25 YEARS AGO 1992

The Ticonderoga High School cafeteria was recently jam-packed with people who came to argue the fate of Moses-Ludington Hospital.

About 300 hospital supporters attended the unification meeting, called by Dr. William Brennan, DDS.

Moses-Ludington is slated to go out of business at the end of the year unless a solution to a cash shortfall can be found.

Local officials are working on a plan to give the medical center the $920,000 in property taxes that an Aug. 4 subsidy referendum would have provided had it been successful.

When Dan Jerry announced that he and his wife, Laurie, were opening Plattsburghs first personal computer shop in 1980, some people said he was crazy.

Today, U-Compute has not only become a highly successful business but also brought the computer age to the North Country, and they call him a visionary.

Now, Dan plans to open Captain Computer Tutor, a one-week computer course that will take place aboard a luxury sailboat chartered off the Florida Keys.

A group of local women will be testing the market for an indoor skating arena in Plattsburgh. Roller skating will now be available at the Crete Memorial Civic Center.

Sheila Prophitt, Donna Trombley, Talisa Brunet and Maryanne Dubrey will be voluntarily running the activity at the Crete.

After building some skills in the Education for Gainful Employment program, the women have become determined to make their mark in the businessworld.

50 YEARS AGO 1967

Dr. Robert Francoeur, a geneticist from Farleigh Dickinson University, told an audience at Plattsburgh State University College that the basic question before the world today is: Has the scientist gone too far has he created an inhuman world?

Francoeur did not answer the question. Instead, he told of some of the recent advances in embryology that could change the world, including using a miniature TV camera to transmit color pictures from inside the womb.

The result of Justice Harold Sodens reapportionment plan will be realized when 10 Clinton County legislators will be elected to do away with the town-based system of government.

Party committees had to reorganize quickly this month from town committees to area committees.

The theory behind the restructuring is to have the lawmakers represent equal population areas, not town-based political subdivisions with widely disparate populations.

An authority on atmospheric electricity will discuss The Mysteries of Atmosphere Electricity: Thunderstorms, Tornadoes and Volcanoes at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center field station on Whiteface Mountain.

Dr. Bernard Vonnegut, now a senior scientist at Albany State University College, was the first person to suggest using silver iodide as a cloud-seeding agent.

75 YEARS AGO 1942

Experiments with both the jet and spray system of combating incendiary bombs were conducted recently in Trinity Park by the Plattsburgh Fire Department in connection with the class for auxiliary firemen.

According to Carl B. Getman, civilian protection coordinator, the jet proved to be the most efficient and rapid method of controlling and extinguishing the bombs.

Plattsburghs three-day salvage-collection campaign will begin with collections scheduled in Wards 1 and 2.

Boy and Girl Scouts will canvass every home, distributing cards to remind the residents that collections of their salvage will be made later in the day.

Those donating salvage metals, rags or rubber have been asked to place the articles near the curb before 5 p.m.

One hundred tons of salvage of all types is the goal of the drive.

Ive just caught the biggest thing that ever was taken alive out of Lake Champlain, is the statement that was recently credited to Police Sgt. Elmer E. Gray about a fish he caught.

So large was the beast that Gray required a block and tackle to lift it from his boat to the shore.

Dont ask us where he put it.

Also note that there is no certainty as to the authenticity of the fish involved in this yarn, but we feel sure there was a fish story.

100 YEARS AGO 1917

Three young girls under 18 years of age were recently taken by Chief of Police Senecal from Fraternity Hall in Plattsburgh during a dance being held there.

Their case will be brought into City Court.

A determined effort is being made by the local authorities to enforce the law relative to young girls attending public dances.

That Clinton County is recognized as a seed potato section is again evidenced by the fact that 30 large commercial potato growers from Suffolk and Nassau counties are visiting to find their source of seed potatoes for the 1918 planting.

In this potato party will be two Farm Bureau managers and also a number of farmers representing farmer organizations that annually buy many carloads of seed potatoes.

At an early morning hour, people residing in the neighborhood at the junction of Broad and Beekman streets in Plattsburgh were aroused by the moans of a man lying in the road.

Beside him was burning a small automobile lamp.Nothing else could be seen in the road.

While a householder was dressing to go out and investigate, an automobile came along and picked up the man, lamp and anything else that might have been in the road.

Who the man was or what befell him is not known.

Compiled by Night Editor Ben Rowe

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