Bygones

 Local news from 20 and 40 years ago from the Duluth News-Tribune. This column appears daily Monday through Saturday in the Duluth News-Tribune. Researched and written by the Reference Staff at the Duluth Public Library                         

News Tribune
July 30, 1967  

Joseph Hawthorne of Provincetown, Mass., former conductor of the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, has been engaged as conductor of the Duluth Symphony Orchestra for the 1967-68 season.  Hawthorne succeeds Hermann Herz, conductor for the past 17 years.  

Fire and explosions ravaged the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal in the Tonkin Gulf yesterday, killing at least 46 crewmen and injuring 56 others.  Several men from Northeastern Minnesota serve aboard the Forrestal. 

News Tribune
July 30, 1987 

The AIDS scare has slowed the donation of blood, an official with Blood Donors Inc. said yesterday in Duluth.  Executive Director Red Tucker said the blood supply in Northeastern Minnesota is dwindling. 

The turnout for tours during the USS Oliver Hazzard Perry’s four-day visit to Duluth, which ended yesterday, is expected to total about 15,000.  The Perry leaves today for Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.   

Bygones

Local news from 20 and 40 years ago from the Duluth News-Tribune. This column appears daily Monday through Saturday in the Duluth News-Tribune. Researched and written by the Reference Staff at the Duluth Public Library.

News Tribune
July 9, 1967

Starting at 1 p.m. today, 53 boys will race in the Duluth Soap Box Derby championship on the Hartley Field Derby Track.  The track is one of just eleven in the country owned by a local derby.      

The 1967 Duluth Seaway Portorama celebration will be “the biggest in the eight-year history of the event,” David Allison, Portorama general chairman, said yesterday.  An estimated 30,000 area residents are expected to purchase Portorama buttons.

News Tribune
July 9, 1987

District Court Judges Charles Barnes and David Bouschor said yesterday that St. Louis County doesn’t need the new jail recommended last week by a citizens committee.  The judges said upgrading the old jail would be sufficient for the county’s needs.

Tickets for the Concorde supersonic jetliner’s flight from Duluth to London sold out this week.  The round-trip flight, selling for $2,499, is scheduled to leave Duluth on July 27.

Bygones

Local news from 20 and 40 years ago from the Duluth News-Tribune. This column appears daily Monday through Saturday in the Duluth News-Tribune. Researched and written by the Reference Staff at the Duluth Public Library.

News Tribune
April 27, 1967

Duluth Mayor Ben Boo yesterday ordered a halt to the practice of employees using city cars for private purposes. Boo said there is evidence that many vehicles are being used for noncity business.

The Duluth Builders Show, which opens tomorrow in the Arena, is the first of its kind here. Sponsored by theDuluth Home Builders Association, it will include more than 100 displays and exhibits and two daily stage shows.

News Tribune
April 27, 1987

Selection of a new UMD chancellor has been narrowed down to three finalists — Dr. Lawrence Ianni, Dr. William Vasse and Dr. Barbara Brownstein. The new chancellor will replace Robert Heller, who plans to retire June 30.

Chez’s, 127 W. Superior St., a women’s clothing store for more than 30 years, will close this week, according to owner Ron Beaupre. Chez’s was a victim of Duluth’s three-year Superior Street reconstruction and insufficient free parking, Beaupre said.

Bygones

Local news from 20 and 40 years ago from the Duluth News-Tribune. This column appears daily Monday through Saturday in the Duluth News-Tribune. Researched and written by the Reference Staff at the Duluth Public Library.

News Tribune
April 14, 1967

The West German freighter Neptun entered the Duluth-Superior Harbor at 6:01 p.m. yesterday to become the first arrival of the 1967 Twin Ports navigation season. The Neptun will leave Duluth for Chicago tomorrow to unload additional cargo.

A 25-foot-high wall of ice stretching for miles across the polar ice cap stopped the Plaisted Polar Expedition advance party yesterday morning. The wall is the greatest obstacle the expedition has yet faced, according to radio operator Jack Fisher.

News Tribune
April 14, 1987

St.Louis County and Duluth reached an agreement yesterday in the dispute over the cost of housing city prisoners in the county jail. The County Board approved a resolution that provides for a $30 fee for keeping a prisoner for eight hours.

Superior Mayor Bruce Hagen asked yesterday for a recount of the results from the April 7 election that he lost by 137 votes. Police officer Herb Bergson defeated Hagen, who was trying for a fourth term, by a 5,764 to 5, 627 margin.

Bygones

Local news from 20 and 40 years ago from the Duluth News-Tribune. This column appears daily Monday through Saturday in the Duluth News-Tribune. Researched and written by the Reference Staff at the Duluth Public Library.  

News Tribune
April 4, 1967

Members of the Plaisted Polar Exploration were awaiting a break in the weather last night before they travel the five miles from Nansen Sound to the open water of the polar ice cap.

One of the latest innovations in newspaper advertising will be featured in a full-colored Imperial Margarine ad in tomorrow’s News Tribune. The new process, called Spectacolor, allows a newspaper to have magazine-quality color.

News Tribune
April 4, 1987

Members of a visiting delegation from Petrozavodsk, U.S.S.R., and officials from Duluth yesterday discussed possibilities for exchanges between the two sister cities. Ideas discussed included college scholarships and information on winter navigation and water quality.

A traveling exhibit featuring one of the four original copies of the Magna Carta and the original Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence opened its doors yesterday morning at the Depot. The exhibit’s one-day stop in Duluth drew 3,500 people.

Bygones

Local news from 20 and 40 years ago from the Duluth News-Tribune. This column appears daily Monday through Saturday in the Duluth News-Tribune. Researched and written by the Reference Staff at the Duluth Public Library.  

March 30, 1967
News Tribune

A new traffic-control system for downtown Duluth that will be regulated by a computer in City Hall is now being installed. The computer will control traffic lights to adjust to the amount and speed of traffic.

Dairy farmers in the Twin Ports area earn considerably less than the amount claimed in a recent news story, a National Farmers Organization representative said yesterday. Local farmers’ share of the price of a half gallon of milk is 18 cents, she said.

March 30, 1987
News Tribune

An early morning fire yesterday gutted the Cook County Curling Club in Grand Marais. There were no injuries, but the building was a total loss, according to Grand Marais Fire Chief Dwane Smith, who estimated the damage at $75,000.

A new technology for making rubber roofs from recycled tires could boost sales for the Tirecycle plant in Babbitt. The plant grinds old tires into dust that is then used to manufacture marketable products.

Bygones

Local news from 20 and 40 years ago from the Duluth News-Tribune. This column appears daily Monday through Saturday in the Duluth News-Tribune. Researched and written by the Reference Staff at the Duluth Public Library.  

Mar. 23, 1967
News Tribune

Plans are underway to remodel and expand the Sveden House Restaurant in the Plaza Shopping Center. The Duluth Sveden House was the first of the Sveden House Restaurants, which are now being franchised throughout the United States.

The Duluth City Council will receive a proposal at its agenda meeting today that would provide $32,000 to keep branch libraries open for the remainder of the year. The money comes from a tax settlement with Interlake Iron Co.

Mar. 23, 1987
News Tribune

Helicopter rides around the Aerial Bridge and along the shore to Glensheen are likely to be approved by the Duluth City Council tonight. Horizon Helicopters Inc. would operate the service on a trial basis this summer.

Members of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe are expected to file a complaint in federal court in Washington, D.C. today asking that the 1987 White Earth Reservation Land Settlement Act be declared unconstitutional.

Bygones

Local news from 20 and 40 years ago from the Duluth News-Tribune. This column appears daily Monday through Saturday in the Duluth News-Tribune. Researched and written by the Reference Staff at the Duluth Public Library. 

 News Tribune
March 13, 1967

About 8,000 acres of St. Louis County tax-forfeited land goes on sale at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Duluth courthouse. The land is located in and near the proposed Voyageurs National Park.

Francine York, better known in her hometown of Aurora as Francine Yerich, will star this week in an episode of the CBS television program “Lost in Space.” Miss York has previously acted in movies and on the stage.

New Tribune
March 13, 1987

Unless Northland forests get significant amounts of rain or snow during the next two weeks, the region faces a serious threat of spring fires. The winter’s scant snowfall and recent mild temperatures have left snow cover more typical of mid-April.

The Adolph General Store and post office, a fixture in the tiny community five miles west of Duluth, was gutted by fire early yesterday morning. Damage to the store was estimated at between $150,000 and $180,000.