Looking Back – October 7

2008

Armed with a shotgun and a handgun, a man and a woman robbed a clerk at Red Roof Inn at Taylorsville.

1993

Cummins Engine Co. leased the former Jay C Food Store space in West Hill Shopping Center and neighboring store managers were told a training center for Cummins Electronics Inc. would be located there.

1968

Conceding that “odds were looking poorer” on finding a site suitable for a sanitary landfill, city, civil and industrial officials considered backing county commissioners’ proposal for an incinerator plant to solve the long-range need for garbage disposal.