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10 YEARS AGO

Dec. 20, 1998 — While no changes have come yet to Fairbanks International Airport, travelers might run into size limits and film-scarring x-rays at their chosen destination.

Alaska Airlines has joined a growing list of airlines cracking down on carry-on luggage by placing a barrier in front of the x-ray machine. If bags can’t fit through the 10-by-17 inch opening, they go into the baggage hold.

25 YEARS AGO

Dec. 20, 1983 — Fourteen planes may be parked at Alaskaland soon under a proposal accepted by the Fairbanks City Council Monday, designating the Gold Dome as an aviation museum.

The vintage planes will be parked in the Gold Dome, a now vacant facility behind the civic center, if the dome can be brought up to code standards.

50 YEARS AGO

Dec. 20, 1958 — The Rev. John Stokes, pastor of University Community Presbyterian Church, College, would like to see a uniform closing hour for all bars and package liquor stores in the new state of Alaska.

This was the plea he made to legislators last night in a town hall meeting conducted on a non-partisan basis at Main School. Present were the new legislators who will go to Juneau next month to open Alaska’s first legislature.

The Rev. Mr. Stokes said among other things that the rule in which allows bars outside incorporated limits to remain open on a 24-hour schedule was unfair to city bar operators and caused undue expense to the taxpayers who had to provide services at extraordinary hours.

75 YEARS AGO

Dec. 20, 1933 — For the fourth successive day storms, not so violent as heretofore but nevertheless seriously destructive, continue to lash and flood Alaska and the north Pacific coast states.

At Nenana, the thermometer registers 27 below zero. The wind, which blew yesterday at 30 miles per hour, has subsided. School did not open yesterday and is not expected to resume until the conclusion of the Christmas holidays, which will end Jan. 1.