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OPINION 4A 6PHOORIWKH¿UH pervaded Ashland 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 — 2005 Clatsop County’s over-burdened court system is getting some long-await- ed relief. The Oregon Senate voted Friday to approve a third full-time circuit court judge for the county, one of four approved for courts around the state. The bill was approved by the House of Representatives earlier in July and now heads to Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who has indicated he will sign it. The legislation provides funding for a new judge and three support staff for the county. The bill’s passage is a personal victory for Circuit Court judge Paula Brownhill, who’s been lobbying for a third judge for the county since she came on the bench 14 years ago. The U.S. Coast Guard saw an upswing in activity over the ZHHNHQGDVLWKHDGHGLQWRWKHEXV\%XR\¿VKLQJVHDVRQZKLFK VWDUWHGWRGD\VDLG0DUN'REQH\FLYLOLDQVHDUFKDQGUHVFXHFRQ- troller at U.S. Coast Guard Group Astoria. ³,GRQ¶WNQRZKRZWKH¿VKLQJZDV´'REQH\VDLG³%XWWKH ¿VKHUPHQWKHPVHOYHVZHUHRXWWKHUHTXLWHDELW´ With the horses groomed, pigs plump, and elephant ears fried, the 2005 Clatsop County Fair came to life Tuesday morning. )DLURI¿FLDOVKDYHKLJKH[SHFWDWLRQVIRUWKH¿YHGD\HYHQWZKLFKODVW year drew more than 7,600 people. Area schools are failing federal progress reports even as they exceeded academic goals. Four of the area’s 15 schools didn’t meet standards under the IHGHUDO1R&KLOG/HIW%HKLQGHGXFDWLRQODZDFFRUGLQJWRSUHOLP- inary results made public by the state Department of Education today. 50 years ago — 1965 Crown-Zellerbach logging operations in Clatsop County closed down 6XQGD\EHFDXVHRIH[WUHPH¿UHGDQJHUEXWZRUNZLOOUHVXPH7XHVGD\DF- cording to Vern Davis, Clatsop division manager. Humidity dropped to about 20 percent and temperature rose to 96-98 at Crown operations Saturday, and “we decided not to take a chance with this W\SHRIGU\ZHDWKHU´RI¿FLDOVVDLG 7KH0DU\5IRRWRWWHUWUDZOHUZKLFKKLWMHWW\$QHDU&DSH 'LVDSSRLQWPHQW&RDVW*XDUGVWDWLRQODWH7KXUVGD\QLJKWVDQN at high tide Friday afternoon. 2ZQHURIWKHYHVVHO*HRUJH0RVNRYLWD+DUULVRQVDLGWKH ORVVZDVPRUHWKDQ 0DU\5KLWMHWW\$DW7KXUVGD\QLJKW$WZRIRRWKROH ZDVSXQFKHGLQWKHERZDQGWKH¿VKLQJERDWVDWKLJKDQGGU\RQ WKHMHWW\DWORZWLGH)ULGD\ 0RVNRYLWD WROG WKH &RDVW *XDUG KH ³MXVW ZDVQ¶W ORRNLQJ ZKHUHKHZDVJRLQJ´ZKHQWKHERDWKLWWKHMHWW\ NEHALEM — Robert B. Nash, Everett, Wash., who recently was scuba diving near the Nehalem spit and found what local persons believed might be an ancient Spanish halberd, and Steve Riscoe of Seaside were diving south of the slide on the face of Neahkahnie mountain this week and found the entrance to a cave under water. 7KH\IRXQGWKDWWKHFDYHDERXWIHHWKLJKH[WHQGHGEDFNXQGHUWKH PRXQWDLQQHDUO\IHHWDQGVORSHGXSZDUGVVXI¿FLHQWO\DWWKHIDUHQGWR be above the water line. They noted noticeable coloring in the walls and that there were stalag- mites. A quick glance revealed human bones. Nash said they had not been washed in. Skeletons were in a sitting position. Another inspection will be made in about a week, to learn whether there are any artifacts in the cave. 75 years ago — 1940 Astoria regattas of the “good old days” were recalled in Regatta head- quarters at the Chamber of Commerce this morning, when Ed Gloss of Port- land dropped in to visit. Gloss held rowing champion- ships in the Astoria Regatta, be- ginning with 1900 and ending with the Astoria Centennial celebration in 1911. He was a representative of the Portland Rowing club. Competitors were “boys from Victoria, Vancouver, British Co- lumbia, California and all over” said Mr. Gloss. Boats were of the single scull racing type, and are still used actively by rowing clubs. *ORVVVWDWHGWKDWKHLVDQ[LRXVWR have his son, Ed Jr., in competitive rowing at the Regatta, if such an Daily Astorian File event should be scheduled. Editorial cartoon from The Daily 7KH$VWRULD5HJDWWD Astorian Budget, Aug. 5, 1940. will have the warmest bless- ings of King Neptune who is hugely pleased with Admiral Thomas &/XNHDQGWKH5HJDWWDFRPPLVVLRQIRUVWDJLQJWKHFRURQDWLRQ FHUHPRQLHVRQWKH&ROXPELD5LYHULQIURQWRIWKHPDULQHVWDGLXP For years it has offended King Neptune to crawl out of the &ROXPELDDQGDWWHQGWKHFRURQDWLRQDW*\UR¿HOGDVDQDPSKLE- LDQZKLFKLVQRWDNLQJO\VWDWXV'HOLJKWHGZLWKWKHFURZQLQJRI Queen Jean II in the nautical splendor on the night of August .LQJ1HSWXQHLVH[SHFWHGWRSURPLVHWKHQHZUXOHUWKDWWKH &ROXPELDZLOOEHKDYHGXULQJWKH5HJDWWD,WLVOLNHO\WKDW.LQJ Neptune will order the northwesters to keep out of the river so that motorboats can race on schedule. THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015 A mericans of a certain age grew ‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, up hearing music from Broad- ‘To talk of many things; shoes — and ships — and sealing wax — way musicals such as “Oklahoma,” Of Of cabbages —and kings —’ “Carousel” DQG ³6RXWK 3DFL¿F´ Ambitious high school drama depart- Through the Looking-glass ments even mounted productions of some of these gems. 7KH ZLVH JX\ OH[LFRQ RI ³*X\V and Dolls” placed it in a special cat- egory. My parents had the Broadway cast recording, which I listened to, without knowing the plot. ‘Sweat’ is a , ¿QDOO\ JRW P\ RSSRUWXQLW\ ODVW Friday night at the Oregon Shake- 2015 echo of speare Festival. In addition to its staple of the Shakespeare canon, the ‘Death of a festival mounts new plays and musi- Salesman’ cals. With a full house in the Bowmer Theatre, we saw it. “Guys and Dolls” is a guaranteed comes at the very end. She does not great time. It is a period piece from make the mistake of going on too the golden age of musicals. The fa- long. Her last line opens the tear ducts. bled Broadway journalist Damon Runyon, who haunted Broadway’s back rooms, concocted the plot about AS WE LEFT THE INDOOR gamblers and the Salvation Army. Angus Bowmer Theatre the air Frank Loesser put it to music. was choking with smoke from the The costumes — 1940s dresses &DQ\RQYLOOH ¿UH 2Q WKH IROORZLQJ and suits — were worth the price of day, patrons were told the outdoor per- admission. formance might be canceled because My wife and I left humming sev- of the air actors would have to breathe. eral tunes. The show is a veritable Over the many decades of the Top 40 of that era. A sampling of festival, I imagine this has occurred its songs includes “A Bushel and A Jenny Graham/Oregon Shakespeare before. For those of us in Ashland Peck,” “More I Cannot Wish You,” Festival it was a vivid demonstration of this “If I Were a Bell,” “Take Back Your Mink,” “Luck Be a Lady” and “Sit Jack Willis, back, and Tramell \HDU¶VKLJK¿UHVHDVRQ Tillman appear in the new play Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat.” of Cabbages and Kings IF THE “GUYS AND DOLLS” audience was buoyant as it walked out, the crowd was much quieter after seeing the new play “Sweat.” This drama is about what’s happened in factory towns across America over the past decade as manufacturing moved offshore, leaving workers stranded. It is also about the chemistry of close-knit communities as immigrants arrive. Echoing “Death of a Salesman,” the play is about how people cope when change sweeps across the work culture, imposing a world they do not ‘Sweat.’ XQGHUVWDQG,WLVGLI¿FXOWWRZULWHGL- DORJXHWKDWGRHVQRWVRXQGDUWL¿FLDO Lynn Nottage did that while also throwing in a couple of lines that will EHH[WUDFWHGIRUWKHLUZLVGRP We saw one of a few preview performances of “Sweat,” which al- low the playwright to tinker with the script, prior to the play’s world pre- miere at the festival. Like the plot, that play’s set is very economical. Action largely oc- FXUVLQVLGHDWDYHUQDWLWVH[WHULRURU in a police interrogation room. Nottage’s most powerful element ONLY IN SAN FRANCISCO. Watching a Giants game on mlb.com last week, the announcers said that in August there will be a Grateful Dead Tribute Night. Can’t wait to see the crowd. — S.A.F. 2EDPD¶VÀH[LEOH¿[WRFOLPDWHFKDQJH By -2(12&(5$ New York Times News Service F or many years, I used to spend at least part of the summer in the gorgeous Laurentides region of Que- bec, an hour northwest of Montreal. By the mid-1980s, with each return trip, I could see a growing environ- mental threat to the area’s beauty: More and more trees were dying. When I asked people what was happening, the answer was simple: “pluie acide,” or acid rain, a form of SROOXWLRQ FDXVHG E\ VXOIXU GLR[LGH DQGQLWURJHQR[LGHVWKDWZHUHVSHZ- LQJ IURP FRDO¿UHG SRZHU SODQWV LQ America. A decade or so later, the trees had stopped dying. An environmental disaster had been averted. What had happened? The answer was that the adminis- WUDWLRQRIWKH¿UVW3UHVLGHQW*HRUJH Bush, working hand in glove with the Environmental Defense Fund, devised a market-based plan, now known as cap-and-trade, to reduce VXOIXU GLR[LGH HPLVVLRQV &RQJUHVV passed it in 1990. The brilliance of the scheme is that while it set emis- sions targets, it did not tell power companies how to meet those tar- gets, allowing them a great deal of ÀH[LELOLW\ ,W DOVR SURYLGHG D ¿QDQ- cial incentive: Companies that cut their pollution beyond their caps could trade their leftover emission allowances to companies that were having trouble staying under the limit. ,QGXVWU\RI¿FLDOVDQGPDQ\VWDWH RI¿FLDOV FRPSODLQHG ELWWHUO\ DERXW the new system, saying it would be costly and tie companies up in reg- ulatory knots. But that’s not what happened. “Industry had incentive to innovate,” recalls Fred Krupp, the president of the Environmental Defense Fund. As an interim mea- sure, power companies began using low-sulfur coal while they worked to come up with better and more af- fordable scrubbers. Today, average OHYHOVRIVXOIXUGLR[LGHSROOXWLRQDUH 76 percent lower than they were in 1990. The cost has been far less than the critics feared. On Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama unveiled his Clean Power Plan, formalizing some tough new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency that are aimed at reducing the carbon emitted by power companies. There is no big- ger source of carbon pol- But just as with the acid rain controversy, lution; the goal is that by the opponents of the new 2030, carbon emissions emission-reduction rules will be reduced by 32 per- KDYHLWH[DFWO\EDFNZDUG cent from their 2005 level. The EPA rules have a far ,QWKH¿JKWDJDLQVWFOLPDWH greater chance of creat- change, nothing is more ing jobs, being less bur- important. densome and epitomizing Once again, opponents sound public policy than are up in arms, forecast- the opposite. ing calamity for the util- Joe The single most import- ity industry if the rules Nocera ant fact about the new reg- are allowed to stand, with at least a dozen states planning to ulations is that they don’t tell utilities sue the EPA. The attorney general how to get their emissions down. In- of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey, VWHDGWKH\DOORZWKHVWDWHVÀH[LELOLW\ has said the regulations would lead WR¿JXUHRXWKRZWRORZHUWKHLURZQ to “reduced jobs, higher electricity emissions. Some may choose a cap- rates” and increased stress on the and-trade system — as California power grid. Mississippi’s Republi- and nine states in the Northeast have can governor, Phil Bryant, described already done to great effect. (In Cal- ifornia, for instance, carbon intensity the EPA plan as “burdensome.” — the amount of carbon pollution per million dollars of gross domestic The single product — is down 23 percent from 2001, while its GDP has grown.) most 7KH\ FDQ VWUHVV HQHUJ\ HI¿FLHQF\ RU renewable energy. They can offer important fact incentives to push innovations that about the new would make carbon capture more af- fordable, which would allow for the regulations continued use of coal, still America’s most plentiful energy source. Or they is that they can do all of the above. Since many of these things are already happening, don’t tell the new government policy is really utilities how MXVWJLYLQJLQGXVWU\DQH[WUDVKRYHLQ the right direction. to get their Jim Rogers, the former chief H[HFXWLYH RI 'XNH (QHUJ\ WROG PH emissions that he thinks natural gas could serve as the same kind of bridge to down. emission-lowering technology that Instead, low-sulfur coal was in the acid rain days. The point is, there is really no they allow reason the Clean Power Plan won’t ZRUN²H[FHSWIRUSROLWLFDOLQWUDQVL- the states gence, which is far worse today than LW ZDV GXULQJ WKH ¿UVW %XVK DGPLQ- flexibility to istration. figure out In his 2010 book, “The Climate War,” Eric Pooley, the former man- how to lower aging editor of Fortune who has since become the Environmental their own Defense Fund’s communication chief, notes that the whole time of- emissions. ¿FLDOV DW WKH IXQG ZHUH ZRUNLQJ RQ And then there’s Mitch McCo- cap-and-trade to solve the acid rain nnell, the Senate majority leader, problem, climate change was never whose state, Kentucky, is in the heart far from their thoughts. They wanted of coal country. He has openly called WR SURYH ZLWK VXOIXU GLR[LGH HPLV- on states to defy the EPA. On Mon- VLRQV WKDW D ÀH[LEOH PDUNHWEDVHG day, he described the new rules as “a system worked - and would work for triumph of blind ideology over sound carbon emissions as well. It did. 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