75 years ago

June 8, 1944

Aberdeen must raise $2,500,000, Hoquiam $1,400,000, Montesano $450,000 and Elma $300,000 to meet Grays Harbor county’s quota of $4,600,000 in the fifth war loan which starts next Monday.

These figures were set today at a meeting of the county loan committee, Stuart Polson, chairman, at the Hotel Morck.

The county quota represents an investment of approximately $100 for every man, woman and child in the county.

June 9, 1944

Jimmy Stewart, the former movie star, has been promoted from major to lieutenant colonel, Brig. Gen. James Hodges, commanding general of a heavy bombardment division, announced today.

Stewart, now serving as a group operations officer, has flown 14 combat missions. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross and air medal with oak leaf cluster.

50 years ago

June 8, 1969

A four-seater aircraft from the Seattle area ran out of gas over Central Park Saturday morning and missed the Grays Harbor Country Club building by three feet before it bounced twice on the first tee and nosed over on the golf course.

The pilot, Fred Pelagalli of Bellevue, and his three teen-age passengers all escaped injury. The party was bound from Bellevue to the airstrip at Copalis, which is near Pelagalli’s summer cabin. Pelagalli maneuvered his craft to avoid hitting 15 to 20 weekend golfers clustered between the tee and the clubhouse.

June 9, 1969

Shored up by heavy house mover’s timbers, the first all-steel boat constructed on Grays Harbor has been moved to the ways of Pakonen’s boat yard in readiness for its launching. David Elzenga has spent most of the off-season during the past two years putting the all-steel ship together. His wife estimated that for the past four months, he has worked 14 hours a day, seven days a week in order to have the 52-foot-long Jul-E ready for this summer’s tuna season.

Elzenga estimated that the ship will hold 35 tons of tuna.

To move the ship to the South Aberdeen yard’s launching ways, Elzenga enlisted the services of Frank Silvan, well-known Harbor house mover.

25 years ago

June 8, 1994

• Some people think baseball and beer just go together.

At next year’s Western Baseball League games in Hoquiam, they will.

The city of Hoquiam has agreed to let a new minor league franchise serve beer at home games at Olympic Stadium. It will be the first — and only — group sanctioned to do so.

League organizers say beer sales are an important part of their financial success, and city officials think the benefits of having the team justify changing its policy prohibiting alcohol.

• Three Twin Harborites are among the 66 high school seniors selected to play in the 30th annual Washington State Football Coaches Association East-West All-Star Football game to be played June 24 at Everett Memorial Stadium.

Elma’s Toby Vaughn, the South Central League’s co-MVP, is listed at wide receiver and defensive back on the East squad. He is joined by Montesano linebacker and offensive lineman Caleb Shanafelt.

Playing for the West team will be Kalin Makaiwi, who lead Raymond to the Class B football title last season as a quarterback and linebacker.

June 9, 1994

Randi Hubbard of Aberdeen defies easy definitions.

She’s soft-spoken, feminine and shy.

She’s also a nationally recognized “monster” truck driver. A good mechanic, she operates a garage in Aberdeen with her husband, Bob.

Last night, her voice quavering from nervousness, Randi Hubbard told the Aberdeen City Council that she was so touched by rock star Kurt Cobain’s music that after his suicide in April she sculpted a small clay and wax statue of him to help her deal with the loss.

She’s making a larger-than-life concrete statue of Cobain and wants to see it publicly displayed at Morrison Riverfront Park in time for the Lollapalooza rock tour that may come to Hoquiam in late August.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom