75 years ago
November 13, 1942
Don’t let anyone tell you that first aid training is a waste of time. We watched Aberdeen high school gridders handle Bob McClelland, end, when he was injured in the Olympia game.
Rather than picking him up like a sack of spuds, his teammates carefully got him under his shoulders and carried him off the field, then laid him face down on the ground and covered him with blankets until an ambulance arrived.
Not knowing whether Mac had a serious back injury (later it was found that he hadn’t) the boys did just the right thing and drew praise from Dr. O.R. Austin, who was puzzled himself about the seriousness of McClelland’s injuries until he looked over the X-ray picture.
Doesn’t that convince everyone that first aid training is really a fine thing?
50 years ago
November 13, 1967
Friend & Rikalo struck by dynamite last year, was hit apparently by an arsonist Sunday night, as a fire did $6,000 damage to the firm’s shop at 521 W. Curtis in Aberdeen.
Police found a hole cut in a fiberglass window, where entry was apparently made. Drawers in the office had been pulled out, and papers were strewn over the floor.
The firm, an excavation contractor, had recently completed rebuilding the shop after it was destroyed by a dynamite blast April 3, 1966. The dynamiting has never been solved.
25 years ago
November 13, 1992
While everyone else on the Harbor worries about how and when they’ll feel the squeeze from the Hoquiam pulp and paper mill closure, the impact is achingly evident to some 600 Harborites who are now out of work.
Over at the gate to the paper mill, workers were picking up their last paycheck Thursday afternoon.
“Anybody got a job for a displaced paper worker?” asked Max Dilk, a 23-year veteran of the mill. “This is going to ruin a lot of lives.”
Dilk blamed the closure on East Coast ownership — ITT Rayonier and International Paper. “They don’t care about employees. They don’t care about towns.”
Steve Beardslee, who lives just blocks from the paper mill where he’d worked for the past 27 years, agreed and worried, “Where’s the Harbor going?”
“I’m not worried about myself, I’m worried about my kids,” Beardslee added. “My son-in-law worked here with me. My God, what are they gonna do?”
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
