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OPINION 6A Founded in 1873 STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager CARL EARL, Systems Manager JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager DEBRA BLOOM, Business 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 A new radio station was set to go on the air at 10 a.m. this morning. Licensed as KCPB 90.9 Warrenton, this low-powered FM service will originate from the Coast Community Radio studios inside Tillicum House in Astoria. The transmitter is co-located with KMUN-FM’s antenna on Megler 0RXQWDLQMXVWDFURVVWKHEULGJHIURP$VWRULDLQ3DFL¿F&RXQW\:DVK7LO- OLFXP )RXQGDWLRQ WKH QRQSUR¿W PHPEHUVKLS FRUSRUDWLRQ WKDW RSHUDWHV KMUN-FM Astoria and KTCB-FM Tillamook, will own and operate this new station as well. “Goodnight and good luck!” Naziya Bissenova doesn’t speak much English, but she does know Edward R. Murrow’s famous nightly farewell, and she offered it Monday at the end of a visit to Astoria Bissenova was among 16 journalists from countries in and around the former Soviet Union who came to Astoria as part of a three-week visit to the United States sponsored by the Mur- row Program for Journalists and the U.S. State Department. The trip has taken the group to Washington, D.C., and communities around the country to provide the visitors a perspective on Amer- ican media, government and society. A beaming Mayor Willis Van Dusen accepted two $20,000 checks on behalf of the city at Monday’s Astoria City Council meeting and quickly passed them on to Finance Director John Snyder. One check was presented by Dan Hauer, treasurer of the Uniontown Association. The group collected the money from donations raised during a fund-raising drive to renovate the exterior of the Doughboy Monument and upgrade one of its public restrooms, the only restrooms in the United States to be listed on National Register of Historic Places. 50 years ago — 1966 State Treasurer Robert Straub today called for the United States government to “assert it rights over offshore lands and tell the Russian ¿VKHUPHQLQQRXQFHUWDLQWHUPVWR get off our property. In a letter seeking Sen. Wayne Morse’s assistance, Straub said the U.S. claims possession of the conti- nental shelf outside the three-mile limit for oil drilling. Rep. Robert Duncan, who “We surely could do the same supported Astoria bridge IRU¿VKLQJ´6WUDXEVDLG legislation when he was in He noted that the U.S. govern- the Oregon House of Rep- ment has granted oil leases to pri- resentatives, looks at a riv- vate oil companies “in the very et exhibited by Robert El- DUHD ZKHUH WKH 5XVVLDQ ¿VKLQJ lison, project engineer for boats are.” the bridge. “If Russian oil rigs came over DQGVHWXSWRGULOOZKHUHWKHLU¿VKLQJERDWVQRZDUHFDWFKLQJ¿VK we’d soon see a U.S. Navy cruiser running them off,” Straub said. 6WUDXEDGGHG³,¶PVXUHWKDWRXU¿VKHUPHQDUHHQWLWOHGWRDV much protection from their government as are the oil companies.” A quarter-million dollar Thunderbird Motel will rise on pilings at the southwest corner of West End mooring basin as a result of a lease approved by the Port of Astoria commission Tuesday. The port approved a 52-year lease to the Thunderbird Motel company, which proposes to erect a 40-unit motel overhanging the West End basin and located west of the Sea Fare restaurant. 75 years ago — 1941 “Any bugbears in your home?” asks Miss Barbara Miller, the charming and gifted director of the Happy Kitchen Cooking School, put on by the Astorian-Budget, to take place on April 16, 17, 18, at the River theater, between 2 and 4 p.m. “Planning and preparing 1095 meals a year (3x365) often becomes a bugbear to the busy housewife, particularly if local conditions render food shopping a problem. “But no such dif- ¿FXOW\ FRQIURQWV WKH KRXVHZLIH RI $VWRULD´ FRQWLQXHV 0LVV Miller, “for I have visited many of the stores and markets since P\ DUULYDO KHUH DQG ¿QG WKHP DOO XQXVXDOO\ ZHOO VWRFNHG DQG equipped, capable of satisfying the needs of the most exacting shopper, and a well stocked larder makes for a Happy Kitchen.” :KDWLVEHOLHYHGWREHWKHODUJHVW'RXJODV¿UHYHUPHDVXUHGE\WKH86 Forest Service, stands in a dense grove of spruce some two miles north- east of Wolf Creek junction in the southwest corner of section 7, township 5 north, range 9 west. The tree, which measures 15.5 feet at 4.5 feet above the ground, was found by Les D. Lloyd, timber cruiser, in September, 1940, but he has not made the exact location of the tree known to the public. The Astoria Poultry and Egg store at Tenth and Astor streets isn’t in London but it might as well be. Hitler’s Stukas can hardly have wreaked more damage to London shops than did an express truck driven by Stan Neururer which plowed through the front of the egg store last Monday. Neururer steered the big van at an angle to the store, hop- ing to park it there, but the brakes apparently failed. With the same devastating force of a 500-pound bomb the nose of the big machine plowed into the store, breaking two plate glass win- dows, tearing out a huge block of cement walling, and upsetting an interior glass showcase, which struck Mrs. Louis Friedman, who until that time had been sitting peacefully at her table. Mrs. Friedman was given immediate medical attention by physicians who said she received light shock and bruises. THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2016 ‘The Boy Scout’s’ endorsement of Sanders for president is puzzling en. Jeff Merkley is a very careful guy. S When he was speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, colleagues nicknamed him “the Boy Scout,” because of the method- ical way Merkley systematically worked his colleagues, building VXSSRUWIRUWKHQH[WÀRRUYRWH For a politician who has been the soul of premeditation, Sen. Merk- ley’s endorsement of Bernie Sand- ers’ presidential candidacy is surpris- ing. In last Thursday’s edition, we published Merkley’s pitch for Sand- ers, which originally appeared in The New York Times. In the U.S. Senate, Merkley used his Boy Scout persona to build a working group, which succeeded in making senators’ delaying tac- tics an issue the Senate could not ignore. Legislative accomplishment has not been Sanders’ habit. He is more a talker than a doer. And that’s one reason why no Democratic sen- ator, except Merkley, has endorsed Sanders. When we look for the reason why politicians do things, we generally assume it will get them something. That is not apparent in this case. Hil- lary Clinton is more likely the nom- inee and more likely the next presi- dent. It’s unclear what an Oregon senator gets for plugging Bernie to New Yorkers. The moment of Sanders’ unmask- ing came a couple weeks ago during the editorial board interview by the New York Daily News. When pressed on how he would break up large banks, Sanders appeared as though he hadn’t thought about it. The newspaper’s subsequent endorsement of Clinton in the New York primary described Sanders as “a fantasist who’s at passionate war with reality” who has “proved utterly XQSUHSDUHGIRUWKH2YDO2I¿FHZKLOH FRQ¿UPLQJ WKDW WKH FHQWUDO WKUXVWV of his campaign are politically impossible.” ‘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 AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. walk to a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington in November, to announce new climate legislation. counselor come listen with teams from our It’s not to them. Apparently it region, as well as was vicarious trauma- from the Willamette clear tization, although we Valley, Beaverton and what an didn’t know the term. British Columbia. In our original vision, Oregonian źźź there was hope that we could attract some gets for nn Marie, who visitors from beyond &ODWVRS DQG 3DFL¿F died on April 7, plugging was a delightful soul. counties. Bernie Gary Henley’s I met her while she Monday story about did framing for the to New the Astoria girls who Compleat Photogra- pher. She was unfail- dominated the com- Yorkers. petition painted a ingly pleasant and she vivid picture. Spot- had a great eye for lighting individual performance is how to frame a picture. Her home at what this meet was intended to do. 11th and Lexington was a menagerie of curiosities. If she were more dour, źźź Ann Marie could have been cast as one of Charles Dickens’ reclusive źźź nterviewing Dawn McIntosh last spinsters. — S.A.F. week, I learned a new phrase — y high school memory of vicarious traumatization. It is the spring is track meets — shiv- emotional effect that a violent inci- ering as the wind blew off the sage- dent can have on someone who brush into Hermiston or feeling the views it from a distance. Many years ago our news staff covered a succes- Sun’s warmth in LaGrande. Having that empathy for high sion of violence, which included a VFKRROWUDFNDQG¿HOGDWKOHWHVLVZKDW \RXQJPDQZKROLWKLPVHOIRQ¿UHLQ led to The Daily Astorian Invitational a street near Gray School. It became clear to our managing Track Meet, which had its 28th run- editor that the staff was feeling the ning last Saturday in Seaside. This was one of the biggest meets, dark emotion of all this. We had a M A I The Pope offers end of Catholic guilt As Jack Donaghy, the cies. By emphasizing the character played by Alec inclusive and the positive, Baldwin in “30 Rock,” the church under Francis explained: “Whether omedian George Carlin strives to be more “mod- things are good or bad, or used to say that he was a ern family” than “monas- tic denial,” and will even you’re simply eating tacos Roman Catholic “until I reached let some things go. “No in the park, there is always the age of reason.” one can be condemned for- the crushing guilt.” The old message was: If For Carlin, that happened some- ever,” says the pope, which seems to rule out that burn- you break the rules, you’re time in the eighth grade, when all his in-hell-for-eternity thing. condemned. Shame, Timothy probing questions about faith were He offers tips, as well, for shame, shame. The new Egan answered with, “well, it’s a mystery.” how to keep “the passion” message is: Welcome, for Of course, as a lifelong contrarian, alive. forgiveness is at the heart of this faith. It wasn’t so long ago that hear- Carlin also wondered if it was OK for Sex “is a marvelous gift from God,” ing the word “erotic” from a man Francis wrote. “The stirring of desire a vegetarian to eat animal crackers. I thought of him while reading the who’s taken a vow of chastity was or repugnance is neither sinful nor latest institution-shifting document blush-worthy. Catholic doctrine, as blameworthy.” Those living less than from Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia laid out in spiritual statutes governing ideal marital unions are no longer vili- — the Joy of Love. The title sets the human conduct, featured an exhaus- ¿HGDVVLQQHUVWREHVFRUQHG³,UUHJXODU tone for the continuation of a quiet tive list of enumerated offenses. unions” is the term coined by Francis. Sex was dirty. Sex was shameful. revolution. Note that it’s not called the “Hence it can no longer be said Job of Love, the Duty of Love or the Sex was unnatural. Thinking about it that all those in any ‘irregular’ situ- Unbearable Burden of Love. Instead, was wrong. Premeditation itself was ations are living in a state of mortal the pope implies that there’s consid- DVLQDQGVRZDVÀLUWLQJ6H[KDGRQH sin,” he wrote. You can read that as a erable fun to be had in human rela- purpose: procreation, the joyless act papal pardon of sorts. Yet for this kind WLRQVKLSV<RXFDQHYHQ¿QGLQLWV of breeding. “The sixth command- of language and fresh air, the pope pages a mention of the “erotic dimen- ment forbids all impurity and immod- has come under renewed attack from esty in words, looks conservative Catholics. One critic sion” of love and “the stir- and actions,” was called the latest treatise “The Joy of ring of desire.” Yes, sex. Sex ‘is a DGPRQLWLRQ 1R Sex.” Well, yes. The pope approves of it, in in the Baltimore Cat- many forms. The pope’s guidance would be a And while skeptics marvelous echism, the standard relief to the millions of Catholics liv- used to teach the LQJLQWKRVHQHZO\FODVVL¿HGLUUHJXODU were disappointed that the gift from text faith from 1885 to the unions, if they ever gave it a second latest apostolic exhorta- ODWHV tion did not change church thought. The truth is that a majority God.’ 1R DOVR of Catholics in Europe and the United teachings regarding Cath- olics who are divorced or — Pope Francis warned about the States have long since stopped listen- dangers of “sinful ing to church dictates about sex. A in same-sex marriages, the document signals the end for one par- curiosity, bad companions, drinking, British study in 2013 found that only ticular kind of medieval millstone — immodest dress and indecent books, 1 in 10 regular attendees at Mass felt Catholic guilt, especially in regard to plays and motion pictures.” If that any guilt over using contraception, sounds now like the dynamics of a long shunned by the church. Evan- sex. He’s not talking here about the good dinner party, you can also see gelical Christians and Muslims were guilt that generations of clerics and this pope joining the fun at the table. more likely to feel guilt over sexual I can’t tell you how many Cath- sins, the survey found. their enablers should feel for the crimes of sexual abuse against the olics I know who are trying to work Pope Francis is merely acknowl- young, an institutional cancer tied to through the consequences of those edging the obvious. As he’s done sexual strictures. They wonder if before, he’s using words to change its own awful pathology. The new teachings, from a self-pro- there are still people doing time in hearts, rather than trying to wrangle fessed less-judgmental church, go purgatory because of the misde- with the rusted plumbing of church to the everyday lives of people who meanor sins of masturbation or pre- doctrine. Still, to George Carlin’s don’t believe that they should be con- marital sex. Life was all don’ts and point, some things will always remain stantly reminded of their inadequa- dark thoughts. a mystery, but then so is love. By TIMOTHY EGAN New York Times News Service C