75 years ago

September 24, 1944

Sunday, no newspaper published

September 25, 1944

Charles Swanson, pioneer Hoquiam hotelman, has purchased the 100-room Hotel Emerson from F.G. Foster and has sold his Simpson avenue hotel to Mrs. Minnie Barnard, operator of the Queets hotel in Aberdeen, since 1926.

Built originally by the community for approximately $350,000, F.G. Foster acquired the hotel during the depression years.

The 45-room Simpson hotel will be managed by Mrs. Barnard and her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Nelson, whose husband is overseas.

September 26, 1944

Directors of the Aberdeen Lions Club last night approved a $100 donation to James J. Sexton post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, to help finance sending of Christmas boxes to all Aberdeen men and women in the armed forces. The club has 17 of its members in service.

September 27, 1944

• To alleviate Grays Harbor’s very definite manpower shortage in war industries, a plan to establish day care and nursery schools for youngsters up to the age of five years at local schools so that mothers can be freed for war work is being studied by Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Employment Service.

Women interested in war work were urged to immediately supply either the Aberdeen or Hoquiam Chamber by phone or mail with their names and addresses, number and age of children who would require care during working hours.

• A gathering of 228 members and wives attended the initial dinner meeting of the Knife & Fork club at Hotel Morck last night to hear John Temple Graves II, newspaperman and economist, discuss free enterprise. Members of the club are from Aberdeen, Hoquiam, Montesano and Elma.

50 years ago

September 24, 1969

None but approving opinions of establishing ferry service across the mouth of Grays Harbor were expressed in Ocean Shores yesterday at the first legislative hearing on the project conducted by the State subcommittee on Puget Sound Transporation and Toll Financing.

“Your unanimity is refreshing,” said Senator Gordon Walgren of Bremerton, chairman, after hearing several speakers endorse the proposed ferry service between Ocean Shores and Westport. He invited comments from person opposing the service and received no response.

“We will note the accord expressed here and will certainly consider it and do what we can within the limits of funds available,” he said.

George Black, operator of a Westport charter boat service said “I can speak for about 300 charter boat men and we see nothing but benefit to the people of the South and North beaches in a ferry service. Presently it is a one and a half hour drive from Westport to Ocean Shores. It could be 15 minutes on a ferry.”

September 25, 1969

Aberdeen city fathers last night set Oct. 8 as the date of hearing on a proposal to widen Wishkah and Heron streets from 48 feet to 60 feet from the Wishkah River to L Street by reducing the with of abutting sidewalks by six feet.

And at the same time heard a report from the Aberdeen Retail Trade Board, reiterating that “most of the retailers in downtown Aberdeen feel that wide sidewalks are a plus factor in a shopping area, and that downtown Aberdeen should retain every plus factor possible.”

September 26, 1969

James Jackson, president of the Quinault Tribal Council and The Daily World Man of the Year, will be given national recognition tomorrow.

Jackson, winner of the national Indian Achievement Award sponsored by the Indian Council Fire, will be presented at a testimonial dinner to be served at the Holiday Inn in Chicago. He was nominated for the national honor by The Daily World. He is the first Quinault to receive the coveted award.

Nationally, Jackson is being honored for the same achievements that gained him The Daily World Man of the Year Award, notably his outstanding work in behalf of conservation, education, self-help housing, public health and the preservation of the rights of his people.

September 27, 1969

Saturday, no newspaper published

25 years ago

September 24, 1994

Soda jerks will be looking to the formularies to shake a crowd of patch, and the Thirteen plans to burn a few for the customers.

If that sentence made no sense to you, you probably haven’t been around long enough to remember America’s love affair with ice cream parlors and drugstore soda fountains.

Don’t worry. Fred Holmeide is bringing that old romance to new generations. Holmeide, 42, is opening a new ice cream shop and soda fountain — The Golden Eagle, along Highway 12 in downtown Oakville.

Customers will be able to choose from literally hundreds of different flavors of carbonated sodas, syrups and ice cream, from “green rivers” to “brown cows” to “turtle sundaes.”

They’ll also have a choice of about a dozen deli sandwiches, plus a variety of soups and salads.

September 25, 1994

Jaunty Shirley Temple, sporting a sailor suit, stands out from a cluster of pretty girls in delicate dresses. Even in doll form, the child matinee star is different from the rest.

The vintage dolls sold by Donna Hardey of Des Moines, Wa., were a veritable history lesson at The Doll, Bear and Antique Toy Show & Sale, that concluded Saturday at the Ocean Shores Convention Center.

“It’s been a really good turnout for a first-year show,” said Suzanne Morris of Hoquiam, who organized the event with fellow Hoquiamite Donna Faivre-Roberts. “We’ll be back next year, that’s for sure.”

Two local doll collectors, Georgine Osborn and Phyllis Kulich, both of Aberdeen, heartily endorsed the fledgling show.

“I think it’s fantastic,” Kulich said. “I’m very impressed.”

September 26, 1994

A major remodel — $866,000 — has transformed the Hillier Union Building at Grays Harbor College into a real hub of activity.

Fall quarter at GHC began today, with some 2,000 students expected.

The remodel, paid for by the state, bookstore profits and student government funds, has added 4,500 square feet to the building. It doubled the size of the bookstore and combined all student services under one roof.

“We’re really giving the HUB back to the students,” said Jack Dutro, vice president for Student Services. “It’s a way we can keep students here a little more of their day and kind of attach them to us.”

September 27, 1994

With the sun high in a brilliant blue sky, a growling bulldozer pushing yet another mound of gray sand against a 30-foot-high bank looks like progress at Westhaven State Park in Westport.

But Westport officials doubt the project to place 800,000 cubic yards of sand into the ever-widening channel between the South Jetty and the park will be the final fix.

Westport Public Works Director Fred Chapman believes the $3.7 million project, which began two weeks ago, is only a temporary solution — one that could succumb to the ruthless will of Mother Nature.

“That 800,000 has a very low probability of surviving, if we have a critical winter storm — like a 10- or 15-year event,” said Chapman,” it will probably blow out.”

Two years ago, in just 30 minutes, one stormy winter morning, ferocious waves carved a 50-foot-wide and 10-foot-deep channel between the toe of the park and the jetty.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom