Monday, May 22, 2006 Looking back is a regular feature of the Modoc County Record, a weekly newspaper, published in Alturas, California. The following is transcribed from the May 18, 2006 issue Looking Back 95 Years Ago 1911 THE ALTURAS boys got back at Cedarville with an 11 to 2 win in baseball at Dorris Field. Theyll now take on a very good Madeline team at the same place Sunday . A car (Overland) arrived in Alturas at the Yates garage today that had covered nearly 3,000 miles, all the way from Iowa without a breakdown and averaged 120 miles a day. This is quite an achievement . Professor Godfrey made his balloon ascension on Thursday and Friday. He got up to 4,000 feet above the ground before jumping out in a parachute to the thrill of all below . A good sized boat arrived on the NCO this week that is to be used on Goose Lake for NCO engineers to live in while making surveys on the west side of the lake this summer . The thunderstorm ruined the light system in Alturas but J.A. Yates came to the rescue of the play The American Girls and furnished emergency lights with his gasoline engine plant. 70 Years Ago 1936 A TUNNEL fire on the SP line necessitated rerouting several streamline passenger trains through Alturas this week . Melvin Smith has been named valedictorian and Hilda Pratt as salutatorian of the MUHS senior class. 45 Years Ago 1961 ALTURAS LITTLE Theater Group will give its first stage presentation Friday, Lily, The Felons Daughter . The Alturas 20-30 Club was rated the top unit in California A (sic) district convention (sic) .Sheldon Hardin, Cal-Poly football coach, will be the main speaker at the high school athletic awards banquet . A gas price war has commenced in Modoc and prices nosed to as low as 22.9 cents per gallon in Tulelake . The Cattlemens Field Day was held on the Weber Bros. Parker Creek ranch . Bob Rush, Frank Matherly and Bill Smith were members of the Mens Bowling League championship team, Modoc Wood Products. 30 Years Ago 1976 MODOC SUPERVISORS have lost a big round in their bid to deny the Forest Service-Triangle Ranch exchange with word this week that Modocs (sic) objections will not be considered by the Department of Agriculture . The county has proposed to pay $5,100 a year for Alturas doctors malpractice insurance in order to insure a continuation of operation in the Modoc Medical Center . Fifty-two kids took part in the March of dimes Walk-a -thon. It has been just one month since I last transcribed the Looking Back column. I thank Billie Cal Reynolds very much for taking up the cause and doing the transcriptions for me. I am now good enough to carry on awhile longer at this delightful job. However, I do wish that the Record would not re-file the same material in their column. Surely there is sufficient old news that could be carried forward into this column without repeats. The Valley has had 90 degree temperatures and 60 degree temperatures with a little rain this past week. I guess that we had better be prepared for the hot stuff to come because it surely will arrive soon enough. Hope to see you all again next week. Ron Morgan