75 years ago

January 20, 1945

Staff Sergeant Glenn Black, 24, B-17 Flying Fortress ball gunner from Taholah, who has flown over 25,000 miles in more than 30 8th air force attacks on German war targets, has recently been awarded a fourth oak leaf cluster to the air medal for “meritorious achievement.”

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Black of Taholah, Sgt. Black won his wings at Laredo, 1943. A brother, George Black, is serving with the army in Italy.

Sgt. Black has manned his tail turret guns in numerous attacks on enemy front line positions in support of Allied ground forces. During the recent prolonged air offensive against the nazi’s oil resources, he took part in assaults on refineries at Hamburg, Merseburg and Lutzkendorf.

50 years ago

January 20, 1970

Tuesday evening TV shows include “Huntley-Brinkley News,” “Early Edition Cronkite,” “Mob Squad,” “I Dream of Jeanne,” “Debbie Reynolds Show,” “Julia,” “Red Skelton” and “60 Minutes.”

25 years ago

January 20, 1995

Star Shipping, a Norwegian cargo line with a commitment to call on Grays Harbor once a month for the next two years, began loading lumber and steel coils at Port of Grays Harbor docks Thursday night in its initial voyage here.

The Star Merit is picking up 3.9 million board feet of Weyerhaeuser lumber and 950 tons of steel coils shipped here by rail from Pittsburgh.

The vessel is bound for Japan and will also call at Coos Bay, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash.

Lumber for this shipment came from Weyerhaeuser mills in Aberdeen, Raymond and Snow Falls near Tacoma. Future shipments are likely to include veneer from Pacific Veneer, the Weyerhaeuser-Bank of Tokyo veneer mill in South Aberdeen.

Star Shipping, based in Bergen, carries almost 6 million tons of forest products a year on a fleet of 45 vessels.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom