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10 YEARS AGO

May 10, 1998 — Area firefighters battled an approximately 12-acre wildfire Saturday in the Rosie Creek area off the Parks Highway. At 9 p.m., Alaska Division of Forestry fire management officer Tom Kurth reported crews had halted the blaze.

“We just flew it and it looks like they’ve got a line all the way around, and are just letting some areas burn out,” Kurth said. “There’s still a lot of hard work (coming), but the running fire has been knocked down.”

The fire is located at about 345 Mile Parks Highway, down Rosie Creek Trail a couple miles off the highway, west of the Parks Monument. It comes on the heels of an 8-acre wildfire that broke out Friday near Anderson.

25 YEARS AGO

May 10, 1983 — Fairbanks motorists might have to drive more than 400,000 miles out of their way in June and July if the Cushman Street bridge is closed for the scheduled 45 days. For motorists traveling into downtown Fairbanks from areas north of the city, the cost of the bridge closure could be as high as $35,433 for total extra gasoline needed to detour around the closed bridge, according to calculations by the Daily News-Miner.

The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is planning to close the bridge June 1 for repairs. According to News-Miner calculations, an individual driving round-trip into downtown Fairbanks during the closure would pay an extra $5.71 for gasoline during the 45 days if he detoured over the Wendell Street Bridge.

50 YEARS AGO

May 10, 1958 — Another outlying Fourth Division precinct, Huslia, failed to vote in the April 29 primary election, the office of the clerk of court here was advised today.

The reason was that residents were “too busy moving houses back from the river bank that day to set up polls.” The report by Lucy Sackett was relayed here by Stephan Mravich, U.S. commissioner at Ruby.

75 YEARS AGO

May 10, 1933 — Increases of wages proved cheerful news to thousands of workers today in different parts of the country. A 5 percent advance announced by the Cord Company of Chicago affected 10,000 employees. Ten percent raises were made by the Standard Kid Company of Wilmington, Del., and by the brokerage firm of J.S. Bache. Five percent advances were announced by more textile mills in South Carolina, bringing the number of workers whose wages have been increased in the past two days in that state to 10,000.