50 YEARS AGO (1959)
Appointment of Snohomish County’s first Airport Commission, under the Legislature’s new airport act, was announced. Members were Chairman Robert Best of Everett, Vice Chairman Earle Heifort of Snohomish, Secretary C.W. Thornberry of Everett, Robert Grewe of Arlington and Gordon Maxwell of Edmonds.
New Fords were on display tomorrow at Hutchings Motors including the Falcon, first of America’s new-size cars that represented a breakthrough in design that quite likely would alter the future of the automobile industry.
25 YEARS AGO (1984)
Helen Jackson and her daughter Anna Marie, Lori Stark, and Jack and Diane Walkley were among the 100 people present from Everett to see the commissioning of the USS Henry M. Jackson in New London, Conn. Petty Officer James Sunderland of Everett, a crew member of the new sub, raised the commissioning pennant.
It rained on Granite Falls’ parade over the weekend, but it didn’t seem to dampen anyone’s spirit. Noel Brooks said you learned to love the rain when you lived in Granite Falls as he stood at the curb with his wife, Kathy, and their preschoolers Mike and Amber. People lined the streets for several blocks in all directions.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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