Seems Like Yesterday

Published 10:58 pm Tuesday, February 12, 2008

50 years ago (1958)

Brandishing 33.7 points per game — tops in the nation — Elgin Baylor would play in the Everett High School gym tonight. His Seattle University Chieftains would meet Regis here. Seattle had a 14-4 record and Regis 11-3. The Chiefs had played here last year, too.

A spokesman for the State Highway Department told members of the South Snohomish County Chamber that portions of the Everett-Tacoma freeway might not be finished until 1966. Eight lanes would connect Seattle to the Broadway Cutoff near Eastmont. (The six-lane freeway opened between Eastmont and Seattle’s University District in February 1965.)

25 years ago (1983)

Tom Murdoch received a much-deserved award recently, when he was named by the state’s Northwest Steelhead and Salmon Council chapters as a nonmember conservationist of the year. Murdoch labored for the Snohomish County Department of Public Works and was the prime mover in establishing this area’s highly successful small stream salmon rehabilitation program.

A pair of river rafting classes headed the list of Everett Community college spring evening course. They were entitled River Rafting and Methow White Water. Both gave students a chance to get on the river.

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