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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2019
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2019 • B1
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THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week — 2009
G
ood news has been hard to come by lately for
the business community. So the announce-
ment that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
and Oregon Department of State Lands approved fi ll
permits last week for the new Costco site in Warren-
ton has some community leaders giddy.
State Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, is one of
them. She said that she had spoken with members of
the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners and had
even toured the retail store’s new site while the com-
munity waited for permits to be issued.
“I’m very enthusiastic for this opportunity for Clat-
sop County,” Johnson said in her gregarious manner.
“I’ve been up and toured the site — marched around in
waist-high sticker bushes.”
2009 – A Harvey Award will be presented to Mark John
Chadwick and Gigi Gray for the restoration of 1143 14th St.
2009 – Edward and Karen Campbell will receive a Harvey
Award for their restoration of 591 15th St.
The city of Astoria Historic Landmarks
Commission has selected six award recipients
and one honorable mention recipient for the
2009 Dr. Edward Harvey Historic Preserva-
tion Awards. They will receive framed certif-
icates from Mayor Willis Van Dusen at Mon-
day’s meeting of the Astoria City Council.
“The awards are intended to celebrate the
best in preservation by individual property
owners. They demonstrate the great pride
we all take in the community’s heritage,”
said David Pearson, the HLC’s chairman.
“This has been an amazing year for historic
preservation.”
Two residential properties were selected for
the award.
• Edward and Karen Campbell for restor-
ing a Craftsman-style home at 591 15th St.
that was built in 1907-08;
• Mark Chadwick and Gigi Gray for restor-
ing a Craftsman-style home at 1143 14th St.
that was built circa 1915.
The Obama administration will spend $26.6 million
in economic stimulus money to complete a project to
deepen 103 miles of the Columbia River.
The money will help the U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers complete the dredging next year, fi ve years after
work began.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said money for the
Columbia deepening was not included in the admin-
istration’s original list of stimulus projects. That
changed after Murray spoke with top administration
offi cials about its importance.
More than 40,000 jobs in the region depend on
maritime commerce, she said. Murray also cited the
Columbia’s huge overall economic impact on the
Northwest.
If you have a teenager at home, you might
have noticed it’s been a little quieter the last
few years.
Instead of spending hours talking to each
other on the phone, teens are using phones
to text each other — a nearly silent form of
communication.
Ask Astoria High School senior Jordan
Crownover, co-president of student govern-
ment, and she’ll tell you it’s a way friends
keep in touch on a constant basis.
“Overall, it’s a way to talk about anything
and everything,” Crownover, 18, said.
1969 – This ‘stairway to the stars’ was created while demolishing an old house at 9th and Exchange streets.
75 years ago — 1944
The Astoria Bicentennial Celebration committee
will soon have a presence downtown on the riverfront.
Monday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. is the grand opening of
the Astoria Bicentennial Storefront at No. 1 12th St.,
on the 12th Street Dock.
It will be the offi cial headquarters for the
Bicentennial.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony at 4 p.m. will kick off
the event, with Astoria Mayor Willis Van Dusen wield-
ing the giant pair of scissors.
50 years ago — 1969
Passage of a bill on Astoria’s submerged and sub-
mersible lands Saturday in the House of Representa-
tives brought criticism in Astoria.
City Manager Dale Curry said the House mem-
bers in Salem “haven’t done the city of Astoria any
favor.”
He expressed hope that the bill might be amended
in the State Senate to eliminate objectionable
aspects.
By a 49 to 3 vote, the House passed a bill that would
have the state quitclaim title and interest to some 400
acres of fi ll land within the Astoria city limits and turn
over to the Clatsop County commissioners the dispo-
sition of it.
Demolition of the Ocean House Hotel in
Gearhart will mark the passing of the third
of the older hotels in that residential commu-
nity. Only the old Gearhart Hotel will stand
as a reminder of the golden age that preceded
today’s modern luxury motels and motor
hotels.
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Barbey, Astoria,
recently purchased the land that the Ocean
House has occupied for 40 years, with the
intent of building private residences — prime
lots for vistas of the Pacifi c.
The Northwest Aluminum Co. asked the Port of
Astoria Commission Tuesday night to sell it 500 acres
at the mouth of the Skipanon River, including land
1944 — Pencil drawing of fi shing boat.
where Northwest could build wharfage for ships bring-
ing bauxite ore to its planned plant in Warrenton. The
commission said it wanted fi rst to explore the possi-
bility of selling revenue bonds to fi nance its own con-
struction of such a wharf.
No settlement has been reached in the
strike by members of the Inlandboatmen
Union, now in its 14th day. Some 250 workers
are directly involved, and members of allied
unions and crafts are honoring the IBU picket
lines.
Federal mediator Leroy Smith plans to
meet with both sides, the deckhand’s union
and the Columbia River Towboat Association.
Improvements in the water clarifi cation system at
Crown Zellerbach’s Wauna mill have effectively solved
the effl uent problem there, according to a spokesman
for the Oregon Sanitary Authority. The OSA said they
have been in contact with Crown in the past on com-
plaints received by them, from various sources, about
apparent pollution of the Columbia River.
TILLAMOOK — Circuit Judge J. S.
Bohannon has ruled that Sunset Cove Inc.,
cannot remove sand from Necanicum Spit
beach near Seaside.
Bohannon said today the state owns the
property where the company was removing
sand for a million-dollar housing development
at the mouth of the Columbia River.
The Columbia River fi shing industry at Astoria,
which has been way up and way down in the 78 years
since the fi rst salmon cannery was started at Eagle Cliff,
Washington, is in an uproar.
The reasons are simply: Instead of suffering from the
smallest salmon pack since 1870, the town and fi shing
industry are fat, sassy and in the money. 2. A ballooning
fl eet of offshore boats are dragging, netting and hook-
ing almost every living thing that populates the teeming
North Pacifi c ocean. 3. The fi shermen are capitalizing
on wartime markets. The fi shing industry is now serving
up fi sh delicacies to government and civilians, are con-
verting into currency a variety of ocean-fl oor fi shes that
fi ve years ago were sniffed suspiciously by mink.
The fi rst two “Astoria-type” deep sea drag
fi shing boats, a type destined to be much heard
of as the Columbia River boat building indus-
try ultimately paces the rapidly increasing off-
shore fi shing activities, are now under con-
struction at the Astoria Marine Construction
Company.
Rapidly approaching the launching date,
the hulls are being built along side three YMS
fi ghting ships. The craft are a portion of deep
sea fi shing boats being slotted priorities in the
Northwest as the government presses its “more
fi sh food as a weapon” program.
Seventy feet in length, the “Astoria-type”
was designed by W.H. “Hainie” Dole, ranking
Northwest marine architect, who has been with
the fi rm the past fi ve years.
There is a U.S. Navy carrier somewhere in the Pacifi c
today with a piano aboard, given by the people of Clifton.
The piano was part of the Clifton school, which was
built by the people about 10 years ago. When the Clif-
ton pupils moved to Westport school the people decided
to give their piano to the carrier, a request for which had
come from the chaplain.
The Navy grabbed the piano offer, sent a truck to
Clifton to get it, and it is now part of the equipment on
a fi ghting ship.
Another piano was offered by Mrs. H. Lindstrom
of Astoria; and it was being sought by the chaplain of
another carrier.