75 years ago
March 21, 1944
The cries of tiny three-month old Clyde Arron Hale when his blanket caught fire at 8:30 o’clock this morning awakened his mother, Mrs. H. C. Hale and his aunt, Mrs. G.C. Frost, at their home at 211 i street, Cosmopolis and enabled them to save their lives and those of their three children.
Mrs. Frost had risen earlier and started a fire in the stove near which the baby slept. Then she went back to bed and to sleep. The stove became overheated and started a fire in the house and the baby’s crib caught fire. He suffered burns on the right side of his face.
The mothers’ husbands are both privates in the army and are stationed in Georgia and Colorado army camps. The two sisters were maintaining their home in Cosmopolis for themselves and their children by pooling resourses. The fire left them completely destitute, they said. They will stay with their mother, Mrs. W. H. Hougham at her small home in Central Park until they can establish another home.
March 22, 1944
Fred Smyers Jr., former Elma high school student who enlisted in the navy last year at 16, returned on leave this week, as a veteran of major South Pacific engagements.
As a navy gunner aboard a merchant vessel, he has won service bars and three major engagement stars for the bloody battle of Tarawa and the Gilbert and Marshall islands campaigns.
Smyers is “sold’ on the navy to the extent that he expects to make a peacetime career of it and said he probably would not return to finish his final year of high school.
Morale aboard ship is very good, he said, considering the fact that often the men do not see land for months on end.
50 years ago
March 21, 1969
Hoquiam’s tourney-bound Grizzly hoopsters departed for Seattle at 10:30 this morning with police escort leading the way and hundreds of cheering classmates providing accompaniment.
The Grizzlies were guests of honor at a no-host breakfast at Chuck’s Hideaway and then received a rousing send-off on campus as the student body gathered for a pep assembly highlighted by the presentation of a check.
Donald Holmland, former HHS vice-principal, presented student body president John Korvell with a $1,400 chick for the Grizzly band tournament fund. The Hoquiam Lions Club launched the drive Monday to help offset band expenses.
March 22, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
March 21, 1994
Jolene Unsoeld brought a little soul to the Pacific County Democratic Crab Feed Saturday night as she shelled the Republicans.
Unsoeld, who faces an aggressive GOP challenger in her bid for a fourth term in Congress, stoked the crowd with the call-and-response style of a Baptist preacher.
“What do you think of the Republican program?” she asked.
Most of the 350 at the Raymond IWA Hall booed lustily.
“What do you think of Bob Dole?” she asked, prompting more Bronx cheers.
March 22, 1994
Parts of Hoquiam are a mess, the City Council agreed Monday night.
But after an extensive report by Community Development Director Kathleen Sellman on how to address the problem with beefed up code enforcement, the council wants a price estimate.
After reaching consensus that an aggressive code enforcement program is the best approach to growing problems of unmaintained homes, weed-filled yards and junk heaps, most council members seemed skeptical about whether Hoquiam can afford the fix.
Sellman said the city is already stretching current resources and staff to perform code enforcement inspections and abatements on a limited level.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
