County assessor’s forces got the feel of their new offices in one of the final phases of operation shifts in the courthouse. The assessor’s office moved into the space formerly used by the treasurer. Assessor Carroll Barlow and his staff got more room in more pleasant surroundings.
Harry Kingshott, a butcher at Everett Meat Co., was one who practiced what was almost a lost art in meat cutting. When he started his trade 45 years before, butchers not only decorated for their own shops but also the cuts they took to restaurants and private parties.
Metropolitan Construction Co. of Everett had a new contract to build six dry kilns for the E.A. Nord Co. The additional kilns would increase Nord’s lumber-drying capacity by more than 30 percent, said Edward Glasgow, vice president of research and development.
An exchange of leased land between Firshemn’s Boat Shop and Dalgety Seafoods cleared the way for construction of a new cold-storage plant on the Everett waterfront. It would be built by the Port of Everett. Dalgety was formerly Everett Fish Co.
By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at Everett Public Library
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