75 years ago
February 4, 1944
• Saron Lutheran church in Hoquiam will be presented the Army-Navy award at a special service Sunday. The award is in recognition of the local church giving their former pastor Rev. Joseph C. Elmer, to the armed forces.
The 11 o’clock service will open with an organ prelude and the singing of the national anthem.
• Mr. and Mrs. M.F. Baldridge of Aberdeen now have three sons in the armed forces.
Fred, 30, their eldest son, recently entered the army transport service as quartermaster first class. Clyde, shipfitter first class, and slated for a chief’s rating, recently transferred from the Pacific war area to a new ship berthed at Brooklyn, New York, while Mickey, also a shipfitter first class, is convalescing at the navy hospital in Bremerton.
Describing his new ship to his parents, Clyde said: “She’s just the right kind of a ship to plaster the (enemy).”
50 years ago
February 4, 1969
The Reader’s Digest has made Grays Harbor famous, this month, courtesy of the Montesano water office and Aberdeen World reporter Bill Koski.
The Digest, published in many languages and having a circulation of over 18 million copies monthly, used this brief item on page 202 of this month’s edition.
“When Montesano, Wash. residents pay their water bill, they see this sign on the city hall counter: ‘If you get thirsty and think your water bill is too high, remember — Municipal water, 20 cents per ton; pop, $210 per ton; beer, $405 per ton and 100 proof whiskey, $6,144 per ton.’”
25 years ago
February 4, 1994
The state’s fifth-ranked Class A Eagles improved to 13-1 in league play Thursday night, withstanding a second-half comeback by the Onalaska Loggers, winning the game 62-50.
Elma coach Perry McCormick grudgingly acknowledged that his team had won the game, but predicted it would be “the last game we win all year unless we get with it.”
“We’re getting poor fundamentals out of a lot of people,” he said. “We’re not getting a bit of play out of our big people.”
Zach Seymour, Elma’s senior power forward, is out two to three weeks with an anterior cruciate ligament tear in his knee.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
