As we were: City manager retires

25 Years ago

June 19, 1987

City manager plans retirement

Placerville City Manager Lee Yarborough has announced he plans to retire as of Sept. 23 …

“I am grateful for having had the opportunity to serve as Placerville’s administrator and shall take with me the satisfaction of knowing that I leave the city better in many ways than I found it,” Yarborough wrote in the a letter.

Yarborough has been city manager for 6-1/2 years. During that time, the completion of the Center Street parking lot was accomplished, largely through Yarborough’s efforts, according to City Councilman Jerry Bennett …

Councilman Al Tuttle agreed with Bennett that Yarborough’s expertise as an administrator, particularly in the area of fiscal matters, has benefited the city.

“When (Yarborough) came to the city, we were in a fiscally hurting period, during the depression of the early ’80s. Lee brought in a lot of new ideas, bringing about a cost-effective government,” Tuttle said …

65 Years ago

June 19, 1947

Arm Amputated By Passing Car

Two men and a girl were driving toward Placerville on Highway 50 late Saturday night and passed a truck headed west at a point on a curve about half a mile west of Deer Creek.

Soon after rounding the curve, the driver pulled to the side of the road and halted the car.

“You get over here and drive, I’ve lost my arm,” he told the other man. “Drive straight to the hospital and hurry.”

The man who said that he was Walter Eddy, 20, formerly of El Dorado and now a resident of Del Paso heights …

… two hours after the incident, Captain Earl Personius and Officer Charles Patchen visited the scene the scene and found the arm and hand laying in the middle of the highway…

Eddy walked into the hospital and after doctors treated the injury, he was still able to walk up the stairs and go to bed …

 

105 Years ago

June 22, 1907

Frank Gerbode has been given a contract to furnish crushed gravel for the streets of Placerville. A rock-crusher was installed at the gravel beds south of Chinatown last week and operations were begun Monday. It is thought that this material will make the best covering for streets that has yet been tried.

The show window of the McKee, Carr Co. has been attracting considerable attention this week. They are displaying some of their goods in the shape of an automobile. The machine is complete in every detail, and is composed of a child’s bath-tub, stove-pipe elbows, gas-burner, mop-sticks, soap-dish, carpet-sweeper, portable lamp-holder, and even a “toot-toot” is represented by a funnel attached to a small rubber hose. It is labelled Schmitz’s Red Auto No. 23.