100 years ago
1925: J.W. Etter will open a milk depot on Front Street next door east of the Pine hotel. At first he will sell milk, cream, butter, cottage cheese and ice cream. Arrangements are made with farmers of outlying ranches to market their milk wholesale, saving them the cost of distribution and giving the benefit to retail trade. He hopes to be ready for business in two weeks. Mr. Etter is a wide awake, fine man and his new venture will be much appreciated by Flagstaff people. He owns a ranch at Dead Man鈥檚 Flat.
Twenty more houses in City park will be built in the near future to be ready to help solve the summer housing problem. Authority to go ahead with them was given by city council a few days ago to Dr. E. S. Flett. Dr. Flett had been working hard on the project for some time, making arrangements to build the houses in spite of the fact that the city treasury has no money for the purpose. But Dr. Flett got that part of it taken care of all right and was congratulated by his fellow councilmen.
All roads in Grand Canyon National Park are now open to travel. The Hermit Rim drive being paved is open the entire year. However, roads to Grand View and Desert View are now ready and are in splendid condition.
75 years ago
1950: Fred Kabotie, famed Indian artist, will speak on 鈥淚ndian Art鈥� at the Art Club meeting in the Old Main building on the college campus this evening at 7:30. All interested are invited to attend.
The career of managing a home appears to be the one arousing the most interest among students at Flagstaff High School, judging from the registrations for the Career Day program. Of the 214 senior high students who will devote the day to studying vocations, 91 will attend one of the three lectures on 鈥淢arriage as a Career,鈥� to be delivered by Mrs. Ruth Lane, homemaking instructor at the high school. Officials in charge of registration point out that a number of boys are among the enrollees. Second-most popular occupation is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A total of 55 students will hear Cecil Richardson, Coconino deputy sheriff, discuss this topic. On the distaff side, 49 girls will listen to a representative of Trans World Airlines discuss the career of air hostess, and 29 will attend the one session at which Mrs. Felice Crowder discusses office work. Forty-six girls will learn about beauty culture from Mrs. Mildred Sheehan, local beautician, and Mrs. Marta Klingerberg, from the Weaver School of Beauty in Phoenix. The leading purely masculine pursuit is auto mechanics. Forty-six boys will attend two lectures on that topic delivered by Walter Bennett.
50 years ago
1975: A formal request to empanel the first standing grand jury in Coconino County鈥檚 history will be made this week. County Attorney J. Michael Flournoy told the Daily SUN this morning he would formally request formation of the jury from Superior Court Presiding Judge J. Thomas Brooks. Flournoy said he has talked to Brooks, who returned to his office today after a three-day vacation absence, and the judge said he will honor the request. Flournoy will ask that the grand jury, first of its kind in the history of the county and a significant, historic change in county criminal justice procedures, be empaneled within a month, or perhaps at the end of the current Superior Court jury term on May 31. Members of the jury will be selected from among the names on the Superior Court鈥檚 list of 200 prospective jurors. Flournoy emphasized that calling the jury is strictly an experiment to determine if the county can save time and money through use of process. When it is formed, it will eliminate the necessity for preliminary hearings, in some criminal cases, in the county鈥檚 various justice of the peace courts. Flagstaff Justice of the Peace Court, in particular, has a backlog of civil cases and misdemeanor criminal matters as the result of a crowded, constant calendar of preliminaries. 鈥淎t the end of the first 120-day term, we will look at the situation and see if it is working. If not, we鈥檒l do away with it.鈥� The only two times in the history of the county that a grand jury was empaneled were in 1912 and 1965. A grand jury is a powerful investigative arm of the judiciary.
25 years ago
2000: Anathea Patzer usually spends her days in the classroom. But curiosity and a desire to talk to people brought the NAU nursing student out to the chilly darkness of a local job placement office at 5:30 this morning. 鈥淚 haven鈥檛 done anything like this before,鈥� said Patzer, whose early-morning shift was part of her job as a temporary census enumerator. 鈥淚t鈥檚 interesting to get out and talk to people.鈥� She was speaking this morning to day laborers waiting patiently in line at Laborers Express across from the University Plaza shopping center. Others on the list of census visits today were those who camped in the woods or live in their cars 鈥� transients who likely lack a permanent address. Patzer said she didn鈥檛 really have any expectations of how difficult or easy it would be. But the first step in striking up a conversation with complete strangers, she said, seemed to be the hardest. 鈥淚t鈥檚 hard to approach people because you don鈥檛 want to offend them,鈥� Patzer said. 鈥淏ut a lot of people seemed willing to talk.鈥� Her partner, retail sales clerk Eric Porter, agreed that the folks they questioned today were pretty easygoing. One man even asked when his federal tax return would be arriving. Porter said he never worked for the census before, but he鈥檚 done this type of interview. He studied anthropology in college and conducted personal interviews that asked more questions and took more time.