10 Years Ago

  • Starting later this month, elementary school students will pay $1.25 for breakfast and $2 for lunch, junior high students will pay $1.50 for breakfast and $2.50 for lunch and high school students will pay $1,50 for breakfast and $2.75 for lunch.
  • Devonte Williams, 20, who broke out of the Mineral County Jail in May, pleaded guilty to an escape charge and was sentenced to spend five years in prison.
  • Triston Schlep, 17, is on the verge of earning the coveted red, white, blue band silver patch. On July 27, he took a significant step to earning the rank of Eagle Scout.

20 Years Ago

  • Sergeant First Class Joe T. Ingram III, was awarded the Bronze Star for his meritorious service in Iraq. He was assigned to the Army Materiel Command’s Logistics Support Element.
  • An emergency closure to off-highway vehicles and camping in the riparian corridor along a portion of Walker River of the West Walker River has been instituted due to destruction of vegetation and compaction of soil.
  • Richard Hartman and Mike Trujillo worked on the Lucky Boy Pass after a cloudburst covered the road in mud and debris. These Road Department guys were called bin on a Sunday to make the road passable.

30 Years Ago

  • The Griffin Racing Team from Lee Vining, Ca. was featured in the WNDTRA news from for the week Floyd Griffin and and his son Jim, dazzled the racing fans for years with their outstanding racing abilities at the Hawthorne Speedway racing night.
  • After many months of work and negotiations Mount Grant General Hospital received permission to have a whole body C.A.T. Scanner located in Hawthorne for regularly scheduled and emergency testing.

40 Years Ago

  • Four girls of the Hawthorne Stingray Swim Team traveled to Susanville, Ca. The girls Dawn Archambault, Randi Fenton, Karen Kitchenmaster, and Michele Trevor collectively won 20 ribbons ranging from first to sixth place.
  • Teamsters Local 995 sponsored a Labor Day celebration in Hawthorne with a 3.1 mile run held, followed by a slow pitch softball tournament and an afternoon picnic at Lions Park.
  • Kathy Smith became the Mineral County Public Health Nurse following the resignation of Pat Rudy’s who had moved to California.
  • Members of the Hawthorne champion women’s softball team were; Shelly Gage, Lonnie Winters, Sherry Verling, Elena Viani, Dody Lopez, Brenda Manfredi, Kim Schumann, Andie Marshal, Nancy Schaff, Valerie Van Arsdale, Danelle Ritz, Tracee Thibault, Crystal Moreno, Jane Doroff, Lily Brid, and Gail Geeredes. Coaches were Raul Lopez, and Les Rose. Bat Boys Daniel Coen and Justin Manfredi.

50 Years Ago

  • A joint meeting of the Mineral County Commissioners and the Mineral County Regional Planning Commission was called to try to resolve the problem created by a “divided” A Street on the West side of Hawthorne.
  • Five Hawthorne Army National Guardsmen were called to give assistance in fighting a forest fire in the Virginia City area. The Hawthorne men who responded were Marcos Garcia, Michael Garcia, Merv Roberts, James Baca, and Daniel Cordoza.
  • The Hawthorne Lions Club continued raising money for community projects, including improvements at the swimming pool area. The first project was a blacktop area and improvements at the area surrounding the bath house. Plans were being made to install lawns, trees, shrubs, and a picnic area.
  • Frank Weinrauch accepted the position of court reporter for the Fifth Judicial District Court.

60 Years Ago

  • A formal petition urging the closure of a house of prostitution located in a trailer on privately owned and patented land in Schurz on the Walker River Indian Reservation was signed by 110 residents of that community.
  • After 35 years of ownership by Pete Castellani and his sister, Dolly MacBride, who actively owned and managed the Hawthorne Club, they announced that they announced that they were selling the business to Browne L. “Brownie” Dawkins, well known Hawthorne resident who also operated Brownie’s TV Service in Hawthorne.
  • Uncle Vane Day said “Drop a word of cheer and kindness, just a flash and it is gone. But there’s a hundred ripples circling on and on and on.”

70 Years Ago

  • At the City Council meeting the Hawthorne 20-30 Club received approval to sell beer and soft drinks at the new hard top racing track with the provision that they supply containers for the empty cans and also police the grounds after the race. The Annette’s 20-39 Auxiliary were given approval to serve food at the races.
  • Birds for construction of a new hospital in Hawthorne exceeded the amount of money available.
  • The Hawthorne Babbitt Babe Ruth team qualified for the state finals after their 8-3 victory in the first game and 7-3 victory in the second game over the Mason Valley Babe Ruth All-Stars.
  • Senator George W. Malone advised the Independent News that the Fallon Naval Airfield would be reactivated as a naval air station and appropriations totaling $5,211,000 for the new construction at the field and $1,448,000 for operation of the facility had been approved.

80 Years Ago

  • The Family Liquor Store, next to the Stop & Shop grocery market, offered 24 eleven ounce cans of Budweiser beer for $3.75 and Coca Cola for $1.20 a case.
  • County was urged to double war stamp purchases to help build the aircraft carrier Shangri, La.

90 Years Ago

  • The Nevada State Supreme Court denied a petition of John Wichman to nullify the appointment of Oscar Gerbig to the Office of County Commissioner and restore the board position of Wichman. Wichman had been elected to the office in 1930 but became a resident of Lyon County when his East Walker Ranch home was included in a land area detached from Mineral County and annexed to Lyon County. Governor Fred Balzar appointed Oscar Gerbig, a resident of Hawthorne to fill the vacancy. Wichman contended that he legislated out of office and the count agreed that it would be unconstitutional to remove a person from office by legislation but held Wichman’s charge of residence status was incidental to legislation adopted for a totally different purpose to change county boundary lines.
  • Captain Babbitt, NAD Commanding Officer, forwarded to the 12th Naval District headquarters a proposed program to employ 50 men for four months performing work related to the ammunition depot, and requested the program be submitted to the Federal Emergency Relief Agency for consideration. A forest army camp would be established to work on eight projects, landing field for airplanes, new rifle range, earth mounds covering magazines, rebuilding magazine barricades, construction of a dam in Rose Creek Meadows, roads and trails up Mt. Grant, road up Mt. Grant, road up Cottonwood Canyon, and contour survey of Cat Creek watershed, Captain Babbitt submitted detailed supporting data for each project.
  • NAD again was scheduled to go to a five day work week effective August 6.
  • Jasper observed that a man is never sure whether he is guilty of some form of income tax evasion but there is no doubt that he knows when he is not guilty, simply by validating his total income for the year.