Published: October 12, 2007 06:11 pm            

GRAND ISLAND HISTORY: The week of Oct. 13 - Oct. 19

50 years ago

• The Hooker Chemical Company announced it would build a research center on Long Road at an estimated cost of $3.5 million and expected it to be completed by early 1959. The 69,000-square-foot center would be built using the latest modular methods, according to the Oct. 10, 1957, edition of the Island Dispatch. Glass-blowing rooms would be on-site as well as a lunch room and a solvents storage area. Air conditioning would be provided for all laboratories and rooms in the main section. Future development included an auditorium, a research office wing, another lab wing and more storage for solvents.

• Lane Drugs at the Grand Island Plaza offered a hot water bottle for 98 cents, two hair nets for 11 cents, eight ounces of hydrogen peroxide for 19 cents, and 100 aspirin tablets for 9 cents.

• An eyewitness to the 1956 Hungarian revolt against its Communist government was going to speak to the women of St. Timothy Lutheran Church about his experiences during the uprising. The Rev. Denes Buth, soon to be installed as pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Buffalo, was also set to speak about contemporary church life in the United States.

• Joseph Rizzo and Richard Couch were looking for residents to join the Falconwood Property Owners Association. Officers were going to be elected at a future meeting.

        

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