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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 • B1 WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE COMPILED BY BOB DUKE From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 10 years ago this week — 2009 ore than 6,000 people fl oated into Astoria Tuesday in two Norwegian Cruise Line ships. On board the Norwegian Star, 2,200 pas- sengers can lounge in a lavish atrium, dine in upscale restaurants, take their chances on the onboard casino, relax in the spa and see a show in an ornate theater. “It’s a self-contained, fl oating hotel,” said Randall Fiebrandt, the cruise line’s director of environmental systems. Like any large-scale hotel, the cruise ship uses a lot of water and produces a lot of waste. All the byproducts of the luxurious week long cruise from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Los Angeles have to be contained, too. International law governs how the cruise ship disposes of its wastewater and garbage, Fie- brandt said. M Shoot a raw oyster and stack some crab pots. Knot a perfect “eye splice,” and mend a net. Chug a root beer. Kiss a barmaid, and be slapped in turn. Just your average day as a fi sherman in these parts. The atmosphere at this weekend’s Pacifi c Commercial Fishermen’s Festival was that of a good day at sea. Warm September sunshine found its way around cottony clouds, as fami- lies, fi shermen and friends reveled in all the lore and lunacy of the fi shing lifestyle. The relocation from last year’s downtown site to Port of Astoria’s Pier I was a wise move. 2009 — The Astoria Riverfront Trolley, packed with cruise ship visitors, passes by the Norwegian Pearl cruise ship Tuesday near Mill Pond Village. WARRENTON — Facing the threat of cloudy skies and rain on much of the coast, more than 3,700 volun- teers turned out to participate in the 25th anniversary of the SOLVE Great Oregon Fall Beach Cleanup this weekend. The entire Oregon C oast, over 362 miles long, was cleaned of debris that had accumulated since last spring. Volunteers removed an estimated 54,460 pounds of trash from Oregon’s beaches. A pool of red fl owed back-and-forth across the intersection of Commercial and Ninth streets in downtown Astoria Wednesday afternoon. About 80 protesters in red T-shirts with anti-liquefi ed natural gas (LNG) slogans printed across them chanted their slogans and encouraged passers-by to honk if they opposed LNG. “We’ve been fi ghting this for fi ve years,” said Olivia Schmidt, a Portland-based leader for Columbia Riverkeeper. The rally was being held in anticipation of a Clatsop County Board of Commissioners meet- ing later that evening in the Judge Guy Boying- ton Building. The b oard was scheduled to hold a quasi-judicial hearing on a zone change for Sam Karamonos. Karamanos owns 121 acres where h e asked for the zone change from open space, parks and recreation (OPR) to lake and wetland while reducing the residential zone on the tract. Changing the zoning would remove a barrier blocking the development of the Bradwood Landing LNG project pipeline. Members approved the change 4-1. 1969 — The Shelley Ann is now offi cially owned by the Ocean Beach School District as a result of the generous donation of the vessel, completely equipped, to the district by Mrs. Roland Mitchell this morning. Mrs. Mitchell, whose husband died suddenly of a heart attack during the recent commercial fi shing season, is shown turning over the deed of the 30-foot trawler to Bert Berman, student body president of the Ilwaco High School. 1969 — Students and teacher gather around a marine engine as part of the unique classes in Sea Resources and marine engine and hull repair being taught by Ocean Beach High School. They are, from left, Mike Prest, Doug Tetz, Fred Litscke and Henry Niemi, the teacher. 50 years ago — 1969 Cape Disappointment and Grays Harbor Coast Guard stations took on a new duty Monday, with U.S. Weather Bureau authorization to initiate small-craft warn- ing displays based on locally observed weather or sea conditions. Small-craft warnings will be displayed, according to the Coast Guard, when winds reach a sustained velocity of 25 knots or swells are 10 feet or more in height. Swells of lesser height breaking in the channel or elsewhere and considered by the offi cer in charge of the station to be hazardous to small craft may also result in the warning display. Small-craft warnings based on local conditions will be broadcast on the Coast Guard marine band frequency. Could a group of high school students learn oceanography, marine biology, celestial naviga- tion, seamanship, boat and engine repair, and a host of other marine related skills within the confi nes of a high school vocational educational program? Realistically, is all of this possible? Administrators of the Ocean Beach and Naselle-Gray’s River school districts and a local group of citizens known corporately as Sea Resources are convinced that it is and have designed one of the most unique educational experiments in the nation. Unlike high school industrial arts programs which give the student brief exposure to dif- ferent skills but teach him none of them well enough to qualify for a salaried job, the Ocean Beach-Naselle-Grays River program has set out to do a thorough job of preparing students for entry into marine industries. An outstand- ing feature of the program is that it serves the individual student, the local community, the Pacifi c Northwest fi shing industry and the con- servation of Columbia River salmon all exceed- ingly well. 75 years ago — 1944 The Tongue Point cut-off road was offi cially opened to traffi c on Saturday, The Erickson Construction com- pany of Spokane having completed its contract after three summers of work. The contract for eliminating the long curve which took the highway through the naval 1969 — Bumble Bee Seafoods damaged cannery tender Thelma arrived in Astoria Saturday morning under tow of the Bumble Bee vessel Snark. reservation was let in 1942. The job proved a diffi cult one owing to the big cuts and fi lls and many slides which made it hard to stabilize the road. Winter rains twice forced suspension of work. The two other highway contracts in this county, the airport detour road and the new road to the naval hos- pital, are now proceeding rapidly, but it will be a race between the contractors and the winter rains. A visitor in Astoria last week was Carl I. Wick, Seattle, who was gathering information for a booklet on tuna fi shing. He was a passen- ger on the tuna boat Ina, owned by J.H. Niemi. Wick has already published a book enti- tled “Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sports Fishing,” and plans to add other book- lets on all types of fi shing done along the Pacifi c coast. From Oregon he moves south to Califor- nia, where he will tackle the sardine industry and others. He spent some time this summer at Bristol B ay in Alaska. Death came suddenly Thursday afternoon at Naselle to Anton Henry Brix, 67, pioneer logging operator in the lower Columbia area. Mr. Brix was in his car and appar- ently felt the heart attack coming on and was able to stop his car before he died. A native of Sleisvig-Holstein, Germany, having been born there June 7, 1877, Mr. Brix came directly to Grays River, Washington , at the age of 4 years with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Frederic Brix, who took up a homestead there. He grew to manhood in Grays River and started logging on his father’s farms as a young man. He logged with his brothers until 1905, when he left the industry to enter College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, retaining his interest in the business. After completing his schooling he entered the lumber business in King C ounty, Washington, and in 1934 he moved to Knappton and again went into the logging business. J.F. Kilkenny of Pendleton, opening the 10th annual convention of the Oregon Bar Associa- tion here Thursday afternoon, appealed to law- yers of the state to combat the wave of intoler- ance and prejudice that “threatens to divide the nation.” Kilkenny warned that the U.S. would enjoy no lasting peace if again faced with civil war, and asserted that “it would be a crime if law- yers should write themselves off as a factor of effi ciency and power to preserve American institutions.” Kilkenny said that the future of America demanded more than a lasting peace with other nations, and emphasized the need for a “lasting peace” within the United States.