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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 Plans to designate Astoria as a National Heritage Area hit a snag Monday night. Despite what Mac Burns, executive director of the Clatsop County His- torical 6ociety, called a ³terri¿c opportunity,´ PePEers of the Astoria City Council did not iPPediately ePErace the idea. Councilor Blair Henningsgaard and Mayor :illis 9an Dusen Eoth ex- pressed concerns fearing the loss of city staff tiPe which would taNe away froP efforts to accoPplish other goals. A National Heritage Area is de¿ned as a place designated Ey Congress ³where natural, cultural, historic and recreational resources coPEine to forP a cohesive, nationally distinctive landscape arising froP patterns of huPan activity shaped Ey geography.´ Calpine Corp., one of four companies working to build a liTue¿ed natural gas plant on tKe Columbia 5iYer, Kas ¿led for bankruptcy. 7Ke struggling power generator ¿led for CKapter protec- tion late 7uesday as it grappled witK more tKan billion in debt. 7he 8.6. Highway corridor through :arrenton will not Ee lined with ugly Eig-Eox stores ² not if city leaders can help it. 7he City CoPPission approved an aPendPent to its developPent code 7uesday that iPposes standards on retail developers. 7he rules would re- Tuire stores to construct attractive Euildings using varied Paterials and archi- tectural details such as facades, to provide landscaping and shielded lighting, to conceal Pechanical eTuipPent and to address pedestrian and traf¿c safety and access issues. (ach Euilding Pust also include at least two coPPunity aPenities, such as a water feature or pedestrian pla]a with Eenches. 50 years ago — 1965 ,f you KaYen¶t done your CKrist- mas sKopping yet, better Kurry wKile tKere¶s still sometKing to buy. Astoria mercKants apparent- ly are KaYing one of tKeir busiest pre-CKristmas sKopping seasons in Kistory. 6eYeral say it¶s been tKe best eYer. 7Ke fact tKat Astoria Kas been a busy city Kas been apparent Must from si]e of tKe bundle-toting crowds on tKe streets. THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2015 6ome books are wortK a second read JUST 5E5EAD A BOO. that , ¿rst read Pore than 0 years ago. ,t was liNe , was reading it for the ¿rst tiPe. I The EooN is John O¶Hara¶s Appointment in Samara. While just out of college and worNing as a night copy Nid at the Portland Associated Press Eu- reau, , consuPed the O¶Hara EooN during EreaNs. One of the AP ed- itors PocNed Pe for reading this EooN, which had its heyday prior to World War ,,. O¶Hara is renowned for his Neen eye for social Pores and ev- erything froP the clothes people wore, the cars they drove, what they dranN, their dancing and their sex lives. ,n his foreword to the edition , read, the critic Charles McGrath said “While Appointment is dated in soPe ways, its stinging class awareness ² its sense of everyone looNing over his or her shoulder and scraEEling for a place on the social ladder ² feels as current as the novels of ToP Wolfe.´ The EooN is set in the ¿ctional town of GiEEsville, Pennsylvania, in 190. GiEEsville is Podeled on Pottsville, in coal country. Build- ing a picture of GiEEsville in Py iPagination, , saw how O¶Hara could have set the story in Astoria during ProhiEition, where salPon was Ning. źźź O¶HA5A ,S OUT O) )ASH- ion. He is so out of fashion that David 5ePnicN, editor of The New Yorker recently Pade no Pention of O¶Hara in his discourse on the evolution of the Pagazine¶s short story. 5ePnicN did Pention John UpdiNe, who wrote that O¶Hara virtually de¿ned The New Yorker story. ,n fact, O¶Hara holds the re- cord for Post stories puElished Ey the Pagazine ² 2. During Py O¶Hara phase, , read a Eundle of his short stories, which are liNe SoPerset MaughaP¶s ² clearly drawn characters with Neen cultural detail and a deft and sud- den ending. Noting that O¶Hara¶s stories are superior to his Eody of novels, McGrath says “The stories, Ey contrast, were alPost PiniPalist, ‘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 Submitted Photo Writer John O’Hara first earned a reputation for short stories and later became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30. John O’Hara holds the record for short stories published by The New Yorker — 247 turning on just a line of dialogue or even a passing oEservation that suggests soPething crucial has just changed. More HePingwayesque than HePingway ² Pore trans- parent and less Pannered ² these stories opened a path for such great APerican story writers as Salin- ger, Cheever, UpdiNe, and Carver.´ high. , Nnew , had read soPething Eig, and , sensed its ePotion. But now ,¶P eager to see the 80 per- cent of the EooN that , Pissed as an adolescent. — S.A.F. źźź ,) ONE ,S 0 <EA5S O/D- er, it is natural that he would see a worN of ¿ction in a Puch different way than the ¿rst tiPe around. ,¶P enjoying this experience. So next up on Py list of reruns is The Great GatsEy. Eventually , will get around to The 5ed Badge of Courage. , read Stephen Crane¶s Civil War novel while in junior :Kat¶s tKe matter witK ,owa" 6now and treacherous ElacN ice Pade travel on highways in the east end of Clat- sop County alPost iPpossiEle today. 2regon 6tate Highway DepartPent reported pacNed snow froP Pile post six east on Highway to the 6unset suP- Pit. This young lady, burdened with bundles, has evident- 7Ke son of an Astoria, 2re., ly done her full share in woman was a member of tKe making it a merry Yule for ,-man back-up team for tKe friends and relatives as Gemini space mission. well as a big boost for the 8.6. Air )orce 7ecKnical 6er- Astoria economy. geant CKarles :. +oell -r., son of 0rs. (stKer 0. 3orko of 6 )lorence, was temporarily on duty at 6ingapore. 7Ke sergeant, a para-6C8BA rescue tecKnician, was part of tKe Air 5escue 6erYice )orce deployed around tKe world to assist, if needed, in recoYering tKe two astronaut crews after tKeir ÀigKts and America¶s attempt at a manned rende]Yous in space. 7he war in 9iet NaP was the overwhelPing choice today as the top news story of 1965 in the United States. 75 years ago — 1940 ,t seems as if 7oyland, like tKe world itself, is diYided on tKe Tuestion of ³peace or war"´ )or in tKis year¶s CKristmas dis- plays, martial toys compete for attention witK ones tKat represent America¶s peaceful way of life ² it¶s arts, sciences and Komes. <ou can make it possible for tKe cKildren in your Kome to play at farming, Komemaking, bridge building, maga]ine printing and tKe like. 2r you can proYide tKem witK e[citing toys witK wKicK to stage battles across tKe nursery rug, to build forts, bat- tlesKips and airplanes, and to carry on naYal maneuYers as well. 7he Eadge of 4uarterPaster Sea Scout, highest award in sea Scouting and coPparaEle to the (agle Eadge, highest award in Boy Scouting, was pre- sented to Bryson /aush, PePEer of Astoria¶s sea scout ship )lying Cloud, at the Ponthly court of honor held at the county courthouse last night. 7Ke Àu epidemic, wKicK centered its earlier attack on Clatsop County scKools, Kas e[tended to take in tKe general public indis- criminately. Business e[ecutiYes, leaders of local industry, clerks, longsKoremen and county of¿cials were represented in tKe toll of mild epidemic. 7wo of¿cers of tKe cutter 2nondaga were strick- en, one out of action for seYeral days. A local deputy sKeriff was back on tKe Mob today from a Yacation witK tKe Àu. Bright prospects for extensive :PA developPent at the 7ongue Point Naval Air Station are held as a result of a conference here 7uesday Eetween naval of¿cers and a representative of the state :orNs Progress adPinistra- tion of Oregon. taneously PaNing it clear But aEout the ethanol they don¶t intend to do prograP ,t has Pany, anything aEout it. Marco Pany critics. Groups rang- 5uEio says it¶s “not soPe- ne of the great things aEout ing froP OxfaP to the thing that , would have restaurant industry claiP it the APerican political voted for had , Eeen in drives up the price of food systeP is the aPount of tiPe it around the gloEe. SoPe the Senate´ while quicNly gives us to thinN aEout corn. environPentalists say it¶s adding that “it would Ee unfair to siPply yanN it Oh, sure, there¶s national secu- responsiEle for increased away.´ rity and taxes, Eut you¶d Ee talNing air and water pollution. But ² you will Ee aEout theP even if we were living in “Corn ethanol is actually Gail worse for the environPent aPa]ed to hear this ² Collins a Ponarchy. than gasoline,´ said Scott there are also 5epuElicans Corn only coPes up in the weeNs )aEer of the EnvironPen- on the far, far extrePes. iPPediately Eefore the ,owa caucus- tal :orNing Group. Donald TruPp is “totally in favor of There are ways to PaNe Eiofuel ethanol, 100 percent.´ He gives the es. The issue is our federal ethanol prograP, which reTuires gasoline to without corn that Pight Ee Eetter. iPpression that if he were still on Ee laced with Eiofuel, usually corn- People have good things to say, for T9, he¶d have the celeErity appren- instance, aEout switch grass. Tennes- tices creating ad caPpaigns around Eased. 4uicN Tui] How do you person- see has Eeen worNing on a Eig switch the slogan “Ethanol for One and grass prograP. MayEe we could All.´ ally feel aEout ethanol" A ,f it¶s good for the farPers, it¶s Pove the ¿rst priPary to Tennessee. Of course, it¶s possiEle that to- Modern tradition holds that you Porrow TruPp will deny he ever good for the country. B /ooN, ,¶ve already got the trade can¶t win ,owa ¿rst in the nation said anything aEout this at all. May- without selling your soul Ee he¶ll claiP he does not rePePEer pact and Glass-Steagall ethanol. When John ever having Pet an ear of corn. on Py plate. There¶s a Idaho in on McCain ran his Straight liPit. The Post hard-core anti-ethanol TalN caPpaign for the C How coPe the candidate is Ted Cruz. Perhaps this 2020. presidential noP- is due to Cruz¶s strict ¿scal conser- corn growers get all the fun" :hy can¶t we have We could ination, he Eoldly de- vatisP. Perhaps there are ... other ex- clared that the prograP planations. “Oil coPpanies give hiP the ¿rst voting in Py hear “doesn¶t help anyEody.´ a lot of Poney,´ TruPp sniped. <es state so , get soPe atten- McCain lost, and Ey the The opposition to the ethanol pro- tion for a change" about tiPe he returned to ,owa graP includes Big Oil, which resents Excellent point, C. One of the great injus- potatoes he had acquired a whole all that rooP corn is taNing up in the new taNe on the issue. gas tanN. tices in our political sys- for a “A vital, a vital alterna- teP is that it guarantees The Cruz caPpaign says its Pan tive energy source.´ that during presidential is a principled enePy of “all ener- change. Hillary Clinton op- gy-speci¿c suEsidies.´ This is argu- caPpaigns soPe people posed ethanol when she aEly true if you Euy the extrePely will Ee ignored entire- ly while others will Ee treated liNe was a senator froP the less corn-in- convenient theory that huPongous a douEle-discount 6-inch T9 on tensive state of New <orN. She fa- tax EreaNs don¶t count. Since Cruz is currently a favor- BlacN )riday. BacN in 199 the ¿ght vored it when she ran for president for the DePocratic noPination went in 2008, although perhaps not so ite in ,owa, people are Eeginning to on for so long that the New <orN pri- intensely as BaracN OEaPa, who wonder if ethanol¶s power is fading. Pary actually EecaPe iPportant, and helped cut the riEEon on a new eth- This is an interesting question upon , have warP PePories of listening anol processing plant. But the issue which it is very dif¿cult to have to the candidates argue aEout who is less of a proEleP for DePocratic a rooting interest. We¶re going to was going to spend the Post Poney candidates, since they don¶t general- spend the entire Ponth of January on Pass transportation. :e EasNed in ly go around coPplaining aEout Eig watching a Eattle Eetween Big Oil governPent putting its fat thuPE on and Big Corn. the golden glow of pander. :e should dePand a little variety the Pagic of the capitalistic ParNet- Personally, ,¶P waiting for the in the schedule. At the PiniPuP, we place. candidate who will proPise to PaNe This season, the tricN for 5e- the states taNe turns. ,daho in 2020. could listen to people talN aEout corn with a different EacNdrop. Stand up puElicans is to oppose the ethanol We could hear aEout potatoes for a prograP on principle, while siPul- change. for your rights, NeErasNa. By GA,/ C2//,16 New York Times News Service 2
