75 years ago
November 6, 1943
Nelmar John Rigstad was the lucky soldier selected recently at Chicago, with a sailor and marine to be guests of Connie Bennett, famed stage and screen star, at the Erlanger theater and later accompanied her to the Pump Room.
Rigstad, a private, is now attending the army radio engineering school at the University of Iowa. He is a graduate of Weatherwax High School and Washington State College and has been in the army since February.
His mother yesterday received a letter from him telling of his “date with Connie.”
November 7, 1943
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
November 6, 1968
Republican Richard M. Nixon was elected 37th President of the United States today and won an immediate pledge of support from Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey, the man he narrowly defeated.
Through the long night after the polls had closed, Nixon and Humphrey were in a virtual deadlock — and they nearly tied in the popular vote. Nixon’s edge was only 189,017 votes with more than 67 million votes.
But in the electoral vote column, where presidencies are won, Nixon had 287, Humphrey 172 and George C. Wallace, 45.
November 7, 1968
A new machine which will simultaneously “hand-carve” 16 designer door panels has been installed at Simpson Timber Company’s McCleary Door Plant.
The machine will produce carved panels for two new lines of doors of European design using local stain-quality Douglas fir, and hemlock, according to Dave Leland, plant manager.
A unique 16-spindle panel carving machine gives the doors a hand-crafted appearance. Actual carving is done at a master copy center. Two men who are 20-year veterans at the McCleary plant are training this week to operate the new machine They are Art Bell of McCleary and Nolan Walker of Elma.
25 years ago
November 6, 1993
What he likes: Spending time with patients.
What he doesn’t like: Spending time with paperwork and increasingly restrictive regulations.
Dr. Welland Orchard, 68 of Montesano, has closed his practice.
While the day to day running of the office is over, the long-time family practice doctor will retain 100 to 150 nursing home patients.
Dr. Orchard and his wife, Annette, moved to Grays Harbor in 1979, after he spent 24 years practicing in a small town in North Dakota. In 1981 he began work at his Montesano office, next to the police station.
November 7, 1993
• When Julie Yearout tap-danced to “Honky-Tonk Blues” at the Miss Grays Harbor Scholarship Pageant last night, she mimed an ebullient Old West gunslinger.
It turned out the 19-year-old Grays Harbor College student’s aim was true as she earned the Miss Grays Harbor 1994 crown.
Yearout said she felt well-prepared and confident as she performed in her white tasseled gymnastics outfit and showy cowboy boots. She supplemented her dance with a composed appearance in a scarlet evening gown. She also clearly did well in the swimsuit competition.
The daughter of Darrell and Jeri Bell of Aberdeen, Yearout is working toward her associate of arts degree.
• The Ocosta Wildcats survived a marathon day of matches to take third place in the Southwest Washington District 4 Volleyball tournament Saturday at Kalama, earning a spot in next weekend’s state tourney at Lake Chelan.
“We’re peaking at the right time,” jubilant coach Barb Rasmus exulted.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
