A Glance at the Past

100 years ago from the Raymond Herald

January 1, 1915

Lumbermen deny business revival

Tacoma, December 31- The following statement, signed by all the prominent millmen of the city, decrying the fact that certain newspapers of the city should have sent out broadcast unfounded accounts of a stimulation in the local mill business, was made today.

"Such glowing accounts of a supposed revival in the lumber business have recently appeared in some newspapers that it seems to us timely to correct any false impressions of the true conditions."

Woman chases four burglars

Three or four men, presumably hobos stopped at the home of a Polish lady who lives in a house just across the rail road track from the Columbia Box mill yesterday morning, and one of the men entered and asked for something to eat. The lady had $20 in currency lying on the window sill, and as son as the man saw it he made a grab for it and secure a $10 bill. The woman started after him and he with his companions started up the track to the Gulch near the Coats Shingle when they took to the woods. The woman was joined by a man and followed the men until they entered the woods, when they returned home and notified Sheriff Bell, who in turn called up Deputy Sheriff Culver at this place.

50 years ago from the Raymond Herald

December 31, 1964

State timber sale seems headed for record fiscal year

If the present pace continues, sales of state owned timber may establish an income record for a fiscal year.

State land commissioner Bert L. Cole said this week that the first six months sales for fiscal year 1965 is $2.3 million more then the same period of fiscal year 1964. The volume of state owned timber sold during the first half of the current fiscal year is also higher.

Raymond Hayes killed in cable splicing accident

Raymond Richard Hayes, 29, a lineman for TV Smith Television Cable Company was electrocuted Monday afternoon when a cable he was splicing on a power pole in the South Fork area came in contact with a 7,200 volt line.

A fellow workman, Conrad Strozyk, radioed for assistance and members of the Raymond Fire Department rescue squad and a PUD crew removed Hayes from the pole. Resuscitation was attempted by the rescue squad and Hayes was rushed to Willapa Harbor Hospital by the Murphy ambulance where he was pronounced dead.

25 years ago from the Willapa Harbor Herald

January 3, 1990

Hospital expects revenues to increase

With Willapa Harbor Hospital expected to be back in the baby and surgery business, the 1990 budget is healthier than it has been in years.

Those two factors are behind the projected $418,857 increase in operating revenues at the hospital, from $2,474,513 to $2,893,370 said Administrator Victor Vander Does.

Another major factor in the bulging budget is unprecedented timber tax receipts, he said. The hospital got $100,000 more in that tax in total of $366,247. The budgeted ta receipts for 1990 is $333,570.

South Bend businessmen protest ban on turning

The solid yellow stripe recently painted on the street in front of Pioneer Grocery and Southwest Hardware store brought a contingent from those businesses to South Bend City Council last Wednesday to register their objections to it.

The council had the stripe put in to prevent drivers from turning into the diagonal parking spaces in front of the store from the South bound lane. Departing from south from the spaces is also banned. Similar stripes were put in front and on the side of the post office. As it is illegal to cross a solid stripe, the "u-turns" as they described at the council meeting, are forbidden.