Remember When for March 31

95 years ago

April 2, 1915

Monday Governor Boyle signed the gambling bill. "My approval of senate bill No. 84 is certainly not based on personal feeling that gambling is advantageous to Nevada or any other state, but it comes after an investigation of conditions which led me to believe that the public sentiment against the playing of the five card games permitted under the act, is not strong enough to make the law of 1909 enforceable. Cards are being played for money in every county in the state and were played openly and notoriously under Governor Oddie's administration, which in light of his well known opposition to gambling, leaves the conclusion that the law could not be enforced by him."

80 years ago

April 4, 1930

Male pheasants in Carson Valley are now in full plumage just prior to the mating season, and in actual cash value they are worth exactly $120 per bird, when killed illegally, that price being set by Judge Krummes last Saturday. Last Friday Otto Hussman espied a stranger taking a pot shot a one of the male pheasants and succeeded in killing the bird protected by law. Securing the license number from the stranger's car, Mr. Hussman hurried to Minden and informed Sheriff Park.

50 years ago

March 31, 1960

April 1 marks the beginning of the official 1960 Census of Population and Housing, and residents of this area can soon expect a visit from one of the designated enumerators for the district. The 18th decennial nose count will be the task of some 160,000 workers whose rounds will take them to every dwelling unit in the United States.

25 years ago

April 4, 1985

Minden Heights, developer John Shahin's residential proposal for the East Valley, heads for its first public workshop with the Douglas County Planning Commission. The first-year plan for the residential area at Buckeye and East Valley roads calls for a 500-unit mix of apartments, cluster and single-family homes. Later development includes estate homes, patio homes, manufactured homes, condominiums, town houses, a church, fire station, parks, two schools, golf course, equestrian center and cemetery to be built on 1,220 acres in the next 10-plus years.

10 years ago

March 29, 2000

Federal and state officials are working desperately to keep thousands, maybe even millions, of gallons of polluted water from flowing from the Leviathan Mine into tributaries of the East Fork of the Carson River this spring. Chances of the endeavor's being a complete success are slim. However, for every day officials are able to keep working at the Alpine County mine, they are likely stopping tens of thousands of gallons of acidic, toxic water from hitting Leviathan Creek, which runs into nearby Bryant Creek and eventually the river.

A look at past issues of The Record-Courier by Sharlene Irete.