75 years ago
Jan. 26, 1942
Two Hoquiam firemen late Saturday night risked their lives in a blaze which caused approximately $10,000 damage to the Marcuson apartments, 525 Emerson Avenue, Fire Chief William E. Crawford said today.
Captain Glenn Haney and Jim Douglas, driver of the chemical engine, plunged into the burning building on word that the proprietor, John Marcuson, was trapped inside. Both searched the building until nearly exhausted and forced to come out. Other firemen administered oxygen to Douglas to revive him. Chief Crawford will not be back on duty for several days.
It later was learned that Marcuson was outside when the two firemen entered the building.
Jan. 27, 1942
The liberty bell is going to be protected from possible bomb damage.
Philadelphia Mayor Bernard Samuel announced today that a concrete and steel bomb-proof vault will be built into which the famous bell can be lowered in an emergency.
The shelter, costing approximately $20,000 will be donated by the Insurance Company of North America “as a contribution to national defense.” The company was founded in Independence hall 150 years ago.
50 years ago
Jan. 26, 1967
On display at the Aberdeen Library for the next six weeks is an exhibit arranged by the Grays Harbor Bird Club.
The club also recently presented to the library two newly-published books: “The Whooping Crane,” by Faith McNulty, and “Birds in Our Lives,” a publication of the United States Department of the Interior.
On the gallery wall beside contributions by club members is posted a chart listing the two hundred and fifty birds that have been seen locally.
Jan. 27, 1967
• The Port of Grays Harbor, one of the oldest in the state, will officially dedicate its glistening concrete and steel $3 million Terminal 4 at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
Port Industrial Manager Hank Soike said there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony in which Teresa, 8 and Monica, 3, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lamb of Grays Harbor City, will snip the bright green ribbon which will place Terminal Four facility and its huge 60-ton capacity cranes into operation. The two girls are the great-granddaughters of the late Frank H. Lamb, considered by many to be the father of the Port of Grays Harbor.
• Aberdeen and Hoquiam schools pay average salaries to its faculty members, a survey of the state’s first class school districts disclosed today.
The average school salaries in Aberdeen this school year are: elementary, $6,994; junior high, $7,485; high school, $6,971; in Hoquiam, elementary, $6,970; junior high, $6,713; high school, $7164.
• All-stater Walt Failor of Aberdeen was the only Washington gridder named to the 97-player 16th annual All-American High School football team announced by Scholastic Magazine, a national educational publication. The 6-2, 200-pound split end was also named the state’s outstanding lineman by the Washington State Sportswriters’ Association.
25 years ago
Jan. 26, 1992
You can almost hear the echoes of horses’ neighs and children’s squeals in the misty wood soon to be Cosmopolis’ newest park.
Those 40 acres of overgrown meadow on the west side of Cosmopolis, long the site of the former Cohassett Riding School, have been deeded to the city by Olivetta Faulkner for the creation of the D.S. Makarenko Memorial Park.
Miss Faulkner died at 97 last November.
From 1930 to 1968 Diomed Sergeivich Makarenko, a former Russian cavalry major, taught thousands of Harborites how to stay in the saddle. Miss Faulkner, a close friend of Makarenko’s, assisted him at the riding school for many years and inherited the property following his death in 1968.
Jan. 27, 1992
The Port of Grays Harbor and the City of Aberdeen brought home the bacon Saturday, winning $715,846 in grants and a loan from the state’s Community Economic Revitalization Board.
Aberdeen won a $215,846 grant to build a riverfront walkway from the Wishkah Mall to Heron Street, passing around the water side of the Seaport.
The Port won a $252,400 grant and a $247,600 loan to build a cargo warehousing, packaging, storage and distributions facility.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
