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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2020 • B1 WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE COMPILED BY BOB DUKE From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers 10 years ago this week — 2010 H is family jokes that Carl Abraham spends more time at the trolley barn than anywhere else. But it’s not much of an exaggeration. And keeping the Astoria Riverfront Trolley up and running is just one of the retired optician’s many vol- unteer efforts. On Saturday night, Abraham’s lifetime of volunteer service was recognized with a 2009 George Award from the Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Com- merce at the organization’s 137th annual awards ban- quet. The other recipient of the George Award was Eric Paulson, owner of Lektro, the Warrenton-based company that manufactures electronic aircraft tugs and ships them all over the country and the world. A large bronze fountain that once graced Shively Park has been rescued from obscu- rity to become a star of Astoria’s Bicentennial celebration. The city will be 200 years old on April 12, 2011. At Monday’s meeting, the Astoria City Council gave its stamp of approval to the b icentennial c ommittee’s plans to refurbish the fountain as a legacy project. The council also endorsed a long list of events presented by c ommittee leaders McAndrew Burns of the Clatsop County Historical Society and Pau- lette McCoy, starting with planting 200 trees around the city on Earth Day this year. Highlights of the 2011 calendar include an o pening e vent and d owntown b irthday c ele- bration on May 21, 2011; a Bicentennial Ball on Aug. 13, 2011, during the Astoria Regatta with John Jacob Astor III as the honored guest; and Astoria Super Homecoming Sept. 14 to 18, 2011. California brown pelicans are begging for food on the Oregon Coast rather than migrating south to breed- ing grounds. The Wildlife Center of the North Coast continues to receive three brown pelicans a day suffering from star- vation or other ailments. Director Sharnelle Fee said the center is doing nec- ropsies on all dead pelicans that are brought in. “All of the birds are highly emaciated and some have inappro- priate food in their stomach – i.e. c hicken bones (with no meat), bread,” she said. She warned residents not to feed the birds. Pelicans have very specifi c diets and cannot pro- cess or receive nutrients from food items outside of their diet, she said. Large bones may puncture deli- cate internal organs and lead to accelerated death of the bird. A man takes advantage of a break in the rain to walk his dog on the Gearhart beach in 2010. Seaside looms in the background in the unusual view of the North Coast. California brown pelicans recover at the Wildlife Center of the North Coast. Sharnelle Fee, left, the director of the Wildlife Center of the North Coast, and Josh Saranpaa, an intern from Astoria High School, work on a California brown pelican in 2010. Around 20 people attended a public meet- ing of the new group Clatsop Residents against Walmart Wednesday. The group sent out 350 letters to local busi- nesses soliciting donations in November, and has made enough to distribute 2,244 copies of the documentary “Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price ” to households in the Warrenton and Hammond area Feb. 6 and 7. 50 years ago — 1970 Paths of light on the river at night are a legacy from ships at anchor off the Astoria waterfront in 1970, where the vessels wait out heavy seas at the Columbia River Bar or available berthage at Astoria or upriver ports. mittee hearing Friday. Declaring that “this law does not belong on the statute books,” Gunther Krause, attor- ney for the Portland Waterfront Employers A ssociation, said that the bill proposed to cre- ate a “penal statute” to control matter which would be much better handled by labor-em- ployer negotiation, and that the bill, if made into law, would involve employers in endless lawsuits. Members of the West Coast Trollers Association have passed resolutions backing strict regulations on ocean oil spillage and asking representation of the fi shing industry on nuclear site committees in Oregon and Washington state. The ocean fi shermen, who met in Astoria Saturday, resolved that tough laws on oil spillage were neces- sary to protect the ecology of the Northwest. The group wants the fi shing industry to have a say in picking sites of nuclear power plants in the two states and insure that cooling systems at such plants are effi cient and that some funds are available to do fi sh hatchery work or carry on other activities affected by nuclear facilities. HEADQUARTERS 41st DIVISION, Far Pacifi c — Tech. Sgt. James L. Hope Jr. of Astoria has been awarded the bronze star medal for personal valor and a deep-seated devotion to duty on the fi eld of battle. Clatsop County went over the normal Jan- uary rainfall total at midnight, according to the airport weather station. Normal for Janu- ary is 11.71 inches. Up to 10 a.m. today a total of 13.33 inches had been measured. The City of Astoria’s offi cial 1970 population will be infl uenced by how many ships with American crew- men are in port. George Blessing, a Department of Commerce offi - cial, told Astoria Kiwanians Tuesday that any Ameri- cans on board ships in Astoria at the time of the cen- sus-taking will be included in the city’s population. He said the same goes for persons from other cities or states who are attending Clatsop College at the time of the national nose count. By the same token, Asto- rians attending college elsewhere will be counted as residents of those other cities. A 36-foot Coast Guard motor life boat, recently retired from service at Cape Disap- pointment, was presented Wednesday to Rolf Klep, director of the Columbia River Mari- time Museum. Klep said the craft, complete with engine and gear, will remain in storage either in the boathouse or elsewhere until a planned mari- time museum structure at the 17th St. water- front park in Astoria is erected. The structure will house such large exhibits as the wooden self-righting self-baling motor lifeboat. Klep suggested the craft might be sunk in a pit to the waterline for display. Port of Astoria along with other Columbia River ports will benefi t from an Interstate Commerce Com- mission decision killing the proposed Roselia grain The Astoria Marine Construction com- pany’s YP-623, a refrigerated tuna clipper- type naval vessel built for inter-island freight traffi c in the Pacifi c, was launched from the company’s Lewis and Clark R iver yards at noon today, after christening by Mrs. Julia Strand, wife of the vessel’s commanding offi cer. The YP-623 is the largest ship yet built at the marine construction company , being shorter than the minesweepers, but also being of considerably greater tonnage. Joseph M. Dyer, president of the company, complimented his working force on produc- tion increases during the last month, which he described as outstanding. Shella Ekman peers through a rain-soaked window and seems to be thinking, ‘Won’t it ever stop?’ in 1970. freight rate that would have diverted massive ton- nage of grain from e astern Washington to Seattle and Tacoma, according to C.E. Hodges, Astoria port manager. 75 years ago — 1945 Astoria will join other cities of the nation in the week Feb. 5 to Feb. 10 on a campaign to collect dis- carded clothing for shipment to the Russian peo- ple, it was announced today by Neil Morfi tt, salvage chairman. A Senate bill providing for equal pay for men and women working at the same job was strongly opposed by employers’ representa- tives at the Senate labor and industries com- The game committee of the house today pro- posed the creation of a small game reserve in Clatsop County. Under the provisions of the bill, the reserve would include a state park between Cannon Beach and Seaside. The measure is chiefl y for the protection of elk, according to the chairman of the game committee. Absence of sizable epidemics in Clatsop County during 1944 is indicated in the annual report of Dr. Dorothea H. Scoville, county health offi cer, which shows that the number of communicable diseases reported in this county during 1944 was 545 as compared with 744 in 1942. Dr. Scoville said that less measles, mumps and chicken pox accounted for the differ- ence. Records show no heavy run of infl uenza, although the doctor pointed out that physi- cians often fail to report such cases.
