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10 YEARS AGO

Oct. 6, 1998 — Tanana Chiefs Conference will assume authority over welfare payments to its members under an agreement signed Monday with the state.

About $4.2 million in state and federal funds will be transferred to the Interior Native nonprofit, which will then issue monthly checks to about 440 families currently receiving assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

The number of families is about 4 percent of the state’s welfare cases and about 33 percent of recipients living in Interior Alaska. The new program is the largest tribal assistance program approved by the federal government.

25 YEARS AGO

Oct. 6, 1983 — Air samples taken last summer in schools on Fairbanks area military bases turned up asbestos levels well below the current federal standards.

But results received this week from an Anchorage testing laboratory show that in one school, Ft. Wainwright’s McKinley Alternative Junior High School, the asbestos level was slightly above a new standard proposed by the Cincinnati-based National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.

The highest asbsetos levels in any of the six schools tested was 0.122 fibers per cubic centimeter of air, found in a second-floor hallway near the principal’s office at McKinley.

50 YEARS AGO

Oct. 6, 1958 — Investigators sought today to learn the cause of a fire that took the lives of the three small children of Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Qualle.

An inquest has been conducted by Deputy U.S. Commissioner Elizabeth Brundage.

The children, Sam Michael, 4, Charles Martin, 2, and Suzanne Qualle, nine months died in their beds as their mother reportedly ran the three blocks to the village center for help.

Firemen were called by neighbors, but the flaming frame structure burned to the ground. The flames were so hot that the volunteer firemen were unable to effect a rescue of the children.

75 YEARS AGO

Oct. 6, 1933 — Miss Gertrude Marie Watson of Kenai and Daniel Kennedy of Anchorage, both members of pioneer Alaska familes, were married yesterday in Anchorage. They will make their home in Fairbanks.