75 years ago
January 2, 1943
Through the Red Cross, Albert E. Crist has received word that his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Crist, former Harbor residents, are Japanese prisoners in the Philippines and are interned at Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila. Mr. Crist was born and raised in Montesano.
“You may now write to your loved ones,” said the letter from the Red Cross, “and we suggest that you write often since the mail will be a long time in arriving at Manila via Geneva, Switzerland. We are sorry it is not yet possible for you to send packages but rest assured that the American Red Cross is doing everything possible to get supplies through to our people.”
January 3, 1943
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
January 2, 1968
Linda Renee McCoy, 10, of Seattle was fatally injured about noon New Year’s Day when she was struck by a log adrift in the surf off Grayland Beach.
The child was playing on the beach with others in the family. She and her father and another man attempted to stand on a log awash at the water’s edge when they were thrown from the log by the impact of a wave. The girl was crushed by the log after she fell.
January 3, 1968
• John Donahue’s fiery little Elma hoopsters toppled towering Tenino from the ranks of the unbeaten last night, but the 78-69 victory may have been a costly one.
Wounded in action was all-stater Herbie Moxley, who hurt his ankle late in the third stanza, but re-entered the contact mid-way through the final frame as Tenino whittled the Eagle lead.
Moxley scored 33 counters while sharpshooting sophomore forward Red Derline chipped in 19 and picked off 11 rebounds. Senior forward Denny Joines pumped in 14. The sandy-haired 6-footer has been in double figures for seven straight games.
• A new multi-colored six-cent stamp bearing a picture of the White House and the American flag will be issued Jan 24 as an alternative to the regular six-cent Franklin D. Roosevelt issue.
The price of mailing a letter goes up to six cents next Sunday.
25 years ago
January 2, 1993
Kyle Scott Godfrey may be the ultimate party crasher.
The 7-pound, 10-ounce bouncing baby boy disrupted his parents New Year’s Eve plans for dinner at Bridges and a party at their house.
Kyle, who joins Sara, 16; P.J. 13, and Leland, 5, was due Dec. 29. Perhaps he was waiting for the honor of being Grays Harbor’s first baby of 1983. He arrived at 3:02 a.m. New Year’s Day at Grays Harbor Community Hospital.
January 3, 1993
They wander the wooded Minot hills most of the year, foraging, rutting and procreating in a timeless drama scripted by Mother Nature.
But for the last five years the burgeoning local elk herd — estimated at about 150 animals — has made winter migrations to the verdant Chehalis Valley and has threatened farm fences, ground-cover crops and its own well-being.
Throughout the sparsely populated valley that courses from Elma to Oakville, many farm fences lay twisted and bent, evidence of the elk’s visits. Many plots of rye grass that should sprout long green locks appear freshly mowed — testimony to the elk’s big appetites.
And poachers reportedly have killed the animals as they grazed in open pastures, fuelling anxiety for an elk bloodletting.
“The potential is catastrophic,” said Gene Goeres, who grows peas on about 1,000 acres outside Porter.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
