100 YEARS AGO....1909
    Numerous forest fires have kept the officers and employees of the Plumas National Forest on the jump the past several days. A bad fire broke out near Taylorsville and another fire broke out at Seneca on the North Fork. During the past two weeks a large conflagration has been raging in the dense forests of Big Meadows.
75 YEARS AGO….1934
    Endorsement of the Chester airport project was given this week by the Plumas County Board of Supervisors. Some $3,000 plus has already been expanded on the new airport which is located on the gravel flat two miles west of Chester.

50 YEARS AGO….1959
    The Plumas County Board of Supervisors approved two more Plumas County housing subdivisions this week: Unit number one of the Graeagle Subdivision and Joy Acres being developed by Al Joy or Portola.
    An airplane from Stead Air Force Base located near Reno made a successful landing Monday at Gansner Airfield in Quincy. There was some slight malfunction of the landing gear which made the unorthodox landing necessary, however neither the pilot or passenger was injured and the airplane escaped with practically no damage.

30 YEARS AGO….1979
    Plumas County Clerk Raynelle Slaten, who for over 20 years clerked the Plumas County Board of Supervisors, announced her retirement this week. As a Plumas county employee for 24 years, she also served as court clerk and election clerk, never having been challenged in an election. She became Clerk-Recorder when the two jobs were consolidated two years ago.

Note:  items included in the weekly Remember When column are taken from our bound newspaper archives and represent writing styles of that particular period.  The spelling and grammar are not edited, so the copy is presented as it actually appeared in the original newspaper.