newsminer.com

10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 13, 1998 — Glenn Taylor sees Fairbanks’ central block, despite its rundown buildings and asphalt lot, as a gem that’s perfect for his Cushman Street jewelry shop.

That’s because it sits near where the town’s first entrepreneur, E.T. Barnette, “threw off his kit” a little less than 100 years ago.

“We wanted to be in the historical part of old-time Fairbanks,” Taylor said. “We saw great potential. ... First and Second Avenue is where he started Fairbanks.”

It’s also where he and his brother Joe started their business. In 1992, the Taylors spent about $20,000 to transform a former Cushman Street cafe and card room into a showcase for their handmade jewelry.

25 YEARS AGO

Sept. 13, 1983 — Two former Alaska governors, an Anchorage attorney and a group of Texas energy businessmen today announced they have formed a new company that plans to build a gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Kenai and produce liquified natural gas.

Yukon-Pacific Corp. plans to build the Trans-Alaska Gas System (TAGS), as outlined in a Governor’s Economic Committee study ordered by former Gov. Jay Hammond. Former governors Walter Hickel and William Egan, who chaired that committee, are stockholders in the new company that wants to build the line.

50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 13, 1958 — The search for three persons who have been lost in the wilds of North Central Alaska since Aug. 21 will be continued with intensity, it was announced here today.

The decision was made during a meeting of search officials at Ladd Air Force Base.

Lt. Col. Maurice Speer of Elmendorf Air Force Base, chief coordinator of the search, said there were a few areas northwest of Fairbanks and west-southwest of Bettles which had not been searched as extensively as the others.

Hence, the effort to find Clarence J. Rhode of the Fish and Wildlife Service, his son, Jack, and Stanley Frederickson of the Fairbanks FWS office, will be continued.

75 YEARS AGO

Sept. 13, 1933 — The twelfth year of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines will open with registration on Friday and Saturday of this week. Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of the institution, announced today that regular sessions begin at 8 a.m. Monday, the 18th.

The hours for registration will be from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to

4 p.m.