Looking Back — Sept. 30, 2023

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This article was published 30/09/2023 (884 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

Mrs. Terry Penton was elected president of the ladies auxiliary to the RCAF Association recently.

Twenty-three cars of an eastbound Canadian National Railways freight train were derailed near Gilbert Plains, early yesterday, causing three of them to break out in flames. There were no injuries. The burning cars, two containing gasoline and the other asphalt, were held under control by the district fire department.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

The residents of Alonsa have won their battle to keep 28 Grade 9 students attending school locally.

The price of honey will soar to more than a dollar a pound this fall. Prices in Brandon range from 55 cents a pound for unpasteurized honey to 89 cents a pound for liquid honey.

A well-known Brandon businessman and sportsman, Herbert G. (Herb) Bieber, 39, owner and manager of Inland Radiation, died in Winnipeg.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Five Brandon children who were missing since the weekend have been found safe in Winnipeg. The children had hopped an eastbound freight train and jumped off in Winnipeg.

Panasonic microwave ovens are selling at Mr. B’s Furniture Warehouse for $579.

RCMP have arrested one woman and are searching for a man they describe as armed and dangerous after poachers in Riding Mountain National Park took horses away from a couple of game wardens at gunpoint.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Candidates for the Brandon-Souris constituency in the upcoming federal election are: Larry Maguire, Progressive Conservatives; Glen McKinnon, Liberals; Ross Martin, New Democrats; Ed Agnew, Reform; Abe Neufeld, Christian Heritage; Eldon Obach, National; Robert Roberts, Natural Law; and George Armstrong, Canada Party.

Rossburn’s effort to attract people from Ontario is working. So far, five families have indicated they will be moving to the village of 650 and three businesses will either be established or purchased by Ontario residents.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

A crowd estimated in the high 2,000s by promoter Bob Holliday was welcomed to the chaotic world of the WWE, cheering wildly when diva Sable entered the ring to start the WWE Smackdown event held at the Keystone Centre. Some of those competing on the wrestling card were John Cena, (The Canadian Crippler) Chris Benoit, Matt Hardy, Eddie Guerrero, Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle.

Six more people in Manitoba have tested positive for West Nile virus, four of them outside Winnipeg, according to Manitoba’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer.

TEN YEARS AGO

The budget forecast for Brandon University is well beyond doom and gloom. Unless the province provides at least five times as much as it did this year in annual operating grants, close to 13 per cent of the university’s jobs are in danger. BU’s focus must shift to protecting its core as a liberal arts institution, the board of governors was told this past weekend.

Federal Liberal party candidate hopeful Rolf Dinsdale says he is having second thoughts about his nomination following negative press regarding his professional and personal background. Dinsdale was referring to a Canadian Press article published last week in which he defended his campaign website which highlighted his role as a senior executive with Facebook. Before the article came out, his website indicated he worked “at the leading social media network.” He worked for a Toronto company called Segal Communications, which handled sales for Facebook advertising in Canada between 2007 and 2009. Dinsdale says it was simply an issue of semantics — the biography has since been changed — and accused the Conservative party of digging up dirt.