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B1 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2020 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 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 artwork for Astoria’s Garden of Surging Waves is fi nally here. On Thursday, a truck pulled up and began unloading at the old Englund Marine & Industrial Sup- ply location on 15th Street. Arriving were the eight white granite pillars, several bronze castings and other pieces that were handmade in China and shipped to Los Angeles in August. The most obvious of the shipment, however, was the broken pillar — in three pieces — on the back of the truck without protection. “It doesn’t look so bad,” Mayor Willis Van Dusen said. The crating, some intact and some broken or missing altogether, was carefully removed from the truck with a forklift and placed off to the side, while supporters looked over for damages. Aside from the one broken pillar, the rest seemed to be OK, with the exception of some minor chipping. Harry Flavel, one of the most storied resi- dents in the history of Astoria, has died. In keeping with the eccentricity of his life, and the reclusive nature of his latter years, The Daily Astorian has learned that he died May 31, 2010. John Goodenberger has spent a lifetime working on Astoria’s historic preservation. Now he has been put in charge of doing the same for the state of Oregon. He has been appointed by Gov. Ted Kulon- goski as the new chairman of the State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation. Gooden- berger succeeds William Willingham, whose time as chair ended in May. Goodenberger has served as vice-chairman for the group for the past four years. Green side goes up. Don’t drop it. Sound easy? Nothing was easy about lifting the Peacock out of the water, swinging it between two 300-ton cranes and moving it to its fi nal resting place on top of a concrete stand in the Columbia River Maritime Museum parking lot, but it did go smoothly. “It’s kind of like synchronized swimming,” said Rick Moultrie, vice president of NessCampbell Crane + Rig- ging, whose cranes handled the work of moving and mounting the retired bar pilot boat . Hundreds of runners in 2010 approach the hardest part of the Great Columbia Crossing, the steep incline of the Astoria Bridge that rises 205-feet over the Columbia River. David Leatham, left, of RL Patterson Transportation in Portland, removes a strap securing one of the eight white granite pillars to the trailer. The pillars, handmade in China, were delivered to the old Englund Marine building in 2010 and are part of the artwork for the Garden of Surging Waves. Runners, walkers and even a person on stilts, top right, near the fi nish line of the Great Columbia Crossing in 2010. 50 years ago — 1970 A new run of coho (silver) salmon has apparently entered the Columbia River and fi shermen are deliver- ing good catches to at least two area canneries, accord- ing to reports compiled this morning. One packer said the fi shermen were doing great on silvers, with some of them bringing in deliveries of a ton and a ton and a half per boat. Practically no Chinooks are included in the catches. Astoria’s d owntown p lan s tudy c ommittee leaders voted Thursday night in favor of put- ting all one-way westbound traffi c on Marine Drive and routing eastbound traffi c up Sixth Street to Exchange and then east. The c ommit- tee will recommend that to the city Planning Commission Tuesday. The Norwegian Star arrives alongside the early morning sun at the Port of Astoria’s Pier 1 in 2010. The Astoria High School Hi-Q team took the fi rst tro- phy to be presented to winners of the television produc- tion of Hi-Q. The Fishermen trounced the Hi-Q team from McNary High School in Salem with a fi nal score of 240 to 80. The Astoria team now retires undefeated for the second consecutive year. This is one of those autumns when Asto- ria offi cials are keeping an eye on the levels at the city water headworks, southeast of town. A dry summer and fairly rainless autumn have resulted in the water at the main dam being 28 feet below the top of the spillway. “If we don’t get rain in six weeks, we’re apt to be in trouble,” Jim Osborne, of the p ublic w orks d epartment, said . An ordinance annexing the Blue Ridge area to Asto- ria was read twice to the City Council Monday night and is scheduled for a third and fi nal reading on Oct. 19. The ordinance would annex Blue Ridge, housing development east of Astoria off of U.S. Highway 30. Twenty-three persons petitioned for annexation after a pre-dawn house fi re took the lives of two small children there Oct. 22, 1969. It was determined then that Blue Ridge had no contracted fi re protection. The group of Soviet fi shing vessels off the Oregon and Washington state coasts increased during the week ending Sept. 24, according to sightings from two aerial patrols, one sur- face patrol and regular helicopter patrols by the U.S. Coast Guard, in cooperation with the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Fifty-one Soviet and six Japanese fi shing vessels were sighted, in comparison to 38 Soviet and four Japanese vessels the previous week. Forty-four of the Soviet vessels were off the Oregon C oast and seven Soviet and both Japa- nese vessels off the Washington c oast. A planned boat launching ramp in Knappa was all but a dead issue today following a concerted drive by Knappa residents opposed to the Clatsop C ounty facility. The county Board of Commissioners proposed con- struction of the ramp early next year at an estimated cost of $9,000, half to come from the Oregon Marine Facil- ities fund. A union member of Local 701 Pile Drivers on strike in 1970. The strike did not halt construction for the Del Rey Beach access road on Clatsop Plains near Gearhart. HOLLYWOOD — Janis Joplin, a Texas run- away who hit the top as a rock music singer selling millions of records, was found dead Sunday night. 75 years ago — 1945 Otto Jacobson, 520 26th St. , Sunday shot one of the largest black-tail deer bagged in Clatsop County for many a season, just because the deer winked at him from under cover. A veteran of 15 Clatsop hunting seasons, Jacobson crept in heavy brush on Sister Green M ountain, until he stopped for a smoke. More than 100 yards to his front was a large log. Jacobson, still without any game after much trampling through the woods, thought his hunt- er’s imagination was playing tricks on him. The end of the log looked much like the hind quarters of a deer. He gazed intently. Finally, what he took for a knot on the log, winked at him, but otherwise the “end of the log” was motionless. Jacobson sneaked up for a good position and fi red his 30-caliber rifl e. Eighteen tremendous explosions that sent the waters of the Columbia River estuary hundreds of feet into the air marked the end Monday morning of the mine fi eld, which during the war has guarded shipping in the Columbia River. Most of the fl eet of fl oats maintained by the Harbor Defenses of the Columbia were standing by, loaded with spectators, as the 18 remaining mines of the fi eld were touched off from one of the “L” boats of the fl eet. The series of explosions went off without a A U.S. Navy Helldiver plane fl ies above the Navy’s air station in Astoria in 1945. hitch after a short delay in starting to permit a fi shing vessel to pass safely through the fi eld. In one big day of albacore fi shing, the bait boat Trea- sure Island hooked 40,000 pounds of tuna, her skipper, Capt. August Felando, reported here today after returning from off Vancouver I sland, the scene of the latest search for tuna. His fi rst decision as a civilian, a tough one for a young man to make, turned out right for Billy L. Jasper, son of Dr. and Mrs. E.J. Jasper, of Astoria. A lieutenant in the U.S. Army A ir C orps, the young Astorian was released from the service in Madison, Wisconsin. All his comrades took off for a celebration in Chicago, while the Astorian took the fi rst train west to get in the fi rst day of hunting for Oregon. Arriving here Wednesday, the former air- man, accompanied by his parents and his grand- father, William Al Burns, of Rainier , started off in the Bradwood district in pursuit of deer with- out losing any time. His shooting eye was a bit off, but the third shot brought down a three- point buck. The last class of nurses to be admitted to the U.S. Cadet Nurse C orps is now being registered at St. Mary’s H ospital S chool of N ursing. Fifteen students have com- pleted their registration and will begin formal classes on Oct. 2. Plans are underway for social activities under the general direction of Lorraine Filliger, acting student body president.
