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Oregon Daily Emerald
The independent campus newspaper for the UO community
IN BRIEF
Vancouver man dies
in small plane crash
PORTLAND — The authorities
identified the pilot of a small plane that
crashed along some railroad tracks not
far from Portland International Airport.
Eric Molstead, 43, of Vancouver,
Wash., was the only occupant aboard
the plane when it went down Saturday
night near the Heron Lakes Golf Club,
said A.J. Jackson, spokeswoman for
Portland Fire and Rescue. Molstead
died at the scene.
; It was not known where the pilot
was headed, but there is a private air
field that serves small planes just
across the Columbia River from Port
land International Airport.
National Transportation Safety
Board investigators were examining
the wreckage Sunday.
Entire Oregon coast
closed to clamming
NEWPORT — For the first time
since 2002, the entire Oregon coast is
closed to clamming.
A naturally occurring toxin has ex
ceeded safe limits in razor clams,
prompting state agriculture officials to
close north coast beaches last Tliesday,
followed by the closure of central coast
beaches on Thursday. South coast
beaches had already been shut down.
The toxin, domoic acid, is produced
by algae and is stored by razor clams
in their fat. Eating contaminated shell
fish can cause minor illness within
minutes, with symptoms including
vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps
and headache. Severe cases can result
in memory problems and even death.
When beaches were closed to clam
ming in October 2002, it took a year
before some finally reopened. Other
beaches never did.
This time, it’s anyone’s guess when
clam digging will resume. Ninety-five
percent of clamming in Oregon occurs
on north beaches.
“At these levels, I’d say we’re
done for the summer,” said Matt
Hunter, shellfish biologist with the
Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife in Astoria.
For people who flocked to Clatsop
Beach, an 18-mile stretch from Sea
side to Astoria, it was a disappointing
end to what had looked like a very
promising spring clam dig.
At Bud’s Campground in Gearhart,
they were turning people away before
the clam closure was announced. Af
terward, many campers packed up
and went back home.
“The main disappointment was that
people had made plans and came all
the way down here,” said campground
owner Bill Roady.
( Biologists at the state Department of
Agriculture barely saw it coming,
e spokeswoman Deb Cannon said.
“In Clatsop, the levels of domoic
acid went from 11.5 (parts per million)
to 57 and 68 in three days, which is a
huge jump,” Cannon said. Levels
f above 20 parts per million are consid
ered unsafe and trigger the closures.
Goldschmidt papers
transferred to Portland
PORTLAND — The city of Portland
is now in possession of three boxes of
documents dating from former Gov.
Neil Goldschmidt’s term as mayor in
the 1970s.
The papers were already public, but
interest in them grew after the former
governor admitted a year ago to sexu
ally abusing a 14-year-old girl while he
was mayor of Portland.
Secretary of State Bill Bradbury said
the state has now released all of Gold
schmidt’s records of state and city
service that it possibly can.
City auditor Gary Blackmer said the
three boxes of documents will join a
collection of 80 other boxes that cover
a period of what he calls fundamental
change in city business.
The Associated Press