75 years ago
November 26, 1943
Dick Behm, who has seen every Hoquiam-Aberdeen Thanksgiving Day football game since the first one in 1906, kept his record perfect yesterday.
Behm came in from the Queets, where he is now working for Henry Fournier, superintendent of the Dungeness Crab company canners.
“It was a great game,” said Behm, “but every Hoquiam-Aberdeen game is that kind, and no matter how far a fellow has to come to see it, he is never disappointed. I’ve seen them all for 37 years and I mean to see them for at least 37 more. Besides, the Queets of the Dungeness company had to have an official representative and I’m it.”
50 years ago
November 26, 1968
Like ghouls stealing from the dead, vandals have broken into the cabin of Lawrence E. Merchant, Moclips shake cutter, who was found shot to death on Nov. 13, and stolen or damaged most of the household goods.
Sheriff A.M. Gallagher reported the destruction yesterday following a special inspection of the cabin and the surrounding area. Some of the heavier tools possessed by Merchant still remained in the cabin, but were removed to safe keeping at the county jail in Montesano.
25 years ago
November 26, 1993
A minister’s work is done at a church — right?
And certainly not at a tavern — wrong!
Clergy have become part of the scene at a number of taverns on the Harbor — nursing soft drinks and bringing a “listening presence” to people in places few pastors ever enter.
They’re there as members of Operation Nightwatch,” a street ministry now under way in numerous American cities.
“Jesus always sought the one-on-one personal contact,” says the Rev. Randy Long, pastor of Aberdeen’s United Christian Church and a Nightwatch volunteer for almost two years.
Also part of the ministry is the Rev. Barbara Johnson of the Central Park United Methodist Church, who emphasizes that the ministers are not going into the bars for the purpose of dragging out converts. They are there, she says, to “affirm God’s love and listen.”
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
