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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
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With the horses groomed, pigs plump, and elephant ears fried, the 2005
Clatsop County Fair came to life Tuesday morning.
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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
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inary results made public by the state Department of Education
today.
50 years ago — 1965
Crown-Zellerbach logging operations in Clatsop County closed down
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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
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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.
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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.
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have his son, Ed Jr., in competitive
rowing at the Regatta, if such an
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event should be scheduled.
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will have the warmest bless-
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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015
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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 —’
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ments even mounted productions of
some of these gems.
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and Dolls” placed it in a special cat-
egory. My parents had the Broadway
cast recording, which I listened to,
without knowing the plot.
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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
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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
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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.’
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Lynn Nottage did that while also
throwing in a couple of lines that will
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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-
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in a police interrogation room.
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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.
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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:
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costly and tie companies up in reg-
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happened. “Industry had incentive
to innovate,” recalls Fred Krupp,
the president of the Environmental
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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-
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lution; the goal is that by
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ant fact about the new reg-
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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
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product — is down 23 percent from
2001, while its GDP has grown.)
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important fact
incentives to push innovations that
about the new
would make carbon capture more af-
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regulations
continued use of coal, still America’s
most plentiful energy source. Or they
is that they
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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-
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