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Years ago...in The World
Saturday, November 26, 2005 9:16 AM PST
80 years ago (Nov. 25, 1925, Coos Bay Times) — A new dry goods and novelty store, Bee Hive, was set to open by Dec. 5, 1925, and would feature a full line of dry goods, notions and ready-to-wear clothing. It was reported that several thousand of the 15,000 drink shops in Ireland would be wiped out, recommended by the government commission. The action would leave one drinking place for every 400 of the population, or 8,000 for the whole country.
60 years ago (Nov. 21, 1945, Coos Bay Times) — In Germany, 20 Nazi leaders facing the United Nations bar of justice, pleaded innocent to charges of waging aggressive war against humanity. A crew of six men, members of a U.S. Army transport plane that crashed into the sea 16 miles off the Oregon Coast, near Florence, still were missing. U.S. Coast Guard vessels continued to comb the waters in search for survivors.
29 years ago (Nov. 22, 1976, The World) — A 6-year-old boy had put two kittens in the U.S. Postal Service dropbox on Sheridan and Ohio avenues. Someone called the North Bend Police Department, and sent a postal employee to the dropbox with a key to free the kittens. Coquille Middle School Principal Al Reiner and Athletic Director Don Patterson were held hostage in the principal’s office by a 13-year-old eighth-grade boy brandishing a deer rifle. The officials were held in the office for 40 minutes before the boy’s sister convinced him to put the gun down. No one was injured, and no shots were fired.
23 years ago (Nov. 22, 1982, The World) — In London, Queen Mother Elizabeth was rushed to a hospital and operated on to remove a fish bone she choked on at dinner. The operation was successful and the queen was reported to be “making good progress.” According to the Census Bureau, American households were getting smaller largely because of falling birth and marriage rates, higher divorce and separation rates, and the fact more people were living alone. |
