75 years ago
October 22, 1944
Sunday, no newspaper published
October 23, 1944
The Lamb-Grays Harbor company has been awarded a $750,000 ordnance contract, Frank H. Lamb, president, said today. Two hundred more workers will be required, he said.
(Just a week ago the Boeing Aircraft company announced the expansion of the Hoquiam plant with 400 additional workers being sought.)
The Lamb-Grays Harbor company, which has been almost 100 percent on war work since the start of hostilities, is making drive shafts for Liberty ships and aircraft carriers, and land mines for the army. Under the new contract they will make boosters for shells, with hundreds of the bronze parts being made in the Lamb shops.
50 years ago
October 22, 1969
A 25-mile stretch of popular Pacific Ocean beach, closed to the public by the Quinault Tribe in August, still remains off-limits to non-Indians.
State Parks Director Charles Odegaard said Tuesday several meetings have taken place among the tribe and state officials in an effort to resume public access to the beach.
The closure was ordered by Chief James Jackson, who cited excess littering and abuse by the public. Tourists, he said, were responsible for thefts of Indian fishing nets drying on the beach, removal of large quantities of driftwood and defacing legendary rocks.
Joe de La Cruz, business agent for the Quinaults, said “preliminary discussion among tribal members indicate we may decide to charge fees for the use of the beaches with the money paying for the cleanup costs.”
October 23, 1969
Because somebody stuck in an extra water meter 14 years ago, Aberdeen has been charging Western Lumber Co. double what it should have for water.
Robert Salmon, water superintendent, said the extra meter was discovered after the mill shut down last summer and a water leak was suspected. Workmen dug up pipes and the extra meter found.
The city council approved refund of $3,435.39 to the company for the last three years’ overpayment; three years is the statute of limitations for a suit on the matter.
25 years ago
October 22, 1994
Just because George DeBard sold his Aberdeen Ford franchise doesn’t mean he drove away from the car business.
Instead, DeBard renamed his business, moved to Hoquiam and opened DeBard Auto Mart Friday. He will sell late-model used cars and rent cars, trucks and vans.
The Auto Mart will also have a service department. DeBard brought with him Jon Lewis, who was service manager at Harbor Ford for 20 years.
His sons, parts manager David DeBard, and sales manager Gary DeBard, also made the move.
October 23, 1994
Jaime Jamtaas was a college graduate, a former accountant and Aberdeen firefighter, who realized one day a few years ago he couldn’t say the alphabet.
A brain aneurysm in 1990 wiped out his knowledge of even the most basic skills. As Jamtaas recovered physically and reclaimed the use of the right side of his body, he wanted to start using his mind as well.
Jamtaas, 41, contacted the Adult Basic Education program at Grays Harbor College, which helped arrange at-home tutors.
He is one of thousands of students who have participated in the program designed to help people learn the basics in college or on the job.
With his tutor, Jamtaas studied four hours a day, five days a week, for two and a half years to get ready to go to classes on campus. He needed to be able to read at least at the fifth-grade level to enroll in basic skills classes.
Jamtaas took the evaluation tests last spring and scored at the ninth-grade reading level and seventh-trade math level.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
