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B1 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2020 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 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 he tiny, spined fi sh is barely noticeable in the water. Its silver scales refl ect the light, making it almost impossible to see from the surface. It swims in bays, creeks and the Columbia River, and if you sweep a net along the bottom you’re almost guaranteed of snagging at least a couple. The three-spined stickleback is the most abundant fi sh in the region, and for the past two years a group of high school students have been studying how many of the stick- leback and other fi sh are in the lower Columbia estuary. A group of seven students from the Upward Bound Summer Academy have been in the fi eld, sampling the waters from the region for fi sh presence and abundance, with the data going to groups in the community who can utilize it. “It’s applied science,” said project leader Lee Cain, a biology teacher at Astoria High School. “It’s not just doing it for the heck of it ... it’s stuff we need,” he said. T So far, Astoria’s second year of passenger air service to Portland is not looking any better than the fi rst. In fact, it’s looking quite a bit worse. June’s passenger counts on SeaPort Airlines’ 25 minute fl ight between Astoria and Portland were half what they were last June. The last full week of June saw the lowest weekly count since the service started: 29 passengers. SeaPort has tried changing fl ight times, offer- ing promotional rates and many other adver- tising strategies to make the service. But so far – three-quarters of the way through a two-year subsidy plan – the planes are still averaging less than two passengers per fl ight. John Randall, left, a senior at Astoria High School, takes measurements of coho fry caught in Coff enbury Lake as Warrenton High School seniors Kimberly Heater, middle, and Samantha Larson scoop up additional fi sh in 2010. 50 years ago — 1970 An offi cial of the Bonneville Power Administration said today that at least four fi rms were interested in either buy- ing out or buying some of the Northwest Aluminum Co. project in Warrenton. Bernard Goldhammer, power manager for Bonneville Power , said that in addition to the Japanese fi rm Showa Denko and American Metals Climax, at least two other fi rms that don’t want to be mentioned are or have been negotiating with Northwest Aluminum. Confrontations with South Korean and Jap- anese vessels highlighted the two-month cruise of the U.S. Coast Guard c utter Yocona in Alas- kan fi shing waters, according to Lt. Cmdr . L.N. Schowengerdt, executive offi cer. The Yocona returned last week after being on patrol since May 17. The Astoria-based vessel was one of two Coast Guard cutters responsible in locating the Korean fi shing fl eets and, eventually, having them routed back to Korea. As told by Schowengerdt, the Yocona came upon a Korean gillnet vessel, the Suyng Nam No. 5, on the evening of June 21. Although they have no direct jurisdiction over Korean vessels outside the U.S.’s 12-mile limit, they received permission from the captain to board the vessel. Dodie MacPherson, of the Peninsula Saddle Club, poses with the Sunsations Drill Team at the Long Beach Rodeo in 2010. The Port of Ilwaco is depending on a federal grant from the Economic Development Administration and an approx- imate 50% increase in moorage rates to fi nance their pro- posal to increase moorage spaces in their boat basin. The increase would be from the present 803 to 1,441 by 1972 and to 2,042 by 1985. A cold, damp fall for football fans was likely in 1970 with the demolition of the covered grandstand at Gyro Field. Margie Huhta, 1969 Miss Oregon, will be among a group comprised of Miss America 1970 and six state pageant winners who will depart soon for a 22-day USO tour of military bases in Vietnam. SEASIDE — Fire at midnight gutted one of the cottages at the Promenade court here at Fourth and North Prom last night and water damaged the interior of an adjoining cot- tage as the city’s two fi re trucks worked to save the other buildings nearby. Tuna deliveries reached what are believed to be record proportions in Astoria this week. But reports this morning indicate the bonanza is thinning and the fl eet of albacore boats, which has been massed off the Columbia River, is beginning to spread out. Albacore Central, Corvallis, said the 700 tons of Alba- core landed in Astoria Wednesday may be a record high for one-day deliveries in Oregon. LONDON — Ringo Starr has been 30 for 20 days, and he says it isn’t so bad after all. “When I was 19, I thought 30 would be the end of the world,” the Beatles drummer told an interviewer from the Daily Express, “but it’s nothing. It’s okay.” 75 years ago — 1945 Five men were rescued from a yellow life raft Tuesday afternoon after they escaped the foundered 48-foot alba- core boat Melody of Petersburg, Alaska, which swamped V alley ranch before noon. El Toro sailboats are assembled in 1970 at the Astoria Yacht Club in preparation for the North American championship race. 10 miles northwest of North Head. The Melody was saved, after having been towed into the river by another fi shing boat, the Sampede II of Astoria, and by the U.S. Coast Guard. Both the Melody and Stam- pede were beached in the river near the Point Adams Coast Guard Station in Hammond. The Stampede had fouled her wheel with a line, and was beached to free the propeller. Pork on the hoof was selling like hot cakes on a downtown street corner this morning as S.A. Gotter of Hillsboro disposed of his wares from his farm wagon to all comers with the price. Gotter raises porkers on his ranch near Hill- sboro and when the “feeders” are about two months old he starts out with a wagon load of pigs, disposing of them. He sold 40 of the squeal- ers here this morning, loaded up his truck wagon with shingles and drove back to his Willamette The northern front of the Salmonberry and Wilson r ivers forest fi re, which by today had burned over 100,000 acres of forest and denuded timber lands of northwestern Oregon, was said to be on Spruce Run creek, midway between the Salmonberry-Nehalem junction and Elsie in Clatsop County today. The entire county, for more than 15 miles south to the Wilson River, was long a series of fi res. Menacing fl ames licked at the watersheds of two Ore- gon cities and endangered numerous lumber camps as state forestry offi cials termed the western Oregon fi re “out of control.” Cool and overcast skies helped western Oregon fi re- fi ghters keep the Tillamook burn under control today. The three-county fi re will have been burning three weeks tomorrow, but state forestry offi cials were hopeful the weather would hold long enough to fi nish strengthen- ing of bulldozer fi re lines and bottle up the fi re in its pres- ent 200,000 acre area. There are green “islands” within the area, which weary crews hope to save. Multicolored sailboats massed in the Columbia River in 1970 as most of the 28 Oregon Corinthian Sailing Association of Portland boats returned to Portland after visiting Astoria.
