75 years ago

August 28, 1942

Samuel J. Logan, a leader of the Jehovah Witnesses, charged in justice court today he was manhandled during a demonstration at McCleary last night in which a crowd of workmen, estimated at more than 100 persons, milled about the meeting hall in protest against refusal of members of the sect to salute the flag.

The demonstration terminated last night when deputy sheriffs told the Jehovah Witnesses to close their meeting and go home to avoid trouble, until the situation could be clarified.

50 years ago

August 28, 1967

When Maria Luisa Vilar Samper, 17-year-old American Field Service student from Spain, answers school bells at Weatherwax High School on Sept. 5, they may be the only thing she’ll understand for awhile. Maysa, as she prefers to be called, speaks very little English, but her AFS sister Paula Bielski and a Spanish-American dictionary will remedy that soon.

25 years ago

August 28, 1992

A draft letter that ignited heated debate this week in the business community by opposing moves to make way for Walmart in East Aberdeen won’t be distributed, the Grays Harbor Chamber of Commerce decided Thursday.

The letter, drafted by an unnamed sub-committee and widely distributed before a final version could be presented to the membership, recommended that the Chamber oppose any waterfront development not in keeping with the vision set forth by the East Aberdeen Task Force.

“The board declined to send that letter,” LeRoy Tipton, executive manager of the Chamber said when contacted after the meeting. “The board received that letter for the first time today and declined to send (it.) I think it’s fair to say that the Chamber of Commerce is not going to oppose Walmart coming to town.”

“Walmart has assured us,” he continued, “that they certainly would want to work with the Chamber in the shared goals and objectives this area has for waterfront development.”

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom