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North Coast Symphonic
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D AILY A STORIAN
Founded in 1873
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one of those iconic
Americans who was a lot more
than most of us realize.
BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager
CARL EARL, Systems Manager
JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager
His marches were only one-third
of what he composed. I learned that
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whose Sousa concert last Sunday
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year, I realized they have raised their
game by a couple notches.
In addition to favorites such as
The Washington Post march and The
Stars and Stripes Forever, the band
played works that would have been
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– Gilbert and Sullivan, a fanfare
based on Verdi’s Otello and Amazing
Grace.
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of bands at Lewis and Clark Col-
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friend who was retiring as the band’s
conductor suggested the position to
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do,” he said. “It’s been a good mar-
riage.”
The band’s players are an amal-
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persons and some from outside the
region. “We have a couple ninth
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SAMANTHA MCLAREN, Circulation Manager
Compiled by Bob Duke
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago this week — 2005
Steel and Judy Jolly were the only ones on their block to evacuate during
Seaside’s tsunami drill Saturday.
“Our neighbors who’ve lived here 15 years said, ‘We know where to go.
We’re not doing it,’” Judy Jolly said.
However, she decided it would be fun. “These things don’t happen in
Seattle,” she said.
Steel Jolly is a veteran of the 1964 tsunami in Seaside, which was caused
by the Alaska earthquake. “I was ironing clothes to go back to college and I
ironed through the whole thing,” he said. Afterward, he saw the trailer park
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“It gave us an appreciation of what this thing was,” he said.
In this era of drywall, there’s not much call for plasterers. But
the art and craft of plastering was on display last week at Asto-
ria’s historic Liberty Theater. A crew of nine skilled plasterers
from Kingsmen Contracting of Vancouver, Wash., were repair-
ing, and in many cases recreating, the intricate plaster work that
decorates the lobby and auditorium of the downtown landmark
“It’s going to be beautiful. You won’t be able to tell what was
done in the ’20s and what was done now,” enthused Michael
Foster, a member of the board of Liberty Restoration Inc., the
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Sea Trail Tuesday in a planned airlift of construction materials to remote
sections of the six-mile pedestrian path.
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route members of the Corps of Discovery trekked between their winter quar-
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The super-tanker Manhattan moved to the grain loading
dock at Terminal 4 in Portland Thursday and began loading a
50,000 ton cargo of grain.
The huge, 940-foot-long ship had been docked at Swan Island
since Sunday while a crew of 90 men worked 24 hours a day
cleaning its cargo tanks in preparation for loading.
Careful preparations are being made in loading the Manhat-
tan because of the 35-foot channel depth in the Columbia River.
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water, loaded.
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If the Columbia River is to retain its position as a leading port, there is a
dilemma.
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original dredging and for maintenance, and with increasing problem of spoil
disposal and wave damage along shore? Or will it be more economical to
halt super ships at Astoria and unload them here?
It would be cheaper to build modern facilities for handling grain and oth-
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75 years ago — 1940
A resolution to bar radical Finnish newspapers and publica-
tions and “other publications which promote un-American activ-
ities and which carry out the orders of the soviet headquarters in
Moscow, from the mails was adopted by the vote of 342 to 0, at a
meeting of local patriotic Finns held at Suomi Hall Sunday night.
Word reached Astoria today that Walter Walkinen, who was born here
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was killed in action during the recent war with Russia.
So pleased were Uncle Sam’s soldiers at Fort Stevens with the
entertainment furnished by the Astoria Chamber of Commerce
goodwill trip Monday night that they wanted to have the Astori-
ans appear regularly.
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down and uprooted on orders of postal authorities because occupants of the
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The trees, long a landmark of Astoria’s downtown section, were planted
by direction of John Hobson, collector of customs here during the second
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All the boys and girls in Astoria will have an opportunity to
enter their pets in the Astoria Pet Parade on Saturday, May 25,
because the event is open to any boy or girl who has a pet of some
kind.
Cecil Penney, chairman of the parade, has formed his assist-
ing committee and worked out tentative plans, according to the
Chamber of Commerce. The divisions of the parade have been
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tumes, model aeroplanes and model boats.
Onlookers may expect anything from toddlers and their St.
Bernards, to teen-age youngsters and their pet salamanders.
‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things;
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax —
Of cabbages —and kings —’
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of Cabbages and Kings
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municipal bond default in U.S. his-
tory.
The Journal’s article is about ex-
pensive repairs that are necessary at
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Ohio and Illinois. The cost of these
repairs will undoubtedly eventually
be borne by ratepayers, not share-
holders.
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is unambiguously positive. Hydro-
electric dams have given us extraor-
dinarily low electricity rates, but they
decimated the salmon population and
thereby transformed the economy of
the lower river.
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we forget about that until the Depart-
John Philip Sousa
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itory site. The Wall Street Journal
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birthday, the
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plays at his
accounting. Costs of waste dispos-
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Capturing and storing energy is key
year — mostly solar and
The latest tease re-
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lates to hydrogen fuel
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such vehicles. Helping
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Hayes
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manufacturers achieve
power plants. Germany, with the newable energy was thought to be economies of mass production
largest solar commitment, ob- of little concern. We could use re- makes vastly more sense than cut-
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electricity from the sun during and switch back to conventional arbitrary date.
Hyundai slowly began leas-
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the sunniest hours. The eclipse able sources become a cornerstone ing Tucson fuel cell vehicles last
was scheduled to arrive in the of our energy mix, we will need year, and Toyota — the company
middle of the day and panic was to find ways to store power for that launched the hybrid vehicle
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gions, so grid opera-
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energy.
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grid operators have
of the most attractive himself upended the paradigm. Of
no experience managing such options is to use the sun’s energy course, he might well be right — the
abrupt, sweeping shifts. Some to make hydrogen; store the hy- multiple energy conversions, high
predicted the eclipse would pro- drogen until it’s needed; then put cost of infrastructure, etc. — might
duce a catastrophe.
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Germany was fairly cloudy; and faced formidable challenges. So- own Tesla stock that electric cars
grid operators had ample time to lar modules were ultraexpensive should receive rich subsidies while
work out detailed contingency devices produced by a cottage fuel cell vehicles receive none.
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enough to absorb it. We need bet- expensive catalysts like platinum. other, we need to have a way to
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Those did not appear to be mon- store very large amounts of sun-
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umental challenges for a species light for times when the sun isn’t
Renewable energy technol- that had split atoms and gone to shining. And hydrogen — for fun-
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Denis Hayes, organizer of the
almost half of all new global in- overcome only with ample fund-
vestment in electricity generation ing, creative minds and dogged first Earth Day in 1970 and di-
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billion, was the largest investor. rassingly modest, start-and-stop under President Jimmy Carter, is
(YHQ H[FOXGLQJ KXJH GDPV WKH federal support has been more of a president of the Bullitt Foundation
world generated 9.1 percent of all tease than a sincere effort to build and board chairman of Earth Day
Network.
electricity from renewables last an industry.
By DENIS HAYES
For The Daily Astorian
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