100 years ago: “There are now 229 pupils in the Durango High School. The school is badly crowded, more room being needed it is understood.”
75 years ago: “La Plata County’s young men marched to the various polling places and registered under the compulsory military training draft law. The county’s total was 1,900 who registered on that day.”
50 years ago: “La Plata Field is a bomber base for part of the year, but most people don’t know it. For 60 days in the late summer each year, three sparkling yellow and white Grumman torpedo bombers from World War II are based at La Plata Field. Owned by Tom Seeley and his company of Rock Springs, Wyoming, they’re at La Plata Field under contract to the Forest Service to drop slurry – water and bentonite – on forest fires.”
25 years ago: A classified lost advertisement read, “Girls heartbreak club jean jacket, lost near Needham.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
