50 YEARS AGO (1960)
Everett Toastmasters Club No. 117 met at Smitty’s Northside with Robert Brown presiding. Participating were Robert McGrath, George Karas, Harold Cook, William Cosgrove, Walter Duncan, Robert Ryder, Louis Ruppert, Irving Gaines, George Whittingham and George Christensen. John Miner was inducted into membership.
Sears Roebuck Foundation and the local store hosted a 4-H banquet at the Masonic Temple. Receiving awards from Sears representative Philip Simpson were Margery Lovegreem, Silvana, and Bill Porter and Ron Santeford, Swans Trail. More than 125 young people received recognition.
25 YEARS AGO (1985)
Two local fighters were to risk unblemished records during a boxing card Dec. 4 at the Everett Pacific Hotel. Edmonds featherweight Robert Shannon, a former U.S. Olympian, would take on Pedro Gonzales of Mexico. Marysville’s Jo Belinch, 9-0 as a junior welterweight, would face an as-yet unnamed opponent.
ScotTowels Junior, which began rolling out of the Everett mill, were selling well. Now the company was introducing “big-big” rolls of ScotTowels. Mike Kilpatric, spokesman for Scott here, said the mill barely broke even in 1982, but had shown profits every year since.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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