WEATHER FORECAST
Becoming cloudy tonight and
Saturday with occasional light
snow and warmer. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight 0, high
Saturday 10.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
30, *low -9. Max. wind 17 mph.
from the north. Sunrise 10:04 a.m.,
sunset 1:57 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 1, low -9. Extremes this date
since 1907: high 34 in 1944, low
-20 in 1923.
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -17 Blowing snow
Kotzebue -8 ' Clear
Wales -8 Clear
Nome -9 Clear
Unalakleet -6 Clear
Bethel. 5 Part cloudy
McGrath -11 Clear
Anchorage 10 Clear
Fairbanks -13 Part cloudy
Edmonton -11 Light snow
Juneau 15 Cloudy
Ketchikan 18 Cloudy
Seattle 35 Rain
Charles Gilbert who was born
and raised in Nome who has been
away 14 years, visited yesterday
from Galena, where he is stationed
with C.A.A.
Charlie says his mother, Mrs.
Sims, lives in Anchorage, and that
his older sister, Mrs. Ida Boyer,
lives with her husband and fam
ily in Seattle.
A younger sister, Alice, also
lives in Seattle, where she cares
■for an invalid brother, Edmond,
or “Admiral” as he was called
by his playmates here. Admiral
has been an invalid for 11 years.
Thomas Green, correction offi
cer at the Federal Jail, and Edna
Hopper, who arrived here about
11:30 Wednesday evening, were
married at midnight Wednesday
by the U.S. Commissioner.
Mrs. Robert Steele and daughter
Sandra arrived to make their
home at Nome Field, where Lt.
Steele has his quarters with the
Alaska National Guard.
Copies of the Christmas Nugget i
available for mailing.
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ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Maj. C. Kan
cura, Roger Woods.
From McGrath: Arvil Larson.
From Kotzebue: Fritz Awe, J.
H. Noonan, Carroll Hughes, Edwin
Lamphere.
To Anchorage: R. W. Ruther
ford, Capt. Carrington, Capt. Lar
son, Maj. Adams, Sgt. Gault, Sgt.
Carmen, Larry Galvin, Mr. and
Mrs. Byron Davis, Nancy and
Grace Davis, Mrs. Loretta Wald
heim. W. Sherwood, Lt. Tucker,
Maj. Clarence Kancura, Edwin M.
Lamphere, James Noonan, Bill
O’Shea, Roy Showers, Carl P.
Johnson.
To Unalakleet: Lillian Ivanoff,
Ralph, Mary, Albert, Allen, Os
wald and Ernie Paneok.
To Kotzebue: Emory Chappel,
Janet Kagoona, G. W. Strickland,
U. A. Hunka, H. P. Bodine, Kelley
Weiss.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Fairbanks: Leo Koonuk,
Robert Bahnke, Mary Jo Swan
berg, Carl Martin, Leonard Hop
kins, K. Killin, Russell Bigwell,
James Lane, Dr. M. Kennedy, Gor
don Swanberg, Mildred Hermann,
Rus Hermann, M. Jeanne Boucher,
Wilson Hummingbird, Ron Har
per, Edna Hopper, Kathleen Jack
son, Ruth Reed, M. E. Reed, Evon
Steele, Sandra Steele, Floyd Akin.
To Fairbanks: William Cody,
Mrs. James Cassidy, Pauline and
Jeanette Morse, Frank DeSimone,
Mary Honsberger, Earl Belotte,
Calvin Jackman, Don Hobbs, P.
Cockrell, G. R. Jones, H. Rundal.
From Kotzebue: H. P. Bodin,
C. Strickland, Cecelia Payenna
and infant, Kelly Weise, Philip
and Madeline Gray.
From Galena: Major Kell, Mr.
Demsky, Charles Gilbert.
To Kotzebue: Alice Barr, Ruth
Sandvik, Beulah Gregg, Clifford
Jackson, Jacob Carter, and Bert
Thomas.
Christinas Stockings at Cavoia's
NOTICE
The Bering Sea Club Coffee
Shop will be closed all day Christ
mas Day, and the Polaris Restau
rant will close on New Year's Day.
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ALASKA AIRLINES BRINGS
OVER TEN TONS THURSDAY
On Thursday, Dec. 22, Alaska
Airlines planes brought in, from
Anchorage, 3,529 pounds of mail
and 17,277 pounds of freight
Planes used were a DC-4 on reg
ular schedule, and a C-46 freight
plane.
On the return flights, a total
of 10,126 pounds was taken to
Unalakleet.
MOTHER OF JACK REED
HERE TO MAKE HER HOME
Mrs. Ruth Reed arrived yester
day with an extra special Christ
mas gift for her husband, Jack*
Reed, deputy marshal here. She
brought Jack’s mother, Mrs. M. E.
Reed, from Chicago to make her
home here.
This was Mrs. Reed’s first plane
trip and she is looking forward to
meeting Alaskans.
You Think You Got Troubles?
MADELIA, Minn., U!)—Are you
tired of Christmas shopping about
now?
Then consider the problems of
Mrs. Martha Colebank. The spry,
88-year-old woman’s gift list gets
longer and longer.
She now has 171 direct descend
ants, a gain of 21 during the past
year. There are 11 children, 43
I grandchildren, 100 great grand
children and 17 great-great grand
children.
Mrs. Effie Baldwin had the mis
fortune yesterday of falling and
breaking her hip on the icy side
walk downtown.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gabbard
write from Selah, where they have
I their home. Mrs. Gabbard will be
remembered for her efficiency in
the Post Office.
NOTICE
The Post Office will close at
noon tomorrow and all persons
having Christmas packages are
urged to pick them up before that
time. In the event that a special
load of mail arrives tonight or
tomorrow morning all mail will be
distributed tomorrow.
Do not call the Post Office if
you expect packages—they will
call you if they arrive.
Hollywood Troupe To Give
New Year's Eve Show at Wales
* A Hollywood troupe on tour of
Alaska military installations will
give a New Year’s Eve show prac
tically within earshot of Russian
held territory.
The holiday show will be per
formed before a small group of
American servicemen in a remote
defense outpost at Wales, on the
western tip of the Seward Penin
sula less than 30 miles across the
Bering Strait from Soviet-occu
pied Big Diomede Island.
Sen. Charles Jones is a happy
grandpa again with the announce
ment that his son, Dan Jones, and
wife have a new son born on the
shortest day of the year weighing
7 pounds and 5 ounces. The Jones
live at Sparks, Nev., and now have
three children.
Mrs. Pauline Morse and two
children left yesterday for their
home in Houston, Texas. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Ailak.
Judy Beaion Treats Her
Third Grade Classmates
Little Judy Beaton wanted to
treat her friends in the third
grade so she and her mother
dressed an Eskimo doll and Mrs.
Beaton contributed a pair of ear
ings so that the doll could be
given away in a special benefit.
Proceeds from the sale resulted
in a gift for every child in the
room. Winner of the doll was
no. 232068, and of the earrings
no. 232082.
MONDAY IS LEGAL HOLIDAY
Monday is a legal holiday and
all business houses will be closed.
The next edition of the Nugget
will be on Wednesday, Dec. 28.
Extra copies of today’s holiday
edition will be available for mail
ing.
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To our faithful friends of long standing and
to our cherished new friends and to
those whose friendship we hope to earn,
we extend greetings of the season
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May the old time
spirit of Christmas
fill your heart today.
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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
TO HOSPITAL SHUT-INS
A special Christmas greeting to
those in the MMM Hospital:
Effie Baldwin, Bertha Sockpick,
Bessie Attatayak, Joseph Murray
Jr.. Henry Jack, Peter Charles,
Elsie McCafferty, Edward Oum
auk, Rita Gregory, Laurie Daniels,
Rose Olson, and Maggie Kowchee.
And special greetings to Mrs.
Charlotte Swanberg, who is con
fined to bed at home this year.
Japanese Youngsters
Present U.S. General
With Christmas Turkey
SENDAI, Japan Iff)—Two Japan
ese youngsters, hats in hand,
asked if they could see the boss.
Maj. Gen. E. J. McGaw, com
mander of the 1st Cavalry Divi
sion, invited them into his office.
Thereupon, the beaming boys
presented him with a 25-pound,
home-grown Christmas turkey.
“We wanted to give it to a great
man to improve Japanese-Ameri
can relations,” one said. “We
picked you.”
They didn’t have to walk home
after touring the post. They rode
in the general’s sedan.
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