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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2021
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2021 • B1
WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week — 2011
T
he Night Crawlers have run the Hood to Coast
race for 29 years.
“For me it’s the camaraderie and teamwork that
make it worth it,” said Paul Arbisi, a Night Crawler from
Minneapolis. “Every year it is a new adventure for us. We
get to meet new people.”
The weather on Saturday could not have been better
for the 12 veterans to fi nish the race. The Night Crawl-
ers, along with 20,000 other runners and walkers from
50 states and 35 countries, converged on Seaside for the
30th anniversary of the “largest relay in the world,” which
raises money for the American Cancer Society.
The start of school is right around the corner.
With most area schools set to begin in the next
week, students aren’t the only ones packing bags
and preparing for the next year of education.
“I think everyone is hungry and ready to get
started,” said Larry Lockett, principal at Asto-
ria High School. “It’s time to get the kids back
to school. Teachers are already showing up and
getting things ready. We feel like we’re ahead
of schedule, and this year we have extra time to
prepare.”
SEASIDE — The green carpet was rolled out Wednes-
day morning, and several people cheered.
They called the event a “great happening,” a “dream
come true” and a “red letter day.”
The carpet — actually artifi cial turf — was the fi rst of
135,000 square feet of turf to be applied to the Broadway
Park fi eld.
“Let’s push turf!” shouted Jason Boyd, Seaside High
School athletic director, and several people leaned down to
put muscle to one of the fi rst of many rolls to come.
50 years ago — 1971
The Astoria Regatta’s “Fun in 71” was:
An abundance of royalty — the Regatta Queen and
court, Miss Oregon, Miss Loyalty, Miss Clatsop County,
Miss Scandinavia, the Clatsop County Rodeo Queen and a
former Miss Oregon — Margie Huhta — judging.
A parade review stand that looked as if it were at church
as it constantly rose to honor passing American fl ags.
A line of cheering and clapping parade watchers
encouraging the Angel Job Corps drill team’s intricate
maneuvers.
Kids racing down Commercial Street in Kiddies Day
competition. And young people sauntering down the mall
all afternoon.
Everyone forgetting that a street is closed to let peo-
ple roam on it, and walking instead, sardine-crowding the
sidewalks.
Five children swarming on one piece of salt water taff y
thrown from a novelty act trooper or rushing to ride the
miniature tractor at the carnival, playing big papa.
Police at the beer garden dance gate, spotlighting for
kids. The youth standing outside the gate, too young to
enter, but having as much fun dancing to the rock band as
those inside.
Portland is going to be bypassed by the con-
tingent of Green Berets retracing the route of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition.
That word fi rst came Friday from an advance
man for the 22 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers,
but it was not until later in the weekend that veri-
fi cation was received, according to Jean Hallaux,
manager of the Astoria Area Chamber of Com-
merce and a member of the Oregon Lewis and
Clark Heritage Committee.
The Green Berets will be at Fort Clatsop for
welcoming ceremonies Sunday afternoon, as
scheduled by the local welcoming committee.
The Berets will arrive in Astoria Saturday
afternoon and bivouac at the Astoria Yacht Club
on Youngs Bay .
A compromise was worked out in a meeting at
the chamber of commerce Thursday afternoon,
after it was learned that the Special Forces troops
and their welcoming committee were aiming at
diff erent dates for the 120-day trek completion.
75 years ago — 1946
The biggest fl eet of boats in the history of the Colum-
Tillamook Head in Seaside looms over the tent city created at the fi nish line of the Hood to Coast race in Seaside in 2011.
Dale Collett, owner of Pro Turf Solutions, Seaside Mayor
Don Larson, Seaside Public Works and Parks Director Neal
Wallace, Seaside City Manager Mark Winstanley, Seaside
High School Athletic Director Jason Boyd and chairman of
Seaside’s parks advisory committee were among those on
hand to help roll out the fi rst section of turf onto Seaside’s
Broadway Field in 2011.
bia River salmon derby was estimated to have been on the
river estuary Sunday, as bright sunny weather stimulated
fi shermen and apparently also stimulated salmon to take
the hook more eagerly.
Fishing was the best of the derby so far, with a sub-
stantial run of silversides apparently in the river in
addition to the Chinook run. Many catches of silver-
sides were reported.
The “catch” of fi ve wardens of the Washington
Department of Fisheries during the derby included
eight arrests and convictions for using extra lines and
taking of too many fi sh; six arrests and convictions
of visiting sports fi shermen catching too many clams
during their off hours from the river, and the arrest of
a custom cannery operator in Washington who did not
obtain a license for his business before cutting up and
canning fi sh.
The “catch” of two Oregon State Police offi cers who
spent some time on the river during the derby, and that
of a U.S. game warden from Portland, was one angler,
arrested for having extra fi shing line.
ILWACO — Mayor Norman Howerton
today announced that Pacifi c coast mayors
will seek fi shing recruits from mayors of Brit-
ish Columbia to challenge in 1947 the may-
ors of leading eastern seacoast cities for the
mayoral fi shing championship of the United
States.
The Port of Astoria celebrated 100 years in 2011 by burying
a time capsule set to be unearthed after 100 years.
The Regatta Court during the Astoria Regatta parade in
1971.
Plans for the 1947 championship were
enthusiastically discussed by the leading
Pacifi c coast mayors at a reception in Hower-
ton’s home. Further details were taken up at
a dinner Saturday night.
Sailors walked off ships in major Pacifi c coast ports
today at the beginning of a progressive nationwide
shipping tie-up and established soup kitchens for the
AFL seamens’ strike scheduled to become fully eff ec-
tive at 6 a.m. tomorrow.
Responsibility for accidents along Taylor
Avenue must be assumed by the City Com-
mission if they maintain their present stand
against the divider solution off ered by the
state, Oregon Highway Engineer R.H. Bal-
dock has indicated in a letter to the city.
Baldock reminded the city that the state
had made numerous surveys of the area and
that no further studies of traffi c problems was
justifi ed.
Astorians thus far have made little progress in get-
ting into the movies. But it now appears that the town’s
fi sh fl ash on the screen.
R.T. Whiteleather, of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-
vice, is in Astoria today on what might be described as
a “fi sh talent” scouting trip.
He conferred with Fred Sandoz, of Columbia River
Packers Association, in connection with its inquiries
into the possibilities of producing an educational fi lm
on fi lleting. Fish will not talk in the picture, but fi lleters
and other performers will have something to say.
TOKYO – Signe Pekuri, whose home is in
Astoria, is one of a handful of Americans who
have climbed Fujiyama, the 12,425 foot sacred
mountain on the island of Honshu, this season.
Dan Riggs, 16, scratches his head in wonderment as he views his partially submerged car, which rolled down a gentle
slope into the Columbia River near the foot of 15th Street in 1971.
Astoria’s chances for getting the proposed west-
ern naval academy or post-graduate work are none
too bright and, for that matter, neither are the chances
of any other Oregon or Washington site. This was the
impression gathered Friday by chamber of commerce
offi cials who met the sub-committee of the U.S. Sen-
ate Committee on Naval Aff airs, which is on a tour of
the Pacifi c coast and which visited Astoria overnight.