“Name that Year” is designed to put your knowledge of Tracy and its newsmakers of the past to the test. Each week, we will publish a news item that ran in a past edition — maybe it was a major event, or a story about a Tracy resident — it’s up to you to determine in what year that particular news item hit the pages of the paper:
• A PLANE CRASH DURING LOW-VISIBILITY WEATHER MONDAY NIGHT TOOK THE LIFE OF JACK WATSON, pilot, and seriously injured his wife, Gwen, daughter of Mrs. Edward Schafer of Walnut Grove and related to other Tracy and Walnut Grove residents.
Business partners of the Watson’s, Mr. and Mrs, Wilbur Thomsen, all of Round Lake, were also seriously injured in the crash that occurred shortly after midnight and only about three-quarter of a mile from their destination, the Worthington airport.
