75 years ago

June 26, 1943

If you happen to be on the beach this summer along the Pacific coast and if you hear some 200-pound overgrown male heavyweight yell for help, and if you see some tiny girl dive into the surf and paddle out to save the guy — well, don’t worry, for it’s all part of the gal’s job.

In big towns and little ones up and down the coast this summer, many of the “big” suntanned lifeguards on whom swimmers will be depending will be wearing red toe nail polish and bathing caps to keep their curls dry. The gals, muscled female lifeguards, may not be just the girls you’d like to sit on the sofa with, for, you see, they know how to get out of clinches, and how to swing a mean right hook when a fellow loses his head.

June 27, 1943

Sunday, no newspaper published

50 years ago

June 26, 1968

• Clarence V. Kilwien, has been appointed to the Aberdeen Fire Department to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Ralph Holm, Zane Mitchell, fire chief, said today.

Married and the father of two, Kilwien worked at Evans Aberdeen Plywood until the recent cutback and worked as a service station attendant until the appointment.

• Gary Frey an unofficial member of the Grays Harbor College football staff for the past two autumns, will become a full-time assistant this fall.

Appointment of Frey, whose GHC wrestling teams have won state Junior College championships the past two seasons, was announced yesterday by head grid coach Leo (Bud) Hake.

Frey, noted for his aggressive recruiting, will work with the defensive ends.

June 27, 1968

A 300-pound owl cast by internationally famed sculptor Beniamino Bufano will grace the entryway of the Aberdeen Public Library, beginning Wednesday afternoon.

The three-foot statue is being donated to the library by the Grays Harbor Friends of the Library and will be unveiled in the library foyer Wednesday afternoon, with Bufano attending the ceremony.

The bronze owl will be the only piece of Bufano’s work in the Pacific Northwest. Its establishment here is expected to cause considerable stir in the art world, for Bufano sculptures generally appear only in the larger cities and art centers.

25 years ago

June 26, 1993

Dick Moulton, who for nearly 25 years wrote agriculture columns in The Daily World and East County News, is retiring at the end of the month as Grays Harbor county extension agent.

Moulton said recent government cutbacks have threatened the jobs of junior extension employees. In a way his stepping aside is tilted with altruism.

“I see my friends, who aren’t eligible for retirement, losing their jobs,” he explained. “If I retire, someone else may not lose their job. It just seems the right thing to do.”

June 27, 1993

Aberdonians Susan Lynn Wallace and Stephen John Solan are engaged and planning a summer wedding.

The future bride, daughter of George and Nancy Wallace of Oklahoma City, Okla., is a graduate of Pepperdine University Law School at Malibu, Calif., and Newcomb College of Tulane University at New Orleans. She is an attorney.

The intended groom is the son of James and Margaret Solan of Aberdeen. He graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law and the University of Washington. He also is an attorney.

The couple will be married Saturday, July 31, at Seattle.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom