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10 YEARS AGO

May 9, 1998 — Fairbanks police said an 18-month-old child was left unattended in a locked child care center Thursday evening, requiring firefighters to force their way inside.

Police said a man went to the Busy Bee Day Care Center on Eagle Street to pick up his child and discovered that the building was locked. But the man could see that his child was inside, and he called police at 7:18 p.m. Police declined to release the man’s name or say how long the child had been left alone. Fairbanks firefighters went to the scene at 7:50 p.m.

“There was no harm done to the child; there was no injury,” said Fairbanks police Sgt. Ron Bowers. Bowers said police will forward the case to the district attorney’s office for possible charges.

25 YEARS AGO

May 9, 1983 — The University of Alaska Board of Regents voted at a hastily called emergency meeting Saturday to reject all bids for an academic computer system, overriding the administration’s recommendation that a $2.3 million package be purchased from Digital Equipment Corporation.

Instead, the regents decided to hire a private consultant to draw up a new request for proposals and start the bidding process over from scratch. The meeting was called Friday afternoon without notice to the press, and was apparently not attended by any reporters.

50 YEARS AGO

May 9, 1958 — The charred remains of a body, tentatively identified as that of a serviceman, were found in the ruins of a house trailer that burned at 6 1/2 Mile Richardson Highway early this morning. City firemen, called at 1:48 a.m. to assist in fighting the blaze, sent a Seagrave pumper and three firemen. They were joined by several firemen and a tank-type truck from Ladd Air Force Base, but the fire had too much of a start, with flames shooting 15-20 feet into the air above the trailer.

No attempt had been made to rescue the man, because the owner, Chauncey Pobanz, had informed Air Police at the scene no one was living in the trailer.

75 YEARS AGO

May 9, 1933 — Essays on the importance and meaning of Poppy Day in America are being prepared by Fairbanks school children. The compositions will be submitted to the American Legion Auxiliary and judges will select the three they think most worthy of merit for awards. The three winning essays will be published in the News-Miner. At a meeting of the auxiliary last evening, Eva R. Taylor was accepted as a member of the Dorman H. Baker Unit.