75 years ago
November 3, 1943
The United States treasury department has singularly honored Hoquiam high school by selecting the Hoquiam “Schools at War” scrap book for display in England, Charles R. Frazier, director of the school division for the War Finance Committee, announced today in Seattle. Twenty-eight thousand schools submitted books and 61 were selected.
The Hoquiam scrapbook contains a complete account of the part played by Hoquiam students in the war effort, with special emphasis on scrap gathering and bond drives. Mrs. James Ladley of the faculty devoted much time and help in compiling the book which is illustrated with oil paintings done by Donna Jean Briggs of the class of ‘43.
November 4, 1943
A draft registrant in Poinsett county, Arkansas, who brought his local board a letter proving he was married and the father of seven, is probably still wondering “what-goes-on-here?”
The letter sent him off promptly to the induction station. It read:
“Dear United States army, My husband … cannot read. … He ain’t no good to me. He ain’t done nothing but raise hell and drink lemon essence since I married him eight years ago, and I got to feed seven kids of his. I need the grub and his bed for the kids. Don’t tell him this, but just take him and send him as far as you can.”
50 years ago
November 3, 1968
Sunday, no newspaper published
November 4, 1968
The Grays Harbor Chokers gave Portland State’s outgunned freshmen a rugged introduction to Washington Junior College Conference muscle Saturday night, making off with an easy 28-6 victory at Stewart Field before an estimated 1,563 GHC homecoming fans.
The Chokers hit the scoreboard in every quarter, sailing to a 28-0 advantage before the visitors finally rang the bell. Coach Bud Hake substituted liberally throughout the non-conference affair as the Harborites snapped a two-game losing string with their fourth triumph of the year.
25 years ago
November 3, 1993
In the Harbor’s biggest school districts, yesterday’s vote was split between incumbents and challengers.
Challenger Tanya Bowers beat 20-year incumbent Betty Wynn for a seat on the Hoquiam School Board by a 2-to-1 margin.
In Aberdeen, six-year incumbent Sandra Bielski maintained her post in a friendly, low-key contest by challenger Jaymee McMeekin — 56 percent to 44 percent.
There was no indecision among Aberdeen voters last night as City Council races on the South Side and West End were settled by resounding margins.
For West Enders, it was in with the new as attorney Jack Micheau unseated incumbent Jackie Haydon with 62.4 percent of the vote.
On the South Side, voters lined up behind incumbent Rhonda Steinman in Ward 1. She KO’d her young challenger Joe Mihelich, taking 66 percent of the vote.
November 4, 1993
Grays Harbor could find itself under the world spotlight if a proposal to burn weapons-grade plutonium at Satsop gathers steam, the Aberdeen City Council was told last night.
A proposal to take the plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons and burn it for electricity at the moth-balled power plants at Satsop and Hanford is gaining international recognition because it has the potential to help Russia solve its dismantling problems, said Laurin R. Dodd, the Battelle Institute’s acting manager of the reactor technology center at Richland.
While politicians try to keep world peace, the carrot for Grays Harbor would be more than 1,000 new jobs — jobs that never came on line when the Washington Public Power Supply System failed to complete the nuclear power plants in the 1980s.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
