THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016
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DON’T BLOW YOUR TOP
HAVE YOU SEEN CHOWZER?
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THE SEEDS OF SUCCESS
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eep an eye out for a lost dog named Chowzer, a schnauzer,
who is pictured. He is still missing, and was last seen by his
“parents” Sean and Shawna Lundry on April 30 at the vehicle
beach entrance near the Peter Iredale shipwreck.
Chowzer is 2 1/2 years old, weighs about 15 pounds, and
stands about 12 inches tall and about 18 inches long. He was
wearing a red harness with his dog license and rabies tags
attached. Chowzer also has a key identifying oddity: He has six
toes on each back paw.
Dog tracker Harry Oakes (www.k9sardog.com) has been
on the job with tracking dogs, and it appears that Chowzer has
been heading south from Fort Stevens, according to a post on
the Clatsop Animal Assistance Facebook page (www.facebook.
com/ClatsopAnimalAssistance). A second set of tracking dogs
seemed to catch a whiff of him near Camp Rilea.
It’s quite possible that Chowzer has continued south, since
his “grandparents” have a house in Seaside, but it’s also just as
likely that someone picked him up. In other words, he could be
anywhere.
Fortunately, reports that Chowzer was found dead in Warren-
ton have been proven wrong. The dog who was found did not
have six toes on his back paws.
Chowzer will run when frightened, so if you see him, Harry
Oakes recommends you sit quietly and call his name — then call
the Lundrys at 541-965-3735 or 541-980-2549. Or, if you think
you might know who has him, please let them know. The couple
is offering a reward for his return, no questions asked.
“He even went on our honeymoon with us,” Sean and Shawna
wrote. “He is a huge part of our lives and we feel broken with-
out his presence.”
FOR OLD TIME’S SAKE
or old times’ sake, some items from the Sunday, May 20,
1894, The Daily Morning Astorian:
• A clean jail: Had W. H. Warren, the county jailor, been
called upon yesterday by any one wishing to visit the county
jail, it would have been found as clean as a new pin.
... To look at the jail from the outside it would seem at a
glance to be an easy place to get out of, but to an inmate it is
not an inviting task. The building itself contains 11 tons of
spikes, while the cells are made from the best of steel, and the
jail building is simply a roof for the cells, as a prisoner once in
them is as safe as though he was behind six feet of stone wall.
There are some repairs needed, which eight different grand
juries have recommended, but the county court has refused
to listen to.
• Mr. Wyle would like to tree the person who stole a pump
from off his farm near Springield last week.
• A strange woman, who will walk into a saloon as quick as
she would a dry goods store to beg, has given the Eugene peo-
ple something to talk about.
• Magic lantern, and panorama entertainments failing to
draw at Hubbard, they are now going back to old-time recita-
tions, dialogues and comic plays.
• A merchant of Corvallis lately fed a guest, an old Califor-
nian, on carp, and the visitor was reminded of an old headstall
he once ate when famishing on the plains.
• A quick settlement: Fred Nelson and John Jones were
riding on the street cars towards Uppertown Friday afternoon
discussing politics until the inside of the car got so heated that
the varnish peeled from the sides, and they could hold them-
selves no longer.
With one accord they quit the car, and before the motor-
man could get it started again, they had settled it with their
fists in the street and were aboard again. It was so quickly
done it could not be called exactly a breach of the peace, and
as both the parties seemed to be satisfied, the public ought
to be.
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very now and then, North
Coaster and retired ish-
erman/ishing guide/author
James “Jim” Scott Bernard
(pictured inset), a master of
positive thinking, writes a let-
ter of sage advice to the edi-
tor at The Daily Astorian on
how to cope with whatever life
throws at you.
He has also published sev-
eral books, and now there’s
another, “Making the Prin-
ciples of Success a Habit: A
Sure System for Success,” available at Amazon.com (http://
tinyurl.com/JSBsuccess), Godfather’s Books and Camp 18.
He strongly believes that “success is not a destination, but
a direction,” and “the seeds of success are within each of us.”
This one is “a great book for new graduates,” he told the Ear.
“Car dealerships here and in Portland are buying them for
their sales crews.” It’s a great read for anyone else, too.
n case it slipped your mind,
Wednesday was the 36th anni-
versary of the eruption (more
like explosion) of Mount St.
Helens on May 18, 1980. A
photo of the event is shown, in a
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Rob-
ert Krimmel. To mark the anni-
versary, KLUR8.com ran a few
factoids about the volcano (http://
tinyurl.com/MSHboom):
The 1980 blast took more
than 1,300 ft. off the mountain
top, causing the largest terrestrial
landslide in recorded history. Of
note: Native Americans abandoned the area 3,600 years ago, after an
eruption four times larger than the one in 1980.
Within 3 minutes of the 1980 lateral blast, which traveled at more
than 300 miles per hour, 230 square miles of forest was blown down.
Within 15 minutes, the volcanic ash plume rose over 80,000 feet. The
ash cloud, which turned daylight to dark in parts of Washington, drifted
east across the U.S. in three days, and around the earth in 15 days.
Even though there has been a lurry of 100-plus little earthquakes
recently, Seth Moran of the U.S. Geological Service told Live-
Science.com (http://tinyurl.com/MSHlurry) that the next eruption is
likely “years to decades down the road.” Fingers crossed.
THE JOURNEY CONTINUES
FEELING CRABBY
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or strange marine phenomena fans: Hundreds of thou-
sands of little pelagic red crabs, also known as tuna
crabs, washed up on a section of the California coast recently,
according to a story in The Orange County Register (http://
tinyurl.com/crabwave). A few are pictured in a photo by the
paper’s staff photographer, Kevin Sullivan.
Usually found off Baja, El Niño conditions and ocean cur-
rents pushed the crabs north, causing the crustacean invasion.
Newport Beach lifeguard Capt. Boyd Mickley estimated the
crabs, which look like crawish and are 1 to 3 inches long,
made a 6-foot-wide ring along the water in some spots. “I can
see a quarter-mile down, they are that far away.”
“When you take off on a wave, you could hear them click-
ing on the bottom of your board,” surfer John Layman said.
“They were all over the place. They swim backwards, they
look really funny when they swim. It’s not a big deal, it’s just
interesting when it happens.”
few weeks ago, aviatrix Tracey Curtis-Taylor (pictured inset)
stopped at the Astoria airport with her 1942 Boeing Stearman
biplane named Spirit of Artemis. She was heading across the coun-
try, making more than 20 stops, duplicating the old Seattle to Boston
airmail route. Unfortunately, disaster struck when the plane crashed
(pictured) in the Arizona desert. Thankfully, she is ine.
“The cause seems to be a combination of high density altitude
and a partial loss of power at a height of about 50 feet after take
off,” she posted on her Facebook page, www.facebook.com/birdin-
abiplane. “The Spirit of Artemis then started to sink ... (and) I did a
gentle left turn and then leveled off. It hit the ground and rolled for-
ward about 20 feet, but then the right wheel struck a dense sage root
mound, which tore off the right landing gear and threw the plane
onto its left wing.
“It then cartwheeled tail over the nose in a cloud of sand and dust.
The damage is extensive but the impact was absorbed by the wings
and the airframe and the cockpit remained intact.”
She is ine, but won’t be able to inish the light this year, despite
being offered another Stearman to do so. “… I have such a deep
attachment to the Spirit of Artemis, and we have come such a long
way together that I cannot contemplate doing it in anything else,” she
wrote. Accordingly, the Artemis will be restored.
“The journey continues …” she added. Stay tuned.
GEARING UP
PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES …
D
well magazine recently featured an unusual two-story
3,3300 square foot glass house perched on a cliff in
Cannon Beach (http://tinyurl.com/glassyCB). It’s designed
by Boora Architects Inc., belongs to Ryan and Mary Finley,
and is shown in two photos by Jake Stangel.
The article says Portlander Ryan, founder of the website
Survey Monkey, bought the acre of land it sits on in 2005. It
took two years just to get through the zoning issues and design
hearings, and the shape of the house was limited to being a
basic rectangle.
The three-paned glass curtain wall, which took a year to
make, is designed to withstand winds of up to 120 mph and
consists of 10-foot tall glass panels that it into a steel frame.
There are no interior walls, just wood cabinetry and shelv-
ing that is attached to the ceiling and exterior by glass panels.
On top of the house — a “tufted green roof of native grasses
and ferns.”
“We wanted to bring nature in,” Mary said. “That’s really
the whole point of being out here — to feel like we’re out-
side while we’re inside a nice house.” Mission accomplished.
‘W
e have bought a 42-foot Dominion vertical boring mill to
compete for the hydroelectric upgrade work that is coming
out of the Columbia River over the next couple of decades,” Art Dick
Jr. of A. F. Dick Manufacturing Inc. in Knappa wrote. Think of it as
a huge lathe that’s used mainly to work on hydroelectric dam parts. It
cost almost as much to disassemble it and move it as it did to buy it.
“This VBM will be the largest that I am aware of in the western
U.S., and more than double our capacity right now,” he explained.
“This machine was in Montreal, Canada and required close to 30
truckloads to ship it here; the last piece is a 20-foot ring gear that has
taken about three weeks to get here, and arrived Monday about noon.”
A picture of the machine, fully assembled when it was in Montreal, is
shown. Inset, the truck carrying the gear on U.S. Highway 30.
“Just shipping the gear was a real undertaking, requiring police
escorts through a number of the states. Another of the components
weighed 95,000 lbs and was 55 feet long. The whole machine
weighs 500 tons (1 million pounds) when assembled, and has a foun-
dation under it that takes 700 yards of concrete to build.”
It was a manual machine, but it will be upgraded so it can be run
with a computer. “Needless to say,” he added, “it’s not a weekend proj-
ect to install. Our plan is to have it running around November 2017.”