75 years ago, February 2, 1937
• Maritime workers of Grays Harbor are overwhelmingly in favor of ending their 96-day Pacific Coast strike and accepting agreements negotiated for them by their leaders in San Francisco.
First returns from balloting showed the seamen’s union had cast 67 votes for accepting the offshore agreement with only five against. The sailors also approved the steam schooner agreement 59 to 13. Masters, mates and pilots were unanimously in favor of returning to work under their new agreement. Maritime firemen voted this afternoon, their results being announced as 42 to 14 in favor of accepting the agreement.
• When the snow clears off and bicycle riding is possible again, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hill will wheel away on a tandem. The “bicycle built for two” was purchased by Mr. Hill this week from the Franklin Cycle shop of Aberdeen. The Twin Harbor Stevedoring company’s chief commented this morning on his new “family style” bike with all the enthusiasm of a boy with his first wheel. “It’s a dandy,” he beamed, “with coaster brake and everything. Tandem bike riding is a wonderful sport and Mrs. Hill and I are waiting impatiently for the snow to clear away so we can break in the new bike.”
50 years ago, February 2, 1962
• A civil defense adult education course on individual and family survival will be offered in the Grays Harbor College evening school program starting at 7 p.m., Monday. The course will consist of six 2-hour meetings covering such subjects as radioactive fallout and what may be done to survive it, the effects of modern weapons and possible defenses against them, community emergency planning to save lives and actions every citizen should consider to survive nuclear attack or severe natural disaster.
• Hoquiam Junior High basketball coach Don Smith has a winning streak of 26 straight going for him. During his 40-year coaching tenure at Cubville, he has an impressive 39-4 personal win, loss record.
25 years ago, february 2, 1987
• The Rainbow Valley Landfill isn’t a pretty site and it sure doesn’t smell good, owner Don Bale is the first to admit.
But the man responsible for operating Pacific County’s lone landfill isn’t turning his back on the problem. A dairy farmer by trade, the PUD commissioner and former county commissioner says the dump northwest of Raymond is “a very necessary thing for our community.” But Bale fears his dump’s days may be numbered.
Although the landfill is only six years old and “substantially” in compliance with current standards, it is not up to the new state standards, which go into effect in 1989.
“We cannot meet the costs of the future,” Bale said. “The only way for a private landfill to meet them is to raise rates. We want to continue but we can’t afford to … we can’t afford to quit either,” he said.
Compiled by Karen Barkstrom from the archives of The Daily World.
