PNA Plans to Use
Two 720 Jets In
Alaska Service
SEATTLE (if* — Pacific North
ern Airlines announced Thursday
it is buying two 720 jet transports
to put into Alaska service next
year.
A. G. Woodley, PNA president,
said the two 600-mile-an-hour
jets will mean an investment of
$12 million, including spare parts.
He said delivery and start of
service between Seattle and Alas
ka is scheduled for the spring of
1962.
PNA did not announce a defi
nite schedule, but officials said
tentative plans are to begin jet
service first to Anchorage and ex
tend it to other major cities —
Ketchikan, Juneau and Kodiak —
when traffic justifies.
PNA said the medium range
720s will have a seating capacity
of 120 passengers and will in
clude tourist and first class ac
commodations. They will be
powered by four Pratt & Whitney
turbojet engines.
Woodley said the 720s were
selected after more than a year
of study of jet aircraft. He said
the plane is considered ideal for
PNA’s Alaska service.
LAST GAME OF WHIST
SERIES TOMORROW NIGHT
Tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock
the last game of the winter
series of Whist games sponsored
by the Pioneers of Alaska will
be played.
As the scores are very close
and anything can happen to up
set the present totals it prom
ises to be a very exciting e. e
ning.
The party is open to the pub
lic and a good turn-out is ex
pected.
Claim Your Easter Eggs !
Those persons who entered
Easter eggs in the Nomerama
contest are requested to claim
them Saturday sometime during
the day while the special coffee
break program is on, for the Pat
terson-Johansson fight.
Admitted to the hospital: Mrs.
L. Adams and Lydia Bell.
Discharged: Sidney Jones and
Lawrence Sbwenna.
CALL MAIN 65 for
Arctic Sanitary
Service
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Arrivals and Departures
Arrivals in town from Fair
banks are Frederick Wilder, Lor
raine Singer, Thurman Benson,
Janie Smvthe and Ed Murphy.
From Kotzebue are Robert Mines,
Don Hoover, Grace Teayoumeak
and Fanny Walluk.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Muir of Wien
Airlines left for Fairbanks where
they will be with the company,
also leaving were Mr. and Mrs.
Holger Jorgensen and family,
John Apangalook and Robert
Ross.
Departing for Kotzebue were
Catherine Green, Lena Norton,
Esther, Jim and Richard Elam,
Richard Griffith and Alvin Rowe.
WILL BUILD PLANE THAT
WOULD CUT TOURIST FARES
SANTA MONICA, Calif. OP) —
Douglas Aircraft Co. said yester
day it would build a new DC8F
jet plane that could cut tourist
class fares 20 per cent and lower
cargo rates by 50 per cent.
Donald D. Douglas Jr., Presi
dent of the company expressed
belief the plane would increase
intercontinental traffic manyfold.
The new plane, identical in size
with 110-passenger DC8, will
carry 54 passengers behind the
wings and 52,000 pounds of cargo
forward.
Letler-size and Legal File Folders
Available at The Nome Nugget
GOV. EGAN SIGNS GAS TAX
AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
JUNEAU Iff) — Gov. Egan today
signed two new tax measures into
law and approved a measure pro
viding for the sale of $1.5 million
in general obligation bonds.
The new tax laws will up the
levy on highway gasoline from 7
to 3 cents a gallon and increase
the cigarette tax from 5to 8 cents
a pack.
The general obligation bond
money will be used to construct
a vocational education school
north of the Yukon River.
President Receives His
American League Baseball Pass
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy today received his Amer
ican League baseball pass and
demonstrated his peg to second
base.
‘‘A pretty good overhand mo
tion,” commented Joe Cronin,
league president, after meeting
Kennedy at the White House.
Kennedy plans to attend the
opening day game here when the
Senators play the Chicago White
Sox on Monday. In tradition, he
will throw out the first ball.
Daughter For Leland Adamses
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Adams are
the parents of a daughter born
yesterday at the hospital. This is
their second child.
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GIRL SCOUTS WISH TO
PURCHASE USED UNIFORMS
Neighborhood Girl Scout Com
mittee wants to buy used Girl
Scout uniforms and will pay $1.
Contact Agnes Walsh Main 186.
Uniforms obtained will be
loaned to scouts on deposit of $1
returnable to the organization
when outgrown. This way there
will always be uniforms avail
able in vai'ious sizes.
THE WEATHER
Cloudy with occasional snow
today and tonight. Increasing
easterly winds 15 to 25 mph. Low
tonight 0, high tomorrow 20. In
the last 24 hours as of 7:00 a. m.
today: High of 18, low of -7. Max
imum wind 17 mph from the
west. Sunrise at 4:57 a. m., sunset
at 7:12 p. m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
High of 13, low of -4. Extremes on
this date since 1907: High of 44
in 1940, low of -25 in 1946.
In Nenana today it was cloudy
and the temperature was 25.
Jury Acquits James Elook
James Elook was acquitted by
the jury yesterday of a charge
of grand larceny in connection
with the burglary at Cavota’s
Store last fall.
DANCE
Saturday Night
Bering Sea Club
EVELYN
at the
Grand Piano
"Slickest Floor In Town"
Nome Directory
Nome
Shrine Club
Werner Bohrer, Pres.
H. M. Crlnklaw, Sec.
| Meets First Thursday of Each Month
Masonic Hall
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Don Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
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Order of Eastern Star
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Barbara Martin
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
A. E. BOHRER, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
cESfcjj&t, Robert Grant
Dusty Rhode
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of Every
Month at School
Mina Bachelder, President
Jane Foster, Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Wnv H. Cameron, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.
Civil Air Patrol
Northwestern Group
Lt.-Col. Dusty Rhode, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 165
Meetings - Monthly, Last Tuesday 8 p.m.
Staff Conferences - Each Tuesday 8 p.m.
Group Hdqtrs., Nome Airport
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt. Jesse Jones, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 334
Meetings - Each THursday 7:30 p.m.