100 years ago: “Weather Observer James reports that the temperature yesterday morning at 5:30 registered 14 degrees above zero. The weather forecast offers little relief from the present cold wave.”
75 years ago: “Durango has made its choice – through the voice of the merchants – of dates on which to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving will be observed on Nov. 21 – the date proclaimed by President Roosevelt and Gov. Ralph Carr of Colorado. ... The traditional Thanksgiving day, which this year would be the 28th, will go unobserved in Durango.”
50 years ago: Hesperus – “Thirty-three bulls sold for an average of $533.33 per head at the 17th annual registered Hereford show and sale under the sponsorship of the San Juan Basin Hereford Association. This is $93 per head better than the average for the 1964 sale.”
25 years ago: “A National Guard alert remains in effect for 70 medical personnel from Durango’s Detachment 1 of the 928th Medical Company and another 52 guardsmen from the 928th from Cortez. The Durango and Cortez units could be mobilized to ‘backfill’ openings stateside or could be sent to Saudi Arabia as part of Operation Desert Shield.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
