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Editor's note • Every Saturday, Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby pulls out long-forgotten pieces of history to give readers a glimpse of life, crime and misadventure in Utah that week in 1916, 1941, 1966 and 1991 — showing just how much we've changed, and how much we haven't. Recognize a relative or have a story to share? Visit Facebook.com/DisturbingHistory or email rkirby@sltrib.com.

1917

Jan. 14 • SLC police are looking for a person with a bald head and size 12 feet who burglarized a D&RG boxcar, taking two bottles of hair restorer.

Jan. 15 • Guns blazing, SLC police officers chase two burglars who smash a window and rob a man on Commercial (now Regent) Street. Growing tired of being shot at, both suspects surrender and are taken to jail.

• Salt Lake police get their second lesson in the use of the new traffic semaphore (invented by SLCPD Sgt. Lester Wire) that will go into operation next month and soon sweep across the nation.

Jan. 17 • The Salt Lake Housewives League presents monographs to seven downtown restaurants declared the most free of flies.

Jan. 18 • The streams supplying SLC with water freeze, causing Mayor W. Mont Ferry to issue a proclamation urging the conservation of water. Men are sent into City Creek Canyon to chop ice.

Popular in music • "Babes in the Woods" by Harry MacDonough & Lucy Isabelle Marsh.

1942

Jan. 14 • A Davis High School bus with 40 students aboard rear-ends a car on U.S. 91 near Page's Lane, injuring three people.

• Convicted of a Dec. 24 assault and battery on state Sen. McKinley Morrill in Junction, UHP Patrolman Armond A. Luke is suspended indefinitely from duty. During an argument with Morrill over the political appointment of guards on a reservoir near town, Luke punches the legislator and knocks him down. Luke is returned to duty shortly, and killed in the line of duty in 1959.

Jan 15 • An early morning fire at 136 W. 2100 South drives the family of Mr. and Mrs. F.G. Ferre into the cold, clad only in their pajama. Total damage is $1,000.

Jan. 18 • Layton police Officer Afton Anderson is shot at three times when he stops a suspect in an Ogden armed robbery. The suspect escapes in the darkness of a cow pasture south of town.

• In a dispute over pay, the Salt Lake County Board of Health receives resignations of 21 of its 28 public health nurses.

Jan. 19 • After his merchant ship is torpedoed near Pearl Harbor and the survivors spend 10 days in a lifeboat, Alvin A. Atkinson, 21, SLC, finally arrives home.

Also this week • Coffee costs 31 cents a pound. A 48-pound bag of flour costs $1.49.

Popular in music • "Piano Concerto in B Flat" by Freddy Martin, and "Blue Champagne" by Jimmy Dorsey.

Popular in film • Gary Cooper and Joan Leslie star in "Sergeant York."

1967

Jan. 15 • A violent blast shatters the home of the Parley Miller family, 882 Franklin St., Ogden. No one is injured. The cause — since neither Kirby nor Sonny is living in Utah at the time — is immediately blamed on a buildup of natural gas.

• An avalanche between Alta and Silver Fork buries three members of a group of 13 cross-country skiers. Miraculously, only one of the men is seriously injured.

Jan. 16 • Utah Gov. Cal Rampton asks the Legislature for a $685.96 million budget.

Jan. 18 • SLC Police Chief Dewey J. Fillis announces a "100-man" Civil Defense Auxiliary Police force for help during fires, riots and disasters. Training for the reserve force will begin immediately.

Popular this week in music• "Coming Home Soldier" by Bobby Vinton, "Single Girl" by Sandy Posey, and "Devil With the Blue Dress On" by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.

1992

Jan 16 • As many as 20 handguns are stolen during a burglary of Gallenson's, 166 E. 200 South, SLC.

Jan. 17 • Salt Lake police investigate what may be the first homicide of the year after the body of an unidentified woman is found in a pile of weeds near 750 W. South Temple.

Jan. 19 • Robert Redford says the Sundance Film Festival, of which he assumed directorship seven years ago, may be growing too big for Park City. Solutions are being sought.

• A man who fears his wife is involved with her church co-worker, enters the nursery area of the LDS Rivergrove chapel, 800 N. 700 West, and pulls a gun. Other parishioners manage to talk the man into surrendering the weapon before the arrival of police, who arrest him.

Also this week: • A Canon EO6 camcorder is "only" $599.99 at Gart Brothers.

Popular in music • "Addams Groove" by MC Hammer, "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" by George Michael & Elton John, and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.