25 Years Ago

Thursday, Jan. 12, 1984

• Nancy C. Cole of Carnation didn’t win the big one Jan. 4 in the state lottery drawing, but she was still overwhelmed by her $50,000 prize. “I don’t think the shock has set in yet,” Mrs. Cole said minutes after the drawing was completed. “I don’t think I’ll ever forget this evening.” The 38-year-old Valley resident plans to use the $50,000 (minus 20 percent withheld for the Internal Revenue Service) to pay off some bills. After that, she wants a new home.

• Two Weyerhaeuser sawmill workers recently received a state award for their role in saving the life of a fellow worker. But in the view of Harold Howe, one of the two honored, his biggest reward is just seeing Bob Morrow alive. Howe and fellow worker Pat Busby used CPR to save the life of Morrow, who was clinically dead when they reached him.

• Lower Snoqualmie Valley School District 407 will no longer support a plan to annex its property into Carnation unless individual property owners have more say over the decision, the Carnation City Council heard Jan. 3. The two-year-old request by the district for annexation of Tolt High School into town spurred the effort to annex lands adjacent to the southern boundaries of the city.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Jan. 15, 1959

• The school board of Snoqualmie Valley District 410 met Monday night and by unanimous vote elected the new superintendent. However, the board’s choice of successor for Superintendent E.R. Opstad is under contract to another school district; he cannot accept the new post until his old school board has released him, and for that reason he has asked that no announcement be made this week.

• An overheated fireplace caused an undetermined amount of damage to the Bert Willards’ new home on Cedar Falls Road about 1 a.m. Sunday. Five firemen responded to the call during miserable weather conditions. They narrowly escaped injury because of the slick roads and closely following traffic.

• The long arm of the law is on the trail of a long-armed burglar, who with the help of accomplices broke into the Fred Lewis Ford dealership in North Bend Tuesday morning, wrecking and looting the safe. About $1,200 in currency and a number of checks were taken by the thieves, who showed evidence of professional safe-cracking ability. The heavy safe that normally stood at the doorway to Fred’s office had been rolled into the back shop around 2 a.m.

75 Years Ago

Thursday, Jan. 11, 1934

• Frank Bergland of Carnation Farm was found dead in his car after having crashed into a cement bulkhead near Silver Lake on the Seattle-Everett highway late Sunday afternoon. It is the opinion of the coroner that Mr. Bergland, who had just recently recovered from a serious siege of pneumonia, suffered a heart attack and completely lost control of his car. Bergland, 67, was employed as a carpenter and was one of the farm’s most trusted employees.

• Enthusiasm is waxing fast and furious in high school basketball circles this past week, as the different schools get into their stride and size up their chances of winning the coveted place at the head of the column this season.