75 years ago
September 28, 1942
Emmett Ingleston ordered and ate $2 worth of fried ham and hashed brown potatoes at an Aberdeen cafe on his arrival home from Africa last week and between hungry mouthfuls, he chortled: “Oh, man! If the boys on the Gold Coast could only see me now!”
The former Aberdeen orchestra pianist was talking about his fellow workers at the Pan American camp in British West Africa, the first African stop for warplanes being rushed to a dozen fighting fronts by the United Nations air ferry.
Ingleston, better known as “Jimmy Curtis” when he played with “name bands” before studying airplane engines in the Boeing plant, has been in Africa the past five months, helping service the plane motors for their long hops to Egypt, Russia, the Middle East, India and China.
“We get plenty of grub there, but too much of it is British canned ‘willie’ and biscuits and the cooking of the natives,” he said.
September 29, 1942
Highways Director Burwell Bantz issued an order today, effective Oct. 1, reducing the speed on all primary and secondary highways of the state from 40 to 35 miles per hour.
His order was in compliance with a request made yesterday by Gov. Arthur B. Langlie.
50 years ago
September 28, 1967
It was sort of like a picnic on a bright autumn day, in the midst of the southern ramparts of the Olympics.
The hosts were 11 representatives of the Army Corps of Engineers. The guests were about 50 representatives of many prospective contractors for the Wynooche Dam, including some of the “big boys” of the West.
It was an opportunity for the prospective contractors to inspect the actual site of the dam, skirt the area of the reservoir, see nearby sources of sand, gravel and rock and to pore over the voluminous preliminary maps and plans of what is to become Grays Harbor’s largest single project in history.
September 29, 1967
Protection and preservation of America’s bald eagles is the objective of a new woods operating policy adopted by Weyerhaeuser Co.
Classification of the nation’s symbolic bird as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service led to this special effort to safeguard eagles and their nesting sites on the company’s tree farms in Oregon and Western Washington.
The company’s forest engineers will map known nest locations — usually located in tall snag-topped trees — on company land and report them to the US. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife.
25 years ago
September 28, 1992
Chris Hansen, Todd Lindley and Bruce Beck shot a 130 to win the sixth annual Bank of Grays Harbor Scramble this weekend at the Grays Harbor Country Club. Thirty-six teams competed in the 36-hole tournament.
The winners finished one strike ahead of two teams. Shooting 131s were Mike Robb, Pat Robb and Gary Morean, and a three-generation team of Greenes: Jeff, Jay and Jay.
September 29, 1992
The mayor of Oakville tendered his resignation last night in the hopes that the unhappy hamlet will cease a war it has waged with itself.
Mayor Carl Lindholm, citing an ongoing imbroglio over alleged exorbitant and unauthorized police department spending, surprised the nearly 100 people packed into the City Council chambers.
“There are things that need to be done in the police department; there are lots of changes that need to be done in this community,” Lindholm said. “I believe one of the first tasks in making these changes is for me to withdraw from the mayorship … due to the lack of professional leadership that apparently I’ve not shown.”
The rift came to a boil last month after freshman council members Peggy Colerick and Dan Hatcher called for a $50 spending cap per month for each department in town after Police Chief Gerry Greub purchased a new police car allegedly without council permission.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
