75 years ago
August 26, 1944
The sleek 72-foot diesel yacht Junior, which the late Captain J.J. Heagerty for many years skippered on Alaska excursion cruises, this week will leave an Aberdeen dock to join the Willapa and Grays Harbor tuna fleet.
She is now owned by Nelson Brothers of Tokeland, who converted her into one of the largest tuna clippers to fish Northwest waters. The Junior and other Nelson boats will supply a large new tuna packing plant recently built at Tokeland adjacent to the firm’s crab packing operation. Equipment for the cannery, sufficient to handle 10 tons of tuna per day, will be installed in about 30 days, the owners said.
50 years ago
August 26, 1969
The word “Chokers” may be a household word already in the majority of Harbor families, but Jack Stoddard is going for the clincher.
The Grays Harbor College athletic director today announced a new “family plan” to enable entire families to attend Choker football and basketball home games without undue strain on the wallet.
Three options:
1. A $1o ticket which will admit an entire family to all four home Choker football games.
2. A $15 ticket covering the 13-game home basketball schedule.
3. A $20 ducat good for all football and basketball home tilts for the entire household.
25 years ago
August 26, 1994
The Pacific County Fair continues through Sunday at the fairgrounds in Menlo.
Midway through Thursday, young Mathew Farrell of Menlo took the championship ribbon in type judging for his 301-pound pig.
“I think she’s going to hang a trim carcass,” judge Ellen Hinderlie said of Mathew’s pig.
The pig could be forgiven for not taking that as a compliment, but Mathew stands to bring home the bacon, so to speak.
Mathew said last year he made $750 on a championship pig, but pig prices are down this year and he doesn’t expect to make as much.
As the pig showing ended, Hinderlie said she is eager to see more children in 4-H. She started raising her first 4-H sheep when she was 2. “I was from a farm family, and farm kids catch on early,” she says.
Now married with a 13-month-old son of her own, the St. Peter Hospital nurse hopes to encourage youngsters to learn leadership and poise through showing their animals.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
