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2PINI2N 6A Founded in 1873 You can run , miles, but you can’t hide from Donald Trump STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher SOUTHERN LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager EXPOSURE CARL EARL, Systems Manager JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager B Y R.J. M ARX 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 The Port of Astoria Commission has imposed sanctions against port Executive Director Peter Gearin in response to last year’s dredging activ- ities Zhich resulted in ¿nes of from state and federal agencies The details of the sanctions, discussed in an executive session Tuesday, were not made public, but Gearin will be placed on a performance plan that identi¿es problems and sets improvements to be made, port attorney +eather 5eynolds said after the session “The commission and executive director want the citizens of the port district to Nnow that the problems and violations arising in the - dredge season are taken very seriously and are being addressed,” read a statement released by the port “The commission is taking all action it can to ensure that any future dredging is done in compliance with all laws and envi- ronmental regulations” Another key domino in Astoria’s development is about to slot into place. After the Liberty Theater and Hotel Elliott renovations and the expansion of the Riverwalk, a familiar name is looking to spruce up another landmark. The old Fisher Bros. building at 42 Seventh St. on Astoria’s riverfront was built in 1910. Used mainly as a warehouse for almost a century, the landmark industrial building is about to be reborn. Chester Trabucco, who transformed the Hotel Elliott, has plans to work his magic on the recently vacated two-story con- crete structure. The Astoria Planning Commission has already approved Trabucco’s proposal to use the ¿rst Àoor as commercial space, and convert the second Àoor to residential use. “He’s trying to take an underutilized waterfront building and renovate it for a contemporary use, and still retain its historic character,” said City Planner Rosemary Johnson. 50 years ago — 1966 PORTLAND – Cinder- ella Baker, the most surpris- ing development of the Oregon A-1 high school bas- ketball tournament, shoved Astoria into the consolation bracket here Thursday after- noon by whipping Coach Pete Bryant’s Fishermen - in a Tuarter¿nal round game Astoria fans at Portland’s Memorial The intermountain league Coliseum went wild Thursday during second place team forced the close contest which Fishermen lost Fishermen into playing Bak- 53-49 to Baker. (Photo by Paxton Hoag) erball, a slow methodical Oregon State University-type offense, and pulled its second surprise of the tournament ,n :ednesday’s opening round, the Bulldogs clobbered :ilson, the tourney favorite and No 1 ranked team in the state, but tourney guess- perts did not anticipate the second upset A storm front with gusts up to 40 knots lashed the Sunset Empire early today, but was expected to subside through the afternoon. The storm halted ship traf¿c across the Columbia bar, pre- vented ferry service during the early part of the day, and blew down a few signs but did no serious damage. Drilling operations, ¿nanced by ¿ve oil companies, will begin this week off Willapa Bay on the Southeast Washington coast, according to *.A. Burton, of¿cial of the Shell 2il Co. The company announced Monday it is moving the drilling rig Blue Water No. 2 to a site off the bay where workmen will drill a well in 230 feet of water. The site is located about 15 miles offshore. 75 years ago — 1941 Astoria was Oregon’s high school basketball champion today for the ¿fth time since the annual state tournament was started in 1 The Fishermen won the title in Saturday night’s ¿nal game with Salem, when persons watched Rudy Lovvold drop a ¿eld goal and a free throw in an overtime period to give his team a - victory Astoria trailed most of the game and was one point behind with 1 sec- onds to play Roy Seeber sank a free throw to tie the score at - and throw the contest into an extra period Lovvold was high scorer with 11 points The Navy Department has awarded to the Astoria Marine Construction Company a contract to build four minesweepers at an approximate value of 1,125,000, according to de¿nite word received by the Astoria Chamber of Commerce Thursday morn- ing from Senator Charles L. McNary. The vessels will be wooden craft, each 135 feet long. Joseph Dyer, manager of the marine construction company, has been in Washington, D.C., for several weeks in an effort to line up these and perhaps other contracts for his company. Search for a , acre beachfront tract to serve as a camp for , anti-aircraft troops is being made in Clatsop County by a military commit- tee from Fort Stevens assisted by the Clatsop County ,ndustrial commission The investigation resulted from a decision of the army to establish such a camp in the Northwest and a beach location is wanted in order to do practice shooting out over the ocean Continued fair weather has turned Seaside into a summer playground. With the maximum temperature averaging 65 and the mercury Mumping to 6 on Tuesday, according to of¿cial records, Seaside is rivaling southern winter resorts. THE DAILY ASTORIAN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016 C ANNON BEACH — :henever ,’m in Cannon Beach, people want to talk to me about Donald Trump ,t’s not because the Donald and , have the same hairdresser, but we did live in the same town, Bedford, New <ork “You must write another article on your old pal Donald Trump,” Rex Amos wrote “You might be inter- ested to know that , keep telling Diane that if he’d just shave off that horse’s mane, he’d look just like Mussolini You know, the way he purses his lips and juts his jaw “:ell, today he Tuoted Mussolini The NASCAR circuit loved him for it” Amos continued :e have become dumbed down in our ever- loving search for entertainment Our culture is becoming caramel corn which , really like” For the record, , am no “pal” of Trump , talked to him as a journal- ist a few times on the phone The ¿rst time after he won a lawsuit against the town , lived in and then again when he commented on a lawsuit he won against the Nature Conservancy, a nonpro¿t the Trump Organization had just .O’d in court Both times, , might add, he was Tuite cheerful ,n general, though, , fear , may be in the same category as the protester Trump singled out at Central Florida University “Get that guy out of here,” Trump snapped to his security force “But don’t hurt him” As entertaining as Trump is today when he’s not discussing actual pol- icy, he was making us laugh — and weep — in Bedford long before his ¿rst bankruptcy Trump is the owner of Seven Springs, 1 acres straddling three suburban towns Coincidentally, Seven Springs’ address is Oregon Road, which may give Trump some- thing of a “native son” feel to us in the Beaver State Trump planned to turn the fancy estate into a Masters-Tual- ity, -member golf course :hen neighbors objected to limos arriving on dirt roads and choppers landing on wetlands, the plan stalled A decade ago, Trump said he would build a ghetto of 1 luxury homes if the three towns — Bed- ford, North Castle and New Castle — didn’t approve his golf course :hile Trump’s plans slogged through the courts, he decided to rent the place out He made the most dar- ing short-term rental deal ever, leas- ing his property to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadha¿ and entourage The Libyans were occupied pitch- ing tents when town of¿cials told them they were violating local zoning code A couple years later Trump declared “he got the better of Gadha¿ in the deal” by refusing to return the dictator’s deposit Foregoing Seven Springs as tran- sient lodging, Trump’s son Eric moved in Meanwhile, there is no golf course there and the McMansions have yet to be built porate citizens all the way to the US Supreme Court A little more than a century ago, real estate developer Thomas Benton Potter and surveyor HL Chapin were so eager to make a Tuick buck that, despite geologic evidence to the con- trary, he built a town along the Ore- gon Coast, south of Nehalem, called Bayocean ,t was billed as “the next Atlantic City” “Never once,” wrote author Bert :ebber in his book “Bayocean,” “did Potter seem concerned about putting buildings on sand foundations” The town of Bayocean fell into the sea one house at a time, until 1 when giant breakers collapsed the spit leaving an island separated from the land by a mile of ocean :ithin a month the population dwindled to six people Author Matt Love may be touch- ing an important nerve when he writes in “The Great Birthright”: “Ever since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1, much of the country had suffered from an ongoing political conspiracy to implant a virus to privatize, pro¿tize Public, private interest and corporatize everything The virus y dad, who retired to western was of such a malignant strain that it Michigan a few years back, has had weakened the resolve for commu- long been railing about a guy named nity leaders and politicians to come Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of out in favor of anything that proposed Chesapeake Energy, a mid- or even lauded elevating the western Trump, bullying larger public good over the For the smaller private interest” everyone in his way McClendon bought Matt Love is not the what’s known as the Den- record, only Oregonian to share ison property, overlooking this thought His passion for I am the the mouth of the Kalamazoo land and sea — and the River, in for mil- shared goals of most Ore- no lion He sold a portion which gonians —is what keeps is now the Saugatuck Har- ‘pal’ of our beaches public and for- bor Natural Area, but was ests protected ,t is import- involved in a lengthy legal Trump. ant for Oregonians to cher- battle over his plans for a ish this rare privilege development that would include high- end homes, a resort and golf course Straight to the top The McLendon developer of Sin- ack to my pal, the Donald gapore Dunes has built a-mile, Long before Trump’s pres- paved road in what are described as idential visions were an apple in “critical dunes” along Lake Michigan Melania’s eyes, his political cha- to provide access to proposed homes risma was apparent ,n 1, New As ,’m writing this my dad York’s 1th Congressional District informed me McClendon was killed lacked a Republican candidate to in a crash in Oklahoma City after his face off against incumbent Sean Pat- car hit a highway overpass at high rick Maloney Maloney had easily speeds early this month ,t happened knocked off a health care industry the day after McClendon was indicted lobbyist in 1 and the GOP needed on federal bid-rigging charges accus- some muscle to compete ing him of conspiring to suppress Perhaps prophetically, we wrote: prices for oil and natural gas leases “Finally, we are con¿dent that Don- ald Trump, despite a Bedford res- Castles in the sand idence, will not run for Congress he North Coast has faced big Unless someone asks him to” egos before ,t took Gov Tom He skipped Congress McCall to stand up in 1 in Can- R.J. Marx is The Daily Astori- non Beach to the string of developers, an’s South County reporter and edi- successful and not, who had chosen tor of the Seaside Signal and Cannon to take their God-given rights as cor- Beach Gazette. M B T America’s new shame culture By DA9,D BR22.S New York Times News Service I n 1, Allan Bloom wrote a book called The Closing of the American Mind The core argument was that American campuses were awash in moral relativism Subjective personal values had replaced universal moral principles Nothing was either right or wrong Amid a wave of rampant nonjudgmen- talism, life was Àatter and emptier Bloom’s thesis was accurate at the time, but it’s not accurate anymore College campuses are today awash in moral judgment Many people carefully guard their words, afraid they might transgress one of the norms that have come into existence Those accused of incorrect thought face ruinous conseTuences :hen a moral crusade spreads across campus, many students feel compelled to post in support of it on Facebook within minutes ,f they do not post, they will be noticed and condemned Some sort of moral system is com- ing into place Some new criteria now exist, which people use to de¿ne cor- rect and incorrect action The big Tues- tion is :hat is the nature of this new moral system? Last year, Andy Crouch published an essay in Christianity Today that takes us toward an answer Crouch starts with the distinction the anthropologist Ruth Benedict pop- ularized, between a guilt culture and a shame culture ,n a guilt culture you know you are good or bad by what your conscience feels ,n a shame cul- ture you know you are good or bad by what your community says about you, by whether it honors or excludes you ,n a guilt culture people sometimes feel they do bad things; in a shame culture social exclusion makes people feel they are bad Crouch argues that the omnipres- ence of social media has created a new sort of shame culture The The ultimate sin, Crouch world of Facebook, ,nsta- argues, is to criticize a gram and the rest is a world group, especially on moral of constant display and grounds Talk of good and observation The desire to be bad has to defer to talk embraced and praised by the about respect and recogni- community is intense Peo- tion Crouch writes, “Talk of ple dread being exiled and right and wrong is troubling condemned Moral life is when it is accompanied by not built on the continuum of seeming indifference to the right and wrong; it’s built on experience of shame that David the continuum of inclusion accompanies judgments of Brooks and exclusion µimmorality’” This creates a set of common behav- He notes that this shame culture is ior patterns First, members of a group different from the traditional shame cul- lavish one another with praise so that tures, the ones in Asia, for example ,n they themselves might be accepted and traditional shame cultures the opposite of shame was honor or “face” — being praised in turn Second, there are nonetheless known as a digni¿ed and upstanding enforcers within the group who build citizen ,n the new shame culture, the their personal power and reputation opposite of shame is celebrity — to by policing the group and condemning be attention-grabbing and aggressively those who break the group code Social uniTue on some media platform On the positive side, this new shame media can be vicious to those who don’t ¿t in Twitter can erupt in instant culture might rebind the social and communal fabric ,t might reverse, a ridicule for anyone who stumbles bit, the individualistic, atomizing thrust of the past years It is a On the other hand, everybody is perpetually insecure in a moral sys- culture of tem based on inclusion and exclusion There are no permanent standards, just oversensitivity, the shifting judgment of the crowd ,t is a culture of oversensitivity, overreaction overreaction and freTuent moral panics, during which and frequent everybody feels compelled to go along ,f we’re going to avoid a constant moral panics. state of anxiety, people’s identities have to be based on standards of justice and Third, people are extremely anxious virtue that are deeper and more per- that their group might be condemned manent than the shifting fancy of the or denigrated They demand instant crowd ,n an era of omnipresent social respect and recognition for their group media, it’s probably doubly important They feel some moral wrong has been to discover and name your own per- perpetrated when their group has been sonal True North, vision of an ultimate disrespected, and react with the most good, which is worth defending even at the cost of unpopularity and exclusion violent intensity The guilt culture could be harsh, but Crouch describes how video gamers viciously went after journalists, mostly at least you could hate the sin and still women, who had criticized the misog- love the sinner The modern shame cul- yny of their games Campus controver- ture allegedly values inclusion and tol- sies get so hot so fast because even a erance, but it can be strangely unmerci- minor slight to a group is perceived as a ful to those who disagree and to those who don’t ¿t in basic identity threat
