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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2022
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2022 • B1
WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspa-
10 years ago
this week – 2012
75 years ago —
1947
S
EASIDE — Home-schooled
17-year-old Sydney Dufka of Arch
Cape was selected as the 2012
Miss Clatsop County Saturday night.
Seaside high School students Han-
nah Bacon and Giselle Pincetich won
the Miss Oregon Coast Outstanding Teen
and Miss Clatsop County Outstanding
Teen titles before a crowd of about 500
people at the Seaside Civic and Conven-
tion Center.
“I’m elated! I can’t believe it!” said
Dufka following her crowning as Miss
Clatsop County. “My favorite part
tonight was my onstage question. I felt
like I really locked it this year,” she said
A new record for successful cat rescues
was established by Astoria fi remen during
the past month. Never since the statistics
were kept on such operations by our fi re-
men have cats within the period of a month
so frequently found themselves in distress.
The cat calls usually are made by the
owner who comes to the station with a plea
for recovering his cat from a tree. She is
represented as a pet of his children and the
community joy. Invariably the cat is up a
tree and refuses or is afraid to come down.
The government’s fi sh and
wildlife service today expressed
hope that in a few years this coun-
try will have a privately-operated
fl eet of fi shing boats equipped as
fl oating cannery ships.
There is only one ship afl oat
which combines fi shing, freezing
and canning facilities, the govern-
ment’s experimental factory fi sh-
ing ship Pacifi c Explorer, a con-
verted World War I ship .
KNAPPA — Nearly 4 acres
of grass and tidal land were
destroyed at the intersection of
Old U.S. Highway 30 and Hill-
crest Loop in Knappa after a
controlled burn went astray
Monday night.
“A homeowner was burn-
ing trash and the wind kicked
up some embers and it just took
off ,” said Knappa Fire Chief
Paul Olheiser.
The former Red Lion Inn, the hotel at
the Port of Astoria recently abandoned
by its parent company, is courting two
potential suitors.
One is a partnership of the Portland
based Williams/Dame & Associates
Inc. and Escape Lodging from Cannon
Beach.
The other, Hospitality Masters, is a
group from Astoria.
The Port terminated its relationship
with Red Lion in September 2010 and put
out a request for proposals on the hotel
by Jan 20. The original hotel, The Thun-
derbird Inn, opened in the mid-1960s.
It’s taken a decade, but con-
servationists are fi nally herald-
ing the passage of legislation that
will create a system of marine
reserves off the Oregon Coast,
where fi shing and other com-
mercial activity will be excluded
from taking place.
On Tuesday, the Oregon Sen-
ate passed the bill, known as SB
1510, by a 25-5 vote that will go
to the governor.
Sen. Betsy Johnson, a mem-
ber of the Coastal Caucus and a
sponsor of the bill , told colleagues
Tuesday the bill “was not a per-
fect piece of legislation” because
of the compromises made pass-
ing it.
But concerns that conser-
vation groups outside the state
would write their own ballot
measure, with much stricter lan-
guage calling for as many as 321
reserves, helped spur the com-
promises, she said. She called
such a ballot measure “economic
Armageddon”
“I absolutely believe this bill
is an inoculation against a ballot
measure,” she said on the Senate
fl oor.
50 years ago –
1972
The anchored fl eet of strikebound
ships in Astoria Harbor shrank from 13
to 12 last week when the Norwegian
freighter Evano sailed for Korea.
The ship’s new owners evidently
abandoned the long wait for a chance to
load cargo on the Columbia River.
Five of the 12 ships still left are due
to load cargo at the Port of Astoria when
the longshoremen’s strike ends, the other
seven are to load at upriver ports.
LOS ANGELES — Phones
rang crazily in police and sher-
iff ’s offi ces, anxious callers saying
they heard the western U nited
States and Canada has sunk into
It would have been impossible for the
freighter Drexel Victory to have touched
bottom in the area indicated by her mas-
ter and bar pilot before she sank near the
mouth of the Columbia River Jan. 21,
Col. O.E. Wals, Portland district engineer,
declared here today.
He said the depth was found to be 57
feet at the spot indicated by the master
and pilot, and that the time of the accident
there was 2 or 3 foot tide, giving the vessel
nearly 60 feet of water.
2012 – Last year’s Miss Clatsop County Jessica Humble gets ready to put the crown on
Sydney Dufka, the new Miss Clatsop County, at the conclusion of the 2012 pageant.
2012 – A fi refi ghter pauses to observe a grass fi re in Knappa after unrolling a length
of hose from the truck. The fi re grew from a debris pile and spread out through a fi eld
between Hillcrest Loop and Old U.S. Highway 30.
the sea.
As mystifi ed law enforcement
offi cers listened, about 50 call-
ers described how a great earth-
quake triggered by the recent
Amchitka atomic tests had dev-
astated Alaska, Tokyo and the
western coast of North America.
Everything from Alaska to
Santa Barbara, California, was
underwater, the callers said
Sunday.
Most of the callers said they
had heard about the disaster on
radio.
A check showed that KPPC
FM in suburban Pasadena had
just aired a two-hour simulated
newscast depicting a disaster
caused by the Amchitka test.
Most of the callers had missed
an announcement at the start
and fi nish which told listeners it
was all fi ction.
A t entative agreement to end the crip-
pling 123-day strike on West Coast docks
was announced Tuesday by negotiators
for shippers and longshoremen.
The Columbia River lightship
is now the only one left on the
U.S. West Coast, following dis-
establishment last month of the
Umatilla Reef lightship off the
northern Washington coast.
A Port of Portland offi cial said Tues-
day night he thinks the Port of Astoria’s
future development will probably be
confi ned to a chance at attracting deep-
draft bulk-commodity ships, a little con-
tainer cargo and as a LASH port.
Keith Hansen, director of administra-
tion for the Port of Portland, told Astoria
Lions Club members he things LASH is
the biggest opportunity the Port of Asto-
ria has for big growth. The LASH con-
cept (which stands for lighter aboard
ship) is that it’s effi cient to load cargoes
aboard barges and the barges aboard
ships. The ship can then put in at a stra-
tegically located port, the barges can be
taken off and sent to private and public
docks throughout a river system.
Hansen said when LASH becomes
fi nancially feasible on the l ower Colum-
bia River, he’s sure Astoria, not Portland,
will be the key port.
Expansion of the coyote’s ter-
ritory within the past two decades
is one of the most unusual recent
developments in wild animal life
of the W est, according to Stanley
PO. Young, former Astorian who
for 29 years has been one of the
leading biologists of the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife S ervice.
Young was here Monday in
the course of a 10,500-mile trip
through Canada and the United
States gathering material for a
book he expects to publish this
year on western wild animals.
Young was gathering informa-
tion about the activities of coyotes
in Clatsop County. He said that
the coyote, the only wild animal
which has spread its range into
new territory in modern times,
was unknown in Clatsop County
until after 1911.
President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday
observances in the city schools was fea-
tured this morning by fl ag presentation of
the local Veterans of Foreign Wars at the
Astoria High School before the student
body and numerous visitors.
An attempt will be made this
afternoon by the U.S. Army LT
373 to cross in with the deactivated
ship Arrow from the lightship.
A 45 mph wind kicked up a
heavy sea earlier. Southwest storm
warnings were posted. Standing
by the tug is the cutter Onondaga,
which has been at sea for three
days in assisting the LT 373 to
put a line on the former ferry and
escort her to Astoria.
“Seventy-fi ve percent of unemploy-
ment compensation in Astoria goes to peo-
ple who don’t want to work,” James H.
Cellars, secretary of the Columbia River
Salmon and Tuna Packers’ A ssociation,
declared Wednesday at the hearing in
Salem before the S enate labor and indus-
tries committee.
Cellars was opposing the proposal
backed jointly by the AFL and CIO for an
increase in benefi ts from $18 for 20 weeks
in any one year to $25 for 26 weeks.
“No increase is justifi ed now,” Cel-
lars argued, declaring increased benefi ts
“would only lead” to more abuses. He
said employers fi nd they can’t get workers
“because they would rather load on unem-
ployment compensation.”
LEFT: 1972 – Winter wave watching attracts viewers to South Jetty. MIDDLE: 2012 — Cody Carmichael, a Seaside High School senior who is the lead engineer and designer for the
school’s robot team, works on getting the chains tensioned and lined up with the sprockets on the team’s robot. The robot is being designed to pick up and shoot foam basketballs into
hoops and will be competing in the regional robotics competitions at Portland’s Memorial Coliseum. RIGHT: 1972 — Grimstad and Vanderveldt Inc. are completing a contract to grade
a new, less steep beach approach on the county’s Del Rey Beach access road.