75 years ago
July 4, 1944
• The Fourth of July was no holiday for Eardley Fish company, which is at the peak of its bottom fish filleting season. A crew of 25 worked all of Sunday, late last night and today icing and filleting 163,000 pounds of fish delivered since July 1 by six boats.
• Ralph Look Sr., a boomman at Schafer mill No. 4 for the past 24 years, has three sons and a daughter serving in the armed forces.
Ralph A Look Jr., the eldest of the quartet, is a master sergeant in the army air corps somewhere in England. Next in line are Ray Look, seaman first class who is stationed in California; Merie Murphy, seaman second class who spent eight months in the Wacs and the past four in the Waves; and Robert G. Look, soundman third class, who is with a destroyer-escort.
All four attended Montesano schools.
July 5, 1944
Four days are left to buy the war bonds that will send the “Spirit of Aberdeen” against the enemies of the Allies.
Aberdeen is approximately $700,000 short of its goal of $2,500,000 for the fifth war loan drive, Roy Landberg, Aberdeen chairman, said today.
50 years ago
July 4, 1969
• David E. Bielski, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hans M. Bielski, Fern Hill, Aberdeen, is participating in a U.S. Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps field training encampment at Hamilton AFB, Calif.
Cadet Bielski, a 1966 graduate of Weatherwax High School, is a member of the AFROTC unit at Washington State University. He received an A.A. degree in 1968 from Grays Harbor Community College.
• Faced with another Saturday sandwiched between a holiday and a Sunday, five Aberdeen shoe stores are pooling their efforts in a special discount sale — to prove that if you want shoes, you can get them right in downtown Aberdeen by walking for a couple of blocks.
The five stores are Adamores, Wishkah and K, (managed by Bill Desmond); Birl Adams Footwear; Earle Morgan’s (managed by Richard Morgan); Pearson’s (shoe department managed by Martin Sealy) and Wygan’s Fashion Footerie (John Wyatt).
July 5, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
July 4, 1994
The Grays Harbor Nationals may be living on borrowed time, but they’re making the most of it.
The Nats, who narrowly avoided being dumped into the losers’ bracket in the tourney opener Saturday, sailed instead into the winners’ bracket final of the District 3 Babe Ruth-13 tourney with a 10-0 thumping of error-prone Willapa Harbor Sunday at S.A. Anderson Field in Raymond.
The Nats took the lead Sunday on a pair of runs (by Brett Caskey and Aaron Gozart) without benefit of a hit in the first inning. They led 6-0 after four innings although having just two hits — both infield blows — to that point.
Nat right-hander Dominic Barnes, backed up by errorless fielding, blanked the Willapa club over the first five innings.
July 5, 1994
Grays Harbor’s defending champs turned July 4 into a National holiday.
Aaron Gozart pitched a two-hitter as the Grays Harbor Nationals stormed into the finals of the District Three 13-year-old Babe Ruth Baseball Tournament with a 10-0 six-inning rout of Chehalis Monday night in Raymond.
The unbeaten Nats will face either Chehalis or Centralia-South Thurston in the first game of the title round tonight.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
