75 years ago
September 15, 1943
Jim Eckersley, 18, Aberdeen high school rifleman last spring, rates among the finest marksmen in the entire United States. He has just been awarded the expert rifleman award by the junior division of the National Rifle association.
The young rifleman was a member of the Bobcat team. Milton Styner was his instructor. Eckersley recently moved to Montesano.
To win the award Eckersley had to prove his ability in the standing position, most difficult of all shooting positions. Using the standard 50-foot gallery targets on which the bullseye is actually smaller than a .22 bullet, the Aberdeen marksman was required to average at least 80 percent accuracy for 50 shots.
Next and final aim of young Eckersley is the distinguished rifleman qualification.
September 16, 1943
Sergeant Frank H. Flint had landed in Sicily with a group of paratroopers when his mother, Mrs. Walter Miller, saw him last — in a newsreel recently. The paratroopers had done their work behind the lines and had joined the other Allied forces when the film was taken, Mrs. Miller said.
Sergeant Flint has been overseas 11 month and after the war of North Africa and the Sicilian battle, looked “wonderful,” she said. Mrs. Miller and her three other children saw the newsreel three times while it was showing in Aberdeen and Hoquiam.
50 years ago
September 15, 1968
Sunday, no newspaper published
September 16, 1968
Misses Marilyn Murnen, Nancy Dowling and Bev Lamb, all of Hoquiam, and Steve Steinman of Aberdeen, left today to begin a semester of study at the University of Puget Sound’s campus in Vienna, Austria.
Miss Murnen and Miss Lamb will be members of the school’s cultural educational tour, and Miss Dowling and Mr. Steinman will participate in the performing arts tour as apprentice musicians to the Vienna Symphony.
Before arriving in Vienna, the UPS group will tour Paris, London, Amsterdam and Zurich. At the end of their semester abroad in January, the students will spend time in Rome, Madrid and Lisbon before returning to the United States.
25 years ago
September 15, 1993
• K-Lub Loucks scored three goals and Micah Valentine added one as Elma defeated Foster 4-2, in a Nisqually League boys’ soccer match Tuesday afternoon at Elma’s Volunteer Field.
The victory moved the young Eagles to 3-0 on the season.
Loucks, a junior who had a hat trick as well as an assist against Foster, now has five goals in two games.
• Summer Skalicky scored the three-goal hat trick as Elma recorded its first-ever girls’ soccer victory by rallying past Centralia junior varsity, 4-1, Tuesday at Centralia.
“We controlled the ball almost the whole game,” Eagle coach Connie Seaberg reported. “We had at least 14 good shots the first half, they just didn’t go in. Our girls’ passing and positioning were excellent.”
September 16, 1993
Grays Harbor is losing a couple of inspirational workers.
Melanie and Ron Martin-Dent are moving next month to Pierce, Idaho, a small logging community, where Melanie will become pastor of the Faith Lutheran Church.
Ron, who has been executive director of United Way of Grays Harbor, hopes to do some cross country skiing and pursue his “lifelong dream of writing.” He would also like to do some interim pastoring and maybe substitute teaching.
The Martin-Dents came to the Harbor nine years ago as co-pastors of Saron Lutheran Church in Hoquiam. As the timber crisis festered, Melanie, resigned her position and founded harbor Churches Timber Outreach two years ago to help bring the community together to work through the multiple problems caused by the loss of jobs.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
