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THE DAILY ASTORIAN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016
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F YOU SAW THE LONG
line snaking into the Chiles
Center at the University of
Portland last Wednesday eve-
ning, you might have suspected
a rock concert was inside. But
one look at the audience (middle
aged) told you something else.
‘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
David Brooks, the New York
Times columnist, had drawn a
crowd that would satisfy anyone
running for of¿ce in this state.
Water
under
the bridge
Compiled by Bob Duke
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago this week — 2006
Astoria City Council goals for 2006-2007, in no particular order:
CoPplete a EuildaEle lands inYentory to include in¿ll opportunities,
urban growth boundary expansion possibilities and adjacent lands.
Develop and implement a strategy to redevelop the former Safeway site
(soon to be renamed) and vacant buildings located in and adjacent to the
downtown area.
Develop and implement a plan for improvements to the city hall build-
ing, with a focus on enhancing both customer service and the physical
appearance.
Resubmit and secure the inclusion of the Astoria Bypass into the Oregon
State Transportation Improvement Plan.
Attract commercial passenger air service to the Astoria Regional Airport
in Warrenton.
Study feasibility of municipal investment in the development of renew-
able energy sources, with a focus on hydroelectric and wind power.
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“We’ll see you back in St. Louis!”
Casting off from the same shore his ancestor left exactly 200 years
before, Peyton “Bud” Clark offered a farewell to the hundreds of specta-
tors on shore who watched as he and the rest of the Discovery Expedition of
St. Charles, Missouri, paddled down the Lewis and Clark River Thursday.
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Need of a dock for the Coast Guard cutter Yocona became apparent
Wednesday when the port docks had so much shipping that there was no
place left to tie up the Yocona. The cutter went to sea for maneuvers until the
traf¿c thins out a bit.
There were ¿ve ships loading cargo and an oil barge discharging
petroleum.
The glut of log ships apparently is due to end of a Japanese seamen’s
strike that released a Àock of ships all at once, port of¿cial said.
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75 years ago — 1941
Three crimes, believed by city police to have been committed by one
man, swelled the minor crime wave which has hit Astoria in the past two
weeks when the Youngs Bay dairy and the Seeborg Transfer company
of¿ces were entered and an automobile belonging to the Lovell Auto com-
pany was stolen Sunday night between 6 and 9 o’clock.
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Two husky U.S. Navy men were in town today arranging for receiving
applications for the service in Astoria, Seaside and Tillamook. They also
were making arrangement for showing motion pictures at various lodges,
civic organizations and schools that are interested in viewing scenes of navy
life.
Daily Astorian File
Mostly Brooks riffed on his book,
“The Road to Character.” It is about
what Brooks describes as the sorts of
attributes that are said in one’s eulogy
instead of what’s on one’s resume.
While it was an elevating discus-
sion, most of the crowd was itching
to hear Brooks say something about
the presidential campaign. One of the
questions he answered from students
hit the mark. Talking about Donald
Trump, Brooks said: His campaign
“is not a rebellion of policy, because
he has no policy. It is a rebellion of
manners.”
Brooks followed that with a dis-
course on the importance of civil
society. He noted that one by one,
Trump has broken the barriers that
sustain civil society.
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THE EVANGELICAL WRITER
Michael Gerson last week also
offered a succinct response to
Trumpism. “We are supposed to
turn in desperation to the talent and
will of one man, who happens to be
bristling with prejudice and blazing
with ignorance. We are seeing the
offer of personal rule by someone
with no discernible public or personal
virtues.”
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THE
WALL
STREET
Journal’s editorial writers have twice
chewed out Trump for his shallow
understanding of foreign affairs and
economics. Most recently, last Friday,
the Journal projected the economic
cost of deporting 11 million illegal
immigrants. If it succeeded, that
Creative Commons
David Brooks, a conservative New York Times columnist shown
here speaking about his 2011 book, “The Social Animal,” has
called businessman Donald Trump’s Republican presidential cam-
paign “a rebellion of manners.”
The Wall Street Journal twice
chewed out Trump for his
shallow understanding of
foreign trade and economics.
plan would reduce American gross
domestic product by 5.7 percent, said
the Journal.
In a “Trade Tutorial for Trump,”
on March 10, the Journal concluded:
“Mr. Trump claims that as president
he would make smarter and ‘fairer’
trade deals. He could help persuade
voters by showing that he knows
more than nothing about foreign
trade.”
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JEANNINE COWLES, WHO
died Feb. 4, played a major role
in Astoria’s arts rebirth. Thanks to
Marge Bloom¿eld’s friendship with
Cowles, she came to one of the
earliest vocal recitals, in the unre-
stored Liberty Theater. A check from
Cowles followed that visit.
For most years of the Astoria
Music Festival, Cowles sponsored
the opera productions.
My wife and I got to know
Cowles in Bloom¿eld’s living room
and saw her at a master class at Port-
land State University, which she
sponsored. She was a large, buoyant
personality. Cowles faced reversals
in her own life. Being an early inves-
tor in Weight Watchers paid off. She
was generous in sharing the wealth
she gained.
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“Honestly,” he replied,
that are harsh and yet they
“I’m with the people. The
are calling me on the other
people like Trump.”
line saying, ‘Hey, when can
Since he prefers to rely
we get together?’”
ASHINGTON — Most
on
himself
for
policy
advice,
Mitch McConnell also
people would be upset
is he seeking out expert help
urged Trump to ratchet
to be at the center of an agitated on the abstruse delegate
down the ferocity. Trump
national debate about whether they rules?
insisted that “the violence
“Yeah,”
he
said,
“I
have
is not caused by me. It’s
were more like Hitler, Mussolini,
people,
very
good
people,
caused by agitators.” He
Idi Amin, George Wallace or a the best people.”
added that “Hillary is the
Maureen
Marvel villain.
No details, as usual.
one disrupting my rallies.
Dowd
Not Donald Trump.
Won’t a contested con-
It’s more Hillary than Sand-
vention require more of ers, I found out.” The Clinton campaign
He doesn’t like
a campaign than après called this “patently false.”
invidious compari-
moi, le déluge?
I wondered if he realized that, in ril-
I
wondered
sons, but he’s cool
“I have an organi- ing up angry whites, he has pulled the
with being called an
if he
zation, but it’s largely scab off racism.
authoritarian.
myself,” he said.
“Obama, who is African-American,
realized
“We need strength
More heavyweights has done nothing for African Ameri-
in this country,” he told
are jumping in to cans,” he replied.
that, in
me Friday morning,
stomp Trump, includ-
He said he would soon unleash the
speaking from his Fifth
ing Elizabeth Warren. moniker that he thought would dimin-
riling up
Avenue of¿ce. “We
Asked about her jabs, ish Hillary, the way “Little Marco” and
angry
have weak leadership.
he pounced: “I think “Lyin’ Ted” torched his Republican
Hillary is pathetically
wonderful because rivals; “I want to get rid of the leftovers
whites, he it’s
weak.
the Indians can now ¿rst.”
“She got us into
in the future of
When he mocks Hillary, as he does
has pulled partake
Libya and she got us
the country. She’s got in a new ad that shows her barking, it
into Benghazi and she’s
about as much Indian may back¿re. Due to his inability to
the scab
probably got 40 egg-
blood as I have. Her let go of his chew toy Megyn Kelly,
heads sitting around a off racism.
whole life was based Trump drew a remarkable rebuke Fri-
table telling her what to
on a fraud. She got into day night from Fox News after he
do, and then she was sleeping when the Harvard and all that because she said called for a boycott of her show and
phone call came in from the ambassa- she was a minority.”
tweeted that she was “crazy” and
dor begging for help. You know, the 3
Told that President Barack Obama “sick.” Fox painted Trump as a stalker,
a.m. phone call?”
was mocking his wine as $5 wine saying he had an “extreme, sick obses-
I asked the brand baron if he’s con- marked up to $50, Trump shot back, sion” with the anchor. Unable to resist,
cerned that his brand has gone from “My wine has gone through the roof.”
even though he knows I respect Kelly,
fun to scary, from glittery New York
What about Mitt Romney, who’s he also described her to me as a “total
celebrity to “Saturday Night Live” skits pushing for an open convention?
whack job” with “no talent.”
about him featuring allusions to the
“He’s a jealous fool and not a bright
He has a history of crude remarks
KKK and Hitler. He blamed a “disgust- person,” Trump said. “He’s good look- about women from his visits to How-
ingly dishonest” press.
ing. Other than that, he’s got nothing.”
ard Stern’s show that could be used in
I wondered about ex-wife Ivana
Paul Ryan, who will be leading the Hillary ads. A conservative anti-Trump
telling her lawyer, according to Van- GOP convention in Cleveland, says super PAC is running an ad with women
ity Fair, that Trump kept a book of Hit- there could be a Àoor ¿ght. But he pro- repeating his coarse remarks.
ler’s speeches by his bed. Or the talk in tested that he would, no, no, never take
“All of these politicians have said far
New York that in the ‘90s he was read- it himself, just as he once said about the worse than that,” Trump said, “drunk,
ing “Mein Kampf.” Nein, he said.
speakership.
standing in a corner.”
“I never had the book,” he said. “I
Ryan snickered at the idea that Mex-
Joe Scarborough said that just as
never read the book. I don’t care about ico would pay for the wall and chided FDR was the master of radio and JFK
the book.”
Trump for warning that there would be of television, DJT is the titan of Twit-
All over town, even in the building riots at the convention if the Gasping ter. The titan agreed, gloating about
where I’m writing this column, freaked- Old Party tried to snatch the nomina- how his tweets to his 7 million follow-
out Republicans are plotting how to rip tion. Was the speaker interested in seiz- ers, sometimes penned in his jammies,
the nomination from Trump’s hot little ing the crown himself?
become cable news bulletins.
hands.
“I don’t think so,” Trump said, not-
“Yeah,” he said, “I’ll do them some-
How does it feel to be labeled a ing that he liked Ryan and that they’d times lying in bed.”
menace, misogynist, bigot and xeno- talked. “All that matters is the votes. I
Not exactly a ¿reside chat. But it
phobe by your own party?
see people making statements about me sure started a ¿re.
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