50 years ago (1962)
Everett passed Yakima to become the state’s fourth largest city, a place it hadn’t held since 1940, with Lowell and Pinehurst approving annexation. Its population was estimated to be about 45,500. With the newly annexed areas, the city would have a size of about 25 square miles. Lowell and Pinehurst would officially become part of Everett on Feb. 28.
Marjorie Zuber, 4420 Glenwood Ave., was the top winner among four others in the Longine Watch contest who received their awards through Weisfield’s here. She was presented a Longine-Wittenauer watch by Jerry DuRuz, store manager.
25 years ago (1987)
William A. Black of Everett was appointed to a four-year term of the Everett Community College board of directors by Gov. Booth Gardner. Black, superintendent of the Puget Sound Agency Bureau of Indian Affairs, filled the position vacated by H. Roy Yates of Everett.
Pilchuck Mountain, the mile-high peak east of Everett and Marysville, was now officially named Mount Pilchuck, which it had been commonly called for decades. The change was made by the Washington State Board on Geographic Names. Pilchuck was an Indian word meaning “red water.”
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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