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Published August 25, 2008 05:15 am - News stories from around the region from 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago this week.

Lookback: Aug. 25, 2008



25 YEARS AGO -- 1983

Telephone workers locally and nationwide end their 22-day strike, which had disrupted some service to consumers.

It appears that Plattsburgh Foundry and Machine Co. and the City of Plattsburgh have reached a compromise on the proposed city zoning ordinance. The agreement could benefit the foundry in future development.

St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Saranac Lake is refused a federal loan for the construction of a $1 million-plus apartment building for older adults. But the Rev. Philip Snyder said the project will not be abandoned.

Because rental at the Church Street offices in Elizabethtown will increase in January, Essex County supervisors are eyeing the Whallonsburg Home as a possible office complex.

50 YEARS AGO -- 1958

The Common Council agrees to a 10-percent pay raise for rank-and-file city employees. Councilmen are still at odds over raises for upper-echelon employees.

A 5-percent general wage increase is granted for local employees of Diamond Gardner Corp. in Plattsburgh. The increase will affect about 275 men and women.

Traffic is halted on part of Tom Miller Road during Northway bypass dynamiting. That area is the only part of the bypass from Rugar Street to Cumberland Head Corners where blasting will have to be used.

Clinton County is appealing to Gov. Averill Harriman for more state troopers to patrol North Country roads to cut down on traffic deaths. So far this year, 16 people have died on county highways. In all of 1957, 19 deaths occurred.

75 YEARS AGO -- 1933

The J&J Rogers Co. at AuSable Forks will employ at least 50 more men at their plant. The increase, which is in accordance with the National Re-employment Amendment code, will bring the total number of employees to more than 300.

The entire business section of the Village of Dannemora is threatened by fire when flames destroy the general store of Jacob Tolosky and three apartments on the second floor. Damage is estimated at $25,000.

Rescued from a narrow ledge on which they had been stranded for two days, three Plattsburgh Boy Scouts are brought down through a wild Adirondack trail from the great cliff of Wallface Mountain. They are Robert Glenn, 17; Tyler Grey, 19; and William LaDue, 21.

Gov. Herbert H. Lehman signs a bill declaring a moratorium against mortgage foreclosures against all real property in New York state until July 1, 1934, provided taxes and interest have been paid.



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