75 years ago
July 31, 1942
Irving Kunz, 48, Hoquiam mail carrier for more than 20 years, is in Seattle today to be sworn in to the navy, following his two sons, Carl and Herman.
This is Kunz’s second war and second branch of the service. He was in the interior of Alaska when the last war broke out and “mushed” to civilization to enlist in the army.
Carl Kunz, a mechanic’s mate third class, has been in the navy 14 months and Herman, in the naval sound school, has been enlisted less than two months. Both are in San Diego.
50 years ago
July 31, 1967
A pair of Hoquiamites who love the tall timber will stage a colorful lumberjack show for more than 13,000 Boy Scouts this week at the 12th World Boy Scout Jamboree at Farragut State Park near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Early this summer, Weyerhaeuser Company asked Bill Anthony and Jack Reynvaan to find five burly, snoose-stained loggers, who would be willing to show boys from 100 nations what the American logger does for fun.
The lumberjacks — two from Castle Rock, two from Toutle Lake and one from Port Angeles — will share billing with astronaut Scott Carpenter, a host of top rodeo wranglers and Emmett Kelly, the famous clown.
“This is a golden opportunity to show these Scouts from all over the world how proud we are of our Pacific Northwest,” Reynvaan said. “After all, timber is the life blood of our area and we feel sure the Scouts are going to enjoy watching these loggers scramble up and down spar trees and do some high speed hand bucking.”
25 years ago
July 31, 1992
When ITT Rayonier and International Paper Co. put their Hoquiam pulp and paper company up for sale a month ago more than 500 workers began wondering what the future holds.
Will new owners run the whole complex or only part of it? Will they expand? Will anybody buy it at all? Would new owners inherit and crews and their contracts?
The vanillin plant, which makes artificial vanilla from the pulp mill waste lignin liquor, has a small, non-union crew, and workers there reportedly feel relatively safe. However, they say some of the managers are worried.
The pulp and paper plant crews have separate union locals and separate contracts that expire at different times.
The paperworkers are in the middle of their contract and expect that if a new owner buys the plant, the buyer would inherit the union by virtue of the “successor” clause in the labor agreement.
The issue is cloudier at the pulp mill where workers were on strike for six months in 1990. Their contract expired in March and a new one hasn’t been negotiated.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
