75 years ago
April 11, 1944
Mrs. Francis J. Donovan announces the engagement of her daughter, Catherine Anne, to Ensign James T. Quigg Jr., son of Mrs. J.T. Quigg of Hoquiam.
At a dinner party Saturday evening, as the guests were seated and picked up the nosegay corsages that marked each place cover, an engagement ring tied to a wedding bell fell from the center of the flowers and gave the news of the engagement.
Miss Donovan attended Dominican College for Girls in San Rafael and later the University of Washington. Ensign Quigg, who is with the Seabees in the South Pacific, graduated from Grays Harbor Junior college and also attended the UW. He was a crewman there and a member of the Varsity Boat club. He was a partner in the Quigg Brothers Construction company before entering the Seabees a year ago.
April 12, 1944
Bronko Nagurski, an all-time all-American fullback, has been signed as backfield coach at the University of California at Los Angeles, Coach Babe Horrell said today.
Nagurski, former University of Minnesota line-buster, also played professional ball with the Chicago Bears and was named all-league fullback.
At 35, he played several games with the Bears last season. He was rejected for military service because of knee and back injuries.
Both UCLA and the Bears use the flashy T-formation.
50 years ago
April 11, 1969
By letter, L.P. Johnsen, manager of the E.H. Bendiksen Eastpoint Seafoods Co. interests in South Bend, notified the Pacific County commissioners that ships were doing thousands of dollars of damage to the firm’s oyster farm in Willapa Bay each year.
Johnsen asserted the ships traveling at excessive rates of speed cause waves as high as four feet from shore to shore “and our people have watched hundreds of bushels of oysters pulled into deep water, where they cannot be retrieved, when a ship passes.”
The U.S. Corps of Engineers advised that the county officials have jurisdiction over the speed limits on bay waters and Johnsen asked that a speed limit of five knots be imposed in the vicinity of the oyster beds, particularly opposite Bruceport Park.
April 12, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
April 11, 1994
Doug Osborn, who carved roads out of the wilderness around Lake Quinault early in this century, was honored Sunday as the Polson Museum’s Pioneer of the Year.
Osborn, 88, talked about his experiences as he received the award before an audience of about 150 at the Lake Quinault Lodge.
“He remembers names and dates and he’s a good storyteller,” Polson board member Doris West said. “He was instrumental in building a great number of the roads in the Quinault area and the Olympic Peninsula.”
April 12, 1994
Superb baserunning, dominant pitching, clutch two-out hitting and a defensive gem powered Montesano to a 6-0 triumph over Olympia and avenged its only setback of the season in a non-league girls’ fast pitch game Monday afternoon at Crait Field.
Jodie Johnson — who was 3 fo 4 at the plate — turned in the key defensive play of the game in the Olympia half of the fifth. The Bears had runners at first and third with one out when Johnson charged a hard hit ball from her shortstop position and fired a strike to home plate to preserve the shutout.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
