75 years ago
Jan. 7, 1942
Attorney General Biddle said today that the government was considering a re-registration of the 1,100,000 enemy aliens in this country to provide “tighter control” along the lines followed during the first world war.
Talking at a press conference, Biddle said that the idea would be to provide an identification card which every German, Italian and Japanese national in this country would be required to carry. The card would bear the picture of the alien.
Jan. 8, 1942
Sergeant Clyde “Paddy” Jackson of the Hoquiam police department is a “right guy.”
This is a statement with which 30,000 prisoners, booked at police headquarters over a period of nearly 23 years, will agree. Not once in that long period of time has the dean of the Hoquiam department had a “run in” with a prisoner.
Bad men or merely men or women who have “erred,” one and all have agreed that “Paddy is one good copper.”
What is his method for keeping prisoners on their best behavior?
“Give them a kind word,” Paddy says modestly, “and nine times out of 10 they’ll behave themselves.”
Sergeant Jackson has given continuous service to the city since his first appointment by Mayor Ralph Philbrick on May 19, 1919 and since then has served under seven police chiefs.
50 years ago
Jan. 7, 1967
Anyone want three dozen large live frogs? You probably could get them cheap from Verner Heikkila, Ocosta High School biology teacher.
Heikkila had ordered dead, preserved frogs for dissecting by his biology students. Imagine his surprise and that of Westport Post Office personnel and Ocosta school mail sorters when the shipment arrived and the frogs turned out to be very much alive.
Now the teacher, he said, is faced with the unpleasant task of butchering three dozen hapless frogs and pickling them in formaldehyde for use in the classroom.
Jan. 8, 1967
Sunday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
Jan. 7, 1992
Prosecutors say the woman accused of setting fire to the Kimberly Apartments in Hoquiam over the weekend was angry at her boyfriend, who lived in one of the units.
Beverly Ann Bailey, 50, set the fire Friday night when she discovered that her boyfriend wasn’t home and she couldn’t locate a key that he was to have left for her, prosecutors said.
Eighteen residents who lived in the 15-unit apartment building were evacuated when the fire was discovered. No one was injured, but firefighters say the fire caused about $50,000 in damage, the death of a parrot and at least one cat.
Jan. 8, 1992
• Efforts to revitalize downtown Aberdeen and downtown Hoquiam in the face of a changing economy received a boost yesterday.
Both cities have been selected to receive grants totaling about $55,000 plus other technical assistance from the state through the Timber Communities Assistance Program.
The City of Aberdeen applied for funding on behalf of downtown merchants so they can hire a part-time marketing coordinator to draw more shoppers. The Hoquiam Development Association applied for funding to help with office overhead so it can continue its downtown revitalization effort.
• For the first time in awhile, a post-game smile came easily to Elma coach Perry McCormick.
Troy Dougherty fired in 17 of his 19 points in the first half to ignite the Eagles to a 69-50 victory over Ocosta in a South Central League boys’ basketball game Tuesday night. “I thought we put together as close to 32 minutes as we have all year,” said the Elma coach.
“Overall, our defensive effort was there,” said Ocosta coach Mike King. “Our kids hustled. But we didn’t take care of the ball well and shoot well and we didn’t get to the free throw line nearly enough to win the game.”
The win was only the second in the last six outings for the Eagles (6-4 overall). But since three of their defeats were non-league, they remain in a tie with Forks for the SCL lead at 5-1.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
