75 years ago
December 19, 1942
The state liquor board today gave Washington liquor drinkers a Christmas present in the form of an opportunity to buy an extra bottle of liquor on next week’s ration card.
An extra fifth of hard liquor may be purchased during the four-day period beginning Monday. The board announced it had accumulated sufficient stocks during the five-weeks-old rationing program to permit the Christmas dividend.
Up to one quart a week can be purchased under the ordinary ration coupon.
December 20, 1942
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
December 19, 1967
The 58-year-old Posey Manufacturing Company, located on a 10-acre parcel at the foot of Ontario Street in Hoquiam, goes about its business with very little fanfare.
“Posey,” however, is a familiar name to finicky East Coast executives who oversee the production of fine musical instruments like Steinway, Baldwin, Wurlitzer and Martin.
The craftsmen at Posey transform high grade Sitka spruce lumber into the finest piano sounding boards that money can buy. U.S. piano manufacturers buy about 70 percent of their sounding boards — perhaps the most important part in a piano — from Posey.
“We keep about two or three million board feet of rough green lumber on hand all the time to handle our orders,” said Aaron Wise, the firm’s soft-spoken vice-president and general manager. “We produce up to 140,000 sounding boards a year.”
December 20, 1967
A $1,000,000 addition to the silvichemical plant at Rayonier’s Grays Harbor Pulp division is nearing completion, L.M. McGinnis, manager of the local mill, said today.
With the operation of a new plant only a few days away, the time is near when a family of new and exotic forest products will come on the Grays Harbor scene.
The addition has been built to meet the growing market for Rayplexes, chemicals used in agriculture to supplement the lack of basic trace metals in soil, and for Terranier, a chemical grouting agent widely applicable for soil stabilization.
Both products are manufactured from bark that has been removed from logs destined for the pulp mill’s wood chippers.
25 years ago
December 19, 1992
More Senior Companions are needed, especially in the North Beach, Quinault, Aberdeen and Hoquiam areas, says Karen Keogh, director for the SPC for Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties. The only requirements to volunteer are to be age 60 or older, in good health, meet some guidelines and want to help others in the community
Volunteers receive a tax-free hourly stipend of $2.45 to help supplement their monthly income, as well as reimbursement for travel and meals, supplemental insurance coverage and an annual physical examination with their physician.
December 20, 1992
When Santa Claus and his reindeer came to Grays Harbor Saturday, it wasn’t exactly a scene stolen from the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
Instead of a sleigh, Santa rumbled merrily into town on a fancy three-wheel motorcycle. His “reindeer” rode Harleys, sported tattoos of dragons and answered to names like “Bubba,” “Booger” and “Vietnam Gary.”
Santa’s scraggly-bearded helpers wore leather jackets and chaps and sturdy black boots.
The Yule tide gang may have looked to some people like Hell’s Angels but they came to give a little piece of Heaven to needy youngsters and their families on the North Beach.
Some 30 members of the Third Legacy Motorcycle Club rode into town bringing everything from dolls and toy trucks to canned goods and fresh fruit to be donated to the Pacific Beach food bank.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
