Looking Back at July 17

10 YEARS AGO
Tim Gable, with Advantage Development Inc., is asking the city of Ranier to vacate a portion of Pine Street to allow for a proposed hotel-restaurant project.
By his own admission, Greg Ross scratched and scraped through this weekend’s Smokey Bear Golf Tournament, the last ever played on just a nine-hole course. But after Ross, a Fort Frances resident, canned a tough, 4-foot down-hill putt for a par 3 on the last hole of the tournament, he was the winner.

25 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Norman Boyum of International Falls and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bujold of Fort Frances are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their children, Laurie Kaye and James Alfred.
Charles Vidor, 62, Boise Insulite guard, recently retired after 36 years with the company.

40 YEARS AGO
Marine S/Sgt. Marlen Shaw, 32, son of Mrs. Olive Frahm, is helping to support units of the First Marine Division while serving with the Third Amphibian Tractor Battalion, First Marine Division in Vietnam.
Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Watson, Ericsburg, returned Friday night from a 5,000-mile, three-week trip to the south and east.
Howard Hirsch, St. Louis, Mo., is a guest at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Julius Sher, and of his uncle, Ervin Sher.
Mrs. Loretta DeMont and granddaughters, Terry Fleischhacker and Kathy Gibbons, of St. Paul, are spending a week with her mother and their great-grandmother, Mrs. J.O. Carrier of South International Falls. They are also visiting other relatives in the Falls.

50 YEARS AGO
With the Middle East situation so tense, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Walkoviak, 1308 13th Ave., are anxious for word from their son, Staff Sergeant James, who is with 7244 Air Base squadron near the Saudi Arabian city of Al Kobur.
Mrs. Martin Hobbins was honored on her 84th birthday Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Herman, 1015 Sixth St.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smith and daughter, Ann, and Mrs. Smith’s mother, Mrs. Caroline Becklund, moved into their residence at 421 Seventh St. They formerly lived at 504 Ninth St.
Girl Scouts Joan Nelson, Nancy Burrock, Diane Turenne and Gennifer Brown are spending two weeks at Camp Joseph Austin on Long Lake near Chisholm.

60 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Donald Hodgdon is home from Falls Memorial Hospital, where she was hospitalized for three days with a slight skull fracture. The injury resulted when she was accidentally struck by a golf club.
Miss Helen Kuusinen, social welfare supervisor for the Koochiching County Welfare Board since Feb. 15, 1946, resigned this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stone, longtime residents of the border area, left to make their home in Longview, Wash. They were accompanied by three sons, Byron, Curtis and Cordell.
Rev. R.O. Evans will note his 25th anniversary as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church with special services at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Compiled by International Falls Public Library