75 years ago
May 21, 1943
“Semper paratus — always prepared — is the coast guardsman’s motto.
It means a lot to the men.
But to a new type of Coast Guard recruits, who don’t understand Latin at bit, “Always prepared” is more than a maxim, it’s an attitude toward life itself.
The new recruits are dogs — the proverbial “dogs of war.”
They’re out on the Pacific Coast beaches, aiding the coast guardsmen in their lonely night patrols, “always ready” to give warning of an enemy’s approach and each ready and willing to die for his master, if need be.
The dogs’ ears can “filter out” the roar of the surf and pick up other sounds and vibrations that defy the ears of men. But even where their ears fail, they can detect the presence of a stranger by the sense of smell. Down wind, they can often pick up a scent at 200 yards.
50 years ago
May 21, 1968
An attractive school teacher who resigned rather than limit her mini skirts to one inch above the knee is fighting to retain her teaching credential.
Mrs. Kathryn Ann Hasslinger quit as a language arts teacher at the Westside School in Five Points, Calif. upon urging of the California Teachers Association.
It climaxed a long struggle with Norman Jaco, the district superintendent and principal, who said her mid-thigh dresses “raised the possibility of indecent exposure while she was writing on the blackboard or sitting down.”
Mrs. Hasslinger, a graduate of Seattle University, reported “(Jaco) also said it might be necessary to measure my dresses several times a day.”
25 years ago
May 21, 1993
Twenty-two South Aberdeen residents who were awarded $682,000 last month for health problems and property damage linked to fumes from Weyerhaeuser’s treatment ponds are asking for $143,000 more.
In court papers filed Monday, plaintiffs’ attorney Paul Stritmatter of Hoquiam argued that the jury should have awarded each plaintiff money for mental anguish and emotional distress as well as for physical pain and suffering.
Grays Harbor Superior Court Judge David Foscue, who presided over the two-month jury trial, will hear the motion on June 1.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
