Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
    June 14, 2012
    Wheat harvest may begin as soon as the end of this week, making it one of the earliest harvests in a long time. Grainland Co-op grain merchandiser Steve Young said the early ’90s was the last time he could remember wheat harvest beginning so early. A lack of spring moisture has let the crop turn to its golden color much earlier than in years past.
    Homesteaders Park recently received a makeover that includes a new nine-hole disc golf course. The project is funded by a Great Outdoors Colorado grant.
    Colorado voters will vote in the state’s first-ever June primary on June 26. In 2011 the legislature moved the primary from the second Tuesday in August to the last Tuesday in June to comply with a new federal law that required mail ballots to overseas and military voters to go out sooner.
    
    Ten Years Ago
    June 14, 2007
    Flood-like conditions caused road closures on Highway 6 and Highway 23 out of Holyoke to Nebraska due to standing water on the roadways after heavy rains bombarded the area Monday night, June 11.
    Bill Bryan is serving as the new minister at Church of Christ in Holyoke and Westside Church of Christ in Imperial, Nebraska.
    
    Twenty-Five Years Ago
    June 18, 1992
    Public relations, wildlife management and law enforcement will be Jack Wieland’s responsibilities as district wildlife manager in the Holyoke area. Wieland assumed the post June 1, replacing Katie Kinney.
    A June 14 ordination and installation service at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Amherst welcomed Pastor Harold Rathjen not only to the ministry but also to the pastorate at the Amherst and Venango, Nebraska, churches.
    Richard Fagerlin was elected state FFA reporter for the upcoming year at the state FFA convention June 7-9. In addition, Fagerlin, Elaine McCallum and Brad Krueger were recognized as recipients of the state FFA degree.
 

    Fifty Years Ago
    June 15, 1967
    Colorado’s first open season on buffalo since those craggy critters were slaughtered almost to extinction has been set by the Game, Fish and Parks Commission. Three permits will be given to remove animals considered excess to the state’s buffalo herd, and each permit holder will be permitted to take one buffalo between Sept. 2 and Sept. 12.
    Edison Electric Institute researchers say that farms will resemble factories by the year 2000. Livestock will never leave their barns, where the environment will be controlled to increase productivity and decrease labor, these fellows say.
    The Phillips County Board of Commissioners on June 6 accepted a petition from the county weed control steering committee for the formation of a weed control district in the county. Weeds to be controlled in the district are field bindweed, Canada thistle and silver-leaf poverty weed.
    
    Seventy-Five Years Ago
    June 18, 1942
    The Phillips County Jail is now unoccupied, its sole prisoner and occupant, Julius M. Sowa of Haigler, Nebraska, having been released Saturday by Sheriff H.M. Clements. This is the first time in a period of one year that the local jail has been without occupants.
    Holyoke liquor stores will close at 10 o’clock each night following the adoption of an ordinance which will be made at the next meeting of the Holyoke town board July 6.
    A fine of $25 plus court costs was imposed upon Arnold C. Manausa, 33, of Pontiac, Michigan, yesterday afternoon when he pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving. Manausa had been arrested in the forenoon after he had driven his automobile through the town in a reckless manner. When the machine struck the highway dip at the First National Bank corner, it did so with such speed and force that it traveled a distance of 58 feet in the air before it again touched the pavement.
    Huge piles of scrap rubber were growing last evening at service stations in Holyoke, Haxtun, Paoli and Amherst in one of the most intensive salvage campaigns of the present war.