Glance at the Past

107 Years Ago Jan. 22, 1913

• Frank Fritzesche, head mechanic of the Fort Bragg Garage and Machine Shop, is at work building an auto bus for the Windsor Hotel. It will be completed shortly and will be a great convenience to those going back and forth from the Windsor to the depot.

• C. R. Ware, the enterprising young proprietor of the New York Furniture Store, in his effort to give the patrons the best possible service, has now employed an experienced upholsterer. Clyde states that he is now in a position to make to order or make over anything in the line of box mattresses, davenports, Turkish chairs, rockers, bed lounges, etc.

• We understand that the contemplated sale of the Union Lumber Company plant at Fort Bragg and all their holdings up and down the coast to an Eastern syndicate has been declared off, the option having expired. Reports are also circulated that their property was found to have more than they claimed.

• John Lehtonen announces the shoe and repair shop business, formerly conducted in the Jefferson Building on Laurel Street, has been moved to Redwood

Ave., between Harrison and McPherson streets, where all kinds of repairing will be done.

77 Years Ago Jan. 27, 1943

• Mr. and Mrs. Nello Orsi announce the birth of a son, Marvin Alvin, born Jan. 21 at the Redwood Coast Hospital.

• Harold Pierson Plummer, of Fort Bragg, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Army of the United States today upon successful completion of the officer candidate course at the infantry school at Fort Benning, Georgia. Lt. Plummer is the son of Mrs. H. P. Plummer, of San Francisco. The new lieutenant was inducted into the army on May

29, 1942, and served at Camp Roberts before going to officer candidate school three months ago. He held the rank of corporal before being commissioned.

• Murray Cameron, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Cameron, of

Fort Bragg, has been appointed Aviation Cadet Captain and a group commander in the Cadet Corps of the Army Air Forces pre-flight pilot school at Maxwell Field, Ala., where he is receiving an intensive course in ground training preparatory to his primary flight instructions.

• Billy Conkey, former Mendocino boy, where he served as assistant postmaster for some time, is now in New York. Under new orders, he will be located near New

York for the next two months.

• Jack Ross, manager of the new Sage Mill at Willits, was in Fort Bragg Tuesday, returning to Willits that evening. He states that the mill is running very satisfactorily. A cut of 70,000 was made one day and the resaw has not yet been put into operation.

• The motor passenger car on the California Western Railroad to Willits made its first trip through on Monday since the storm.

The freight train went through Tuesday and will be in this morning about 10:30. It was delayed by a small slide.

55 Years Ago Jan. 28, 1965

• Funeral services were held here Saturday afternoon, Jan. 23, for Lloyd Martin Roach, Fort Bragg, life-long resident of this coast section, who passed away Jan. 20 of a heart attack while working on the Ross Ranch at Cleone. He was 52. Born at Westport, Jan. 30, 1912, Roach had been a log scaler for Union Lumber Co. for 24 years. He had attended schools in Westport and at Fort Bragg High. An ardent sportsman, he especially enjoyed hunting and, together with a group of men from this area, furthered the enjoyment in a group- ownership of a hunting lodge at King’s Peak, near Briceland, in Humboldt County.

• The first performance in the 1965 concert-in-time series at the Tuomala Gallery on Main Street here will feature Nancy Langert, bay area pianist and student of Julian White.

• The 1965 World’s Wrist Wrestling Championship tournament will take place at the Petaluma Veterans’ Memorial Building on Feb.

12. Although it originated eleven years ago in a barroom, it has progressed from one stage to another, and now, for the fourth year, it is a World’s Championship event.

• At Coast Theatre: Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif in “Behold A Pale Horse.” Also “Lilith” starring Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda and Kim Hunter.

• William Zacha, founder and a director of the Mendocino Art Center, will be the guest speaker next Tuesday when the north coast section of the Mendocino County Art Assn. meets at Redwood School. Zacha will tell of his trip to Japan last fall where he worked and studied in the arts.

40 Years Ago Jan. 30, 1980

• At Coast Theatre, Fort Bragg: “Monty Python’s Life of Brian.”

• Robert Bly, a major American poet and winner of the National Book Award, will read from his work at the Mendocino Grammar School on Feb. 6. Robert Bly is a figure of comparable stature. Widely known for his fine poetry and compelling readings, Bly attracts large audiences in cities and on college campuses around the country. Currently Bly lives and writes on a farm in his native Minnesota, and scenes from his life there frequently make their way into his poems. Unlike many poets, he does not teach at a college or university, as he believes that campus life can be dangerous to poetic inspiration.

• Parents and Friends Inc. is busy preparing for the annual benefit dinner to be held at the Piedmont Sunday. Dodie Scott and Marian Roden are co- chairpersons of this community undertaking.

• Mendocino Coast Hospital Auxiliary members can be proud of many things in their ten-year history. They were a group eager to get started. The Auxiliary began organizing in September 1970 while the hospital was still under construction. They met in various locations until the happy day they were able to use the conference room in the completed hospital. One week after the hospital opened, Auxiliary volunteers were at the information counter assisting patients and their families find their way around the new structure, answering questions, sorting and delivering mail, and helping out in many different ways. Within the same week, the Gift Shop opened its doors, and though its inventory was small, it was able to provide some of the personal items a patient might need or want.