75 years ago, February 22, 1937
• State highway engineers were expected to traverse the Aberdeen-Raymond road today to determine how long their emergency restrictions on truck loads will be enforced. There has been a protest against the regulations on this road, which truck operators assert was not damaged this winter.
The North River Logging company announced today that it had offered to post a large cash bond to guarantee that trucks hauling its logs would cause no damage if they were permitted on the road. Frank Hobi asserted the road has not been damaged by trucks hauling for the North River company. He said a log famine, particularly in the plywood industry, is threatened.
• Forty years ago today the great Olympic National Forest was created by the federal government. The forest originally contained 2,218,000 acres but it has been reduced to 1,145,000 acres.
50 years ago, February 22, 1962
• The Keep Oregon Green Association no doubt with the connivance of the Keep Washington Green association, has revived the old argument of which state has the biggest Douglas fir tree. Challenges are being issued and the governors of the two states have been wrangled into the dispute.
But Grays Harborites say there is no argument. You don’t dispute facts. The big Washington fir, which stands in the Queets Valley, across the river and three miles above the old Kelly Ranch, measures 17 feet one inch in diameter, 4 1/2 feet above the ground. The measurement was made with a steel tape and Abney level.
The Oregon tree is located on the Crown Z Clatsop tree farm and measures 15 feet five inches.
• Hardboiled Haggerty, 6-2, 255-pound mammoth, who recently returned from a wrestling tour of Australia, will be one of the featured attractions at tonight’s Washington Birthday wrestling show at the Aberdeen Union Hall.
• Trailing for more than three quarters, the indomitable Montesano Bulldogs caught fire in the final stanza last night to subdue the Elma Eagles in double overtime, 45-43.
Montesano Coach Aldo Anderson, highly pleased with his team’s performance in the clutch, had special praise for his two sophomores, Denny Frizzell and Brian Phillips. “They really came of age,” he commented, noting encouragingly that all of his players “just wouldn’t give up.”
25 years ago, February 22, 1987
• “Cool hand Luke” came through in the clutch. Thanks to Jeff Wells’ two free throws with 32 seconds left, South Bend is going to the State Class B Championship in Spokane.
“We call him ‘Cool Hand Luke’ or ‘Hollywood,’ ” an exhausted and emotionally drained Indian Coach Dick McGovern said after the 51-47 victory over Naselle yesterday in Chehalis.
Compiled by Karen Barkstrom from the archives of The Daily World.
