Looking Back — Oct. 30, 2023

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This article was published 30/10/2023 (1046 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

Police in London admitted that Beatlemania — one of the wildest teenage phenomena yet — just about has them beat. “It’s spreading all over the country and causing some anxiety,” said a police spokesman. Beatlemania is mass hysteria generated by the Beatles, four young singing, guitar-playing youngsters from Liverpool.

The B.J. Hales Museum will stay where it is for now. Currently housed in the Brandon school board office basement, there has been considerable pressure to have it moved, but no permanent site has been found.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Canada is going into a new peacekeeping venture in the Middle East in a far easier frame of mind than it went into a truce observation mission to Vietnam only 10 months ago.

One of the two men credited with cracking the Watergate scandal wide open, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, is to be in Brandon Nov. 22 at Brandon University.

FORTY YEARS AGO

A peaceful demonstration in Winnipeg against the U.S. invasion of Grenada turned violent yesterday when the protesters clashed with six young men supporting the American intervention.

The U.S. has increased its invasion force in Grenada as American war planes and artillery attacked Cuban riflemen who could hold out for weeks in mountain strongholds, U.S. military officials said.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Education Minister Clayton Manness announced at a press conference at Brandon University that the province will provide $10 million over five years for the upgrading of two historical buildings, the Old Building/Clark Hall complex.

Youth on all Manitoba reserves will be vaccinated for meningcoccal meningitis next month in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease.

Lorne Watson, the founder of the Brandon University School of Music will receive an honourary doctor of music degree today at the university’s fall convocation ceremony. Watson came to Brandon in 1948 as director of music and retired from the university department in 1992.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Sadness will hang in the air tomorrow as Drs. Bob, Mattie and Nick Abell lock the doors of the Abell Medical Clinic in Wawanesa for the last time. All three Abells say continued conflicts with the Assiniboine Regional Health Authority administration has made it impossible for them to continue in their practice. A new physician, who is originally from Jordan, will take over the practice on Monday.

A Canadian Pacific Railway bunkhouse that sheltered its ever-moving employees for nearly 40 years has been demolished. The Pacific Avenue building was built when CPR conductors and trainmen stopped sleeping in cabooses. In the mid-1960s, CPR decided its sleeping arrangements were far from efficient.

TEN YEARS AGO

Not even walls, razor wire and restricted Internet access will stop them from updating their Facebook status. A man pending on charges of robbery and aggravated assault and a man who was pending on a violent home invasion are among the inmates who manage to keep their status up to date even inside the Brandon Correctional Centre.

A total of 19 groups in 14 Manitoba communities used automatic display boards yesterday — called SpeedWatch — to check drivers’ speeds and to provide a visual reminder for them to slow down. The initiative was a partnership between community groups across the province and Manitoba Public Insurance.