75 years ago
June 27, 1944
A brief glimpse of life in a nazi prison camp has been received by Mr. and Mrs. E.F. Emmick in a letter from their son, Lieutenant Robert E. Emmick.
“Reading and sports fill in our spare time,” he wrote. “The Red Cross gives us enough extra food to eat so that we get along all right. Razor blades, toothbrushes, toothpaste, shaving cream and cigarettes seem to be the articles most needed here. Paper and pencils are also scarce.
“You might save newspapers so that I can catch up with the world when I am again free. Am still in good health and good spirits.”
The letter was dated Feb. 20.
June 28, 1944
With the apprehension of four juveniles, police have solved six local burglaries and recovered a quantity of loot, Police Chief W. Brice Shaw said today. Four boys, two 13, one 14 and one 16, were turned over to juvenile authorities.
They admitted to six burglaries during the past few weeks, which included theft of $13.50 in cash from the Aberdeen Recreation Center; theft of a wristwatch, $20 in cash, candy and cigarettes from the U and I lunch; prowling of four fishing boats in South Aberdeen, robbery of the Washington school, where sports equipment was taken and damage caused by squirting fire extinguishers around the interior; robbery of Ed’s cafe, and the Three Star market.
50 years ago
June 27, 1969
Firemen donned gas masks early this morning to clear a Hoquiam apartment house of “riot gas” that filled the dwelling minutes after pranksters lobbed a canister of the potent gas against the building’s front porch.
The 40 tenants of Harbor House at 700 L St. were evacuated at 1:20 a.m., Fire Chief Kenneth Mitchell reported. Several persons narrowly escaped injury in their haste to flee the choking, irritating fumes.
“We’ve got some good leads on the culprits (some young people),” Mitchell said. “All of us in the department are really upset about this.”
June 28, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
June 27, 1994
Forty years ago, a teen-aged Jean Bonney took a call in the middle of the night saying her family’s laundry business was going up in smoke.
“I remember that night like it was yesterday,” she said last week while discussing the history of Hoquiam’s Most Western Laundry.
In a cruel twist of fate, history repeated itself Sunday as an early-morning phone call jolted Mrs. Bonney from her sleep — again with the news that the family business was on fire.
The Bonneys were just a few days shy of a 50th anniversary celebration to mark the date the family bought the business. This time, the laundry that has been in the family for three generations was reduced to a pile of ashes.
June 28, 1994
Central Park veterinarian Michael Bergey took his first day of vacation in more than a year-and-a-half last week.
Since purchasing the Blue Cross Veterinary Clinic, Bergey’s business burgeoned to the point that he just didn’t feel comfortable leaving town for a few days — until Brian Dowling arrived to care for the practice.
Dowling, 31, is the newest vet in town after coming to Bergey two weeks ago from a clinic in Belfair.
Bergey said his Clarke Road clinic is growing at “very flattering” rate, even though it is off the beaten path. When constructed 62 years ago, he said the building was on the main highway between Aberdeen and Olympia, but even on a side-street, “it’s a wonderful spot.”
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
