Remember When

Professor Hagal ran an ad proclaiming he would be jumping out of a hot air balloon in the clouds between five and seven thousand feet above sea, descending to the earth with nothing to restrain his rapid descent but his grip onto the tail end of a pair of parachutes at the Lassen County Fairgrounds this week.

Dysentery or a similar disease swept through Westwood, forcing the Red River Lumber Company to shut down portions of its production plant. Dr. W.E. Dozier, county health officer, was ordered to investigate the disease that had reportedly affected 50 people.

65 years ago

Promotion began for Diamond Mountain Guest Ranch, Inc., the former George Wingfield ranch located 10 miles southwest of Susanville. Sale of the 49-year lease on 150 lots, which today is the sub-division surrounding Emerson Lake Golf Course, was advertised in several newspapers. The one-acre lots were listed for $2,000.

Technology has begun to show its ugly side in Lassen County as two accidents on the front page of the Lassen Weekly Mail attests. A county resident was killed in Westwood when he came in contact with “live wire” while another barely escaped death when his car rolled over four times on Shaffly Grade.