75 years ago
March 8, 1943
• The war department today made public the names of 1,252 American soldiers held prisoners of war by the Japanese in the Philippine Islands.
The list included Master Sergeant Frank Marrs of Aberdeen and Master Sergeant Lemuel Williamson of South Bend.
• Glenn Scott of Route 3, Hoquiam, recently was promoted to sergeant in the army engineer corps. He is now in the North Africa campaign. He will be 22 years old in April.
Scott graduated from Moclips high school in 1938 and attended one year at Washington State College before enlisting 26 months ago.
March 9, 1943
One of the nation’s greatest inter-sectional football rivalries became a war casualty today when cancellation of the Notre Dame and University of Southern California game for 1943 was announced.
The game was scheduled to be played Nov. 20 at South Bend, Ind. Transportation problems resulting from wartime conditions, made cancellation of the game necessary. Two days ago the Notre Dame-Stanford game scheduled for this fall at Palo Alto, Calif. was cancelled.
50 years ago
March 8, 1968
The first birthday celebration ever held in Aberdeen’s six-month-old city hall building took place last night and the guest of honor was City Engineer R.V. (Rudy) Anderson.
“I think very few of us realize how hard Rudy Anderson works,” said master of ceremonies Elmer Hornsby who is the chairman of the city council’s engineering committee.
“You’ll notice there are three candles on the cake,” Hornsby said as he carried the cake around to the front table where Anderson sat. “One for every 13 years of his life. We hope he has enough wind left to blow the candles out,” he continued, drawing a few laughs.
Anderson, tickled with the whole idea emitted a half-laugh-half-birthday extinguishing breath and managed to subdue just one candle. He then extinguished the rest by hand. By this time the council and audience was in stitches of laughter.
“It’s strictly a matter of engineering, Rudy,” said Hornsby innocently.
March 9, 1968
• Two youths rolling marijuana cigarettes at the old Swano gravel pit in South Aberdeen were arrested Friday night by Aberdeen Police Capt. John Bebich, who, acting on a tip, had been observing them from behind a stump.
Bebich approached their car, opened the door and found one cigarette containing vegetable material suspected to be marijuana and a plastic “baggie,” in which “lids” of marijuana are commonly sold. Bebich said he would go to Seattle Monday to have the material analyzed in the police department’s laboratory.
• A variety of subjects will be offered beginning March 18 as the Hoquiam School District begins its third 10-week session of adult education classes.
Scheduled classes include swimming, beginning and intermediate typing, intermediate shorthand, intermediate bookkeeping, conversational Spanish, modern math, conversational German and upholstering.
25 years ago
March 8, 1993
Aberdeen is getting the shaft. But that’s good news.
Installation of an elevator at the former armory on East Third Street is on schedule as work proceeds on the $800,000 project to bring the 1920s-era building into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Coastal Community Action Program as well as the Senior Center and the Aberdeen Museum of History are housed in the building.
March 9, 1993
South Bend tied or broke three foul shooting records at the state class B girls’ basketball tournament last week at Spokane.
Andrea Klein established a new tournament free throw percentage record of 92 percent by hitting 12 of 13. South Bend’s team foul shooting percentage of 70 percent (59 of 84) was also a tourney record.
The Indians tied the mark for the most free throws made. They placed fifth at state.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
