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GE Vacuum Sweeper - GE Washing Machine
C«E Automatic Roaster - GE Mazda Lamps
GE Hot Plate - Thor Gladiron
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PRINTING - ALL KINDS - The Nuggel
Two of The Largest Dutch
Merchant Ships Collide
AMSTERDAM, UP) — Two big
Dutch passenger ships with a to
tal of 1,750 persons aboard col
lided Tuesday in the Red Sea near
Port Sudan. The ships’ owners
here said no casualties occurred
but the ships were seriously dam
aged.
They were the 22,600-ton Wil
lem Rtiys of the Royal Rotterdam
Lloyd Co. and the 20,000 - ton
Oranje of the Steamship Com
pany Nederland. The Willem
Ruys is the second biggest Dutch
vessel afloat and the Oranje next
in size. '
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Decreasing cloudiness tonight.
Generally clear Thursday with
generally easterly winds. Lowest
temperature expected tonight 12,
high Thursday 18.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
38, low 33. Max. wind 8 mph
from the ENE. Sunrise at 9:54
a.m., aunset 2:21 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago’ today:
high 0, low -17. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 39 in 1953,
low -40 in ’917.
Other stations, 1 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 3 Blowing snow
Kotzebue 25 Blowing snow
Wales 40 Cloudy
Gambell 31 Snow
Nome 36 Cloudy
Bethel 40 Part cloudy
McGrath 32 Cloudy
Anchorage 27 Part cloudy
Fairbanks 5 Part cloudy
Whitehorse 6 Snow
Edmonton 4 Snow
Juneau 22 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 39 Cloudy
Seattle 39 Cloudy
San Francisco 47 Cloudy
Predicts “Hell Will Pop”
If Britain Asks U. S.
Support For Currency
WASHINGTON, Itf—Sen. Dirk
sen (R-Ill) predicted ■ yesterday
that “hell will pop” in Congress
if any proposal for U.S. support
of British currency comes out of
the Eisenhower - Churchill con
ference.
Dirksen told a reporter he does
not believe President-elect Eisen
hower made any commitments in
his conversations with Britain’s
Prime Minister, Winston Church
ill at a meeting Monday.
“Nevertheless,” the Illinois sen
ator said, “I shall be interested to
see whether Mr. Churchill sub
sequently makes any proposal for
a gift of American gold to sup
port the convertibility of Britain’s
currency.
“If anything of that nature
comes up, hell will pop in Con
gress, I’m sure.”
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Don Ferguson of Kotzebue
Takes Instrument Course?
At Seattle Aviation School
SEATTLE — Don Ferguson of
Kotzebue, 18-year-old nephew of
Archie Ferguson, famed Alaska
bush pilot and now a Kotzebue
petroleum dealer, has enrolled in
the Merrell Aviation Ground
School at King County Airport,
Seattle, it has been learned.
Don is to begin a course in in
strument reading at the school,
preparatory to a flight eastward
to the Piper factory in Pennsyl
vania where he expects to pick
up a 135-horsepower Tri-Pacer
and fly it to his northern home.
Although only 18, he has logged
more than 500 hours flight time.
He has been commuting between
Fairbanks and his home in Kot
zebue in Archie’s Beech Bonanza.
Other Alaskans enrolled at the
Merrell School are Nick Monsen
of Naknek, preparing for a com
mercial pilot’s certificate, and
Alec Pederson of Chignik, also
preparing for a commercial pilot’s
certificate.
Value of U.S. Commercial
Fish Catch In 1952 Is
Estimated at $335 Million
WASHINGTON, UP) —America’s
commercial fishermen hauled in
4,300,000,000 pounds of fish and
shellfish last year, the Fish and
Wildlife Service estimated Tues
day.
The value of \the catch off the
coasts of the United States and
Alaska was put at $335 million.
Director Albert M. Day said in
a preliminary report to Secretary
of the Interior Chapman that the
total was about 100 million
pounds less than the 1951 catch,
and its value was down about 10
million dollars.
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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 3rd Monday 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
, Meeio
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
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