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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 • B1 WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE COMPILED BY BOB DUKE From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 10 years ago this week — 2010 T he North Coast escaped serious problems during Sunday night’s high winds, but the National Weather Service kept its high surf advisory in effect through 6 p.m. Tuesday as a second storm was headed this way. Offi cials warned residents and visitors: Be sure to use caution along the coast this week and stay away from beaches. Rip currents and beach erosion are possible and jet- ties are especially dangerous, offi cials said. “This is not a time to be near the water.” Fifth-graders Emma Gaeuman and Patty Brodie went door-to-door Sunday asking their Astoria neighbors to donate empty bottles and cans to help Haiti recover from last week’s dev- astating earthquake. Three times, when their arms were full, the girls dropped their collections off at home and went back out again. They only stopped collecting, Gaeuman said, “when we couldn’t carry any more.” On Monday, they brought their whole heap to Astoria High School, where students in Jenni Newton’s leadership class were sorting donated containers, trucking them to local gro- cery stores and cashing in their 5-cent deposit value. Full trash bags stacked up inside the high school courtyard as dozens of local stopped by to give to the cause. The class of about 14 organized the fund- raiser last week and accepted donated bottles and cans all day Monday, which was a school holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The proposed site of the Astoria sewage lagoon with Bumble Bee Seafoods at Pier 39 in the distance in 1970. Port of Astoria Executive Director Jack Crider said his agency has done its part to make sure the Red Lion Inn can reopen in the West Mooring Basin. The hotel closed its doors last month following a balcony collapse that sent fi ve guests plunging into the marina. Engineers found problems with the Port’s share of the complex on the eastern portion of the L-shaped hotel structure. John Souza put on his life jacket and rubber boots Wednesday, grabbed a razor knife and a fl ashlight for safety, and stepped out onto the new fl oating cover atop Astoria’s Reservoir 3. Souza, an engineering technician with the Astoria Public Works Department, was demonstrating how the giant cover is inspected and maintained. He was clearly enjoying him- self. “It works great. Our water is so clean, I can’t say enough good things about it.” “It’s very, very strong,” said Souza’s col- league Jim Hatcher. “It’s like walking on a water bed.” 50 years ago — 1970 A spirited Astoria High School group of runners, bol- stered by the cross-country and track team and with sev- eral girls also competing, Saturday night broke the Ore- gon high school 24-hour marathon record and may have set a new national distance of 287 miles. Given the honor of leading off the event at half- time of Friday night’s varsity basketball game in Asto- ria was senior Jim Mattila, one of the Metro League’s top cross-country runners. Coming in on the anchor lap 24 hours later at halftime of Saturday night’s basketball game was Eric Ojala, top Astoria High School miler. He fi nished the grueling event under the watchful eyes of Portland State University cross-country coach Ralph Davis. His presence made it offi cial. Engineers are continuing to study sites for a sewage treatment lagoon in Astoria, fi nancing of which was approved by voters last week in a bond issue election, City Manager Dale Curry told the city council Monday night. Curry commented after reading a letter to the council from the president of Bumble Bee Seafoods, John McGowan, objecting to hav- ing the lagoon near 39th and Lief Erikson Drive, next to Bumble Bee’s cold storage plant. McGowan voiced the objection on Jan. 12, the Part of the mile-long parade of 80 loaded log trucks trucked 400,000 feet of gigantic fi r, spruce and hemlock sticks through Seaside during the Pacifi c Logging Congress. day before the vote on the $5 million sewe age bond issue. Councilman Arnold Swanson said Monday night that the council had “accepted” last June the sewe age study report of engineers Stevens, Thompson & Runyan in which the engineers recommended the 39th and Lief Erikson site over two others, which weren’t named in the report. Swanson said that didn’t mean that other sites shouldn’t be examined now, but said that if picking another site put the total project cost above the estimated $4.9 million fi gure the city might have to re apply for federal aid. A full load has been signed up to travel to Lincoln City via charter bus Thursday for a meeting to explore ways to combat the State Highway Commission’s deci- sion to close beaches to vehicles. Jean Hallaux, Astoria Chamber of Commerce man- ager who worked with Mrs. Ernest Moon of the Cannon Beach Chamber to arrange for the bus, said 35 people have made reservations. Hallaux noted that many other Clatsop representa- tives, including county commissioners, Astoria City Manager Dale Curry and State Sen. William Holm- strom and Rep. George Cole are scheduled to travel to the meeting by car. 75 years ago — 1945 Death came early Saturday morning at his home in McGowan, Washington, to Henry Silas McGowan, 78, last surviving member of a pioneer salmon pack- ing family of the north shore. He had been ill for sev- eral weeks. A native of the community established by his A charter bus of 35 people traveled to Lincoln City for a meeting on ways to combat the State Highway Commission’s decision to close beaches to vehicles in 1970. father and which bears his name, having been born in McGowan on June 24, 1866, McGowan made his home here during his entire lifetime. He received his educa- tion in Portland and early in his youth became interested in the canning industry which his father, P.J. McGowan, established in 1861. “The best district in the Portland area coun- cil of Boy Scouts” was the title given to the Astoria district Thursday night by G.H. Ober- teuffer, chief scout executive of the Portland area, when he addressed this district’s annual dinner meeting in Grace Episcopal church. “I don’t know any district in the entire Port- land area that has made as much progress in the past three years as this district,” he stressed. WASHINGTON – The Social Security board offered its program for “cradle-to-grave” Social Security today in a report expected to set the pattern for President Roo- sevelt’s forthcoming recommendations to C ongress. Spoilage of high quality beef on the Astoria market because of ration point values is unnec- essary, according to David J. Lewis, ration administrator, who commented today on cur- rent reports that fi ner cuts of beef are glutting the market while consumers lack ration points for the goods. Lewis pointed out that meat dealers have been advised what to do in case spoilage is threatened. They may advise their local OPA board that meat on hand is in danger of spoil- ing and the board will allow them to reduce the price and point values by 25% or they may even go so far as to reduce the price of the meat 50% and take off points entirely. A group of runners at Astoria High School broke the Oregon high school 24-hour marathon record in 1970.
