75 years ago
Jan. 21, 1942
A picked squad of Hoquiam Industrial basketball league players and Harbor hoop fans in general are in for a lesson on the finer points of the game tonight, when the Harlem Globtrotters roll into town for their annual Harbor exhibition. The contest will start at 8 o’clock in the Hoquiam gym.
Five veteran campaigners and two novices make up the Trotter barnstorming squad this season. Heading the list is Inman Jackson, one of the best known of all touring hoopsters. Then there are Roosevelt Hudson, Bernard Price, Louis Pressley and Ted Strong, all poplular entertainers, and Bill Ford and Everett Marcell.
Jan. 22, 1942
Dr. H.C. Watkins’ household was agog last night when they received a long distance telephone call from their son, Robert, ensign in the navy air corps fighting in the Pacific war.
“Bob just seemed to be bubbling over with enthusiasm,” Mrs. Watkins said today. “He said he was fine and happy.” His whereabouts could not be learned since a censor intercepted the conversation and forbade any information of military nature.
Ensign Watkins is a graduate of the navy air corps academy at Pensacola. Before entering the service he was a world champion outboard motorboat racer.
50 years ago
Jan. 21, 1967
Authoratative views on the future of the Weyerhaeuser Company’s operations in Raymond and Willapa Harbor by the evening’s main speaker, marked the high point of the annual banquet and officer installation meeting of the Raymond Chamber of Commerce at the Willapa Hotel Thursday night.
Refuting oft-heard street rumors that the firm would some day abandon its industrial operations here, Paul Fossum, woods products manager for the Twin Harbor Branch of Weyerhaeuser, located at Cosmopolis, told the assemblage of some 100 persons that Weyerhaeuser “is here to stay and expand its operations.”
Jan. 22, 1967
Sunday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
Jan. 21, 1992
Kurt Cobain and Chris Novosleic were just a couple of low-profile metalheads when they went to high school in Aberdeen. Now they’re rock and roll stars with the chart-topping group Nirvana.
When they lived on Grays Harbor, could anybody have predicted this for Cobain, the 24-year-old son of Aberdeen’s Wendy O’Connor and Novoselic, 26, whose mom Maria Novoselic runs Maria’s Hair Design in Aberdeen?
Maria, an ebullient woman who emigrated from Yugoslavia with Chris’ father many years ago says the family moved to Grays Harbor in 1979 and although Chris was “a very quiet kid” he had a good sense of humor and made friends easily. Former classmates say he was a wild character on the high school campus, known for wearing unusual clothes picked up at thrift stores and for driving a Volkswagen bus painted with zebra stripes.
O’Connor described her son as an artistic and musical prodigy who constantly doubted himself even as his peers and family marvel at his work. “I think he was more shocked about what happened (with Nirvana) than we were,” she said.
Cobain and Novoselic were natural together, with Cobain contributing his obsessive study of modern rock trends and Novoselic a wide-ranging rock sensibility evidenced by a large ’60s rock record collection.
Jan. 22, 1992
A Russian freighter, the Blevomaisk, now docked at Terminal 4, is the first Russian vessel to load general cargo at a port on the West Coast of the U.S. since 1981 when trade sanctions were imposed in the wake of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The freighter is loading 3,000 tons of newsprint, a thousand tons of pulp, and three containers of various goods, primarily fishing gear destined for Vladivoslok.
Grays Harbor officials are viewing the freighter’s visit and another already scheduled for February as a coup that could give them the edge over the Puget Sound and Columbia River ports.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
