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10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 7, 1998 — A demolition project at First Avenue and Noble Street has turned a portion of downtown Fairbanks’ roads into an orange traffic marker maze.

The detour, which started Friday, will steer traffic away from the old Aurora Motors building and the neighboring Gold Exchange building. Both will be torn down during the next 60 days to make room for a new courthouse.

“It’s important that the contractor be able to operate safely and the public be safe in the area,” project manager Charles Davis said.

25 YEARS AGO

Sept. 7, 1983 — Should football players have to maintain a “C” average or stay off the filed?

That would be the choice facing them and other participants in school-sponsored extra curricular activities under a policy approved tentatively Tuesday night by the Fairbanks school board.

The new policy, which would apply to grades seven through 12, is scheduled for a public hearing and final action at the board’s next meeting Sept. 20. The new rule could make 20 percent of Fairbanks-area basketball and football players ineligible, according to coaches contacted this morning by the News-Miner.

50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 7, 1958 — City police on routine patrol at 3 a.m. today discovered about 350 pounds of explosives stored in an old wooden hangar on Week’s Field. The hangar, at one time Alaska Airlines hangar No. 2., is used by Acme Electric Co. for storage.

Acme Electric Co. told police the explosives had been stored there for about a year, for use in sinking holes in which power poles were placed. Military authorities from Ladd Air Force Base assisted city police today in investigating the situation before deciding how to dispose of the explosives.

75 YEARS AGO

Sept. 7, 1933 — On his first visit to the Big Outside in 34 years, Peter Deiser, an old-time pioneer of Fairbanks and Alaska, took passage on the Richardson Highway Transportation Company’s bus this morning for Valdez. Pete will board the Alaska Steamship Company’s liner Yukon at Valdez en route to the states.

After looking over the town of Seattle, he will take a plane and hop off to the city of Los Angeles, located, he says, in California. There, he will visit his daughter, Mrs. W. K. Keiuloff.

After taking in the sights of Southern California and Hollywood, the old-timer from Alaska will fly to Chicago to visit his son, Elmer.