75 years ago
Oct. 3, 1941
More than 100 Aberdeen High School rooters will journey to Vancouver this afternoon to watch the Bobcats tangle with the Trappers, R.R. Balkema said today. A special bus carrying 48 fans will leave the high school at 2 o’clock and many other students are expected to make the trip in private cars.
A pep assembly to arouse enthusiasm was held this morning with the band playing several numbers and the student body being led in yells.
The high school reserves who will play Moclips this afternoon were to leave by bus at noon from the natatorium, it was announced.
50 years ago
Oct. 3, 1966
The flying saucer glided across the Alexander Young Grade School playground Sunday while neighborhood children ran squealing from its path. Slowly the craft settled to earth and its builder, 17-year-old Dick Reynolds, turned off the engine.
The saucer is a light blue hover craft, or air-car, that is more picturesquely describes as a “flying poker chip” by Reynolds, a senior at Weatherwax High School. The 9-foot-8 diameter craft is powered by a Briggs &Stratton four-horse-power, four-cycle lawn mower engine.
When its engine is running at top performance the hover-craft can clip along just above the ground at 20 miles per hour with Reynolds perched on a small seat atop the craft and bent forward to aim it in a forward direction.
It took Reynolds two months (and about $250) during the summer to build the craft while he worked at Reiner’s Sporting Goods. “If anyone is interested, it is for sale” he said, then laughingly continued, “that’s for material and money to build another one.”
25 years ago
Oct. 3, 1991
At North Beach Junior-Senior High School, the teachers’ grade book is fast becoming obsolete.
It’s not that teachers have quit recording grades. It’s that now they can do it with the touch of a few computer keys.
It’s one of literally hundreds of different functions available with a new computer network system school officials are incorporating into the daily classroom routine.
From any classroom in the building, students can type up a term paper. With another computer, called a server, the teacher can access the student’s report and grade it.
“We’re doing more with computers than anyone else around,” says Principal Tony Pasckvale.
