75 years ago
December 2, 1942
Howard Wilson, former Hoquiam and Washington State College athlete, has just completed the training of his fourth group in jiu jitsu, “the art of sudden violence” at the Hoquiam YMCA.
“The classes are made up mostly of boys and men above their 20s,” said Oscar Lovgren, YMCA director. “They’re not only well trained but they’re bigger boys. The training the boys received will stand them in good stead when they go into the army.
Some of the men are gray-haired but their new training makes them the equal of younger and stronger men who have not been trained.”
December 3, 1942
Aberdeen schools will observe “Pearl Harbor Day” next Monday with special stamp drives and other events, Superintendent Edward F. Bloom said today.
At 9:25 o’clock in the morning when the attack occurred at Pearl Harbor a year ago, students will observe a minute’s silence. Preceding the silent period, students will take part in discussions on the significance of the Pacific bastion to America.
50 years ago
December 2, 1967
The Service League of St. Joseph Hospital will be raising funds at its December 6 bazaar toward the purchase of an tele-electrocardiogram machine, which, when installed here, will be a life-saving instrument of considerable value.
When attached to a telephone in a hospital room, the machine transmits tracings of a cardiogram direct to Portland specialists, and the physicians here can get an immediate opinion from Portland and can begin immediate treatment.
Paintings by three well-known Grays Harbor artists — Elsie Weiner, Uldine Burgon and Bruno Percini will be sold at the bazaar.
December 3, 1967
Sunday, no newspaper printed
25 years ago
December 2, 1992
Carl Kavanaugh of Raymond suffered lacerations to the head and a possible hip fracture this morning when he tumbled through the second floor of the old Humboldt Saloon on F Street between State and Heron streets in Aberdeen.
Since September, Kavanaugh and his brother Melvin have been dismantling the historic building for Jones Washington Stevedoring Co. across the alley. The company had considered saving the building, which was the second location of Big Fred Hewett’s legendary bar, but experts said it was too far gone.
The structure was built in 1903 after the fire that leveled 22 blocks in downtown Aberdeen. The building was among the first to be constructed on wood pilings due to new city regulations requiring masonry construction of commercial buildings in the wake of the fire.
December 3, 1992
Tough times are ahead for many former workers at the Hoquiam pulp and paper mills, but planning now can help ease the hurt later.
That’s the message a panel at the Grays Harbor Paper Job Assistance Center had Wednesday night for the dozen workers and family members who turned out for the forum.
The speakers addressed the financial and emotional impacts of the mill closures.
Dr. Paul Felver, pastor of the Aberdeen United Methodist Church, told the former mill workers that he is also going through a transition.
At year’s end Felver will leave his post at the church to become a full-time pastoral counselor.
“What you’re going to be experiencing is very similar to grief,” Felver said. “There is absolutely nothing you can do, say or feel that is abnormal when you are in grief.”
The pastor suggested that finding an objective listener is critical to getting through some of the tough times ahead.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
