Seems Like Yesterday

Published 9:00 pm Saturday, December 27, 2003

Plans were completed for the junior members dance at Everett Golf and Country Club. A number of summer parties were arranged. In charge were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Newton, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Whitehead and Dr. and Mrs. C.L. Hoeffler.

Rearing up along a steep hillside on the north bank of the South Fork of the Sultan River was the concentrator mill of Kromona Mines Corp. The firm was producing gold, silver, copper and tungsten. It was expected to be in 24-hour-a-day production early in 1954. A dormitory housed 25 men.

The ski lifts at Mount Pilchuck were swinging in the breeze. The downhill ski area was closed probably for the season, and possibly forever. There were serious problems with the amount of snow. The Pilchuck road provided good cross-country skiing.

Officiating a recent basketball game in Edmonds was Rosemary McLaughlin, a Bothell mother of four. A former AAU basketball player in Washington D.C., she began her officiating career 12 years before. Having just returned from four days with the touring Czechoslovakian women’s team, she was believed to be the only woman doing such work in the state.

By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library