Police Seek Safeblowers Officers Run Down Crime Clues February 11th, 1941 With the recovery late last week of the wrecked safe, stolen last December 26 from the postoffice at Tionesta. Modoc county, Postoffice Inspector William Daly of Reno assisted by Sheriff Olin S, Johnson of the county...

Retail Merchants Plan Expansion February 8th, 1954 Rue Dastrup, president of the newly formed Retail Merchants Association of Susanville, appointed J. E. McKahan chairman of a committee to elect directors and Herbert Hersey chairman of a membership committee, at the first full-fledged organizational meeting of the...

Heroism Award Granted Scout February 7th, 1963 Charles Ramey, Boy Scout from Troop 59 of Susanville, Calif., sponsored by the Elks Lodge, recently was awarded a certificate of heroism from the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, according to Gunnar Norregaard Scout executive of the Nevada...

Board Sponsors Work on Roads February 6th, 1946 Work on three highways will be sponsored by the county this year, the supervisors announced at the session on Monday. It was voted to complete the Standish-Buntingville highway at county expense; start construction of the Southend of joint...

Plane Pushed Out Into Snow February 5th, 1960 Lassen Aire, Inc., a charter air service operating out of the Susanville Airport, has registered a complaint with the Susanville City Council stating there exists “very poor quality and arbitrary and discriminatory service at the Susanville Municipal Airport.” A...

Lassen Boosts Sierra Route February 4th, 1952 “The All-Weather, All-Year Highway” is the name adopted here for the California State Highway 36, connecting Susanville across the Sierra with Red Bluff. Reason for the new nickname emphasizing the year-round virtues of Highway 36 is the experience of the...

Wife-Seeking Man Came East Only a Day’s Ride From Susanville February 1st, 1911 Reno may have something of a name for separating, quickly and painlessly, many a couple who have found too late that marriage is a lottery with many blanks, but Reno, from recent...

Cable Splice Patent Given January 31, 1953 Theodore C. Tompers, a local man, has just been issued Patent No. 2,621,228 by the U. S. Patent Office for a cable splicing sleeve with sealing chambers, an improved and simplified way of protecting spliced cables. Tompers served for many...

Burglary, Robbery Reported in Lassen January 30, 1953 A burglary and armed robbery at and near Westwood Friday night were reported by the sheriff’s office. A Seattle man claimed he was robbed of about $900 by two armed robbers about a mile this side of the...

Susanville Has First Case of Gangsterism January 28, 1934 What has been termed Susanville’s first outbreak of gangsterism had its aftermath today when Louis A. Cazzalio, 22 started serving a sentence of six months in the county jail, in addition to paying a cash fine of...

Home Nursing Class Organized In Lassen January 25, 1952 Twelve local women have signed up for an American Red Cross 14-hour home nursing course to be given from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. The course instructor will be Mrs. Susie Smith of Johnstonville, who recently...