75 years ago
November 19, 1944
A girl progressing through Wishkah School from the seventh grade to the end of her senior year is able to receive a well-grounded home economics education if she takes the subjects offered in that field.
In the first two years she learns to sew and knit and studies nutrition and health. As she advances these subjects develop into tailoring, cooking, grooming, clothing selection and social development.
By the time she is in advanced home economics she is studying family living, marriage, consumer education, interior design and child care. This helps to prepare for her role as a future homemaker.
November 20, 1944
Launching their marine powered 36-foot boat Sunday morning, Sea Scouts of Ship No. 1, Aberdeen, cruised to the Westport fish base in just over an hour.
Pulling out for Lone Tree, the Scouts prepared their own dinners enroute, while Skipper W. E. Williams and Mate Alvin Boster gave instructions in semaphore (wig-wag) and Morse code signalling, and explained fundamental principles of dead reckoning and navigation.
Ship No. 1 meets every Monday night at the Aberdeen Savings & Loan building, the skipper explained. “We are looking for more members,” he said, boys 15 to 18 years who are interested in Scouting, seamanship, service and social activities.
50 years ago
November 19, 1969
Normally, the highest award a mayor can bestow is the symbolic presentation of the keys to the city.
But Mayor Rolland Youmans went a step further last night as he honored the grand old man of the Hoquiam City Council.
Fred Thurber, whose 32 years of service add up to the longest council tenure in the history of the city, retired from his second ward seat.
And the mayor gave him his gavel.
“I’d like to thank the people of the second ward and the entire city for keeping me in this rat race for 32 years,” the 87-year-old Thurber said. ” I haven’t always agreed with everybody. But we can’t all agree. If we did, we’d all be after the same girl!”
November 20, 1969
The Quinault Indian Tribal Council, which closed its ocean beaches to non-Indians to bring a halt to littering and vandalism, has received an award from Keep America Beautiful.
The award was presented to James Jackson, president of the Tribal Council at ceremonies recently in New York. In accepting the award, Jackson said, “the tribe is determined its shore lands will remain natural beaches forever.”
25 years ago
November 19, 1994
An Aberdeen youngster has discovered buried treasure that would have thrilled the Hardy boys.
And an entire congregation is giving thanks this holiday season.
Last spring, Kenneth Taylor, 10, was helping his father, Don, custodian of the First Presbyterian Church of Hoquiam, clean out the drains under the church when the inquisitive fifth-grader happened on a mound of mud and debris with just a bit of metal peaking out.
After enthusiastically digging with his hands and some sticks over the course of two days, Kenneth uncovered enough of the object to see that it was a large bell.
Church historians Nadine Sypher and Nina Stinchfield believe it to be the bell that hung from 1890 to 1904 in the original “little white church” on the corner of I and 10th (which is now Simpson Ave.) near the present-day Hoquiam Swanson’s store.
The restored bell is now located in a nook near the entrance to the church.
November 20, 1994
In the final minutes of Foodball, the competition was hot.
After all the food was weighed and the last of the money was being counted Saturday, it began to look grim for Hoquiam High School, who has only lost the competition once in 13 years.
Minutes before the 1 p.m. deadline, HHS senior class president Beth Quigg burst through the door and presented a $1,000 check from her grandmother.
It was just enough to put Hoquiam over the top in this year’s Foodball
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
