75 years ago
February 18, 1945
Sunday, no newspaper published
February 19, 1945
Suffering from exposure, Donald Fairbairn, Shirley Siegler and Elizabeth Noll, stumbled onto a road near Bear Gulch this morning, caught a ride into town, and police ended a search that began at midnight last night.
The trio had left for a hike up the east side of the Wishkah river yesterday noon, and had become lost in the tangle of forest and ravines in that sector.
Unable to spot their directions last night, they wandered aimlessly until dawn today, when they used the sun as a guide, headed west, and came out on the road.
Miss Siegler is employed in the office of the Shafer Brothers Logging company, and Miss Noll is the sixth grade teacher at the Cosmopolis school. Donald is the son of John Fairbairn of the Miller Natatorium.
50 years ago
February 18, 1970
Forty members of the newly organized Future Business Leaders of America at Hoquiam High School will receive firsthand experience in the world of business tomorrow.
The students will spend a full day working at jobs that range from bank teller to radio announcer, shoe salesman to truck driver during the Hoquiam Trade Board’s annual Washington’s Birthday sale.
Fifteen firms are participating in the special program according to Michael Lee, faculty advisor for the club.
The club handles candy sales at the school bookstore and operates the milkshake concession in the cafeteria
February 19, 1970
A dire picture of the future of crime and drug abuse was painted before members of the Montesano Chamber of Commerce at their noon luncheon meeting yesterday by James Duree, Harbor attorney and former Pacific County prosecutor.
“The use of heroin is increasing all the time. In two years it will be running like a prairie fire in all colleges and high schools in the United States.”
“Juvenile delinquency and crime are going to rise each year until the American people give them the priority they deserve.”
These were the predictions Duree gave in a almost hour-long talk at the Prime Broiler in Montesano.
“We are going to have to upgrade the police, all law enforcement agencies, the courts, juvenile offices and institutions. We have to provide the money. The problem is coming to Grays Harbor,” he said.
25 years ago
February 18, 1995
Six Harborites gathered this week to swap stories on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima.
They came to the table as strangers, but they were brothers of a sort.
All had survived the Iwo Jima invasion, the bloodiest battle of the Pacific during World War II.
“Were you on the beach?” Ed Doss of Westport asked each of them.
That simple question was all it took for the stories to come tumbling out. These vets from the Harbor made history, and now they made fast friends.
“I’m in good company here today,” said Wally Exum of Ocean Shores as he walked around the room, slapping backs and shaking hands. “Damn right, I’m proud to be here.”
Most of them consider themselves fortunate to have even survived the battle of Iwo Jima, which started 50 years ago Sunday and ultimately killed 6,821 Americans, 5,931 of them Marines. More than 18,000 others were injured.
Arvo Allen remembers seeing a shell hurtling toward him and he and two of his comrades crowded into a hole in the sand.
“It was just like a white ball coming toward us,” he said. The soldier on his left wasn’t hut. The one on his right died instantly.
Allen’s body was covered with shrapnel, but he survived and earned a purple heart.
February 19, 1995
There was plenty of jazz to be held at the 12th annual Rain or Shine Dixieland Jazz Festival yesterday on the Harbor.
Eight bands played nearly non-stop Saturday at four different venues. More music is on the schedule today, starting with a jazz gospel service at 9:30 a.m. at the Aberdeen Elks Club. The festival continues with more music from 11 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. at the Aberdeen Elks and Eagles halls and the Nordic Inn.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
