75 years ago
February 9, 1944
The Rayonier Inc., plant was well on its way to resuming full production today following settlement of the two-month strike last night, when a “back to work” vote was passed by members of local 3-362 IWA (CIO) meeting at Hoquiam in a four-hour session.
Pickets lines have been withdrawn from the Rayonier plant and from Grays Harbor log booms. Some mills closed by the strike-stoppage of logs, reopened today and others will be in full production by the end of the week.
The secret ballot taken at last night’s meeting was described by E.E. Benedict, international secretary of the IWA, Portland, as a “closer vote.” However, a reported unofficial vote of 157 to 47 today was said to be “substantially correct” by a local IWA representative.
February 10, 1944
First Lt. Woodson W. Losli, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Water Losli of Aberdeen, died February 5 “in the Asiatic area,” according to a telegram received by his grieving parents late yesterday from the war department.
The telegram merely announced the death, but said that a letter presumably giving the details would follow.
Lt. Losli, who was 24 years old, had been in the service for more than two years, leaving the University of Washington when he was a junior to enlist a month and a half after Pearl Harbor.
He was to have leave last August when he was to come home to marry Miss Bernice Schafer but the leave was cancelled and he was sent to India.
50 years ago
February 9, 1969
Sunday, no newspaper published
February 10, 1969
Loggers employed by ITT Rayonier and Mayr Brothers Logging returned to the woods this morning after a four-week layoff forced by heavy snow.
Other logging firms remained shut down, and one, the Hallcum Logging Co., reported that there was five feet of snow on their Clearwater operations and its loggers probably would not be back on the job until the end of the month.
25 years ago
February 9, 1994
Nearly everyone was grinning at the Courthouse last night as school officials and levy volunteers saw their hard work pay off. Of the 12 school levies on Grays Harbor ballots, all but one easily passed including Aberdeen, Hoquiam, North Beach, McCleary, Elma, Taholah, Cosmopolis, Ocosta, Oakville and two measures at Montesano.
But while the others cheered and grinned as their totals were posted, Lake Quinault Superintendent Ray Lorton’s face registered disappointment. Lake Quinault’s vote was 157 to 132 — just 54 percent voter approval. (A 60 percent approval rate is needed to pass a levy.)
Lorton and principal Al Kelling stayed at the Courthouse past 11 p.m. trying to calculate if the 29 absentee ballots could make a winning difference. But no such luck.
“We’ll just have to go back and re-evaluate and see what the board wants to do,” Lorton said, before heading to a pay phone to call his board members.
February 10, 1994
Fueled by fears of the unknown and worried about costs, the Aberdeen City Council voted 7-5 last night to rescind a resolution supporting the Isaiah Project.
The Isaiah Project is the brainchild of a private four-company consortium in the nuclear industry operating as Columbia Nuclear. They have a peacetime proposal to turn Cold War plutonium into fuel rods to be burned at the mothballed nuclear power plants at Satsop and Hanford.
Several local organizations, including Grays Harbor Economic Development Council and the Grays Harbor Labor Council, have said it warrants more study. But public reaction has been mixed.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
