75 years ago
May 17, 1943
• Edward Hayes, Washington sixth grader, Saturday afternoon won the all-city marble shooting championship and McDermoth school carried off team honors in the tournament sponsored by the Aberdeen Lions club. The finals were played at Franklin field.
Hayes was guest at the Lions club luncheon meeting today and received a $25 war bond.
The McDermoth team composed of Bernard Espedal, Bernard Johnson and Bobbie Turner defeated the Washington school trio of Champion Hayes, Gordon Hyde and Walter Brudvik.
• Beautiful honors at Tacoma May Day festivals next week all go to Aberdeen.
Queens over the traditional celebrations are Miss Barbara Hart at Annie Wright Seminary and Miss June Bellew at the Visitation Villa boarding school. Both girls are from Aberdeen.
May 18, 1943
Loggers were urged today to forego vacations this year in view of the manpower shortage in the woods and the critical need for lumber.
F.H. Brundage, western lumber administrator, who made the request, also asked sawmill operators to stagger vacation periods as much as possible to prevent closure of mills.
Brundage pointed out men working through their vacation periods would receive extra pay.
50 years ago
May 17, 1968
Beach areas of Grays Harbor County braced for a tidal wave for four hours Thursday, but activity returned to normal in mid-afternoon when the wave generated by Japanese earthquakes, failed to appear.
Students at Ocosta School in Westport were evacuated as a precaution and enforcement officers asked beachgoers, attracted by clam tides, to leave the beaches. Betty McClellan, county civil defense coordinator, said that the beach crowd, described as good for a weekday, left the sandy areas quickly.
May 18, 1968
• Some 200 office and administrative personnel were kept off the job at Lamb-Grays Harbor Co. Friday morning as local machinists’ pickets increased substantially at the Hoquiam plant Friday morning. Relations between the company and the union remained cool as the strike of local machinists entered its 18th day.
At issue is a requested 72 cents-per-hour wage increase plus 7 cents per hour in fringe benefits. Journeymen machinists now make $3.57 an hour in the Harbor area.
• Bruce Maupin’s bases-loaded double keyed a four-run Aberdeen fourth inning yesterday as the Bobcats stayed hot on the heels of Northern Division leader Centralia with a 4-1 victory over R.A. Long.
Dick Isaacson weathered the ‘Jacks 10-hit assault, going the distance to collect the win.
The ‘Cats now stand 7-2 in league play.
25 years ago
May 17, 1993
The Tsunami Warriors of Grays Harbor did all their scoring in the second half to down Milan of Chehalis, 3-0, in a Southwest Washington Soccer Association contest Sunday at The Evergreen State College field.
James Farrow scored twice and Jim Jacka the third goal for the Warriors, now 4-0 in league play. Sweeper Shawn McGuire, Shae Kuronen and Conan Griffiths were cited for fine performances.
May 18, 1993
Grays Harbor is rolling out the red carpet — make that carpets — twice in the next two days for cruise ship visitors.
The Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s Nordic Prince had been scheduled all along to arrive at 8 a.m. Thursday. Then Port officials learned that the Regent Star, an even bigger vessel, will dock here around 9 a.m. Wednesday.
“They were scheduled to take on fresh water at Prince Rupert but for whatever reason they couldn’t do it there,” said Stan Lattin, the Port’s Director of Economic Development.
“We had been calling on the Regency Cruise Line for three years without much success, but we gave them enough information about Grays Harbor, that when they needed us, they called us.”
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
