DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2016
144TH YEAR, NO. 67
FISHERMEN CATCH BIG
WIN AGAINST SEAGULLS
ONE DOLLAR
Betsy
Johnson
Tim
Knoop
Leaders
brace for
pension
demands
Higher rates will play
out in 2017’s budgets
The Daily Astorian
The pension board has announced rate
increases that will touch the budgets of
nearly every county, city and school district
in Oregon.
The higher rates, released Friday by the
Public Employees Retirement System’s
board, go into effect in 2017.
State Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose,
and Sen. Tim Knoop, R-Bend, who are work-
ing on pension reform, said the higher rates
would add signiicant costs to school districts
and local governments.
“School districts that are already struggling
to make ends meet in their annual budgets will
now have to factor in even greater PERS costs
to the detriment of our students and teachers
who need that money in the classroom,” John-
son said in a statement Friday.
See PERS, Page 10A
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
ABOVE: Astoria’s Kyle Strange is ready to complete a touchdown pass Seagull Garret Kiser attempts to defend during Astoria’s
homecoming Friday in Astoria. BELOW: Astoria eniors Sariah Dieffenbach and Samboy Tuimato pop a balloon that revealed their
Homecoming King and Queen titles as Astoria faced off against Seaside during the Fishermen’s homecoming Friday at CMH
Field in Astoria. Astoria defeated Seaside 50-12. More photos of the Clatsop Clash online at DailyAstorian.com
Brown has
favorable
crowd in
debate
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
here have been other, more memorable Clatsop Clash
football games in recent years.
Astoria’s 44-38 overtime victory in 2012, and Sea-
side’s 30-29 win the following year come to mind.
Friday’s Clash at CMH Field was deinitely not one for
the time capsule.
Because The Game That Could Get Ugly, did in fact, get
ugly.
The Fishermen opened up a big irst-quarter lead, and for
the second year in a row, Astoria won a lopsided Clatsop
Clash, 50-12.
PORTLAND — GOP gubernatorial
nominee William “Bud” Pierce and Gov.
Kate Brown covered new
ground, including wom-
MORE en’s issues, in their sec-
debate Friday at the
INSIDE ond
Democratic-leaning City
Governor
Club of Portland.
says she
Pierce, a Salem oncol-
was a
ogist and political new-
domestic
bie, is seeking to unseat
violence
Brown,
a former secre-
victim •
tary of state who inher-
Page 3A
ited the governorship
when former Gov. John
Kitzhaber stepped down in February 2015
amid an inluence-peddling scandal. While
Brown has been in politics for more than two
decades, this is Brown’s irst bid at election
to the governor’s ofice.
See CLATSOP CLASH, Page 7A
See DEBATE, Page 10A
Astoria chalks one up in
‘ugly’ homecoming win
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
T
Elvis lives on in Gearhart record bonanza
Richard Moore
shares double
life, collections
G
EARHART — What hap-
pens to an Elvis imper-
sonator when he hangs up the
suit? Gearhart’s Richard Moore
rarely dons the garb of the Great
One these days. Instead he
oversees Play It Again, featur-
ing “LPs, eight-tracks, 33s, 45s,
78s, shoes, TV, toys, VCRs,
VHS tape, luggage, golf club
hats, electronics and dishes,” in
no particular order.
Born in Roseburg, Moore
moved to Clatsop County in
1991.
He’s been at 1140 G St. in
Gearhart since January, after
21 moves in 20 years, includ-
ing six months at a warehouse
in Warrenton. “I do have a few
fans,” he said on a sunny Friday
in front of his G Street hangar.
How many records does he
store?
“I quit counting at 300,000,”
Moore said. “There are between
80-90,000 in this building. All
genres. You have to have some-
thing for everybody.”
A former Elvis imperson-
ator, the Great One is what irst
inspired Moore. “This is what
got me started. The irst time I
saw a television in 1957, it was
Elvis. I thought, that’s going to
be my job.”
Elvis inspired Moore to take
music lessons. “I studied banjo,
iddle, guitar, and 60 years later,
I still can’t play a guitar, banjo
or iddle,” Moore said.
Raised in Medford, Moore,
66, spent a third of his life in the
Marine Corps until resettling on
the North Coast. He still main-
tains warehouses in Roseburg,
Rogue River, Prineville, Albany
and “all along The Dalles.”
See MOORE, Page 10A
Richard Moore
carries on the
spirit of Elvis
in his record
warehouse in
Gearhart.
Submitted Photo