SUSANNAH CARNEY Special for the Daily Sun
100 years ago
1922: George Hochderffer, the popular young rancher at Kendrick Park, suddenly decided the other day that he’d been engaged long enough. He cabled the young woman, the charming and talented Miss Gertrude Cantrell of Los Angeles, asking her to return to Flagstaff and marry. She cabled back and asked him to come over there. George took the train to Los Angeles. Then the young woman changed her mind, as young women often do, and telegraphed George, saying she was leaving for Flagstaff. Mesdames James and Hugh Tillman, who knew all about the previous telegrams, dealt with further telegrams with the result that the lovers did not pass by on the street but met at Needles. They returned and were married by Reverend HH Gillies on Monday night at the home of JG Tillman. Now they’re snowed in and can’t go out to the Hochderffer Ranch Watch, and George doesn’t want news of the wedding to get out until he and his bride are out of town.
Business conditions in Flagstaff will be much better this summer. There’s no doubt about it. With a fine range and better prices for wool and mutton, this cheap producer will be in much better shape than last year. Cattle markets have not improved, but grazing conditions have improved – which is a net benefit. Mines are reopening and a general resumption of construction across the country will keep our major sawmills busy. We shouldn’t be surprised if our mills produce as much lumber as they can in a short period of time. Local farmers arrived in good shape with last year’s harvest, rebuilding after the previous poor season, and the late snow has kept the soil saturated, allowing dry farming even though we don’t have as much wet weather next summer the problem will not be nearly as serious as in the summer before last.
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75 years ago
1947: Air charter service is now available in Flagstaff with two new aircraft. The Luscombe accommodates one passenger and one pilot. The Stinson Voyager fits three passengers and one pilot. A group of three passengers pays USD 18.25 per person for a round trip to Phoenix.
Two approximately 28-foot flat-bottomed riverside motorboats were unloaded in Flagstaff this week and trailered to Lees Ferry on the Colorado River in northern Coconino County for exploration work associated with the proposed Glen Canyon dam project. Engineers responsible for the preliminary surveys arranged with County Engineer Ralph G. Barney to use a heavy Coconino County trailer to bring the boats to the survey camp at the ferry. For about three months, a group has been camped at the ferry and collecting data related to the dam project. The boats made their way to Flagstaff from New Orleans.
50 years ago
1972: Flagstaff Police will return Robert Moorman, who was arrested Thursday in Las Vegas after he surrendered with his 8-year-old prisoner, to Flagstaff today to face kidnapping charges. A metropolitan police detective was scheduled to travel to Las Vegas today to pick up Moorman and two other flagstaff officers who have been handling investigative and extradition matters. The 8-year-old girl was reunited with her parents at a private terminal at Las Vegas McCarran Airport just before 4pm on Thursday. The reunion ended a two-day ordeal for the family, during which attorneys across northern Arizona successfully tried to locate Norman and the young girl, who were traveling west on Interstate 40 in an identified car. Moormann and the young girl showed up at Las Vegas Police Department shortly before noon on Thursday. Moormann dropped a pistol and handcuffs before being taken into custody.
Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona’s junior senator and former presidential candidate, will be the keynote speaker at the 1972 Presidential Banquet of the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce. The banquet will be held on February 15 in the University Union Ballroom at Northern Arizona University’s South Academic Center. Goldwater began his political career in 1949 when he was elected to the Phoenix City Council. He won a seat in the US Senate three years later, until he resigned in 1964 to run as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.
25 years ago
1997: Flagstaff Police are investigating the disappearance of nearly $1,400 from Flagstaff City Court during the same period that the court’s vault was missing a door that allowed court personnel unauthorized entry. The municipal collections manager Tuesday reported to Flagstaff Police that $1,395 has gone missing in a series of incidents since October. That summer, an envelope containing an unknown number of handwritten receipts was found missing. The door to the court’s internal vault, which mainly stores cash and checks, was removed by a locksmith in September when his tumblers failed to engage and unlock the vault. The interior is in another vault that remains unlocked during business hours.
Once the mainstay of South Milton and currently its biggest eyesore, the Flamingo Hotel is the palace of asbestos. According to the city’s building inspectorate, it will be demolished in a month at the earliest. On August 1, 1996, the inspector ordered the Flamingo El Rancho motel closed. But that order was extended twice before it was discovered in late December that the building containing the cancer-causing material was insulated. The owners have hired Western Technologies, a Flagstaff-based environmental company, to oversee the demolition.
Flagstaff will need to spend a lot of money and increase its conservation efforts in order not to starve as the city enters the 21st century. That was the message from three water experts during a Friends of Flagstaff futures forum held Wednesday at the Coconino Center for the Arts. The director of Flagstaff Public Utilities and a geology professor from Northern Arizona University spoke to about 40 participants about the methods and limitations of water harvesting. Ration is a word people don’t want to hear and politicians don’t want to say. The city is doing well at the moment. Upper Lake Mary is typically the city’s main source of water. If not recharged by new runoff, it could supply Flagstaff’s water needs all by itself for two years. The Flagstaff water exploration effort, conducted with the US Geological Survey, is intended for future and current residents of Flagstaff.
All events are extracted from the Arizona Daily Sun and its predecessors, the Coconino Weekly Sun and Coconino Sun.
Bruce Carl Ertmann helped put the events together.
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