75 years ago

September 4, 1943

“Sub fishing is very good,” writes W.F. “Bill” Chamberlain, 27, navy lieutenant (j.g.) and two-time winner of the distinguished flying cross for his outstanding record piloting a carrier-based torpedo plane in the Atlantic area.

The former Wynooche boy is engaged in aerial submarine warfare and convoy duty. He is based on a baby flat-top which was built in a Tacoma shipyard. He formerly piloted a Grumman Wildcat fighter plane. He is a 1933 graduate of Wishkah high school and graduated in 1940 from the University of Washington.

Lieutenant Chamberlain comes from a “fighting” family. His father, Charles A. Chamberlain of the Wishkah, who tips the scales at quite a bit, applied for enlistment in the navy shortly after Pearl Harbor. Advised to go home and lose some weight, he has been employed since at the port dock, where he is working himself down to “fighting trim.”

Brother Bert, 24, machinist’s mate second class, is attending a submarine school at New London, Conn. Bob, 22, electrician second class, is stationed at Swan Island and sister Elsie, who is 20, has been accepted in the Waes, and is awaiting an assignment.

September 5, 1943

Sunday, no newspaper published

50 years ago

September 4, 1968

Seventy-five high school and elementary teachers from the Aberdeen schools braved the wet weather to spend a day in the woods visiting ITT Rayonier’s Grays Harbor tree farm and logging operations.

They visited the Deep Creek operation, the company’s Promised Land Park, Rayonier’s new Crane Creek logging camp and the sorting yard.

September 5, 1968

“WANTED — a variety of tree that will grow in the City of Aberdeen and produce money on the ends of its branches. Contact Aberdeen Mayor Ed Lundgren.”

Facetious? Perhaps.

But the city’s preliminary budget for 1969 is $400,000 in the red.

The problem is mainly salary increase requests and — notably — some requests for twelve new policemen and three additional firemen for the city.

It’s a problem as old as government, do you raise taxes or cut requests?

And Lundgren’s not too happy about doing the honors.

25 years ago

September 4, 1993

If your boss tracked you down while you were river-rafting in Montana, what would your reaction be?

For Kathy Budge it was fear.

“I thought something major had happened, something terrible,” she said. “But it was good news.”

Aberdeen School Superintendent Sonja Martin was calling out of the blue to ask Budge if she would be interested in becoming interim principal at Central Park.

And as 265 students at the elementary school will see Tuesday, Budge said, “yes!”

She is replacing Jim Sawin, who moved to McDermoth to replace the retiring Leif Tangvald.

September 5, 1993

Cosmopolis residents Vickie Lynn Tronson and Jerry Lee Raines Jr. were married Saturday, July 10, 1993, in the Lytle House at Hoquiam.

The bride, daughter of Earl Jones of Aberdeen and Tom and Sandy Kirby of Marysville graduated from high school in Marysville in 1983. She is an ophthalmic assistant at Harbor Ophthalmology of Aberdeen.

The groom is the son of Jerry and Anita Raines of Cosmopolis. He graduated from Aberdeen High School in 1980 and works as a maintenance mechanic for the Housing Authority of Grays Harbor.

The bride carried a handerchief that had been given to her by the groom’s grandmother, Mildred Ross of Hoquiam.

The couple honeymooned at Lake Tahoe and Reno, Nev. and are making their home at Cosmopolis.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom