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10 YEARS AGO

Oct. 22, 1999 — The federal subsistence takeover ought to herald a new era of tribal co-management and government contracting with Native groups, Tanana Chiefs Conference President Steve Ginnis told delegates to the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention Thursday.

“It provides a window of opportunity for Alaska tribes to insert themselves into the system,” Ginnis said.

25 YEARS AGO

Oct. 22, 1984 — Sunday’s second presidential debate was apparently popular viewing fare for Fairbanksans, but did little to sway the votes of a dozen people contacted at Fairbanks’ downtown post office this morning.

“I think they both did very good, but I think Reagan won,” said Polly Flatt.

Flatt said Mondale continued to dwell on the country’s deficit — and not enough more.

50 YEARS AGO

Oct. 22, 1959 — A young bull moose, tangled in an aerial target-towing cable, has been set free after experts put him to sleep with the use of a paralyzing drug.

The animal’s plight was discovered by Lt. Donald R. Massey of the Army’s Tukon Command.

75 YEARS AGO

Oct. 22, 1934 — To most U.S. adults, airplanes are still the most exciting means of transportation but to youngsters, not so. Last week, a 10-year-old named Elsa Elizabeth Geise flew from Seattle to Newark, unaccompanied, on a plane of the United Airlines. From her home in Fairbanks, she reached Seattle by boat. Thoroughly unimpressed by her transcontinental flight, she told astonished newshawks: “First thing I’m going to do is ride in a streetcar, because I’ve never been in one. Then I’m going to ride in the subway. Then I want to ride in an automobile. Then I’m going to ride in an express elevator. ...”