Bygones: 40 years ago, West End businesses took issue with free downtown parking

News Tribune, Jan. 30, 1983

• The West End Business and Civic Association has asked the Duluth City Council to reject a proposal to provide two hours of free parking downtown. If the proposal is approved, the association will ask the council to remove parking meters in the West End.
• Duluth Police Chief Eli Miletich met with Duluth Area Vocational-Technical Institute officials yesterday to discuss the lack of police training in Duluth. One idea is to start a branch of the Hibbing Vocational-Technical School's law enforcement program in Duluth.

News Tribune, Jan. 30, 1923

• W.F. Murnian, commissioner of public safety, yesterday suggested Duluth needs a hospital or home for quarantining persons afflicted with communicable diseases. Murnian suggested remodeling the present county jail into an isolation hospital when the new jail is completed.
• The Hibbing School Board is considering a plan to utilize the auditorium of the new $3 million high school to present road shows and other theatricals. Heretofore, Hibbing has been deprived of many theatrical productions because there was no place to stage them.