Looking Back — Dec. 12, 2023

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This article was published 12/12/2023 (1011 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

SIXTY YEARS AGO

Recent bannings of the use of tannic acid in some Ontario hospitals has not been needed in Brandon hospital for at least four years.

The steep and narrow Eighth Street bridge may soon give way to a shiny new one. Cost is estimated at $236,000 and city ratepayers would contribute about $85,440.

Studebaker Corp. will quit auto production in the United States but continue to make cars in Canada.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

The city has decided to make use of Westbran and its own labour forces to build a Westbran Work Activity Project building instead of having a private contractor do the work.

Arab oil ministers say they won’t lift their embargo against the U.S. until Israel agrees to withdraw from all occupied territories and sets a timetable for the pullout.

FORTY YEARS AGO

An arbitration board has awarded teachers in the Rolling River School Division an eight per cent salary increase for 1983. The settlement, among the lowest in the province, applies to the 143 full-time and parttime teachers in the division. Individual annual salaries will increase from $1,400 to $3,400.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Nineteen-year-old Laird Lidster, defenceman from Brandon, has verbally agreed to accept a scholarship and play for the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association next fall.

The metric system is being blamed for a semi-trailer truck accident at the Kemnay overpass. Brandon RCMP said an American driver for Trans-X Ltd. couldn’t figure out the metric conversion fast enough as he travelled west on Highway 1A. His tractor became lodged under the railway overpass, ripping off part of the roof.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Brandon-Souris MP Rick Borotsik says he will resist a call from the new prime minister to follow a former colleague and join the federal Liberal party. A day after Nova Scotia Tory MP Scott Brison was welcomed into the Liberal caucus by prime ministerdesignate Paul Martin, Borotsik finds himself the last person in the new Conservative party caucus who publicly opposed its creation.

It will be as “good as gold” in the Keystone Centre Canada Room this afternoon. The Manitoba Hereford Association’s annual Good As Gold cattle sale will draw both Manitoba and out-of-province buyers to the event. Approximately 40 Manitoba Herefords bred cows, bull calves and heifer calves — are registered for the sale, the first association sale in Brandon since the mad cow crisis.

TEN YEARS AGO

Residents spoke out about skyrocketing property assessments, questioned the need for a youth centre and called on the city to sell Wheat City Golf Course. Wednesday marked the last public budget consultation on the City of Brandon’s proposed $75.2-million operating budget. One resident expressed his displeasure with taxes going up every year. The 2014 proposed budget calls for a 2.85 per cent tax hike.