75 years ago

Sept. 6, 1941

Grays Harbor will be represented in the Pacific Northwest pro-amateur golf championship at the Seattle golf club Monday by County Club Pro Clyde Shoemaker and smooth-stroking Herb Fovargue, club team captain.

Nearly 40 years ago Walter Fovargue and Pro Mortie Dutra went to Seattle and won the tournament. They set a tourney record that stood up for many years.

Sept. 7, 1941

Sunday, no newspaper published

50 years ago

Sept. 6, 1966

An estimated 3,500 persons taxed the broad avenues of South Bend to capacity yesterday in viewing the varied activities of the annual Labor Day celebration in its final day.

The Grand Parade was at 11. The local high school band was the only musical unit in the line of march, but it performed admirably though hastily organized for the event in the first few days of the school year.

In the float division, first place was given to the First Baptist Church of South Bend followed by the entries from Olson’s Variety and Western Music.

Sept. 7, 1966

One hundred pounds of salmon was staked against 100 pounds of Lake Superior herring in a wager that the Hoquiam Eagles Club could solicit more new members in a year than the Jackson, Michigan lodge. The Michigan lodge tried to offer 100 pounds of Michigan maple syrup in their end of the deal, but H.C. (Kelley) Henrickson, Hoquiam grand inside guard, told them “I couldn’t take maple syrup since I am a former Wisconsin man and partial to Wisconsin syrup.”

During the last fiscal year, the Hoquiam club recruited 130 new members, a number that Henrickson said would be small as compared to the number they will recruit this year. Potential members who have been lodge shopping or who would consider the possibility of joining a civic organization are urged to visit Henrickson for a pep talk on all the good things Eagles have been doing these days.

25 years ago

Sept. 6, 1991

Weyerhaeuser plans to auction off the equipment and machinery from the sawmill it purchased in Aberdeen from the Boise Cascade Corp. in the mid-1980s.

The mill on the north bank of the Chehalis River near the Port of Grays Harbor was never operated by Weyerhaeuser. The company bought it when Boise Cascade was liquidating its holdings in this area.

The mill is located on almost 60 acres of prime waterfront property in an industrial area. It is immediately adjacent to the Port of Grays Harbor’s Terminal 4, in the heart of the Port’s cargo area. Port Executive Director Cliff Muller says the Port is definitely interested in the property, but Port officials will wait until after the auction before deciding whether to pursue the land.

Sept. 7, 1991

Tommy Lentz of Aberdeen had already conquered snow skiing, mastered hunting and climbed Mount Rainier with his daughter, Shari.

Twelve years ago his found “the ultimate adventure” — jumping out of airplanes and Lentz, a tree faller who lists his age as “fortysomething” has been skydiving ever since.

His Fire Mountain Skydiving Team that includes Tim Weible and Roger Stone of Rochester and Don Bentley of Elma will once again parachute into Olympic Stadium tonight as part of the opening ceremony for Loggers Playday.

They’ll jump from about 3,500 feet from a Cessna 182 piloted by John Wright of Hoquiam. The daredevils will spiral down under their square canopy parachutes with a trail of smoke behind them. Stone will likely have a video camera attached to his gear to record the event and one of the other men will be carrying an American flag.

While Lentz, Stone and Bentley land softly on the stadium field, Weibel will land with a splash in the log rolling pond.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom