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10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 6, 1998 — Ask John Lindauer about his solution to the state’s long-running feud over subsistence hunting and fishing, and the Republican gubernatorial candidate paints a rosy picture — one where every Alaskan has subsistence rights, and commercial fishing always cedes to personal need.

“I see subsistence for rural people. I see subsistence for Natives in urban areas. I see subsistence for everybody,” he said recently. “If we have adequate amounts of fish in the rivers, then everyone could go subsistence fishing and have more than enough to eat.

It’s an Alaskan version of a chicken in every pot.

25 YEARS AGO

Sept. 6, 1983 — The bank teller was in a hurry to share her coffee break with friends at the drive-in window.

She closed her counter window, but forgot to lock her cash drawer.

A neighboring teller noticed and casually helped herself to 10 $100 bills, figuring the missing money wouldn’t be traced to her.

It was.

Kimberly Ann Helvey, 27, pleaded guilty to bank embezzlement. She is paying a $500 fine and is on probation for three years. She now has a criminal record.

50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 6, 1958 — The break for which searchers for the missing plane of Clarence J. Rhode have been waiting came today when a party of hunters, coming out to civilization for the first time in three weeks, reported seeing the FWS amphibian on Aug. 21, the day after it left Schrader Lake, flying over their camp at Chandler Lake, a full 225 miles to the west of where the search has been centered.

The plane, definitely identified as that in which the regional director of Sports Fish and Wildlife was flying with his son, Jack, 21, and Stan Fredericksen, a Fairbanks game management agent, was heading northwest when seen, the hunters said.

75 YEARS AGO

Sept. 6, 1933 — Aviator Noel Wien of the Wien Airways of Alaska hopped to Fort Yukon with Miss Hughes, a schoolteacher, as a passenger.

He returned to Fairbanks today. On his trip to Fort Yukon, he also took a load of freight with him. Noel is known as a quiet aviator, but let us remind him that this is the second schoolteacher he has taken for a hop in his airplane as well as taking along two reverend gentlemen and a Salvation Army Lassie during the past few days.