The following is a recap of local events for this time period throughout history.
A war on weeds was declared Friday morning at the San Juan College Business and Education Training Center. Weed War 2001 seeks to bring together various landowners, business leaders and government officials to form a cooperative to rid San Juan County of invasive weeds. … The weed situation is so serious in San Juan County that Sterling White, a range land specialist with the Bureau of Land Management, does not know if a weed war can ever be won.
The Daily Times
Service to the community is the principal goal of San Juan College, Farmington branch of New Mexico State University. “We will continue to work in the strong philosophy of a community college,” said SJC Director Dr. James Henderson. “Community implies services to the greater community beyond the educational offerings,” Henderson said. “The public two-year college often becomes one of the cultural and intellectual centers of the area it serves.”
The Daily Times
Visitors to the Aztec Ruins National Monument continue to show increases in travel this year with a 20 per cent increase for March 1951 over March 1950. The record for March shows 755 visitors in 206 cars from 27 states, Canada and England.
Aztec Independent Review
The McGilless hotel on Oliver Street was totally destroyed by fire Thursday night of last week. The fire was discovered by Mr. McGilless at about 2 a.m. Friday morning. He was awakened by a suffocating feeling and sprang from his bed and opened the door. As he opened the door flames rushed in. He slammed the door shut, picked up a small suitcase that was in his room, broke out a window pane with it and jumped out. No other person was in the hotel at the time as the day and night had been rainy. The fire is believed to have originated in the furnace room, but it had gained such headway when it was first discovered that it is hard to tell how or where it started. The McGilless was a twenty-two room hotel with dining room and was popular with the oil men.
Farmington Times-Hustler
$50.00 REWARD – I will give Fifty Dollars reward for the information which will lead to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons bootlegging in the county. – Sheriff W.T. Dufur
Aztec Independent
F.M. Pierce returned yesterday from attending the meeting of the county commissioners. He informed us that steps had been taken to issue $12,000 of county bridge bonds. The idea of the members of the board was to expend the money in moving the Aztec Bridge to a point further up the river. It was also figured that three bridges could be erected on the San Juan. One somewhere above Largo, another in the vicinity of Bloomfield, and another in the vicinity of Farmington. It was arranged that each community securing a bridge should put up a certain percent by private subscription.
Farmington Times-Hustler
This Week in Local History is compiled by Debi Tracy Olsen, local journalist and volunteer at the Aztec Museum and Pioneer Village. The stories are pulled from newspaper archives and are reprinted as they appeared, errors and all.
