Celebration Provides Happy 4th
Chamber of Commerce president Fritz Sluyter has qualified the second annual Frontier Days as a success following the two-day event held July 4 and 5, which brought several hundred persons into the town of Dolores.
Winning the first prize of half a beef in the big Chamber of Commerce drawing held at 10 p.m. Saturday evening was John Leonard of Washington state. Leonard is related to the Pat Burns family and was in the area for a family reunion.
Flood Insurance Available Now
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced that effective 7-15-75, the Town of Dolores, Colorado has been accepted into the National Flood Insurance Program.
This means, said Acting Federal Insurance Administrator, J. Robert Hunger, that individual property owners here are now eligible to buy flood insurance protection at affordable federally subsidized rates, offering more extensive coverage under the expanded program authorized by the 1973 Flood Disaster Protection Act.
Brawl erupts in Town Saturday
Nobody seems to be talking much about a free for all that erupted in Dolores during the finale of Frontier Days. Marshal Charlie Aragon had to call for reinforcements from the Montezuma County Sheriff's Office, the Colorado State Patrol and one unit from the city police in Cortez when the melee got to the uncontrollable stage.
Conservationists Gather Forces to Hinder Dolores Project
About forty people turned out for the first public workshop to discuss alternatives for inclusion of free flowing segments of the Dolores River into the National Wild and Scenic River System. The meeting was held in Denver Monday night. Those present at the meeting were overwhelmingly for including hundreds of miles of the river in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
Happy Birthday
Ronnie Green, Art Hamilton, Buck Cooper, Jim Goode, Wendy Clark, Virginia Cooper, Rusty Hamilton, Mike Hasbrook, Betty Tate, Michelle Kuhlman, Jim Bass, Patricia Rule, Jeannie T., Burl Lisenbury, and Herb Wright.
New Baby
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Black of Cortez are the proud parents of a 4th of July baby born on that day at Southwest Memorial Hospital. The new arrival was a girl, weighing in at 7 lbs., 1 oz. She has been named Monica Raylene. The Blacks also have a boy.
Engagement Told
The engagement of Miss Karen Reynolds and Randall Simmons has been announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Reyburn, of Merced, California.
The Simmons are well known here and in Cortez. Mrs. Simmons is a daughter of Mrs. Lois Rash and graduated from Dolores High School. Charles Simmons is a son of the late A. A. simmons and graduated from MCHS in Cortez. The wedding will take place on August 16.