75 years ago
May 3, 1943
Notification of the deaths of two Hoquiam soldiers, Corporal Stilson L. Erickson and Jack Franklin has been received.
Corporal Erickson, 23, was killed in North African action, April 10. He graduated from Hoquiam high school in 1938 and spend summers and vacations working in his father, Oscar’s, clothing store.
He was serving in a tank corps at the time of his death.
Jack Franklin, a radio man and gunner aboard a bombing plane, was killed in action, March 26, in India. He formerly drove a truck for Lawrence Fuel company.
May 4, 1943
After two score and four years in business, the Payette Music House has closed its doors. One of the oldest business firms in Aberdeen, it had aided thousands of Aberdeen boys and girls with their “musical education.”
The late Mark Payette, founder of the store, first entered the furniture business on East Wishkah street in 1899 and after selling out to J.J. Kaufman, he sold sewing machines. His wife conceived the idea of adding phonograph records to their stock and soon they were selling the old horn-type phonographs and cylinder records. It wasn’t long until there were requests for pianos, an then of course, they had to stock sheet music.
They later added ukuleles and radios to the store. The stock has been sold to R.S. Messingale and others.
50 years ago
May 3, 1968
Pickets paraded in front of six Harbor machine works this morning, as local 1183 of the International Association of Machinists set up an “informative picket line,” as the local’s business agent termed it in front of Mar Hook & Equipment Co.
The other five firms are being struck by the union. The contract between the union and the Associated Machine Shops of Grays Harbor expired Wednesday. Kenneth Richey, local business agent, said this morning that the pickets at Mar Hook were there to inform the public that the firm was nonunion.
Striking machinists continued their picketing of Lamb-Grays Harbor, A&B Machine Shop, Port Machine Shop and Reliable Blacksmith and added N. Nelson and Son to the list.
May 4, 1968
The road ends at Taholah, but a unique “head start” nursery school program is paving a more important highway.
Under the gentle guidance of Mrs. Carlie Hoadley, the teacher, the bright-eyed children learn that learning can be fun — and rewarding, as their self-confidence accelerates on a par with the rapidly passing months of a school year.
Her husband, Jon, is the pastor of St. John’s Chapel By the Sea, located between Pacific Beach and Moclips.
Carlie Hoadley loves children and every weekday afternoon, she heads down the road to Taholah to teach a two-hour nursery school session. And 24 three, four and five year olds use self-teaching machines to learn reading fundamentals and do exercises to improve their motor coordination.
25 years ago
May 3, 1993
From trees to pens, the first South Bend High School Career Day had freebies galore Friday, but the one thing the students couldn’t take home stole the show.
When a Coast Guard helicopter out of Astoria hovered overhead, then landed at the high school, it drew a crowd. The students peppered the crewmen with questions about job opportunities.
In all there were 38 booths on career possibilities — including the forest products industry, banking, law enforcement and non-profit organizations.
May 4, 1993
Go out and find eyesore lots, unsafe buildings, rusting junk cars and rotting garbage.
Then fine people who won’t tidy up their property or who won’t bring buildings into compliance with safety and other codes.
That’s the job Aberdeen Mayor Chuck Gurrad has drafted for a new worker. He’s asking the council to let him hire a Code Enforcement Officer. The starting pay would be $2,129 per month.
The proposal is in answer to years of complaints from citizens and council members that the city doesn’t do enough to crack down on owners of junk lots and unsafe properties, the mayor said.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
