75 years ago
Jan. 28, 1942
The first air raid evacuation drill in the Aberdeen schools will be conducted tomorrow afternoon throughout the system, Edward F. Bloom, superintendent, announced today.
Students will be released shortly before 3 o’clock. Those who live within walking distance will go to their homes, Others who live on the south side or in the rural districts will go to homes in the vicinity of the schools. Arrangements have been completed to have these students stay at private homes until the all-clear is sounded, Bloom said.
Jan. 29, 1942
• This week a group of Red Cross workers completed 21 days of sewing for the Aberdeen civilian defense program, turning out more than 600 garments for use in first aid stations here. Among the articles were hospital bed shirts, draw sheets, bandages, operating gowns, children’s gowns and bath robes.
Starting next week, the sewing work rooms in the Washington hotel building will be open from 1 o’clock to 5 o’clock five afternoons a week.
• Ocosta high school cagers, both boys and girls, impatiently were marking time today awaiting the dedication ceremony and opening games in their new $21,000 gymnasium.
Ocosta and North River will tangle in a Tri-County league doubleheader immediately following the ceremony which starts at 7:30 o’clock.
“We feel we have a gymnasium second to none among the B schools,” said Superintendent Paul Hitchcock.”Much of the credit goes to the students who launched the gym campaign.
In 1940 the student body started the ball rolling for a new gym by putting up $1,000. Clarence Martin, then governor, appropriated $3,918 from state funds, the Ocosta school board set up $2,000 and a WPA grant for nearly $14,000 was obtained. Work started the day after the 1941 basketball season ended.
50 years ago
Jan. 28, 1967
A space agency official said today that one of the three astronauts trapped aboard the Apollo I spacecraft was able to report the disastrous fire an instant before the three men — Virgil (Gus) Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee — perished.
“One of the astronauts said ‘fire in the spacecraft,” Apollo program manager Maj. Gen. Sam Phillips told a news conference. It was the first indication that the three astronauts had time for any action when an apparent electrical spark set a roaring inferno through their spacecraft 218 feet off the ground during a test Friday.
Jan. 29, 1967
Sunday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
Jan. 28, 1992
Eighteen-year-old Raymond Lee Baca, who stabbed a North Beach woman to death last summer and drank her blood, was sentenced to 53 years and four months in prison.
In handing down a term more than twice the 20-to-26 year standard range, Grays Harbor Superior Court Judge Michael Spencer called the murder ” … the most violent, the most savage, deliberate attack on a person … ” he had ever dealt with.
“Words can’t express the conduct of the defendant from my point of view,” said Deputy Prosecutor Jerry Fuller. “This conjures up people like Charles Manson.”
Jan. 29, 1992
The state departments of Natural Resources and Ecology are joining forces to battle the unwanted spartina plant that grows in Willapa Harbor.
Under a verbal agreement between the two agencies announced Monday, the Department of Ecology will compile a $250,000 environmental impact statement into the affects of eradicating the fast-growing cordgrass.
“The stakes are too high to allow spartina to grow unchecked,” said Public Lands Commissioner Brian Boyle, who participated in a meeting called by Sen. Sid Snyder, D-Long Beach.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
