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10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 5, 1998 — A jury convicted a Goldstream Valley teenager of first-degree murder for shooting his father during an argument in February.

Dillon Hodges, 18, gazed at the defense table as Fairbanks Superior Court Judge Charles Pengilly read the verdict aloud. Jurors began deliberations Thursday morning and returned a guilty verdict at 10 a.m. on Friday.

The lanky teenagers sobbed slightly and gave his crying mother a frightened look as he was led from the courtroom in leg shackles and handcuffs.

25 YEARS AGO

Sept. 5, 1983 — In the tale of “The Three Bears,” modern Alaska style, Goldilocks has been replaced with Romanian diplomats, the Anchorage Zoo, the U.S. State Department and a biologist with a missing thumb. And this time around, the story involves a mama grizzly who drowned and her two orphaned cubs.

“Perhaps,” Fish and Game spokeswoman Suzanne Iudicello said Friday, “it would be best to start from the beginning.”

Once upon a time becomes July — and the setting is the fishing village of Naknek, near Bristol Bay, where game officials are dispatched to rout a grizzly sow and her cubs from the town dump. The plan is to use the Game Division’s new program called “Thump on the Rump” to scare the bears away, Iudicello said. This involves shooting the bears in the backside with a rubber bullet.

50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 5, 1958 — An Air Force SA16 search plane today will check out an open radio signal heard faintly on the international emergency frequency last night over the Brooks Range on the possibility it might have come from the FWS amphibian that disappeared in the mountains 17 days ago with Clarence J. Rhode, Jack Rhode and Stan Fredricksen on board.

An Air Force B-50 returning over the range last night from a weather flight to the North Pole reported the signal and tried to fix its direction, Maj. John Kearney of the 71st Air Rescue Squadron, Elmendorf, who is coordinating the search here for Rhode and his passengers, said this morning.

75 YEARS AGO

Sept. 5, 1933 — Capt. A. E. Lathrop, the man who moves and does things while moving, arrived in the city on Monday morning at 12:20. Lathrop made the trip from here over the highway to McCarthy, from there to Cordova, then jumped on the Alaska Steamship Company’s freighter Curacoa and landed in Seward.