75 years ago
February 6, 1943
Errol Flynn was acquitted today of three morals counts.
The jury of nine women and three men returned its verdict after about 13 hours of deliberation.
Flynn sat tensely, puffing one cigarette after another, during the half hour or so between the time the jury announced it had reached a verdict and when it returned to the courtroom.
Thus ended a 20-day trial, one of the most dramatic in Los Angeles recent history, in which the handsome film start saw himself described as the seducer of young women, and defended as the victim of circumstances.
February 7, 1943
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
February 6, 1968
A shapely, 26-year-old champion log roller, who skips rope, dances, stands on her head and does other acrobatics on a 12-foot floating log, was a highlight of the Western Building Material Association Exposition in Portland last Thursday.
She is Diane Ellison Rowe, formerly of Aberdeen and now living is Los Angeles. She won log rolling championships at both the Albany Oregon Timber Carnival and the National Logging Show in Hayward, Wisc. in 1961.
Mrs. Rowe began log rolling at the age of five, learning the sport from her father Russ Ellison who has won three world championships.
February 7, 1968
Big John Quigg and 5-10 fireball Keith Reynvaan spearheaded a 9-man team effort for Hoquiam last night as the Grizzlies resumed their winning ways with a 65-48 SWW Conference victory over R.A. Long.
Pat Quigg, John’s 6-4 sophomore brother, senior Larry Lytle and Mack Armstrong took turns supplying key contributions as the whistle-tooting refs forced Hoquiam coach Jerry Anderson to rely heavily on his bench to pull out the 9th-ranked Grizzlies’ 14th win of the season against 2 defeats.
25 years ago
February 6, 1993
Sam Benn, the father of Aberdeen, used to ask” “What’s doin’ downtown?”
Today, the answer would be “A lot.”
Consider these three doin’s”
• The first director of the Aberdeen Main Street Association is now on board.
• Another local organization is working on a plan to convert a rundown former hotel on F Street into “transitional” housing for low-income folks trying to get back on their feet.
• And, the Finch Building — long lamented as an eyesore — could be converted into a parking garage if a grant application city officials are drafting pans out.
February 7, 1993
• Dick Satterstrom won’t pick up litter around town when snow falls.
“When it snows, I don’t go out,” said the man who patrols Montesano’s streets daily with his trusty mechanical trash retriever. “It ain’t worth it.”
Satterstrom, 50, scours the city rain or shine and seems almost surprised when asked why.
“You just see a lot of paper around,” Satterstrom observes matter-of-factly. “Kids don’t give a damn. You could put a Dumpster in the middle of the street and they wouldn’t know what it’s for.”
Every weekday, starting at about 7:30 a.m., Satterstrom criss-crosses downtown Montesano, picking up whatever trash he finds strewn about.
Satterstrom was a 30-year-old logging road engineer with the Simpson Timber Co. at Camp Grisdale in 1973 when he fell off a bluff and suffered a serious head injury. He spent more than a year rehabilitating at Puyallup Goo Samaritan Hospital before returning to Montesano where he lives with his mother, Bertha.
• Spirits were high and the parking lot packed at the SouthShore Mall in Aberdeen Saturday afternoon.
It was the third annual Grays Harbor Chamber of Commerce Trade Show. Organizers and exhibitors agreed that while the last two shows were good, this third time was a charm.
This year featured more booths than ever — 76 — and attendance was estimated at 15,000.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
