75 years ago
Jan. 10, 1942
Every employee in warehouses, offices and stores of the F.W. Woolworth company has received from the company a savings stamp booklet containing a 25-cent defense savings stamp, E.E. Damon, manager of the Aberdeen Woolworth store, said today.
The gift, Damon said, is aimed at the promotion of thrift and patriotic response to the nation’s needs and represents a total appropriation in excess of $20,000.
“The company wishes to encourage every employee to become a regular purchaser of defense savings stamps,” he added. “Besides being wholesome private thrift, this represents a continuous contribution to the nation’s war effort.”
Jan. 11, 1942
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
Jan. 10, 1967
Plans for the 54th annual stockholders’ meeting and dinner for members of the Grays Harbor County Club have been announced for Saturday, Jan. 14, by Carl Long, club manager. The meeting will convene at 4:30 o’clock in the afternoon in the men’s lounge. After a social hour, a prime rib dinner will be served at 7:30. Awards will be presented at 8:30 and Craig Wellington and his Coachmen will play for dancing from 9:30 to 12:30 o’clock.
Jan. 11, 1967
Big Bill Quigg and Bob Thompson ignited a sluggish Hoquiam High quintet that roared from a 10-point deficit to hand a sophomore-filled Olympia crew to its 11th straight defeat, a 66 to 54 verdict at the HHS gym last night.
Quigg, scoring on short jumpers and layins, rammed in 25 points and collected 16 rebounds to pace Hoquiam to its third hoop win in five outings and sixth triumph in nine games over the entire season. Thompson popped in several key buckets early in the fourth quarter and finished with 11 rebounds and 7 points.
25 years ago
Jan. 10, 1992
The phones aren’t ringing, but the new 911 emergency dispatch center at Community Hospital’s East Campus is buzzing with activity.
Coordinators are counting down the final month before Enhanced 911 comes on line.
On Feb. 17, every community in the county except the Quinault Indian Nation — 62,000 phone lines — will be plugged into the computer terminals.
“So far everything is still on schedule,” Millie Tirapella, who manages the new communications center, said yesterday afternoon. We’re training dispatchers and finishing up the installation of the equipment.
Customers will see an additional 20 cents per month on their phone bills to pay for the start-up and operation of Enhanced 911 systems statewide.
Jan. 11, 1992
• Thousands of stories have already come from inside the ornate walls of Raymond’s historic downtown movie theater — both through the silver screen and in the plush balcony seats.
“There’s just something about old theaters,” says Mayor Leon Lead, who moved to Raymond as a high school students and spent many dates sitting in one of the back row seats.
“I could point to about 10 different seats and tell a story about a girl I kissed as a kid, including my wife,” he says with a laugh.
The city and a group of dedicated volunteers — including high school students — have invested more than two years and $700,000 into a renovation project. The rustic charm will remain in the old theater, where the Italian Renaissance design — including chandeliers and stenciled ceiling — is still intact from opening day in October 1928.
• Sheriff’s deputies and police from Ocean Shores and Taholah were combing the North Beach Friday night for a man who robbed the Pacific Beach Bank of Grays Harbor.
The suspect walked into the bank about 5:45 p.m., 15 minutes before closing time, showed a semi-automatic handgun for all three tellers and one customer to see and demanded money from the teller drawers and the bank safe, Sheriff’s chief criminal deputy Rick Scott said.
