75 years ago
August 19, 1942
Grays Harbor prepared to put into effect drastic dimout regulations at midnight tonight to conform to proclamation No. 10 of the army establishing a coastwise dimout.
Highways were being surveyed and posted today with large signs warning of the dimout road areas on which speed limits automatically are reduced to 15 miles an hour if cars are equipped with new dimout light circuits. If parking light are used for travel in dimout areas drivers should not travel more than 10 miles an hour.
August 20, 1942
Clerical and lay dignitaries of the Pacific district of the Lutheran Church of America opened an annual business session this afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Tenwick on I street in Aberdeen.
Most of the officials arrived here by train this afternoon and soon after opened the meeting at the Tenwick residence.
One of the matters on the agenda will be selection of a successor to Cliff Olson, head coach and athletic director at Pacific Lutheran College for 13 years.
50 years ago
August 19, 1967
• According to an ad for Aberdeen Federal Savings and Loan, “Family addition? It’s going to take over $7,000 to feed him to maturity. Plan ahead with a savings account now that will earn as you go” Savings certificates earn 5.25 percent.
• “It is tragic and almost unbelievable what a flood can do,” Bill Snider, a former Aberdeen man who is now a pharmacist in Fairbanks, Alaska, told his wife, Kibby, who is visiting her father, Edwin Karshner in Aberdeen, with her three children.
“You will not believe what has happened to Fairbanks and the surrounding area,” he said in a letter. “Downtown Fairbanks is under nine feet of water … and water is up to the rooftops in many sections of town.”
After he closed the drug store Monday, Snider went to a nearby grocery store and “when I left the store I could not walk on dry land to my car. I could see that my car was in 2 1/2 feet of water, but I decided to try to drive out. To my astonishment the car started and I drove home even though the seat of my pants was in water and water was sloshing through the inside of the car.”
August 20, 1967
Sunday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
August 19, 1992
Five members of Weatherwax High School’s 1932 Big Six League basketball champions were on hand for their 60th class reunion last weekend at the Aberdeen Elks — Matt Musulin, Tom Randall, Sanford Peterson, Chester Dombroski and Gyl Sollie.
The team was unbeaten in league but lost in the State Class Championship in Seattle.
August 20, 1992
• Firefighters from Aberdeen, Central Park and Wishkah battled a blaze at Daniels Cedar Products in Junction City Wednesday for 3 1/2 hours, and while huge columns of smoke could be seen as far away as Hoquiam, but the fate of the mill was in the blowing of the wind.
After the smoke cleared at 9 p.m. the mill was nearly unscathed. Giant piles of scrap wood in the mill yard burned, but a west wind helped keep the fire from the mill. “Had there been an east wind, we would have lost the mill,” said Aberdeen’s Battalion Chief Dave Boyer.
Daniel’s mill, which was built in 1950, is the only cedar mill still standing in the Aberdeen area.
• Former Montesano resident Eric Fellhauer has pedaled his way to pure gold — and not once, but four times.
Fellhauer won all three events and the open class chapmionship en route to four gold medals last weekend at the fourth annual U.S. Military Cycling Championships in El Paso, Texas.
The 21-year-old — who has been cycling competitively in Europe the past two years — “totally dominated his field,” said his mother, Donna Hagen of Montesano. “When he puts his mind to something, he commuts to it and does what it takes to reach his goal.”
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
