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10 YEARS AGO

July 14, 1998 — Alaska Airlines will begin carrying heart defibrillators next year on all flights, joining two other carriers — American Airlines and United Airlines — that serve Alaska and already carry the equipment. Delta Air Lines is also considering carrying them. “There has been a move within the industry,” said Alaska Airlines spokesman John Evans. “They will probably be mandated anyway. If it is going this way, why not make the move also?”

The Air Transit Association reports that of 590 million passengers in 1996, 141 reported heart attacks. It is not known how many were of a type treatable by a defibrillator.

25 YEARS AGO

July 14, 1983 — Dr. Nolan Blaine Aughenbaugh has been named the dean of the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Mineral Industry. He will assume his duties on Sept. 1. “UAF is hiring one of the nation’s recognized experts in toxic wastes handling,” said UAF Chancellor Patrick O’Rourke. “In fact, Dr. Aughenbaugh largely wrote the federal legislation dealing with this serious environmental hazard.”

Aughenbaugh has 24 years of experience in higher education. He taught civil engineering at Purdue University from 1959 to 1985.

50 YEARS AGO

July 14, 1958 — The seine and trap season for pink salmon opened today in the southern district of the Alaska Panhandle, as spotty reports of improved catches were reported elsewhere.

The pink runs in the Northern Panhandle, where the season opened three weeks ago, were reported better than any time during the last several years. Chums and reds in the same area, however, were described by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries as very, very weak. The canned salmon pack was running ahead of last season in Southeastern Alaska, however, partly because of an unexpected increase in the size of the fish this year.

75 YEARS AGO

July 14, 1933 — Noel Wien of the Wien Airways of Alaska returned from Tanana Crossing last night at 10:25 with Bishop Peter Trumble Rowe and Rev. Michael J. Kippenbrock as passengers. Noel reports the smoke from forest fires as being extremely dense, making flying almost impossible. Flying at a height of 2,000 feet from Birch Lake into Fairbanks, the smoke was so thick it would have been out of the question to try and get through had it not been for the Tanana River, which he was able to follow from the lake to 18 Mile roadhouse. From there to Fairbanks, he followed the highway, and he had to make every turn — otherwise he would have lost his way — so dense were the columns of smoke.