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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018
editor@dailyastorian.com
KARI BORGEN
Publisher
JIM VAN NOSTRAND
Editor
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JEREMY FELDMAN
Circulation Manager
DEBRA BLOOM
Business Manager
Water
under
the bridge
JOHN D. BRUIJN
Production Manager
CARL EARL
Systems Manager
Robert Raring, project manager for the North-
west Aluminum company construction project,
has come west from New York with Richard Peck,
NWA executive vice president, to help solve the
problem of finding a way to move earth despite
rainy weather.
Raring is with Parsons-Jurden Inc., the engineer-
ing firm assigned to build the $140 million NWA
plant near Warrenton.
Compiled by Bob Duke
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
The Long Beach Peninsula cranberry crop set a record this
year with 17 barrels an acre for a total yield of 52,600 barrels
set last year, according to Wilson Blair, manager of the Ocean
Spray receiving station.
10 years ago
this week — 2008
To Port of Astoria leaders, owning the 40-acre industrial
property at North Tongue Point will feel a bit like winning
the lottery.
So why not use video lottery funds to seal the deal?
Port Executive Director Jack Crider has asked to borrow
an undisclosed sum of lottery funds from Clatsop County to
help finance a down payment on the property, which includes
five finger piers and 140,000 square feet of building space.
The Port would repay the county’s short-term loan of lot-
tery funds when “permanent funding” from a long-term loan
is in place, according to the letter Crider sent to the county
last week.
Astoria residents again demonstrated a deep
commitment to their city’s riverfront as about
85 people turned out on a stormy Thursday night
to attend an Astoria Riverfront Vision Plan open
house, the third one this year.
The visioning effort was prompted by public
alarm over a spate of developments and propos-
als for condominiums, townhouses and hotels to be
built along the Columbia River. Residents started
worrying about preserving the working waterfront,
public access to the river, and views from the hillside
homes. Many called for a moratorium on riverfront
development. In response to growing concerns, the
city embarked on the visioning process.
NorthernStar Natural Gas Inc. has asked federal energy
regulators to delay their response to legal challenges filed after
the September approval of the company’s Bradwood Landing
liquefied natural gas project.
In a document filed Thursday, the company’s attorney told
regulators delaying a decision on rehearing the case will pre-
vent a lawsuit.
The states of Oregon and Washington, the National Marine
Fisheries Service, and regional conservation and tribal groups
have asked the five-member Federal Energy Regulatory Com-
mission to reconsider its 4-1 approval of the $650 million facility.
75 years ago — 1943
The pilot of a small navy plane bailed out over
the Pacific ocean just off Seaside Sunday, when his
plane developed mechanical difficulties, and was
rescued by a P-boat from the Astoria naval air sta-
tion only a few minutes after he parachuted into the
water, it was learned today.
The plane crashed and presumably disappeared.
1968 — Signs of the approaching Christmas season
are showing up. Among them is the start of hanging
Christmas street decorations. Jack Acton of the Asto-
ria public works department hangs illuminated green
drapery across Duane Street.
The federal Aviation Administration has ruled
the liquefied natural gas storage tanks proposed for
the Oregon LNG project in Warrenton would not be
a hazard to navigation at the Astoria Regional Air-
port as long as several conditions are met.
50 years ago — 1968
The federal Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife is look-
ing for an island in the lower Columbia to use as a refuge
to preserve remnants of the herds of Columbia River white-
tailed deer, it was learned this week.
The bureaus have written the Clatsop County commission-
ers regarding possible acquisition of about 150 acres owned
by the county on Tenasillihe island.
Spokesmen for the bureau said this island is one of several
being investigated in cooperation with Nature Conservancy, a
private organization.
Only remaining white-tail deer in the Northwest number
about 400, of which 150 live on Tenasillihe island, bureau
officials said.
The war production board today inserted a note of happi-
ness into the coming yuletide season by announcing that there
“probably” will be enough Christmas trees to supply most
American homes.
Timber counties of the Northwest stand to ben-
efit industrially in the postwar period from the new
era of wood processing, in the opinion of William
Derry, industrial engineer for the Pacific Power
and Light Co., and secretary of the Oregon branch
of the farm chemurgic council who visited Astoria
Tuesday.
Clatsop County is one of the counties which
should cash in on this coming development, he
thinks.
Commander James D. “Jimmy” Hirshfield, former com-
mander of the USCG cutter Onondaga in Astoria and who fig-
ured in a stirring encounter with a German submarine earlier
in the year, is paying Astoria a brief visit while in the west on
official duties. He is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Halderman.
Since leaving Astoria, Commander Hirshfield has been
stationed on the east coast. It was while commanding a coast
guard ship on north Atlantic convoy duty that a pack of six
enemy submarines was encountered. After depth-bomb-
ing two, Hirshfield found one of the subs on the surface and
promptly rammed and sunk it. His own ship was damaged in
the encounter and was later rescued and towed to port. He was
later decorated for his achievement.
LETTERS
Confused, disappointed
by Pro-Con choice
enjoy a good debate, and welcomed The
Daily Astorian’s addition of a Pro-Con fea-
ture. It’s good to examine two sides of an
idea, good not to take your own views as gos-
pel truth. But I was confused and disappointed
by the Nov. 16 feature, “Pro-Con: Should
the Democrats retain Pelosi as speaker of the
House?”
An informing issue for that debate would
have been whether House Democrats should
retain Nancy Pelosi, a centrist Democrat, as
speaker of the House, or push for a new, more
left-leaning progressive to lead them. Instead,
we were presented with a “pro” for Pelosi, set
against a rant against her, with no suggestion
of an alternative, written by the executive edi-
tor of The Heartland Institute, a conservative,
libertarian think tank.
The Democrats have taken back the
House. Who they choose to lead them is of
no concern of Republicans, unless, of course,
those Republicans are trying to undermine the
process.
Hopefully, the next issue of Pro-Con will
focus on a more instructive pro and con.
JULIE SNYDER
Astoria
I
Thanks to CMH
rehab department
T
his letter is to second Dane Jaconet-
ti’s positive comments about Columbia
Memorial Hospital’s Rehabilitation Depart-
ment in the Pavilion Building (“Giving
thanks,” The Daily Astorian, Nov. 15). This
department is the best I’ve experienced at
CMH.
Thanks to the impressive skills and knowl-
edge of Heather Robinson, I was able to stop
walking with a cane and to enjoy walking for
the first time in decades. Also, when receiv-
ing my physical therapy at the Pavilion facil-
ity, I was always amazed at how so many
professional therapists managed to help so
many patients in the limited space they have
available.
So, I also thank this “best department” at
CMH.
AMBER MARCIA
Warrenton
Enjoy your
Thanksgiving Day
T
he American day of Thanksgiving has an
interesting history. It began in 1621, when
the Pilgrims celebrated a three-day feast with
their Indian neighbors, giving thanks to God,
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Franklin Roosevelt issued a proclamation in
1939, changing the date of Thanksgiving from
the fourth Thursday of November to the third
Thursday.
That was during the Great Depression, and
he hoped to stimulate the economy by add-
ing more shopping days between Thanksgiv-
ing and Christmas. However, many refused
to change, so America had two Thanksgiv-
ing Days for a time. Often the new one was
called “Franksgiving,” and the traditional one
“Thanksgiving.” Congress intervened in 1941
by officially designating the fourth Thursday
of November as a federal holiday.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving Day, but remem-
ber God deserves our thanks each and every
day. “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.” (Psalm 107:1)
KEN TIPPS
Astoria Church of Christ
It is a new day
I
saw a photo of the new members of the
House of Representatives. On the left side
was a huge group of women and men, and
they were black, and Indian, and red, and
white, and Muslim, and Asian, and everything
you could imagine. They looked like Amer-
ica. On the right side was a group of men who
looked like dentists.
MARY TANGUAY WEBB
Astoria