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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2021
THE ASTORIAN
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TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2021
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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 — 2011
S
EASIDE — Low-income families will have an
opportunity to build their own homes beginning
this summer.
Community Action Team Inc., based in St. Helens,
plans to purchase seven lots between Seaside and War-
renton, as well as begin a building project on nine addi-
tional lots on W ahanna Road in Seaside.
The lots will be sold to low-income working fami-
lies whose down payment will be the sweat equity they
put into building their new homes.
The Community Action Team is a private, non profi t
corporation, serving Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook
counties. The team’s focus is to address the needs of the
economically disadvantaged.
Could you lift up a coff ee can from 5-feet
away, using only rope and a rubber band?
Could you fi nd your way out of a prisoner of
war camp blind-folded?
Could you convince a mayor to abandon his
town in the anticipation of a natural disaster?
You could if you were one of 114 high school
students from Washington state and Ore-
gon who participated in Cadet Days at Camp
Rilea.
The 2011 Field Leadership Assessment
Course hosted 100 boys and 14 girls for 24
team-building exercises. Students, in groups
of three to fi ve, were asked to complete the 24
tasks, each in 20 minutes or less, that may seem
impossible, like standing on a tarp and folding
it up completely while the team remains on the
tarp.
The exercise looked a little bit like a game of
Twister but the students, group by group, com-
pleted the task. Other tasks included navigat-
ing blindfolded teammates through a “mine
fi eld,” an area decorated with several orange
traffi c cones; and carrying a 25-gallon drum of
water — simulating fuel — with nothing other
than two metal stakes and four ropes.
The key to all of it is communication.
50 years ago — 1971
Participants at the Camp Rilea Cadet Days event in 2011.
Participants in Camp Rilea’s Cadet Days in 2011.
Morgan Coe, publisher of The Daily Astorian since
1960, will retire on June 30 and be succeeded by
Michael Forrester as publisher and editor. Donald J.
Budde, who has been advertising manager and business
manager, will become general manager.
Forrester has been with the newspaper for three
years, coming from the Associated Press in Los Ange-
les. As publisher, he will have responsibility for the
newspaper’s operations.
75 years ago — 1946
The cruiser Astoria, long and gray, slid past the
city whose name she bears this morning, but only
early risers had a chance to see the battle-tested war-
ship pass.
The Astoria was bound for the Portland Rose Fes-
tival. It is scheduled to return for a brief visit in Asto-
ria. The Portland Rose Festival will be the city’s fi rst
postwar festival.
The world’s heavyweight wrestling cham-
pion, Dory Funk Jr., will grapple with chal-
lenger Lonnie Mayne at the Astoria Armory,
according to Eugene matchmaker, Elton
Owen, and Billy Welch, chairman of the Asto-
ria Boxing and Wrestling Commission.
A salmon is caught in the Pacifi c Ocean in 1971.
BOISE — Idaho Gov. Cecil D. Andrus said Gov.
Tom McCall won’t go home empty-handed from their
salmon fi shing trip out of Astoria June 13.
“I’m taking along a case of tuna for him — just in
case,” Andrus said at a new conference.
He said the fi shing trip grew out of complaints from
Idaho sportsmen that steelhead and salmon runs from
the mouth of the Columbia River to their upstream
spawning grounds weren’t adequate this year.
“So he invited me down to check the fi shing and the
coast,” Andrus said.
University and graduate students will be
coming to the Tongue Point Job Corps Center
this summer, as they have the past two sum-
mers, for work and study programs. Dr. Dor-
othy Burns made the announcement on Tues-
day night at the community relations council
meeting.
A private fi rm has off ered to make a comprehensive
study of the best land uses of the coastal and Columbia
River sections of Clatsop County, the American Metal
Climax Citizens’ Advisory Committee was told.
The fi rm — not American Metal Climax — has
reportedly off ered to make a land use study utilizing a
Clatsop Community College students Erick Schneider
and John Edwards stand with instructor Pat Keefe. The
students hope to travel to NASA in Houston to participate
with their remotely operated vehicle Seamonster in the
2011 Marine Advanced Technology Education Center’s
international ROV competition.
Acres of dead and dying rockfi sh were
reported by a crew of a drag boat. The fi sher-
men said that the fi sh were left by drag boats
which had exceeded their 5,000 pound limit.
Buyers refused to accept more that 5,000
pounds of rockfi sh per boat since operators
lose money on rockfi sh fi llets.
Once caught in a drag net, the rockfi sh is
either killed or dies on the surface if released
alive. It cannot sound to the bottom again
because the bladder bursts or puff s out, mak-
ing the fi sh buoyant.
An appeal has been issued through the City Coun-
cil to turn in all unused milk bottles to distributors in
order to relieve the bottle shortage prevailing due to
glass strikes.
Manufacture of the bottles has been curtailed for
some time and the local dealers are experiencing the
shortage more each day.
People play volleyball on the beach over Memorial Day
weekend in 1971 near the Peter Iredale shipwreck.
team of specialists.
The person in charge of the American Metal Climax
project in Warrenton said it will take four to six months
to get the site ready for construction. H e would like the
site work to start next April.
Operation of the planned plant is scheduled for
1974.
After 30 years of running to fi res, the
Dodge truck which Astoria bought second-
hand in 1916 and converted into a fi re truck,
broke down for good on Memorial Day.
It was a sad ending of the old fi re wagon.
The fi refi ghters expected that some day the
old truck would go to her last fi re but every
fi refi ghter wanted her to die in action. Fire
Chief Wayne Osterby said that the truck
never went dead going to a fi re, even in old
age. All her breakdowns occurred on the way
home.
The most deadly poison ever employed in exter-
mination of rats at city dumps is being placed today
in boxes at both the Astoria dump and the Warrenton
dump by expert rat exterminator L.M. Cheney of the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Buckley Vaughn, Astoria and Clatsop County sani-
tarian, today warned that children might come in con-
tact with the poison if they play around the dumps.
The poison, known as formula 10-80, is placed in
boxes which have a hole large enough for a rat to
enter. The poison, while deadly, does not kill imme-
diately. Vaughn said that particles of the poison could
be carried out of the boxes by the rats.
A mother, part of the American Gold Star Mothers for women who have lost sons in the military, lays a wreath at the tomb
of the unknown soldier at the Ocean View Cemetery Memorial Day service in 1971.
The public is too hasty in adopting fawns
found this time of year in woods as pets, said
Albert Gassner, local game offi cer of the Ore-
gon State Police.
Gassner explained there is a strict legal
procedure for adopting these wild found-
lings. It is unlawful to possess such pets with-
out permits issued by the game commission.
Delightful pets when they are young, the
fawns become “problem children” and even-
tually, nuisances about the home, Gassner
said.