C. V. HABERMAN TO BE
N. C. MANAGER AT BETHEL
C. V. Haberman, manager of the
Northern Commercial Co. store at
Nenana for the past year, will
take over the managership of the
company store at Bethel Sept. 1.
Jim Stevenson, formerly agent at
Tanana and Fort Yukon, will take
over the post at Nenana. He has
been in the Los Angeles area for
the past year.
Haberman, who has been with
the company for the past 10 years,
had previously been in Bethel as
assistant manager, in Nome as
bookkeeper and was agent at
Tanana.
Mr. and Mrs. Haberman and
their two children will leave this
month for their new post on the
Kuskokwim river.
SEATTLE, UP)—Northwest Air
lines has announced it will trans
fer its Anchorage operations at
midnight Aug. 31 to its new $375,
000 anstallation at the Anchorage
International Airport. Officials
dedication of the new airport is
set for Oct. 10. Northwest has
been using Elmendorf Air Force
base for its Anchorage stops.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy with fog late,to
night, fog dissipating before noon
Tuesday. Light southwest winds.
Low temperature expected to
night 46, high tomorrow 59.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
58, lo'w 42. Max. wind 15 mph
from the WNW. Sunrise 4:15 a.m.,
sunset 7:51 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 50, low 35. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 68 in 1911,
low 30 in 1929.
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 33 Cloudy
Kotzebue 50 Cloudy
Wales 50 _ Part cloudy
Nome 48 Fog
Unalakleet 55 Fog
Bethel 52 Drizzle
McGrath 54 Drizzle
Anchorage 56 Fog
Fairbanks 53 Rain
Whitehorse 50 Part cloudy
Edmonton 66 Part cloudy
Juneau 56 Part cloudy
| Ketchikan 55 Part cloudy
I Seattle 67 Cloudy
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JUNEAU
NEWS LETTER
From the Office of the Governor
TAX COLLECTIONS
Tax collections by the Territor
ial Department of Taxation for
the first seven months of 1953
amounted to $10,216,088.16, accor
ding to a report made to Gov.
B. Frank Heintzleman by Acting
Tax Commissioner R. D. Steven
son.
■ This compares with $9,616*145
collected during the same period
la§t year and $8,024,347 collected
during the first seven months of
1951.
Tax collections by divisions
during the seven-month period
were:
First Division: $2,866,298 in 1953;
$2,623,838 in ’52; $2,567,589 in ’51.
Second Division: $140,566 in 53;
$149,738 in ’52; $147,320 in ’51.
Third Division: $5,348,878 in ’53;
$4,964,288 in ’52; $3,956,950 in’51.
Fourth Division: $1,860,344 in ’53.
$1,878,280 in ’52; $1,352,486 in’51.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Sen. Paul Robinson of Anchor
age, chairman of the Legislative
Council created by the 21st Al
aska Legislature, has returned
from a trip to Chicago on business
for the council. He spent some
time with the Council of State
Governments, a national organi
zation with headquarters in Chic
ago, and interviewed five appli
cants for the position of director
of the Alaska Legislative Connell.
The five applicants selected for
interviews were from the many
j applications received by Rep.
Fred Eastaugh of Juneau, secre
tary of the council. A director will
be named within a short time.
Chairman Robinson stopped off
at Juneau on his way home to
confer with Gov. Heintzleman,
Rep. Eastaugh and other officials.
Other members of the Legisla
tive Council are Sens. Doris
Barnes of Wrangell and Charles
D. Jones of Nome and Rep. Rich
ard Greuel, Fairbanks and Charles
Fagerstrom of Nome.
Personal and Legal Size File
Folders on Sale at the Nugget.
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
James Walsh, Pres.
George Bayer, Secty.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY* NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
— 486 FIRST AVE. WEST —
Nome, Alaska
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
X^gP^f Boyd C. Harwood, W M.
'y' ' Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month