75 years ago
June 2, 1943
Next to the men in actual combat, there is no part of the army more vital than its medical units, and army nurses undergo training as rigid as that demanded of the boys in khaki to prepare themselves for war.
Lieutenant Helen Callesen, 1932 graduate of Elma high school, is hardening to the tasks that lie ahead by participating in current army war games in the Tennessee hills.
At present army nurses are serving on every Allied battle front, and have already proved their mettle at Bataan and Corregidor.
“However, even in war women are women, and look forward to a few hours off duty, when they may don dress uniforms and attend officers’ dances or perhaps go on a trip to town,” Lieutenant Callesen said.
Her three brothers are in different branches of the service. The youngest, Irving, is with the army transport service; Floyd is an ensign in the navy on destroyer duty and Walter, the eldest brother, is with the mountain infantry.
June 3, 1943
One thousand dozen crabs, believed to be the biggest haul in the history of fishing on the Pacific coast, were unloaded last night at the Lars Andersen barge at Westport by the 45-foot Lucin, captained by Roy Furfiord of Westport.
At $2 a dozen, the price now being paid for crabs, the haul brought in $2,000 for Furfiord and his crew, Evan Sharp and Alex Peppin, both of Westport.
50 years ago
June 2, 1968
Sunday, no newspaper published
June 3, 1968
What could be more exciting than having your son graduate?
How about having three sons graduate?
That’s the situation Dr. and Mrs. William Osheroff of Alden Road in Aberdeen find themselves in this year.
Thursday, their youngest son, Thomas, will graduate from Aberdeen High School after winning a National Merit Scholarship contest (grade point average 3.98).
This weekend, another son, 25-year-old William J., will receive his M.D. degree from the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. And 21-year-old son Michael (Weatherwax 1964) will receive a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Puget Sound.
The Osheroffs have two other children: daughter Ann, who’s just completing two years at Lewis and Clark College and who’s preparing to transfer to the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland; and son Douglas, who graduated from the California Institute of Technology a year ago and who’s now a teaching assistant at Cornell and is working toward his doctoral degree in physics.
25 years ago
June 2, 1993
Actual Olympians never had it as hard as the winner of what has been called “the four-wheel drive Olympics.”
Wishkah High graduate Tim Hensley teamed with Mike Hussey of Middlebury, Vt. to surmount 100-degree heat, treks into uninhabited areas, mudslides and an evening in “Leech Alley” and win the Camel Trophy Adventure last month in Malaysia.
Hensley, who now lives in Portland, and Hussey became the first Americans in the 14-year history of the event to win the overall trophy.
The two-man team had to build or repair more than a dozen bridges, raft their vehicles across rivers and winch themselves out of ruts.
They also traveled by foot 20 miles into the “Lost World” of Maliau Basin, where they worked 23 hours straight to build a two-story, six-room facility for research and conservation teams interested in preserving the jungle.
June 3, 1993
Alex Rodriguez, a 17-year-old shortstop from Westminster Christian High School in Miami, was taken by the Seattle Mariners with the first pick in baseball’s amateur draft today
Rodriguez hit .505 with nine homers and had 35 stolen bases this season. He has signed a letter of intent with the University of Miami, but most baseball people suspect he will turn pro.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
