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1938 (75 years ago) Port Angeles Mayor Ralph E. Davis announced the appointment of Capt. R.O. “Rube” Ide, a city policeman for more than eight years, as police chief, succeeding the late Robert Banderob. Under the new civil ser vice system, Ide is cur rently listed as captain in the Police Department. Officer James Gallagher is a lieutenant. Other members of the force are listed as patrol men. Mayor Davis will pres ent Ide’s appointment to the City Commission next Wednesday for confirma tion. In the meantime, Ide will take over his new duties immediately. 1963 (50 years ago) An improved direct route to Tacoma as part of a drive-around route to Seattle for North Olympic Peninsula residents will be built if a Kitsap County proposed highway system catches on. A four-lane freeway between the Hood Canal and Tacoma Narrows bridges and from the latter bridge to the nearly com pleted Seattle freeway are included in the proposal. Tolls are expected to be removed from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in a few years, making the planned route toll-free, said Rudy Hensel, spokesman for the Kitsap County Good Roads Association, 1988 (25 years ago) An autopsy revealed that a Port Ludlow woman died of multiple gunshot wounds in what authorities believe was a murder-sui cide. The woman’s body was found alongside her hus band’s in the area above Ludlow Creek falls off Par adise Bay roads. He died of a single gun shot to the head. Sheriff Mel Mefford said there is no known motive for the slayings.
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