75 years ago
February 12, 1943
• Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Dillard’s third and youngest son, Warren Dean, is in the army now. He bade his family goodbye at their Vesta home yesterday and left for Fort Lewis.
He is 20 years old and graduated from Brooklyn high school in 1941. He had been employed at the Saginaw Timber company.
His older brother, Arnold, is a lieutenant in the army engineers and is stationed at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. Richard, an older brother, is a second lieutenant in the army air corps engineers in Tuscon, Arizona.
• Two special features and a variety of cartoons will be shown at this Saturday’s Aberdeen World-D&R Kiddies’ Krazy Kat Klub, starting at a new time, 1 o’clock tomorrow. “The Texans” featuring Glenn Ford, the second chapter of Zane Gray’s “King of the Mounties” and several cartoons and comedies are on the bill.
The Victory poster stamps and albums will again be given to every boy and girl attending.
50 years ago
February 12, 1968
All-state dribbling demon Herbie Moxley meshed 34 Saturday night as the Elma hoopsters parlayed Laughbon miscues into a comfortable first half lead, then battled the Panthers basket for basket in a torrid second half to chalk up a 78-60 victory in a ragged-rugged cross division contest.
“Weird” is the only adjective that adequately describes the first half. In a flurry of steals and turnovers the Eagles managed to stay in command by exhibiting just a little more poise than their hapless Pierce County guests who are in a dead heat with Orting for the East Central League’s No. 4 sub-district berth.
25 years ago
February 12, 1993
After 34 years in education, Hoquiam High School principal Pete Hegg is just a hop, skip and a jump away from retirement.
“I want to go out on a hop,” he says. “I don’t want to go out feet first.”
After that, he’ll skip school and possibly jump on a cruise ship.
Hegg, 57 and an HHS grad from the class of 1954, says he decided to retire this year because “the school is in real good shape and it’s time to make a transition.”
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
