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Water
under
the bridge
Compiled by Bob Duke
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago this week — 2005
ILWACO – They started lining up even before 6 a.m., and this on a
weekend. A few had on capes and robes and pointy hats, even though
it wasn’t close to Halloween.
Instead, the kids (and grown-ups) waiting outside Ilwaco’s Time
Enough Books Saturday were about to get a treat sweeter than any-
thing that holiday has to offer — the latest installment of the Harry
Potter series.
Lewis and Clark and their party of explorers were the
human face of the young United States to the many Native
American tribes they encountered on their epic journey.
Today America still relies on face-to-face contact to pres-
ent its image around the globe. Native-born employees of
its worldwide embassies present informational and cultural
programs to local citizens in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle
East and Central and South America.
Last week, two dozen of those public affairs specialists
visited Fort Clatsop, the last stop of a three-week coast-to-
coast trip on the Lewis and Clark Trail to gain insight into
the character of the country they represent back home.
From a distance it looked like a crash-landed airplane. But the
strange watercraft docked at the West Mooring Basin Monday had just
completed a speedy trek down the Lewis and Clark Trail that would
have amazed the explorers.
Mike Kiester, Bob Windt and Don Bender retraced most of the ex-
plorers’ water route aboard a homemade hovercraft. The three men are
part of a small but dedicated group of people who are fans of the un-
conventional watercraft, which ride over rather than through, the water.
50 years ago — 1965
The police force at Tongue Point Job Corps Center is being doubled
to a total of 24, Director Douglas Olds said Tuesday.
He emphasized that this is part of a general doubling of staff main-
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other maintenance personnel.
Main duty of the police force is gate guard work, but other duties
will be assigned the 24 men, Olds said.
“Just what these duties will be has not yet been fully determined,”
Olds added.
A camper truck caravan pulled into Fort Stevens state
park Thursday afternoon, head-
ed by “the only woman wag-
on-master in the world.”
A total of 20 camper trucks
brought 45 people to the park
with two more due in later that
night. The caravan is an under-
taking of the Portable Camp
Coaches association, a national
camper manufacturing group.
About ten other camper trucks
will join the caravan later.
The State Patrol is concerned over
the threat of potential violence from
motorcycle gangs at two resort areas
during the Labor Day weekend.
The State Highway Commission
was told that roving bands of riders
could be expected to show up during
the next major holiday weekend at
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The Daily Astorian File
of Bellingham and Long Beach on the
American Bridge Division,
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American Bridge Division, US
Steel Corporation, has moved its
big barge mounted crane to the
north side of the ship channel,
where it is shown building a steel
framework to support construc-
tion of the north part of the cross
channel steel truss of the Astoria
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right. Framework of the tempo-
rary bent can be seen.
US Steel Corporation, has
moved its big barge mount-
ed crane to the north side
of the ship channel, where
it is shown building a steel
framework to support con-
struction of the north part
of the cross channel steel
truss of the Astoria bridge.
Unfinished Pier 169 is at
right. Framework of the tem-
porary bent can be seen.
75 years ago — 1940
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Saturday night he discovered a bull in a crate on a side lot just off
Broadway. The animal was in a stooped position and its tail, which
protruded from the crate, swung as if the bull were fretting for free-
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unusual circumstance, a stranger approached and made inquiry as to
the trouble.
“Do you own this bull,” asked Henshaw.
“I certainly do,” replied the stranger.
“Is it your intention to keep that creature crated like that?”
“It certainly is,” replied the owner.
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the chief of police and the humane society.”
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the bull was stuffed and was used in a photographic concession, and
that the swaying tail sticking out of the crate was merely a result of
Seaside’s ocean breezes.
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015
Take me out to the … food court
W
EEKS PRIOR TO THE
season opener, fans of
the Hillsboro Hops received
an email from the team. It
wasn’t an alert about opening
day. It wasn’t about this year’s
players. It was about food.
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items that were being added to the
menu at Ron Tonkin Field, where
the team plays in Hillsboro.
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minor league game that is just two
hours away. Adding the best ball-
park food in North America makes
a good thing better. My grading
of the Hops ballpark cuisine may
be a bit overstatement. But when
you’ve got Oregon craft beers,
Willamette Valley wines and a
menu that even includes a vegan
option, this is big league stuff.
‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things;
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax —
Of cabbages —and kings —’
Through the Looking-glass
of Cabbages and Kings
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WE WATCHED THE HOPS
— a farm team of the Arizona
Diamondbacks — beat the Everett
AquaSox 2-1 last Saturday in a
very good game. As is the case
with minor league ball, we didn’t
recognize any of this year’s play-
ers. It is a new crop of college-age
men. Some played very, very well.
It is always fun to notice where
the players come from. This year’s
team’s origins ranged from the
University of Missouri to an Ar-
izona community college to an
Alabama school. Fenery Ozuna is
from the baseball culture medium
of the Dominican Republic.
A second baseman, Ozuna ex-
ecuted a few stunning put-outs —
diving to reach ground balls and
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grounder is an audition. When the
AquaSox shortstop blew a hard-hit
grounder, he was distraught.
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piece of advice. If it’s a day game,
do not sit on the third-base side.
Because the franchise wanted to
take advantage of the existing soc-
cer stadium, they backed Tonkin
Field up against it. As a result,
Portland Tribune Photo
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the third-base side
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watch the
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hand, listening to
Being around
a wooden bat hit
Kitzhaber and lis-
Hops.
a baseball, hear-
tening to him could
ing the crowd, I
be a slog. It was
thought: “This really is summer.”
homework. But if Tom McCall
were speaking across town, you
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would be there — for the sheer en-
tertainment value.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Kate Brown appears to have a
gave Oregon Gov. Kate Brown ex- measure of the emotional intelli-
cellent treatment on Sunday. The gence that Kitzhaber lacked.
topic was Gov. Brown’s capacity
for what’s called retail politics.
Unlike her predecessor, Gov. John
Kitzhaber, Brown schmoozes
comfortably with lobbyists, legis-
lators and citizens.
One of the ways it became
clear that something was differ-
ent about the third-term version of
Heritage and healing in Joseph
By TIMOTHY EGAN
New York Times News Service
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nhappy small towns are all
alike — claustrophobic,
gossipy, dying.
The elderly live away their days
in a haze of 1950s nostalgia and Fox
News-induced paranoia.
The cops harass the young, while
the meth lab at the edge of town
produces poison for those not clever
enough to leave.
If you live in cities, as most Amer-
icans do, you don’t have much trouble
believing the above notion of small
towns. Many of
them are dying
— nearly one
in three coun-
ties,
mainly
rural, now ex-
perience more
deaths
than
births.
They
can be insular,
though perhaps
no more so than
Timothy
a high-end sub-
Egan
division. As for
gossip, yes it’s toxic — but you can
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tan apartment building. Hello ... New-
man.
Still, unlike big cities, where ano-
nymity allows a citizen to disengage,
small towns force people to live in
close contact with dissonant parts of
the past. You not only know the loser
down the street who once dated your
mom, but you’re also painfully aware
that the Civil War statue in the town
square honors a man whose family
enslaved your ancestors.
I recently went back to the isolat-
ed, alpine hideaway of Joseph, a little
town I’d spent some time in 17 years
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tory of hope for small-town America.
Joseph is a stunning place — set
in a cradle of grass and forests in the
Wallowa Mountains of eastern Ore-
gon. The county, Wallowa, is much
larger in size than the state of Dela-
ware, with the continent’s deepest riv-
er gorge, Hells Canyon, on one side,
and a string of peaks that could be
Switzerland, the Eagle Cap Wilder-
ness, on the other.
With 7,000 residents, the county
has fewer people now than it did in
1910 — similar to hundreds of other
rural areas. Joseph, at the head of the
and a son who went to their graves
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1877, after being forced out of their
homeland by a fraudulent rewrite of
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to Canada. Their route, a journey of
epic heroism, is now commemorated
in the 1,170-mile-long Nez Percé Na-
tional Historic Trail.
Captured just short of the border,
young Chief Joseph and his band
were never allowed to return to their
Oregon home. Joseph famously died
“of a broken heart,” in 1904, in a
distant reservation that still holds his
bones. His father was buried on a
knoll overlooking Lake Wallowa.
But other than the grave of old
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Joseph, perhaps the most visible hint
Tiyapo Campbell, 13, of Culde- of an Indian presence in the area was
sac, Idaho, danced to a first place a sign put up by a local high school,
among other 13-17 year-olds in welcoming people to the “Home of
the Traditional Boys contest at the Savages.”
the 2014 Tamkaliks Celebration in
The Savages are now the Outlaws,
Wallowa.
per a vote of students. And the Nez
Percé have returned as a cultural and
economic force, after working with
Joseph is
whites in the area to purchase land at
the edge of the Wallowa River. This
no Aspen,
weekend, they host a public celebra-
tion, called Tamkaliks — “a recogni-
Colorado, or
tion of the continuing Nez Percé pres-
ence” in the valley, as the tribe puts it.
Sun Valley,
It’s a big tourist draw. The Indians are
Idaho, which
also working to bring sockeye salmon
back to the lake.
is a good
Next week is rodeo, celebrating
the
cowboy traditions of the town,
thing in some
though named the Chief Joseph
Days Rodeo. The two cultures exist
ways.
together in a little valley, even feed
off each other. At the town’s new arts
midsummer night’s dream of Wal- and culture center, ranchers whose
lowa Lake, has just over 1,000 peo- great-great-grandparents may have
stolen land once vital to the Nez Percé
ple.
:KHQ,¿UVWWRRNDORRNWKHSHR- sit side by side with Indians at brisk
ple of Joseph and the surrounding discussions of the past.
Small-town Joseph has become a
area were at war with one another.
The white ranchers and loggers who thriving arts town, with galleries, music
long had control over the place were festivals and probably the best hand-
losing ground to global economic made chocolates in the West. It’s no
forces, and changes in how the feder- Aspen, Colorado, or Sun Valley, Idaho,
al government managed the big swath which is a good thing in some ways.
But the poverty rate is well below the
of public land in the area.
Things got very ugly. A group of national average for rural areas.
“America has been erased like
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pair of local environmentalists. Death a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and
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ation landowners, a dissident voice Native Americans, more than others,
have been the erased. To see a resto-
asked about the Nez Percé Indians.
Oh, THEM. The town is named ration of them, in a valley where they
for Joseph of the Nez Percé — a had lived well for hundreds of years,
Christianized name for both a father is no small miracle.