75 years ago
August 22, 1944
City officials last night prepared to draw up an ordinance with “teeth” to prohibit speeding of heavy trucks which are breaking down Hoquiam streets, officials announced today.
City Attorney James P.H. Callahan was instructed to draw up a strict ordinance in accordance with a police committee recommendation that all heavy vehicles loaded or empty be limited to 15 miles per hour on city streets.
The recommendation calls for log trucks going to Grays Harbor Lumber company to stay on a stated route from Fifth to N street, down Seventh street to the plant. All other log trucks driving through town are to stay on Simpson avenue as far as Eighth or Myrtle streets.
August 23, 1944
Captain Thomas Monahan, who received the D.F.C. for service with the army air forces in North Africa in 1943 has been awarded the presidential citation ribbon, it was learned today.
The citation was presented to all members of the bombing squadron with which he served in North Africa. At present, the flier is a test pilot for the army air forces at the Consolidated Vultee plant at Nashville, Tenn.
He went overseas in August, 1941 and returned to the United States last year for specialized training. Captain Monahan is a graduate of Weatherwax high school and Grays Harbor Junior College and was a student at the University of Washington at the time of enlistment.
50 years ago
August 22, 1969
A record opening day crowd of 4,200 jammed the Pacific County Fairgrounds yesterday in Menlo and last night for the start of the 73rd renewal of the exposition.
Crowned as Queen of the Fair in a colorful coronation ceremony was Miss Pam Deweert of Naselle.
Blessed with clear weather after a threat of rain earlier in the week, William Morgan, the fair manager, now anticipates a new attendance record may be set for the event which will run through Sunday night this year.
August 23, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
August 22, 1994
Less than a week after a 13-year-old Auburn boy drowned in a rip current, a Seattle woman was plucked barely alive from the surf by the Ocean Shores Rescue Team Sunday evening.
Both Sheryl Anderson, 48, and her companion, Donald Cole, 51, were taken to Grays Harbor Community Hospital’s critical care unit.
Police said the couple was swept out by the rip current after they began wading in the water just north of the Chance a la Mer beach approach.
“Both of them were probably 120-150 yards out,” said Detective Jim Davis, one of the rescuers. “They were out past the last set of breakers.”
August 23, 1994
“His will be big shoes to fill — size 13, to be precise.”
The sentiment was echoed by many Monday night as the Aberdeen School Board received the resignation of Harry Carthum.
Carthum, 56, director of Grays Harbor Pupil Services for nearly 20 years, has accepted a position as the director of student services in the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Office in Olympia.
Under his leadership, the Pupil Services Cooperative that involved nine Harbor-area school districts has gained state and national recognition.
Carthum will oversee numerous statewide programs including those that deal with drug and alcohol education, Native-American education and early childhood learning opportunities.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
