50 YEARS AGO: “Dear Senora San Juan: What’s this world coming to? All this tommy-rot I keep reading in the Herald about recreation for children – organized play groups, swimming classes, new baseball parks and clubs for girls ... my five kids are now picking up all this socialistic talk about recreation. I’ve taught them the right way to live is to earn what they get. This is what the Bible says. – Mad Mother”
25 YEARS AGO: “Thinking Green: In January of 1989, a tailings pile cleanup employee received a ‘deep dose’ of radiation at the bend in the Animas River behind Durango’s sewage-treatment plant, and his radiation monitor about leaped out of his hand. A health physicist for Chem-Nuclear said the worker’s radiation dose was well within the safe annual exposure limit of 5 REM. But the employee says he’s still a little nervous around dental X-rays and won’t eat fish caught downstream from the rapids.”
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and The Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
