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DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016 143RD YEAR, NO. 198 J.C. PENNEY TURNS 100 IN ASTORIA PAGE 3A ONE DOLLAR LADY LOGGERS PLAY LIKE CHAMPS SPORTS • PAGES 7A & 10A Wolf pack death is sobering Shooting renews debate over managing predators By ERIC MORTENSON Capital Press Photos by Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Sage Nyberg, 10, grimaces as he pulls up a clam gun from the sand while digging for razor clams on Sunday morning during the Long Beach (Wash.) Razor Clam Festival. MOLLUSK MADNESS SEIZES THE BEACH Fans of razor clams clamor for more in Long Beach By JOSHUA BESSEX The Daily Astorian L ONG BEACH, Wash. — Armed with clam guns, shov- els, boots and buckets, hundreds of people took to the shores of Long Beach over the weekend for the annual Razor Clam Festival. The festival, which had an eight-year run in the 1940s before restarting in 2013, gave visitors a taste of Northwest coastal life with multiple chowder competitions and the clam fritter cook-off on Saturday. For the do-it-yourselfers, the festival offered free clam-dig- ging lessons each morning and clam-cleaning classes when the digging was done. More photos of the mollusk madness online at www.dai- lyastorian.com. Razor clams are shown in a net on Sunday. They called him OR-4, and by some accounts he was Oregon’s biggest and bad- dest wolf, 97 pounds of cunning in his prime and the longtime alpha male of Wallowa County’s inÀuential Imnaha Pack. But OR-4 was nearly 10, old for a wolf in the wild. And his mate limped with a bad back leg. Accompanied by two yearlings, they apparently separated from the rest of the Imnaha Pack or were forced out. In March, they attacked and devoured or injured calves and sheep ¿ve times in private pastures. So on March 31, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife staff boarded a helicopter, rose up and shot all four. See WOLF PACK, Page 10A Brown rHÀHFWV on her ¿rVW yeDr By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Payson Hoiseck, 10, from Toledo, Wash., shows a razor clam she dug up in Long Beach on Sunday. Payson Hoiseck, 10, from Toledo, Wash., digs for razor clams Sunday morning along Long Beach. Chefs prepare clam fritters during the clam fritter cook-off at Veterans Memorial Park on Saturday. PORTLAND — Gov. Kate Brown used her State of the State address Friday to claim a series of social, eco- nomic and environ- mental achievements during her ¿rst full year in of¿ce. Calling it “a water- shed year for Oregon,” she recounted to a crowd of about 500 at the City Club of Port- land that the state had Kate passed several ¿rst-in- Brown the-nation laws. Those policies ban the sale of coal-powered electricity, automatically reg- ister people to vote, set a tiered minimum wage and allow the sale of birth control with- out a prescription. She compared the new policies to the leg- acy of former Gov. Tom McCall, known for his leadership in passing landmark land-use planning laws in 1973. See BROWN, Page 10A Astoria native awarded millions in YouTube suit A $3,000 investment garners gold in federal court our years ago, a former Astoria resident and his business partner each invested $1,500 in a Dallas, Tex- as-based, video gaming chan- nel on YouTube. The two were promised a 30 percent stake in the business and 30 percent pro¿t. The Videogames YouTube channel became a hit with more than 813 million vis- its and millions of dollars in F advertising revenue. However, the channel creator breached the investment agreement with Astoria native Brandon Keat- ing, now of Chicago, and fel- low investor David “Ty” Moss, of North Carolina. “This creator came to me and asked me to invest,” Keat- ing said. “Things went south, and a few years later we are in a lawsuit.” Keating and Moss were awarded $20.3 million last Brandon Keating week from a Texas federal jury after ¿ling an investment fraud lawsuit. The lawsuit claimed creator Marko Princip and his business partner Brian Martin, of California, failed to honor their contract and conspired to commit fraud and tortious interference. The federal jury awarded $16 million in punitive dam- ages, $1.5 million in future earnings and 60 percent of the advertising revenue. Keating, who was born in Astoria and studied at Tongue Point Job Corps Center before joining the U.S. Navy, describes himself as an inves- tor. He has invested in 100 dif- ferent YouTube stars, one of whom recently signed a deal with LionsGate. Anyone can create a You- Tube channel. The channels with the most views, such as Videogames YouTube, have the potential to gener- ate huge amounts of money in advertising. “That is what was repre- sented,” Keating said when he invested in Videogames. Many of these YouTube channels start off with hand- shake agreements. It is import- ant for people to sign of¿- cial documents to help avoid investment fraud, he said. Keating’s lawyers esti- mated thousands of investment fraud cases involving YouTube channels could be ¿led over the next few years. “This case demonstrates the big business that YouTube has become,” Dan Wyde, a lawyer See KEATING, Page 10A
