Glancing Backward, 7/30/10

Published: July 30, 2010

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Today is Friday, July 30, the 211th day of 2010. There are 154 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On July 30, 1945, during World War II, the Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 316 out of some 1,200 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.

Glancing Backward Locally:

25 years ago - 1985

The Governor's Energy Council awarded $2.6 million for energy conservation projects in 35 schools and 21 hospitals, with one of the beneficiaries being the Athens Area School District.

York Avenue, Towanda's most spacious residential thoroughfare, can barely accommodate a bike these days, thanks to all the digging, tearing and filling going on in the widening, curbing and repaving project taking place this summer.

Last night, John Carlson was elected as a new chief of police for Sayre Borough.

50 years ago - 1960

Mrs. Gordon Carson of Leona has been engaged to teach in the Springfield elementary school this coming term.

Joseph MacAllister yesterday announced his resignation as assistant operator at the Keystone Theatre after 31 years in that position.

Several families from Macedonia and guests from Towanda and Monroeton enjoyed an outing at Lake Carey last week. Three families took their power boats and all enjoyed water skiing, swimming and a picnic dinner.

75 years ago - 1935

Seen About the Borough: People at Lew Gerould's lunch bar being forced to munch their sandwiches in time with the music of the Drum and Bugle Corps rehearsing two floors above.

While berrying on the M.E. Shoemaker farm near Laceyville yesterday, Carl Whipple found a turtle with "June 1916" and the name "Dick" printed on the bottom.

The enlarged Troy band, under the baton of Henry C. Sherman, will usher in the month of August by giving a concert on Davison Green in Troy.

Elsewhere on this date:

Ten years ago: President Hugo Chavez (OO'-goh CHAH'-vez) of Venezuela won a fresh six-year term in a landslide re-election.

Five years ago: President George W. Bush was pronounced "fit for duty" after a checkup that showed that the 59-year-old commander-in-chief, an avid mountain bike rider, had lost eight pounds since his last physical exam in December 2004.

Today's Birthdays: Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is 76. Blues musician Buddy Guy is 74. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 71. Singer Paul Anka is 69. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is 63. Actor Frank Stallone is 60. Actor Laurence Fishburne is 49. Actress Lisa Kudrow is 47. Actress Vivica A. Fox is 46.

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