75 years ago
December 28, 1942
Fire of unknown origin this morning completely demolished Cranberry Canners Inc.’s big new cannery at Markham, with a loss of upward of $300,000.
The fire was first noticed shortly after 6 o’clock when Antone Ekrom heard a noise in the cook room and discovered the room ablaze.
It spread with explosive rapidity, and the plant soon was a seething mass of flames. An hour after the blaze was discovered, the entire plant and its contents were a charred mass.
The loss included a 10,000-pack for the army, 1,500 barrels of fresh cranberries, 1,140 cases of one-pound cans, 4,000 cases of one-pound glass jars, 2,200 cases of one-gallon glass cars, 800 sacks of sugar, 8,000 gallons of fuel oil, and all of the equipment on-site with the exception of one truck and a filing cabinet.
December 29, 1942
Aberdeen high school’s cagers, who last night resumed workouts after a four-day Christmas layoff, will play a squad of Bobcat alumni stars in a practice tilt tomorrow night at the Miller gym, Coach Dan Shovlin said today.
“The boys need to work out a few kinks and the alumni players, most of whom are playing varsity ball in college, are just the fellows to do it,” Shovlin said.
The alumni boasts such stars as Hank Sliva and Ted Homchick, now varsity cagers at Central Washington College of Education; Tony Bezer, now at Western Washington College of Education and Eddie Blonski.
50 years ago
December 28, 1967
Any way you approach the stuff, State Trooper Jim Trudeaux told the Aberdeen Rotary Club audience yesterday, the controversial “mind-expanding” drug LSD is a “bum trip.”
Trudeaux told his listeners that the drug “is one of the scariest drugs young people and adults can get hold of.
“You’ve all had a bad nightmare,” he said to illustrate. “Just multiply that about a hundred times, and you’ll have some idea of what these people (who take LSD) experience.
“A person can take LSD, have a ‘good trip,’ then not touch it for a year — or two — and he can go on another ‘trip’ without even touching the stuff again.”
December 29, 1967
Aberdeen World Sports Department has announced its outstanding individuals on the Harbor sports scene: Coach of the Year — Gary Frey of Grays Harbor College who brought the school one of its rare state championships and first by any area school in wrestling; Athlete of the Year: Jerry Sherk, GHC’s big sophomore wrestler from Grants Pass; Football Player of the Year: Arnie Blancas, GHC halfback who came out of the Army paratroopers; Basketball Players of the Year: Gary Hopkins, Aberdeen’s 6-6 all-state center and Elma’s tiny 5-6 guard Herb Moxley; Trackman of the Year: Halfmiler Jim Boora, the Central Washington College ace from Aberdeen and Bowler of the Year: Joe Upperman of Hoquiam who averaged 190 at Harbor Lanes.
25 years ago
December 28, 1992
Top Associated Press stories of 1992 in Washington: 1. The Elections; 2. Fall of Brock Adams; 3. Revival of Mike Lowry; 4. The Economy (state faced with a $1 billion budget shortfall); 5. Westley Allan Dodd’s pending execution for the slaying of three boys in 1989; 6. Spotted Owl; 7. Year of the Woman (after elections, Washington ends up with nation’s largest percentage of female legislators); 8. Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer’s discharge from the Washington National Guard for acknowledging she was a lesbian; 9. The Northwest Drought; 10. Two UW professors receiving the Nobel prize in medicine; 14. Frederick & Nelson closes; and 20. Longacres closes.
December 29, 1992
Seven Twin Harbors football players were named to all-state football teams as selected by the Washington State Sports Writers Association — offensive lineman Jason McEndoo and linebacker Saul Heikkila, both of Aberdeen; Elma receiver Mike Osgood, Montesano defensive lineman Brian Vickers, Raymond linebacker Kalin Makaiwi; and Quinault defenders Robert Thomas and Derek Lisherness.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
