This Week in Winslow History<br>

15 years ago

The Winslow Head Start Program celebrated its 25th anniversary with a dinner for the students and special guests, which included Mayor Bill Elzey and Supt. Wayne Peters. The Winslow program also came under new leadership as Monica Pena took over the reigns from her mother, Dolores Pena. Head Start began in 1964 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.

55 years ago

Frontier Airlines announced it would begin service in Arizona and New Mexico starting June 1, 1950. The new company formed from a merger of Monarch Airlines, Challenger Airlines and Arizona Airways. Lindbergh-Winslow was one of the original nine airports serviced by the airline. Frontier ceased operations 40 years later in 1990 and is not associated with the company of the same name currently headquartered in Denver.

70 years ago

Winslow’s City Council was determined to make the city “as pure as drifted snow” when it passed an ordinance banning all gambling and vice, this week in 1935. The ordinance passed 4-2 in a special meeting that the mayor called after police raided a local business under the protection of a recent statewide ban on gambling and seized slot machines and other games of chance. The mayor and one council member said the raid was illegal since the property owner had the machines under a special injunction. Mayor Mitchell said he favored slot machines if the owners were willing to donate a high percentage of profits to organizations that would donate the money to the ballpark. The Council said they didn’t want the money “that way.”

90 years ago

Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1915, a reservoir near St. Johns broke sending 27,000 acre feet of water through the region causing damage as far north as Holbrook. At least eight people died in the flood including three children, and many more were missing. The flood also washed away a bridge and caused an estimated $400,000 in total damages. It was the second reservoir break in 10 years. After the flood, some people suggested building a concrete reservoir.

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