News from our past: Eastmont champs

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The 1961 Eastmont Wildcats baseball team, North Central League champions with an 18-1 record. Front row, from left: Eddie Clark (manager), Robbie Scott, Daryl Tomlinson, Dick Engley, Frankie Insell, Lloyd Porterfield, Don Bull and Clarence Gustafson (manager); back row, from left: Lester Jaspers, Jerry Fife, Tom Ellis, Rod Moser, coach Wes Newbill, Chet Ogee, Vaughn Hall and Pat Robertson.

100 years ago

Theodore Bales of Orondo was a business visitor to Wenatchee today.

B.C. Brockman of Douglas is in Wenatchee today on business matters.

Mrs. J. Murison of Mansfield is visiting today in Wenatchee.

Sarah Mills left today for Orondo to visit her daughter, Mrs. A. Swan.

J.F. Hunt of Waterville unloaded a 48-hp Winton Six this morning in Wenatchee and will drive it back this afternoon.

50 years ago

Young and old of Mansfield gathered Saturday to celebrate the town’s “Play Day.” The event, held for about the last 10 years, featured a parade, rodeo, races and a community potluck dinner. Larry Bowers was general chairman.

Jennie Roys’ sixth grade class from Brewster took a field trip to The Daily World’s offices this week. The group included Jerry Divis, Ken Holloway, Kenneth Allen, Peter Crane, John McCarver, Scott Schulke, Terry Jenkins, Larry McLean, Terry Rose, Don Knapp, Gwenith Elwell, Donna Hadley, Joanne Riggan, Patsy Wick, Darlene Warford, Judy Alexander, Mary Berger, Renee Folkes, Jane Getz, Maureen Gibbs, Vickie Johnson, Nancy McLean, Sandra Ralls, Susie Ross, Julie Troutman, Margaret Whitlam, Sue Wick, Merilyn Snider, Cynthia North, Serena Stone, Patty Anderson, Laurel Brotherton, Marianne Henderson, Roberta Haines and Maryella Wickenhagen.

25 years ago

Hanging floral baskets was the featured topic at the May 12 meeting of the Quad-City Christian Women’s Club at the Brewster Grange Hall. Cathy Habermehl of the Green Thumb Nursery in Bridgeport demonstrated how to plant arrangements in baskets and how to care for the flowers. Sharon and Shannon Hornbeck of Brewster provided music for the meeting. The club is part of a national association of homemakers who meet once a month for lunch.

Kurt McKee has been elected student body president at Eastmont High School for 1986-87. Other officers are Nicole Kiesz, vice president; Jocelyn Mundinger, secretary; and Jennifer Seal, treasurer.

10 years ago

Douglas County Hearing Examiner Don Moos this week amended zoning of 160 acres of orchard land southwest of Pangborn Memorial Airport, clearing the way for development of an 18-hole golf course. Jace Miller, manager of T.R. Miller Orchard Inc., wants to open the course next year. Miller soon will be seeking county grading and excavation permits to begin work, said Brad Kilby, an associate county planner. Moos added a recreational overlay zone to existing commercial-agricultural zoning for 160 acres bordered by 8th Street Southeast, South Nile Avenue, South Union Avenue and the top of the bluffs above Highway 28.

Pangborn Memorial airport picked up a Federal Aviation Administration award last month for its innovative work to remain open during a 1999 runway rehabilitation project. The award was one of four given by the FAA in its seven-state Northwest mountain region.

Fifty-four members of Rebekah lodges through the state attended the 100-year meeting of Rebekah District Association No. 17 on March 31 in Waterville. The agenda included a 100-year history of the district co-presented by Fay Bowers-Holland of Waterville.