75 years ago

June 4, 1943

Hugging the banks of the Wishkah river, directly south of the west approach of the Wishkah street bridge, are six silent sentinels. They are pear trees — venerable trees as fruit trees go, as they were planted more than 70 years ago, shortly after Samuel Benn, the city’s founder, erected his house and moved his growing family to the site of the city that was to be.

The trees were trimmed last fall by Park Superintendent Hugo Larson and promise a bumper “war crop” this year.

50 years ago

June 4, 1968

Grays Harbor’s mushrooming tourist travel is imposing serious problems on Harbor law enforcement officers.

At yesterday’s meeting of the GH Commissioners, Sheriff A.M. Gallagher asked that the present budget of $1,000 for a South Beach deputy be increased by $650 so an extra deputy may be placed on duty for the summer through Labor Day.

He also asked that a budgetary item of $4,800 for the North Beaches be increased by $5,200 to enable the sheriff’s force to provide additional protection, particularly in the Ocean Shores area from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon each weekend through the summer.

25 years ago

June 4, 1993

Kids learn by doing.

That’s one of the long-held beliefs of Aberdeen High School teacher Bill Tometich.

This year, the 12 students in his advanced wood construction class have worked with the school’s maintenance department to enlarge the school store inside the Phillips Building at AHS.

The students also remodeled the concession stands at Stewart Field and installed partitions in the school library this year.

Pete Wintrip, school maintenance carpenter, has high praise for what the students have done. He was on hand recently while the students were finishing the dry wall they had put up.

“They learn from doing and they’re getting better,” said the carpenter, who is himself a former student of Tometich.

“I’ve learned how to frame, mud, drywall, hang doors and windows,” said Ryan Housden, a 17-year-old junior. “You can be book smart and know a lot of stuff, but when you go to do it, it’s a lot different than in the book, because you run into problems,” Housden said.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom