Seems Like Yesterday

Published 10:13 pm Tuesday, May 13, 2008

50 years ago (1958)

Bill Saunders of D.A. Duryee and Co. was selected by the Everett Board of Realtors as its Salesman of the Month for April. Ray Schneider, Board vice president, pinned the award on Saunders’ chest at their meeting this week.

John Patric of Snohomish tangled with the law again this time over his efforts to thwart the installation of a gas pipeline in the parking strip by his Avenue D home. He threatened to turn the garden hose on the workers.

25 years ago (1983)

Tumbling to the ground like felled trees, the two large stacks at Weyerhaeuser’s historic Mill B were demolished simultaneously yesterday evening by explosive charges. The stacks, 202 and 230 feet tall, were part of a mill built in 1915. Once the largest mill of its type in the world, Mill B closed in 1979 and much of is was destroyed by fire in 1982.

An attempt by the U.S. Forest Service to outfox the Big Four beaver might be working. The trailhead and picnic ground in the Big Four area had been flooded by beavers but was now high and dry after Forest Service crews blasted out a three-foot ditch to divert water from the dams.

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