The Way It Was

Young physician dies in tragic firearm accident

Nevada has lost another splendid citizen to one of those accidents that seem so easy to prevent but happen so often. Today the lifeless form of Dr. John Jay Richards is the awful evidence of the results that so often follow when a man attempts to go under a fence with a double-barrel shotgun in his hands. He attempted to crawl under a barbed wire fence, drawing the gun by the end of the barrel alongside him. The gun struck something and discharged, and the life of the young physician was instantly ended.

75 years ago:

Judge Catron dies

A well-known and highly esteemed resident of Vernon County died at his home Saturday afternoon of an illness of several weeks.

In recent years, he has made his home in Nevada. He was always interested in public affairs and had served as a judge on the Vernon County Court for six years. He was also a Washington Township school board member.

50 years ago:

Former Nevada resident rescues pilot from burning helicopter

Gilbert Skinner of Palo Alto, Calif., former Nevadan and the brother of Mrs. M.L. Dahmer of Milo, was severely burned on Aug. 29, when he and another man plunged inot the wreckage of a burning helicopter to save a pilot.

he experimental, rocket-type helicopter had exploded and crashed in flames near the Hiller Company plant in Palo Alto, where Skinner was employed. The pilot, Robert Herd, was critically burned and Skinner was hospitalized with severe burns about the face, left arm, hand and leg.