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A4 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, ApRIL 10, 2019 OPINION editor@dailyastorian.com KARI BORGEN publisher JIM VAN NOSTRAND Editor JEREMY FELDMAN Circulation Manager Founded in 1873 JOHN D. BRUIJN production Manager CARL EARL Systems Manager PUBLISHER’S NOTEBOOK Q&A on changes at the newspaper F ollowing our March 19 announce- ment that The Daily Astorian will become The Astorian, with a three-days a week, mail-delivered pub- lishing schedule as of May 7, I’ve heard from readers with questions about the change. I thought I’d share some of those questions, and my answers, with you. also receive the Seaside Signal weekly on Saturday. Will the subscription rate change, too? At $11.25 a month, you will get the same local news in print plus extra sec- tions of the paper you aren’t getting now, like American Profile and Spry, and start- ing in June more manufacturer coupons. The subscription also includes unlimited access to the e-edition and dailyastorian. com website, recently revamped with more video and multimedia. We haven’t raised rates in years, but we can keep our subscription rates the same because of savings in delivery costs. The rate on the newsstand will be $1.50, reflecting bigger value in bigger issues. Watch for a special renewal offer coming next week that offers subscribers a gift card for renewing this month. Why the change? It’s important to make business changes that will enable us to con- tinue to serve Clatsop County — now and in the future. Our newspa- KARI per delivery costs con- BORGEN tinue to go up, and it makes sense to partner with the postal service for delivery. They are in the professional delivery business and do it every day. Although we will publish three days a week instead of five, our coverage will remain the same, and the three issues each week will contain all of the local news that we’re now publishing in five. I get my mail at a post office box. What if I want to change to just online subscription? We have an online-only subscrip- tion that takes into account the savings in delivery, newsprint and ink. For $8 a month, you can get unlimited access to the website, e-edition and soon a break- ing news app for mobile devices. Why Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday? We’re working on detailed plans for what the three-day-week editions will look like, but the broad outlines are tak- ing shape. Tuesday’s newspaper has long been our grocery insert day, and will con- tinue to include those ads along with two sections. The A section will include local news and sports. The B section will include Water Under the Bridge, a new, pull-out TV schedule, features and classifieds. Thursday has been and will continue to be home to the Coast Weekend arts and entertainment section, to give you a head start on planning your weekend. The A section will include local news and sports. The award-winning and pop- ular In One Ear column will lead the B section. Saturday’s edition is the new day for our weekend package, with Weekend Break, American Profile/Spry, national grocery coupons and weekend sales. During prep sports season, you’ll get Fri- day night results for local football and basketball teams. Seaside residents will What’s happening to the comics page? What about the crossword puzzles and horoscopes? We’ll have expanded features, com- ics, puzzles and horoscopes in the B sec- tion of every edition. You won’t miss any of your favorite features on the off print days. What about my carrier? Although it makes the most sense for our business to move the print delivery to mail, it’s also the hardest part of the change. We will celebrate our past and current carriers with a farewell barbe- cue at our office on the last day of car- rier delivery, May 3 at 11:30 a.m. We are also offering them additional incen- tives to deliver during the last month of service. Other questions or suggestions? please let me know at kborgen@dailyas- torian.com or 503-325-4955. Kari Borgen is publisher of The Daily Astorian. Prime Chinook fingerlings held in a temporary holding pond at the old site were released to sea this week. Water under the bridge Norwegian ships are beautiful. They’re not pretty, maybe, and they’re not cleanly scrubbed sea-going hotels. But they are functional, and to some, functionality is beauty. Take the Mosgulf. She is one of the biggest ships to come into the Port of Astoria. She’s 546 feet long and, when loaded, draws 36 feet. But she can reach Japan in 13 days. And that’s not bad, considering she displaces more than 28,000 tons fully loaded. Compiled by Bob Duke From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 10 years ago this week — 2009 Warrenton resident Debra Meeuwsen leaned into the SeaPort airplane window and craned her neck to take in the bristled landscape Saturday along the route from Port- land to Astoria. “That’s got to be Vernonia,” she said, pointing at a clus- ter of buildings nestled in the trees. “There’s nothing else between here and there.” With a quick check over her shoulder at the cock- pit four short rows away, she hopped up from her seat, crossed the narrow aisle and leaned over her husband’s shoulder to catch the view from his window. “This is so cool,” she said. SeaPort Airlines has shuttled nearly 250 paying cus- tomers between Astoria, Newport and Portland in its first month of service. So far, so cool. But not so cheap. The company has claimed $130,696 in grant-funded subsidies for the first three weeks of service on top of $62,386 in start-up costs. The Port of Astoria and the city of Newport are trying to stretch around $4.5 million in subsidies from state and federal grants as far as possible while SeaPort works to make its service self-sufficient. Ticket sales, so far, have brought in $17,571. There’s a reason all the athletes in Monday’s Daily Astorian Invitational track meet in Seaside had a little more “spring” in their step. Temperatures in the 60s had coaches smiling, jumpers soaring, runners recording personal best times, and throwers ... well, throwers don’t really care about the weather. 50 years ago — 1969 Astoria has been invited to enter the Crab Cooking Olympics in San Francisco May 19-20, but no one has come forward yet to lead the team. “I’ve gotten no response,” Dr. Ed Harvey of the Otter 75 years ago — 1944 Walt Norblad, Astoria attorney and captain in the Army Air Corps’ air combat intelligence, has been named to his bomber command’s “general court,” which hears all major crimes and serious cases. Norblad is the junior officer on the court. He has been very active in court-martial work, obtaining considerable reputation for his outstanding defense of men he has been assigned to represent at court-martial hearings. The for- mer Clatsop County representative is with a command of Martin B-26 Marauders operating out of England. Walt Norblad in the Army Air Corps (1944). Trawl Commission said today of his efforts so far to orga- nize an entry in what San Francisco plans to be an annual event. Is Astoria, the dowager city of Oregon, who sits enthroned at the mouth of the Columbia, get- ting too big for her ... er ... pettiskirts? A survey this past week revealed that more than 500 families have moved into Astoria this year, all including at least two persons, and some with several children. Best source of information on not “what’s new?” but “who’s new” is Mrs. Louis Washer, head of the Welcome Wagon. In a record com- piled by months from March 1968 to March 1969, she and her assistants called on 569 new families here. Largest influx was in August-Sep- tember, with 91 families coming here to set- tle; July and August had 86 and June-July 90, showing the greatest growth during the summer months. The old Chinook Hatchery in Washington state is once more operational! Early in the 1930s, when it became illegal to use traps on the Columbia, it was abandoned to time and history by the trap men who had maintained and supplied it with fish for spawning purposes since 1896. Following a second visit of public roads administration and state highway engineers here Monday, a definite project involving the recon- struction of the road between Astoria and the new naval hospital will be prepared at once by the PRA for submission to the 13th naval district for approval. The plan contemplates widening of the Williamsport road and the realignment and widening of the Nehalem highway to the hospi- tal. Cost $330,000. Hugh Bernard Boyle Jr., 21-year-old member of a Navy armed guard crew on a Liberty ship, is in Astoria on a short leave visiting his wife, Mrs. Meriam Boyle and children, and his mother, Mrs. Irena C. Parker Boyle. He will leave Friday. Boyle’s ship carried supplies to islands in the south- west Pacific, leaving San Francisco in November 1943 and returning in March 1944. Islands visited included Mila Efate, Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, Florida (Tulagi), Munda, Morton, all in the New Hebrides or Sol- omon groups. Besides frequently being a target, the ship Boyle sailed on itself sank several enemy vessels. The ship hit a reef in the Solomons and for a day was such a good target for enemy fire that Boyle reported things really uncomfortable. Before entering the Navy, Boyle worked as a crane man for CRPA and did excavation at Tongue Point.
