75 years ago

Feb. 25, 1942

Anti-aircraft guns thundered over the metropolitan Los Angeles area early today for the first time in the war, but hours later what they were shooting at remained a military secret.

An unidentified object moving slowly down the coast from Santa Monica was variously reported as a balloon and an airplane.

Army intelligence, although uncommunicative, scoffed at reports of civilian observers that as many as 200 planes were over the area.

There were no reports of bombing, but several instances of damaged property from anti-aircraft shells.

Feb. 26, 1942

While Harold Schumacher, former Harbor youth, is serving with General MacArthur as a marine corporal in the Philippines, his twin brother, Gerald, is in San Francisco offering his services to the government, too, it was revealed today when a card was received by County School Superintendent Blanche Pennick, relative to an appointment Gerald is seeking.

He tried to get into the armed service but was unable to because of his vision.

In his card, Gerald said “It fills me with pride when I think he (Harold) is one of those men who are doing such a heroic job.”

50 years ago

Feb. 25, 1967

• “Camp 14” will go to town next week. This time instead of rolling down the railroad, the old logging camp buildings of Rayonier, Inc., will go piggy-back by truck.

“Camp 14” includes the bunkhouses and related structures from Rayonier’s logging camp some 16 miles out of Hoquiam toward Humptulips. It is an old car camp, first erected by the Polson Logging Co., when that firm was railroad logging. A car camp was a portable logging camp or as one logger said, “A camp outfit on wheels.”

When work was completed in an area the cars were hooked together and pulled by a locomotive to the next area to be logged.

Rayonier’s Railroad Camp will go to Tacoma next week to become part of Camp Six, the Western Washington Forest Industries Museum.

• A new cargo dock for the loading of log ships is now under construction on Grays Harbor by Weyerhaeuser Company. The new ship loading facilities are being built at the former site of the Bay City Mill on the Chehalis River.

The construction now under way also provides for a log storage and sorting yard of 22 acres adjacent to the dock. When the new loading facility is completed, the dock at the South Aberdeen mill will be used for loading lumber and other cargo.

Feb. 26, 1967

Sunday, no newspaper published

25 years ago

Feb. 25, 1992

The little North River School is growing all the time.

A new bus garage, art room and storage room are underway. The district just finished a straight-away track. And a darkroom, aerobics and weight room are in the planning stages.

It’s all being done at minimal costs by using the district’s own maintenance man and a part-time laborer who are working on converting the existing playshed.

Having a playshed was handy, but with just 61 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, on rainy days the gym can serve nicely for recesses, said Superintendent Glenn Sorensen.

Feb. 26, 1992

In perhaps their finest showing of the year, Aberdeen’s boys hammered arch-rival Hoquiam, 84-57, in the regular season finale before about 1,300 last night at Sam Benn Gym — a game that saw every Bobcat play his role to near perfection.

Don Marbut sliced and diced the Grizzly defense for 18 points. Doug Farmer, coming off the bench, scored a game-high 20 with 10 points in each half. Also in a reserve role, Ryan Watkins sniped from outside for another 18 markers, making all four of his shots from three-point range and was seven for eight overall. Still another reserve, Chris Eisele, had six of his eight points in the first half.

All of the above didn’t leave much point-making for center Jerry Cole. So, the Cats’ 6-5 center, who scored only two, merely yanked down a career high 20 rebounds in a fierce display under the glass.

And to top it off, Anthony Mizin tossed in seven fourth-quarter points to become the first AHS freshman in modern times — if not the first ever — to score in a varsity game.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom