10 Years Ago

  • In the early morning hours of April 6, a stabbing took place on the casino floor of the El Capitan Casino. Hawthorne resident Manny Morales was the victim. Morales was treated and released at Mt. Grant Hospital.
  • The first of what Shelly Hartmann, executive director of the Mineral County Economic Authority, hopes are many Hawthorne Spring Flings got off to a roaring start Saturday, April 5. The event celebrates the spring season and is also a fundraiser and promotional event for Hawthorne’s Community Garden.
  • The petition to recall Mineral County Commissioner Paul MacBeth fizzled out in April.

20 Years Ago

  • Lt. Colonel David W. Dornblaser, Commanding Officer at the  Hawthorne Army Depot HAWD, was assigned duty in Iraq with the Army Materiel Command and relinquished his command on April 15.
  • The Holder Group purchased the Winn Slot Route, which operates in northern Nevada.

30 Years Ago

  • The Hawthorne Little League Association was installing metal bleachers at the Hawthorne Little League ballpark. League president Tina Cardenas , announced that Hawthorne had been selected as the host town for the 1999 State Little League playoffs.
  • Greg Coppola announced his candidacy for County Commissioner.
  • A mobile home on M street in Hawthorne was destroyed by fire. The occupants were not at home at the time of the fire.
  • The Mineral County Sheriff’s Department Honor Guard, under the supervision of Sgt. Ed Dyer, received an award of 1st Place in the Honor Guard Group in the Nevada Day Parade in Carson City. Members of the marching unit were Reta Atkins, Ben Benscoter, Ed Dyer, Steve Hagen, Bob Hoferer, and Jerry Hunter.
  • 1994 Mineral County High School Junior Prom Queen candidates were; Candy Black, Sunny Cardenas, Misty Jones, and Starla Wilson, Prom King  candidates were Darren Hamrey, T.C. Knight, Lew Lockwood, and Josh Neade.

40 Years Ago

  • Successful bidder for all of Block 118 in Hawthorne was Orus Bowles & G. Wise Corp., when the county owned lots were sold for $33,000.
  • Bids on a contract to install curbs, gutters and sidewalks at the Hawthorne Airport were solicited.

50 Years Ago

  • Chester Reynolds won the Regional Speech Contest held in Tonopah.
  • The tentative budget for Mineral County School District was adopted after Mina residents expressed opposition to reducing the teaching staff in Mina school and transportation of fourth graders to Hawthorne.
  • The Nevada Public Service Commission scheduled a hearing bin Mina to hear protests which had been filed against the Southern Pacific Transportation Company who had asked the Commission to authorize discontinuation for the Southern Pacific agency at Mina.

60 Years Ago

  • Winners in the Women’s annual bowling tournament were pictured in the newspaper: Karen Robinson and Wilma Hill, won the doubles division with Marion and Cheryl Russell winning second. Single B division honors were won by Delores Thompson first and second was awarded to Janice Sharp.
  • A surplus sale at NAD was scheduled to be held on Saturday and items for as consisted of used refrigerators, electric ranges, mattresses, box springs, assortment of screws and cotter pins, ammunition boxes and olive drab enamel paint.
  • Uncle Vane Day, in his Everyday by Vane Day column of the newspaper, reminded us of an old nursery rhyme: Hearts, like doors, will open with ease, to very, very little keys, And don’t forget that two of these Are  “I thank you” and “If you please.”

70 Years Ago

  • The Swiss Bell Ringing Artists of radio, TV and stage fame, The Shepherd Brothers, were scheduled to appear at the El Capitan. As an added attraction the Gerrich Twins with novelist music and dance numbers were also scheduled to appear.
  • Under the “Hospital Notes” George Ponsock of Babbitt, who was employed as the Hawthorne dog catcher was treated for a dog bite.
  • Reports of 200 small trout ranging from 2-5 pounds being caught at Walker Lake were noted in the newspaper, making it the best day of the Spring season for the current year.
  • Staff writer for Field & Stream and the San Francisco News came to Hawthorne to take a “fling” at fishing Walker Lake and prepared write-ups about the World’s Largest Cutthroat Trout,

80 Years Ago

  • The entertainment tax of 30 percent of the price of food, drinks and cover charges served by establishments providing entertainment went into effect on April 1. Previously the 5 percent entitlement tax was observed by the establishments.
  • The Mineral County High School Junior Prom was scheduled for the weekend. The students who were candidates for prom queen were Louise McKenna, Evelyn Nandi and Jean Karen’s.

90 Years Ago

  • Ore mined from several leases at Camp Ashby made up a consolidated shipment of 221/2 tons by rail to the Midvale, Utah smelter.
  • The town of Mina boasted concrete sidewalks on the east side of Main Street, the length of the town. Laying of the sidewalk was the final Civil Works Administration (CWA) project in Mineral County.
  • CCC Camp Hawthorne M-1 was to be continued for at least another six months with enrollment of 200 men. The first 100 had signed up already to continue serving in the conversation corps.
  • Justice was not delayed, and not denied, when a woman who had been granted a divorce in District Court on Friday found herself in Justice’s Court Monday morning after her car allegedly hit a parked car on E Street on Sunday. There were insinuations she might have been drinking, but no proof offered. After an-day (and evening) trial before JP “Ted” Ferrell, an all male jury told the judge at midnight that it looked like a hung jury. Judge Ferrell declared a mistrial and ordered a second trial to start Tuesday morning. This time there was an”mixed” jury of women and men, but again the deliberations ended the same on Tuesday night as they had on Monday- unable to agree on a verdict. Ferrell again declared a mistrial and then ordered charges dropped. Saloon keepers, who attended the two trials, as did many others, complained that long trials were detrimental to their business, and hoped juries would move faster when deliberating “penny ante” cases.