| Summary: | Alaskans Read Ice Cream Ads ALASKANS READ ICE CREAM ADS-- Refrigerators Are Offered While Mercury Hits Forty Below.--- FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 22. (AP)— Maybe the saying about a salesman being so good he could sell refrigerators in Alaska isn't s funny after all. In a Christmas edition of the Fairbanks Newsminer, northernmost daily newspaper world, a merchant advertised elec trie refrigerators and ice crear specials, while the thermometer outside his store read 41 degree below zero. --Dark All Day.-- Fairbanks residents, cheered 1 an announcement that turkeys flown from Cordova would reach here by Christmas, also were heartened because the sun began its northward journey yesterday, meaning longer days for this little idty only 125 miles below the arctic circle. The city failed to receive its quota of three hours and 40 minutes of daylight yesterday, the shortest day of the year, when the sun's rays failed to penetrate s layer of fog caused by excessive cold weather, leaving the city in virtual darkness throughout the day. ---Pilot Pleased.-- One of the happiest persons in Fairbanks today was Pilot Bert Lien, who goes up 18,000 feet i dawn and at dusk each day to co. lect data to enable the weathei bureau to make long-range forecasts of cold weather in the United States by charting arctic a rents. I Longer days will enable him t_ have more time between flights. He now takes off with the first Bint of daylight, returns to have lis plane serviced, soars into the air again and lands after darkness, which is difficult in cloudy Weather.
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