75 years ago
September 12, 1944
Lew Fonseca, American league promotional director, announced today that a crew of 15 cameramen and technicians will shoot thousands of film feet to capture pictorially the World Series which opens Oct. 4 at St. Louis. On completion of the series, hundreds of prints of a two-reel sound movie will be distributed to the armed forces throughout the world.
Filming of the 1943 series, which was described as a smash hit from the moment it was introduced, has been shown to more than 3,500,000 servicemen. There were 500 prints sent to ships at seas, to Iceland, Australia, the European front, Southwest Pacific and South America.
September 13, 1944
Louis Stricavich, yeoman first class, is home on leave following 20 months in the South Pacific, about three months each at New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, Guadalcanal, Nunda and Vella La Vella and Kolombangara in the New Georgia group.
An exciting moment for this Aberdeen sailor was when one (enemy) plane came falling out of the sky missing the precious tanker by inches.
“We were traveling in convoy to Guadalcanal from an outlying base when (enemy) subs and 40 or 50 torpedo bombers attacked,” he recalled. “(Our) oil tanker carrying hi-octane gas wouldn’t have had a ghost of a chance!” he said. “I knelt in my corner holding by breath and witnessed 12 (enemy) planes shot down in that hour and a half attack.”
50 years ago
September 12, 1969
A dress code has to be fluid and pliable,” said Hoquiam Superintendent William Bohrnsen. “But you also have to have basic guidelines involving standards of cleanliness and good taste.”
Bohrnsen offered the comment at last night’s Hoquiam School Board meeting after he acknowledged that a high school youth was refused enrollment because his hair length did not meet the standards of a code evolved by both administrators and students.
“I refused to enroll him because his hair was too long according to our standards,” said Principal Donald Spender. “When he came in to register, I said, ‘Hi, Mike, you’re going to have to get a haircut.’ And the youngster said he would not cut his hair. He didn’t come back for enrollment and he hasn’t been in school since. … We’d enroll him tomorrow morning if he came in with a haircut that met the standards.”
September 13, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
September 12, 1994
The 46th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented Sunday night included: Top Drama Series, “Picket Fences;” Lead Actor in a Drama, Dennis Franz in “NYPD Blue;” Lead Actress in a Drama, Sela Ward in “Sisters;” Top Comedy, “Fasier;” Lead Actor in a Comedy, Kelsey Grammar in “Frasier” and Lead Actress is a Comedy, Candice Bergen in “Murphy Brown.”
September 13, 1994
Facing a storm of financial troubles, the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport saw the waters calm a bit this week when a local bank agreed to donate $12,000 to the Seaport.
“This is going to help tremendously,” Seaport Chairman Chuck Pollock, said of the donation from the Hoquiam-based Timberland Savings Bank.
The money won’t take the Seaport away to a debt-free future, but it will cover the Seaport’s insurance bill both for the boat and the dockside facility in the next few months.
Despite the help with insurance payments, the Seaport will still have a tight financial month, Pollock said. Bills total about $26,000 this month, he said. Anyone who wants to make a donation might consider sponsoring part of the remodeling work at the Seaport’s crewhouse, he said.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
