75 years ago

February 28, 1944

Aberdeen junior wardens planted 250 Douglas fir seedlings Saturday afternoon on their 80-acre tract of forest land near Lake Aberdeen. They were instructed in planting by Harry Clark, field director of the Keep Washington Green committee, John Troup, forest marshal of the Aberdeen American Legion post, Ed Bowen, city water superintendent and H.O. Westling. The remaining 250 seedlings, a gift from the West Coast lumbermen’s association, will be planted in the near future

February 29, 1944

Between 1910, when he first went to work for the local post office, and today, when his retirement became effective, veteran Aberdeen mail carrier, John P. Kaifer, has dropped a good many thousand letters into mail boxes and seen much Harbor history in the making.

He is 60 and is retiring after 33 years and eight months and is actually the first postman to have retired from the local office after completing the required 30 years.

Kaifer remembers Aberdeen’s first post office, which stood opposite the old St. Clair hotel at the foot of Wishkah street and the box nailed to a Douglas fir stump that served as a postoffice prior to that.

March 1, 1944

Grays Harbor Shipbuilding company yesterday delivered five more vessels built at its Chehalis river yard to the government for use in Pacific war offensives.

They included a 126-foot twin screw tugboat and four 26-foot wooden mine yawls. The yawls are the first in a fleet of 20 to be built by the firm.

50 years ago

February 28, 1969

Sunday, March 2. A new World begins for Grays Harbor. A Sunday World. A Sunday World of color comics. A Sunday World of Family Weekly Magazine. A Sunday World of more news, more sports, more society. A Sunday World of more advertising, home-making hints and special features.

With the coming of the new Sunday World, our Saturday edition is being discontinued.

March 1, 1969

Saturday, no newspaper published

25 years ago

February 28, 1994

Five Harbor High School students showed off their engineering expertise Saturday at the Washington Science Teachers’ Association 20th Annual Science & Engineering Contest at Hazen High School in Renton.

And they all brought home ribbons.

“That is highly unusual,” said Charles Schaaf, who teaches science at the alternative school in Aberdeen. “I’m exceedingly proud of the kids. (They) are out there bubbling right now. Their ribbons are on the wall and everyone is saying ‘Wow!’”

In the airplane flight event, Greg Davies took first place; Adam Rogers took second; and Rick King and Dawn Simpson tied for third. In the mousetrap car category, Adam Bailey took second place.

March 1, 1994

An 18-year-old man was on probation for a malicious mischief conviction when he allegedly broke into the Aberdeen Community Center early Sunday and caused an estimated $20,000 damage.

Jeremy Ian Perkuhn was given a suspended three-month sentence Feb. 17 for an incident last month in Olympia. On Monday, the slight, short-haired man was charged in Grays Harbor Superior Court with second-degree burglary and first-degree malicious mischief.

A computer and VCR were smashed, numerous windows broken and museum cases fill with artifacts were tipped over.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom