75 years ago
July 6, 1944
A contract for repairs to Miller natatorium estimated to cost $10,000 was awarded to John Lamb of Lamb Construction company at a special meeting of the school board last night.
The work is to start immediately and all efforts will be made to have the building completely renovated and open to swimming when school convenes Sept. 1.
The contract calls for an entire new roof with re-arranged skylights over the pool, new supporting posts and the walls and roof.
July 7, 1944
While grief among parents, relatives and friends grew hourly deeper, Hartford, Conn. officials placed the list of dead at 146 today as they counted and recounted the victims of the greatest fire in circus history which yesterday turned the big top of Ringling Brothers circus into a flaming inferno.
At least 250 other victims, many of them seriously burned and trampled were scatter about the city’s hospitals.
50 years ago
July 6, 1969
• An inadvertent cable interruption within The Daily World’s building late Saturday hampered news gathering facilities. The five-line telephone system, the Associated Press teletype, and the AP wirephoto circuits were all out of service for several hours.
• Cars, campers and trailers crowded every available parking spot — and some that weren’t available — in the Westport dock area, and most motels and trailer parks from Tokeland to Westport had “no vacancy” signs out yesterday and today. Twin Harbor State Park was full of campers and persons were camped illegally in the new Westhaven State park near the South Jetty.
According to automatic traffic counters a total of 9,218 cars entered Westport between 8 a.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday, more that 2,500 of them between 6 and 10 p.m. Friday, presumably for the fireworks display.
July 7, 1969
The 1969 princess of Taholah is Susan Sasticum, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sasticum of Aloha. She was crowned Saturday night in Moclips.
The new princess is a freshman at Moclips High School. The coronation ceremony was the focal point of a dance held in conjunction with the annual Taholah Days celebration. Edith Capoeman, 1968 princess, bestowed the crown on her successor.
25 years ago
July 6, 1994
Marbled murrelets spend most of their lived bobbing about on the ocean, and when they nest it’s on the wide, mossy limbs of old-growth trees.
So one of the last places you’d expect to find one is in a noisy, machine-filled log sorting yard. But a Weyerhaeuser employee found one in the South Aberdeen sorting yard Tuesday, hurt and resting under the corner of a trash bin.
Employees concerned about disturbing a bird that’s protected on the list of threatened species, called state officials, who called wildlife refuge workers, who called Hilary Richrod, a wildlife rehabilitator who runs the Small Wild Bird Clinic in Aberdeen.
Richrod said the bird almost appeared tame, probably because they live at sea and don’t see humans often enough to be afraid of them.
July 7, 1994
Working like pros on an assembly line, members of the Hoquiam Service Team poured concrete for a new pathway along the Riverside Dike Wednesday. Though most of them had never done it before, they were quickly getting the hang of pouring and moving the wet, muddy stuff, then smoothing it out and measuring the right place to put in expansion breaks in the sidewalk.
“These kids have never been exposed to masonry before and look at them,” said Ron Baze, Hoquiam High School’s vocational director. “It looks pretty professional, doesn’t it?”
Baze and vocational instructor Alan Olson are overseeing the program, now in its third year. Youths involved are learning plenty of skills, while earning $150 a week, a high school semester’s’ credit and a $1,000 scholarship.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
