Margaret Stembrecht. formerly
■f teacher in Nome School and
bow teaching in Fairbanks, re
turned yesterday to spend Christ
inas with friends here.
Helen Glavinovich. daughter of
|lr. and Mrs, jyalter Glavinovich,
arrived yesterday from Spokane,
where she is attending college, to
spend the holiday With her family.
North Star Bakery Will
Close Christmas Morning
, The North Star Bakery an
nounced today they will be open
from 6 a.m. until 10 a.m. tomor
row, Christmas morning.
, They will observe the Christ
inas holiday with a party for
their employes, employees of the
Western Electric Co., Martinsen
Construction Co. (Federal Bldg.),
and A & G Mechanics, to be held
after the restaurant has closed.
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Top Scorers In Nome
Basketball League
Tony Willoya, Hornets . 94
Harold Bell, Merchants . 85
Chuck Fagerstrom, Nanooks 81
Bob Herman, Hornets . 79
George Bell, Merchants . 76
Isaac Larsen, Merchants . 75
Jim Drake, ACS .. 59
Ralph Zweigle, ACS . 57
Norris Swanson, Panthers .... 46
Vernon Carlson, ANG-NS .... 45
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Crowley are
living in Santa Barbara and keep
abreast of Alaskan news through
many gatherings held in southern
California among former Nome
ites.
Adele Vollmers and her sister,
Mrs. Alberta Peterson, formerly
of Teller, have been traveling
around the world and are now en
joying the winter in Berkeley,
California.
Freighter
Every Tuesday
Mrs. Neeta Sale Tells
Of Meeting Many
Former Nomeites
Greetings come from Neeta Sale,
who lived in Nome until 1912 and
was popular for her music on the
violin. She lives now in North
Hollywood, Calif.
She tells of her contacts with
former Nomeites, including Jim
Gaffney, Claude Shea, Temple
McIntyre, Leonard Seppala, Es
ther Fleming, Hanks Davison,
Elsie Ayer, Grant Jackson, Edna
Cameron, Harry Ellingston, C. H.
Pearson, Tom Watson, Shel Wet
tach, George Scribner, and Milton
Roper.
Her husband, Billy Sale, died
in 1953.
Mrs. Sale is very active in the
Alaska-Yukon Club of Southern
California.
Among the old times well re
membered is when she “mushed”
from Valdez to Fairbanks—480
miles. This was before she came
to Nome.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by The
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Mostly fair and continued cold.
Lowest temperature expected
tonight 20 to 25 below zero and
the high tomorrow 15 to 20 below.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest tempera
ture -19, lowest -28. Max. wind
4 mph from the W.S.W. Sunrise
at 10:03 a.m., sunset at 1:59 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 6, lowest -13. Extremes
on this date since 1907: highest
37 in 1935, lowest -28 in 1954.
Ofher Stations, 7 a.m. Todav
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -31 Clear
Kotzebue -39 Part cloudy
Tin City -12 Part cloudy
Nome -23 Part cloudy
Unalakleet -33 Clear
Bethel -35 Clear
McGrath -48 Clear
Anchorage -5 Part cloudy
Fairbanks -37 Part cloudy
Juneau 28 Snow shwers
Ketchikan 34 Cloudy
Teller Students Going
Home For Christmas
Two Teller students are ex
pected today from school enroute
to spend Christmas at home. Paul
Hegland, son of Rev. and * Mrs.
Norval Hegland of the Lutheran
Church is coming from Seward,
and Aileen Tweet, daughter of
Mrs. Mary Tweet, is coming from j
Spokane, where she is attending j
college.
In The Hospital
Patients in the MMM Hospital
during Christmas are: Dan Nas
suk, Cecil Moore, Paul Tuilanna,
and Angela Peyanna. George
Tucker was discharged today.
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SPECIAL—Lucky Lager, $6.73 a
case. Wallace Liquor Store. 55
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TONIGHT and THURSDAY
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Two Shows Nightly. Starting at 7:15 and 9:15 pju.
Our Goal for 1958:
Greater Talking Pictures
and
Greater Non-Talking Audiences
We Wish You a Very
CJtTisfmas
THE NOMERAMA
INTERESTING PEOPLE IN NOME
Dr. William A. Woodcock of MMM Hospital
(Reprinted from the Sentinel
Record, Hot Springs, Ark.)
A yearning to serve humanity
in some world outpost where the
need is especially great has
prompted Dr. William A. Wood
cock, a Hot Springs physician and
surgeon, to accept an offer by the
Methodist Church to take over
the Maynard-MacDougall Memor
ial Hospital in Nome, Alaska.
He left behind an excellent
practice here in the town where
he was bom and reared.
Mrs. Woodcock and their three
daughters—Betty Rose, 12, Joy
Larue, 11, and Susannah, 6—plan
to join him in Nome next summer.
“I expect to be away from one
to three years,” he said, just be
fore he left here Sept. 13, 1957
“It presents a very excellent
and very unusual opportunity for
service and there is a desperate
shortage of physicians in the area.
I have always had in mind doing
this type of work. It is a great
challenge.”
Dr. Woodcock, who is 36, is un
decided whether his future career
will lie in the field of the medical
missionary.
The Nome hospital is a 25-bed
institution and is the only one
doctor hospital to be accredited
by the American Hospital Asso
ciation, he said.
“It is very well equipped,” he
continued. “Nome has a popula
tion of around 2,300 but the hos
pital serves not only Nome but
the entire Seward Peninsula,
which has a total population of
between 5,000 and 7,000.
Dr. Woodcock is under contract
to the Board of Missions of the
church, which contract, he said,
may be terminated on two-months
notice.
The hospital is owned and op
erated by the Woman’s Division
of the Methodist Church.
He has use of the hospital’s fa
cilities and is furnished living
i quarters, office space, and a car.
In return, he gives his service,
! free of charge, to all those patient?
i who are unable to pay. His own
salary comes from the patients
who can pay for treatment and
from private practice throughout
the peninsula, he said.
Dr. Woodcock, who has ’been
practicing in Hot Springs for two
years; is considered by his fellow
physicians as “brilliantly trained
and highly skilled.”
Dr. Woodcock received his aca
demic training at Duke University
and his M.D. degree from the Uni
versity of Tennessee. He interned
at Providence Hospital, Seattle.
For two years during World
War II he served as captain in the
Medical Corps in Franee and Ger?
many. He is a member of the U.S.
Board of Surgeons.
The Woodcocks own a cabin on
a lake near here where they en
joy boating, swimming, surfboard
riding and skiing. In these sports
his three little girls have become
quite skilled.
While interning in Seattle, Dr.
Woodcock took time out for hunt
ing and expects to continue that
sport in Alaska when time per
mits, he said.
Bob DeArmond Writes
Colufbn “Alaskana” In
The Alaska Sportsman
JUNEAU—Robert DeArmond,
former administrative assistant to
Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman, and
a well-known newspaperman and
Juneauite, now has a monthly col
umn in the Alaska Sportsman, ac
cording to Emery F. Tobin, editor.
Called “Alaskana,” the column
will feature interesting facts and
incidents in the history of Alaska.
The new department starts in
the January issue.