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50 YEARS AGO: Jan. 12, 1968
George A. Sessler retired as superintendent of highways for Altoona with 50 years of service. He started in 1918 at
17 cents an hour driving a horse-drawn tractor. He offered to stay longer, but City Council said he must retire at age 65.
25 YEARS AGO: Jan. 12, 1993
Tyrone Fire Chief and Borough Council member James Beckwith said that some downtown buildings were so dangerous he would not send his men in to fight a fire there, but would fight it from the sidewalk, calling them "death traps" and citing the vacant City Hotel and Steele buildings as examples.
10 YEARS AGO: Jan. 12, 2008
A group of Bishop Guilfoyle High School students in teacher Debra Locke's business administration class visited the Saint Francis University Small Business Development Center to learn how to create a business plan and were working on developing six separate plans like a miniature golf course and pizzeria.
--Compiled by Tim Doyle
Today is Friday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2018. There are 353 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 12, 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, unanimously ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.
On this date:
– In 1773, the first public museum in America was organized in Charleston, South Carolina.
– In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. military should stay in Vietnam until Communist aggression there was stopped.