75 years ago
Jan. 14, 1942
There’s no rubber shortage in Aberdeen.
Aberdeen police have a big supply — in the form of “rubber checks.”
“It’s too bad they can’t be used for tire retreads,” one officer commented today. “I think we have enough bouncy material to equip every car in the city.”
Check artists posing as shipyard workers from Seattle and Tacoma — “just came down to spend a weekend with a friend at Westport and forgot to cash my check before I left” — have “taken” Aberdeen merchants for many dollars.
The simplest and best protection for Aberdeen merchants, according to police, is to cash checks only for people they know.
Jan. 15, 1942
Enemy warships for the second time in two days struck at commercial shipping in New York waters when a tanker was attacked today within sight of watchers on the south shore of Long Island.
The coast guard at Quogue, Long Island, said that survivors were being brought in and that some had landed by mid-afternoon. A coast guard plane had dropped food and whiskey to about 10 survivors in a lifeboat and on a raft.
Details of the attack, about 19 miles from shore, were lacking, but it was believed the attacking vessel was a submarine.
50 years ago
Jan. 14, 1967
Additional data and evaluations are needed before a firm decision can be made concerning the undertaking of the Columbia River to Puget Sound Intracoastal Waterway. This is expected to be made prior to the end of this fiscal year.
Colonel C.C. Holbrook, Seattle District engineer explained that estimated cost of construction of the proposed project will be weighed against the actual and foreseeable economic benefits to be gained. Benefits for this study are based on five major areas: Transportation, land enhancement, flood control, recreation and economic development.
Jan. 15, 1967
Sunday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
Jan. 14, 1992
Unbeknownst to many in Montesano except veterans and vandals, a World War I memorial to the unknown soldier was slowly deteriorating in an obscure spot in the park at the city’s east entrance.
Many of the city’s veterans knew its significance because they fought for the right to put it there.
Just about the only other attention the memorial drew was from vandals — probably kids — who would occasionally topple it for kicks on weekends.
Now, thanks to Dick Embry and the American Legion Post No. 5, the monument has been repaired and placed in front of the Post Office on Pioneer Avenue. The memorial, weighing 18,200 pounds, was hauled to its new location at no charge by Vessey & Sons Construction.
Jan. 15, 1992
• Hospitals throughout the country are facing the financial squeeze, and Grays Harbor Community Hospital is gasping for breath.
“Barely in the black,” the hospital is saddled with an unusually high percentage of patients on Medicare and Medicaid. Those patients who can pay, are paying — through the teeth sometimes.
“Your bill could be 35 percent less if you didn’t have to help pay for Medicare and Medicaid patients,” says hospital administrator Michael Madden.
Unless something happens soon, the situation for the Aberdeen hospital will just continue to get worse as inflation outstrips federal and state reimbursement at an alarming rate, Madden said.
• Underscoring the certainty that 1992 will be a year of change at the Port of Grays Harbor, an old hand relinquished the commission gavel and a freshman commissioner was sworn in yesterday.
Commissioner Russ Richardson of Aberdeen is the new commission president and Jack Root of Hoquiam took his oath of office.
Root was the voters’ favorite by far in the primary election last September and ran uncontested for election on the November ballot. He replaces J.K “Bun” Lewis who did not seek re-election.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
