75 years ago
July 25, 1944
A foxhole isn’t very big, but it comes in handy when eight inch shells are whistling overhead, said Marine Pfc. Jack Jasper, veteran of the Saipan battle, in a letter to his parents.
He described the (enemy) as “intent on getting you. They seem to be immune to lead,” he said.
Jasper, who was with the 2nd Marine division, suffered two saber wounds, one on the head and the other on his shoulder.
“I’m okay, Mom, and pretty lucky,” he wrote. His mother has received the Purple Heart awarded him for his wounds.
He mentioned three units of blood plasma he had been given and the good treatment he had received from the Red Cross.
Besides Jack, the Jaspers have another son, Irwin, at Camp Rucker, Alabama, with an engineers unit, and Ronald, who will soon leave for Army Air corps training.
July 26, 1944
This story starts about three months ago with a fawn. She had strayed from her mother, and suffered the consequences, dropping 75 feet to the bottom of a rocky creek bed and being knocked unconscious.
Howard Sackett, Schafer Brothers Olympic logging camp foreman, came across the injured and dazed fawn lying helpless. He brought her back to the camp and turned her over to Jim Devine, the camp cook.
The moment the loggers came in from the woods that evening, they took a liking to “Bambi” — in fact they “fell in love” with her.
Now, between the time the lumberjacks put away their breakfast, put in their shifts and then come in for supper, Bambi and Devine are inseparable. She follows him all around camp, and whenever he sits down to peel potatoes or what not, she nibbles on the lobes of his ears.
Devine is teaching her to answer the same thing that brings the lumberjacks scurrying to the mess hall — and that is the famous ol’ dinner bell.
50 years ago
July 25, 1969
A nuclear power primer was presented to a large group of influential Harborites yesterday by a panel of Ph.D’s summoned by the PUD to boost the proposed $250 million atomic installation at Roosevelt Beach.
Three things were emphasized at the special chamber of commerce luncheon:
1. Nuclear plants are a source of electric power that is both economical and dependable.
2. Their construction is always proceeded by extensive scientific studies to determine what effect they might have on every facet of the local environment, including marine life.
3. Nuclear power plants are safe.
July 26, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
July 25, 1994
Retired Daily World sportswriter Ray Ryan took home three gold medals from the U.S.A. Track and Field Northwest Regional Championships Saturday and Sunday at Lincoln Bowl.
Competing in the 65-69 age division, Ryan won the long jump at 2.62 meters, the triple jump at 5.96 meters and the 200 meter run in 49.55.
July 26, 1994
As a young girl in Russia, Katerina Drozdova saw America as the land of opportunity.
She was right.
This fall she will enter Stanford University on a full scholarship.
“America offers a lot of opportunities that would not have been available to me at home,” said Drozdova, who came to Wishkah High School as an exchange student 2½ years ago.
Drozdova, who speaks perfect English, and seems mature beyond her 18 years, was the top student in her Grays Harbor College class when she graduated in June. She had planned to attend the University of Washington.
Then came the call from Stanford. University officials said they had a spot for her and would finance the completion of her degree over the next two years.
Drozodova, who is living with retired GHC instructor John Smith and his wife, Joyce, immediately called her family in Moscow with the news. “We were jumping up and down with joy,” John Smith said. “Pretty soon we could hear them jumping, too.”
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
