In 1993, Harborites enjoyed three-day Splash/Family Fun Festival

From the archives of The Daily World

75 years ago

July 17, 1943

The 100th barge to be constructed in the R.J. Ultican Shipbuilding company yard at Cosmopolis since the firm’s first launching July 3, 1942 will be launched at 9 o’clock tonight.

The shipyard has brought $3,000,000 into Grays Harbor in its one year of operation, most of which went into labor, according to company figures.

Two types pf barges are being built, the large, crane type and the 130-foot scow. Figures show that in one year’s operation, 13,000,000 feet of lumber from Grays Harbor mills have been used in the shipyard. The barges are constructed principally of Douglas fir.

July 18, 1943

Sunday, no newspaper published

50 years ago

July 17, 1968

• The Boy Scouts of America are considering a much stricter policy toward guns as a result of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination last month. The organization may abandon its marksmanship merit badge program, a spokesman at national headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J. said.

A new policy bans advertisements in the scouting magazine, Boys Life, that offer guns as sales premiums, such as offering rifles as rewards for selling Christmas cards.

• Aberdeen’s Babe Ruth All Stars got in some practice for the district tournament July 25-27 in a double header last night at Pioneer Park.

Reiner’s blanked the National League All Stars 19-0 and shut out the American Leaguers 2-0 in the nightcap.

Tom and Dick Isaacson starred for the Legion in the first game, with Dick contributing two doubles and a home run and brother Tom adding a grand slam four-bagger.

Rich McCartney’s two hits paced the losers.

Heavy hitter for the winners in the second game was Bruce Maupin who connected on two hits.

July 18, 1968

It’s been four years since Larry Elmore leased two rooms in Weyerhaeuser’s sawmill office and went into business as an independent log exporter.

Asked by The Aberdeen World recently to measure his company’s impact on the Harbor’s economy, Elmore rattled off the following figures: a $350,000 payroll; $650,000 in longshoremen’s paychecks; $700,000 to the Port of Grays Harbor; and $4,000,000 to area loggers. He employs eight logging companies and deals with a dozen or so “gyppos.”

25 years ago

July 17, 1993

The threat of rain didn’t deter hundreds of Harborties who turned out last night for Aberdeen’s torchlight parade, part of the Splash festival and day one of the new three-day Family Fun Festival.

Winning the crowd over was the Oldtime Jazz Funeral entry, a hilarious rendition of the classic New Orleans funeral procession. The “funeral” included the Hume Street Jazz Band decked out in red and black outfits leading the way for the Whiteside Funeral Home’s antique horse-drawn hearse. “Mourners,” actually members of the Coldwell Banker Real Estate Agency, followed carrying bright blue umbrellas.

Dr. Don “Doc” Mustard’s team of Clydesdales pulled the hearse.

July 18, 1993

In Hoquiam, spirits were as bright as the weather Saturday as crowds of kids marched down Levee Street, kicking off the Hoquiam River Festival with a children’s parade.

It was day two of the three-day Family Fun Festival that started yesterday in Aberdeen and Concludes today in Cosmopolis.

Saturday’s parade included more than 1oo children, some as young as 2 and some as “young” as 60.

Adam Moody, 9, rode his bicycle “A Salute to Our Lady,” through the parade. The bicycle “Lady” was decorated like the Lady Washington with a cardboard mast taped to its handlebars and lots of streamers. Adam was also in costume with a pirate outfit and a black hat.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom