100 years ago: “Joe Green, who has been ill with pneumonia and typhoid during the winter months, is reported to be enjoying better health, and to be able to get out for a short time each day.”
75 years ago: “After having been crippled since birth, little 4½-year-old Profilia Garcia of Ignacio is now able to walk and play like the rest of the children her age. ... Examination revealed that she had been born with no hip socket for the ball joint in one leg. Through funds furnished by the division of crippled children of the state of Colorado the small girl was taken to Denver where she received corrective treatment.”
50 years ago: “A frightened man, armed and carrying a small section of the instrumented No. 1 stage of the missing Athena missile, walked into the office of Ignacio Town Marshal Owen Callison. Junior Chavez, who farms near Ignacio, was hunting for a missing cow when he came across the 3-foot center section of the No. 1 stage of the Athena missile about four miles southwest of Ignacio. It had been the object of a wide search since the Air Force missile went astray and other sections landed near the El Paso compressor station west of La Plata field, Feb. 10.”
25 years ago: “Any politician looking for dirt on Wyoming Rep. Dick Cheney, now the U.S. defense secretary nominee, won’t get any from his younger brother. ‘Dick’s good reputation is one reason they supposedly picked him, as far as I know,’ said Robert Cheney, who lives in Bayfield. The Wyoming congressman is known as ‘Mr. Clean’ in Washington, D.C., and there’s nothing that will tarnish that image, the younger Cheney said.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
