{Deadlines for
jChristmas Mail
lAnnounced Here
i '
t Christmas mail deadlines to in
isure delivery of letters and par
jcels from Nome before Christmas
J were announced last week by
• Postmaster Marge Bohrer.
She said all the following dates
apply to mail sent from here.
Surface mail to the United States
‘ should be postmarked by Nov. 20.
For air mail, the deadline for
the States is Dec. 15, and for for
eign countries, Dec. 1.
, Unsealed Christmas cards re
‘ quire a two-cent stamp and are
not forwarded or returned, de
clared Mrs. Bohrer. The sealed
card costs three cents and is both
forwardable and returnable.
The postmaster stressed the im
portance of packing fragile items
well.
Parcel post packages may be
sealed if they bear a printed label
. authorizing postal inspection if
necessary. All packages should be
.well tied.
If you want to
; buy. sell or rent
houses, household furniture or
! appliances, see
T
j George Hite—Main 123
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Basketball Season To Start
Friday with Doubleheader
Both the women’s and men’s
Alumni basketball teams are prac
ticing and preparing to try to
show the Nome High School girls’
and boys’ teams just how the;
game of basketball should be i
played. Not to be outdone, both!
the High School teams are work
ing hard to develop their shooting
ability and will be out to upset
the more experienced players.
So all basketball enthusiasts
keep this Friday night open for
the big show. The first game of
the evening will be between the
two girls’ team and will start at
7:30 p.m. At 8:45 the Varsity and
Alumni men will begin their con
test.
CUB SCOUTS CHOOSE DEN
MOTHERS AND CUBMASTER
IN ORGANZATIONAL MEET
The Cub Scouts chose two Den
Mothers and the Cubmaster at
their meeting last Friday evening
in the Methodist Church social
rooms. The Den Mothers chosen
were Mrs. Bill Doyle and Mrs.
Phillip Dexter. Bill Doyle will
serve as Cubmaster.
Den meetings will be launched
just as soon as the mothers can
manage it—probably this week.
Letter-Size File Folders For
Sale At The Nome Nugget Office
I
Get Set for Cold Weather!
Infants and Toddlers Snow Suits .... $8.90 to $15.50
GIRLS’ WINTER COATS . $14.50 to $28.95
WOMEN’S WINTER COATS . $38 to $42.50
PARKAS FOR THE FAMILY.Sizes 4 to 48
—also—
LINED JEANS, MITTENS, GLOVES, CAPS,
SWEATERS, SLACKS, JACKETS,
SHOE PACS, OVERSHOES
Buy Your Groceries by the Case
I and Save 5% to 10%
i COLD WEATHER IS HERE
HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR FLUES?
GALVANIZED STOVEPIPE—.95 to $1.25 ELBOWS—95
BLACK SrOVE PIPE—.70 to .95 STOVE DAMPERS
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
LET'S KEEP WARM by the ELECTRIC BLANKET WAY.
NEW GRISWOLD SKILLETS—ALL SIZES
INTAGLIO TABLEWARE. GET YOUR PIECES NOW.
NC COMPANY
Alaska's Pioneer Merchants \
60 YEARS SERVING ALASKA
Freighter Sailings
From Seattle Every Tuesday
For Valdes and Seward
AND FRIDAYS FOR SEWARD
E. Smythe Gambrell,
President of American Bar
Assn., Is Visitor to Nome
Mr. E. Smythe Gambrell of At
lanta, Ga., and president of the
American Bar Assn., visited in
Nome over the weekend.
Mr. Gambrell, who is the first
president of the American Bar
Assn., to visit the territory, was
the main speaker at the All
Alaska Chamber of Commerce
which met Friday and Saturday
in Fairbanks. He also spoke at
meetings in Juneau and Anchor
age.
He is well known throughout
the United States and is general
counsel for Eastern Airlines.
He returned to Fairbanks by
way of Kotzebue.
WEATHER FORECAST
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Burea
Partly cloudy with little change
in temperature tonight and tomor
row. Winds light and variable.
Lowest temperature expected
tonight 0, highest Tuesday 15.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
11, low 0. Max. wind 10 m^h. from
the north. Sunrise 8:08 a.m., sun
set 3:23 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 31, low 14. Extremes for this
date since 1907: high 40 in 1926,
low -6 in 1947.
Station Temp. Weather
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Kotzebue -8 Cloudy
Wales 14 Cloudy
Nome 6 Cloudy
Unalakleet -22 Clear
Bethel -6 Clear
McGrath -2 Clear
Anchorage 20 Snow
Fairbanks -17 Cloudy
Whitehorse 29 Part cloudy
Edmonton 32 Part cloudy
Juneau 47 Rain
Ketchikan 49 Rain
ALASKA AIRLINES
From McGrath: John Rose, Jess
M. Clark, Raymond Malone, Floyd
Harmon.
To McGrath: Leon E. Hammar
ley, L. W. Schneider, I. Gillam,
H. Holmgren.
From Unalakleet: James John
son, Lois Morey, Sig Krogstad.
To Anchorage: Jack France,
Earl Jackson, Don Adams, Flor
ence, Herman, Robert, and Carol
Ann Oumauk, Mrs. and Mrs. Wil
liam Allockeok, Sfc. Charles E.
Gault, Mrs. Daisy Gault and in
fant, Sig Krogstad, George Kraft,
O. Grubbs, Mr. and Mrs. Don
Coate, J. Johnson, C. Aho, E.
Broderson, N. Lomprey, and J.
Rhymes.
WANT ADS
FOUND—Red setter puppy. In
quire at The Theater.
DOG TEAM for hire, any capa
- city, 1 lb. to 1 ton. Call Dick
Orr. 132 j
1 SHOWING AT THE U
THEATERS
Two Shows Nightly—7:15 & 9:15 T
Doors Open 6:45 p.m. 4
TONIGHT
FREE ICE CREAM
FOR THE KIDS
Free Cones Will Be Given To All
Children Who Attend, After
The First Show
John Ford and Morion C. Coopor present
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Alaskan Writers in
Two Popular Magazines
The November issues of two
well known magazines carry stor
ies by Alaskans.
The November Reader’s Digest
has an'unusually interesting arti
cle entitled “The Most Unforget
able~Person I Have Known. It
is by Frank DuFresne and is about
an Eskimo trapper at the mouth
of the Yukon River.
The other is the November is- j
sud of Blue Book and is a story i
written by a C-.A.A. operator,
Ralph Slone, about an experience
he had at Takotna, where he is
raising his 12 children.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Stephen Health, Gil
bert Polowook.
Discharged: Mrs. W. Dowd and
infant, Tom Tungwenuk, Vicki
Castell, Mrs. Clyde and infant,
Mrs. Swanberg, Don Attatayuk.
GIRL SCOUT NEWS
Mrs. Liebig opened the meeting
by having the troop form the
horse shoe, and salute the flag.
Dean Alexander was elected
president; Ann Chambers, ^vice
president; Catherine Siegwart,
scribe, and Alice Tocktoo, treas
urer.
Mrs. Liebig assigned the Girl
Scouts their lessons. We are now
working on our Second Class
Badge.
Three new girls joined the
troop. We have room for more
fifth, sixth and seventh grade
girls in our troop. We meet at
4 o’clock each Friday in the
Kozga Building.
Our troop had a skating parly
Saturday afternoon, Nov. 5. Mrs.
Alexander took us out to the lake.
Hot chocolate and other refresh
ments were served.
—Catherine Siegwart, Scribe
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0:30 A.M. lo 10:30 P.M.
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25-49 gals.—25c per gal.
49-399 gals.—24c per gal.
Over 400 — 23c per gaL
DIESEL OIL SALES
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