SIXTY YEARS AGO

The NHL this past season announced plans for the draft of teenage players, but the CAHA has balked at the controversial move.

Charles W. Grierson has been appointed administrator by the board of directors of Brandon General Hospital to succeed Alan K. McTaggart from Aug. 1.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

L. Patrick Gray III told U.S. President Richard Nixon 19 days after the Watergate arrests he was disturbed at the role White House aides appeared to be playing in the FBI investigation, news accounts say.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Austin-area farmer Corine Unger woke to an early harvest this morning when 28 cars from a CP Rail freight train derailed near his farm home, ripping a part sections of the railway’s main line and spilling grain onto his pasture.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

The Brandon School Division could have a $4.7-million deficit in four years if drastic cost-cutting measures aren’t introduced to combat government underfunding.

Bill Schaffer, currently the superintendent of the Swan Valley school division, was appointed the new assistant superintendent in charge of junior and senior years at Brandon’s school board meeting.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Manitoba is a trend-setter when it comes to improving its communities’ quality of life. “There are a lot of closely knit communities in this province,” said David Uffelmann, Community Foundations of Canada chair. The 38-year-old Brandon Area Community Foundation hosted the provincial meeting in the Westman city this weekend, attracting more than 60 volunteers. Winnipeg started the first such foundation in Canada, which invests donations and returns the income to other non-profit organizations in its community, in 1921.

TEN YEARS AGO

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has cut 11 jobs from the Brandon Research Centre. As part of nationwide federal cuts announced this week, beef grazing systems research will be moving from Brandon to Lacombe, Alta.

Include business leaders and capital region municipalities in the tax revolt against raising the provincial sales tax to eight per cent. An Angus Reid poll of 500 Manitobans found 72 per cent oppose raising the PST from seven to eight per cent. The opposition is 92 per cent among small business owners, in a separate survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).