GIRL SCOUT NEWS
The Senior Intermediate Girl
Scout troop had their first meet
ing Wednesday with eight present.
Elected were Virginia Doyle,
president; Elin Waltersen, vice
president; Suzanne Fagerstrom,
secretary-treasurer; Janet Muller
and Gloria Jean Mogg, scribes;
and Helen Reader, patrol leader.
Mrs. Waltersen is the Girl Scout
leader.
Other girls' in the troop are
Betty Cavota, Frances Longley,
and Gladys Walker. Alice Glav
inovich and Dianne Lee may join
later.
We are all going to start on our
First Class Badge.
—Gloria Jean Mogg, Scribe
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Norwegian Writer To
Do Book On Alaska
An interesting writer and jour
nalist is Elisabeth Meyer, of Oslo,
Norway, who is seeing how for
mer Norwegians get along in
Amerjca.
Mrs. Moyer had not planned to
include Alaska in her trip, but at
the urging o'f a friend in Seattle
went to Ketchikan for a week and
stayed six weeks. She is so en
thusiastic over Alaska that she is
seeing all of it from Ketchikan
to Barrow and down the coast.
She plans to return again next
year.
Mrs. Meyer writes for Norwe
gian magazines and newspapers.
She has also written a nature book
for children and a travel book on
Persia and India. She states her
next book will be on Alaska.
GERMANY LAUNCHES
BIGGEST SHIP SINCE WAR
BREMEN, Germany, UPl—The
17,100-ton tanker Esso Duessel
dorf, the largest ship launched in
Germany since World War II,
slid down the ways Thursday at
the A. G. Weser shipyard.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Cont. cloudy
with occasional snow flurries to
night and partly cloudy Saturday.
Northerly winds 15-25 mph. Low
temperature expected tonight 28,
high Saturday 35.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
35, low 24. Max. wind 26 mph
from the NE. Sunrise 6:35 a.m.,
sunset 5:05 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 53, low 36. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 53 in 1953,
lo'w 11 in 1918.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 22 Cloudy
Kotzebue 22 Cloudy
Wales 30 Cloudy
Nome 34 Cloudy
Unalakleet 31 Snow
Bethel 32 Drizzle
McGrath 35 Cloudy
Anchorage 40 Cloudy
Fairbanks 34 Cloudy
Whitehorse 39 Part cloudy
Juneau 44 Rain
Ketchikan 50 Rain
Seattle 60 Cloudy
San Francisco 64 Part cloudy
The weight of the Earth is about
5,000 million million million tons.
Bureau of Mines’ Oregon
Headquarters to Expand
To Include Alaska
ALBANY, Ore., UP)—The Bu
reau of Mines regional headquar
ters and laboratories here, will
not be moved, Interior Secretary
Douglas McKay announced Wed
nesday night.
Instead, he said, the office’s
jurisdiction will be expanded to
include Alaska, along with Ore
gon, Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana.
He said the action was being
taken for economy reasons and
to strengthen the ties of Alaska
and the Pacific Northwest.
There had been reports that the
regional office would be moved
from here and the laboratories
closed.
McKay said Stephen M. Shelton
will continue as regional director
of the expanded setup.
MOSCOW, UP)—The army news
paper Red Star announced today
the “premature death” of Mikhail
F. Ryablov, identified as “chief
therapeutist” for the Soviet army
in World War II. His age and
cause of death was not given.
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Four Churches
Conclude Conference
At Unalakleet
An intermission conference has
just been concluded at Unalakleet
with representatives participating
from four churches—the Mission
Covenant Church, Moravians,
Friends, and Lutherans.
They have formed the Evangel
ical Protestant Mission of Western
Alaska, serving from Clarks Point
to the Arctic, and estimated to
have about 7,000 members in this
area.
Nine leaders were present at
the meeting and all of these men
were flown to the conference by
mission planes. Visiting in town
after attending the conference
are D. C. Schattschneiber of
Bethel and J. P. Dittmer of Clarks
Point, both of the Moravian
Church.
MANILA, (tf)—A typhoon which
ripped across the northern Philip
pines today left an estimated
10,000 to 15,000 persons homeless
and flooded vast tracts of rice
land, authorities reported.
SHANNON, Ireland, UP) — Ice
and 70-mile headwinds forced a
Canadian air force transport
bringing home Foreign Secretary
Lester Pearson to return here Fri
day after flying halfway across
the Atlantic.
Kenneth Ubbelhode, executive
director of the Boy Scouts in this
area, was married in Fairbanks
to Dorothy Jones Porterfield at
the First Presbyterian Church.
The couple will live in the
Northward Bldg.
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Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Comerce
MEETS EVERY TUESDAY NOON
BOYD HARWOOD, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
486 First Ave. West, Nome, Alaska
10 to 12 a.m. 1 to 5 p.m.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
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No. 140
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Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets let and 3rd Thursday each month.