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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 • B1 WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE COMPILED BY BOB DUKE From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 10 years ago this week — 2009 A lot is written about how car manufacturers don’t make cars that Americans want. If you were in downtown Seaside over the weekend you might think that there has never been a car built that Americans can’t improve, or at least try. How about a 1961 Volkswagen Bug with a blown V-8 stuffed in the front end? Or maybe a hot rod Volvo? Perhaps Kathy Pedregana of Gearhart’s 1937 Ford that really “needed” a bumper car attached as a trailer? Just a few examples of the different direc- tions owners go to improve and personalize their vehicles. Downtown Seaside was awash in custom and hot-rod vehicles for the 12th year of the Wheels and Waves car show. Four-hundred cars had regis- tered for the show, plus hundreds more special cars showed up, drawing thousands of people. Broad- way and surrounding streets were closed so onlook- ers could walk and view the parked vehicles. SEASIDE — A city ordinance covering vacation home rentals may undergo sev- eral changes — from how rental permits are approved to how many guests can occupy a house and how many cars can park there. Planning commissioners met with three owners of local vacation home rental agen- cies Tuesday night to discuss changes being considered by the city. The meeting was the fi rst of several that will occur over the next sev- eral months before any fi nal decision is made. 2009 – A 1961 Volkswagen Bug with a supercharger V-8 seems appropriately named. To drive it you have to be ‘Brave Enuf.’ 1959. It was the year Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states, Fidel Castro became the prime minister of Cuba and the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet after the Chinese fi red mortar shells at his palace. Here in Astoria, an interesting group of teenagers graduated from high school. Last weekend, 143 Astoria High School graduates and spouses returned for their 50th reunion. Included in the class were lawyers, a gastroenterolo- gist , computer wizards, hospital workers, homemakers and business people. They showed up in Hawaiian shirts that refl ected the laid-back lifestyle of retirement many of them enjoy. When it comes to the economic, social and political collaboration needed to develop renewable energy from the ocean, Oregon is a model for other states, according to state Sen. Betsy Johnson. The Scappoose Democrat spoke to partici- pants at the Ocean Renewable Energy Confer- ence Wednesday. “The Oregon Coast is not only ready for the future, its citizens are shaping the future,” Johnson said. 50 years ago — 1969 The $1.5 million Anne M., 165-foot tuna seiner, built for Bumble Bee Seafoods Co. by J.M. Martinac Ship- building Corp. of Tacoma, arrived in Astoria this morn- ing after a cruise down the coast from the city of its birth. The white-painted craft, trimmed in blue, is slated to leave Wednesday on the fi rst stage of its maiden voyage after tuna in the waters off Central and South America. Bumble Bee Seafoods said today one of its fi shing boats sunk this morning after it was in collision with a freighter which was going upriver. The two men aboard the fi shing vessel were rescued. Frank Hoagland, Bumble Bee vice presi- dent, said the fi shing boat Thelma was in col- lision about 3:30 a.m., 5 miles upriver from St. Helens. He said he had been told that the freighter didn’t appear to slow down after the collision. The biography of an abandoned lighthouse in words and pictures was presented to the Astoria Kiwanis Club Tuesday noon by Portland photographer Bruce Luzader and Sam Foster, Clatsop County photographer. Luzader’s color slide presentation described an “assault on Tillamook R ock” made by Luzader and dory captain Mal Ohlson of Cannon Beach with Foster as lookout man on Ecola Head. Luzader and Ohlson fi rst visited the rock, site of an abandoned Coast Guard light- house, July 29 and returned July 30 with a larger group, including Oswald Allik, last keeper of the lighthouse. It was abandoned by the Coast Guard Sept. 1, 1957, and replaced by a lighted buoy. After the State of Oregon 1969 – The Long Beach Peninsula area is now being served by this brand new ambulance, purchased by the fi re department for $16,000. Firemen are now conducting a membership campaign to raise funds to pay off the $2,500 balance remaining on the vehicle. turned down an offer of the rock from the Coast Guard, it was sold at auction to Academic Economic Coordina- tors of Las Vegas, Nevada , for $5,600. According to a visitors’ book found in the hallway of the lighthouse building, the wind-swept, wave-battered rock has been un-visited since 1959 when representa- tives of the Nevada group wrote that anyone reading the book was welcome to use the lighthouse. Luzader said the weather-deteriorated book, brought from the lighthouse on his fi rst trip, will be loaned to the Columbia River Maritime Museum for display. An offi cial of the Northwest Aluminum Co. said Tuesday grading of his fi rm’s 900-acre Warrenton site is nearly fi nished and construc- tion of roads on the site is to start next week. Citizens of Clatsop County, like those around the state, feel that taxes are too high, with the property tax as the No. 1 target. This was apparent after a public session on taxation held at Clatsop Community College Tuesday night by Oregon House Democrats. 75 years ago — 1944 Ilwaco High School opened the year with only 53 boys and 78 girls enrolled, a total of 131 compared with 150 a year ago. In the freshman class are 34 students; sophomore, 39; junior, 29, and senior class, 29. In the grade school there are 115 pupils, one more than last year. Teachers are doubling up, there being one teacher for two grades. At Ocean Park, opening day attendance was 50, with 13 in the primary grades, 23 in the middle three grades and 14 in the seventh and eighth grades. Oysterville school opened this Monday, with 11 pupils, with Mrs. Glenn Heckes in charge. 1969 — ‘Corn eatin’ people, 1,100 in count, enjoyed the corn feed at Brownsmead Grange Hall Saturday afternoon. LEWIS AND CLARK — Rex Pratt intends to keep his natural woodland park a haven for refuge for the wildlife of the county, according to the signs posted about the premises. These state that persons are invited to walk or ride along the trails and roads of the park, but hunt- ing is prohibited. Pratt has been busy for a period of several years developing this natural woodland park on his place. He has cleared out the under- brush, done some grading, c ut down many scraggly old trees and made trails and road- ways through the area. At the outer edge of the place is the storage reservoir of the Lewis and Clark water company that is becoming a favor- ite picnic place. Reports current in the city for several months regard- ing the sale of the Fred Meyer store building in down- town Astoria to a Los Angeles investment company were confi rmed today by Don Smith, local Fred Meyer store manager. The modern structure on Commercial Street between Eleventh and Twelfth streets and extending through the block to Duane Street was erected at a cost of about $35,000. It has been occupied by the Woolworth store and the Fred Meyer grocery now for a number of years. No announcement has been forthcoming from offi - cials of either the Woolworth company or the Fred Meyer company in their headquarters offi ce regard- ing future business plans here, but both Smith and Earl Ebersone, manager of the local Woolworth store, said today that they had no reason to believe that the sale of the building would in any way affect operations of the two stores here. Naturalization Wednesday to Nick Anthony Hazapis in the Clatsop County C ircuit C ourt- room fulfi lled a childhood dream of a native of Greece who was in the merchant fl eet of his homeland when the Germans invaded it, who jumped ship in the United States and is now a seaman second class in the U.S. Navy in Astoria. Calls for help to harvest Clatsop County’s 30 acres of cranberries, so that some GI guy won’t be without trimming s on his hunk of turkey come Thanksgiving or Christmas, this week came out of the county agent’s offi ce. The entire Clatsop acreage, although about the same as last year, is expected to yield about 100% more cran- berries. And every berry plucked from the low-growing bushes in the county’s famed bogs will go to Uncle Sam and for purposes both obvious and toothsome. Exploring the possibility of establishing in Astoria a regional center of vocational edu- cation, the Astoria school board, Supt. A.C. Hampton, members of the apprenticeship com- mission and representatives of other civic and offi cial agencies met Tuesday evening with Oscar Paulsen, state director of vocational edu- cation, and members of his staff. 1969 – Tuna seiner Anne M. to fi sh for Bumble Bee off Central, South America.
