Here are highlights in history for May 13, gleaned from the files of the Albert Lea Tribune:

1993 — A Tribune article by Lifestyles Editor Marlene Behle featured Marvel Fair who would be retiring after 33 years as a school lunch cook.

1983 — One of the eating places advertising in the Tribune was Tubbs & Co., located in Austin’s Oakpark Mall.

1953 — The mystery of the burned out lights at Albert Lea’s Abbott Field was solved when a repair crew discovered that a hungry gopher had chewed into an underground electrical cable.