50 Years Ago

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.”

A few days after stepping down as editor of the Navajo Times in the spring of 1971, Dick Hardwick was interviewed about his experience running the tribal newspaper for more than three years.

Tommy Arviso Sr. resigned this week as the Navajo Tribal Fair manager much to the displeasure of Dick Hardwick, the editor of the Navajo Times.

This was a big week for Perry Allen, the chief prosecutor for the Navajo Tribe. Twenty-five years after he was wounded in Saipan in July 1944, he finally received his Purple Heart thanks to the efforts of tribal leaders and family members who wrote letters to members of Congress and national veteran officials who pointed out the problem.