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23,1,21 6A Founded in 1873 STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager CARL EARL, Systems Manager JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager HEATHER RAMSDELL, Circulation Manager Water under the bridge Compiled by Bob Duke From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 10 years ago this week — 2005 SEASIDE — The funds rejected by voters Tuesday are about to be given away to other Oregon communities. The four chairmen of the Oregon Area Commission on Transpor- tation are meeting today in Salem to discuss the distribution of the $38 million originally allocated to the Seaside highway project, said ODOT spokesman Dan Knoll. 7KH7DSLROD3OD\JURXQGSURMHFWLVJHWWLQJDOLWWOHELW¿VK\ $QGDELWVDQG\$ELWIHDWKHU\WRR 'RQ¶WZRUU\SDUHQWVDSHWWLQJ]RRKDVQ¶WEHHQDGGHGWR WKHSODQV-XVWDIXQSLHFHRIDUW Astoria Middle School students are creating a Colum- ELD5LYHUPRVDLFZDOOIRUWKHQRUWKHDVWFRUQHURIWKHSOD\- JURXQG EHWZHHQ WKH /LEHUW\7KHDWHU VWDJH DQG WKH UHVW RI WKH SDUN ,W ZLOO EH RQH RI WKH ¿UVW WKLQJV SHRSOH VHH ZKHQ WKH\HQWHUWKHDUHD It’s 92 years old, weighs 40,000 pounds and is fun for the whole family. It’s the Astoria Riverfront Trolley, a favorite of locals and vis- itors alike. Old 300, burnished and gleaming, is back on the tracks for its sev- enth season, running along the Columbia River from the Astoria Red Lion Inn on the west side of town, through Uniontown, downtown and Uppertown, to Comfort Suites and the East Mooring Basin and Back again. “Everybody who gets on that trolley, or even sees it, has a big smile on their face,” said Jim Wilkins, an Astoria contractor who has been in- volved with the trolley since he helped Mayor Willis Van Dusen rescue it from a trolley park near Forest Grove in 1998. 50 years ago — 1965 ³:H¶UH RQ D GRZQKLOO SXOO QRZ´ ZDV WKH FRPPHQW RI 5REHUW (OOLVRQ SURMHFW HQJLQHHU IRU WKH $VWRULD EULGJH )ULGD\DVKHGLVFXVVHGSURJUHVVRQWKHIRXUPLOHWUDQV&R- OXPELDVSDQ (OOLVRQVSRNHDV5D\PRQG,QWHUQDWLRQDOEURXJKWWZRELJ SUHFDVWFRQFUHWHVKHOOVIURPWKH7RQJXH3RLQWFRQFUHWHSODQW WRWKHVLWHRI3LHURQWKHQRUWKFKDQQHOFURVVLQJDQGSXW WKHPLQSODFH All Contracts on the bridge were progressing well this VSULQJ +LJKZD\ 'HSDUWPHQW HQJLQHHUV UHSRUWHG &KDQFHV ORRNEULJKWWKDWWKHEULGJHZLOOEH¿QLVKHGE\WKHWDUJHWGDWH LQODWHVXPPHURI Police in Astoria are hearing a complaint a day or more about the hazards created by children playing on skate boards. 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He says skate boarding down driveways and into streets is particularly dangerous and recommends safety rules to be observed if the little monsters insist on riding these perilous rigs. &RPSDQ\¶VFRPLQJDQGFRPLQJVRRQ,WLVKLJKWLPHWR SUHSDUH 7KH WRXULVW VHDVRQ LV ZHOOQLJK XSRQ XV DQG ZH PXVWJHWRXUKRXVHLQRUGHU 7KH FLW\ JRYHUQPHQW DQG WKH FKDPEHU RI FRPPHUFH KHHGLQJ*RY0DUN+DW¿HOG¶VDSSHDOIRUDVWDWHZLGHSUR- JUDP WR FOHDQ XS DQG SROLVK 2UHJRQ IRU WKLV VXPPHU¶V YLVLWRUV KDYH GHVLJQDWHG &RPSDQ\¶V &RPLQJ :HHN DQG KDYH H[WHQGHG LW XQWLO -XQH 7KLV JLYHV XV WLPH WR WULP RXUODZQVFDUWDZD\MXQNSLOHVSDLQWRXUKRXVHVLIZHFDQ UHSDLUEURNHQVWUXFWXUHVDQGFRQYHUWJHQHUDOGLVRUGHUWR RUGHURQRXUSUHPLVHV 75 years ago — 1940 Big Guns of the Columbia harbor de- IHQVHV ¿UHG D IHZ GD\V DJR LQ WKH ¿UVW non-National Guard practice in years, will go into action again next week according to the command at Fort Stevens, which has just issued the following announcement: Photo courtesy of Clatsop County Historical “There will be Society KHDY\ DUWLOOHU\ ¿ULQJ off Forts Canby and One of the Big Guns of the Columbia Stevens from Monday, harbor defenses at Fort Stevens. June 3, to Saturday, June 8, inclusive. Sea- craft, aircraft and personnel are warned to remain away from the dan- ger area, extending from Fort Stevens, west to a distance of seven miles north to the South Jetty and south as far as ten miles from the South Jetty from Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, west seven miles; north four miles off Seaview, Washington; south three miles off south jettys.” Car-driving Astorians should supply themselves with QLFNOHVDQGQRWVOXJVZKHQWKH\VWDUWWRWRZQ0RQGD\ 7KH SDUNLQJ PHWHUV DUH H[SHFWHG WR EH UHDG\ WR IXQFWLRQ 0RQGD\ PRUQLQJ$FFRUGLQJ WR WKH QHZ SDUN- LQJRUGLQDQFHWKHPHWHUVZLOOVWDUWFROOHFWLQJDWDP DQGZLOONHHSLWXSXQWLOSP THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2015 )DPLO\RZQHUVEHQH¿W IURPRXWVLGHDGYLFH O NE OF THE HEALTHI- est things a family-owned FRPSDQ\ PLJKW GR LV ¿QG D nonfamily member for its board of directors. Our family talked about doing that some 20 years ago. My aunt, Amy Bedford, was cautious and resistant. “I just can’t see someone else sit- ting here with us,” she said. ‘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 As a trial run, we added an out- side director to our agricultural week- ly, the Capital Press. Rob Miller was a Willamette Valley grower, and he provided excellent insight. After a few years of that, my aunt relented and I was authorized to VHDUFKIRUWKH¿UVWRXWVLGHGLUHFWRURI the East Oregonian Publishing Co. Eastern Oregon native and OSU (now EO Media Group). I cannot re- graduate Tom Brown concludes member where I started, but my trail 15 years on the EO Media Group of phone conversations took me to board of directors this week. George Wilson, then-president of his family company that owned the Con- cord (N.H.) Mon- deep involvement itor. After politely with a purchas- declining, Wilson cooperative Tom Brown ing suggested I ap- that serves inde- proach his publish- pendently owned enlarged er, who had grown newspapers. our family’s up in Oregon and After a few was an OSU grad- years of Tom’s circle of uate. That was Tom being our only Brown. director, experience. outside Over 15 years, we added Lucy Brown has given Mohl of Seattle, us a good perspective, and he even who brought us experience in what served as interim publisher of the was then the emerging digital world. East Oregonian. At our board meet- Mohl was succeeded by Jeff Rogers, ing on Friday in John Day, we will WKHFKLHI¿QDQFLDORI¿FHURIDQ,QGL- PDUNWKHHQGRI7RP¶V¿QDO\HDURI anapolis-based family-owned news- service. In August our stockholders paper group. will elect his replacement. The Great Recession was not fun for anyone in publishing. Rogers and źźź Brown offered us valuable insight ALL OF US ARE LIMITED BY during the period of severe adjust- our experiences. That especially can ment our company went through. be so with a family that also owns źźź a business. Enlarging the organiza- tion’s circle of knowledge, experi- ON JIM WILKINS’ KMUN IN- ence and insight is what a nonfamily terview show last Friday, I talked member can bring to a closely held about aspects of our company that company board of directors. were new to him. I mentioned my Brown knew enough about Or- great grandfather from Iowa, who egon and the Northwest to have an started a short-lived weekly news- intuitive understanding of our terrain. paper in Newport in the 1890s. We He also brought us a much larger con- also talked about how the Astorian- nection with our industry through his Budget became The Daily Astorian in 1960, when our publisher Morgan Coe led us out of the deep trough that was Astoria’s postwar depression. It was especially fun talking to Wilkins about bluegrass. I told him about seeing the legendary group The Seldom Scene at the Birchmere in Al- exandria. The young Ricky Skaggs appeared that night with Buck White and his daughters, Sharon and Cher- yl. It was the beginning of Skaggs’ courtship, which concluded with his marriage to Sharon White in 1981. źźź SPEAKING OF NEWSPAPER publishing, a young man with local roots has taken an executive position in the Portland market. Nick Bjork (Warrenton High School Class of 2004) is the new publisher of the Daily Journal of Commerce. After majoring in rhetorical studies at Lewis and Clark College, Bjork “got LQWR ¿OP DQG IHOO LQWR MRXUQDOLVP´ He found himself a nitch of writing about real estate policy. He then learned advertising sales and became the DJC’s ad director. After being the newspaper’s in- terim publisher, he recently got the job on a permanent basis. The DJC is older than The Oregonian. After decades of ownership by the Smith family of Portland, the paper was sold to the Dolan Group of Minne- apolis. — S.A.F. It’s no longer poor, huddled masses slowly evolv- Report, among Chinese with as- ing, too. We sets of more than $16 million, 27 have an image percent had emigrated abroad and of immigrants an additional 47 percent were con- ight hundred years ago next as the poor, sidering such a move. The real es- month, English noblemen huddled mass- tate website Soufun.net surveyed forced King John to sign the es yearning to 5,000 people and found that 41 Magna Carta. breathe free. percent of such people were drawn It’s still having amazing effects According to to move abroad for better living on the world today. this stereotype, conditions, 35 percent for better immigrants are educational opportunities for their The Magna Carta helped usher David driven from children and 15 percent for better Brooks in government with a separation of their homes retirement conditions. powers. It helped create conditions by poverty and move elsewhere to And this talent pool has barely in which centralized authority could compete against the lowest-skilled been tapped. According to a Gal- QRWWRWDOO\FRQWURO¿VFDOSROLWLFDOUH- workers. lup survey in 2012, 22 mil- But immi- ligious or intellectual life. It helped usher in the modern Anglo-Saxon grants do not It might be time lion Chinese wanted to move state model, with its relative empha- come from the to the United poorest coun- to revise our sis on the open movement of people, tries. Nations States, as did ideas and things. stereotypes 10 million In- like Central The Anglo-Saxon model has African Repub- dians, 3 million about the Vi e t n a m e s e its plusses and minuses, but it is lic, the Demo- and a surpris- very attractive to people around cratic Republic immigration ing 5 million the world. Today, as always, immi- of Congo and Japanese. JUDQWVÀRFNWRQDWLRQVZLWK%ULWLVK Niger — some issue. In short, it political heritage. Forty-six million of the poorest might be time people in the United States are for- countries in the eign born, almost 1 in 6. That’s by world — have some of the lowest to revise our stereotypes about far the highest number of immi- outmigration rates. Less than 3 the immigration issue. A thou- grants in any country. percent of their populations live sand years ago, a few English Canada, Australia and New outside their borders. Their cit- noblemen unwittingly heralded Zealand are also immigrant mag- izens don’t have the resources to in a decentralized political and intellectual model. This model nets. The British political class move. was a set abuzz last week by a Instead, immigrants tend to was deepened over the centuries government report showing a 50 come from middle-class countries, by people ranging from Henry percent increase in net immigra- and they migrate to rich, open ones. VIII to the American founding tion in 2014 compared with 2013. You might have thought that as the fathers. It’s a model that is rela- The government has a goal of world gets more middle class, glob- tively friendly to outsider talent. limiting immigration to 100,000 al immigration would decline be- We didn’t earn this model; we’re a year, but, in 2014, net inbound cause of more opportunity at home. the lucky inheritors. Meanwhile, globalization, with migration was estimated to be In fact, the reverse is happening. 318,000. Britain has the most di- As the developing world gets more all its stresses and strains, has cre- verse immigrant community of middle class, immigration has in- ated a large international class of any nation on earth. creased because educational and in- middle-class dreamers: univer- Some of the those people went come gains have led to ever higher sity graduates who can’t fulfill their aspirations at home and who to Britain from outside of Europe, aspirations. EXW D JUHDW PDQ\ ÀRZ IURP WKH The situation is complex. Less would enrich whatever nation is sclerotic economies in the Europe- than a decade ago, six Mexicans lucky enough to have them. In this context, Hillary Clin- an Union: Italy, Spain and France. migrated to the United States for Compared with many other Euro- every Indian or Chinese. But as ton’s daring approach to immi- pean countries, Britain is a job-cre- Mexico has prospered, immigration gration, supporting a “path to ating paragon. has dropped. Meanwhile, as India citizenship” for undocumented Across the English-speaking and China have gotten richer, the immigrants already in the Unit- world, immigrants are drawn by the number of Indians and Chinese liv- ed States, is clearly the right one. The Republican Party is insane if same things: relatively strong econ- ing abroad has doubled. omies, good universities, open cul- Some of the Asian immigrants it conducts a 21st-century immi- tures and the world’s lingua franca. are quite wealthy. According to the gration policy based on stereo- The nature of global migration is China International Immigration types from the 1980s. By '$9,'%522.6 New York Times News Service E