“It appears that these men are intently studying the golf ball on the No. 4 green during the third annual Navajo Trail Amateur Golf Tournament in June 1964, but actually they are looking for a lost contact lens. A half-dozen people spent some 5 minutes searching for the tiny object before it was located.”
“It appears that these men are intently studying the golf ball on the No. 4 green during the third annual Navajo Trail Amateur Golf Tournament in June 1964, but actually they are looking for a lost contact lens. A half-dozen people spent some 5 minutes searching for the tiny object before it was located.”Durango Herald file photo

75 years ago: SILVERTON – “More than 200 striking miners, whose walk out closed the Shenandoah-Dives gold and silver properties here, made a field day of their layoff as they maintained picket lines about the company holdings.”

50 years ago: ARBOLES – “Navajo Reservoir, near Arboles in Archulta County, has become Colorado’s 17th State Recreation Area following receipt of a signed agreement for management of recreation, fish and wildlife there from the Bureau of Reclamation.”

25 years ago: “The La Plata County commissioners will pay at least an extra $12,020 – and possibly double that amount – to ensure proper closure of the Van-Dal Landfill.”

Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.