10 YEARS AGO

NOV. 18, 1999 — Backers of a proposed municipally owned gas pipeline said Wednesday they want the Tony Knowles administration to negotiate a lower price for North Slope natural gas with BP Amoco PLC.

25 YEARS AGO

Nov. 18, 1984 — “This is your captain speaking,” said the voice on the intercom. “This may possibly be the last flight of Wien Air Alaska as we know and love it.”

The voice belonged to Jerry Bohms, a retired 27-year Wien pilot, who went on to tell Wien employees on Flight 20 to Anchorage Friday night that “they may break us up, but we’re all family.”

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 18, 1959 — The people of Slaterville, newly annexed to the city of Fairbanks, are all lit up this week.

And if any of them ever come home that way, their condition will be known to all and sundry.

New mercury vapor lights went up along Minnie Street late last week, and this week Well, Slater and Betty streets shine like an unpowdered nose in the morning sunlight.

75 YEARS AGO

Nov. 18, 1934 — A news dispatch from Russia indicates the Japanese would like to own Alaska and have control of the vast resources contained in the territory. The Russian newspaper Pravda criticizes the U.S. for failure to develop the Alaska territory and militarize it.

100 YEARS AGO

Nov. 18, 1909 — The interruption in cable service the past month owing to the break in the cable between Valdez and Sitka played havoc with the clocks in Fairbanks and as a result the variance in time ranged from 6 to

11 minutes.

The time in Fairbanks is received by the United States Signal Corps from Washington.