75 years ago
July 9, 1944
Sunday, no newspaper published
July 10, 1944
T/Sgt. Lewis Perry of Aberdeen has been awarded the third Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal.
An engineer-gunner, Sgt. Perry is stationed in Italy with a Liberator bombardment group. His outfit has seen plenty of action in the Italian campaign. They took part in the hammering of troops and fortifications that defended Rome and also participated in the 15th Air Force bombings of the Ploesti oil fields and German-held airdromes and railroad yards in France, Austria, Germany and Yugoslavia.
50 years ago
July 9, 1969
Increase in cigarette prices on the Harbor reflect an increase in prices charged by manufacturers to wholesalers here, a check of retailers and wholesalers indicated.
Price of cigarettes have risen in the last few weeks to $3.48 a carton for regular-size cigarettes, $3.59 a carton for 100-millimeter versions.
Per pack prices went to 36 cents at markets and to 50 cents in some machines, locally.
Seventy boys ages 11 through 16, have signed up to date for the 20th season of the Highland Boys Club.
Membership, which includes free rounds of golf every Monday morning plus lessons from Highland pro Mike Strada, removes open to those interested. Initiation fees are $2.
July 10, 1969
The working future of over 400 Harbor lumber and plywood workers remained uncertain this week as Anderson-Middleton Lumber Co. and Western Lumber Co., Aberdeen, indicated they’ll remain closed past their scheduled vacation time.
Meantime Olympic Plywood and Aberdeen Plywood remained closed.
All closures are due, the firms say, to tough market conditions and soaring timber costs.
All operators said at the time of closure, the market conditions and timber costs would have to improve before they opened again. But Art Cutts, foreman for A and M said, “They haven’t changed a bit.”
Meanwhile, Weyerhaeuser continued running one shift short at its Aberdeen sawmill planer. Other larger mills on the Harbor were still running, including Hoquiam and Elma Plywood and A and M’s Grays Harbor Veneer Division. Not all were running at capacity, however.
25 years ago
July 9, 1994
Mention bocce to an Italian-American and visions of family picnics and plates of steaming pasta awaiting the winners are inevitably conjured.
The ancient Italian form of lawn bowling is seldom practiced — let alone formally contested on Grays Harbor.
But a disparate Harbor team composed of Ed Gegen and Mike Nicholas of Aberdeen, Tori Kovach of Cosmopolis and Mike Butorac of Elma earned a second-place trophy in a regional tournament recently at Tacoma.
Aberdeen’s Sons of Italy Lodge 1814 team was narrowly beaten by a Seattle foursome in the title match of the Grand Lodge of the Northwest Bocce Tournament at Titlow Park.
Their success in a field of 28 teams demonstrated — in the view of Gegen, a retired tugboat operator — that the sport is “about 90 percent luck and 10 percent skill.”
July 10, 1994
In a high-scoring game that lasted three hours and 20 minutes, the Grays Harbor Americans pounded Hoquiam-Olympic, 20-12 in the winners’ bracket final of the District Three 13- to 15-year-old Babe Ruth Baseball Tournament Saturday afternoon in Chehalis.
The Americans tallied four runs in the first and seven in the second to take a decisive advantage over Hoquiam, threatening throughout to end the contest via the 10-run rule.
The Americans got three-run homers from Mike Lano, Aaron Pascoe and Chris Gerber.
Pascoe, who was 3 for 4, also had two doubles. Gerber was 2 for 3 with a single and two walks, Todd Baun was 3 for 4 and Ed Holmeide had a three-run double off the fence in the fifth inning.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
