75 years ago
August 13, 1944
Sunday, no newspaper published
August 14, 1944
A transport plane carrying Comedian Bob Hope and four members of his USO camp show was forced down 225 miles north of Sydney today but all aboard escaped injury.
The transport, enroute from Brisbane to Sydney, developed engine trouble and made an emergency landing on a sand bank near Laurieton, a village of about 300 people.
Aboard the plane with Hope were Frances Langford, Jerry Colonna, Patty Thomas and Tony Romano.
Hope explained that all of his troupe are seasoned fliers and had been in tight spots before, particularly during their Alaska tour.
50 years ago
August 13, 1969
The last hotel which served turn-of-the-century summer visitors in the resort town of Westport has been demolished to make a place for a future youth center planned by South Beach Post 3057 of the VFW.
The weathered old building on East Spokane Street was the one-time Cottage Hotel, operated for many years by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hinton. Although it had been vacant for several years and its windows boarded up, its carved front porch pillars and huge rhododendron bushes spoke of its one-time respectability.
Most of the first floor, several old-timers agree, was built in 1894 as the old Westport Land Company building. A few years later, the Hintons, fresh from Montana, bought the building and added the second floor
August 14, 1969
Weyerhaeuser’s log inventories are way above normal, and the timber giant is running out of room on its vast South Aberdeen and Cosmopolis river-front landholdings to store its forest harvest.
Anticipating a strong log export market and a resumption of a high rate of housing starts, Weyerhaeuser officials have geared up logging operations this year.
Until recently, logging crews were out six days a week and the firm was energetically signing up contract loggers.
Now, Weyerhaeuser has decided to slow down the tempo. This week, the woods are open only four days, the trucks owned by the contract loggers are paying fewer calls to the firm’s log-sorting yards.
25 years ago
August 13, 1994
• With its long rectangular design, corrugated sheet-metal siding and quirky mural painted in a spectrum of garish colors, you would be hard-pressed to envision the day-to-day business activities of a social service agency going on inside the old Caskey Industrial Supply Co. building in Hoquiam.
But Harbor’s Home Health and Hospice is indeed the new occupant, and staff members appear to have nothing but praise for their recently remodeled digs.
The move from the old Twin County Credit Union building at the corner of North First St. and North Broadway in Aberdeen, came about because of a need for more space, said Harbor’s financial manager Betty Whisler.
• Some people thought Ocean Shores was experiencing earthquakes.
Others said the shaking was the result of a series of sonic booms.
Actually, bombs are causing the loud blasts that have been rocking homes and businesses on both the North and South Beaches the past several days, according to the Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration.
A-10 Fighters have been dropping ordinance between 10 and 25 miles offshore as part of a routine training mission, said Sgt. Linda Mitchell, a public information officer at McChord.
“They’re dropping 500-pound bombs over the range, which will cause some shaking,” she said.
August 14, 1994
Aberdonians Amber Danielle Cavanaugh and Paul Christopher Metke are engaged and planning a late summer wedding.
The bride-to-be, daughter of Bob and Sue Frederickson of Kettle Falls, is a graduate of Hoquiam High School and Weber State University at Ogden, Utah.
The prospective groom is the son of Paul and Sue Ellen Metke of Aberdeen. He graduated from Aberdeen High School and Weber State University and is the owner and operator of Metke Painting at Aberdeen.
The ceremony is planned for Saturday, Sept, 17, in Aberdeen’s First Presbyterian Church.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
