75 years ago
Jan. 31, 1942
High in the ranks of Grays Harbor’s army and navy mothers is Mrs. Ruby McDougall, who lives about 14 miles up the Wishkah valley. She had three sons in World War I and today has five grandsons in the service.
Two of her sons, Herbert, who now lives on the Wishkah road, and Ed who lives with his mother, saw service overseas in the last war. Another son, Charles, was with the cavalry on the Mexican border.
Today three of Mrs. McDougall’s grandsons, Sidney and Sherman Hatley and Jack McDougall, are on duty in the air corps at a Texas field. Another, Sherian McDougall, is stationed at a Hawaiian army post. The fifth, Harry Hatley Jr. is on a unit of the Pacific fleet.
The Hatley brothers are from Aberdeen.
Feb. 1, 1942
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
Jan. 31, 1967
Two Aberdeen women, Mrs. Maxine Acker and Mrs. Eugene Stensager, flew to Washington, D.C., today, where they joined church members and ministers from throughout the nation in making a direct appeal to President Johnson for peace.
Their goals are to prevent further escalation of war and to encourage the United States government to work harder for a negotiated settlement in Vietnam.
Feb. 1, 1967
They might well be calling Aberdeen attorney Paul O. Manley “the marrying judge” if traffic keeps up at the western district justice of the peace court over which he presides.
Before this month, Judge Manley had never tied the nuptial knot for any couple. Since January 9, when he took office, he has presided at the marriage of six couples and missed the seventh wedding yesterday because of a “no show.”
The busiest judge in Southwest Washington, with 231 criminal actions and 50 civil cases held in his court in its first three weeks of operation, Manley finds the task of being Cupid one of the pleasant aspects of his job. He lives in the penthouse of the Becker Building, where his court office is located on the second floor. Instead of conducting the marriages in the confines of his office, he invites the bride and groom up to his penthouse where the knot is tied in the cozy atmosphere of the parlor.
25 years ago
Jan. 31, 1992
The pursuit of trivia has not been a trivial pursuit for Jay Windisch.
Since 1977, as head reference librarian in Aberdeen, he’s helped innumerable patrons track down elusive answers to brain-tickling questions.
But today is his last day at the Aberdeen branch. The Timberland Regional Library System is centralizing its high-tech and specialized reference services. Windisch is one of four reference experts selected to help run the new system.
Windisch, 44, plans to commute from his Central Park home.
Before coming to the Aberdeen library in 1977, he spent four years as head librarian at Raymond where he grew up. Several times he has filled in as Aberdeen’s head librarian for extended periods — first for Rosalie Spellman when she had knee surgery and then for the current librarian, Chris Peck, on three separate maternity leaves.
Feb. 1, 1992
The Army recruiter hoped to make an impression on Harbor students. With the help of a 12-ton Chinook helicopter, he nearly blew them away.
Clothes were a flappin’ and hair flyin’ as the Army-green airship with tandem rotor systems alighted at the Wishkah Valley football field Tuesday.
Recruiting Sgt. Michael Lyons, who is from the recruiting office at the SouthShore Mall in Aberdeen, arranged the “we’ll-come-to-you” field trip to Wishkah Valley, Ocosta and North Beach schools.
Hundeds of students listened intently as pilot Mike Wilson, co-pilot Keith Potter and flight engineer Steven Stretch told them how they fly the helicopter.
Wilson, the police chief at Ocean Shores, is also a chief warrant officer in the Army reserves.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
