This Week in Local History

The week of July 10 to July 16

100 years

Kate Ames of San Francisco, representing the State Suffrage League, addressed local women interested in starting a permanent body of the Women's Suffrage movement in Marysville.

50 years

A gas main shot 350 pounds of pressure into the air with a roar that was heard six blocks away. An equipment operator was plowing a fire-break along Lindhurst Avenue and a machine blade punctured the main. He was knocked off his machine but was unharmed.

25 years

Yuba City police were still searching for the hot prowl burglary suspect who had committed two robberies and also stabbed and beat a 77-year-old woman.

Donald Neudeck, chief of the flood operations center in Sacramento, spoke at the Lake Oroville Visitor Center about how the state wasn't concerned with the Yuba or Feather rivers at the time of the Linda Levee break in February. "As far as we were concerned, there was not going to be a flood at the Yuba or Feather."

10 years

Seventy-five-year-old Aurora Reyes of Live Oak, who had lost most of her vision in her left at as a child, regained her vision after 70 years following surgery by local physician, Pranav Amin, to insert a new lens into her eye.

5 years

Pencil drawings by 12-year-old Steven Phillips were to be displayed at the California State Fair after he won a pencil drawing contest at the state level. Themed "Star Wars," his artwork was recognized in the Perspective and Dimensions and General Drawings categories.