75 years ago

August 29, 1944

Starts tomorrow at the D and R theater: “Block Busters” with The East Side Kids and “Charley’s Aunt” starring Jack Benny. At the Roxy, “Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray are starring in “No Time for Love” and Sidney Toler has the lead in “Charlie Chan: The Secret Service.” At the Bijou, “Ali Baba and 40 Thieves” along with “So This is Washington” are playing

August 30, 1944

At least six Grays Harbor mills and industrial plants have been asked to maintain a regular schedule of work Labor Day as sub-contractors of the United States army engineers.

“In accordance with army service forces program of maintaining peak production, the Labor Day weekend will be regarded by the engineers as a regular work period with Sunday as the regular day off,” said Col. Conrad Hardy, Seattle District engineer.

“Grays Harbor contractors with current war work assignments for the army engineers include White Star Lumber company of Whites, Aberdeen Plywood company, West Coast Plywood company, Bay City Lumber company, Harbor Plywood corporation and Donovan Lumber company,” Hardy concluded.

50 years ago

August 29, 1969

The possibility of reopening 25 miles of popular Pacific Coast beaches, closed by the Quinault Indian Tribe earlier this week, loomed Friday following a meeting between the head of the Quinault Indians and the chief executive of Washington State.

Gov. Dan Evans met with James Jackson in Olympia Thursday and offered state services in keeping beaches clean and policed.

The governor suggested the beach might be included in the state’s Seashore Conservancy Area, making the State Parks Department responsible for keeping the area clean and instituting a long-range plan for building public park facilities.

Quinault patrolman have been standing guard at private access roads and along the beach this week but Jackson said no incidents have been reported. He said earlier in the week they had closed the beach because campers were stealing fish nets, defacing rocks, destroying clam beds and littering.

August 30, 1969

Saturday, no newspaper published

25 years ago

August 29, 1994

“It’s pretty tough trying to beat Curtis Messer in Aberdeen,” Wayne Urlaub was quick to acknowledge. “It’s pretty tough beating Curtis Messer anywhere.”

It was all but impossible Sunday when Messer fired a 277 at the veteran Lynnwood kegler in the championship game of the NW Bowlers’ Association’s annual Aberdeen tourney.

It was the ninth NWBA title pocketed by the 32-year-old Aberdonian, who insists he actually lives “pretty much in Elma — at the bowling alley.” Five of Messer’s NWBA titles have been won at Aberdeen Rec, including the last three in a row.”

“I said before we started that we were all playing for second,” one contestant said when it was all over.

The win was worth $700 to Messer and $400 to Urlaub, who came in second.

August 30, 1994

A Montesano woman on Monday claimed the $300,000 jackpot from last Wednesday’s Quinto drawing.

The Washington State Lottery said Billie Morgan, 60, had purchased three Quinto tickets for the drawing but didn’t discover she had the winner until she checked her tickets at a store on Saturday.

Morgan, who is retired from the military, told Lottery officials that she plans to split her winnings with her roommate and winterize their 100-year-old house. After taxes, she took home about $216,000.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom