10 YEARS AGO
Well-known local watercolor artist Jim West will be leading classes in introductory and advanced watercolor painting at Rainy River Community College starting Jan. 1.
Governor-elect Jesse Ventura was turned down by 25 banks before Franklin National Bank loaned him $310,000 for the last-minute television commercials that propelled him into office.
25 YEARS AGO
Terry Shold had two goals and one assist as the Broncos evened their record with a 5-2 victory over the Golden Bears Tuesday night in Iron Range Conference hockey. Darrin Christianson stopped 26 shots for the Broncos.
Bruce Jean speared an 11-pound, 2-ounce northern in Black Bay last Saturday.
40 YEARS AGO
A daughter was born Jan. 1 at Falls Memorial Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Holler.
The assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, which caused great shock and later stirred deep emotions of shame, anger and sorrow, have been voted the biggest news stories of 1968 by AP member newspapers and radio and TV stations.
Ken Unger, former Daily Journal staffer now public information director for the Minnesota Division of the American Cancer Society, was in town last week and had with him the new IQ (I Quit Smoking) lapel pins.
Cpl. Larry Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lane Carter of Littlefork, received his discharge from the U.S. Marine Corps on Dec. 20 at Treasurer Island, Calif., after serving a three-year enlistment and arrived home in time to spend the holiday season with his parents and friends.
50 YEARS AGO
The first baby to arrive at Falls Memorial Hospital in 1959 was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wickstrom of Loman Route. The boy, weighing 7 pounds, 7 ounces, arrived at 2:10 a.m. and has been named Jimmy Allen.
Pvt. Raymond L. Prebil is spending Christmas leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Prebil, 918 Eighth St., and with friends in Virginia. He enlisted Oct. 2 in Virginia and completed 11 weeks of basic training at Fort Carson, Colo. He is now in training at Fort Knox, Kent., to be a clerk-typist.
Deliberately skidding a car on the ice of Rainy Lake seems like a lot of fun, but it’s serious business to a group of researchers and engineers who are doing just that on a special “rink” just off Morrie Cline’s Island View Resort. Researchers from Esso (Standard Oil) of Linden, N.Y., came to town a few days ago to conduct a series of month-long tests of a new tire soon to be introduced on the market.
Mrs. Francis Ottness, Mrs. Ben Farmer, and Mrs. Harold Indahl, Littlefork, went to Ranier Tuesday to attend a birthday party for the former’s granddaughter, Susan Trompeter. Susan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Trompeter and she was celebrating her fifth birthday.
60 YEARS AGO
Miss Florence Zeipen, an employee of City Drug store, celebrated her birthday yesterday. She was born in Duluth on Jan. 1 and has resided here for 20 years.
Mrs. Allen R. Ophus, owner of Aunt Tillie’s Cabins on Highway 53, missed being a New Years’s baby by 90 minutes. She was born at 10:30 p.m. New Year’s Eve, 1915, in Flint, Mich. Mrs. Ophus has lived here three years.
Willard Baker, student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Hodgdon, 220 Fourth St. Baker was a shortstop with the 1948 Falls Mandos, champions of the Arrowhead Baseball Association.