Past Pages for Sunday, April 6, 2014

140 years ago

The fence-repairing time hath come, the dearest of the year. The frugal housewife with broom in hand and carpet on the brain now makes out her elongated list of wants. Housecleaning is but a sudsy, preclusive flourish to the inviting of the carpenter with his tools, the mason with his trowel, the painter with his pots and the horny-handed gardener with his spade. And yet these springtime repairs are not without their recompense.

130 years ago

A useless office. The Austin Reveille is commenting upon the fact that the superintendent of public instruction does not obey Section 9 of the School Law, which compels him to visit each county in the state once a year. The law says it is imperative and should be obeyed. When the superintendent asked for the office, he worked for it like his life depended on it ... and was willing to work 23 hours a day to in the “glorious cause of education.” The taxpayers are sick of supporting the drones in the office who seek it for its emoluments and the relief it affords the incompetent and lazy.

100 years ago

Fred Dangberg came in yesterday from his round-up of the company’s cattle that have been ranging in Southern Oregon. Eight cars of stock came in over the Virginia and Truckee yesterday and continued on to the valley. The pasturage in the valley this year has never been better.

70 years ago

Housewives were advised today by the Office of Price Administration to take good care of Ration Book IV and keep Ration Book III in a safe place. For the first time rationing began a year ago, all buying of rationed foods is done from one book — Book IV, and will be in use three times as long as other books.

50 years ago

“The Lord must have been looking out for us this time,” said San Jose businessman Ralph A. Weaver, 45, a passenger in a light plane which made a forced landing above the 11,000 foot level in the Sierra east of Yosemite National Park. Weaver and his companions were rescued by Air Force helicopters Saturday and flown to Reno.

30 years ago

Sheriff Hal Dunn and the Board of Supervisors, who together comprise the liquor board, asked the district attorney’s office to revamp a policy dealing with the issuance of licenses to out of town owners of local bars, stores and restaurants. It seems absentee owners and managers are working under former owner’s liquor licenses.

Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.