75 years ago
March 4, 1944
Two Westport crab boats Thursday brought in catches of more than 200 dozen crabs each to the large, new Kaakinen cannery which started operations this week at Westport.
“The catches of both crab and salmon have been very good for the start of the season, and we now employ about 45 workers at the cannery,” said Mrs. Ed Kaakinen.
She is operating the plant while her husband, who has had a cannery at Westport several years and is now in the navy, attends “boot” camp at Farragut, Idaho.
50 years ago
March 4, 1969
Grays Harbor Business College, the second-oldest such school in the state, has been closed, yielding to competition from business education in public schools.
M.W. (Hap) Ball, for nine years owner and operator of the college, located at 215½ E. Market St., announced this week he’s quitting business.
The closure climaxes some 65 years of business for the college in Aberdeen.
• The long-suffering suffragettes who badgered Woodrow Wilson about getting the vote would be pleased as punch by the latest development in Hoquiam politics.
By this time next week, Hoquiam will have two councilwomen.
Mrs. Phyllis Shrauger, the attractive, community-minded mother of two teenagers, was appointed last night to serve the unexpired 2½ years of the term of Gary McGuire, the third ward councilman who resigned last week because of the demands of a new job.
She joins Mrs. Else Korvell, representative of the fourth ward.
25 years ago
March 4, 1994
The jury’s still out on year-round school at A.J. West. Elementary in Aberdeen.
School’s out, too. Today is the last day of the winter “intercession” — a two-week break in the middle of the school year at the Aberdeen elementary school.
A.J. West is in the middle of a two-year pilot program trying out an alternative calendar to see how it fits the needs of the students and community.
The first day of school for students at West was Aug. 18, 1993. But in addition to the regular Christmas and spring breaks, the school will have a total of five other breaks — the two-week intercession last October, the two-week intercession ending today, and another one-week intercession scheduled for may.
School will be in session until July 1, then break for six weeks.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
