Past Pages: July 12, 2009

130 YEARS AGO

All sorts: Mr. Matt Rinckle is having his beautiful brick residence painted. The color will be a shade darker than that of the Carson Savings Bank building. Dr. W. B. Butts, who has been East, returns to this city and brings with him one of Edison's phonographs.

100 YEARS AGO

F. J. Willard, of the John Breuner company, of Reno, secured a temporary injunction forbidding the state from accepting or paying for furniture placed in the Governor's mansion by Donneis and Steinmetz. The complaint states that the board took no steps to ascertain who is the lowest responsible bidder.

70 YEARS AGO

Thirty infantile paralysis cases have occurred to Los Angeles in thirty days. In 1934-35 an epidemic affected 1,420 persons, more than 300 of them employees of the hospital.

50 YEARS AGO

Vice President Nixon will confer with Soviet premier Nikita Khruschev on the Berlin crisis, atomic tests, disarmament and trade.

20 YEARS AGO

Carson-Tahoe Hospital makes some compromises in its $6.9 million remodeling and renovation project. "... The construction project will provide all of the terms C-TH promised in it's certificate of need to the state," according to C-TH Administrator Tom Collier.

10 YEARS AGO

Thousands of workers who became sick while making nuclear weapons will be compensated for their medical care and lost wages - to include workers at the Nevada test site.

• Sue Ballew is the daughter of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.