75 years ago
December 11, 1942
Thanks to voluntary contributions from their former fellow workers, 84 ex-employees of the Harbor Plywood corporation are getting their “home town news” although scattered to almost every spot on the globe.
As men leave the company for military service, the company seeks to keep track of their addresses. Periodically their former fellow workers “chip in” small sums to finance subscriptions to The Aberdeen Daily World for each of the soldiers, sailors or marines on the list. Every six weeks, or oftener if possible, they also forward each fighting man a carton of cigarettes.
50 years ago
December 11, 1967
Steve Erlenbush, the 13-year-old Aberdonian who underwent open heart surgery at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane just 11 days ago, is out of the hospital and home once again.
His mother, in good humor, was obviously relieved after going through the experience. “It seemed like he was in there an awful long time,” she sighed. “But, she perked up, “(the surgeons) seemed to think they’d been given a miracle — and there’ll be unlimited restrictions on what he can do.”
Both were happy to be back home in Aberdeen — where local citizens have started a trust fund to help pay for Steve’s costly and vital operation. The fund total was over $778 today at the National Bank of Commerce.
25 years ago
December 11, 1992
Crowds of tourists and van-loads of TV crews who came to see the forecasted flooding seemed disappointed. But an anticlimactic Thursday was fine with city officials.
Westport was relieved that high winds and tides didn’t bring an instant replay of Wednesday’s deluge.
“We’ve gotten lucky. Mother Nature gave us a break,” city public works directors Fred Chapman, said.
Chapman attributed Wednesday’s dockside flooding to a revetment break big enough that “a semi-truck could’ve drove through.”
Sand beneath the rock wall washed away and the rocks sunk, leaving the hole, he said. The breech was fixed Wednesday night and Thursday morning by a crew from Westport’s Brumfield Construction which also removed logs tossed up on the revetment.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
