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B1 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2019 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2019 • B1 WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE COMPILED BY BOB DUKE From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 2009 — Seen from atop the Shilo Inn, a crowd gathers to watch the annual Seaside beach volleyball tournament. now assigned to Astoria. These are the Magnolia and Ivy. 10 years ago this week — 2009 Tuna continued today to fl ow over local can- nery docks in substantial quantity. Packers said albacore tuna were scattered widely over the ocean this week, but boats which found the schools were making good catches. Tuna seemed plentiful northward from the Columbia River. T he legendary team names synonymous with beach volleyball include “May/Walsh,” “McPeak/Youngs,” and “Kiraly/Johnson,” to name a few. In the annual Seaside Beach Tournament, team names are more along the lines of “The Jumping Ninjas,” “Stubs & Buds,” “The Angry Dolphins” or the “Jamaican Hopscotch Mafi a.” Not exactly names we’ll see in the Summer Olympics, but, hey, beach volleyball is beach volleyball, no matter where it’s played. Take a beach, a couple hundred volleyballs, 90 nets and close to 2,000 participants, and you’ve go the self-pro- claimed “largest amateur participation beach volleyball tour- nament” in the world. Yes, right there on the sands of Seaside. The city hosted the 28th annual event over the weekend on the beach area in front of the turnaround, drawing play- ers, fans and curious onlookers to the North Coast for three days. 75 years ago — 1944 2009 — Justin Laird, of Seaside, dives for a save while dueling with Jason Spear, left, of Seaside, and Michael Davis, of Warrenton. Salmon and albacore tuna production contin- ued under full speed here Tuesday, with canner- ies — for the fi rst time in history — looking for a break in favorable weather because of worries over the ice supply. The albacore industry has never before had such an unbroken sequence of highly favorable weather, which is permitting long albacore trips and many of them, which has hit hard at local ice reserves. Since it requires from one to two tons of ice for every ton of albacore, the huge production has taken its toll of ice, and processors are having extreme diffi culty buying ice from Portland and Seattle. One packer is reportedly dickering for ice in the middle west. Visitors to the beach in Seaside are being warned by lifeguards and police that sharks may be swimming in the ocean nearby. Lifeguards told police at 2 p.m. Sunday that they had seen a dorsal fi n of a shark in the break- line of the surf not too far from shore, said Lt. Dave Ham. The lifeguards asked police to warn beachgo- ers of the sighting. Offi cers drove up and down the beach making the announcement through their public address system. “Some people go out of the water and some didn’t,” Ham said. “The lifeguards were adamant that they did see it.” North Coast law enforcement agencies enlisted the help of some area students to train to defend the community against a gunman. The students performed the roles of victims in a school under siege as law enforcement tried to diffuse the situation during the training Aug. 4-6. The recent history of attacks on schools, workplaces and other places where people congregate led to local law enforcement providing the training, said Clatsop South Chief Deputy Sheriff Paul Williams. “In the past, you’d stop, contain and wait for a SWAT team,” Williams said. “In many situations, you can’t just sit by and wait for a SWAT team to arrive.” 2009 — Local law enforcement offi cers check out the corridors of Jewell School during a training exercise. Tucker Creek Salvage Co., a new enterprise just organized by Jack Beelar and Dennis Thom- ason, of Astoria, will undertake to keep the slips in the port terminals dredged to adequate depths for the next six months for $20,000 or $25,000. The Astoria Port Commission last night approved a six-month contract with the fi rm as requested by Manager C.E. Hodges. He said that When Capt. Elmer Faulk of the old Tourist No. 2 ferry could not come to the approaching nuptials of his Portland friends, Miss Lois DeFehr and C.S. Binkley, they decided to come to him, and the wedding will solemnized aboard the ferry Sunday morning at 10:30. The ferry was taken over by the Army shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack. It was used fi rst for mine-laying pur- poses and later as a short route for transporting heavy equip- ment and men between Fort Stevens and Fort Canby on the Washington side of the river. at the end of six months the costs of operation will be determined and the contract renegotiated, if the experiment seems successful. Hodges said the present program of having dredging done on a “crash program” basis — whenever a ship grounds at its berth or can’t get into a berth because of shallow water — is expen- sive and unsatisfactory. Astoria’s new power-driven street sweeper, designed to operate with a three-man crew and guaranteed to do the work of 25 fast or 30 medium fast “white wings” with their old style shovel and push cart technique, arrived here this week and has been given a workout on downtown streets. The new machine with its fi ve-foot brushes will be placed in operation “as soon as the necessary crew can be assembled,” Jerry McCallister, super- intendent of streets, said today, shortly after he had personally put the sweeper through its trial paces. Just when the work of cleaning the streets on a regular schedule, an undertaking abandoned in the early days of the war because of an acute man- power shortage for city services, can be resumed depends largely on how long the acute manpower shortage for city services continues, according to McCallister. “We not only haven’t 25 or 30 men working in the street-cleaning department at present, but hav- en’t even one man we can assign regularly to the work.” The Coast Guard has notifi ed Rep. Wendell Wyatt that the cutter Cactus, a 189-foot buoy tender, will be assigned to Astoria for oceanographic duty. The Cactus is now based at Bristol, R.I. The Cactus, which carries a crew of six offi cers and 43 enlisted men, will replace the second of two 189-foot tenders SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF — Three allied armies converged behind a great aerial and artillery bar- rage on the ancient Norman town of Falaise today, racing through disintegrating enemy opposition toward a juncture that would complete the envelopment of perhaps 100,000 Germans and seal the greatest victory of the war in the west. 50 years ago — 1969 A lively, light-hearted show was produced Saturday night at Astoria High School auditorium to bid goodbye and Godspeed to Miss Oregon, Clatsop County’s own Margie Huhta, before she leaves soon for the Miss America Pageant at Atlantic City N.J. The entertainment was all volunteered, most of it local talent and some from other parts of the state and Washing- ton and California as well. Several of the Miss Oregon 1969 contestants, runners-up to the new miss Oregon, came to add their talent bit to the show and Miss Oregon herself fur- nished glamor by giving her talent numbers, both the one that she gave at the Miss Oregon show and the new group of songs she will present at the Miss America pageant the fi rst of September. The Oregon liquor control commission announced today that on V-day, the day Germany falls, liquor stores and agen- cies will be closed in communities where retail stores close, but may remain open in areas where other stores also remain open. Plans already have been made by the Portland retail bureau to close member stores when victory over Germany is announced, so Portland’s downtown stores will be closed on V-day. If the retail closure is general over the city, the out- lying liquor stores also will be closed. 1969 — Miss Oregon of 1957, Judith Hansen Jaquel of Oakland, Calif., and the 1969 Miss Oregon, Margie Huhta of Svensen, have an informal chat.
