10 Years Ago

  • The American Legion prepared to hold a holiday dinner in Hawthorne. “This is a pooling of community resources, that people who have people visiting from out of town, or don’t have the facilities and stuff to cook a meal, come here and it’s a buffet style deal,” said Ken Carothers, Legion commander in Mineral County. “They can’t eat as much as they want and they can take as much as they want. Everybody gets as much as they want until it runs out.”

20 Years Ago

  • Elia Belle and Lily Lopez, security guards for Day & Zimmermann Hawthorne Corporation were to be featured at the Gall’s Public Safety and Apparel catalog. The August 2004 catalog also featured Aaron Washington, Steve Adams, Valerie Hubbard, Rena Crittenden, Sue Teters and Don Lonewolf.
  • A petition was circulated in Schurz for the removal of Chairman Victoria Guzman and Councilmember Marlene Begay. The petition sighted they were not acting in the best interests of the Tribe members who reside on the Schurz Reservation. There were 223 signatures from members of the Walker River Paiute Indian Tribe on the petition.

30 Years Ago

  • More than 300 anglers competed for her prizes at the Annual Walker, Lake, Fishing, Derby. Ed Messini of Yerington won first place for the biggest fish caught during the derby.
  • Veterans of Foreign Wars leaders, Tellkamp, VFW State Commander and Don Swanson, national Special Aide-de-Camp, both members of VFW Post 2313 of Hawthorne, joined their Commander in Chief, George Cramer, and National council member Johnnie Caugh on a tour of Southern Nevada VFW Post.
  • A huge pine tree made its way through Hawthorne on its way to the White House in Washington D. C. It was donated and transported by a California tree grower’s organization.

40 Years Ago

  • The winners of the racquet challenge sponsored by DZB recreation services were Dave Womack and Michael Arndt. The men were pictured in the newspaper holding their trophies with Brake Nelson, gymnasium supervisor.
  • On a bid of $849,000 (equal to about  3 million in 2013) the construction firm J. P. Associates of Sparks began work on the truck bypass.
  • U. S. Army officials temporarily canceled the proposal of white phosphorus ammunition and burning at the Hawthorne Ammunition Plant.
  • The Mineral County School District approved a grant from the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act in the amount of $14,170.43 was to be spent in the four school libraries.

50 Years Ago

  • A fire at the hot melt facility at the Naval Depot was under investigation, although preliminary investigation indicated that sabotage was not involved. The hot melt facility was used to coat metal surfaces with asphalt prior to explosion loading.
  • Nevada Senator Alan Bible said he expected Congress to complete work on an appropriations bill containing $955,000 for construction of a demilitarized plant at the Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot.
  • Four construction firms submitted bids on a contract to build a new physical education facility for Mineral County High School, but all bids exceeded the amount of money available for the project. The school district had $525,000 available for the project which remained in the fund from the one million dollar bond issued approved by votes of the county three years early.

60 Years Ago

  • Work on the latest phase of the construction of the new Mt. Grant Gen Hospital was progressing without interruption despite an apparent union dispute and electrical work being done by a sun-contractor.
  • New county ambulance was delivered. The price of the ambulance was $10,268 (equal to about $78,00 in 2013 ) minus trade in allowance of $1,873 to the five year old ambulance.
  • A Volunteer Fire Department was organized in Schurz, Officers of the new community group were Carroll Summerville, Wesley Jim, Lester Roberts, Ray Williams and Richard Allen.

70 Years Ago

  • An article headlined “City Has Many Problems –  but so do many of its residents” outlined the action taken at the Hawthorne City Council meeting with Mayor Maurice Adams acting as spokesman. During the various arguments over at proposal expenditure it was only $95 being collected by police Judge John Anderson.
  • Sale of motor vehicle licenses was suspended following a call for a special session of the legislature to untangle the mix up in the new registration laws.

80 Years Ago

  • The largest trucking operations of its kind in the United started in southern Nevada as a result of the signing of a contract between basic Magnesium and Wells Fargo.
  • The Hawthorne USO. Announced an extension program of holiday entertainment for local servicemen.
  • The Serpents prepared for their opening game of the 1953 basketball season with Fernley as their opponent.

90 Years Ago

  • Mineral County was allowed 64 jobs under the new federal relief program to be known as the Civil Works Administration (CWA). A Committee na Ed to oversee the project work in this county included Neva Ferretti, Dick Pledge, Martin Chaitovich, from Hawthorne, B. F. Baker and Ernest Rackliffe, from Mina. Recommendation for a work project in Hawthorne was cemetery improvement and work around the courthouse.
  • Donald  Cameron, the state superintendent of vocational education, set January 7-21 as dates for a prospectors school to be conducted in Hawthorne. A similar course would be offered later in Mina if enough residents signed to attend.