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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
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Salem
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Newport
44/51
Coos Bay
47/53
Last
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Dec 20
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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.
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.17"
Month to date ................................. 16.80"
Normal month to date ..................... 10.35"
Year to date .................................... 76.10"
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Nov 29
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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-
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charge of the arrangements. Visit www.hughes-ransom.com
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