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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2021
THE ASTORIAN
• TUESDAY, JULY 13, 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
L
ast year, both sites looked like war zones, with a
violent uprooting of trees and plants, torn ground
and mud everywhere.
Today, Otter Point, in Lewis and Clark National Histori-
cal Park, and a site at Fort Columbia State Park, in Washing-
ton state, are looking more how staff from the National Park
Service and the Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce
envisioned they would months ago.
“It was pretty scary there at fi rst,” taskforce director
Micah Russell said about Otter Point. “Now you can really
visualize what the wetlands are going to look like.”
Both projects, intended to benefi t salmon, involve the
reintroduction of tidal fl ow across historic wetland areas.
With the federal push to protect salmon, restoration proj-
ects like those at Fort Columbia and Otter Point are get-
ting more attention. The data collected at Fort Columbia,
for instance, will be valuable in guiding projects as the site
monitors look at how salmon respond to and benefi t from
the reopened habitat.
Columbia Memorial Hospital staff have put
themselves on the map again. This time, it’s a map
of the nation.
In the July issue of Hospitals & Health Net-
works — a nationwide magazine — the hospi-
tal was named one of the “most wired” hospitals
on the small and rural scale in the country for its
technology-savvy facility.
It was the only hospital listed — of any size —
in Oregon.
“I think it just shows the direction, not just in
technology but in everything, that we’re headed,”
said Guy Rivers, the hospital’s chief fi nancial offi -
cer. “We’re an award-winning facility in not just
medical care, but everything.”
WARRENTON — Dear Lewis and Clark National His-
torical Park,
On behalf of us noble Newfoundlands, I would like to
thank you for Wednesday’s 18th annual Seaman’s Day
salute, during which you so graciously honored Seaman, the
best of our breed, who repeatedly saved the Lewis and Clark
Expedition.
Sally Freeman, a park ranger and lifelong dog-lover,
emceed the Newfoundland show-and-tell during the event.
“Each dog is the equivalent of having 50 people in
a swimming pool or in a house,” said Matt Jeff ers, of
Gresham, wearing a shirt with painted portraits of his dogs .
“They bring in 50 people’s worth of dirt.”
A crew surveys the surroundings at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park’s Otter Point restoration site in 2011. Much
of the land has been cleared with woody debris being salvaged to add complexity and improve water and habitat quality
along tidal channels.
heavy harvesting gear bogged down in lowland mire, was at
a standstill today.
There is every prospect that the new National
Guard company in Astoria will be the same as that
which was here before the war. Brig. Gen. Ray-
mond Olson, acting adjutant general of the state,
confi rmed this.
Nets set up by monitors at a Fort Columbia State Park tidal
restoration site in Washington state capture passing fi sh and
hold them for counting and information collection in 2011.
50 years ago — 1971
SEASIDE — Lynn Dee Grenz, Miss Linn County, won
her comeback bid to wear the Miss Oregon crown on Satur-
day. The new Miss Oregon for 1971 beat out 18 other girls
for the crown. Two years ago, she captured the fi rst run-
ner-up slot behind Clatsop County’s Margie Huhta.
CAMP RILEA — Two weeks of annual train-
ing for more than 730 Oregon Army National
Guard members began Sunday.
National Guard units from Albany, Lake
Oswego, Coos Bay, Newport, Dallas, Salem and
Portland arrived Saturday for basic engineering
training.
Two people aboard a 30-foot pleasure craft were rescued
by another pleasure craft on Monday morning. The U.S.
Coast Guard salvaged the rapidly sinking boat using a sling
between two motor lifeboats.
The boat Glen-Dot, owned and operated by Glen M. Sto-
rey, of Gladstone, struck a submerged object around 10 a.m.
near the tip of the South Jetty. The Coast Guard delivered a
pump to the pleasure craft Ine John, which was standing by,
and had taken Storey and his passenger, K.R. Parks, aboard.
The Coast Guard’s helicopter stood by until 44- and
40-foot motor lifeboats from Cape Disappointment arrived
and rigged a sling between them to keep the Glen-Dot afl oat.
The helicopter then fl ew to Cape Disappointment, picked up
another pump, and delivered it to the 52-foot motor lifeboat
Triumph, which had also been called to the scene.
Lynn Grenz was crowned Miss Oregon in 1971.
scribers to use direct distance dialing whenever
possible.”
Some $417,000 was spent for the construction of 3.8
miles of roadway on Clatsop County’s South Jetty area.
Essentially all new, the project included four new parking
areas and the paving of the existing parking facilities at Bat-
tery Russell.
Under the direction of the Oregon State Highway Depart-
ment, work began in May 1970 and was completed in Octo-
ber. The parking lots were covered with temporary surfac-
ing and are to be coated with asphalt later this summer. The
highway varies in width from 32 feet in some places and 24
feet in others.
In connection with the operation of the Young’s Bay
drawbridge, a new idea has been put into eff ect recently by
the state highway commission.
In order to make the navigation signals from the craft to
the drawbridge operators more audible above the noise of
the motor vehicle traffi c on the bridge, a microphone has
been installed on each end of the fender. These microphones
pick up the navigation signals, which are transmitted to an
amplifi er on the operator’s house. This results in the receipt
by the operator of a signal, which is loud and clear enough
to be audible above outside noises. In the past, these noises
have obscured the signal.
Little residential construction is in progress in
Astoria despite the acute housing shortage. M ost
of the buildings that have been started have been
held back or are being held back now by the diffi -
culty of obtaining essential material.
Little immediate relief for the builder or
would-be builder appears to be in prospect.
A study of the city building inspector’s records
reveals 36 residential buildings under construction
in the city, most of them single-family dwellings,
but also include one or two small apartments and
a few duplexes.
Of these 36 buildings, at least 23 have been
held up for substantial periods or are being held
up now by the scarcity of materials. Only one new
residence has actually been completed in the past
month, although a few desperate builders have
moved into partly-fi nished houses because of dire
necessity.
Among the main reasons for delay has been
lack of cement for making concrete, cement today
being apparently the most critical item in the
building supply situation locally. Other houses
have had to wait upon plumbing, windows, doors
and millwork. Glass for windows has been scarce
but some is being obtained now.
As the barometer and rain dropped, Clatsop County
farmers sized up possible damage today and prepared them-
selves for another siege of inclement weather.
The greatest concern was expressed by dairy farmers
who are in the midst of harvesting hay and silage. Tide-
land grass harvests, stalled during last week’s light rains as
Members of the Astoria Port Commission were told
Tuesday night what a thrill the fi rst civilian fl ier experienced
in landing on the 5,000-foot runway of the Astoria naval air-
port, which private and commercial aircraft may now use
jointly with the U.S. Navy.
Port commissioners learned with no surprise that the fi rst
civilian airman to put his plane on the runway was Ed Par-
sons, manager of KAST. Parsons disclosed to the commis-
sion that his plane took a bounce on the Navy’s concrete
because neither the plane nor its pilot could quite get accus-
tomed to such luxury.
Parsons appeared before the commission, not to tell air-
plane landing stories, but to suggest plans for proper man-
agement of civilian aviation at the airport. He and the Port
observed that naval authorities were off ering full coop-
eration in the program. All communications remain at the
airport. Parsons said that a certain communication setup
devised for civilian planes is required.
Swimming fanatic ‘Dr. Dre’ takes a dip at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park’s Netul Landing during the park’s annual
Seaman’s Day event honoring Meriwether Lewis’ Newfoundland that was a member of the Corps of Discovery’s expedition.
A Medusa-like creature, sculpted by a Portland team
headed by Suzanna Williams, sported fl at black stones
along hair tendrils. It was entered in Cannon Beach’s
Sandcastle Contest in 1971.
Half of Pacifi c Northwest Bell’s employees in
Astoria are aff ected by the nationwide telephone
strike, according to Dick Jensen, manager of the
Astoria offi ce.
O f 66 people normally employed, 33 are work-
ing, Jensen said.
“We are making every eff ort to maintain ser-
vice, although there may be delays at peak peri-
ods,” Jensen said. “The traffi c department is
accepting calls, collect, through station and other
operator calls, but we would encourage sub-
75 years ago — 1946