Seems Like Yesterday

Published 11:06 pm Saturday, May 3, 2008

50 years ago (1958)

Ed Tutland, composing room foreman, and Bob Enger, assistant foreman, examined advertising copy being produced on the latest model mixer-type Linotype operated by Mel Sovde. The typesetting machine was the largest available in type range and capacity and had been installed as part of The Herald’s future expansion program.

Junie Ames was painting the big globe, which would be part of the Everett Chamber of Commerce float this year carrying the slogan “Everett Serves the World.” Kay Bucklin would ride the wave. Bob Graff and Lee Wicklund constructed the float.

25 years ago (1983)

Arlington leader J. Boyd Ellis was dead at 88. He was largely responsible for the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area. An avid photographer of the Cascades, he eventually started the Ellis Post Card Co. and recorded most of the Pacific Northwest on picture post cards.

Gertrude LeMoine, a volunteer worker at Volunteers of America, would be celebrating Mother’s Day at her Silver Lake home with eight of her nine children. They included three sets of twins. Her children were Clayton, Clifford, Marlene, Brookes, Marilyn Simmons, Don, Frances Sawyer, Jeannette Adams and Judy Adams. Jeannette and Judy were not twins but they were married to brothers.

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