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10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 30, 1998 — The price of North Slope crude oil closed at $15.14 a barrel, the first time since late January that Alaska crude was selling for more than $15 and the highest price since Jan. 2.

Tuesday’s closing price also represented a long climb back from a low of $9.56 on June 15, when the world was awash in crude oil and Asia’s troubles had depressed demand.

25 YEARS AGO

Sept. 30, 1983 — Slick roads this morning may have been the cause of at least nine accidents in about two hours.

That’s not counting all the vehicles found abandoned in ditches where drivers had spun off the road, according to an Alaska State Troopers spokesman.

50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 30, 1958 — The weatherman looked up from his map, put the crystal ball back in its holder and announced: “It’s snowing.” It was the first measurable snow of the season.

It was spawned over Fairbanks and since has spread far and wide — to Nenana first, then to Tanana, Galena and McGrath. As of 8 a.m., 0.04 inches had fallen since the snow started at 1:30 a.m.

75 YEARS AGO

Sept. 30, 1933 — George Edward Young, a famous Alaska air pilot, whose plane crashed at Livengood airport a week ago last Wednesday, was eulogized in special condolence tributes in New York today by many leading American flyers and executives who are helping to make aviation history.

“I was deeply grieved to learn of death of Pilot Young,” declared Captain Frank M. Hawks, a transcontinental ace and internationally known airman who was a personal friend of Young.

100 YEARS AGO

Sept. 30, 1908 — G.C. Baldwin and A.J. Brabasos, heads of the international boundary survey, arrived today from White River where they ran the first definite permanent location of the line between Alaska and the Yukon Territory on the 141st Meridian.