75 years ago
May 30, 1944
Youth delinquency is on the increase because most people in most communities are neither interested nor care, George Fahey, chief state probation officer, declared yesterday at the Aberdeen Lions club luncheon meeting.
Too often, Mr. Fahey pointed out, law enforcement officials and private citizens choose the easiest way out and use snap judgment in sending youngsters to the state reformatories.
The war has proven that many of the delinquents who were not “worth 10 cents several years ago” are making names for themselves in the armed forces in the service of their country, he said.
May 31, 1944
Mill whistles blew on Grays Harbor this morning for the first time since last Wednesday when some 2,000 workers walked out of 12 major plants here, causing a production loss of thousands of board feet of lumber to fill war orders.
Three mills — Schafer Brothers Lumber and Shingle company, Aberdeen, Anderson & Middleton Lumber company, Aberdeen, and Grays Harbor Lumber company, Hoquiam — resumed operations at 8 o’clock this morning following an AFL return-to-work vote decision yesterday, and 530 workers were reported on their jobs.
50 years ago
May 30, 1969
Robert E. Bush, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism performed when he was only 17, will be the commencement speaker when 65 Ocosta High School seniors receive their diplomas Monday night at 8 o’clock in the school gymnasium.
Bush, founder and president of Bayview Lumber Co., was a medical corpsman attached to a Marine Corps in the Pacific during World War II. He became the youngest man ever to receive the Medal of Honor after aiding wounded comrades without regard for his safety during a battle engagement in May, 1945, defending against Japanese soldiers a wounded man to whom he was administering plasma, and refusing medical attention for his own serious wounds (he lost an eye in the battle) until he had attended to other wounded.
May 31, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
May 30, 1994
In a year that has seen the Hoquiam High School Band march back to excellence, junior drum major Guy Donaldson won the biggest bouquet at the Rhododendron Festival Parade at Port Townsend May 21.
With Donaldson directing the 60-member band along the jam-packed, mile-long route, the Grizzly band placed second among about 20 competitors.
Donaldson won raves from the judges and topped the drum major competition on the strength of a “synchronized, high-step strut to the drum cadence,” according to HHS band director Roger White.
While unassuming out of uniform, it’s Donaldson’s pomp and confidence that make him a winner in the eyes of the judges and the crowds.
“He is a little bit flamboyant. He likes to show his stuff,” White said about Donaldson.
May 31, 1994
• All those who have been associated with Camp Bishop as camper, volunteer, worker, director or interested persons are invited to an Open House Sunday to commemorate the camp’s 40th anniversary. The informal celebration will be from noon to 5 p.m. with a cake cutting set about 2 p.m.
• After 20 years of planning and a couple of literal wash-outs, Highland Golf Course owner Mike Strada may have wondered in tomorrow would ever come.
But Highland becomes an 18-hole course Wednesday with the opening of a long-anticipated new nine at the 65-year-old Cosmopolis links.
“We’re a long ways away from being finished, but we’re going to go ahead and open it anyway,” said Strada. The new holes, which will at least temporarily become the front nine, cost $500,000 to complete.
The project has been in the works since the mid-1970s when Strada began negotiations for land south of club property.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom.
