Looking Backward
The north
10 years ago
March 14, 2000:Watertown's community policing program may be expanded to include two satellite stations. The city's first try at community policing began in May 1997, when it operated a satellite station on Public Square. Officer Craig S. Dupre, who is assigned the station, told council members that he thinks the effort is working.
25 years ago
March 14, 1985:Only 21 candidates are vying for 17 mayoral posts in Tuesday's village elections in Jefferson County. Trustee races, with 53 candidates for 38 positions, will bring a little more color to the annual voting in the county's 20 villages.
50 years ago
March 14, 1960:Subzero temperatures every night in the past week have continued the delay in the 1960 sugarbush operations that normally would be under way now with the first run of sap converted to maple syrup or sugar. At least three sugar makers in the Hopkinton and Nicholville area east of Potsdam are making ready for the first run of sap.
75 years ago
March 14, 1935:The cooperation between Jefferson and Lewis counties' sportsmen and others is credited with having encouraged the conservation commissioner to withdraw his opposition to the bill to prohibit netting in Black River Bay next summer.
100 years ago
March 14, 1910:After doing business in temporary quarters on the east side of Washington Street, the National Bank & Loan Co. resumed operations at its old stand, but were it not for the familiar faces, one would hardly recognize the place. The new bank, in its equipment and artistic interior, surpasses anything of the kind in this section of the state.
125 years ago
March 14, 1885:The Sandy Creek News says that the skating rink in that village was well patronized last week, but the management could not pay expenses and so discontinued it after Saturday. On Monday the men had to leave their skates to secure their board at the hotel and to pawn a watch, chain and ring to get out of town.
The world
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Sunday, March 14,the 73rd day of 2010. There are 292 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry.
On this date:
In 1923, President Warren G. Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report.
In 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentenced him to death. (Both the conviction and death sentence were later overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.)
In 1967, the body of President John F. Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.
Ten years ago:Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore clinched their presidential nominations in a sweep of Southern primaries.
Five years ago:A judge in San Francisco ruled that California's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional (a state appeals court later reversed the decision). China's parliament enacted a law authorizing force to stop rival Taiwan from pursuing formal independence. U2, The Pretenders, The O'Jays, Percy Sledge and blues legend Buddy Guy were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
One year ago:President Barack Obama met at the White House with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva; afterward, Obama downplayed divisions between the U.S. and Europe over how to tackle the world's financial crisis.
Today's Birthdays:Actor Michael Caine is 77. Composer-conductor Quincy Jones is 77. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey is 65. Rock musician Walt Parazaider (Chicago) is 65. Actor Steve Kanaly is 64. Comedian Billy Crystal is 62. Prince Albert II, the ruler of Monaco, is 52. Actress Laila Robins is 51. Actress Tamara Tunie is 51. Actress Penny Johnson Jerald is 49. Producer-director-writer Kevin Williamson is 45. Actor Gary Anthony Williams is 44. Actress Megan Follows is 42. Rock musician Michael Bland is 41. Country singer Kristian Bush is 40. Rock musician Derrick (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) is 38. Actress Grace Park is 36. Actor Jake Fogelnest is 31. Actor Chris Klein is 31. Actress Kate Maberly is 28. Singer-musician Taylor Hanson (Hanson) is 27. Actor Jamie Bell is 24.
Thought for Today:"There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds." — Edna Ferber, American author (1887-1968).
