75 years ago
August 20, 1944
Sunday, no newspaper published
August 21, 1944
Remodeling of the former Totem store and Huffman Motors buildings on Seventh Street in Hoquiam into a Boeing branch plant will get under way this week, A.W. Jacobson, general superintendent of branch plants, said today.
When in full production the plant will employ between 500 and 700 workers. Remodeling will be rushed to have the plant in partial operation by the end of the month.
The new plant will be the second on Grays Harbor, the Aberdeen plant now employing 600, being in operation a year.
50 years ago
August 20, 1969
Miniskirts are now proper attire at the Social Security Administration’s headquarters complex outside Baltimore.
The agency’s employee newspaper, the SSA Central Office Bulletin, says miniskirts, pant dresses and culottes meet the accepted standards of a business office, but shorts and slacks are unacceptable.
“These are as inappropriate in a business or government office as blue jeans, tuxedos or evening gowns,” the article said.
August 21, 1969
Simpson and Sumner Avenues, Alder Street and Park Street will become one-way streets related to the new Aberdeen-Hoquiam one-way couplet, under an ordinance passed by the Aberdeen city council Wednesday night.
Lester Parker, city attorney, said he’d been informed Hoquiam expects to pass their ordinance Monday night.
25 years ago
August 20, 1994
From the opulent exuberance of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” to the darker pessimism of Nirvana’s “Penny Royal Tea,” Rosevear’s Music Center has remained a constant in Aberdeen’s ever-changing downtown retail core.
But while the store has withstood the vicissitudes in musical tastes and economic conditions, owner Larry Rosevear understands the need for change and will open up shop in a larger facility on the other side of East Wishkah Street early next week.
“The reason we’re moving is because we need more space,” said 57-year-old Rosevear, whose family owned business has been at 211 East Wishkah Street since 1945.
Rosevear’s father, Richard, began selling pianos, with his friend Ray Messingale in 1935 on West Heron Street, close to where Marge’s Ceramics and Crafts is today.
The new location at 224 East Wishkah will offer a considerably larger showroom as well as more room for servicing instruments and other equipment.
The larger building, which was originally the Aberdeen Federal Building — still has a bank vault to prove it — was most recently occupied by Party Pizzazz, a wedding and special occasion supply store.
August 21, 1994
Breezy Carter of Aberdeen and two of her fellow Girl Scouts ave a valuable hint for anyone stuck in the woods when nature calls.
Thimbleberry leaves, they say, make great toilet paper. But never, they stress, get thimbleberry leaves confused with a similar-looking plant called Devils’ club.
“Don’t get them mixed up,” advises Carter. “Thimbleberry leaves are so soft they are called nature’s toilet paper. But Devil’s club has very prickly points.”
The hint was just a bit of a variety of education shared Saturday at a Water Quality Fun Day at Grays Harbor College.
Carter, 15, and her friends, Kari Love and Alicia Salo, both 15 and of Hoquiam, coordinated the Fun Day as part of a quest to obtain Girl Scout Silver Awards. The award is the second-highest honor a Girl Scout can achieve.
About a dozen girls from various Brownie and Girl Scout troops came to the college yesterday to explore water and wetlands at Lake Swano, a man-made lake in the woods behind the college.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
