75 years ago
July 10, 1943
“We really baffled them with the zone defense,” was Sergeant Peterson’s way of telling how his army engineer quintet at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas, won the basketball championship with 17 straight victories.
In the final game with a field artillery hoop team, the officers and men in his outfit bet $6,000 on his team. The entire battalion, headed by the colonel, marched to the gymnasium to witness the game. Approximately 3,000 servicemen witnesses the championship tilt won by the engineers 37 to 30.
As captain of the team, Sergeant Peterson, former Hoquiam high school and Stanford University ace, installed the zone defense which he learned while playing under Elmer Huhta.
Thor and Sgt. Jack Stoddard, ex-Hoquiam high and Grays Harbor Junior college star, were the only ones who knew anything about the zone. Eastern and southern players, used to individual playing and shooting, were “stopped cold.”
July 11, 1943
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
July 10, 1968
• Richard R. Lafromboise, 36, owner and publisher of The Daily World since September and one of Washington’s youngest newspaper publisher, was found dead in his home at Seattle Tuesday night.
Lafromboise purchased The Daily World last fall from Peter Foelkner and had set about expanding the paper’s production and new operations since that time. He was also owner of the Chehalis-Centralia Daily Chronicle and owned the Red Bluff (Calif.) Daily News until selling that newspaper July 1.
• The Aberdeen Police Department announced yesterday that 86 bicycles have been stolen so far this year as compared to 30 at the same time last year.
Bicycles are the highest single item on the larceny list. They are being taken for the most part from open garages, porches and front lawns.
Many bicycles cost in excess of $75 and thus constitute grand larceny and a felony if stolen.
July 11, 1968
Evans Products Co. will host a free all-day tour of its Grays Harbor operations July 25, according to the latest issue of “Chips From the Mill,” the Grays Harbor Chamber of Commerce news sheet.
Evans will provide buses for the tour which will start at the Harbor Plywood plant on the Port Dock road and end at the Aloha Lumber operation. The group will view manufacturing processes at the Harbor plant, have lunch on Evans at Ocean Shores and view the Aloha logging operations.
25 years ago
July 10, 1993
Dian and Gordon Marchant opened their original antique store in Ocean Shores. And now they’ve opened Ye Old Church Antique Mall in the building that once housed the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Hoquiam.
They remodeled the rectory and it’s now their new home. Gordon, 49, still drives to his job as a technical writer in Tacoma during the weeks but hopes to retire soon.
July 11, 1993
At least one participant in the 35th Annual McCleary Bear Festival, which runs through today, was relieved to find that the traditional bear stew was off the menu.
But aside from Smokey the Bear, who appeared in the grand parade Saturday and didn’t have to watch as festival-goers savored stew made from several of his cronies this year, it seemed most folks missed the delicacy.
Lindy Matney, 64, hasn’t missed a Bear Festival yet, and he always sampled the stew “without fail.”
One year, he even helped cut up the bear meat. Noting that organizers had to cancel the stew this year because nobody would volunteer to be in charge of cooking it up Matney said he felt a little bad about not helping out.
Ted and Denise Morrison of McCleary said they definitely missed the stew. “I think they made a big error (by eliminating the stew),” Ted, 40, said. “We wouldn’t eat it at first because we thought it was gross,” said Denise. “But once you get hooked …”
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
