75 years ago
July 27, 1942
Sears, Roebuck and Co. at 118 W. Wishkah, is advertising reduced prices on all canning supplies. A cold-pack canner, that holds seven 1-quart jars, is on sale for $1.29. One hundred No. 2 size tin cans are only $2.99 and a dozen 1-quart Mason Jars are 88-cents.
July 28, 1942
Hoquiam Patrolman Kenneth Butler has a way with kids. He understands child psychology.
Yesterday afternoon he investigated a report that a group of boys had built a fire in driftwood near the fish docks at the foot of Fifth street. He found the boys with the fire but he didn’t lecture them or take them to the station.
He made them put out the fire by carrying water from the Harbor in small-size tin cans.
Back at police headquarters when he wrote his report he said, “They said they would not build any more fires.”
50 years ago
July 27, 1967
Two gunmen wielding blue .45 automatics held up Winters Brothers Tavern in Montesano last night, getting away with $2,000 and tying the bartender up in the restroom.
The two men entered the tavern shortly before midnight, ordered beers and then pulled their weapons. They were the only ones in the establishment.
The bartender, bound with adhesive tape, freed himself and called the sheriff’s office.
July 28, 1967
Now appearing at local theaters: “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Butterfield 8” at the 7th St. Theatre; “The Big Mouth” starring Jerry Lewis and “The Texican” starring Audie Murphy at the D and R; “The Naked Runner” starring Frank Sinatra and “A Covenant with Death” starring George Maharis at the Aberdeen Theater; at the Harbor Drive-in — Dean Martin, Ann Margaret and Karl Malden in “Murderers’ Row” and “Beau Geste” starring Dean Stockwell.
25 years ago
July 27, 1992
On a sheltered beach sacred to the Quinaults, Congressman Norm Dicks was accorded a rare honor Sunday.
Now he has an Indian name, Ka A Lis. It means The Rock.
“These rocks are sacred to the Quinaults,” explained Oliver Mason, an elder and hereditary tribal chief.
Pointing to one of the biggest rocks jutting out of the sand with an outline in the shape of a kneeling woman, he told how centuries ago a young woman came down to pray on the beach.
“Her family was fishing and had been caught in a storm. She asked the great spirit to bring her family home safely … When she looked up from her prayer she saw the Thunderbird bring her family in. She was turned into rock because her promise was that she would forever come to the beach and pray for the Quinaults when they would fish in the ocean.”
The big beach party was to support the Bremerton Democrat in his bid for re-election in his new district. Dicks has been endorsed by the Quinault Nation and many other tribes in the state. He officially announced his candidacy yesterday.
July 28, 1992
• The Mamala, a 65-foot Army Corps of Engineers survey boat that has cruised the waters in and around the Harbor for the past 35 years will retire in Hoquiam.
With a promise that volunteers would keep the historic boat in ship shape, the Hoquiam City Council agreed to accept the Mamala and pay $1,500 in administrative fees at its regular meeting Monday night.
•Every night, people are leaving un-useable donations and household garbage in the alley behind the Salvation Army thrift store, forcing employees and volunteers to haul the garbage away — at the charity’s expense.
“We’ve always had a problem (with garbage dumping),” said thrift shop manager Ellen Salzar, “but in the last two months it has gotten really bad.”
Back in January, 1992, the cost of removing un-useable donations and assorted garbage was $500-$600 a month, according to Salvation Army Capt. Arthur Watson. Now it’s more than $1,500 a month and that doesn’t include the cost of employee labor.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
