Remember When June 23, 2016

10 years ago (2006)
•It’s not a question of “if.” It’s a question of “when.”
That’s what public health officials are saying about the next pandemic flu. …
Simultaneous drills in Rock and Nobles counties Thursday were designed to prepare the communities for a public health emergency like the bird flu, should one ever occur.
 
25 years ago (1991)
•Beginning in the fall of 1992, seventh and 12th graders in Minnesota will have to prove they’ve had a second dose of the standard combination vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) in addition to the MMR vaccination that most people get in early childhood, according to a release form Nobles-Rock Health Service.
Students in the seventh and 12th grades will have to provide written proof that they have had the second shot before they can enroll for the 1992-1993 school year. Records kept by parents are acceptable, provided they include the specific date of each immunization. Physicals records will not be needed.
 
50 years ago (1966)
•Medicare is now an accepted certified service at the Luverne Community Hospital.
Monday, Joseph McFadden, hospital administrator, received confirmation by mail that as of June 15 the Luverne hospital had been approved for Medicare.
Dr. Paul D. Rud, president of the Luverne Medical Board said, “We were pretty well set for Medicare. We were looking ahead to this and started working on the program about nine months ago. We had good cooperation of the staff, administration and the hospital board.”
 
75 years ago (1941)
•Although the rainy, cold weather last week slowed progress somewhat, road grading in the county is now going on uninterrupted, and it is expected that graveling and regraveling will begin sometime next week.
The county grader is working on county aid road No. 11, starting at the north county line, one mile east of the west state line. This is the northwest corner of Section 1, township 104, range 47. This grading will go south six miles, to the junction of the Sherman road.
The county is planning to newly gravel 25 ½ miles of roads this summer.
 
100 years ago (1916)
•Forty automobile loads of boosters have this week carried to nearly every town within a radius of 35 miles of Luverne word that Luverne is to celebrate the Fourth and that Luverne’s 10th annual chautauqua will open on July 1st.
This big booster trip, which was part of the advertising campaign planned by the Fourth of July celebration committee, covered three days, and from fifty to seventy men went out on each trip. Part of Carver’s Military band accompanied the boosters to furnish music at various towns visited.