75 years ago
July 9, 1943
Acute shortage of modern home to rent looms as a vital problem confronting 20 Boeing key men who are scheduled to arrive here within the next two weeks to begin operations at the Boeing parts plants, but who may not be able to come if homes to rent aren’t provided, it was disclosed today.
No suitable homes have been provided yet, although they were promised before Boeing decided to establish the plant here, J.A. McGillicuddy, Boeing executive said.
50 years ago
July 9, 1968
By the end of this week, the brand new Queets-Kalaloch electrical hookup should be complete, closing some three years of negotiations, waiting and work by the Grays Harbor PUD.
Boyd Winter, electrical engineer for the PUD, said Monday that Kalaloch Lodge and the nearby residence were hooked to the electrical circuit late last week, and that completions of all hookups should come by the end of the week.
A large crowd gathered at Point Grenville this week end to watch the surfing competition held by the Washington Surfers Association.
About fifty contestants, mostly from Washington and Oregon, entered the competition.
According to local surfers, the visiting competitors were well pleased with the friendly atmosphere here at Pt. Grenville.
25 years ago
July 9, 1993
Leif Tangvald was a 9-year-old third grader fresh from Norway the first time he walked into McDermoth School.
That was in 1947. Last week, 46 years later, he was in his office at the classic, old school near downtown Aberdeen where he has been principal. He was packing up after announcing he would retire following 30 years as an educator.
When the school board decided recently on a long-range building plan that includes construction of a new McDermoth School at another location, he decided it wouldn’t be fair for him to be in on the planning stages when he knew he’d be retiring soon.
He and his wife, Linda, who will keep her job as a math teach at the high school, live in the home Tangvald’s parents moved into when they arrived in this country. It’s only a block and a half from school.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
