SPECIAL
HOLIDAY FARES
December 5 to January 5
$66.70
ROUND TRIP
NOME or KOTZEBUE
TO FAIRBANKS
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
GE Vacuum Sweeper - GE Washing Machine
GE Automatic Roaster - GE 'Mazda Lamps
GE Hot Plate - Thor Gladiron
Northern Light & Power Co.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Clear tonight and Saturday.
Light variable winds. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight -10,
high tomorrow 4.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a. m. today: High temperature
23, low 1. Max. wind 6 mph from
the east. Sunrise at 9:45 a.m.,
j sunset at 2:32 p.m.
j Temperatures a year ago today:
1 high -8, low -23. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 34 in 1937,
low -32 in 1943.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -10 Clear
Kotzebue -8 Clear
Wales 10 Clear
Gambell 16 Part cloudy
Nome 1 Clear
Unalakleet 0 Clear
Bethel 2 Clear
McGrath -20 Clear
Anchorage 1 Clear
Fairbanks -£9 Clear
Whitehorse -47 Clear
Edmonton -8 ‘ Snow
Juneau -2 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 10 Snow
Seattle 48 Rain
San Francisco 62 Rain
FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE
ADOPTS AWARD PROGRAM
A cash award of as much as
$1,000 may now be won by em
ployees who come up with a good
idea for increasing efficiency or j
saving money in the operation of
the Federal Civil Defense Admin
istration (FCDA).
But the idea must be beyond
the normal requirements of the
suggester’s duties, the FCDA said
recently in announcing its new
employee awards program.
Employees whose suggestions
save money in their own opera
tions may receive an award of up
to 25 percent of the estimated sav
ings in the first year the sugges
tion operates.
Third Execution In Case
Of Bizarre Canadian
Airline Time Bombing
MONTREAL, Que., MP)—Buxom
Mrs. Arthur Pitre was hanged at
Montreal’s Bordeaux jail early
Friday for her part in a bizarre
murder plot that cost the lives
of 23 persons aboard a time
bombed airliner.
The 43-year-old widow was the
third person to go to the gallows
for the mui'der of Mrs. Rita Morel
Guay, wife of a Quebec jeweler.
Mrs. Guay’s husband, J. Albert
Guay, and Mrs. Pitre’s brother,
Genereux Ruest, a crippled
watchmaker, preceded her to exe
cution.
Mrs. Guay was a passenger
aboard a Canadian Pacific airliner
that crashed Sept. 9, 1949, after
a time bomb exploded aboard.
The blast was the product of a
tempestuous love affair between
Guay and a 19-year-old French
Canadian waitress.
Mrs. Pitre—the go-between in
Guay’s affair with the waitress,
Marie-Ange Robitaille, was spe
cifically charged with placing the
bomb aboard the airliner. She
contended in court that she
thought the package contained a
statue.
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: M. Augongak,
W. McCafferty, Joe Ramas, M.
Seppelu, C. Waghiyn, John Belne
and Joseph Lipan.
To Unalakleet: Pete Egrass.
To Gambell: Sgt. Keller, Ed
Dworecki, Charles Fuller, Chas.
Hait.
From Gambell: H. Kinahak, M.
Lister, L. Nup, C. Iknakinak.
From Anchorage: Fred Basch,,
Mr. Knight, Don McDonald, Ted
Duffield.
From McGrath: Scott Batterff,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Eisgrou and
infant and Vicki and Eric Eisgrou.
SC.ORCHY SMITH
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Alaska Airlines Special
Christmas Flight Brings
Shaktoolik Kids’ Thanks
On Christmas Day, Alaska Air
lines made a special flight to
Shaktoolik so that the people in
that village could have their v
Christmas mail and freight.
An expression of appreciation
was received yesterday by Man
ager Ted Duffield, who received
27 letters from the 27 children in
the ANS school and 27 free-hand
drawings made by the children of
the Christmas Day plane landing
at Shaktoolik.
An example of the gratitude of
the community was expressed by
a third grade boy, Dan Takak, as
follows:
“Dear Mr. Duffield, Thanks for
coming in Christmas Day. When
you come we all happy. We are
making pictures of the mail plane.
The children run when you come.
“Thanks for Bob Jacobs for
coming here. We hope you come
again. There are 27 boys and
girls and here is our Merry Christ
mas and a Happy New Year.”
The letters and pictures were
forwarded by John Pilafian, ANS
schoolteacher at Shaktoolik.
One small boy expressed him
self, saying, “Everybody gets
presents, even COD.”
The . art work and letters are
being forwarded to Alaska Air
lines headquarters.
December Weather Summary
Temperatures during December
averaged well above normal and
precipitation was very light. The
snow cover at the end of the
month averaged only 6 inches, as
compared to 15 inches at this
time last year.
Slush ice appeared in Norton
Sound, adjacent to Nome, on Dec.
2 and became heavy, fast ice by
Dec. 14.
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, W.M.
Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month.
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meeto
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry
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