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10 YEARS AGO

Oct. 27, 1998 — After more than 10 years of dreaming planning and construction, the International Arctic Research Center is just a week away from being open for business.

The facility will be the premier northern research center in the world, attracting 90 or more scientists from around the globe to study environmental change.

Geophysical Director Syun-Ichi Akasofu has worked a decade to see the five-story, $32 million facility, the price tag shared by the Japanese and U.S. governments, come to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

25 YEARS AGO

Oct. 27, 1983 — Political newcomers scored a clean sweep in Tuesday’s run-off election for city council defeating two members appointed by Mayor Bill Walley and a third candidate who had previously served on the council.

Janet Halvarson defeated Ron Punton for city council Seat C, John P. Immel defeated Lowell Purcell for Seat E and Paul J. Whitney defeated Sherry L. Long for Seat F.

In the run-off for Seat G on the school board, only 90 votes separated candidates Judy Roberson and Jesse Arrington III. Question and absentee ballots are yet to be counted.

50 YEARS AGO

Oct. 27, 1958 — Vice President Richard Nixon accompanied by his wife Pat, will stop in Fairbanks Sunday as part of a three city campaign swing through Alaska. First stop is Juneau, then Anchorage and Fairbanks. His party is traveling in a chartered Alaska Airlines DC6B.

Nixon’s visit marks the first time a vice president has come to Alaska, said Fred Eastaugh of Juneau, a member of the Republican Central Committee.

75 YEARS AGO

Oct. 27, 1933 — Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of the Alaska Agricultural College and School Mines, left on the southbound train of the Alaska Railroad this morning for Seward where he will embark for the states for a two-month trip to attend the Land Grant College Convention in Chicago, Nov. 13-15; Washington D.C., where he will confer with Congressional Delegate Anthony J. Dimond on College business and New York where he will discuss work being done at the Alaska College in connection with collecting material for the American Museum of Natural History.