75 years ago

March 7, 1942

• The war production board today ordered manufacture of radios and phonographs for civilian use discontinued after April 22. It also announced that, except for production of replacement parts, the entire facilities of the industry would be converted to war production.

The order affects 55 companies which last year employed some 30,000 persons and produced more than 13,000,000 sets — a dollar volume of business approximately $240,000,000. Military orders already placed with manufacturers for war radio equipment amount to more than $1,000,000,000 of which half is held by the 55 companies affected by the WPB stop production order.

• Montesano’s civilian defense medical unit is prepared for any eventuality with three emergency hospitals provided for in basements of buildings strategically located, Dr. Frank T. O’Brien told the defense council last night. The post office, home of W.H. France and the Montesano Methodist Church are being used. He said that equipment is about complete and that registered nurses as well as practical nurses and newly trained first aid class graduates are ready to staff the units.

March 8, 1942

Sunday, no newspaper published

50 years ago

March 7, 1967

• Seaman Les H. Funk of Aberdeen made night reconnaissance of enemy beaches in Operation Deckhouse VI in South Vietnam recently. A 1964 AHS grad, Funk was a diver on the Bobcat swimming team placing third in the state meet. He is a “Frogman” with an underwater demolition team.

• The New York Football Giants today obtained quarterback Fran Tarkenton from the Minnesota Vikings in exchange for four draft picks including their first and second round draft choices for 1967.

Tarkenton, a star at the University of Georgia, joined the Vikings when that team was created in 1961. In six seasons, he completed 1,024 passes in 1,809 attempts for 14,579 yards and 113 touchdowns.

March 8, 1967

A variety of contemporary music is programmed for tonight’s concert at Miller Auditorium, featuring the renowned trumpeter, Carl (Doc) Severinsen with the Weatherwax High School Concert Band and the Sophisticats.

Severinsen’s solos will include “Concerto for Trumpet,” “La Virgen de la Macarena,” “My Favorite Things,” “Young Man with the Blues” and “Rhapsody for Trumpet.”

25 years ago

March 7, 1992

Wednesday, Karen Klinger was named the coast area’s DSHS Employee of the Year for 1991.

“If we had a profile of the ideal person for the job, it would describe Karen,” said Sherry Trent, a co-worker in her letter of nomination. “As a co-worker, I hear and see her interaction with clients. No matter what kind of day it is in the office, she is always respectful and supportive of each client.”

Mrs. Klinger is more than just a team player at work, she is mom to three active teen-age sons, transporting them to sporting events and church youth activities. She and her husband, Chuck, are part of a parent volunteer group for wrestling, baseball concession stand, Little League and football. And she is an active member of her church.

March 8, 1992

Exactly three years after she was first launched, the tall ship Lady Washington celebrated her birthday by making her first post-accident public cruise Saturday afternoon.

It was the first chance since last October’s accident on the Columbia River near Pasco for people to climb aboard for a day of sailing.

Despite a shortage of whales to watch, passengers weren’t disappointed in her first cruise of the season. A few blows of water in the distance was about it for the whale watchers aboard. And even the, Skipper Sandy Brown blew his obvious line.

Instead of bellowing “Thar she blows!” the captain yelled, “There’s a whale.”

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom