75 years ago
October 24, 1944
For the 13th consecutive time over a two-year period the Notre Dame football team rates as the country’s No. 1 eleven in the Associated Press poll, but this time the Irish margin is a mere eight points.
Loss of a single first place vote and its 10 points would have dropped Notre Dame into second place behind Army in one of the tightest ballot battles the nine-year-old poll ever has produced. Third place went to Randolph Field followed by the Ohio State civilians.
Georgia Tech, Iowa Pre-Flight, Tulsa, Pennsylvania, North Carolina Pre-Flight and Purdue complete the top 10.
October 25, 1944
With 43 combat missions and an enemy fighter to his credit, Staff Sergeant Harry H. Eaton, 22, aerial gunner from Aberdeen, is a member of a veteran 15th Air Force B-24 Liberator squadron, operating from an Italian base against key production and supply centers in central Europe and the Balkans.
Eaton enlisted with the air corps on February 11, 1943 and had previously been employed by E.C. Miller Lumber company.
50 years ago
October 24, 1969
The U.S. Command announced today that American aircraft losses in Vietnam have reached 6,000 representing an estimated $6 billion.
A list of aircraft losses shows 3,114 helicopters of half a dozen types and 2,886 fixed wing aircraft including fighter-bombers and transports lost in North and South Vietnam since Jan. 1, 1961.
Military spokesmen said there are now about 3,500 U.S. helicopters and more than 1,000 fixed-wing planes operating from bases in South Vietnam.
October 25, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
October 24, 1994
When the phone rang one Sunday afternoon a month ago, Irene Wilmore of Hoquiam, frazzled after a character-building week, almost didn’t answer.
“I’m not buying anything!” she told the man on the other end of the line.
That was fine with him. In a cheery voice, he replied that he wasn’t selling anything.
Instead, he had something for her. The Wilmore family — Irene, 36, and her two children, Stephanie, 6 and Heather, 4 — had been selected as a Nielsen family for Oct. 20-26. Their viewing habits could impact the nation’s TV programming, she was told.
Wilmore’s phone number — which is unlisted — had been selected at random by a computer.
Two skinny paperback books — her TV diaries — arrived last week. You’re wondering, no doubt, how much this job pays. Not much. Nielsen slips a couple of dollars in each diary as sort of an incentive.
October 25, 1994
After nearly a month of rough seas and treacherous winds, the sight of Westport brought tears to Stanley Blunt’s eyes last Friday.
But Blunt claimed the tears weren’t for himself as much as for the vessel that had endured rough seas to return him home safely.
“It was a real relief to come around that corner and see Westport. That poor old boat had just been beaten.”
Blunt, 51, of Aberdeen, was feared lost when he didn’t arrive on schedule in Grays Harbor more than two weeks ago.
Blunt purchased the boat, Rupi, in 1974 and circumnavigated the globe on the vessel from 1976-80. However, he had never attempted a voyage farther north than San Francisco and was unprepared for the winds and weather he encountered.
“Old timers warned me that trying to sail north (out of the Bay Area) in October might be a real challenge, but I decided to give it a try. They were right.”
The purpose of the trip was to bring Rupi to Grays Harbor permanently. After a career in the Army followed by 13 years in Thailand, Blunt settled in Aberdeen with his family in 1992. He wanted to bring the boat to his new home port.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
