75 years ago
August 12, 1944
The E.G. Shimmin family has been spending an interesting summer. Mr. Shimmin took a ranger course in June and late that month went to Colonel Bob in the Olympics to be the lookout man at the ranger station there. His son, Ned, accompanied him and is assisting his father in the lookout job and in clearing trails and cutting wood, etc.
Last week, Mrs. Shimmin and daughter Nan, went to Lake Quinault, Mrs. Shimmin to climb Colonel Bob and join her husband and son in leading the simple life. She left Nan at the Presbyterian camp at the lake.
Mrs. Shimmin said during clear times, they could see the ocean, Aberdeen, and the many peaks of the Olympics. Elk, deer and bear are prevalent and many of the wild flowers are in riotous bloom.
50 years ago
August 12, 1969
Now that they have permission to do it, the girls apparently don’t seem concerned whether or not they can sit at the bar in a cocktail lounge.
That’s what a quick survey at 11 o’clock last night revealed on the first day of the state law change allowing women to sit at the bar in class II establishments.
At the Aberdeen Eagles, not a woman got anywhere near the bar. They took to the comfortable chairs and tables, still unaware that despite the law the lodge has a house rule protecting the men at the bar.
It was the same at the Aberdeen VFW club. A house rule reserves the bar as the exclusive domain of the male.
At the 40 et 8 Club, Manager Roaslie Teague said there is no rule forbidding women from the bar, but the only time they do so, they just come there to stand and talk.
25 years ago
August 12, 1994
The inexorable press of time has taken its toll on Aberdeen High School’s Class of 1934. Reunions are punctuated by yellowed scrapbooks, bifocals and empty chairs.
But there’s still a lot of lie left in the powerful legs of George Karamatic, 77, the Bobcats’ gridiron hero of the pre-war years.
Sixty years after his last season at sandy Stewart Field, Karamatic’s pictures still hang in the Polson Museum: stern No. 77, with a primitive helmet that looks like a half of a watermelon and a stride that powered him into the end zone more often than anyone else on the West Coast in 1936 when he was a Gonzaga Bulldog.
After starring as a “triple threat” — passing, running and kicking — at AHS in 1932 and 33, Karamatic led the West Coast in scoring at Gonzaga. The New York Giants then made “Automatic” Karamatic their top choice in the college draft of the young NFL before trading him and his $175-a-game salary to the Redskins.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
