75 years ago
August 6, 1943
When Private First Class Harvey Mott, Hoquiam Marine, married Miss Jessie Dale, Scottish resident of a South Pacific island, there remained the problem of arranging passport papers for the new United States citizen to come to Hoquiam. Through combined efforts of Congressman Fred Norman and Superior Judge J.M. Phillips, the necessary papers will be forwarded to her this week.
The wedding occurred May 22 on the South Pacific island where Mrs. Mott was born and raised. Private Mott, a 1935 graduate of Hoquiam high school, is a veteran of Guadalcanal and other major engagements. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ovid Caruthers of Hoquiam.
50 years ago
August 6, 1968
In a secluded gravel pit, two youths sit in a car. One puts a cardboard cylinder from which a lighted cigarette protrudes to his mouth and breathes deeply, trapping each wisp of smoke in his lungs.
As he passes his cigarette to his companion, the car’s door is flung open, and two pairs of frightened eyes sight in on the intruder, a 42-year-old bachelor with the features of a Presbyterian deacon and a badge identifying him as an Aberdeen Police officer — John Bebich.
The closest the Harbor has to a full-time narcotics agent, Bebich has taken part in all but one narcotics arrest or seizure performed by his department.
In fact, one local dealer of illegal drugs commented, “I will rarely sell in Aberdeen because I am leery of Bebich,” and a local drug user remarked, “Bebich makes us uptight. He’s such a good cop.”
25 years ago
August 6, 1993
The Harbor Community Health Clinic in Aberdeen has worked itself out of a job. There were too many poor people at the poor people’s clinic.
Created two years ago to fill the community’s need for consistent health care for welfare recipients and the working poor, the clinic now has about 3,000 patients. It’s located on the first floor of the former St. Joseph Hospital.
Fees are based on a patient’s ability to pay.
Unfortunately, so many patients are low-income — the very people the clinic hoped to reach — that there’s not enough money coming in to sustain the operation, according to Dale Shirk, executive director of West Coast Community Clinics, which also operates clinics at Copalis Beach and Lake Quinault.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
