2 weeks Ago By Lee Hilgendorf
2000 – 25 years ago A local board with representatives from emergency services organizations will decide this month how to divvy up about $15,000 in grant money from the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board. A town meeting to inform deaf and deaf-blind people about state programs will be held from 6:30 p.m.
to 9:00 p.m. in the library of the Olmsted County Human Services building on April 13.
1975 – 50 years ago A Minnesota Senate Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday passed a bill permitting separate, but equal, school sports teams for boys and girls. A clause permitting separation by sex in wrestling was removed. With 55 Vietnamese orphans already in the U.
S. and 2000 more to arrive in the next few days, officials are considering plans for what could become a massive evacuation of refugees from Saigon.1950 – 75 years ago Mayor Claude McQuillan has written to the Federal Power Commission protesting the removal of federal controls on natural gas prices causing an upward revision of gas rates here.
Dr. Christopher Graham, Rochester’s beloved citizen and one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic, celebrated his 94th birthday today quietly at his home at 813 Third St SE.1925 – 100 years ago Automobile owners who have not made applications for 1925 automobile licenses are in for a peck of trouble according to an announcement made by Chief of Police Walter H.
Newsome today. The police department, in view of numerous complaints, reminds citizens that it is unlawful to allow chickens to run at large where they can cause havoc in neighborhood gardens.]]>.
