75 years ago, February 11, 1937
• Lewi Pothrus, noted pastor of the widely known Philadelphia Pentecostal Church, Stockholm, Sweden, will visit Aberdeen next week, speaking Monday night in Emmanuel Mission church and Tuesday night at Calvary Pentecostal Temple. Monday’s meeting will be largely in Swedish while Tuesday’s service will be in English.
The Philadelphia church, founded in 1910, numbered on Dec. 31, 1936, 5,520 members having received 498 into membership last year. The church has a choir of about 125 and an orchestra approximately 200, besides seven additional musical groups, which minister in outstations and more distant communities from the Swedish metropolis.
• William V. Appel, president of the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce, will press a button at 7:30 o’clock tonight and 1,000 electric lamps and 1,500 lineal feet of neon tubing will light up the new marquee of the Warner Brothers theater.
The display is one of the largest of its kind in the Northwest. The neon display is in three colors with the word “Warners” on the three faces in 24 inch, double tubed, high intensity. These words have a frosted glass background which flashes alternately with the letters.
50 years ago, February 11, 1962
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25 years ago, February 11, 1987
• Unity built the trade union movement, and today that’s the “single ingredient that will revive or diminish it,” the president of the International Longshoremen & Warehousemen’s Union said in Aberdeen Tuesday. “A lot of people are watching the struggle here,” said Jim Herman, referring to two long strikes. “Don’t let anyone say it’s not important and not worthwhile.”
He said support for grocery workers clearly “cuts across community lines” and is a throwback to the formative days of trade unionism. He called it a “working class struggle” that has served to unify union members.
A low-key but eloquent speaker, Herman received a standing ovation from approximately 75 union members and supporters at the IWA Hall.
“When the dust settles, at least you know you didn’t roll over and you didn’t give a thing away because you didn’t have the guts to get in a brawl,” he said.
• The streaking Seagulls are still alive for a district berth. Winners only once in their first 17 games this season, Raymond’s Gulls now own a two-game victory skein following their 62-52 triumph over Ocosta last night. Bryan Schneider, one of only two seniors on the Raymond roster, led the winners with 20 points. “Schneider went out in style for his last home game,” Raymond coach Jim Henrie emphasized.
• With sophomore Pierce Ridgway scoring 31 points and grabbing a school record 23 rebounds, the Wishkah Loggers roared back from a 12-point deficit to down Pe Ell 61-58 in the Pacific League finale for both teams last night. “He turned the game around,” Logger coach Jerry Roth said of Taylor, who hadn’t started the game because of a recent bout with the flu.
Compiled by Karen Barkstrom from the archives of The Daily World.
