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10 YEARS AGO

Nov. 18, 1998 — Collecting fines is becoming a little easier for City Hall. Rather than issue warrants to collect outstanding fines and payments, City Hall is garnishing individual Alaska Permanent Fund dividend checks. Money flows straight into city coffers form the state accounts.

About 218 checks, representing roughly $11,500 in fines, have arrived at the city attorney’s office since dividends were issued earlier this month. This is the third year the city has garnished dividend checks.

Of course, not all are happy to see that cash missing from the annual dividend. “People get a little upset,” Linda Dewey, the legal secretary handling the matter, said.

25 YEARS AGO

Nov. 18, 1983 — There was no historian of the year award presented at the Alaska Historical Society’s annual banquet here last night because no one met the criteria established for the honor.

Edith Bullock, president of the Alaska Historical Society, said there was no publication during the year that justified giving the historian of the year award. The banquet highlighted a weekend gathering of Alaska historians at the University of Alaska. An estimated 170 people registered for the conference.

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 18, 1958 — Three hundred and fifty cases of hospital equipment adequate to set up a 200-bed emergency center have arrived in Fairbanks from the federal Civil Defense administration.

Presently stored in the basement of the Lathrop High School, the supplies will eventually be transferred to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which has been designated as an emergency field hospital in the event of an enemy attack on Fairbanks.

Civil Defence preparations in this area have taken great strides in recent months, it was revealed today by Roland B. Livesley, area Civil Defense director.

75 YEARS AGO

Nov. 18, 1933 — Friends he believed dead long ago are still alive, Ted Anderson, former owner of the Fairbanks Cigar Store, learned when glancing at the page of news pictures in the News-Miner.

The picture was captioned “He Buried the Tough One,” and showed the Rev. C. J. Larsen and Mrs. Larsen, who plan to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary at San Francisco, recalling to 200 friends there adventures in the Yukon gold rush days. Larsen officiated at the funeral of Soapy Smith. Mr. Anderson knew the Larsens — the couple were married at the home of his father-in-law. Now he is seeking their address in San Francisco to renew old friendship.