75 years ago
July 15, 1942
Roy Brown, 40, Sagninaw logger, died early this morning at a local hospital from head injuries suffered yesterday afternoon when he was struck by a snag at the logging company’s Brooklyn camp.
A native of Grays Harbor, Brown had worked for Saginaw since January.
July 16, 1942
Grays Harbor lost a determined fight to keep its CCC camps at least through the fire season when orders were received yesterday at the Montesano and Elma camps to close at once.
Closing of the camps at this time was considered here to be a serious blow, since the boys had been doing war project work and were to be part of the potential fire-fighting manpower in the event of enemy action.
At times the camps have had upwards of 200 boys each.
50 years ago
July 15, 1967
The smoke covering Aberdeen and Hoquiam yesterday and today, a result of the 3,500-acre fire being fought by a 450-man crew on the Quinault Reservation, is reminiscent of forest fires which in 1902 threw up smoke so thick that “people waited in vain for dawn,” as the old Aberdeen Sun put it in its Sept. 13 edition of that year.
East winds carried smoke from fires reported from between the upper Hoquiam River and Elma toward the ocean until they were halted by ocean breezes. Came the dawn and no sun.
Residents shook their watches and sawmills met their usual 7 a.m. starting time, only to shut down two hours later. Schools failed to open for it was so dark that few of the 800 students left their homes.
As men, women and children gathered in clumps, one man began preaching that the end of the world was at hand. Not a few must have believed him when at 11 a.m. the coal black zenith gave way to a blood red hue that tinted the entire sky. This changed to a deep orange and then to an olive yellow.
July 16, 1967
Sunday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
July 15, 1992
A vacant parcel on the main drag into Westport may soon be an amusement park if an option to lease agreement the Port of Grays Harbor approved Tuesday pans out.
The complex would include miniature golf, batting cages, bumper cars, an amusement arcade and moped and bicycle rentals and sales, said Dan Barnette, real estate manager for the port.
July 16, 1992
When Elma High School students return to classes in the fall, they will have access to the “outside world” and sit within arm’s reach of the future, according to school officials.
Elma computer instructor Dan Warren, persuaded the Elma School Board Wednesday night to buy state-of-the-art computer equipment to replace the school’s aging lineup of Apple computers.
“They’re crashing at various times,” Warren said of the computer equipment. “They’re all literally dying. The kids refer to the ‘Apple computer lab’ as ‘the dinosaur room.’”
The board unanimously voted to spend $127,000 for 30 new Macintosh computers.
Warren touted the merits of the new system that come with the computers, which he said will link the students with other computer systems worldwide via the INTERNET system.
INTERNET is a global network of data bases, a veritable electronic bank of information, he said, and added that students and teachers will be able to access information from countless sources.
“It allows you to get to the future,” Warren added.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
