Thursday, November 09, 2006 Looking Back is a regular feature of the Modoc County record, published weekly in Alturas, California. The following is transcribed from the November 2, 2006 issue. Looking Back 66 Years Ago – 1940 HOWARD PEPPERDINCE of Alturas is the first name on the revived draft list in Modoc County…. Modoc gained 350 yards and had 17 first downs to four for Lassen but the game ended in a 0-0 tie…. Joe Bicondoa of Eagleville has sold his wool for 37 cents a pound…. Adin High School trustees are meeting this week to decide what to do now that the high school has been condemned by the state. 61 Years Ago – 1945 THE UNDEFEATED MODOC Braves will meet the undefeated Lassen-Herlong team here Saturday…. Mel Barron resigned this week as Supervisor of the Modoc forest. He will be employed by Sam Jaksick…. Shotgun shells will be sold for the first time in several years in Modoc County…. Jack Stark has been appointed new Deputy Sheriff of Modoc. 56 Years Ago – 1950 A PROPOSED telephone rate increase by Citizens Utilities is being violently protested. The increase would jump the private line $5.25 to $8.25…. The Modoc Braves downed Trinity 32-12 Saturday and will play Klamath this weekend. 46 Years Ago – 1960 51 Years Ago – 1955 NEAL PHILLIPS has been named as the new president of the revived Modoc Chamber of Commerce…. A new multipurpose classroom at Adin will be built for $47,000…. The Council of Natural Resources has gone on record endorsing a proposed working circle for timber cutting in the Alturas area…. Temperatures dipped to 15 above in Alturas this morning. STATE FORESTERS will appear before the Modoc Chamber tonight to discuss the proposed State Forestry Camp in Modoc…. Vern Hill and lee Steil have been appointed Modoc Deputy Sheriffs this week…. The first snow fell this week in Alturas Monday but quickly disappeared…. The deer kill in Modoc is 2,155 to date, second only to Siskiyou County. 32 Years Ago – 1974 THE REGIONAL Council of Rural Counties, of which Modoc County is a member, passed a resolution at a recent meeting in Sacramento opposing the Triangle Ranch Wetlands Land Exchange as proposed by the United States Forest Service. They are supporting resolutions, also opposing the exchange, adopted by the Modoc County Board of Supervisors and the Northern California County Supervisors Association…. A group of local citizens interested in obtaining coordinated activity for Modoc County residents above age 50 will kick off that program with an organizational meeting at Cal Pines Lodge. The goal is that the group will set up an advisory board that recognizes the crucial need for activities for persons 50 years and over in every community in the council. There is nothing for me to comment upon. I was still in the Army in 1945 and I left Modoc County, except for the summers of 1946 and 1947. It is hard to believer that I have outlived the reporting of this article, but facts are facts (most often that is). See you all again next week. Ron Morgan