75 years ago
Feb. 6, 1942
A “city” of clay, toothpicks, sponges and paint depicts the bustling mill town of Aberdeen as it looked in 1887 in a model constructed by two junior high girls, Beverley Keegan and Loreen Sanders.
The model, a project in a social studies class, represents the whole Christmas vacation to the two girls.
For blueprints, the two girls studied history of Grays Harbor and consulted with J.H. Fuller, city treasurer, pioneer resident of the city. Thus they were sure to get the mills in the right locations and the early business houses on the right street corners.
50 years ago
Feb. 6, 1967
• A young Aberdeen man, Cpl. Roger B. Tjernberg, of the U.S. Marine Corps, was killed in action Friday near Da Nang in Vietnam. He had lived his entire life in Aberdeen, graduated from Weatherwax High School in 1965 and entered the service that November.
• George N. Brannon, 42-year-old longshoreman, bled to death during the breakfast hour this morning on the kitchen floor at 1310 W. Wishkah St. in Aberdeen after having his right leg blasted by a lethal charge from a 12-gauge shotgun.
The owner of the home at that address, Juan Gutierrez, 63-year-old semi-retired railroad worker, was being held pending an investigation of the shooting.
25 years ago
Feb. 6, 1992
Delwin and Barbara Fandrich feel in tune with the Harbor. They’ve decided to locate their piano-making company at the Port of Grays Harbor in Hoquiam.
The new upright piano designed by the Fandriches is “the greatest single technological advancement in the development of the vertical piano in more than a century,” according to a trade magazine.
The Fanriches, who live in Vancouver, plan to build a piano hailed by musicians and technicians as the only upright piano that offers the qualities of a grand piano.
In a telephone interview yesterday, Mrs. Fandrich said the company hopes to be operating by month’s end. They’ve been planning this move for years and they’ve got a “big start” on their annual projection of 275 pianos a year. They expect to employ probably a dozen people the first year — and eventually up to 300.
“That is a size we don’t want to grow beyond,” she said.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
