
airplane pilots are also ace high
speed down-fountain ski racers.
They find that they are called
upon to react even faster and
with more precision during a
highspeed descent than in flight.
Downmountain ski races of sev
eral miles in length on ten and
twelve thousand feet glaciered
peaks are often won at average
speeds of 50 miles an hour, with
occasional stretches taken at 80
mph. The picking of a route and
the judging where to turn or
Haycock Put On
Benefit Show
Raised Money
U S. Marshal B B Mozee. chain
man of the board of trustees for
the Crippled Children's Benefit
Fund is in receipt of a letter
from Frank Naas of Haycock,
telling of the entertainment giv
en there to raise funds for this
cause.
The people of Haycock gather
ed at the home of Wallace Por
ter where an enjoyable evening
was spent in various forms of
entertainment. Mrs Naas report-1
ed more than $60 was raised and j
mailed to the fund headquarters I
at Nome.
Big Gain in Mt.
McKinley Park
Tourists’ Trade
Mt. McKinley National Park,
Feb. 16 Toiurist travel to Mount i
McKinley National Park for 19- j
30 was 52 percent higher than 1
for 1938 the heaviest travel year1
up to that time. This is the great
est travel increase of any park
in the national park system. The
boom in Mount McKinley visit
ors occurred despite decreased
travel to Alaska.
The new Mount McKinley Park
i Hotel as a consequene was ap
i propriately initiated for on sev
| oral occasions the accomodations
i were filled to overflowing This
i half million dollar hostelry built
i by the Alaska Railroad and by
j special appropriation to the Na
tions Park Service provides lux
urious respite for travel weary
| guests.
Italian Plans To
Climb Tallest of
Mts. in America
To climb Mount McKinley is
the purpose of a trip that Piero
Ghiglione of Italy will make to
Alaska late in March or early
in April according to word re
ceived recently in Fairbanks by
Frank T. Been superintendent of
Mount McKinley National Park.
Mr Ghiglione is declared to be
a famous mocntain climber.
Plans for his approaching at
tempt to ascend Mt. McKinley
are being made in the’ United
States by Cliff Higby of Evans
ton, 111. Mr. Higby wrote to Mr
Been saying some person was
wanted in Alaska to organize and
equip the expedition and that
maybe a climbing companion re
siding in the Territory would be
desired.
Climbed Mt McKinley
Mr Been submitted the sugges
tions to Mr Karstens thinking he
might be interested because in
1913 he made the Mount McKin
ley ascent with the late Hudson
Stuck archdeacon for the Epis
copal Church in Alaska
Mr. Karstens has answered that
if he were a few years younger
he might be interested in the
project.
Park Superintendent Been fir
st communicated with Mr Kar
stens on the subject by sending
him a telegram from the Park on '
Feb. 7th.
The Nome Nugget has just com 1
pleted the printing of new Legal
forms on card board, they are for
use when owners of mining pro
perty lease bo other parties, and
are termed Non-lLability Notices;
for wages and other debts con
tracted by leasees. They are for,
sale at 500 each or 3 for $1.00
check at such high speeds calls
for lightning fast reaction and
the keenest health. Our Alaskan
pilots should make excellent
skiers.
For this coming Sunday, at
Dry Creek, it is not hard to
guess who will be engaged in
fast, and we hope controlled, de
scent,
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The Arctic Club Announces
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NOME QUEEN
CONTEST
Tickets are on sale by the contestants and their friends.
Each ticket carries 100 votes for the Queen election and
the possibility of free air transportation to the Fairbanks
Carnival and return, with the Queen.
SEE ....
The Queen's Wardrobe display in the Bon Marche window.
Th Arctic Club will give the winning Queen, for her
wardrobe, $187.50.
Tickets $1.00 Tickets $1.00 Tickets $1.00
Envoy Of F. 1). R.
To Pope Ready
To Leave
WASHINGTON Feb. 16 </P) -
President Roosevelt’s personal
envoy to the Vatican will leave
for Italy on February 17th to
establish close contact with Pope
Plus on future peace matters.
The former steel magnate My
ron Taylor will establish resi
dence at Florence. He will be
ready to journey to the Holy See
| immediately on summons from
I the Pope or to carry any mess
j ages from Mr. Roosevelt
Alaska's two popular Pacific
Alaska Airways pilots Capt S.
E, Robbins and Capt W J "Jer
ry” Jones crashed the picture
columns of P.AA's semi-month
ly magazine in the most recent
issue.
"Robby” and "Jerry” are un
dergoing rigorous "indoctrina
tion courses as the magazine put
it in operations of large flying
boats out of Miami.
It was understood when Rob
bins and Jones went to Miami,
they were to train for future j
service on the Seattle to Juneau j
route.
TABLES TURNED
•—Cecil Beaton, English pho
tographer for whom other faces
are his fortune, is himself pic
tured as an “ugly sister eating
sausage" in a British-designed
pantomime. Beaton specializes in
pictures of beautiful women.
GRANDPA CANTOR IS PROUD
Eddie Cantor, goggle-eyed comedian, beams with pleasure as he
and his new granddaughter, Judith McHugh get acquainted in a
Los Angeles hospital. It’s Cantor’s second grandchild, apparently
born with good resistence to her grandpa’s gags.
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