75 years ago
September 25, 1943
Standing 6 feet 4½ inches in his stocking feet, Gordon Prehm, Aberdeen high school’s sky-scraper basketball center last season, was the tallest man in his Marine boot camp company at San Diego. Technically he would have been too tall for the Marines which generally limit men to 6 feet 4 inches. However, because his brother, Private First Class John Preham, already was in the Marines, the restrictions were overlooked.
About the only time Gordon wishes he wasn’t so tall is when he has to try and fit into a Pullman berth or try to get his frame into a “squirt sized” pup tent, he said today.
September 26, 1943
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
September 25, 1968
A 27-year-old ex-Iowa farm girl, a veteran of church work with drug-oriented gangs and hippies, is in Aberdeen for a two-week crusade which a local minister hopes will lead to the establishment of a teen-age coffee house modeled after the Key in Seattle.
The Rev. G.F. Henley, pastor of Aberdeen’s Open Bible church, said he invited Linda Meissner, now based in Seattle, to appear at a series of meetings.
“Aberdeen does not yet have an acute drug problem or the strong hippie influence,” the minister added, “but teens need a place to hangout.”
The Key in Seattle attracts Saturday night crowds of more than 600 including addicts, hippies, runaways and “bikers” or Hells Angel types, to its downtown location. The place has strobe, black and tripper lights, and performers sing gospel lyrics to popular tunes rendered with an accompaniment of folk instruments.
September 26, 1968
Jeff Drake, the young Harbor man who is an out-patient from the Seattle Artificial Kidney Center, will narrate a special movie about the kidney machine treatment tonight at the Hoquiam Eagles Hall.
The Eagles lodge has established a statewide program to provide kidney machines for those who need them. The lodge intends to set up a $200,000 endowment fund to help financially distressed patients anywhere in the state secure artificial kidney machines, if necessary. About 80 people in the state are now receiving the kidney machine treatment, and the University of Washington is researching kidney diseases, kidney treatment and transplants.
25 years ago
September 25, 1993
Just in time for the fall and Halloween season, Pioneer Florists, 308 W. Wishkah in Aberdeen, boasts a new face, a new greenhouse, office area, carpet and fresh paint job.
The public is invited to stop by today to see the new digs and the latest in fall decor.
Pioneer Florists, founded in 1928 by Wishkah Valley pioneer (hence the name) Mike Lentz, has had its first remodel in more than 30 years, says Gary Jones, who along with his wife, Pamela, have owned the business since 1980.
Mike Lentz founded the business at 113 W. Wishkah on Easter of 1928 and a few years later, moved it to 212 W. Market before opening the present store about 1945.
In the late ’50s, Don and Bertha Lentz and Bob and Elsa Lentz took over the family’s business and ran it until 1980 when Jones purchased it.
September 26, 1993
Sandon Stepp’s 3-yard touchdown run with about six minutes remaining gave South Bend a 14-7 victory over Oakville in a Pacific League football game Saturday night at Millam Field.
“The kids deserved it and never game up,” said first-year coach Tom Sanchez, who did bemoan his team’s penchant for turnovers.
Stepp, Andy Church, Ed Triplett and Josh Bagley were cited for defensive play.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
