10 YEARS AGO

Feb. 6, 2002 — Small bundles of used flooring wouldn’t seem to warrant much interest among bidders at the Boys & Girls Clubs Have-A-Heart auction Saturday.

But these are no ordinary pieces of pre-owned lumber. They are part of the historic maple hardwood gym floor of Main School, which was removed to make way for a beautiful new floor funded by grants from the Rasmuson Foundation and Nike.

25 YEARS AGO

Feb. 6, 1987 — Private land and/or buildings inside city limits will be considered for a new Fairbanks police station after all, and 11 firms are interested in designing a new station.

Prospects may be slim, but the Fairbanks City Council is asking legislators for $6 million to build a new station.

50 YEARS AGO

Feb. 6, 1962 — Foster homes for teenagers are urgently needed, according to Eugene Zinck, head of the local state division of welfare office.

Nine youths, ranging in age from 11 to 18, now under the division’s custody, are in need of living in a “home setting.”

Parents in the area would be doing the children and the state a real service by helping these children experience a normal family life, Zinck said.

75 YEARS AGO

Feb. 6, 1937 — Peter Bloom, a trapper, was found frozen to death yesterday on his trap line about four miles above the old Jumpoff roadhouse on Birch Creek. The place is about 135 miles northeast of Fairbanks.

Information relative to the tragic demise was received in Fairbanks in a message to United States Marshal Joseph McDonald from United States Commissioner Harry Greep of Circle Springs.

Bloom was an old timer in the North.