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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018
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Water
under
the bridge
Compiled by Bob Duke
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week — 2008
As people hustled to meet Tuesday’s tax-filing deadline, a
small group of Clatsop County residents led demonstrations in
Seaside and outside the Astoria post office, joining a national
protest of income tax and the Federal Reserve, the U.S. central
banking system.
“The principal reason our great country was founded was
the distress of the colonies who were suffering under oppres-
sion through taxation,” said Angela Fairless,a Clatsop Commu-
nity College student who organized the local protests. “We now
suffer under very similar economic oppression.”
Erica Johnson stood on the deck of the Columbia
River Bar Pilots’ new signal-orange pilot boat grip-
ping a bottle of champagne.
“I christen thee Columbia,” she said. “God bless
her and all who sail with her.”
Then, with one hard whack, she broke the bottle
over the side of the $4.2 million vessel and, according
to longtime maritime traditions, sealed another layer
of protection into the hardy, extreme-weather boat.
About 50 people crowded onto the 17th Street
dock outside the Columbia River Maritime Museum
for the christening of the new pilot boat Wednesday.
Western Oregon Waste is taking recycling to new levels
along the North Coast.
Bob Emrick, the owner and chief executive officer of WOW,
said he’d been looking for a location where he could integrate
the north and south county operations since coming to Clatsop
County in 1995.
“All that time we’ve been looking for a permanent (home).
We’ve finally found it,” Emrick said.
50 years ago — 1968
Log exports are hurting the domestic lumber
industry, including Astoria Plywood corporation,
Manager Elmer Brown of that firm told chamber
of commerce members Friday at the membership
luncheon.
The industry does not want to eliminate log
exports, but is concerned about unregulated export
of raw logs from the public forests, Brown declared.
In the past two years 26 northwest plywood mills
Astoria’s reserve fleet, at one time filling Cathlamet Bay with 225 vessels, faded into the past in 1968 as the last
of the mothballed ships, the C4 transport General R.L. Howze, sailed under tow for San Francisco.
closed, eliminating 4,200 jobs, and 40 sawmills closed,
eliminating 4,000 more jobs, Brown said.
Contractors have begun driving test pilings on the eastern
portion of the 200-acre clearing area where Northwest Alu-
minum company plans construction of a $142 million alumi-
num plant, Harold Hare, resident engineer for Parsons – Jurden
company, said Thursday. The test pilings are being put down on
the site of some of the larger buildings, tanks and other heavy
construction.
An order restricting log exports from federal lands
in the Northwest was announced Wednesday night by
Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman.
The new policy, announced by Freeman at a news
conference, requires that a major part of timber sold
from federal lands in Western Oregon and Western
Washington receive primary processing in the United
States.
75 years ago — 1943
Men who worked as loggers in the Northwest’s woods and
forests will be returned to the camps to offset a critical shortage
of manpower in the logging industry, according to L.C. Stoll,
area director of the war manpower commission.
The precedent-shattering move, as outlined by Stoll, asked
cooperation of employers, the loggers, organized labor, the
army and navy and the maritime commission to get employ-
ers to release skilled woodsmen for work in the timber lands.
Holding that an American army of V-Home pres-
ents a third front against the enemy, the Oregon State
Defense Council has started a statewide campaign to
put V-Home stickers in the window of every home.
The five points of the V-Home campaign are con-
servation, salvage, guarding information, buying war
bonds, and air raid protection.
The local campaign will be directed by Cliff Dopps,
chief air raid warden, and by Mrs. L.M. Spalding,
chairman of women’s activities. The stickers have the
insignia, “We are prepared — This is a V-Home.”
The air raid warden must certify that:
1. Equipment recommended locally for handling
enemy bombs has been assembled.
2. A refuge room has been prepared and made as
safe as possible.
3. The premises have been cleaned and unneces-
sary inflammable material has been removed.
4. Dimout regulations are being observed.
Inspecting, among other things, the sites for the proposed
200-bed naval hospital, Congressman James W. Mott is today
completing his trip to this area for the house committee on naval
affairs with trips to Seaside, where its Chamber of Commerce
has several sites, and to the Tillamook blimp base.
The site preferred by local naval officials is on top of Tele-
graph Hill in west Astoria, just east of the G.C. Pauling and Dr.
Lowell homes. It is an unplatted area of approximately 20 acres
owned by the county and has been offered to the navy. It is the
same site offered 12 years ago to the government for a veter-
ans’ hospital.
The highest point in west Astoria, it commands a view of
the ocean, up the Columbia and also to the south, is in a very
quiet area and is close to the three naval establishments here,
Tongue Point, the Astoria naval station at the port and the air-
port across the bay. For these reasons, the naval officers char-
acterize it as ideal.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
End the poaching trend
ens of millions of animals are killed by
poachers every year; thousands of poach-
ers who are killing these animals illegally are
caught every year, but only 1 to 5 percent of
poachers are ever caught, according to Wild-
lifelandtrust.org
Hunting is a huge part of our community in
Clatsop County, and no one wants to see it dis-
appear because of these people. So I encour-
age you, if you hear of someone poaching, to
inform the police. If you like hunting or not,
care about the animals by getting poachers out
of the woods.
So many animals are being killed, with few
of the people killing them being punished. You
may even get a reward if you turn poachers
in. The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust
and Humane Society of the U.S. paid out five
rewards of $20,000 for catching animal poach-
ers in 2015.
I am a huge hunter, and every year it seems
as if there is less and less wildlife. I want to
see this trend end, and I need your help. Please
help the animals, the animal lovers, myself, and
other hunters like me, by doing the right thing.
MASON HOOVER
Astoria
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Vote Mitchell for
state representative
n today’s political climate, there sure is a lot
to argue about. I believe there are still many
values that all Oregonians can agree on: The
importance of education, public schools, and
community colleges need adequate funding.
That equal and fair wages, access to effective
healthcare and affordable housing are things
that every hardworking Oregonian deserves.
Our beautiful coastal region needs to remain
livable for generations to come, and drilling for
oil off the coast is a threat to our way of life,
not the way to preserve it.
Those fundamental ideas are just some of
the reasons why I’ll choose Tiffiny Mitchell for
House District 32. As a working-class Orego-
nian, Tiffiny knows what it means to have stu-
dent loans, trying to afford a roof over your
head and working hard to make ends meet.
She understands the necessity of protect-
ing our clean air, water, and beautiful coast-
line. Most importantly, Tiffiny understands
the importance of every person she represents,
including women and their reproductive rights,
our growing and thriving LGBTQ community,
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and the immigrants and refugees who need
our support more than ever. She is decidedly
for progressive values that protect the Oregon
coasts’ spectacular natural heritage and close-
knit communities. I strongly urge you to vote
for Tiffiny Mitchell as our next state represen-
tative for House District 32. Let’s send her to
Salem to fight for us.
ANDREA MAZZARELLA
Astoria
Vote Orr for
state representative
he differences between the candidates for
Oregon House District 32 couldn’t be more
clear. On the one hand is Tim Josi from Tilla-
mook, a Republican who puts on the Democrat
shirt when he runs for office, and has not seen a
clear-cut he didn’t like. His campaign is backed
by timber companies and other large corpora-
tions for thousands of dollars.
On the other hand is Tiffiny Mitchell, a state
employee backed by the unions and organi-
zations based in Portland. She has a full-time,
professional campaign manager, paid for by
organizations outside our district.
John Orr is the one candidate who is an
independent Democrat and a true progressive,
supported by volunteer campaign workers and
contributions from local residents. As a retired
attorney, a local judge and past president of the
North Coast Land Conservancy, John will be
ready to serve when he arrives in Salem.
Orr will be an effective legislator who sup-
ports our coastal progressive values, and will
be a leader who gets things done for all of us in
District 32. Vote for John Orr for truly indepen-
dent, local representation.
TED MESSING
Astoria
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Vote Roscoe for
county commissioner
urge voters of District 3 of the Clatsop
County Commission to cast their ballot for
Peter Roscoe.
Peter is a very longtime Astoria resident, a
former city councilor, and a successful small
business owner. As such, he has been a huge
fundraiser for a whole myriad of community
groups — the Women’s Resource Center (now
The Harbor), Court Appointed Special Advo-
cates (CASA), Astoria Music Festival, and the
Astoria Scholarship Program, to name just a few.
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Upon hearing that the city planned to can-
cel the Astoria Regatta, he stepped up as admi-
ral and resurrected the event, putting it back on
sound financial footing.
He’s always been a tireless advocate for our
beleaguered commercial fishing fleet.
For these reasons and more, please join me
in electing Peter Roscoe for District 3, Clatsop
County Commission.
CHRIS CONNAWAY
Astoria
People of Clatsop County
are great
xpectation is a powerful emotion. On
the positive side, for example, is when a
woman is expecting the birth of a child. The
expectation helps to make the miracle even
more special.
As with all things, the yin of the emotion is
very negative. If a person is fearful, or expect-
ing a bad thing to happen to them, very often
that bad thing does eventually happen. To me,
it seems to be one of the laws of nature that, for
many reasons, people have forgotten.
When people move from an area with
a higher crime rate, they also bring their
expectation that they need to be as fearful of
their new neighbors as they may have of the
old ones. It’s probably a reason for the move
to start.
This may be naive, but I believe most peo-
ple of Clatsop County are hardworking, great
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people who would help a stranger if needed.
Let us not lose that to anything, let alone some
emotion.
TROY J. HASKELL
Astoria
It is time to be more positive
have been noticing a lot of negativity around
me. I know everyone has a different story,
and some may have harder times than oth-
ers. I understand that, but every day I notice
all around me people saying that life sucks, or
there is nothing going for them, or that their
day is not going the way the were hoping.
I hear “I want to die” daily from people,
and sometimes it is really heartbreaking to hear
that. Some of the things are stupid issues to be
negative about, even the issues I am negative
toward. There are solutions. Instead of mop-
ing around all day, go take a walk outside and
breathe, think about everything, try to pull out
more positivity than negativity.
Even if you do not like reading, try out a
book. Write down your thoughts, think of what
you have, instead of what you do not have, and
let the negative thoughts roll off your back,
instead of constantly dwelling on them and let-
ting them ruin your entire day.
Maybe these solutions will work, or maybe
they will not. If it helps one person, that would
be one less negative thought I have to hear. It is
about time we all start living more happily.
EMMA TAGGART
Knappa
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