Looking Back — Oct. 28, 2023
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This article was published 28/10/2023 (1067 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
It’s full speed ahead for the U.S. program to land a man on the moon in this decade. That’s the way American space officials greeted the news from Moscow that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev apparently has pulled his country out of any moon race.
Sir Ernest MacMillan returned to Brandon for the first time in 44 years. He spent a busy day at Brandon College officially opening its $350,000 school of music, first snipping a ribbon and later speaking at a concert on the campus.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
A $1-million addition to the Manitoba Telephone System building in Brandon has been announced to handle the growth and extension of direct distance dialing in southwestern Manitoba.
John Gross, a Brandon school teacher, was elected president of the Manitoba branch of the Social Credit Party of Canada.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Brandon University will get the music building it has always wanted, not the scaled-down version the province approved earlier this month, Brandon East NDP MLA Len Evans said today.
Snipers were reported to have fired today on a convoy carrying stranded Canadians to Grenada’s Point Salines airport for evacuation from the war-torn Caribbean island.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
There were no surprises in tonight’s Brandon school board election. Three seats were up for grabs in Ward I (City of Brandon) and incumbents Gordon Sefton and Michael Allen nabbed two of them. They’re joined by newcomer Linda Ross.
Brandon police are warning business people to take a closer look at their $50 and $20 bills as some of the best counterfeit money to ever hit the streets has surfaced in the city.
A rail car shortage is further depressing Prairie crop sales, which are already expected to be way down this year with up to 15 million tonnes of wheat going unsold, United Grain Growers says.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
One new case of West Nile virus has been identified in southwest Manitoba, bringing the total number of positive human cases in the province up to 138. Of these, 35 are confirmed and 103 classified as probable. Within the province, 47 horses and 24 sentinel chickens have also tested positive for West Nile.
A Manitoba task force is expected to recommend a provincewide smoking ban next week, a move that would make the province the first in Canada to outlaw smoking in all enclosed public places.
TEN YEARS AGO
The Manitoba Liberals have chosen a 36-year-old lawyer and political neophyte to lead them out of the wilderness. Rana Bokhari is promising to focus on bringing in new members and rebuilding the party’s financial base. The Liberals had only 700 members a year ago, but Bokhari brought in more than 600 new members during the campaign.
Still fuming over the announcement to close a swath of Manitoba Hydro offices across the province, the Association of Manitoba Municipalities is demanding the Crown corporation reconsider its decision. Hydro announced it will close 12 rural service centres by springtime and another 12 by 2017 as the province’s power provider pushes customer service online.