75 years ago
June 3, 1944
Sam Hallett, 26, who left here with the Grays Harbor naval reserve in 1941, recently was promoted to gunner’s mate first class, while his brother, Clyde, gunner’s mate second class, who was married April 28, will mark his 23rd birthday June 12 and will complete his second year in the service.
Sam, who worked at the Harbor Plywood plant, has a wife Margie, and son, Sam Jr. in Aberdeen. The servicemen attended schools in Aberdeen and Hoquiam.
50 years ago
June 3, 1969
Jess Caswell, a professional hunter, is home from a South Bend hospital, with 53 stitches closing the wounds he suffered last weekend when he was clawed and mauled by a wounded black bear in the hills east of Grayland.
He won the fight, though the bear is dead, after Caswell had fired at least five shots into it and finally, beat it over the head with his rifle butt before the animal succumbed.
Caswell, 27, is from California and was hired by Jim Bushell, long-time Grayland bear hunter, to help him take hunters out after black bear in the timber country near Grayland. Caswell was alone when he treed a bear and shot it. The bear hit the ground fighting mad and charged Caswell.
By the time the bear finally died, Caswell had been severely clawed on both legs, the left hand, chest and back. He was found by Bushell about an hour later, lost and in a dazed condition.
25 years ago
June 3, 1994
Students at Stevens Elementary School learned their lessons well when it comes to reporting fires.
Their quick thinking clearly stopped a fire from spreading through the home of a classmate.
During afternoon recess yesterday, fifth-grader Robert Cabe spotted smoke and flames on the roof of the house on East Cushing.
Robert, who is on crutches in the wake of a baseball injury, summoned three other students — Kathy Sherman, Robert Yucha and Tyson Dunlap. They ran to Steve Karr, the fourth grade teacher. Moments later, Karr had carried a 4-year-old out of the home and helped put out the blaze.
“If it hadn’t been recess, who knows what would have happened,” said Myrna Tresenriter, who owns the home with her husband, Bryon.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
