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10 YEARS AGO

Aug. 31, 1998 — People planning to drive to the village of Rampart better bring plenty of cash or a checkbook. For those who aren’t regulars to that land, getting there will cost an extra $1,000 a year.

That’s what Les Cobb, owner of a hunting and fishing guide operation and a horse ranch off the Elliott highway, is charging for people to pass through the locked gate he has put across a new trail on his land.

For 15 years, Cobb had maintained, at his own expense, the old Eureka/Rampart Pioneer Access Road because the state hadn’t. The road regularly washes out in several areas, and he often pulls unwary drivers from ditches and gullies.

25 YEARS AGO

Aug. 31, 1983 — A student who says he didn’t get the degree he was promised is suing the University of Alaska, charging it with misrepresentation, breach of contract and unfair trade practices.

Jed. T. Williams, the plaintiff in the suit filed last week in Fairbanks Superior Court, says he enrolled at the Tanana Valley Community College in fall 1980, in what was billed in several university documents as a two-year program leading to an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Electronic Engineering.

Williams says he was within two months of completing the program when the community college informed him the Electronic Engineering Technology degree wasn’t available after all, and students who had completed work for it would receive diplomas in Electronic Technology with “Electronic Engineering Technology” identified in smaller print as the students’ option.

50 YEARS AGO

Aug. 31, 1958 — A 14-year-old boy was resting comfortably at St. Joseph’s Hospital today, following surgery to dislodge a bullet that struck him when a gun accidentally went off.

The youngster — Joseph Powell Bassett Jr. — is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bassett, 1237 O’Connor Road.

The Bassett family and the family of Gene Lebrock, along with two sons of Donald W. Hobbs were on a picnic at a timber claim on Ohio Creek off Nenana Road.

One of the boys picked up a gun lying by the side of the lake, and it discharged while the boy was carrying it.

75 YEARS AGO

Aug. 31, 1933 — Air mail will be afforded Fairbanks next week as a substitute for the steamship mail service that has been canceled because of an accident.

First-class mail from Fairbanks will be taken to Juneau next Sunday by a plane of the Pacific Airways, Lyman S. Peck, vice president and manager of the company said today.