50 years ago (1955)
A group of Everett businessmen left for Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., via Western Air Lines to become temporary sailors. They would board the USS Pittsburgh, which was coming to Everett for the Fourth of July. They were O.D. Anderson, E.B. Chase, J. Frank Simpson, Edwin Stuchell, J.A. Green, Anthony Dyre, A.S.J. Steele, Stanton Hall and Donald Reed.
Walter Precht was elected president of the 1955 class at the National Foundation of Funeral Services School of Management in Evanston, Ill. Precht was with Challacombe and Fickel Funeral Home.
25 years ago (1980)
Although he had not been mayor for three years, people in Everett still referred to Robert Anderson as “Mayor Bob.” He was currently director of the state Department of Commerce and Economic Development in Gov. Dixy Lee Ray’s administration.
Everett police, in their continuing crackdown on Colby Avenue cruising, issued 172 citations Friday and Saturday to young people driving on downtown’s main street. Drivers from as far away as San Jose, Calif., and Burnaby, B.C., were cited. Citations were also given to drivers from Bellingham, Sedro-Woolley and Kent. Most cited were from Snohomish County.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library
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