Taken from SUN files of
October 31, 1924
Mrs. Gertrude Houser is assisting F.A. Byrne in abstract work at the court house.
Miss Lois Parr completed the Blanco basin school last Friday and commenced teaching on the following Monday the Marquez school in District 5.
There is considerable agitation for providing in Pagosa Springs a reading and recreation hall for the children as well as young folks and grownups who long for a place to spend the evenings. A meeting of those interested will be held soon — watch for the date in our next issue.
The warm water well on the school grounds was cased Monday and drilling has been resumed.
We learn that Barney Pettyjohn, known to every sawmill savage in the San Juan basin, is now located at the Southwestern Colorado Lbr. Co. mill on Devil creek, with which company he is now associated in connection with its logging contracts. Mrs. Pettyjohn will soon join him from Dolores. We are please to again welcome these good people to Archuleta County.
Taken from SUN files of
October 28, 1949
Work on the new city water works is progressing nicely and completion of the contractors work is expected before the end of the year. The line to the reservoir is all in and work is going ahead at the site of the new infiltration gallery.
According to an announcement this week by Elbie L. Gann, Superintendent of Schools, all children in the elementary grades will receive a complete physical examination. The examination will take place at the local schools on Monday, October 31 and Tuesday, November 1.
The examinations are to be conducted by Dr. McIntyre, head of the San Juan Basin Health Unit and he will be assisted by Mrs. Murray, Public Health Nurse of the unit and three local women.
These physical examinations are part of the service to schools which are given by the San Juan Basin Health Unit. Dr. McIntyre is the head of the Unit and Mr. Ben K. Lynch is the local representative on the Board of Directors of the Unit.
Taken from SUN files of
October 31, 1974
A drastic weather change this week should have satisfied skiers who wanted skiing snow, snow-mobilers who wanted snow, and hunters who wanted tracking snow.
Almost 10 inches of snow fell in town after snow started falling around noon on Tuesday. The snowstorm continued the rest of the day and well into the night. Wednesday morning the skies cleared briefly and at press time forecasts are that more snow can be expected.
The heavy snows disrupted telephone service, in some cases power lines were out, and side roads were almost bottomless in mud. One plane, en route from Gallup to Alamosa, is reported missing. It is not known if it is in this area but a group of CAP searchers are here checking in a ground search.
County and state snowplow crews worked 24 hours a day on the roads. This normal later in the winter but the heavy snow Tuesday and Tuesday night brought additional work.
Taken from SUN files of
October 28, 1999
It seems quite a few people are experiencing a similar problem with their phone service.
With calls that don’t go through.
With long distance, in-state long distance, and local calls that result in silence, or in a recorded message.
“We’re sorry, you must first dial a ‘1’ followed by an area code ...”
“We’re sorry. All long distance circuits are busy. Please hang up and try your call later.”
On Wednesday, a call from the SUN office to the CenturyTel of Colorado offices at La Junta resulted in silence.
A second call, placed immediately after the phone was disconnected from the first attempt resulted in, “We’re sorry, all long distance circuits are busy ...”
A third call made immediately after the second, resulted in a connection.
What gives?
The bottom line, at least with long distance calls, said Mike Hudson, public relations manager for the Colorado Division of CenturyTel, is we live in a part of the country where development and demand for phone service has outdistanced the ability of long distance phone carriers to deal with call loads.
