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23,N,2N 4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2016 ‘Where the artsy liberals came’ Founded in 1873 STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher SOUTHERN EXPOSURE LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager TAKE THE SURVEY You don’t have to be a longtime resident to fill out the poll at http://bit.ly/1Km1nn2. You can live, work or just visit the city to have your thoughts heard. Feedback will help guide the city’s strategic plan, a two-year process. Surveys were mailed to residents in late January and are due back at the end of February. 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 — 2006 A piece of local history was among the casualties of last weekend’s storm. A century-old building that was part of the cannery complex in the Alder- brook neighborhood was knocked off its pilings Saturday morning and ZUHFNHGRQWKHQHDUE\WLGDOÀDWV The building came loose at about 8 a.m. Saturday during the “last big gusts” that rocked the North Coast with gusts of up to 77 mph and sent VZHOOVIRXURU¿YHIHHWKLJKDORQJWKH&ROXPELD5LYHU 7KHVWUXFWXUHVWD\HGPRVWO\LQWDFWDVLWÀRDWHGDIHZKXQGUHG\DUGVHDVW- ward through the slough, but after it struck ground the walls buckled and FROODSVHG 3LHFHV RI GHEULV WKDW EURNH ORRVH DV WKH EXLOGLQJ ÀRDWHG ZHUH washed up all around the edge of the slough, marking the high point of Saturday’s storm surge. CoQtessa 6turJell had ¿elded calls Ior help Irom her cousiQ beIore AQd 0oQday QiJht’s Zas Qo diIIereQt thaQ the others Irom CraiJ /arseQ oQe oI tZo ¿shermeQ missiQJ aQd presumed dead aIter the body oI their creZmate Zas IouQd oQ a Tillamook beach Also IouQd early Tuesday Zere three uQused survival suits aQd aQ empty liIe raIt ³, asked him iI somethiQJ Zas ZroQJ ‘This boat’s JoiQJ to be the death oI me it’s alZays brokeQ’ he said´ recouQted 6turJell 6he Zas the last oQe to speak Zith /arseQ oI WarreQtoQ WreckaJe oI his boat the 4Ioot crabber CatheriQe 0 Zas IouQd streZQ across a Tillamook beach Strong currents pulled a local surfer out to sea near Cannon Beach Tuesday morning. Around 10:30 a.m., the U.S. Coast Guard received a call from Seaside’s GLVSDWFKUHOD\LQJDUHSRUWWKDWDVXUIHUZDVLQGLVWUHVVLQWKH3DFL¿F 2FHDQDW(FROD6WDWH3DUNVDLG'DULQ0F&UDFNHQDSHWW\RI¿FHUZLWKWKH U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard diverted a patrolling HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter to rescue the surfer, Matt Heyward, 37, of Cannon Beach, who was safely hoisted by basket into the aircraft. Motorists descending the Asto- ria bridge approach will encoun- ter this sign and start fishing for pocket books. Highway depart- ment has not yet announced what tolls will cost, however. Erection of traffic signs on and around the bridge approach was in progress this week, but all signs along the highway will be kept covered until the bridge is open. “If a motorist started to follow a sign ‘to Washington points’ he’d soon hit a dead end,” said Project Engineer Rob- ert Ellison. (Daily Astorian Photo by Gordon Clark) 50 years ago — 1966 0r aQd 0rs 5olI .lep have returQed Irom three moQths iQ NeZ <ork City aQd the (ast Zhere .lep presideQt oI Columbia 5iver 0aritime 0useum associatioQ visited maQy maritime museums aQd called oQ heads oI various IouQda tioQs to solicit support Ior the Astoria museum ³, had much eQcouraJemeQt´ .lep said ³Wherever , ZeQt people Zere eQormously impressed that a toZQ oI could do so much iQ maiQtaiQiQJ a Jood maritime museum´ he said .lep had a check Ior JiveQ the museum by Corpora tioQ Trust )ouQdatioQ iQ NeZ <ork Kristine Lindberg arrived by plane Tuesday night at Clatsop airport with a grant for $10,000 awarded by the Paul Getty foundation for a musical scholarship. News of the scholarship, awarded at the Metropolitan Opera Touring association auditions in San Francisco last weekend came out of a clear sky for the 18-year-old daughter of Dr. Oscar Lindberg, who represented her state as the only winner from Oregon in Primary auditions held in Seattle last month. 75 years ago — 1941 (stablishmeQt oI a halImile horse raciQJ track Zith JraQd stand and dog track in connection is contemplated by Leland 6haZ 3ortland attorney and 5obert Bovey also oI 3ortland at the Munction oI coast highZay and the *earhart road The tZo men Zho have been discussing the subMect Ior some time Zith *earhart and 6easide business men put the matter beIore the Astoria +unt Club at a meeting 6aturday Zinning that organi]ation’s support Assurance of a civilian pilot training course for the Clatsop airport by next fall and possibly as early as this spring was given members of the $VWRULD&KDPEHURI&RPPHUFHDYLDWLRQFRPPLWWHHZKRÀHZWR6HDWWOH \HVWHUGD\WRFRQIHUZLWK:LOH\:ULJKWGLVWULFWFLYLODHURQDXWLFVRI¿FLDO A tentative list oI Clatsop County selective service regis trants has been draZn Ior induction into the army on )ebruary date oI the ne[t Tuota call Irom this county according to ,ra White selective service administrator Ior the county still people. I still respect putting up McMansions. Carmel restricts that.” their views.’ Whether they In the ’80s and ’90s, respect mine, I don’t know.” people who came to Cannon Beach with money sought ‘True believer’ same comforts they had in Over the years Ayres has “a big house in Portland,” or worked for Head Start in Seaside, along with stints in ANNON BEACH — With wherever they were coming from, Ayres said. land use planning, as a motel Betsy Ayres, who needs a “Oregon’s gotten more maid, librarian and an assis- survey? and more popular, because this tant to a clinical psychol- Betsy The city of Cannon Beach is is such a stunningly beautiful ogist. She has a grown Ayres daughter, Meadow, measuring public opinion in eight key place, so people wanted to come here,” she said. who lives in Manza- areas of community livability ‘I don’t “I don’t begrudge their nita. Today Ayres watching city politics “I can understand why Oregon’s creature comforts. Not want from a different role as gotten more and more popular,” Ayres everyone wants to live a member of the North said over coffee at Sea Level Bakery with a woodstove and be Cannon Coast Land Conser- in Tolovana. “It’s a stunningly beau- like ‘Little House on the Beach to vancy Board of Direc- tiful place. The lifestyle, the access to Prairie.’” Serving as city coun- tors, a spot she has held the ocean, the clean air, the safety, the be like cilor, member of the amazing beauty ...” since 2010. An essential detail about Cannon Planning Commission, Beaverton.’ “I do a lot of Beach, Ayres said, is that most of the Emergency Prepared- outreach, fundraising, residents moved here because they ness Committee and which I enjoy, because Betsy Ayres wanted to be here, not like most places, Budget Commission, I’m a true believer,” she where people live because that’s where Ayres soon realized said. “I want to make some new residents held little regard for this place as wonderful as it was when they were born. Ayres relocated from Portland in environmental regulations or the design I was a child.” 1969, a time when, she said, Cannon review process, and they came up with Ayres said she thinks the city is Beach was making the transition from some “pretty crazy ideas.” “pretty solid,” but wishes more people A former Chamber of Commerce at City Hall had a greater personal a quiet, out-of-the-way logging town to RI¿FLDO ZDQWHG WR SXW OLJKWKRXVHV WKH history in Cannon Beach. a getaway destination. “A lot of people in the ’60s moved length of Cannon Beach. “I wish there were more institutional “She thought that would bring memory about what built this place into here because the rent was cheap and the environment was beautiful, and it sort people to Cannon Beach,” Ayres the fantastic place that it is, and that of began its identity as an arts colony,” laughed. “The City Council wouldn’t there were more focus on the services she said. “Cannon Beach was the place go for it. She stormed out of the for the people who live here,” she said. meeting: ‘You’re trying to ruin the busi- where the artsy liberals came.” Ayres said she thinks there should Between family, a long history of nesses of Cannon Beach!’” be discussion of a senior center and Ayres recalled plans to pave affordable housing. She’s bitter that civic service and a glittering person- ality, Ayres soon “knew everybody, and wetlands behind Spruce Street for more 70 percent of the room tax goes to everybody else knew everybody,” she parking. tourism, and is frustrated by efforts by ³7UDI¿F LV WKLV ORQJ NQRFNGRZQ the “real estate lobby” to stymie land said. Her grandmother’s name — Lottie GUDJRXW ¿JKW´ VKH VDLG ³,W QHYHU preservation. Anderson — is on a plaque by the changes.” She wants people to “squawk” when In the summer, Ayres stays home, or the city starts cutting down trees in the checkout desk at the Cannon Beach if she does go into town, rides her bike right-of-way, “and not pave every road Library. Anderson, incidentally, survived or walks. “If I don’t try to drive through and have glaring searchlights every- San Francisco’s Great Earthquake and town, I’m good with that,” she said. where. I don’t want Cannon Beach to After years of service, Ayres shied be like Beaverton, and it’s getting more Fire of 1906. She moved to Cannon DZD\IURPSXEOLFRI¿FHDIWHUUHDOL]LQJ that way every day.” Beach in 1945. it was not necessarily a good way to “I love living in a small town, I love make friends. living in a small area,” Ayres said. “I like ‘Carmel North’ ³,I\RX¶UHLQSXEOLFRI¿FHWKHUHDUH the web of connections when you stay in A real estate agent named Richard Atherton — “a real promoter,” says people’s wishes who are thwarted when a community your whole life. For some $\UHV²¿UVWPDUNHWHG&DQQRQ%HDFK you’re on the council, and ‘Hi, how are reason that gives me a lot of comfort. It as “Carmel North.” “That was his idea you’ relations became really hostile,” just has a tremendous appeal to me.” as the way to draw people,” Ayres said. she said. “I don’t have the bound- R.J. Marx is The Daily Astorian’s “It didn’t seem to stick, especially when aries for that. If you want to keep your South County reporter and editor of people began buying and tearing down friends, you have to be able to just go the Seaside Signal and Cannon Beach all the wonderful beach cabins and home, shrug it off and think, ‘They’re Gazette. B Y R.J. M ARX C The revolt against decadence By 5266 D28T+AT New York Times News Service Americans, who grew up So what are Trumpistas and Bern-feelers rebelling amid the post-World War II against? boom, the vaulting optimism One answer might be that of the Space Age, the years ne of the puzzles of the 2016 they’re fed up with exactly when big government and campaign, unexpectedly this — the politics of “it big business were seen as GH¿QHGE\WKHDVFHQWRIDELOOLRQ- could be worse,” of stagna- effective and patriotic rather aire reality TV star and a septua- tion and muddling through. than sclerotic and corrupt. They aren’t revolting against Trump is offering nostalgia, genarian Vermont socialist, is why abject failure, or deep and but it’s not a true reaction- now? Yes, voters are angry, yes, swift decline. They’re rebel- ary’s lament. He wants to Ross they’re exhausted and disgusted ling against decadence. take us back to a time when Douthat Now it may sound the future seemed great, and cynical about everything. But DEVXUG WR FDVW D ¿JXUH OLNH 'RQDOG amazing, fantastic. why is everything boiling over in Trump, the much-married prince of Likewise Sanders, except that in this particular cycle, in this presi- tinsel and pasteboard, as a scourge of his case the glorious future is more dential campaign? decadence rather than its embodiment. mid-century Scandinavia than Space But don’t just think about the word Age America. After Obamacare became Consider: The economic picture is better than it was in 2012, when in moral or aesthetic terms. Think of it law, it seemed to many people that the Republican primary voters settled for as a useful way of describing a society welfare state project was basically that’s wealthy, powerful, technologi- complete, that the future of U.S. liber- Mitt Romney and an incumbent pres- FDOO\ SUR¿FLHQW ² DQG \HW VHHPLQJO\ alism mostly involved tweaking enti- ident was re-elected pretty easily. (In unable to advance in the way that its tlements around the edges to keep them both Iowa and New Hampshire, the citizens once took for granted. A society solvent. But Sanders is telling liberals, where people have fewer younger liberals especially, that the unemployment rate is children and hold dimin- heroic age of liberalism isn’t over yet, under 4 percent.) The ished expectations for that they can have a welfare state that’s It’s hard foreign policy picture is the future, where institu- far more amazing and fantastic than the grim in certain ways, but for a tions don’t work partic- one their forefathers constructed. America isn’t trapped in well but can’t The fact that both of these decadent ularly seem to be effectively messages — Trump’s “Make America a casualty-heavy quag- reformed, where growth great again” and Bernie’s “Why not mire the way we were in society is slow and technolog- socialism?” — involve essentially 2004, when Democratic ical progress disappoints. recycled visions of the future is a sign to escape voters played it safe $VRFLHW\WKDW¿JKWVWRD of how hard it is for a decadent society with John Kerry and the trap of stalemate in its foreign to escape the trap of repetition. George W. Bush won even as domestic But more important, the fact that repetition. wars, debates repeat them- both men are promising the implau- re-election. selves without any reso- sible or the impossible — and the fact As Michael Grunwald argued lution. A society disillusioned with that Trump is openly contemptuous recently in Politico, the worst-case existing religions and ideologies, but of our ragged republican norms — is scenarios of the post-Great Recession lacking new sources of meaning to take a reminder that there are worse things than decadence, grimmer possibilities era haven’t materialized. Obamacare their place. This is how many Americans, many for the future than drift and repetition. is limping along without an imminent death spiral, and health care costs aren’t Westerners, experience their civili- The disappointment and impa- ULVLQJDVIDVWDVIHDUHG7KHGH¿FLWKDV zation in the early years of the 21st tience that people feel in a decadent IDOOHQ D ELW DQG LQÀDWLRQ LV H[WUDRUGL- century. And both Trump and Bernie era is legitimate, even admirable. But narily low. The stock market is wobbly, Sanders, in their very different ways, the envy of more heroic moments, the but we haven’t had a double-dip are telling us that we don’t have to settle desire to just do something to prove for it anymore. recession. your society’s vitality — Invade Iraq to With Trump, the message is crude, remake the Middle East! Open Germa- On the cultural front, out-of-wed- lock births are no longer rising. Abor- explicit, deliberately over the top. Make ny’s borders! Elect Trump or Sanders tion rates have fallen. Illegal immigra- America Great Again. “We will have so president! — can be a very dangerous much winning if I get elected that you sensibility. tion rates are down. The state of the union isn’t all that may get bored with the winning.” There are pathways up from deca- But it resonates because the diag- dence. But there are more roads leading one might hope, but it could clearly be nosis resonates — especially with older down. a whole lot worse. 2
