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From: "Ron Morgan" <>
Subject: Looking Back
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:50:38 -0800


The Paper got here really late this week. Just arrived this afternoon.

Looking Back is a regular feature of the Modoc County Record, a weekly newspaper published in Alturas, California.

Looking Back

80 Years Ago - 1921
MONDAY NIGHT at Lakeview the NCO engine went into the ditch at the Y. The engineer. fireman and brake man had narrow escapes from injury or death....The Alturas Fire Department will give the annual Masquerade Ball at the Orpheum on Feb. 22.

60 Years Ago - 1941
E.E. HUGHES, head of the field , airplane and instruction divisions of the CAA, has OK'd the local airport for the school of flying instruction that is to start immediately....Plans are now being made for the planting of trees on Arbor Day, March 7. The Forest Service, Community Club and the Garden Club are cooperating on the project. Two thousand trees are on hand to be planted on the curb line along the streets.

50 Years Ago - 1951
ALTHOUGH not on strike or riding the "sick book", many Alturas railroaders are not working as a direct result of the switchmen's fight against the railroads in other parts of the country. Four "pool runs" which ordinarily come through Alturas have been cut off leaving the trainmen without work....At least two Alturas residents witnessed the atomic bomb explosions which was set off at 5:47 Tuesday morning at Frenchman's Flat, 100 miles from Las Vegas Nev. Dr. Jack Chace and Delbert Fitzpatrick were the early risers.

30 Years Ago - 1971
FINAL AND official figures of the 1970 census show a staggering ten percent decline in the population of Modoc County since the census of 1960.Modoc's official population was set at 7469 compared with 8038 in 1960. Alturas was figured to have lost only 20 residents since the last census.

That is all for this week. See you after the next edition.

Ron Morgan





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