75 years ago
January 1, 1943
• Some 85 Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Olympia high school boys have been “cleaning up” in the spruce slashings of the Olympic national forest near Quinault during the past week.
They have “cleaned” and burned slashing on some 150 acres of Uncle Sam’s forest land, have “cleaned up” in a monetary way, to the tune of $5 a day and have won the admiration of Ranger Fulton by the manner in which they “cleaned up” at meals. Their appetites, he said, were a constant threat to the commissary department. As an example, the boys stowed away eight big turkeys for supper last night.
• A “bigger and better” cranberry cannery will be constructed this year at Markham by Cranberry Canners Inc., to replace the big plant destroyed Monday morning in a $300,000 blaze, W.S. Jacobson, plant manager, announced today.
All the loss of canned cranberry sauce was covered by insurance, Mr. Jacobson said, and a portion of the building loss. No clues as to the origin of the fire have been discovered as yet.
50 years ago
January 1, 1968
American newspaper editors for the third straight year chose the war in Vietnam as the top news story of 1967.
The remaining top 10 stories: 2. Arab-Israeli war; 3. Detroit, Newark riots mark worst summer of racial violence; 4. Three U.S. astronauts and one Soviet killed in space capsules; 5. First human heart transplant; 6. Johnson-Kosygin summit; 7. Britain devalues pound; 8. Social ferment in U.S.; 9. Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter, defects to U.S. and 10. Adam Clayton Powell denied House seat.
25 years ago
January 1, 1993
Again in 1992, just as it’s been the past few years, the biggest story of the year on the Twin Harbors relates to economic problems in timber country.
The year’s top story — as voted by The Daily World’s editorial staff — is the closure of the ITT Rayonier/International Paper Co. pulp and paper complex in Hoquiam.
Rounding out the top 10 list: 2. Wal-Mart’s coming; 3. More timber woes; 4. Elections; 5. Hoquiam budget; 6. Sex offenders; 7. Weyerhaeuser stink; 8. Teacher troubles; 9. Fatal shooting and 10. Pedestrian fatality.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
