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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
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JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager
DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager
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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.
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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