1948: If Oak Creek’s trout look a little tipsy next spring, it’s likely the result of yesterday’s truck accident, in which Faye Hyde of Cottonwood narrowly escaped serious injury or death. On my way to Wood, my brakes failed at the top of Oak Creek Canyon. Turning a corner and suddenly realizing he had no brakes, Hyde tried to push the truck over the embankment, but the load carried the car towards the edge of the cliff. The truck overturned a few feet before the cliff.

Two 16-year-old Los Angeles girls publicly expressed a lack of faith in the effectiveness of the “Bush League” police when they were taken into custody yesterday afternoon by Williams Police Chief Don Massey. The Flagstaff sheriff’s office was waiting to hear from my parents. The two girls were hitchhiking east along Highway 66 when Massey picked them up. A radio message to Phoenix relayed to Los Angeles helped identify the pair as runaways who left the coastal city Wednesday afternoon. After being brought in by the Observer, Mrs. Mary Rodriquez, he gave the officer a false name and age, but based it on a description he later received from Los Angeles.

All of Winslow and most of the rest of northern Arizona headed out to see General Motors’ “Trains of Tomorrow” on Sunday, stopping here for two hours. Hundreds of people passed through the train before the doors closed at 11:55, giving employees a chance to clear the scheduled train at noon.The famous Santa Fe All-Indian Band provided the music. , Indian dancers also provided great entertainment.

A man has been detained for questioning in connection with a hit-and-run accident one mile west here on January 7. M. Wright was injured and released on $3,000 bail, officers said. He was brought before Holbrook Superior Court Judge Don T. Udall, where a bond of $1,500 was set on him for leaving the scene of the accident and $1,500 on him for aggravated assault. Wright was run over by a car and was blown about 25 feet away while questioning a passenger in another car he stopped. The officer was taken to Winslow General Hospital, but was found to have no serious injuries. Garcia had brought Leonard Perez to Flagstaff to make arrangements for the child’s funeral. Perez headed to Flagstaff with a highway patrolman, and Garcia returned to Winslow.

A reading clinic sponsored by the State Department of Education will be held in Holbrook on Friday for teachers in Navajo County and in Flagstaff on Saturday for teachers in Coconino County. It is closed all day on Fridays so that you can commute. Winslow High School will conduct classes as normal. Teachers will join from Flagstaff, Williams, Fredonia, Grand Canyon, Tuba City, Lupe and Sedona. In addition, many students and faculty members from our university are scheduled to participate. Flagstaff School superintendent Sturgeon Cromer helped set up the clinic.

1973: Early this morning, several freight cars from the Santa Fe Railroad flew over the tracks near Interstate 10, about eight miles west of Flagstaff. He sees a car hanging from an interstate guardrail. About 50 workers were dispatched to the site in the morning to continue cleaning work. Large cranes were also brought to the area to move the cars. I was not injured. About 30 cars went off the track. Early reports indicated that track defects were responsible for the derailment.

City of Flagstaff officials told the Arizona Daily earlier this week in connection with the devastating fire that struck a Pine Cliff Village apartment complex on Dec. 29, killing an 18-year-old man and leveling one. Sun is expected to answer the questions posed. $300,00 units for the complex. The mayor, Leland C. McPherson, said Wednesday that he has begun collecting the materials needed to answer the questions. The city council had a chance to answer questions at its regular meeting on Tuesday, but made only oblique reference to the disastrous fires at that meeting.

A Public Safety Department drug enforcement officer arrested a 23-year-old Flagstaff man in a raid late Monday for possession of heroin, marijuana and peyote. Agents said the recent arrest on heroin charges is the first time it’s been made in Flagstaff. “It’s not the people who have lived here long enough,” he said.

Contemporary architecture highlights the new School of Management building at Northern Arizona University’s Southern Academic Center. The nearly completed 70,000-square-foot structure is scheduled to be put into use during the spring semester. The $23 million building includes 23 classrooms, a large lecture hall, two computer labs, a faculty and student lounge, and offices for faculty and staff. Since its inception ten years ago, the business college’s enrollment has grown from 500 he’s to more than 1,100 he’s. The new building is designed to accommodate 2,000 students and her 70 faculty members.

Northern Arizona University will offer more than 100 credit classes for the spring semester beginning next week, said Eugene M. Hughes, vice president for university programming.

“Many of the courses should be of interest to teachers, school administrators, and other adult residents of the Flagstaff area interested in continuing education,” said Hughes.

Most courses are located in the College of Education. Classes are available in the areas of Administration and Supervision, Educational Foundations, Curriculum and Instruction, Special Education and Psychology.