75 years ago
June 24, 1942
Stop-N-Shop horseshoe tossers last nigth won six games to three for Casey Hardware to tie Saari Studio for first place in the Aberdeen horseshoe league. Saari’s dropped seven out of nine games to the Hoquiam Moose.
Ed Wetzel of the Hoquiam Moose took high three-game average honors with 58 and set a new record of 105 ringers in three games. Harvey MacMurray of Wiitamaki Jewelry pitched five consecutive doubles.
June 25, 1942
Scores of Aberdeen and Hoquiam Boy Scouts combed residential districts today in a clean-up drive expected to send the two cities’ rubber salvage total near the 450,000-pound mark.
Saturday afternoon between 4 o’clock and 5 o’clock, a victory celebration will be staged at West Market and L streets, with a free show to feature a Major Bowes amateur review, obtained through the D and R theater, the Hoquiam Elks Hillbilly band and several other attractions. No admission will be charged but each onlooker has been asked to bring at least five pounds of rubber.
50 years ago
June 24, 1967
A meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson will be the highlight of 18-year-old Any Bohrnsen’s five-day visit to Washington, D.C., next week as a delegate to the National Youth Governor’s Conference.
The Hoquiam youth, who graduated from high school earlier this month with a perfect 4.00 grade point average, will join 49 other state delegates for a first hand look at government in action. The Readers’ Digest Association sponsors the conference through the YMCA.
June 25, 1967
Sunday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
June 24, 1992
ITT Rayonier and International Paper have put the 115-acre pulp and paper complex in Hoquiam up for sale, company officials announced this morning.
The Rayonier pulp mill, a related lignin products operation, the vanillin plant, as well as the Grays Harbor Paper mill, jointly owned by Rayonier and International Paper, are being sold as a package. There was no word today on a purchase price or who may be interested.
In making the announcement today, company officials said the plant is not being shut down. It will continue to operate at current levels.
Total employment at all the facilities in 644.
At first glance, it almost looks like a new cemetery has just opened in a hay field off Highway 12.
But the 4,000 small white crosses were erected in protest by members of the Elma Bible Chapel who want to stop abortions.
Angela Stene, 28, spearheded the effort to put up the crosses which she says represent the number of abortions performed each day in the United States. It took 25 people about a month to build the crosses and last Saturday it took 15 people 13 hours to erect the crosses in the hay field of Stenek’s father-in-law Tim Stenek.
June 25, 1992
Local officials and business leaders say Wednesday’s announcement by ITT Rayonier and International Paper that their Hoquiam complex is up for sale is good news if it averts a shutdown which would “devastate” the local economy.
“We are definitely encouraged by the commitment of ITT Rayonier and International Paper to sell this complex rather than simply closing it and walking away,” said LeRoy Tipton, president of the Grays Harbor Chamber of Commerce.
Roger Jump, president of the Hoquiam Development Association and owner of the Casa Mia Restaurant, said the plants are crucial to Grays Harbor.
“I worked there for years myself,” he said. “It’s probably been the bulwark of Grays Harbor economy for years and years. I hope they find a buyer that does as good a job as Rayonier and International Paper have done. … If they don’t continue, it could be a real devastating blow to the Harbor.”
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
