50 YEARS AGO (1959)
First National Bank of Everett was to construct an imposing new branch (its eighth) south of the B&M Shopping Center on the east side of Evergreen Way. Bank president William Jenkins said there were 27,000 people in the general area. William Murray Campbell would manage the branch.
Bill Cross, outgoing chairman of the Retail Trade Development Committee of Everett Chamber of Commerce, handed over a symbolic dollar to Stan Lloyd. Lloyd was the new chairman and the dollar represented good luck for “Fall Dollar Days,” the committee’s first autumn special event.
25 YEARS AGO (1984)
The Everett Area Chamber of Commerce, Everett Rotary Club and the League of Women Voters of Snohomish County were co-sponsoring a candidates’ forum with Rep. Al Swift and Jim Klauder, candidates for the 2nd District seat in Congress, at a luncheon at the Everett Pacific Hotel.
Marysville police had your basic pig-in-the-park this morning, and for a while the porker nearly slipped through their fingers. For two hours, a 500-pound pig wandered about Comeford Park, eluding the hands and ropes of several men. Dispatcher Kandi Eldrige said a woman reported the pig in the downtown park about 4:45 a.m.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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