75 years ago
December 5, 1942
If you see a girl, plus lunch pail, headed down the street toward Rayonier Incorporated, about time for the graveyard shift some dimmed-out night, don’t be surprised. Rayonier is the latest of the Harbor’s industries to hire women to replace men joining the armed forces.
Women have long been hired in the paper mill department of the plant, doing “women’s work,” but only recently have they been working on men’s jobs in the pulp mill.
“They’re doing a good job, too,” John Bagwill, Rayonier assistant manager, said today. “We have hired 45 women on men’s jobs so far and will have to hire many more.”
Bagwill pointed out that Rayonier tries to make it as pleasant as possible for women working there. They have a separate, fully equipped lunchroom with a refrigerator and electric stove, to say nothing of overstuffed furniture. There is a matron in charge, who heats soup —and in pre-rationing days coffee — just before lunch time.
December 6, 1942
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
December 5, 1967
Earl “Greasy” Neale, one of football’s all-time great coaching personalities, let out a personal secret today — the modern pro game leaves him cold.
“OK, I enjoy watching them play all right … but they block like a bunch of high school kids. They don’t have much desire. And there’s no longer any trickery or imagination in the game. Everybody plays it just alike.”
Neale, an end, quarterback and fullback at West Virginia Wesleyan, coach at little Washington and Jefferson and Yale and later the pro Philadelphia Eagles, will be inducted into football’s Hall of Fame.
December 6, 1967
Four-lane Highway 410 will move closer to completion next Wednesday as State Highways Department officials snip a ribbon to open two lanes of the new $6 and a half million, six-mile Elma-Montesano section.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at the intersection of Highway 410 and Schouweiler Road, where the to-be-opened section meets the four-lane stretch now being used.
25 years ago
December 5, 1992
Don’t talk about a depressed economy around Ray Damitio or Don Preston. They’ll hear nothing of it.
Since they bought Duane Dewees Inc. in Aberdeen 14 months ago, the auto dealership has chalked up $10 million in sales and added six employees.
Now they are embarking on a new voyage: yachts.
They are moving their yacht building enterprise to the Harbor and have contracted with Shaw Boats Inc., owned by John Shaw and Dick Houghton of Aberdeen, to do their building.
“Our projection is to eventually have a yacht move out of here every two months,” said Preston.
“We would love that,” said Houghton. “That would keep 32 people working here for a year.”
December 6, 1992
• Felicity, Kirsten, Samantha, Molly and about 60 of their closest friends got together over some cookies and hot cocoa at the Aberdeen Library Saturday afternoon to make rose sachets.
If you have never heard of the aforementioned feminine quartet, ask just about any elementary-age girl.
They are $82 dolls that come complete with a full line of accessories that would make Barbie blush and a marketing pro dance a jig.
And they have lots of fans. The Aberdeen Library hosted two “American Doll” parties last week. Some 130 girls and their parents participated in the first session and about 60 more on Saturday.
“It was jammed,” Joanne Riley, children’s librarian said. “I was astonished.”
• For $20 party organizers, restaurant owners and anyone else looking for some holiday cheer can get about an hour’s worth of holiday singing from at least a dozen members of the Ocosta Junior/Senior High School choir.
The rent-a-choir program will help pay for a trip to Canada. They need $4,000 to take the 24 members to British Columbia some time in the spring.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
