75 years ago
June 20, 1944
Scoring a grand total of 20 runs while only collecting nine hits, Wolff’s trounced Brennan’s 29-1 in a Navy league softball contest today at Franklin field. Wolff’s scored in all but the first inning and in the sixth it tallied 14 runs.
Mandich, Wolff’s hurler, limited Brennan’s to a single hit. Smethers, Wolff’s left fielder, led the slugging with three hits which included a home run and a triple. Beavers, his teammate, also collected three hits.
June 21, 1944
Grays Harbor today mourned the death of one of her war heroes, First Lieutenant Robert L. Hammond, killed last night when a Flying Fortress crashed and burned near the Hobbs airfield in New Mexico, while on a routine flight.
Lieutenant Hammond, pilot, was a veteran of 13 months aerial warfare in the European theater with both the RAF and American army air forces, and suffered severe jaw and leg injuries during a bombing mission over St. Nazaire, France last year. He was awarded the Purple Heart, Air Medal and the British Commemorative Medal for RAF service.
Hammond was born in Tacoma but had resided in Aberdeen most of his life, attending local schools. He would have been 21 in September.
50 years ago
June 20, 1969
Grays Harbor’s first information and referral center for alcoholics will open June 30 in compact quarters in Room 100 of the Finch building — the beginning of something that the center’s director hopes will grow in the next few months.
Director is William Strance, a 38-year-old Central Park man who left a post as minister of the Central Park Community Church for work in the alcoholism treatment field.
“I have long been aware that this is a significant social problem,” Stance said, noting that alcoholism is the nation’s fourth most crippling disease — and that there are an estimated 9,000 alcoholics in Southwest Washington.
June 21, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
June 20, 1994
Ocosta Elementary students, recovering from the loss in April of a popular principal, won’t see a stranger in “Mr. O’s” office next year.
Margaret Carthum, a former longtime special education teacher who now teaches second grade at Ocosta, will succeed the late Mike O’Donnell, Superintendent Rick Jones announced this morning.
Carthum, 54, began working for Ocosta in 1976. Her salary will be $51,000 a year.
June 21, 1994
It was ham and eggs and family values.
Gov. Mike Lowry praised the Washington State Grange today for upholding the “values of family that are so important to future generations.”
Keeping last year’s promise to return to their state convention, the governor was in Hoquiam bright and early for a speech to about 250 Grangers at the Eagles Hall. About 2,000 Grangers are in town this week.
While the delegates polished off their breakfasts, Lowry thanked them for supporting agriculture, the state’s largest industry, then touched on community values and foreign trade.
“We’ve turned the state budget around; we’ve got the economy going in the right direction … (but) we’re still having an increase in violent crime by teen-agers,” said the governor.
“I was always in trouble as a kid, but everybody cared about the young people,” he said, asking the Grangers to remember that a unified community effort is required to rescue youth at risk.
Lowry listed “young people without hope” as one of his administration’s three priority issues. The other two are water rights and educational excellence.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
