| Summary: | Refrigerator Salesman Starts Campaign In Alaska; 41 Below. Refrigerator Salesman Starts Campaign in Alaska; 41 Below FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 22. (AP)—Maybe the saying about a salesman being so good he could sell refrigerators in Alaska isn't so funny after all. In a Christmas edition of the Fairbanks Newsminer, northern-most daily newspaper in the world, a merchant advertised electric refrigerators and ice cream specials, while the thermometer outside his store read 41 degrees below zero. Dark All Day. Fairbanks residents, cheered by 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 city 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 un's rays failed to penetrate a| 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 at dawn and at dusk each day to collect data to enable the weather bureau to make long-range forecasts of cold weather in the United States by charting arctic air currents. Longer days will enable him to have more time between flights. He now takes off with the first hint of daylight, returns to have his plane serviced, soars into the air again and lands after darkness, which is difficult in cloudy weather.
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