50 Years Ago

Forty years ago this week construction crews began preparing a section of land near Tsaile Lake to become the new home of the college.

Marshall Tome made the front page of the Navajo Times again 50 years ago when he was appointed head of the poverty program under the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity.

Chicago city police this week could really have made use of a Navajo Code Talker.

Since its inception almost nine years earlier, the paper was produced by staff from three small rooms in a building near the Council Chamber.

The cartoon on the editorial page of the Navajo Times 50 years ago said it all. It showed a federal judge standing over an elderly Navajo woman shouting, “Very expensive $16.29. Should have left well enough alone.”