50 Years Ago

December 31, 1971

• Effective January 1, Plateau Natural Gas Company will officially change its name to Peoples Natural Gas
• Major credit for the bill just signed by President Nixon assuring teachers of retroactive pay for the “freeze” period must go to the nation’s teachers and their professional education associations,
• An oil-gas test being drilled southwest of Elk City, Oklahoma, when completed will be 28,000 feet down, in what oilmen call the Anadarko Basin.

A billion-dollar water plan has been offered as the answer to Colorado’s eastern slope water problems, which are predicated to become acute at the turn of the next century. The plan initiated by Central Colorado Water Conservancy District is based on use of Colorado water and imported water. It could supply 500,000 acre-feet of Gunnison River water to parched east slope cities ranging from Trinidad to Fort Morgan.