75 years ago

July 10, 1942

Just 40,000 pounds of rubber — less than one pound for each Grays Harbor resident — has to be collected before midnight tonight to send the county over the 400-ton goal in the nationwide rubber salvage campaign.

“Many people heeded our appeal for a last-minute search of their premises,” Gordon Lambert, drive chairman, said. “If others keep it up today we should top our goal.”

Elmer Kumpula, proprietor of the O.K. Shoe Repair shop, yesterday donated 30 pounds of worn rubber heels.

Four large solid rubber tires, weighing almost 600 pounds, were turned in yesterday by Tom Svendsen, operator of the Highlands golf course. The tires, off a two-ton trailer, were brought to the Union oil station at Wishkah and I streets. Station Manager Ted Swartz, Bud Hesla, Milton Goerge and Bob Swanson were busy today separating the rubber from the tires.

50 years ago

July 10, 1967

As far as could be determined none of the Westport Town employees who walked of their jobs Thursday afternoon had returned to work this morning, the deadline set by Mayor Byron Cramer for them to return or be replaced.

The boycott by all regular employees, except those of the marshal’s department, was in protest of Cramer’s firing Wednesday of Mrs. Helen Beall, who had been town clerk for 12 years.

The mayor said last week that he would announce a replacement for Mrs. Beall at the Town Council meeting tonight. Now, presumably, the job held by Martin Rowell, water superintendent, Curtis Casey, street superintendent, Louise Peters, deputy clerk, Dave Stuhr and James Savidge, water and sewer department employees, and John Taylor, part-time sanitation employee, were also vacant.

25 years ago

July 10, 1992

The new 1992 population estimates for the state outline substantial growth in the Puget Sound area, but tell a dramatically different story for coastal Washington.

In a word, it’s “flat,” with the exception of Ocean Shores which has posted a 23 percent population increase since the 1990 Census. There are now an estimated 2,493 residents at Ocean Shores vs. 2,031 two years ago. In the same time period, Aberdeen’s population is estimated to have increased by 65, Hoquiam has lost two, Montesano has gained 21 and Elma has lost six.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom