Friday, June 23, 200 Looking Back Looking Back is a regular feature of the Modoc Record, a weekly newspaper, published in Alturas, California. The following is transcribed from the June 15, 2006 issue. Looking Back 92 Years Ago – 1914 The ADIN baseballers were hitting like Fitzsimons at his best and beat the Alturas team 11-5, last Sunday. The winners claimed all of the gate receipts…. Temperatures ranged from a low of 29 to a high of 92 for the month of May in Alturas…. The Orpheum Theatre has been sold by R.L. Sloss to homer Dobbins of Ravendale. 72 Years Ago – 1934 DEATH HAS claimed Col. William Thompson. Pioneer, author, gun fighter and founder of the Alturas Plaindealer, at the age of 88…. The road development plan into Jess Valley will someday make this a popular recreation area. Clear Lake, approachable only by a very long mountain trail. will have a road built quite close to the lake…. Nolan Bannister was flying flowers to Alturas on Decoration Day when his plane nosed over on the muddy landing field. 62 Years Ago – 1944 FIRST LIEUTENANT Gordon Goss of Eagleville was the B24 liberator pilot in the recent Eight AAF invasion bombing attack on an important railroad bridge near Tours, behind the Nazi lines in France. He returned to describe his initial mission as “something to remember”. This was another of the continuing air blows American heavy bombers are striking in coordination with the allied land forces. The Eight AAF flyer was enthusiastic about the assistance the naval units gave the attacking ground forces on D-Day. The Eagleville flyer is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leland H. Doss. Lt. Doss has not only been busy since D-Day with more bombing missions in support of the invasion, but has been on attack aimed at the heart of German war production. 52 Years Ago – 1954 GRADUATION SPEAKERS will be Dick Deleisegues and Richard Carlsberg…. There are 4,507 registered voters in Modoc for the June primary…. Wakefield Day has been proclaimed for the opening of the City Softball League, honoring Bill Wakefield, City recreation Director. 32 Years Ago – 1974 AN ABUNDANCE of local candidates appearing on the June 4 primary ballot promises to attract at least an 85 percent voter turnout throughout the county Tuesday. That’s been the percentage in the past primary elections in Modoc when there has been made more than one candidate for crucial county positions. The most heated local race has been the Superior Judgeship, where three Alturas attorneys have campaigned vigorously throughout the county. It will take 51 percent of the voters for any of the three candidates to claim a race in the primary….A meeting in San Francisco tomorrow is expected to determine whether or not Alturas can expect to get increased gasoline allocations of offset the loss of six service stations that have closed here since 1972…. More than 200 young anglers congregated at Pine Creek Reservoir last Saturday to take part in the Annual Rotary Fish Derby that is jointly sponsored by a host of generous Alturas Merchants. The total take was 36 trout…. The Alturas Garden Club has placed petunias in the planters on Main Street during its annual planting session. I wonder if they ever built a road any closer than the mile and a half jaunt that it used to take to get to Clear Lake. That lake was a beautiful gem located just above the Walter Cantrall and the Brooks ranches. Some people used to hire horses from those ranchers to make the trek to the lake. It was always pretty good fishing. The article about Gordon Doss in 1944 brought many memories of classmates that left high school early to join the armed forces. I am still in contact with Ernie Oswald, James D. Krogh, and Kenneth Laver. From my conversations with these men it seems that all of us are continually surprised to learn that we have lived to reach the 80 year mark and beyond. Good memories and good friends, all. See you all again next week, I do hope. Ron Morgan