75 years ago
January 6, 1943
Commissioned as an ensign and awarded his wings after months of intensive training at Uncle Sam’s big naval air training station at Corpus Christi, Texas, Bob Shannon is “busting to get into the thick of the fight.”
He isn’t particular where he goes, Europe, Africa of in the Pacific, just so it is soon.
During the nine months training at the Texas air station Shannon rolled up 250 hours piloting the navy’s biggest bombers. The 22-year-old pilot was graduated from Aberdeen high school in 1937. He and his brother, Larry, now attending Washington State College, teamed up as tennis stars for three years.
During his boyhood he was an Aberdeen World carrier, and while attending Grays Harbor Junior College he worked at the National Bank of Commerce.
January 7, 1943
Aberdeen and Hoquiam salvage committees last night organized to launch a tin can salvage campaign in the Harbor cities and joined in asking housewives to save and prepare the cans for use in the war effort.
It was explained that the detining process embraces removal of precious tin from the cans, salvage of the solder in the seams in a second process and reutilization of the iron after the remaining parts of the can are baled for the smelter.
50 years ago
January 6, 1968
The Bobcats mauled Fort Vancouver, 70-44, last night for their seventh win against one loss on the season.
Second team all-stater Bob Fisher fired in 19 points and Paul Hann had 18.
“This was our best game of the year from the overall standpoint,” coach Dick Dixon enthused, “especially for our defense. It wasn’t our press that broke it open as much as our defense in the back court.”
January 7, 1968
Sunday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
January 6, 1993
The closure of two Hoquiam mills in November made a glaring impact on this area’s unemployment statistics.
In November, Grays Harbor’s unemployment rate jumped to 14.2 — nearly double the state level of 7.7 percent.
Though some of the mill workers already have filed for the 30 weeks of benefits, local benefits supervisor Ruth Coon said she thinks there are a lot of employees who decided to wait until the company stops paying wages Jan. 11.
January 7, 1993
• After 23 year here, Doc Fuller has sold his practice and is leaving for Oregon today. He is selling the Blue Cross Veterinary Clinic to Dr. Mike Bergey, who comes to the Harbor from Coos Bay, Ore
“I think he’s a real brain,” confides Dr. Fuller about the 37-year-old he hand-picked to take care of some of his best friends.
Fuller, who father was also a vet, graduated from Washington State College’s veterinary school in 1950. When he tired of treating both large and small animals, he moved in 1969 from Walla Walls to Central Park.
Built in the 1930s, the clinic on Central Park Drive, is one of the oldest veterinaries in the Northwest, Fuller said.
Dr. Bergey will be living in the Fuller’s former house adjacent to the clinic with his wife, Ann; 10-year-old daughter, Kelsey; 8-year-old son, Adrian, their dachshund Kimchi and their 16-year-old cat, Shadow.
• Tobi Buckman, a grade school counselor and a member of the Aberdeen City Council since 1988, was elected to serve as president this year.
Mrs. Buckman outpolled 5th Ward Councilman Bill Simpson for the leadership position.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
