Front Page History
A look at the top stories from the archives of the Winslow Mail

12 years ago

Approximately 14 Winslow children and chaperones went to Denver for World Youth Day and to hear Pope John Paul II speak at Mile High Stadium in 1993.

The Winslow group slept in public school classrooms with students from Billings, Mont. They reported that everyone they met was friendly. Around 750,000 people flocked to Denver to hear the pontiff.

42 years ago

Severe flood damage from record rainfall in August led the Army Corps of Engineers and the city to reexamine the Flood Control Project in 1963. Winslow received 4.8-inches for the month.

The $2 million project was designed to divert water coming from the south and southwest toward Sunset Pass and the Little Colorado River south of the railroad instead of allowing the water to overflow into the Ruby and Ice House ditches. The city's share in the project was just $165,000.

52 years ago

Superintendent R.E. Booth estimated the enrollment in the Winslow School District reached 1,800 on the first day of school, Aug. 31, 1953.

The student body at Winslow High School was 440.

The highest head count to that date was due in part to many construction projects in the county bringing in more workers and their families.

The district started school that year with a combined faculty of 66 and a budget of $437,633.

72 years ago

Almost 400 people, mostly Mormons, gathered at Brigham City to dedicate a 7-foot monument marking the former settlement's cemetery on Aug. 27, 1933.

Among those in attendance were former colonists Marker Hansen Petersen, 91, and his wife, 81. Petersen was a shoemaker.

Members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints staged a pageant depicting life in the early settlement (1876-1881).

The monument was supposed to include a brass plaque sent by the church headquarters in Salt Lake City, but it did not arrive in time for the ceremony.

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