75 years ago
May 5, 1943
A new Grays Harbor industry — a pre-fabrication plant to manufacture houses, navy pallet or lift boards, boxes, grain doors and various other wood articles, will start operations next week at the old cooperage plant in South Aberdeen, it was announced today.
Andrew Floodstrom, veteran Aberdeen millman, will be plant superintendent and Sarah Wiesinger will be office manager. The plant at the outset will employ between 25 and 30 men and women and will be expanded as rapidly as additional manpower can be obtained.
Repairs to the five buildings used by the old cooperage firm and later Chatham Strait Fish company have put the plant in excellent condition.
May 6, 1943
• Arthur Bargewell, junior high school social science teacher for the past six years, will succeed Chester Reese as Washington grade school principal. Reese resigned recently to become principal of St. Helens grade school, Longview.
• Junior high girls registered this week for a child care program to be inaugurated Friday, Miss Florence Baker, junior high girls league adviser, said today.
“Because of war time industries and activities, mothers have not been able to find the usual number of girls to stay with children evenings,” Miss Baker said.
A directory of applicant names is being compiled. Barbara Hubbard will direct the service and mothers may call her to hire girls for child care.
“Reasonable rates will be charged by the girls and they will expect transportation home,” Miss Baker added.
50 years ago
May 5, 1968
Sunday, no newspaper published
May 6, 1968
Twenty-five years of progress as an incorporated community were marked by citizens of McCleary at a Silver Anniversary program staged Friday and Saturday.
Principal speaker at the anniversary program held at the McCleary VFW hall was Dr. Joseph McCarthy, dean of the graduate school at the University of Washington.
He depicted a bright future for the McCleary area and said establishment of the new four-year Evergreen College only 15 miles from McCleary will have a positive impact on the future of the community, not only in economics, but also in population.
25 years ago
May 5, 1993
On a night when the message was that one person can make a difference, some 200 people turned out to honor three who have.
Volunteerism and duty above and beyond were rewarded at The Daily World Citizen of the Year banquet Tuesday night at the Aberdeen Elks Club.
Marking the 25th anniversary of the award, Hoquiam businessman Don Root was honored as the Citizen of the Year.
Hoquiam police Sgt. Dallas Hensley and Wishkah volunteer firefighter Al Fredericks were honored as Police Officer and Firefighter of the Year.
Even the guest speaker for the evening, Rep. Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam, was a volunteer — a last minute draftee, actually — filling in for Rep. Gary Locke, D-Seattle. Locke is the House’s chief budget writer and couldn’t get away from Olympia because of ongoing budget talks.
May 6, 1993
With the Grays Harbor nursing program gearing up for a major transition and still adjusting to the unexpected death of its director, Karen Stinger, a year and a half ago, you might expect some of the turmoil to be reflected in the performances of students.
But when the school’s 28 graduates took their National Council Licensure Examinations — the test that determines if they are qualified to be registered nurses — last July, every one of them passed.
“It’s tremendous to pass with 100 percent,” says Ardith Savoy, who took over as director of the program after Stinger’s death in late 1991. “It’s extraordinary. It just takes one student having an off day to lose that.”
It’s all the more impressive because “our students take the same test that every four-year student takes,” Savoy said.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
