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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2020
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2020 • B1
WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week — 2010
L
ocal leaders of the U.S. Coast Guard are hold-
ing a meeting at Station Cape Disappointment at
10 a.m. on Wednesday to discuss the new tools
and procedures they’ll be using this winter to determine
when the Columbia River B ar is safe to cross.
Lt. Cmdr. Chad Fait, command center chief for Coast
Guard Sector Columbia River, said the most signifi cant
shift will be how soon bar openings can occur after a clo-
sure. Historically, if the bar was closed and wasn’t safe
to cross at sundown, the opening would typically have to
wait until the next morning, he said.
“We didn’t go out and look at it again until fi rst light,”
Fait said. Recently installed weather buoys can give an
accurate picture of what’s happening on the bar even if
conditions cannot be seen from Cape Disappointment, he
added.
PORTLAND — Sea Lions that have faced
death by lethal injection for making banquets
of endangered fi sh in the Columbia River won
a reprieve Tuesday when a federal appeals court
told Oregon and Washington state wildlife offi -
cials to cease killing them.
WARRENTON — Longtime resident Dick Mattson
scrambled to safety Thanksgiving e ve as his historic home
became totally engulfed in fl ames.
The building had historical signifi cance, having been
purchased by Dr. Bethenia Owens Adair from relatives of
the Van Dusen family in 1883. Owens-Adair, the pioneer
doctor, called the home Sunnymead.
Steve Roberts, vice chairman of the Wishing Tree Project, decorates the Wishing Tree inside Fred Meyer in Warrenton
with Mary Altieri, 10, a 4-H member in the Young Entrepreneurs Club in 2010.
While Dungeness crab season offi cially opens
today, crabbers up and down the coast are still
tied up at the docks waiting to get the green light.
The good news is that the offi cial negotiations
for a price and an industry-sanctioned start date
were put in writing Tuesday.
The uncertainty is because the agreement out-
lines two price and start date scenarios. These are
based on the results of one more round of indus-
try-fi nanced meat fi ll testing. Depending on that
outcome, it could be as long as two weeks before
Oregon consumers can buy this year’s crab.
The future of the old Darigold site in Astoria is in the
hands of the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners.
Coastal Family H ealth Center contracted with
NoLoveNoFish, a local business development consultant
fi rm, to conduct a feasibility study of the site at 385 Ninth
Street .
The center, along with Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare,
hopes to build a three-story health and wellness complex
on the site and fi ll it with various nonprofi t social service
agencies.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Communities throughout the North Coast got
decked out for the holiday this past weekend.
The 15th annual Astor Street Opry Compa-
ny’s Starving Artist Faire kicked off the busy
weekend at Lum’s Auto Center in Warrenton.
The three-day event showcased the talents of
local makers and artists .
Warrenton fi refi ghters are silhouetted against a wall of
fl ames while fi ghting a fi re in 2010.
Ashlyn Routh, a senior at Seaside High School, unfurls
a set of branches while assembling a Christmas tree for
display at the St. Nicholas Festival of Trees inside the
Seaside Civic and Convention Center in 2010.
50 years ago — 1970
Adult Student Housing Inc. in Portland is looking else-
where for a site on which to build 100 apartment units for
Clatsop College students after the Astoria Planning Com-
mission unanimously rejected their request for conditional
use of a 3.29 acre site between Madison and Niagara and
First and Second s treets.
The Planning Commission Tuesday night recom-
mended the City Council deny the request in face of near
unanimous opposition from the neighbors in the R-1 zone.
SEASIDE — Bomb threats have returned to
Seaside schools, this time closing the high school,
Broadway Junior High and Central Grade
School.
According to Superintendent Charles Smith,
a phone call to the home of Seaside High School
Principal Ralph Nafziger at 7 a.m. today warned
there was a bomb in one of Seaside’s three
schools.
The youth who telephoned the bomb threat,
planned for Seaside High School, has been
apprehended, according to City Manager Bur-
ton Lowe. After being taken into custody Thurs-
day morning, Lowe said, the boy was turned
over to his parents.
The incident was the latest in a wave of bomb
threats hitting Seaside , including one Wednes-
day which closed Broadway Junior High and
Central Grade School. To date, fi ve youths have
been apprehended in connection with the school
disruptions and three have been working to
repay expenses incurred as a result of the bomb
threats.
75 years ago — 1945
The week of Dec. 2 through Dec. 8 , the fi nal week in
the Victory War Loan bond selling campaign, has been
designated in Clatsop County as Victory War Loan Week
and will be featured by a fi nal, concentrated effort to spur
the lagging bond drive in this area, according to Neil
Morfi tt, Victory War Loan chairman.
A bond-selling contest in which Astoria and Klamath
Falls will compete against Wenatchee and Walla Walla in
Washington state got underway today, according to word
from Victory War Loan headquarters .
The contest will determine which pair of cities can
sell the most Series E bonds per capita during the present
week, the fi nal week of the Victory W ar L oan.
The old Shively S chool bell has been saved for
Jim Osburn, of Cannon Beach, pauses to snap a few photos
of a warm sunset while his black lab, ‘Ozzy,’ maintains
focus on their unfi nished game of fetch at the Tolovana
Beach Wayside in 2010.
posterity.
Complying with a directive of the Astoria
S chool District board that the historic relic be
retrieved from the scrap heap, Superintendent
A.C. Hampton informed the board Tuesday
night that he had visited the scrap metal heap
where the old bell had been reported located by
Harold Haynes, Astoria -Budget columnist.
“I looked all over the lot and couldn’t fi nd it,”
Hampton said. “So I called Haynes and he found
it for me.”
A truck and driver were hired, but it was nec-
essary to call the aid of half the students in Astor
Elementary S chool to load the 500 pound relic
on the truck and unload it at the school. It is now
stored in the school basement pending establish-
ment of a museum in which it can be displayed.
Basketball will get off to a fl ying start tonight for Asto-
ria sports fans at the United Services Organizations a udi-
torium in the fi rst game of a double-header between the
Oregon State C ollege hoopmen and the Seattle U.S. Coast
Guard quintet, preliminaried by an equally attractive mix
between Astoria’s Fighting Fishermen and the Benson
High School Mechanics.
The reconstruction fi nance corporation of
the federal government has notifi ed the Astoria
Marine Construction Co. , by letter of intent, that
John Schuler, captain and the outstanding team player on
Knappa’s football team, holds the second place class A state
championship trophy at Gyro Field following the Loggers
heartbreaking loss by four points to St. Mary’s in 1970.
the local fi rm will be awarded the contract for
construction of two 100-foot steel-hulled combi-
nation tuna clipper-trawler type vessels.
Cost of the two ships will be around $450,000,
according to offi cials of the company.