75 years ago

April 8, 1944

Churches have arranged special services with special music and sermons to celebrate Easter. After the services families will join to partake of specially prepared breakfasts and dinners.

Prayers will be offered for an early end of the war and the return of loved ones on the far-flung battle fields.

In addition to services in individual churches, Ministerial associations in Aberdeen and Hoquiam have arranged union Easter Sunrise programs out-of-doors at 6:30 o’clock, weather permitting. Aberdeen people will assemble at Samuel Benn park and the Hoquiam service is scheduled on the hillside adjacent to Sunset Memorial park.

50 years ago

April 8, 1969

The Westport Town Council last night passed two long-anticipated and controversial ordinances in preparation for the summer tourist season.

First was an ordinance making it unlawful for persons to occupy for sleeping or any living purposes any house trailer, sports trailer or camper unit on public streets or public parking lots. However, the ordinance was modified by a provision that there shall be no penalty for occupancy of such a unit from midnight to 6 p.m. on the first day of arrival, thus permitting one-day stays for late-arriving fishermen.

The second ordinance prohibits cleaning of fish or dumping of any fish offal or other refuse into the fishing basin at any time, in accordance with recommendations by the State Pollution Control Commission.

25 years ago

April 8, 1994

The body of a young, white male in his 20s — believed to be Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain — who grew up in Aberdeen — was found with a shotgun wound to the head at the rock star’s Seattle home today.

Cobain’s mother, Wendy O’Connor, of Aberdeen, was devastated by the news.

“I’ll never hold him again,” she sobbed. “I don’t know what to do, I don’t know where to go,” she said surrounded by friends and family in the home where she raised her son.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom