75 years ago

April 22, 1944

A five-point platform pledging full support of the war effort, and an enduring peace, a return to domestic government by congress, and endorsing the administrations of Governor Arthur B. Langlie and Congressman Fred Norman, was submitted to several hundred party delegates at the Republican county convention this afternoon in Aberdeen.

“Republicans of Grays Harbor county, as do all loyal Americans, regard it as their prime duty to devote all their efforts and energy to winning the war against Germany and Japan. They place that as their first task ahead of all other considerations,” it was pledged.

50 years ago

April 22, 1969

The appropriation for construction of the Wynooche Dam has been trimmed from $5 million to a proposed $750,000 by the Nixon administration in its proposed budget for fiscal 1970, ending speculation that the project had been indefinitely postponed.

John Ulrich, technical liaison officer with the Portland office of the Army Corps of Engineers, said that with “carry-over” from fiscal ‘69, the amount, if approved, would raise available funds for ‘70 to over $1 million and permit work on the main dam to begin — “if we awarded the contract late enough in the year.”

25 years ago

April 22, 1994

Aberdeen Police Officer Scott Slyter and his rottweiler partner, J.D., are top cops at dogging criminals.

Consistently leading the department in arrests, they’ve apprehended everyone from malicious mischief makers to a loose cannon with a loaded shotgun.

Only 27, Officer Slyter is known for his uncanny knack of turning a routine traffic stop into a drug arrest.

So far this year Slyter and his canine partner have chalked up 60 felony arrests and 196 citations.

For maturity, moxie and standards of excellence that would be noticed in even metropolitan police departments, Slyter has been named The Daily World’s Police Officer of the Year. (If we had a Pooch of the Year, J.D. would win, paws down.)

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom