Here are some newspaper tales printed this week in years previous.
25 Years Ago
Chicoans partake in New Year’s ritual: turning into ‘polar bears’ 3
By Roger H. Aylworth, Staff Writer
About 300 sturdy they got here. Old and young, female and male, all with the single-minded objective to do one thing that’s clearly nuts and have an excellent time doing it.
In a ritual that’s performed out in numerous locales throughout the county, this band of intrepid souls shed most of their clothes and a goodly portion of their sanity on New Year’s Day to plunge into the frigid waters of Big Chico Creek and earn the doubtful resolution of turning into “polar bears.”
The Polar Bear plunge took place at One-Mile Dam Recreation Area’s Sycamore Pool at 1 p.m.
Chip and Michael Dow, a father and son crew from Chico, have been all smiles after their frosty dip.
So the query is, why?
“It’s like climbing a mountain, ‘Because it’s there’.” defined Chip, the dad. …
— Enterprise-Record, Jan. 2, 1999
50 Years Ago
Low-income housing mission prepared
Ribbon-cutting ceremonies have been held Friday for Paradise’s first low-income, backed housing unit for senior residents. The 24-unit complicated on Buschmann Road close to Clark is predicted to open Jan. 15 and be full two weeks later.
The $250,000 mission was funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and is sponsored by Community Development Enterprises (CME) of Chico.
CDE President E. M. West defined that his organization will lease the items to the Butte County Housing Authority which can hire them to low-income senior residents. …
To qualify, an individual should be 62 years of age or older with a complete annual revenue of not over $3,600 or $4,200 for a household. Disabled residents might qualify at younger ages.
Rent for the items … most to be $75. …
With 600 sq. toes, every residence has one bed room, a toilet, kitchen and mixed dining-living room. The kitchens are geared up with an electrical vary and oven and a fridge. Drapes are additionally furnished. …
— Paradise Post, Jan. 4, 1974
75 Years Ago
Chico Area’s Holiday Eve Safe and Sane
Quiet events and celebrations set the theme of New Year final evening in Chico. Most residents spent one of many “safest and sanest” New Year’s Eves Chico has seen in a while. There have been no stories of visitors accidents, no disturbances to quell and just one man was arrested by police for drunkenness.
Dances have been held in a number of public halls and by quite a few golf equipment and organizations. A big crowd turned out of the Eagles’ dance on the Hotel Oaks Annex at Municipal Airport, and the dance on the Paradise Pines was effectively attended. Jack Taylor’s orchestra performed for crowds of Elks Club members on the Elks Hall dance, which was open solely to members and visiting Elks.
Many individuals held personal events and noticed little 1949 enter in pleasant teams. But in native taverns and bars different revelers made the standard noise to welcome the brand new 12 months in.
Chico police reported that 5 males noticed the brand new 12 months enter by the bars of the native jail. Four of them have been a while on varied fees … The fifth was the drunk who was arrested late final evening. …
— Enterprise-Record, Jan. 1, 1949
100 Years Ago
Sun To Shine On Race Today
Runners Are Ready For Event
Starting Gun Pops At 10:45
While chill winds and snow and rain would be the climate dished as much as the vast majority of the cities of the Pacific coast, Chico and the encompassing territory is scheduled to have clear skies and snappy climate for the New Year, it was introduced final evening by the federal government climate bureau.
All is ready for the Chico Record cross-city race, the largest sporting occasion of the season for Chico; and with the honest climate assured by Uncle Sam’s greatest climate man, greater crowds than ever are anticipated to throng the streets this morning to see the races.
The Junior race, for boys 14 years old and younger, would be the first occasion of the day, and can begin promptly at 10:45 when Bill Hamilton, the official starter, will crack the gun at Sixteenth and South Broadway. Nine kids will line up for this occasion and can race for the Switch watch donated to the winner of the junior class by Bedford’s Jewelry retailer.
While the Junior occasion of 1 mile is new this 12 months, the Senior run over the 2 and one-half mile course is the occasion wherein a lot of the curiosity will in all probability lie.
Nine males can even run on this even, and the competitors for the Elgrin gold watch, first prize, from Dupen’s is predicted to be exceptionally eager. …
Police officers and visitors officers have supplied to maintain the visitors clear in the course of the race.
Boy Scout troops beneath the management of R. J. Hamilton and J. D. Hubbard can even help in retaining the visitors clear in entrance of The Record workplace, the place the race will end.
— The Chico Record, Jan. 1, 1924
125 Years Ago
Liverman E. H. Gale Wants To Be Single
Sensational Divorce Suit in Which Prominent Oroville People Figure
Both Believe They Are Right
Plaintiff Charges His Wife With Abandonment, and She Claims She Left in Order to Secure Peace
Special to the RECORD.
Oroville, December 29 — A grievance was filed in a divorce go well with right now which excites greater than normal curiosity on this group. The plaintiff is the well-known livery man, Ed Gale, and the defendant is Annie E. Gale. The couple haven’t lived collectively for a while previous, and associates of each events lay the blame of the difficulty on the alternative aspect. The cost set forth within the grievance is abandonment. Friends of the defendant say that the husband drank to extra and gambled: that she was unable to stay in a state of peace with him and due to this fact eliminated to Oakland, merely that she may get hold of that peace of thoughts essential to her bodily welfare, however that no considered abandonment ever entered her thoughts.
On the opposite hand the intimate associates of the plaintiff declare that the defendant is possessed of such an ungovernable mood, main her to matches of maximum jealousy, uncalled for by her husband’s actions, that she coldly abandoned him and refused to deal with him as a spouse ought to deal with a husband.
The case is saved very quiet however those that are closest to the events concerned within the hassle, declare that some very racy and sensational developments will happen earlier than the case involves an in depth.
— The Chico Record, Jan. 1, 1924
150 Years Ago
Roller Skating
This amusement has apparently a powerful attraction for a lot of of Chico’s residents, because the attendance is effectively saved up.
Thursday evening of every week is ready aside completely for coloured individuals, they usually enter into the enjoyment of the factor with a zest that should be witnessed to be absolutely appreciated.
The performances are filled with selection to a looker-on, and can excite the risibles of probably the most strongly set countenance.
Your consideration will in all probability first be attracted by somebody whose efforts to take care of his equilibrium will likely be suggestive of a brief acquaintance with the rollers strapped to his toes, and as he turns round out of the blue notices one of many supporting posts, for which he’s making with all his may, and with none obvious energy to keep away from collision, whereas his arms are going by all types of frantic motions as if warning the publish to get out of the way in which.
Just concerning the time you assume the collision inevitable, he out of the blue takes a seat upon the ground, and commences a essential examination of the skates, and after turning into completely glad that every thing is all proper, will get on his toes as he greatest can and repeats the efficiency on one other publish.
Sometimes a publish will turn out to be an object of heat, by sudden affection, and be embraced by sturdy arms with a vehemence that makes one think about the individual is absolutely satisfied that that publish is the most effective buddy he has on this planet.
On the opposite hand there are some wonderful skaters, and their sleek evolutions are very nice to behold.
— The Weekly Butte Record, Jan. 3, 1874
