2 days Ago By Lee Hilgendorf
2000 – 25 years ago A federal summer lunch program for school-aged children won’t exist in Rochester this year. Channel One Inc. voted not to offer the program due to wasted food and dwindling attendance.
FBI agents picked through paper strewn across the pavement Thursday, looking for sensitive files that may have been blown out of the bureau’s sixth-floor office by the tornado that struck Fort Worth this week.1975 – 50 years ago The gloom and doom attitude that clutched at downtown Rochester five years ago is being swept away by a spirit of optimism being created by small specialty shops opening in the city’s core. Rochester police, serving a search warrant, discovered 3.
3 pounds of marijuana burning in a kitchen sink. The occupant will be charged with felonious possession and possibly arson.1950 – 75 years ago The famed London String Quartet, with Richard Ferrell as guest pianist, played the closing program of the Rochester Community Concert Association season last night in Mayo Civic Theater.
Television sets will be in operation tonight at the 1950 Rochester Home Show. An aerial has been erected on the roof of the auditorium and programs from Minneapolis and St. Paul will be picked up.
1925 – 100 years ago Clarence Stearns, Rochester photographer, will broadcast an address on “Photography” from the radio station WCK in St. Louis, Missouri at 7:45 tonight. Mrs.
Ora Owen, charged with passing a worthless check for $10, pleaded guilty before Judge Callaghan yesterday afternoon and was sentenced to 60 days in jail.]]>.
