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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2020
THE ASTORIAN
• TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2020 •
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WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week — 2010
C
ANNON BEACH — Two health advisories
issued for beaches in or near Cannon Beach this
summer signal that the beach-monitoring season
is underway.
This year, 25 of the state’s 94 beaches are being moni-
tored weekly, every two weeks or monthly for enterococ-
cus, bacteria that is present in animal and human waste. It
also indicates the presence of other bacteria.
Bacteria can enter the ocean, creeks, rivers and out-
fl ows from a variety of sources, including storm water
runoff, animal and seabird waste, failing septic systems,
spills from sewage treatment plants or discharges from
boats.
Of the 25 beaches slated for routine monitoring, 11 are
in Clatsop and Tillamook counties.
While most of the beaches usually don’t show high
enough counts of bacteria to rate an advisory, the Ecola
Court outfl ow pipe in midtown Cannon Beach garnered
12 advisories after 26 tests last year.
This year, so far, the percentage of good tests over bad
is better. It failed only once — during April — in nine
tests.
WARRENTON — A common love of World
War II history reigned at Fort Stevens State
Park during the weekend. The Friends of Old
Fort Stevens staged the annual World War II
l iving h istory e vent.
Participants, dressed in period uniforms and
other attire, gave personality to the displays by
talking about life in the military at that time.
An 18-foot tall city clock that’s proposed for Asto-
ria’s riverfront would tell tides, not time. Astoria artist
Jim Fink is the creator of the kinetic sculpture, which was
chosen by Astoria Visual Arts from a fi eld of nine fi nal-
ists for a r iverwalk art project.
50 years ago — 1970
The ancient, rotting grandstand at Gyro Field will be
torn down at once, the school board decided at an emer-
gency weekend meeting at the fi eld.
The board’s decision was based on a report by Ste-
vens, Thompson and Runyan, Portland consulting engi-
neers, who concluded “the structure is not safe for public
occupancy, there are a number of major structural defi -
ciencies in the facility under its present condition and we
believe the cost of making the necessary repairs would
very likely be prohibitive.”
Football fans who want to see Astoria High School
home games this fall will have to sit out in the weather.
The setting sun casts a warm glow on a sea stack at Arcadia Beach State Park near Cannon Beach in 2010.
More than 500 persons, including Gov. Tom
McCall, reviewed approximately 700 Oregon
Army National Guard troops in a parade at
Camp Rilea Saturday.
It was the annual Governor’s Day Review
and the mid point in two weeks of summer fi eld
training for the 3rd Automatic Weapons Battal-
ion and Headquarters and Headquarters Bat-
tery, 249th Artillery, and the 234th Army Band.
The downtown study committee’s plans for a shop-
ping mall along Commercial Street in Astoria are stymied
until the problem of routing U.S. Highway 30 through
downtown is solved, chairman Deskin O. Bergey said,
in commenting on a recent Oregon Highway Division
report that the cost of four-laning Marine Drive would be
a “prohibitive” $800,000.
ILWACO, Wash. — A new comprehensive
plan for the Port of Ilwaco calls for a $2.2 mil-
lion expansion project to add 200 berths to the
existing marina.
At the same time the plan calls for the build-
ing of an entirely new marina in the cove to the
east side of the Port’s old Holman Basin, accord-
ing to Frank O. Glenn Jr., port commissioner.
Fishing success in Ilwaco had created an
unprecedented demand for new and added
facilities, Glenn said. Backlog of applications for
space is now at the 600 level and rising, he said.
Jim Franklin assists Cameron Bernards in fi ring a MG 34 German machine gun at a World War II living history event at Fort
Stevens State Park in 2010.
75 years ago — 1945
Astoria parking meters took “the beating of their lives”
over the weekend, according to city offi cials today. A par-
tial check of the meters in the downtown district today
revealed that more than 30 of the machines on Commer-
cial and Duane streets were “visited by pranksters” some
time Saturday night or early Sunday morning and given a
“glass removal treatment.”
The meter boxes were apparently battered with a
hammer in the worst case of vandalism involving the
parking boxes since the machines were installed. No
attempt was made in any case to pilfer the coins in the
meter boxes, according to police.
Walter Norblad, an Astoria attorney who left
his law practice in September 1942 to enter the
A rmy A ir F orces combat intelligence, returned
to his law practice here this week in the fi rm of
Norblad and Norblad.
Norblad, a former Clatsop County represen-
tative at the state L egislature, moved from lieu-
tenant to captain during his service, 15 months
of which was in England. In addition to combat
intelligence with the N inth A ir F orce’s bomber
command, Norblad served as the law member
on the ninth’s general court martial board.
The 65-foot, twin-screw Spitfi re, which in 1944
caught 340,000 pounds of albacore, Monday brought
home 23,000 pounds for the largest delivery opening the
1945 season and delivered to Van Camp’s here.
The Spitfi re left out of Grays Harbor Monday, caught
the whole 11 ½ tons of albacore in a single day 65 miles
Only a portion of the old Our Lady of Victory Church
building remained after demolition in 2010, making way
for a new church twice the size on the same site on Ocean
Way in Seaside.
offshore and ran in to deliver at Van Camp’s . Bill Gil-
lis, manager for Van Camp, said the Spitfi re was short of
both bait and crew, or would have stayed at sea to make
a real haul.
A climactic battle between man and the ele-
ments for control of raging forest fi res in three
northwest states, enveloping nearly 150,000
acres of timber land, was nearing a critical
stage today as forestry offi cials reported that
thousands of soldiers, sailors and civilian fi re
fi ghters had been given orders to prepare “last-
ditch” fi re lines in face of steady advancing
fi res.
Weekend rains temporarily halted the main
blaze, the Tillamook fi re in western Oregon, but
rising winds today carried burning embers and
set additional spot fi res in rugged country near
the junction of the Salmonberry and Nehalem
rivers, extending the western battlefront four
miles nearer the Oregon C oast.
Gov. Tom McCall, left, congratulates Lt. Col. Donald A.
Bourne, recipient of Oregon National Guard Meritorious
Service Medal, at Camp Rilea during the Governor’s Day
Review in 1970.
The stumps and down timber of Clatsop County very
possibly will become a raw material for new processes
utilizing wood waste, Congressman Harris Ellsworth, of
Roseburg, told a combined chamber of c ommerce and
Rotary forum Wednesday at Amato’s, in the course of a
talk upon the new wood age just ahead. The time when
such waste material can be economically used for indus-
try will depend upon the work being done by research
chemists now working in their laboratories to determine
the uses to which wood waste can be put.