The past 100 years
From The Santa Fe New Mexican: June 20, 1917: Some people say the east and middle west are overcrowded and there is little opportunity for bright boys nowadays, but Isaac Phillips, of Santa Fe, writes from Akron, Ohio, that he had been started at $20 a week working for the Goodyear company. And he is a deaf mute at that. He studied at the New Mexico School for the Deaf here and decided, after teaching for a year, to go east and get a job. Prof. W. O. Connor, Jr., saw an advertisement of the Goodyear company in a deaf mute journal and landed a job for young Phillips, who is a bright lad. And what is more than that, he is a hustler.
Phillips writes Prof. Connor that there are 18,500 men at work for the Goodyear company and they are employed in three shifts of eight hours each, showing what activity and needs of the nation have aroused in the making of motor car tires. Phillips says there are 250 deaf mutes at work in the Goodyear factory and he likes his job very much.
June 20, 1967: State fire and law enforcement officials have been alerted to review fireworks being sold in their locales. A recent crackling of illegal “cracker balls” has caused Deputy State Fire Marshall John A. Niles to send this directive to various agencies.
He has included a press release from the Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. From these “new kind of fireworks which can be dangerous to children in an unusual way” the release singles out “small colored candy balls, sometimes marketed under the name ‘Cracker Balls,’ and may be easily mistaken for candy and some children in Ohio and the District of Columbia were recently injured when they bit into them.”
June 20, 1992: Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, appearing via satellite on a large television screen, addressed the National Association of Latino Elected Officials conference Friday during a luncheon at La Fonda.
He drew repeated bursts of applause from the crowd of 400 while responding to questions and again when the satellite hookup was about to be disconnected.