Step Back in Time features community news items from The Daily Star 25 and 50 years ago.
25 years ago
Nov. 21, 1984
STAMFORD _ In keeping with the 1984-85 program of Delta Kappa Gamma, "Express the Aspirations of a Global Society," George and Peggy Marcus of Stamford showed slides and commented on their trip to Israel at the recent meeting of Beta Omicron chapter.
The meeting, in the home of Mrs. Beverly Reed, also included a report by Areta Weyl on the Eastern Regional Conference in Fishkill. Conference speaker Geraldine Flaherty, director of Instruction Performance Learning Systems, challenged her audience of teachers to prepare and teach a curriculum to provide skills, values and traditions for the 21st Century, Mrs. Weyl said.
50 years ago
Nov. 21, 1959
COOPERSTOWN _ Automobile license plates for 1960 will go on sale at the County Clerk's office here and at the Motor Vehicle Bureau branch in Oneonta on Dec. 1, according to Robert M. Atwell, Otsego County Clerk.
Car owners will get two plates _ orange letters on black background _ for 1960. Fee for passenger cars will remain at 50 cents per 100 pounds.
Station wagons will get passenger car plates for the first time, but the fee for this type vehicle will remain at 75 cents per 100 pounds. Heretofore, station wagons have used special "suburban" plates.
Mr. Atwell noted that Otsego County has 14 tons of plates on sale this year, a sample of which, stamped KP-1, NY- EMPIRE STATE, was shown by Mr. Atwell to Mrs. J. Gordon Fowler, employee at the Motor Vehicle Bureau.
