75 years ago
January 7, 1945
Sunday, no newspaper printed
January 8, 1945
Staff Sgt. Martin Jugum, former Aberdeen man, is credited with having recently saved the life of a chief mate on a Liberty ship at the risk of his own life.
A letter signed by the ship’s master tells the story: “At the risk of his own life, Pfc. Anderson entered a tank in which a ship’s officer was trapped. The tank had been sealed for some time and unvented, thus creating a very deadly lack of oxygen in it. Knowing this, Anderson descended into the tank and freed the entrapped foot of the officer. He dragged the officer to a position from which it was possible for the ship’s crew to reach him. At this point, Anderson was at the verge of collapse. He was hauled out by Sgt. Jugum. The sergeant had also been instrumental in helping out several other men who escaped from the tank before the officer.
“As the courageous and intelligent action of these men unquestionably saved the life of the officer,” the letter continued, “we are in hope that they may receive the recognition due them.”
50 years ago
January 7, 1970
Harborites who frequent downtown Aberdeen will find it harder to get away with parking meter violations, starting today.
Sharon Lee Enholm, 33, joined meter maid Alyce Woodridge on the parking meter beat this morning, William Waara said.
He said that Mrs. Enholm was hired as a result of the city council authorizing a second meter maid. Waara said studies have indicated that a city should have one meter maid for every 350 meters. Aberdeen has about 750.
Mrs. Enholm was previously employed at Grays Harbor paper.
January 8, 1970
The Army Corps of Engineers plans to ask Congress for an appropriation of about $6 million for further construction work on the Wynooche Dam during Fiscal Year 1971, the corps told a group of local officials yesterday.
Vern Cooke, project engineer for the dam, told officials of the City of Aberdeen, the Grays Harbor Public Utilities District and the Port of Grays Harbor that this amount is necessary to finance a reasonable amount of construction during that time.
Cooke and Boyd Kramer, resident engineer for the corps, said the contractor, Dravo Inc., is now operating on its own finances because $1.25 million originally put in with a $2 million appropriation for this year has been held over until next fiscal year by the Bureau of the Budget.
This means the net appropriation for Fiscal 1970 came to $750,000.
25 years ago
January 7, 1995
After more than half a century on the Harbor, Grays Harbor Veneer Division of Anderson & Middleton Co. told the union Friday that the Hoquiam mill has closed permanently.
Fifty-four employees are out of work.
Company officials would not comment about the closure of the mill, which mostly manufactured parts for fresh fruit boxes for shipment to California. However, many workers were not surprised when they heard the news.
Most of the workers had been laid off since mid-November, when the company told union representatives that it could no longer find a buyer for its products, according to Dave Rux, the business representative for the International Association of Machinists, Woodworkers Local 2 in Aberdeen.
“It is market conditions that created the (mill) closure,” said Rux. “There is a lot of competition out there. I don’t doubt that NAFTA had a great deal to do with it.”
January 8, 1995
Winning was double the pleasure for the Grays Harbor College Chokers as both the men’s and women’s clubs downed the South Puget Sound Clippers in doubleheader action played at Hoquiam Square Garden Saturday — the women winning by a score of 83 to 70 while the men’s score was 91-81.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
