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From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago this week — 2005
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an authorization bill for $965,000 expansion of Cape Disappoint-
ment Coast Guard lifeboat station, Sen. Warren Magnuson of
Washington announced in Washington, D.C.
Magnuson said the proposed expenditure would modernize the
present station and “consolidate functions the Coast Guard now
conducts at Point Adams, Ore.”
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Warrenton soil conservation service CCC camp when possibly the
largest crowd of Clatsop County residents that ever participated in
the annual local observance turned out to help celebrate the seventh
birthday of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
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lor’s Astoria, Monday petitioned the city council to provide an ade-
quate domestic water supply to their homes. The petition said that
on account of the lack of pressure at certain times, the supply of do-
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Army Day observance. Four anti-aircraft machine guns from the
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