Dev.
Hults
Editorial
Now & Then
The edge isn’t really a business, som etim es it’s
barely art. We w ere touched in the darkest part of
o u r tiny hearts by the response to o u r plight. You
have allowed us to get back to the norm al desperate
scram ble for the p rin te r’s check each m onth. We
know who you are, and s ou r names are spoken at
vespers, nightly, except W ednesdays, a t the old
ch a p el.
Deacon McCloud dropped in for services and
b ro u g h t us a copy of the Oregon Historical Q uarterly
(fall 1994) to let us read th e true story of the real
guy w ho gave us the bottle bill. His nam e was
R ichard C ham bers, he lived in Pacific City, and he
h a te d tra sh . You can look it up. After reading th at
we c o u ld n ’t help, going onto the M orse/Nueberger
Feud, a n d the sto ry of how the Oregon Democrats
re b u ilt th e p a rty in the Fifties. We realized, of
co u rse th a t th is stu ff is still going on, and Oregon
continues to have som e of the most unique
ch aracters. T hese are a few quotes;
“The plain fact is, as we should know by now, that
m ost A m ericans have no great desire to be rescued
from greed an d stu p id ity .”
“T h ere’s only one cure for bad (political) parties,
an d th at is to join them and reform them and make
them good.”
Howard Morgan,
(Oregon Dem ocratic Party
C hairm an, *52-’56)
History: read it or re p e a t it.
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To the e d ito r
We ju st recently discovered “The U pper Left Edge” and
th in k it is great read in g -- so please keep publishing!
My hu sb an d an d 1 belong to a group called “The Friends
o f C hapm an Point” an d have follow ed closely the John Yeon
p ro p e rty acquisition. We are aw are th a t the sale started
before John died and that it was done to supposedly endow
p ro p erty he had in the Columbia Gorge. That property has
been “g ifted ” to (I believe) the U of O, and will never be
public. The th ing th a t burns me up is that it is also in the
State of W ashington, so o u r lovely dunes were sacrificed
totally for gain. The only good to com e o u t o f it was that the
W essingers w ere able to acquire C hapm an Point. The Point
was actually a p a rt of Lot #1 on the original du n e plan that
Scanlon presented to the Council.
We bought o u r property on Oak in the early ‘70s. My
h u sb a n d Les was resid e n t engineer on the original sewer
system in C annon Beach. We lived in C.B. for 2 years -- I
loved it then and love it now. We feel so fortunate to have a
hom e in C. B. an d hope to retire there soon.
Keep up the good work. Cannon Beach needs a voice such
as y ours. I u n d e rsta n d the lots on the dunes are selling for
$250,000 to 1 m illion. Can you im agine w hat kind of hom es
we will have on o u r dunes!????
To The Community of Cannon Beach:
S incerely,
M yrna G. W ierson
(Read m ore about this subject on page 8 )
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STOP
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.OCA
HIRING!!!
Now hiring a part time salesperson,
moving to full time (flexible hours)
At fun Kite Shop with good pay
NO kite experience needed, just a basic interest and
ability to learn
Previous sales experience preferred.
Come in person on Saturdays or Sundays to:
ONCE UPON A BREEZE (The Blue Kite Shop
across from the tennis courts in Cannon Beach)
Or send resume to: POB 5, Cannon Beach, OR
971 10
Please, no phone calls
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Locally: Well, last m o n th we told you about
o u r dream s for the C annon Beach w atershed,
silly us. We now find th a t apparently it's a done
deal. Four m ajor tim ber com panies: Plum Creek,
W yerhauser, W illam ette Industries and probably
Sim pson will divide up the holdings of
C avenham , between them selves, with W illamette
g etting o u r w atershed. W hen asked if they m ight
be in terested in selling it to the City of Cannon
Beach, the answ er was, "We are in the business
o f bu y in g tim ber, not selling it." We also have
learn ed th a t o u r little w atershed is w orth closer
to 100 m illion than 2 m illion because it has the
only tim ber over 30 years old left after
C avenham 's ciearcutting. O ur trees average 50
y ears old and th a t is rare for a tree farm these
days. (By the way, did you know th at the natural
life span o f a Douglas Fir is 750 years? W hereas
th e c u rre n t average life span is below 50 years.)
So, there you have it.
The impending sale of Cavenham forest
land is cause for great alarm. While we
have never appreciated Cavenham's policies
of gated forests, herbicide spraying and
immature harvests, at least we knew where
we stood. Soon come new and unknown
players.
It is likely the new "owner" of our
watershed, viewshed and forest will have
borrowed heavily to fund the purchase.
They will need to cut trees quickly to pay off
their debt. Our beautiful Cannon Beach
woodlands, so full of harvestable trees, are
certain to be clear cut. At least Cavenham
claimed they would preserve the view. The
new purchaser is under no such obligation.
The work of the community to forge an
understanding with the timber barons will
come to naught. What can we do?
The Ecola Creek Awareness Project was
created to preserve the quality of our
drinking water. We believe the impending
sale poses an extremely serious threat to
Ecola Creek, the City's water supply,
migratory salmon, and our tourist industry.
We offer this solution: Community
ownership of our watershed.
Join with us.
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