25 YEARS AGO — 1984
  The 380th Bomb Wing of Plattsburgh Air Force Base wins its fifth Fairchild Trophy making history — it's the first time five have been won by any wing. The wing also won the Sanders Trophy for the best tanker wing and the best FB-111 crew.

  As far as the city is concerned, the Plattsburgh Pioneers Hockey Club is a thing of the past. The Common Council voted unanimously to call in the $200,000 owed the city under the terms of the letter of credit.

  With the recent surge of rumors about rapes and assaults on the Plattsburgh State campus, PSU women are changing their habits and taking precautions to ward off any possible confrontations.

  As the city fathers prepare for the annual budget sessions, the city finances look very strong. The financial statement for the first nine months of 1984 shows revenues generally ahead of expenditures and expenditures at about the 75-percent mark — right where they should be after nine months.

50 YEARS AGO — 1959
  The 16 members of the Dixon murder-trial jury voted in the election. In a move that may have made history, the jury, which was sequestered, was loaded on a school bus and taken on a 200-mile trip to voting places all over Clinton County to cast their individual ballots. Air Force Staff Sgt. Ernest Dixon is on trial for the murder of his wife.

  Holy Name Parish in AuSable Forks will embark on a $50,000 school-construction fund campaign Nov. 15. The new school will have eight classrooms for grades one through eight.

  A 53-year-old linesman of New York State Electric & Gas is electrocuted in an accident in Ellenburg Corners. He was Robert R. Martin of Chateaugay, formerly of Plattsburgh, father of 10 children, five of them under 18.

  The machine that supplies fluoride to the city water supply is turned on. It has been out of order for the last year and a half.

75 YEARS AGO — 1934
  Fire levels two houses and two large barns in a spectacular blaze in the Village of Mooers sending two families scurrying into the streets in their night clothes. The homes belonged to Mrs. Ella Armstrong and James Downs.

  Approximately 900 thoroughbred white leghorn hens are burned to death at the Claymore Farms, located five miles north of Ticonderoga, which destroys a large wooden poultry plant and causes damage estimated by owner R.J. Clark at $10,000.

  Construction work on the new fish hatchery at Chateaugay is complete. It is completed in every respect with two large rearing ponds.

  A portable X-ray machine that can be taken to the bedside of a patient has been added to the equipment at Alice Hyde Hospital in Malone.

100 YEARS AGO — 1909
  In one of the most bitter political fights ever known in Essex County, Elizabethtown wins out in the fight over the county seat by about 800 votes. Crown Point and Moriah were the only towns to give a majority to Port Henry.

  Contractor D.M. Callanan has work on the new city hospital well advanced, and there is no doubt but that he will turn the completed building over to the Board of Managers within the time specified, which is the first of February.

  Benjamin Bruce, a man employed as a teamster by Wilbur Atwood at West Chazy, sustains painful injuries and has a narrow escape from death while moving hop poles near the Delaware and Hudson depot. The stack of poles became lose and buried Bruce under 2,000 poles.

  The old Catholic church in Norwood is being fitted as a roller-skating rink and will be opened with a carnival this week.

— Compiled by Contributing Writer Sue Botsford, who can be reached at 834-7201 or botsford@westelcom.com