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Newspaper Page Text2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016 One Port lawsuit postponed Hotelier Param moves back to April for trial By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian A judge has ordered the trial in a case brought by aggrieved hotelier Param Hotel Corp. against the Port of Astoria post- poned from January to April. “Postponement is requested because the parties are still conducting discovery in this matter, including depositions, and expect to ﬁ le for sum- mary judgment prior to trial,” said Luke Reese, one of the Port’s attorneys in the case, in support of the postponement. “Unfortunately, we have had to delay discovery in the case due to a recent diagnosis and treatment that has temporar- ily prevented me from working full-time.” The weeklong trial, set to begin Jan. 31, is now sched- uled to start April 25. Param, which had been try- ing for some time to take over operation of the waterfront hotel from heavily indebted former operator Brad Smi- thart, ﬁ led suit against the Port in October 2015 over claims of local bias shortly after the agency chose rival Astoria Hospitality Ventures to oper- ate the Riverwalk Inn on a short-term basis. The com- pany is run by former Astori- ans and businessmen William Orr and Chester Trabucco. Orr is the brother-in-law of Port Commissioner Stephen Fulton, and alleged to be friends with Commissioner Bill Hunsinger. The Port most recently asked Param to admit there was never a signed contract between the agency and the hotel company. In response, Param asked the Port to admit that there was an agreement the Port wrongfully failed to sign. Orr and Trabucco had been named defendants in the case by Param. But Judge Philip Nelson struck them from the case, after ruling that the pair’s lobbying of the Port Commis- sion for the Riverwalk Inn’s operation was protected by the First Amendment. The Port recently ﬁ led another lawsuit against Smi- thart, seeking more than $400,000 the agency said his company, Hospitality Mas- ters, owes in back rent and revenue-sharing. Clatsop College holds GED orientation The Daily Astorian Clatsop Community Col- lege will hold a free orienta- tion on preparing for the Gen- eral Educational Development exams from 4 to 8 p.m. Dec. 13 in Columbia Hall Room 114 on the main campus, at 1651 Lex- ington Ave. Classes are open to students age 16 and older who wish to earn a high school credential. Attendees under 18 must pro- vide a form from their high school releasing them from compulsory education before attending classes or taking the exams. GED classes are offered in English or Spanish. The col- lege also offers English as a Second Language classes and tutoring for students. There is no cost for enroll- ment. Study materials are pro- vided. The GED exam enables students to pursue further educa- tion and improve employment. Class offerings are avail- able in Astoria from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays, or 6 to 9:20 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. Classes are also held in Clatskanie from 6 to 9 p.m. Mondays and Wednes- days, and in Seaside from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Students attend an orienta- tion before starting classes and enroll at the ﬁ rst class session. Winter term begins Jan. 9. For more information, contact Alli- son deFreese at 503-338-2347 or adefreese@clatsopcc.edu FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 53 43 45 ALMANAC 53 43 Considerable cloudiness with a little rain Periods of rain First Full Dec 7 Salem 42/52 Newport 44/51 Coos Bay 47/53 Last Dec 13 Dec 20 John Day 31/40 La Grande 30/41 Baker 22/38 Ontario 24/40 Bend 31/41 Burns 18/38 Roseburg 42/52 Brookings 42/54 Klamath Falls 24/42 Lakeview 19/38 Ashland 36/45 Richard Robert Schultz Zagreb, Croatia Sept. 16, 1922 — Nov. 22, 2016 Richard “Dick” Schultz was born Sandtrap and Gearhart Hotel, and befriended to mother Frances Mattson, the daugh- many Gearhart regulars, including the actor ter of immigrant Swedes, and father Rich- Johnny Shefﬁ eld of Tarzan fame, and screen- ard Samuel Schultz, a refugee farmer from writer Beau Stone, from whom he made a small fortune in golﬁ ng and chess the Ukraine. He grew up in the bets. Depression, spending every sum- He golfed, dug clams, hooked mer in Gearhart, caddying at the salmon, and with Jeanne, social- golf course for 35 cents a round ized with Roy and June Maden, plus a 10 cent tip, and roaming the Pat and Tom Livesley, Brian and woods dunes, and beaches barefoot Sheila Taylor, Jon Blissett, Ray with his .22 riﬂ e, his dog, Fritz, and Jeanne Weston, Harry McCall, and his buddies Gene and Boyd Dave and Emmadine MacDonald, Poppino. The three were amazed and many others, and was a gener- at the Clatsop open graves at the ous regular at the blackjack table at Neacoxie, which they considered a Richard the Fireman’s Ball. sacred place. Schultz He soon tired of pushing papers He learned how to golf on the and returned to U of O to enter a Gearhart Golf Course by play- ing holes 15 to 17 at twilight, over and over doctoral program in classical Greek, but his until dark. The family stayed ﬁ rst in a Habi- advisor died halfway through, so he ﬁ nished cost cabin, then at the Habicost house, a con- with a second master’s in Greek drama. He verted wing of the old Gearhart Hotel that then went on to be the ﬁ rst lecturer in clas- was salvaged after the burn. His dog, Fritz, sics at Portland State University, teaching died and still lies buried at the Habicost fence Shakespeare and American literature on the line at the Ridge Path. He attended Washing- side. A bibliophile collector of ﬁ rst editions, ton High School in Portland where he met the love of his life, Jeanne Briggs, and they his immense knowledge of literature inspired were inseparable for the next 78 years, 71 in that sharp and wicked wit that endeared him to many, unless they were on the wrong end marriage. The day after Pearl Harbor, his sopho- of it. Dick never lost the connection to Gear- more year in the Theta Chi house at the Uni- versity of Oregon, he enlisted in the U.S. hart, where he claimed to have spent the Navy, where he trained to ﬂ y PBY Catali- best times of his life. In the early 1970s, he nas in submarine warfare against German grieved to see the Gearhart Hotel razed, but U-boats along the Gulf and east coasts, and managed to salvage a “Driftwood Lounge” was a noted stunt ﬂ ier, irritating his superi- sign for his den, and channeled his anger to win the Gearhart Grandfathers’ Golf Tourna- ors, in the skies over Florida and Georgia. After earning his wings, he and Jeanne ment, matching the Gearhart course record were married in Portland. He requested a on the back nine. In the 1990s he was instrumental in stop- transfer to the South Paciﬁ c, where he longed to ﬂ y the lean Grummond TBF Avenger, but ping the Sahhalie condominium develop- as the war wound down he was assigned to ment at the Neacoxie estuary in Seaside by teach instrument navigation in Pensacola, testifying on the desecration of the Indian grave sites there that he knew from childhood. Florida, until the Japanese surrender. He was a life long athlete, a gymnast in Dick and Jeanne returned to Oregon and bought a house on the Gearhart beach front high school and college, and completed two for $3,750, lived there one winter with sand Seaside marathons in his 50s. He was in blowing through the walls, keeping warm retirement for 30 years, traveling throughout by driftwood ﬁ res with their dog, Amber. the U.S. and Europe. He died two months Deciding they could not live on beach air and after his 94th birthday, and six months after razor clams, they moved to Eugene where he his 71st wedding anniversary, while enjoying earned a master’s degree in American liter- a life of leisure on the Croatian Adriatic coast ature at the University of Oregon, spending with Jeanne and two of his children, Stewart and Julie, who are residents in Croatia. summers as the golf pro in Gearhart. Dick will be remembered as a brash, The year 1947 was a highlight of his golﬁ ng career, when he beat long-standing freewheeling and irreverent member of the champ Ralph Dichter at the Gearhart Golf Greatest Generation, a lover and promoter of Course Club Championship, at the second classical literature and ideas, a natural golfer hole of a sudden death playoff, which Dich- with nerves of steel, a friend and protector of ter double-bogeyed. After earning his degree, old Gearhart, and a devoted father and hus- Dick taught high school English in Bend for band who was convinced each of his children several years, renting a different house each was destined for greatness. He is survived by his wife, Jeanne; brother year and vacating it for the summer holiday in Gearhart, where he continued to work as Bill; children Julie, Stewart and Todd; grand- children Rick, Erin, Adrienne, Henry and the golf pro. Weary of teaching high school, because Annegret; step-grandchildren Jennifer and “the orders don’t come from the bottom up,” Matthew; and several great-grandchildren, Dick moved back to Portland where he took nieces and nephews. His eldest son Rick, a desk job at ESCO and then Hyster, tak- volunteer Gearhart ﬁ reman, classiﬁ ed ad ing the “daddy train” on summer weekends manager at The Daily Astorian and cham- into Gearhart, where he was a regular at the pion golfer, preceded him in death. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 REGIONAL CITIES Tonight's Sky: New moon at 4:18 p.m. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 7:29 a.m. 8:13 p.m. Low 3.0 ft. -0.3 ft. City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 40 43 53 53 53 41 49 50 53 56 Today Lo 22 31 43 42 48 24 38 43 44 46 W pc pc pc pc r pc pc c r pc Hi 38 41 52 52 53 42 51 50 51 54 Wed. Lo 21 25 40 37 47 21 35 40 41 40 W sf sf sh sh sh sn c sh sh sh City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 51 46 51 54 53 54 36 52 50 48 Today Lo 40 35 43 42 42 48 31 43 44 32 W c s c pc pc r s pc c s Hi 50 47 51 52 52 53 39 51 51 49 Wed. Lo 36 36 41 38 40 45 30 40 43 29 W sh c sh sh sh sh c sh sh pc TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Today Hi Lo 75 65 51 46 57 36 42 16 50 34 59 43 54 28 -13 -21 81 71 59 43 55 33 58 37 69 49 71 47 83 74 72 56 81 65 62 55 62 32 65 56 64 38 36 22 59 47 51 44 67 59 Prineville 30/44 Lebanon 43/50 Medford 38/51 UNDER THE SKY High 7.9 ft. 9.2 ft. Pendleton 35/47 The Dalles 37/50 Portland 43/51 Eugene 42/52 Sunset tonight ........................... 4:32 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:37 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 7:27 a.m. Moonset today ........................... 5:14 p.m. City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC A shower in the morning; partly sunny Tillamook 45/51 SUN AND MOON Time 2:04 a.m. 1:10 p.m. 55 47 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 45/53 Precipitation Monday ............................................ 0.17" Month to date ................................. 16.80" Normal month to date ..................... 10.35" Year to date .................................... 76.10" Normal year to date ........................ 56.82" Nov 29 SATURDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Monday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 56°/46° Normal high/low ........................... 51°/38° Record high ............................ 68° in 1907 Record low ............................. 22° in 1896 New 53 48 Variable clouds with showers Periods of rain FRIDAY OBITUARIES W t r s c s pc pc c s pc s s s t pc pc t r s r pc pc s c r Wed. Hi Lo 70 43 51 46 47 36 43 18 44 33 56 36 54 29 -10 -19 81 71 54 33 46 29 56 37 67 46 59 37 83 72 65 36 69 46 62 54 56 29 69 54 49 34 37 25 58 47 51 41 72 50 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W t r pc pc c sh s s sh pc c s s s pc t t r s r pc pc pc sh r AP, others, want jurors’ names released in Oregon standoff Associated Press PORTLAND — Three media organizations, includ- ing The Associated Press, have ﬁ led a motion asking a federal judge to unseal the identities of the jurors who acquitted all seven defendants involved in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in rural southeastern Oregon. The motion ﬁ led Monday in U.S. District Court in Port- land seeks to modify a pro- tective order that was in place during the trial of brother Ammon and Ryan Bundy and ﬁ ve others. The Oregonian and Ore- gon Public Broadcasting are the other media groups. The jury acquitted all defendants on Oct. 27 of con- spiring to impede federal workers from their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 300 miles southeast of Portland. The motion says there’s no longer a threat to jurors because the case is over. DEATH Nov. 27, 2016 TURNER, Alwyn Scott, 80, of Gearhart, died in Sea- side. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary & Crematory in Seaside is in charge of the arrangements. Visit www.hughes-ransom.com to share memories and sign the guest book. Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. LOTTERIES OREGON Monday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 0-2-8-6 4 p.m.: 0-1-5-5 7 p.m.: 8-7-3-1 10 p.m.: 9-3-3-9 Monday’s Megabucks: 20- 21-28-37-45-46 Estimated jackpot: $1.2 million WASHINGTON Monday’s Daily Game: 5-3-2 Monday’s Hit 5: 01-14-17- 30-34 Estimated jackpot: $420,000 Monday’s Keno: 02-04-05- 11-18-19-22-30-35-36-42-49- 50-54-58-65-66-75-77-80 Monday’s Lotto: 06-10-31- 34-42-47 Estimated jackpot: $5 million Monday’s Match 4: 01-08- 14-20 OBITUARY POLICY APPLIANCE PACKAGE DEALS APPLIANCE AND HOME FURNISHINGS 529 SE MARLIN, WARRENTON 503-861-0929 O VER Mattresses, Furniture 3 A 0 RS YE IN TSOP C LA U Y C O NT & More! 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