THE NOME NUGGET
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WEATHER REPORT
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau j
Decreasing cloudiness tonight,
becoming partly cloudy Tuesday.
Colder tonight and Tuesday, tem
peratures fallig toight, reaching
0 to 5 degrees by tomorrow
morning.
Precipitation .23 inch, month’s
total .73 inches. Temperatures:
highest 31, lowest 18. Maximum
wind 29 miles an hour from the
west. Sunrise at 7 a. m., sunset
at 5:29 p. m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high -9, low -32. Extremes this
date since 1907: highest 33 in 1918,
lowest -33 in 1922.
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -9 partly cloudy
Kotzebue 25 cloudy
Wales 7 snow
Gambell -6 partly cloudy
Nome 17 blowing snow
Unalakleet 33 cloudy
Bethel 13 cloudy
McGrath 23 cloudy
Anchorage 30 cloudy
Fairbanks 21 partly cloudy
Edmonton 4 partly cloudy
Juneau 20 clear
Seattle 45 partly cloudy
San Francisco 54 drizzle
Ice Bashes in Car Roof;
Presumed from Aircraft
VALLEY STREAM, N. Y., Ut)—
A big chunk of ice caved in the
roof of Roy Kellett’s car early
yesterday. Police think it may
have dropped from an airplane.
Kellett told police he heard a
resounding crash as he walked to
his car. He found the roof bowl
shaped and the sides of the car
pulled in.
On the roof was a chunk of
Ice. They speculated that an air
plane, flying at high altitude,
had become iced. When the plane
descended to a lower altitude, they
said, warmer temperatures prob
ably loosened the ice.
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GATES NOMINATED
AS SECY. OF NAVY
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Under
secretary of the Navy Thomas
Gates, Jr., a Republican banker
from Philadelphia, has been nom
inated for Secretary of the Navy
to succeed Charles S. Thomas.
The nom.nation was announced
by the White House Friday. Re
leased at the same time was an ex
change of letters in which Presi
dent Eisenhower expressed “very
real regret” in accepting Thomas’
resignation, effective April 1.
Thomas, a 59-year-old Califor
nian, has been Navy Secretary
since May 3, 1954.
|RCAF Bomber Explodes
I In Air, Killing Eight
Canadian Military Men
OTTAWA, (ff) — Eight Canadian
military men — including Air Vice
Marshal Robert C. Ripley — were
killed Friday night when an
RCAF bomber apparently ex
ploded in the air and crashed 12
miles from Ottawa.
The twin-engine B25, on the
last leg of a flight from Churchill
in northern Manitoba, plunged to
the ground at the edge of a small
wooded area and burst into
flames. There were no survivors.
Ripley, 43, of Lethbridge, Alta.,
was chief of the RCAF’s Air
Materiel Command.
HOW MANY EARS HAS
A DEAD PORCUPINE?
MONTPELIER, Vt., (ff) — For
Vermont porcupine hunters seek
ing a bounty for their catch, the
ears heretofore have been proof
of the kill — each pair of ears
being worth 50 cents.
That would be changed under
a bill introduced in the Legisla
ture Friday. It would require the
whole head as evidence.
It seems, the Fish and Game
Department discovered, that some
hunters had become so adept
they could fashion 16 pairs of
ears from one pelt — representing
$8 instead of a mere half dollar.
First Free Film to i
Be ‘Hansel-Gretel’ |
The management of the Theater ,
has announced the selection of an
outstanding film, “Hansel and I
Gretel,” as the first Saturday
morning matinee sponsored by
the Miners and Merchants Bank.
This free show is being offered
j in the interest- of encouraging
young people of the community
to take advantage of saving their
earnings by savings accounts.
Tickets are being given to the
first two hundred and twenty
people who have business at the
bank during the week who may
give their tickets to any children
they desire.
The management of the Theater
states that the show will start ;
promply at 10 a. m. Saturday,
March 9.
j Gen. Mac Arthur In ‘Top
Shape’ After Virus Attack
NEW YORK, Iff) — Gen. Douglas
MacArthur is reported in “per
fect condition,” following a
month-long bout with a virus
condition.
Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney,
MacArthur’s top aide, said yes
terday the retired five-star gen
eral had recovered from, the virus
condition that had bothered him
j since his 75th birthday Jan. 26.
Six Globemasters
Airlift Trailers to
DEW Line Sites
DAYTON, Ohio, UPl — Six giant
; C-124 Globemasters left Wright
I Patterson AFB last week with
I seven 36-foot cold weather trail
I ers for use as quarters and office
| space on the far north DEW line.
The trailers’ first stop was
. scheduled for Thule AFB, Green
| land. From there they will be
transported to the Air Force’s Dis
tant Early Warning lime, a vast
! network of radar sites stretching
j across frozen regions of North
j America.
I One of the huge transports was
able to load two of the trailers
in its spacious cargo compartment.
Equipped with skids, the trail
ers will be pulled to their perma
nent sites by tractors which left
on a simultaneous airlift from
Domaldson AFB, N. C., last Mon
day. Each of the living units will
accommodate six men with sleep
ing quarters in three compart
ments.
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! RUB-A-DUB-DUB —
| TOO MANY IN THE TUB!
SAN FRANCICO, UP) — Rub-a
du'b-dub, 11 men in a tub.
The Coast Guard says, “Listen,
bub, “eleven’s the rub.”
And so, Clell Horton in that
city was charged with overloading
a . small skiff with 11 workmen
and transporting them across San
Francisco Bay to a dredging pro
ject in a “reckless and negligent
manner.”
He’s out on $100 bail.
Record Receipts From
Leasing of Mineral Land
WASHINGTON, UP) — The In
terior Department said Friday
that 22 states and Alaska received
a record $12,291,430 last week as
their share of six months’ receipts
from mineral leasing of federal
lands within their boundaries.
Alaska received $62,760.
The payments covered the six
months ended Dec. 31.
Wyoming got the biggest share
of last week’s distribution, $4,509,
578.
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50!) Guardsmen
Start Encampment
At Ft. Richardson
More than 500 members of the
2d Scout Battalion, Alaska Na
tional Guard, arrived at Camp De- 1
nali, Fort Richardson, for their!
annual two-week encampment be
ginning today.
The two-week training period
will be intensive as Army tactics
are learned or reviewed. These
natives who know their particu
lar section of Alaska so well, need i
no “scout” training. Their very
livelihood in most cases depends
on scouting and keen eyesighr.
Alertness, camouflage, moving
quickly and accurate shooting are
necessary since their food and 1
clothing must be stalked and
killed. However they must adapt
this knowledge of scouting to the
requirement and techniques of
an Army force. The training will
include radio operation, map read
ing, firing and care of the M-l i
rifle, guard duty, squad and pla- !
toon tactics and intelligence. !
While the Scouts are unique
under the Army and National
Guard programs, they do partici
pate in 48 armory drills and two
weeks of field training each year
the same as other guardsmen. i \
Red Northern
Lights Display Seen
In Barrow Skies
BARROW, OP) — A new and
awesome display in the northern
skies of colored lights which old
time Eskimos say they never be
fore have seen, have been occur
ring for the past several days.
Believed by some to be related
to the aurora borealis (northern
lights), familiar to this land which
mow seldom sees the sun, the
lights are red, covering an area
on the horizon of more than ;•)()
degrees and rising to 50 to 60
degrees in height.
William Wartes, Associated
Press representative at Ba-row,
said they differ from normal
northern lights in presenting a
solid, mon-wavering sheet, giving
the impression the whole land
scape is afire.
Northern lights usually flicker
and fade, stabbing great fingers
of light across the sky.
Friday night’s display was the
most brilliant yet reported and
some villagers said it was almost
frightening to behold. It lasted,
with varying intensity, for sev
eral hours.
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