100 years ago: A notice about the gasoline shortage in the United States said: “Everyone you meet is yelling for gasoline and not a gallon to be had in town. The dealers say there is three or four tanks on the road, but that is the same old story, ‘A car load on the road,’ and the Rio Grande expected to deliver – Bawls!”
75 years ago: Colorado State Patrol reported that Royal Baker, a 49-year-old disabled war veteran from Monte Vista, died in an Alamosa hospital after his car, traveling at high speed, crashed into the rear of a Durango shipping firm truck. Baker’s car “hit the moving truck so hard the whole front end of the automobile went under the trailer.”
50 years ago: Two Fort Lewis College students were in a car crash near campus and were saved by seat belts, according to the doctor who provided services.
25 YEARS AGO: The Southern Ute Police Department was allegedly on the lookout for a man suspected of being involved in a poaching incident that occurred near the junction of U.S. Highway 550 and County Road 318.
