50 YEARS AGO

July 6, 1972 – Editorial: July 4, 1972 in Ouray has to have been a landmark celebration as one of the best in a great many years. Old-timers have commented there’s never been better parade, and it is generally agreed that from that beginning everything proceeded at a well-oiled pace, as nearly perfectly as possible. Even the water cooperated — we got our rain Wednesday. There was only one misfire: the absence of the jet fly-by, presumed (but not officially confirmed) to hav...