50 YEARS AGO

June 10, 1971 – “Since I have been in this office, I have bitten by dogs four times — and there is four dead dogs.” Police Chief Harold Boyd made the statement Monday night at city council meeting, in defending his actions in enforcement of the dog leash law in Ouray. Though Boyd was censured by some of the councilmen for having acted too hastily recently in shooting a small dog he said he was attempting to capture and impound, the police chief felt the ordinance upheld h...