Looking Back — Nov. 4, 2023

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SIXTY YEARS AGO

Barbara Whyte of Hamiota received the Governor-General’s medal and Isbister scholarship at the Hamiota Collegiate graduation exercises.

The new Christ Anglican Church in Russell was dedicated recently by the Lord Bishop of Brandon, Rt. Rev. I.A. Norris, D.D. at a special service. A British artillery unit arrived in Rivers today by plane for a cold weather exercise.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Personnel of the Brandon Research Station had their hands full yesterday as they carried out their fall roundup. The 400 cattle were escorted from their summer pasture east of Brandon, across town via Manitoba Avenue and then down the Valley Road to the research station.

Embattled U.S. President Richard Nixon remained in seclusion in Florida today, apparently considering how to counter growing demands for his resignation over the Watergate scandal.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Police blocked off 15th Street between Lorne and Louise avenues yesterday when more than 350 people turned up to inspect the new senior citizens complex, Hobbs Manor. The 100-apartment complex is named after Rev. Harry Hobbs, dean of St. Matthews Cathedral since 1975 until his death in 1979.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan said today that hostilities have ended in Grenada and that U.S. military commanders are being instructed to begin withdrawing their forces within a few days.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Within hours of taking office today, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien delivered on his pledge to axe the $4.8-billion purchase of 43 high-tech helicopters, resisting intense lobbying to save the program and to compensate those who will lose jobs with its demise.

American defence officials told Canadian Press the fireball that streaked across western Manitoba this weekend was likely a Russian rocket used in a satellite launch Oct. 28.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Major developments in Brandon will now have to undergo a study by an independent consultant of the city’s choice, Brandon City Council has decided. Previously, a developer of a project of more than 30,000 square feet would hire a consultant to do the special planning study the city requires for approval of large projects.Under the new regulation, proposed by Coun. Errol Black (Riverview) and approved by council last night, the city hires the consultant and the developer pays for the study.

TEN YEARS AGO

Brandon seems to be on board with Sunday bus service, according to statistics released by the city’s transportation department. As the four-month pilot project reaches its halfway point, ridership has blown past the city’s expectations — numbers that will help officials make the case for permanent Sunday service.

Conservatives are hoping a vote to suspend three errant senators without pay this week might help turn the page on a scandal that has jammed their political momentum for months. MPs and a handful of senators are returning to Ottawa from Calgary after wrapping up a two-day biennial policy convention that just might have added another chapter or two to the saga, however.