75 years ago
January 8, 1944
Aberdeen high school’s Bobcat quintet opened the 1944 Southwest Washington, northern division, season by trouncing a green and hopelessly outclassed Shelton team 58 to 9 while the “B” cagers routed the Shelton seconds 72 to 8.
“it was no basketball game at all,” Coach Dan Shovlin said. “In fact, the team picked up so many bad habits it will take a week to get the players back on pitch.”
The Shelton cagers were charged with 20 fouls.
January 9, 1944
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
January 8, 1969
A light Cessna plane from North Bend, Ore., carrying a patient in a stretcher narrowly missed crashing in McCleary early this morning.
Bill Franklin, McCleary Police Chief, reported witnesses told him the plane was barely clearing the housetops shortly after 7 a.m. Bill Breezley, an employe of the Department of Institutions in Shelton and a McCleary resident, told Franklin that he and his wife heard the plane fly over, shaking the house as it went by.
Wind from the plane knocked their TV antenna to the ground. The FAA at Bowerman Field said the plane operator backtracked from McCleary because it was so dark he couldn’t see. After filing a new flight plan, he resumed his flight to Seattle.
January 9, 1969
• Simpson Timber Company’s Camp Grisdale was the wettest spot in the continental United States in 1968. That was the unofficial verdict from the U.S. Weather Bureau in Seattle this week when they received word of the 190.2 inches of precipitation record reported from Grisdale.
• The North River School District canceled classes today after a slide toppled six trees across the road between Vesta and Artic. School officials feared that the school bus would be unable to get through, but work-bound loggers apparently cleared the road for one-way traffic.
25 years ago
January 8, 1994
For PUD commissioners Ed Schumacher and Tom Casey, the news that The Washington Public Power Supply System is picking Hanford instead of Satsop for a plutonium incinerator plant is just great.
“We have much better plans for the (Satsop) site,” Casey said Friday. He added, “I was never concerned that it was going to happen anyway. I don’t think it’s anything that anybody could have realistically planned a future for.”
January 9, 1994
Ask them why they did it and the 17 people who took part in the first-ever Penguin Plunge into the Pacific will say it was great fun.
In fact, some are already planning to do it again next year.
Newly elected Westport, Councilman Don Woodside said he had to do it again.
His headfirst jump into the ocean, the only one attempted by participants, earned him the Penguid Plunger award — a plastic tube with — yes, you guessed it — a miniature toilet plunger at one end.
Woodside will get his chance to defend his title, the organizaing committee of Gary Fritts, Dee Arnold and Sandi Mullins said, adding that there’s no question about whether there will be another one.
Grayland’s event, sponsored by the Twin Harbors Beach Association, attracted some 60 spectators who watched from the relative comfort of their cars off the Grayland Beach Access Road.
Aggressiveness at both ends of the court and a keen eye for the hoop could be partially credited for the Grays Harbor College Chokers men’s win over Pierce College, 96-81.
Leading by as many as 21 at one point in the second half, five Chokers scored in double figures, as Grays Harbor shot an impressive 49 percent from the field.
Doug Farmer led the Chokers with 24, followed by Jim Britt’s 17 points and Ryan Watkins’ 15 (including four treys.)
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
