75 years ago

October 30, 1943

• The board of directors of the Teen Age Canteen association today decided definitely upon the old Western Auto Supply building at Market street and Broadway as a site for the local youth recreation program, contingent upon making arrangements with the owner of the building.

The building will easily accommodate from 400 to 500 youngsters. Already equipped with heating and lighting facilities, it will be necessary, however, to install plumbing and do some redecorating.

• Aberdeen’s First Methodist church, established in the early pioneer days of Aberdeen, grew with the community to where it now has one of the largest congregations and one of the city’s outstanding edifices. The church is located at Second and I streets.

The church next Wednesday will mark its 60th anniversary with a banquet. Governor Arthur B. Langlie will be the speaker.

October 31, 1943

Sunday, no newspaper published

50 years ago

October 30, 1968

Now playing at the D and R theater in Aberdeen”Salt & Pepper” starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford plus the co-hit “Track of Thunder.” Two great James Bond movies starring Sean Connerty are playing at the Aberdeen theater, “Thunderball” and “From Russia with Love.”

October 31, 1968

The smoke you see coming from the stack at the Evans Products Aberdeen Plywood plant results from the company starting up its drying facilities there for the first time since April while the company converts and expands drying facilities at its Harbor plant.

Fred Mills, industrial manger for Evans, said 35 men have been hired by Evans to man the dryers and power plant at the Aberdeen plant, meaning a payroll boost of about $100,000 months to the Harbor.

The company plans to spend another $100,000 to convert its Harbor plant dryers to gas heat, install fans and to install another dryer at that plant.

25 years ago

October 30, 1993

Rural Raymond resident Kenneth Hurley has never taken an art class, but that hasn’t stopped him from rounding up ribbons in art shows featuring western paintings.

His originals now sell for $500 to $2,500 and prints for $150.

Hurley, 50, first began painting when he was hurt in a logging accident.”I didn’t want to go on welfare,” he said. So he started working as a part-time bartender at South Bend’s Chester Tavern and painting in his spare time. His biggest break came in 1989 when a Portland television show featured him in a half-hour broadcast.

The rafters in his house are crammed with everything imaginable. Old saddles hang next to the upper body of a stuffed bear in a threatening pose. Mounted on the walls are stuffed elk, deer, bison and owls.

There are the remains of a giant wasps’ nest, a skin from a coyote and two buffalo robes. There’s even a worn, wooden oxen yoke leaning against a wall.

October 31, 1993

The selling of Grays Harbor is a full time job.

Roger Nelson, General Manager and General Sales Manager for radio stations KXRO-KDUX, made that his message to nearly 100 people at Saturday’s Community Congress at Montesano.

While Grays Harbor has an image problem that “no amount of advertising can overcome,” he said, Nelson challenged the Harborites to accentuate the positive aspects of living here and emphasize the good things that have occurred during the last year: Grays Harbor Paper; three cruise ships now stopping here; less fish, but we do have whale watching; Wal-Mart, “now there’s a company with a vision;” K-mart, doubling in size; Fandrich Piano; Shaw Boats; and Briggs Nursery relocating its headquarters from Thurston to Grays Harbor county.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom