50 years ago (1958)

Walter Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Jones, 808 Crown Drive, reported to the Naval Air Technical Training Center at Norman, Okla., where he would attend the airman fundamentals school.

Dr. Roger Knipe, Snohomish County public health officer, spoke on services offered by the health department when Mount Pilchuck PTA met. Members of Rose of Lake Stevens Blue Bird group entertained with Hawaiian dance numbers and the president announced a meeting in the school multipurpose room to discuss school expansion problems.

25 years ago (1983)

The Herald’s Kathy Tussing wrote a column of gasoline prices. For the first time in several years, the price of regular-grade gasoline had dropped below a dollar a gallon at many local filling stations. The lowest in a survey of 50 stations was 94.7 cents per gallon. Foreign oil ministers were meeting in emergency session to avert a price war.

General Hospital of Everett was soon to open its new four-story, 100,000-square-foot tower adjacent to the existing medical-surgical building. It would house a surgical suite, an expanded emergency department, a new nursery and a critical care floor.

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