75 years ago
July 13, 1944
The circus is coming to town tomorrow!
And youngsters need not worry about the cost of tickets, for the Aberdeen World has arranged with the management of Clyde Beatty and Russell Bros. combines circus to sell half-price tickets at the newspaper office tomorrow morning.
The tickets will admit any youngster up to 16 years of age to the Friday afternoon performance which starts at 2:30 o’clock.
July 14, 1944
Grays Harbor’s fishing fleet soon will be off in search of albacore following delivery today at Westport of the season’s first catch. The GPA ceiling on tuna is $325 a ton.
Madius Hauskes, the only one out from Westport in search of tuna, arrived this morning with 3,300 pounds for delivery to the Fisherman’s Cooperative. The albacore, reportedly caught off the Columbia river, averaged about 15 pounds each.
50 years ago
July 13, 1969
Some 35 Boy Scouts and five adult leaders from the Twin Harbors Area Council will attend the national jamboree of the Boy Scouts at Farragut State Park, Idaho, starting Wednesday.
Maurice “Cal” Shumaker, board member, and William Hranac, scout executive, will head the local delegation to the week-long jamboree, which is expected to draw 35,000 campers from several nations.
In noting the start of the jamboree, President Nixon praised the Boy Scouts as “builders of character, builders of men and builders of American freedom.” He added that there could be no finer theme than the one selected for the event — “Building to Serve.”
July 14, 1969
With a song in his heart and the flu in his head, Brad Gill of Aberdeen recently undertook a grueling month-long “youth-to-youth ministry” tour in Alaska which took in about 50 appearance in churches, picnics, derelict relief centers and a servicemen’s retreat.
Gill, a former editor of the Weatherwax High School student newspaper, made the tour with four fellow students at the Lutheran Bible Institute which he attends in Seattle.
The former Grays Harbor College student remarked, “The only time the flu would ease was when I sang. In the evening I figured my voice was shot, and I didn’t know whether I could sing or not. But when I opened my mouth, my voice suddenly cleared up.”
25 years ago
July 13, 1994
The former Pay ‘n Pak building in Aberdeen has a new lease on life.
A flurry of work is taking place as the state Employment Security Department prepares to move into the remodeled hardware store by Aug. 1.
The new employment offices will provide the three-dozen plus employees with a modern work space, adequate parking and a lot more room — some 18,500 square feet compared to the 13,000 they used to have at their old site on Simpson Avenue.
July 14, 1994
The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary will be dedicated at a ceremony near Kalaloch Saturday. The sanctuary goes from Copalis Beach to Cape Flattery, stretching as far as 40 miles offshore to include some of the most spectacular and rugged coastline in the North Pacific. It’s a mixing zone for migrating whales, dolphins, and porpoises, and home to some of the largest colonies of birds in North America.
The Olympic Coast sanctuary is only the 14th in the federal sanctuary system managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
