100 years ago: SUNNYSIDE – “One of the worst wind and rain storms in many years visited our mesa. The rain came down with such force as to beat the alfalfa to the ground and small streams of water were running everywhere.”
75 years ago: “Silverton miners and aroused citizens ‘cleaned house’ with the C10 union, deported several of that organization’s ring leaders and agitators, and then the miners formed a new local union which voted to end the strike which has paralyzed Silverton industry since July 16.”
50 years ago: “Kids in family cars, hanging to their mothers’ hands and in school buses will walk into District 9-R schools for the first day of school in the 1964-65 school term. ... Buildings are clean and repaired. Desks are ready for the new pencil boxes and tablets. Lockers stand open to receive books and equipment.”
25 years ago: “Time has run out on a possible unification of Durango’s two hospitals and the La Plata Community Hospital board of directors is expecting to vote to lease to an outside, for-profit company. Such a vote could drive away one-third of the doctors who admit patients to Community, according to a recent survey conducted at the board’s request by the hospital’s chief of staff.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
