75 years ago
August 1, 1944
John Hannula Jr. Fish Co. at the foot of D Street in Aberdeen is advertising fresh cod and tuna at 25¢ a pound, whole salmon at 30¢ a pound and ocean halibut at 40¢ a pound.
August 2, 1944
D day was here!
This was not just another raid over the coast of France. This was the real McCoy. This was the day everybody had been sweating, hoping and praying for.
“We knew it just 60 seconds before we walked on the field,” said Staff Sgt. Louis Osina, tail gunner on a B-17 who was in on it and one of the first to return here to tell about it. Home on furlough, Osina is visiting his sister, Mrs. Anna Kralovich on East Cedar Street.
“As we sat in the briefing room studying that small strip of shoreline we didn’t dream of the importance of our target,” he said. “We thought it was just another raid as we had been bombing Pas de Calais quite regularly. Not until we were all ready to leave and had received our final instructions were we told the big secret. And as we walked from the room onto the field we were forbidden to even speak to the mechanics who had greased the planes before they started on the most important flight they would ever take.”
50 years ago
August 1, 1969
It was a tense moment. Thirty intrepid photographers stood knee deep in the chilly surf at Pt. Grenville. Then lenses zoomed and shutters clicked as a furry little mammal poked his bewhiskered mug out of a cage.
The sea otter was making a comeback.
Moreover he was cute.
After an absence of more than half a century, the sea otter had returned to the Washington coast. And the scene just described was repeated 28 times yesterday afternoon as Game Department officials “planted” a colony of Alaskan sea otter at this rocky beach near Taholah.
The sea otter project has the blessings of Gov. Dan Evans, who explained that the state is not trying to re-establish a fur industry, but seeks merely to “establish once again an unusual and interesting mammal that rightfully deserves a place in the state’s wildlife heritage.”
August 2, 1969
Saturday, no newspaper published
25 years ago
August 1, 1994
You’ve probably always wanted a Rolls Royce.
The South Bend School District has a beauty. It’s glossy black with leather seats and genuine wood trim.
Bids on the 1936 model “Barker Saloon” will be opened Aug. 25. The minimum bid is $40,000 but remember, this isn’t just any car. Reportedly, it was once owned by the Queen Mother.
In 1990 it was appraised at $30,000 but car fanciers have since told the district it could receive much more than that, according to Superintendent Virgie Fryrear.
The car was a gift to the school district last year from an anonymous patron.
Proceeds from the sale of the car will go to buy playground equipment among other things, Fryrear says.
August 2, 1994
When Glen Ramiskey was growing up in South Aberdeen, two portraits hung on the wall in his parents’ home — FDR and Harry Bridges.
One was president of the United States, the other of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. If there was any distinction in stature, it was lost on Ramiskey, the son of a son of a Longshoreman.
Now, Ramiskey, 44, has been elected to the post of coast committeeman, one of the top positions in the Longshoremen’s division of the ILWU.
The election means Ramiskey and this wife Andrea will be living in San Francisco for at least the next three years.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
