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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2018
editor@dailyastorian.com
KARI BORGEN
Publisher
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Editor
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JOHN D. BRUIJN
Production Manager
CARL EARL
Systems Manager
“This is a real fiasco,” said Elwyn Griffith, AMCCO man-
ager. “We have been on the hook four months on this thing.
Only two weeks ago they told us they would award the con-
tract next day. We arranged drydock time in Portland and noti-
fied several sub-contractors. Now we have to cancel all these
arrangements.”
The executive vice p[resident of Northwest Alu-
minum Co. assured Gov. Tom McCall Thursday the
proposed Warrenton plant would be built even if a
federal tax is placed on industrial revenue bonds.
“We have a very strong desire to be in Oregon,”
McCall quoted Peck.
Compiled by Bob Duke
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week — 2008
75 years ago — 1943
After years of discussions about establishing marine
reserves in Oregon, many North Coast residents still question
the need for them.
At a marine reserves “Listening and Learning” forum in
Warrenton Friday, about 30 people heard details on what sci-
entists know and don’t know about Oregon’s territorial sea
and the potential benefits of marine reserves.
They also got the state’s working definition of marine
reserves: Areas within the state’s 950 square miles of territo-
rial sea that would be set aside for scientific study and “pro-
tected from all extractive activities, including the removal or
disturbance of living and non-living marine resources.”
The ports of Astoria and Newport are in the run-
ning to become the new home of a federal agency’s
pacific fleet.
Last year, the Port of Astoria responded to a
request for site proposals from the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, which is looking
for a new home for several research vessels.
The arrangement would include four perma-
nently stationed vessels and two roving vessels that
would stop in periodically.
Like a glorious Cathedral that fills worshipers with awe,
Astoria’s 200-foot tall Cathedral Tree has long inspired those
who traverse the urban trail that bears its name.
And fortunately for all who love it, the towering Sitka
spruce withstood the hurricane-force winds of the December
windstorm that toppled most of its neighbors and ravaged the
county.
Astorians have been digging out the shovels, rakes and
garden hose this past week and deluging seed stores with their
Victory garden purchases. Now they will have a chance to
learn just how to go about this project in the most modern,
scientific way.
County Agent Afton Zundel will begin a series of weekly
classes on Victory gardens Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the
circuit court rooms.
A long-running serial romance mini-novel began in
The Daily Astorian this week in 1943. ‘Cupid pulled the
ripcord on romance when Captain Jimmy Carr helped
Pat Friday adjust her parachute harness — but Loraine
Stuart, the captain’s fiancee, was determined to send
Pat Friday’s high-gliding dreams into a tailspin.’
Showing the effects of the ordeal, the crewmen
were ferried ashore by Coast Guard and pilot boats
from the Kure Maru, which picked them from the
sea at the scene of the collision.
Treasure hunter Tony Mareno, Salem, was Thursday given
permission by the state corporations commission to sell an
additional $6,000 interest in his dig for the legendary Neah-
kahnie treasure at Manzanita beach.
50 years ago — 1968
The Oregon Supreme Court today took under
advisement arguments in an appeal to halt issuance
of revenue bonds for a huge aluminum reduction
plant at Warrenton by the Port of Astoria.
Thirty-two survivors of the stricken tanker Man-
doil II, victims of a tragic collision 340 miles off the
Oregon coast Wednesday afternoon, were landed at
Astoria at 9:30 a.m. Friday. Eleven of the crew were
missing. Two were seriously injured.
The Army, after long delay, has decided it has no use for
the ferry M.R. Chessman and has informed Astoria Marine
Construction company there will be no contract to repair the
vessel for a voyage to Vietnam.
Fisheries of the Pacific coast produce more pro-
tein food per unit of manpower than any other ele-
ment in America’s provisioning for war, it is empha-
sized in the fifty-first Pacific Fisherman yearbook,
just published by Miller Freeman Publications.
Enforcement of the city’s 25 year old curfew ordinance
was promised by the city commission at a meeting Monday
night, following a deluge of petitions from various organi-
zations who indicated fear of child delinquency. Most of the
organizations offered to cooperate with the city administra-
tion in enforcement of the law keeping unauthorized boys and
girls, under 18 years, off the streets after 10 p.m.
Grizzled 82-year-old Bill Markley, who has lived
on the Columbia River highway where it branches
off to Bradwood and Clifton for the past 15 years,
reckons his shooting eye isn’t quite as good as it
once was, but he just missed bagging his 300th bob-
cat this past winter.
His tally sheet (the veteran eagle eye scorns
notches on his gun) shows 108 black bear, 298 bob-
cats and “I’ve long since forgot to count the number
of buck deer.”
The cruiser U.S.S. Astoria, namesake of one of three heavy
cruisers sunk off the Savo islands last August, was launched
today at the Cramp Shipbuilding Co.
The Astoria, originally named the Wilkes-Barre, was spon-
sored by Mrs. Robert Lucas, Astoria, Ore., daughter of State
Senator Merle Chessman.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Don’t disrespect our
Olympic athletes
he Washington Post asserted on the last
day of the 2018 Winter Olympics that
“With 23 medals, Team USA falls short
of expectations at PyeongChang Olym-
pics.” Perhaps there is one iota of truth for a
nation with 350 million people in that state-
ment. But I think that the person who wrote
that has never worked half as hard as all our
Olympic athletes who qualified to represent
our country. And now, if they didn’t get a
medal, they are insulted by some dunce. It is
the media who build up the expectations to
an infinite degree and drop the athletes igno-
miniously if they fail to perform. I will have
none of that disrespect.
ERHARD GROSS
Astoria
T
Vote Orr for state
representative
am pleased at the number of citizens will-
ing to step into public office this year.
The primary election ballots are due May
15. This election is when our political par-
ties sort out who will represent them in the
November election.
John Orr is a Democrat running for our
District 32 seat in the Oregon House of Rep-
resentatives. He will get my vote, and has
surpassed my criteria for these reasons:
He appreciates and reads history, and is
willing to use lessons of the past to inform
his decisions about today.
He knows the law, how laws are made,
and the consequences which come when they
are broken.
His 20-plus years in our county as a pub-
lic defender tells me he will listen, and is
able to successfully navigate and negotiate
— and reach for best outcomes among his
diligently researched options.
He hunts, loves the outdoors, and works
to keep our natural environment safe.
He’s not a politician.
I endorse John Orr for election as state
representative for District 32.
SARA MEYER
Astoria
I
Concerned about
disaster preparations
am running for the Democratic nomina-
tion for Oregon House District 32, which
includes Clatsop, Tillamook and a portion of
Washington county. I am writing to state my
concern for the readiness of our region for
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a high-level disaster, such as an earthquake
and its resulting tsunami, driven by a report
issued by the Oregon Secretary of State’s
audit section, which reports that such a
disaster could cause up to 10,000 deaths, and
$30 billion in property damages.
The report goes on to declare: “Ore-
gon does not meet baseline standards for
preparedness response, accountability and
resource needs.” Further, planning efforts are
lacking, continuity plans are either incom-
plete or missing, meaning, Oregon poten-
tially faces a loss of federal grant funding for
disasters.
If this is true, then we need to increase
our efforts to retrofit and reinforce key infra-
structure. Also mentioned for concern was
the need for coordinating, planning, and
training exercises to insure our preparedness
meets baseline standards.
The Secretary of State also notes the need
for improvement in response and recovery
— that is, actions taken to return to normal.
Since most of the resources needed to make
improvements must come from the state and
federal government, as a legislator, I would,
if elected, be committed to conscientious
oversight. The voters should know about the
progress, efficiency and effectiveness of both
programs and administrators.
With an earthquake, it may be hard to
return to normal, but efforts undertaken now
can mitigate the suffering. Time is not on our
side.
JOHN F. ORR
Astoria
Research piling up
against cholesterol theory
id you know that before the drug com-
panies lowered the standards, the normal
cholesterol level was 250, and normal blood
pressure was 140/90? They ensured them-
selves of a new supply of lifetime statin drug
users. But even with statin drugs being pre-
scribed for the last 30 years, there has not
been a significant reduction of heart disease
in America.
Research is piling up against the choles-
terol theory, and showing the homocysteine
D
theory is more accurate. Homocysteine is an
amino acid, a waste product of animal pro-
tein, that builds up in the arteries, causing
blood clots and blocking up the vessels.
The side effects of statin drugs are con-
gestive heart failure, cancer, severe liver
damage, suicide, an increase in violent
behavior in men, low energy, flu-like symp-
toms, disturbed sleep, poor memory, weak-
ness, numbness or pain in muscles and high
blood sugar.
This information was taken from the
writings of Bruce West (“Health Alert”),
Dr. Ronald L. Hoffman (“Forget Choles-
terol: Healthy Heart Breakthroughs”) and “A
Guide to Your Heart: The Dangers of Med-
ical Treatments for Heart Disease,” by the
editors of “What Doctors Don’t Tell You.”
Two friends of mine, each doing work
independently, each came up with finding
that the vegan vegetarian diet was the health-
iest one for everybody, especially for peo-
ple with heart disease, cancer, or any health
problem.
CAROLYN GEIGER
Warrenton