75 years ago
July 17, 1942
The Brothers Gasparovich of Aberdeen are doing all right for themselves.
Mitchell, the eldest, catcher on Aberdeen high school baseball teams under Coach Homer Taylor and later on “Tubby” Graves’ University of Washington clubs, is a full fledged attorney but he has made such a success as a business man in Seattle that, for the present, he doesn’t intend to do any law practice. While a student he operated a confectionery concession to help pay his way through school. He did so well that he decided to keep right on until now he has 40 people working for him.
Joe, who introduced the “cruncher” line smashes as a backfield powerhouse under the late John Mashin, has struck a bonanza as a tourist camp proprietor at Clallam Bay.
The youngest brother, Tony, is carving his niche as a physical instructor with the air corps in Albuquerque, N.M. He completed his training for a lieutenant’s rating at Fort Benning and soon after was assigned to the New Mexico post.
50 years ago
July 17, 1967
With the forest fire’s prime escape routes cut off, crews fighting the blaze that has blackened more than 5,000 acres on the Quinault Reservation were expected to complete the fire trail by tonight.
The fire that raced through stacks of unburned logging slash was still burning in several places, while crews worked on trails through green timber.
Few of the 400 men on fire lines and none of the equipment have been removed. The equipment included 25 bulldozers, about 20 portable pumps, plus two trailer-type pumps capable of shooting 500-gallons a minute.
25 years ago
A Hoquiam High School graduate followed a road paved with childhood chemistry sets to a key research position at Yale University, fighting the battle against the AIDS virus.
Dr. Lori Kohlstaedt, 33, is a post-graduate fellow at the university, working as a member of a Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry team that made a milestone breakthrough in the fight to develop an AIDS vaccine.
After high school, Kohlstaedt received her bachelor’s degree in biology at Stanford University and her doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.
July 17, 1992
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
