Air Force and Nome Nanooks Beat
Signaliers, Merchants in Close Games
Friday night, Dec. 30, offered
two of the most exciting basket
, ball games of the season at the
Nome School gym.
The first was a high-scoring nip
and tuck battle between the Air
Force and the ACS Signaliers. The
Air Force won 55-54.
The second game of the evening
was between the Nome Nanooks
and the Nome Merchants. The
Nanooks walked off the floor with
a 47-43 victory.
In the first game Jim Hinson
’and Chuck Parris led the Air
Force with 17 and 12. Bill Vitcen
da and White were next with 11
and 9. Capt. Bob Ellis left the
game in the third quarter but was
still high man for the Signaliers
with 14. Jim Mahlen was next
with 13. Vince Ahkolik hit for 10
and Don Grosgebauers for 9. Both
teams are improving as the season
moves along, and the second half,
which starts later this month, may
see a new top team.
Big George Bell was home for
the holidays from college and
donned his old Merchant uniform
for the second game. For a while
it appeared that the Nanooks were
in for a drubbing.
Clyde Nershak and Pete Larsen
worked the comers, and with Cas
tell play setting and the Bell
brothers’ height on the backboards
things looked dark for the high
school team. The Merchants held
the lead well into the fourth quar
ter but at that point the Nanooks
started to click. Corky Kost, the
high school speedball, racked up
19 counters and Willy Willoya and
big Chuck Fagerstrom added 8
each to clinch the victory.
■Clyde Nershak was the Mer
chants’ big gun with 20; Pete Lar
sen had 11 and George Bell 8.
This Friday night brings the
Nanooks and the Air Force togeth
er and the Signaliers take on the
league-leading Polar Hornets.
The barometer was invented in
1643 by Toricelli, a pupil of
Galileo.
Price of Gold Goes Up
On French Market
PARIS, (jP)—The price of gold on
the unofficial French market rose
quickly today as the result of the
election which increased extreme
right and left wing strength in the
National Assembly.
The rise in the gold price went
with the general uneasiness of the
franc in foreign exchange rates in
recent weeks.
Friday, the last day gold was
quoted before- the election, a kilo
gram of gold could be had for
445,000 francs. The price today
was 452,000 francs.
Boy, 10, Rescues Skaters
While Adults Stand By
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., W—When
four fellow skaters plunged thru
the ice on a farm pond Monday,
11-year-old Sonny Golden knew
what to do.
He obtained a rope and ladder
frbm some men nearby and while
adults watched from the sidelines,
ran back onto the ice and helped
the skaters out one by one.
Highway patrolmen said only
someone as light as 80-pound Son •
ny could have ventured onto the
thin ice.
Said Sonny: “It was my Boy
Scout training that did it.”
Dinah Shore Almost Lost
Her Dress in Parade
PASADENA, —Singer Dinah
Shore almost lost her SI,000 gold
plated dress during Monday’s
Tournament of Roses parade.
As she was taking her place on
a float, there was a heater to keep
her feet warm before the parade
began.
An astonished spectator noticed
peculiar things begin to happen to
the dress. Before the heater could
be grabbed away, Dinah had lost
nearly two inches of gold from
the bottom of the full-length gown.
Flood Death Toll Raised
To 59; Isolated Families
Get Airdropped Supplies
SAN FRANCISCO UPt—The find
ing of two more bodies Monday
raised California’s flood death to
tal of 59. And the Red Cross re
ported food and medicine are be
ing parachuted daily to six fam
ilies still isolated for 12 days after
all bridges in their area were
swept away.
The supplies are being dropped
to 27 persons in a mountain dis
trict between Weott and Miranda
in Humboldt County. The flooding
Eel River washed away their
bridges.
Weekend Hoiiday Deaths
Set New Record for
New Year Holiday
Weekend traffic deaths set a
new record for a three-day New
Year holiday period.
But the total was far short of
the recent Christmas holiday mark
and was lower than the total for a
non-holiday test period.
The final tabulation for the
New Year weekend showed 357
traffic deaths, 72 in fires and 74 in
the miscellaneous bracket for an
over-all total of 503.
The traffic toll for the period
that began 6 p.m. Dec. 30 and end
ed at midnight Monday broke the
three-day New Year period record
of 317. The overall total also sur
passed the three-day New Year
period record of 433.
But the traffic toll failed to ap
proach the record for a holiday
period—the 609 total compiled
during the recent Christmas holi
days—and was well under the
predicted 420.
WEATHER FORECAST
Complied by the
U S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Burea*-'
Increasing cloudiness tonight
with snow mixed with freezing
rain or drizzle Thursday. Gusty
east to southeasterly winds to
night and Thursday. Warmer. Low
temperature expected tonight -5,
high tomorrow 26.
Data last 24 hours as of 7 a.m.
today: highest temperature -20,
lowest -27. Max. wind 34 mph
from the north. Sunrise at 9:55
a.m., sunset at 2:18 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature -2, lowest -21. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 37 in
1942, lowest -34 in 1917.
Diner stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -38 Part cloudy
Kotzebue -25 Part cloudy
Nome -17 Part cloudy
Unalakleet -32 Clear
Bethel -23 Clear
McGrath -24 Clear
Anchorage -25 Clear
Fairbanks -42 Ice Fog
Whitehorse - 9 Snow
Juneau 28 Cloudy
Seattle 41 Rain
San Francisco 52 Cloudy
A MONSTER APPETITE
ST. LOUIS, 0P>—Have an appe
tite like a bull sea elephant?
If so, better watch that waist
line.
The bull sea elephant acquired
by the St. Louis Zoo last spring
weighed in at 2,500 pounds at the
time and since then has gained
more than 1,000 pounds.
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