75 years ago
September 18, 1943
Basil “Red” McMinds, former Grays Harbor logger who joined the Boeing Aircraft company staff in 1939, has been promoted to superintendent of Boeing’s plant No. 3 at Vancouver, Wash., friends have learned today.
McMinds’ rise is considered spectacular by aircraft company officials.
In 1939 he joined Boeing’s Seattle staff as a fuselage cleaner and by 1941 was shop foreman. By intensive night school work and moving from department to department he learned the elements of aeronautical engineering, company officials said.
September 19, 1943
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
September 18, 1968
Aberdeen which has been without a full-fledged bookshop for more than a decade, will see two stores opening this week to cater to the tastes of its literary set.
Eaton’s Book Store opened Tuesday at 117 E. Heron. It’s proprietor is a bearded Lamb-Grays Harbor employe collector of old comic books, magazines and other materials.
Opening Friday in the 300 block of East Wishkah Street is the Book Carnival, operated by Mike Timmons, Terry McGuire and Donald Middleton.
The last entry under booksellers in the city directory was the George Wolff Book Shop in the old Wolff Department Store at Broadway and Wishkah Street, now the site of a Pay N Save store.
September 19, 1968
A 130-unit home for senior citizens with limited incomes will soon rise on the Dr. Richard Kegel property near St. Joseph Hospital and is scheduled for completion in early 1970 at a cost of $1,750,000.
The five-story L-shaped building will be built by the Housing Authority of Grays Harbor County, John Gillespie, executive director of the agency, said.
The complex will be a much-needed facility for the Harbor’s elderly, Gillespie said. He cited a recent survey which indicated that 1,000 Harbor senior citizens are living on small pensions. Occupancy will be limited to single people with incomes of $3,300 or less and to couples with a combined income of not more than $3,800. The Housing Authority has received 200 inquiries so far.
25 years ago
September 18, 1993
What’s in a name? Ask Johnathan and Christina To.
They sought the advice of a psychic in China before renaming the Cantonese-Mandarin restaurant formerly owned by her parents.
Using the couple’s birthdates for guidance the psychic said the came should be water, Christina said.
Thus, the couple recently celebrated the grand opening of the “Ocean Palace.” They revised the menu and remodeled the interior.
The remodeling cost about $20,000. “I used to work seven days a week, Mrs. To said. “Now I have to work eight (to pay for the remodeling bills),” she said laughing.
“(Johnathan) is in charge (in the kitchen), I’m in charge in the front,” Mrs. To says.
And their 4-year-old daughter, Katrina, greets customers and occasionally joins them at their table to chat and charm. “She wants to take over my job soon,” her mother says.
September 19, 1993
Aberdeen took first, third and fourth in the 10-mile high school co-ed relay and Bobcat assistant cross country coach Steve Reed won the 5-kilometer race in the Cook’s hill Road Run Saturday in Centralia.
Reed sprinted away from the field to win the 5K race by half a mile in 15 minutes, 57 seconds.
Running one-mile legs for the winning Bobcats were Brad Foster, Tyson Maynard, Dennis Nelson, Peter Van Volkinburg, Chris Womer, Kerri Brannock, Tollie Murphy, Elizabeth Nelson, Stephanie Pellegrini and Elizabeth Rupe.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
