75 years ago
September 4, 1942
After a short vacation with his family here, William Yuni, most recently vice consul in Japanese-held Tientsen, hopes to resume his consular harness and go forth adventuring again in some foreign country for Uncle Sam.
“I believe we are facing a long, hard war,” Yuni said. “It is not going to be easy and we will all have to make sacrifices to achieve the victory. While I have no doubt of ultimate victory for America and it allies, I feel the period of warfare and bloodshed must be made as short as possible.”
Yuni has been in the consular service for seven years, four having been spent in Japan and three in Japanese-controlled China. He and his wife last visited Aberdeen in February, 1939.
50 years ago
September 4, 1967
Water will shoot up from a pair of scalloped bowls in front of Aberdeen city hall after Aberdonians dedicate the new structure Sept. 16.
The bowls have already been fashioned from reinforced concrete and are in storage awaiting installation Tuesday or Wednesday.
The idea for a fountain originated at a coffee break chat between Robert Salmon, city water superintendent and Rudy Anderson, city engineer.
Salmon suggested that a fountain would look good on the city hall grounds and Anderson replied, “Swell. Why don’t you design one?”
Salmon estimated he looked through 20 books in the library to get ideas.
25 years ago
September 4, 1992
Tonight the lights will dim, the projectors will whir and the smell of buttered popcorn will fill the air at the newly remodeled Raymond Theater.
Weekend movie goers will see “A League of Their Own,” a critically-acclaimed drama about women’s professional baseball during World War II.
When the theater was built in 1926, it was the largest and best equipped movie house in Pacific County. Its closing in 1985 left a large hole in the community.
The future looked dim for the theater until 1989 when supporters of a theater/community center proposal began restoration work on the building.
Theater activists raised more than half a million dollars in grants, donations and promotional sales, including adopt-a-seat program.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
