Seems Like Yesterday

Published 11:23 pm Monday, March 10, 2008

50 years ago (1958)

J.R. Pennington, a native of Idaho, arrived in Everett this week to assume his new duties as manager of the Montgomery Ward store on Colby Avenue. He succeeded H.A. Hethcote, who was named manager of the company’s new store in Vancouver, Wash. Pennington, an employee with the company for the past seven years, was most recently merchandising manager at the Bakersfield, Calif., store.

Shamrock Hop was the name chosen for the Stillaguamish District Horizon Girls Tolo at the AOUW Hall in Arlington. Girls working on the dance were Linda Aylesworth, Patti Hilton, Judy Russell, Pat Sather, Millie Loth, Mary Lou Dunning and Elaine Engles. Chaperones were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Roal, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hamlin, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Sather, Mr. and Mrs. Gil Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wolfsen, and Mrs. and Mrs. Vern Hilton.

25 years ago (1983)

The Washington redistricting commission was to review a plan that carved the state into eight congressional districts from seven districts and mollified Everett residents by returning them to the 2nd District. Mukilteo would also be returned to the 2nd District.

Ralph Bargabes, an Army staff sergeant from Everett, was decorated with the fourth award of the Army Commendation Medal in Kitzingen, West Germany.

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