Looking Back at August 18

10 YEARS AGO
Derek Faith was 17 on the 17th.
Kristin J. Bement received a bachelor of music in music production and engineering at Berklee College of Music.

25 YEARS AGO
Julia Crow received the Irving Peterson Award Tuesday afternoon as the 1983 Outstanding Musical Student at Falls High School.
Grace Verrill captured the ladies’ club championship at the Falls Country Club for the fifth straight year Wednesday, outshooting Judy Krantz by two strokes.

40 YEARS AGO
George Olson has been appointed to the position of business instructor on the staff of Rainy River State Junior College.
Donald Cann, a resident of the Falls since 1964 and former manager-owner of the Gamble Store here, has joined the advertising department of The Daily Journal.
Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Kittelson will be honored at an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Willis Toninato will hold visitors’ day at her nursery at her home, 1108 11th Ave., all day Wednesday.

50 YEARS AGO
Paul Constantine, former employee of the Air-O-Fuel firm, today announced that he has purchased the fuel oil distributing service from John Bartkowski.
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Johnson, new owners of Sha~Sha Resort on Black Bay, were pleasantly surprised last week when a family from their former home town, Britt, Iowa, arrived to spend a week at their resort.
I.W. Hinckley, Koochiching County pioneer and historian, died yesterday at Little Falls following a brief illness. He would have been 97 Aug. 25.
Airman third class Richard A. Toninato, son of Mr. and Mrs. Onesimo Toninato, 1100 11th St., has completed his initial course of air force basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.

60 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Reuter Jr. are rejoicing over the arrival of a son. The baby, born Aug. 16 at Littlefork Hospital, weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces and has been named Gary Wayne.
Babe Ruth is dead. The one-time Yankee slugger, wasted by two years’ illness and almost constant pain, died of cancer of the throat at 7:01 p.m. Aug. 16. He was 53.
Mrs. Alice Sanborn, son Arthur, and daughter, Doris, left to make their home in Oslo.
Friends staged a surprise birthday party for Ted Blinsmon at the Blinsmon cabin on Rainy Lake.

Compiled by International Falls Public Library