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23,1,21 6A Founded in 1873 STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor A game to remember 1 O GOOD DEED GOES unpunished. Especially if you are an elected leader. BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production 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 Georgia Forrester may not be an ornithologist, but she’s certainly becoming an expert on bald eagles. Every year, a pair of the majestic, white headed birds return to their nest in a tree a few yards from the Skyline water tower, which is across the street from her house. Forrester is sure the couple is starting another family. “I’m very thrilled. They’ve been coming and going for the last three months,” she says. “And just this last week, the female’s been staying on the nest 24/7, so there must be an egg!” Astoria public works staff members are also keeping an eye on the QHVWDQGZRUNLQJZLWKWKHQDWLRQDODQGVWDWH¿VKDQGZLOGOLIHGHSDUW- ments to avoid disturbing the eagles, which are listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. A project to dismantle the elevated water tank and replace it with a ground-level tank will be on hold until Aug. 31 if there is an egg in the nest, and it hatches. źźź WHILE THE TAMPA-CUBA game was not close (Tampa 4- Cuba 1), it was freighted with emotion. This was baseball diplo- macy. American baseball royalty came for the occasion. Derek Jeter was in the audience. 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So when he headed to home plate for his lead-off batting assignment, his teammates piled out of the dugout to clap for him. :LWKLWVODUJHWUDFWVRIÀDWODQGDORQJ86+LJKZD\ :DUUHQWRQ KDV EHFRPH D PDJQHW IRU EXVLQHVVHV ORRNLQJ IRU KLJKZD\DFFHVVDQGURRPWRVSUHDGRXW 7KHODWHVWLV+RPH'HSRW7KHQDWLRQDOKRPHLPSURYHPHQW FKDLQ ZKRVH FORVHVW RXWSRVW LV PLOHV DZD\ LQ /RQJYLHZ :DVKKDVSODQVLQWKHZRUNVIRUDDFUHVLWHRQWKHZHVW VLGHRI+LJKZD\DW'ROSKLQ/DQH ,IFOLPDWHFKDQJHFDXVHVRFHDQOHYHOVWRULVHIHHWRUPRUH3DFL¿F County is in deep trouble. “What you would see here would be a hell of a mess,” said County Commissioner Jon Kaino. The longtime Washington resident doesn’t doubt global changes are occurring — for whatever reason. But he is cautious of overreacting to incomplete data or inaccurate predictions. He would like more and bet- ter information before making land-policy decisions that could decrease the values of people’s property. 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Like the base- ball game that would follow, this was an emotional event. While Castro had agreed to take one question, he eventually took three. And dictators don’t do press conferences. One of the three ques- tions was about political prisoners, and it was asked by an American newsman of Cuban descent. — S.A.F. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL was one of the corporate players who joined Obama’s mission. MLB PDGH D VLJQL¿FDQW LQYHVWPHQW LQ UHFRQGLWLRQLQJWKH+DYDQDEDOO¿HOG 7RQVRIFOD\UHPDGHWKHLQ¿HOG,W was applied by hand, because there is no mechanized farm or landscape HTXLSPHQW LQ &XED7KH ¿HOG ZDV also resodded. Among the ideas MLB has ÀRDWHG LV D &XEDQ PLQRU OHDJXH team, as well as baseball acade- mies, similar to what has produced the wealth of MLB stars from the Dominican Republic. one of the best (and most respect in the workplace and romance in the bed- disgusting) compilations room. He is successful in of Donald Trump’s his- tory with women. Most of n the middle of the Civil the competitive world of the episodes are pure dom- War a colonel named Robert the marketplace but enthu- siastic in the kitchen and inance display. McAllister from the 11th gentle during kids’ bath For example, A.J. Regiment of New Jersey tried time. Benza was a writer who This new mascu- confessed that his girl- WRLPSURYHWKHPRUDO¿EHURIKLV line ideal is an unalloyed friend had left him for men. improvement on all the Trump. Trump called into a David A Presbyterian railroad contrac- earlier masculine ideals. radio show he was appear- Brooks tor in private life, he lobbied and It’s a great achievement of ing on to brag. preached against profanity, drinking, our culture. But it is demanding and “I’ve been successful with your LQYROYHVUHFRQFLOLQJDGLI¿FXOWVHULHV girlfriend, I’ll tell you that,” Trump prostitution and gambling. of tensions. And it has sparked a bad- said. “While you were getting onto 6RPH RI WKH OLQH RI¿FHUV LQ WKH boy protest movement and counter- the plane to go to California think- regiment, from less genteel back- culture, currently led by a group we ing she was your girlfriend, she was might once again call the Independent some place that you wouldn’t have grounds, rebelled. They formed an organization called Order of Trumps. been very happy with.” Donald Trump’s presidential cam- the Independent Order of Trumps. In When the commentator Tucker sort of a mischievous, laddie way, paign is a revolution in manners, a Carlson criticized him, Trump left the Trumps championed boozing and rejection of the civility codes of the voice mail bragging about how much educated class. As part more sex he gets. He told an inter- whoring, cursing and of this, he rejects the viewer that you have to treat women card-playing. new and balanced mas- like dirt. In her book The Gen- This is culine/feminine ideal tlemen and the Roughs, It’s not quite right to say that Lorien Foote notes that the world that has emerged over Trump is a throwback to midcentury the past generation. sexism. At least in those days neg- this wasn’t just a battle your Trump embraces a mas- ative behavior toward women and over pleasure. It was a contest between two dif- daughters culine identity — old in family members was restrained by some ways, new in oth- the chivalry code. Political candi- ferent ideals of mascu- linity. McAllister’s was are going ers — built upon unvar- dates didn’t go attacking their rivals’ nished misogyny. based on gentlemanly wives based on their looks. Trump’s to grow Trump’s misogyny is REMHFWL¿FDWLRQ LV XQFRQWUROOHG ,W¶V chivalry and self-re- not the historical mor- pure ego competition with a pornog- straint. Trumpian mas- up in. alistic misogyny. Tradi- UL¿HGÀDYRU culinity was based on tional misogyny blames physical domination and In this way, Trump represents the women for the lustful, licentious and spread of something brutal. He takes sexual conquest. “Perceptions of manliness were powerful urges that men sometimes economic anxiety and turns it into deeply intertwined with perceptions feel in their presence. In this misog- sexual hostility. He effectively tells yny, women are the powerful, dis- men: You may be struggling, but at of social status,” Foote writes. gusting corrupters — the vixens, least you’re better than women, Mex- And so it is today. These days we’re living through sirens and monsters. This gynopho- icans and Muslims. DQRWKHU JUHDW UHGH¿QLWLRQ RI PDVFX- bic misogyny demands that women I’ve grappled with understand- linity. Today, both men and women be surrounded with taboos and purga- ing how much to blame Trump’s sup- are called upon to live up to the tra- tion rituals, along with severe restric- porters for his rise. Many of them are ditional ideals of both genders. So tions on behavior and dress. victims of economic dislocation, and Trump’s misogyny, on the other it is hard to fault them for seeking a the ideal man, at least in polite soci- ety, gracefully achieves a series of KDQG KDV D FRPPHUFLDO ÀDYRU 7KH change, of course, even if it is sim- balances. He is steady and strong, central arena of life is male compe- plistic and ignorant. but also verbal and vulnerable. He is tition. Women are objects men use But in the realm of cultural poli- emotionally open and willing to cry, to win points in that competition. tics, Trump voters do need to be held but also restrained and resilient. He is The purpose of a woman’s body is to to account. They are participating in a UHÀHFW VWDWXV RQ D PDQ 2QH ZD\ WR descent into darkness. They are sup- physical and also intellectual. Today’s ideal man honors the emasculate a rival man is to insult or porting a degrading wrong. This is women in his life in whatever they conquer his woman. the world your daughters are going to Writing for Slate, Frank Foer has grow up in. want to do. He treats them with , Shoreline Development company, Portland, has bought 35 acres of land on the west side of Cullaby Lake from the heirs of the Carnahan estate and plans a residential development there, President W.H. Bucher told the Daily Astorian Tuesday. and the Cuban national team in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday. It’s the first game featuring an MLB team in Cuba since the Baltimore Ori- oles played in the country in 1999. 7KHVH[XDOSROLWLFVRI By '$9,'%522.6 New York Times News Service 7KH/LRQV+RPHDQG$XWR6KRZODVWZHHNHQGGUHZ SHRSOHLQWRWKH$UPRU\ZHDU\/LRQVRI¿FLDOVHVWLPDWHG0RQ GD\DVWKH\SUHSDUHGIRUFOHDQXSZRUN0RQGD\DQG7XHVGD\ QLJKWV 7KLVWRWDOH[FHHGVSUHYLRXV+RPHDQG$XWRVKRZFURZGV /DVW\HDUDQHVWLPDWHGSHRSOHVDZWKHHYHQW ³7KLVVKRZZDVDQDQVZHUWRSHRSOHZKRFRPSODLQWKDWLW¶V KDUGWR¿QGJRRGVLQ$VWRULDVWRUHV´&-0F(OKDQH\VKRZ FKDLUPDQQRWHG³,FKDOOHQJHDQ\FULWLFWR¿QGDQ\VWDQGDUG KRPHRUDXWRLWHPWKDWFRXOGQ¶WEHIRXQGLQWKH¿QHGLVSOD\V RIRXUORFDOPHUFKDQWV´ Through the Looking-glass of Cabbages and Kings DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager Mrs. Merril Ginn, left, and Mrs. Lucy Drucker were back this week from Vero Beach, Fla., with the new Piper Cherokee airplane shown here. Owned by Fred Ludwich of Astoria Flight Service, right, the two women will fly the aircraft in the annual Powderpuff Derby next July. They display a card with the name they will use, “Spirit of ’66 Clatsop County, Ore., Where the Mighty Columbia Meets the Vast Pacific.” ‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things; Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax — Of cabbages —and kings —’ On last Friday’s “PBS New- sHour,” columnist Mark Shields criticized “the optics” of Presi- dent Barack Obama’s presence at a Havana baseball game, which occurred on the heels of the Brus- sels airport terrorist incident. Shields said it would have been bet- ter if Obama had not been wearing sunglasses. The game pitted the Tampa Rays against the Cuban national team. ,W ZDV WKH ¿QDO DFW RI 2EDPD¶V three-day groundbreaking visit to Havana. He had also met privately with Cuban President Raul Cas- tro, held a joint press conference with Castro, met privately with dis- sidents and spoken to the Cuban people. Unlike Shields, David Brooks said there’s no good reason for not going to a baseball game. He added that presidents can do more Will Vragovic/The Tampa Bay Times than one thing at a time, and that President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro take telephones are always available. their seats before a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays CARL EARL, Systems Manager 50 years ago — 1966 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2016
