75 years ago
September 13, 1943
Advertisement for Pearson’s located at the corner of Heron and I streets in Aberdeen: “For 8 years, Pearson’s has celebrated its anniversary each September. For 8 years the people of Grays Harbor area have joined in this celebration by participating in our outstanding offerings of quality merchandise at attractive values. … This year, in compliance with our Government’s request that we refrain from price appeals, and for the reason that we strongly believe that the encouragement of unnecessary buying is inflationary in character, we urge that you, our customers, take the money that you would have spent for merchandise during our anniversary and invest it in the World’s biggest bargain, War Bonds. It is our ambition in the next two days to sell $8,000 worth of Bonds each day. Will you help us realize this goal?”
September 14, 1943
Among the newest additions so Uncle Sam’s rapidly expanding navy are Dick Sims and Joe Erak, 1943 Aberdeen high school graduates and athletes. Both are home on leave after completing recruit training at Camp Bennion, Farragut, Idaho.
They are in the same barracks with Frank Hart, Calvin Balch and Dick Rice of Aberdeen.
50 years ago
September 13, 1968
A project to add 22 charter boat berths at the Westport Fishing Basin was unveiled at Thursday’s meeting of the Port of Grays Harbor commissioners, and the port staff was instructed to proceed with the engineering.
E.W. Clocksin, port manager, said the project, whose cost he estimated at $200,000, would consist of removing three floats at the northwest end of the basin and building four floats in their stead.
September 14, 1968
Ocosta halfback Dunc Blanchard squirmed and churned 17 yards to a second quarter TD last night in Montesano as the peppery defending league champs scored a 6-0 victory over Montesano’s Bulldogs, who suffered from an early-season malady known as offensive paralysis.
Bob Izzi’s beefy county seat gridders stopped Ocosta four times inside the 10-yard-stripe, but they penetrated Wildcat territory only once — and that was late in the game when a blocked punt resulted in an abortive excursion to the Ocosta 30.
25 years ago
September 13, 1993
• Mill Creek Park in Cosmopolis was packed all day Sunday for the 18th annual Festival in the Park, sponsored by the Cosi Lionettes. An estimated 7,000-plus people strolled about the sun-dappled grounds. Many of those attending enjoyed the locally-famous Cosi Lions Club burgers.
• The Stullicks — brothers Pat and Mike and father Ray — edged two teams to win the three-man Bank of Grays Harbor Scramble Sunday at the Grays Harbor Country Club.
•Don Sheldon and Bob Lane won low gross honors with a 136 in the Rainier Beer Best Ball golf tournament that concluded Sunday at Willapa Harbor Golf Course. Brian and Tom Gibbs had the low net with 105.
Lynda Adams and Doris McGuire were gross winners at 159 in the ladies’ tourney.
September 14, 1993
It’s a paper chase, and the stakes are perhaps the highest in Hoquiam history.
The City Council is now pursuing the federal loan package needed to complete the Quigg Group’s $17.8 million deal to reopen Grays Harbor Paper Co. The city is applying through the state for a $3.3 million HUD loan for the paper mill, which will provide 230 jobs.
It’s a complex and time-consuming process that will be on the council’s agenda for at least the next two weeks.
But whatever it takes, the city should be committed to getting the mill restarted, Mayor Phyllis Shrauger told the council.
“I don’t know about the rest of you,” she said, “but to make this thing fly, I’d meet at 4 in the morning.”
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
