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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2022
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2022 • B1
WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week — 2012
O
n a sunny day, contrasting the drizzly one encoun-
tered by the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery
Expedition 206 years ago, when the group left Fort
Clatsop to return home to the United States after more than
two years abroad — the Lewis and Clark National Histori-
cal Park Friday recognized the expedition’s achievements.
Marking the occasion, Park Ranger Sally Freeman
read from one of the last volumes of the journal as the sun
glinted off the Netul River behind her.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark used the river as
an arterial to lead them to and from Fort Clatsop, which
they built to stay alive during the harsh winter of 1805.
Astoria’s home fi eld is back in business.
The Lady Fishermen softball team spent two
years away from their home at Tapiola Park –
one year for the installation of a 1-million gallon
tank underneath the fi eld, and one year watching
the grass grow over it.
And in the grand return Friday afternoon,
Astoria hosted three games at Niemi Field to
open the 2012 season.
The fi eld is back, better than ever, and the
Fishermen capped the day with a 16-3 win over
Warrenton, while Newport left town with a
pair of victories (4-3 over Astoria, 17-1 over the
Warriors.)
LONG BEACH, Wash. — With the few clouds in the
sky tinged pink by the dawning sun, and a fi shing boat’s
beacon sparkling on the horizon, the beauty of this Pacifi c
beach softened diggers’ disappointment in the scarce
showings of razor clams Saturday.
For the fi rst dig of the spring on the Long Beach Pen-
insula, a moderate number of diggers took advantage of
the lack of rain to get outdoors and seek the elusive mol-
lusk. Some of the diggers who dotted the beach speculated
that others stayed home in the morning because of the rel-
atively high low tide and recent pounding storm surfs that
drove the clams deeper into the sand.
Sally Freeman, a park ranger, basks in the sunshine at the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park in 2012 on the 206-
year anniversary of the day the Corps of Discovery left Fort Clatsop.
Herbert Clough, AMAX p rimary d ivision president,
told The Daily Astorian this morning that the construction
schedule for the plan is under review.
“The guts of the thing is how quickly the aluminum
business snaps out of the doldrums. The market has been
quite poor. The results in Oregon and Washington have
been pretty evident.”
Clough said that every aluminum plant in the North-
west has cut back its operation and that the Reynolds Alu-
minum plant in Troutdale has closed.
The preservation of a homestead in Wash-
ington state has earned the Clatsop Community
College historic preservation class a prestigious
award.
The recognition comes from t he Washington
State Department of Archaeology and Historic
Preservation for work on the Brune Homestead
in Klickitat County, Washington.
“As the chairman of CCC’s h istoric p reser-
vation advisory c ommittee, I couldn’t be more
pleased,” local historian John Goodenberger said.
“We’ve been teaching historic preservation at
CCC for three years and this is the second state-
wide award we have received. Last year, the pro-
gram was recognized with an Oregon Heritage
Award for its unique collaboration with local
preservation organizations.
“The hands-on aspect of our program is also
special. We are one of two community colleges on
the West Coast to be teaching these skills.”
75 years ago — 1947
GEARHART — A hard up ex-GI found two envelopes
in his Gearhart post offi ce box Saturday. Two brown enve-
lopes marked: Finance Offi cer, U.S Army.
At last! The ex-GI was delighted. This would be his
long-delayed terminal leave pay. And how he needed the
money!
In the fi rst envelope he found a $125 bond — payable
in 1951.
Hopefully, the former dogface ripped open the other
brown envelope. It was a check — f or 40 cents.
50 years ago — 1972
AMAX Pacifi c Corp. is committed to one potline oper-
ating at its proposed Warrenton aluminum reduction plant
by Oct. 1, 1974, or begin paying for power anyway.
That’s the word from Bernard Goldhammer, Bonne-
ville Power Administration power manager.
“We have a fi rm contract,” Goldhammer told T he Daily
Astorian this morning. “There are no provisions in the con-
tract for any delays.”
Tree-trimming helicopter maneuvering was
used by the U.S. Coast Guard Monday after-
noon to rescue two Longview, Washington, b oys
stranded on the cliff s south of Short Sand Beach
in Oswald West State Park.
Called at 1:10 p.m. by the Oregon State Police,
the Coast Guard dispatched a helicopter from
the Astoria Air Station and a ground crew from
the Tillamook Bay base. When the helicopter
arrived, the pilot, Cmdr . Roger Shannon, deter-
mined that it would be very diffi cult to hoist the
boys from the cliff , some 120 feet above sea level,
Racing toward the fence, Astoria’s Zhoe Rub snags a fl y
ball hit deep to center fi eld in 2012.
because of trees on the cliff above them.
The helicopter hovered nearby to see if the ground
crew could reach the boys, but they could not.
Shannon maneuvered the helicopter in toward
the trees 100 feet above the boys. With the nose of
the helicopter resting against the top of a spruce
tree , the crewman lowered the hoist cable and
basket down through tree limbs. It took approx-
imately 10 minutes each time to maneuver the
helicopter and hoist system and remove the two
boys.
AMAX Pacifi c Corp. may delay construction of its
proposed aluminum plant in Warrenton again even if
it has to pay for unused power from Bonneville Power
Administration .
A young west end mother of two youngsters,
aged 3 years and 9 months, today expressed little
alarm with the impending strike of United Tele-
phone Workers.
“Saturday it was a brush salesman at the door,
my youngest in the bathinette, the soup boiling
over and the 3 -year-old teetering atop a chair,
then the phone rang,” she said.
It was one of my sewing club friends on the
line, our young mother sighed.
“She wanted to know: ‘Did I get you away
from anything?’”
The “cold storage” fl eet of the maritime commission in
Prairie channel will soon be augmented by the arrival of 30
additional U.S. A rmy transports from the Pacifi c.
These ships will be manned by Japanese crews. Already
at Cathlamet bay, where the vessels will be decommis-
sioned, is the transport John Weeks, which will serve as
quarters for the Japanese merchantmen.
About 130 ships are at present anchored in Prairie chan-
nel and others are in the process of decommissioning.
Four new applications for establishing fl ying
schools at the Clatsop airport were approved by
the P ort C ommission Tuesday night.
The applications were Cody-Wiechking Aero
Service of Scappoose; Alda M. Sadow, 420 Sixth
St. , Astoria; Gerald G. Johanson, trucking con-
tractor, Route 3, Astoria; and Astoria Flight
Service.
At the same meeting, the P ort C ommission
off ered to rent the parachute building, formerly
occupied by Rambeau Flight Service, to Inman
Bros. Aviation Service.
Inman Bros. Aviation Service has been at the
airport since September and at present is con-
ducting the only school on the fi eld. Sixty-fi ve stu-
dents are enrolled in its school.
WASHINGTON — T.F. Sandoz, executive vice pres-
ident of the Columbia River Packers Association, said
today construction of the proposed The Dalles dam on the
Columbia River would mean “the ultimate destruction of
the salmon industry on the river.”
He said “any further dams on the Columbia between
Bonneville and the Snake River will mean the ultimate
destruction of the great salmon resources.”
The Brune Homestead in Klickitat County, Washington, seen here in 2012, has a new lease of life thanks to the Clatsop
Community College preservation work.
Evor J. Kumpula, 38-year-old Svensen farmer,
fractured his leg Thursday while showing his two
young sons how to pole vault.
Home from school, the boys, Donald, aged 14,
and Evor, age 10, wanted to get some pointers on
track. They knew daddy had vaulted 12 feet for
Hanna, Wyoming, high school.
Daddy cleared the bar at 6 feet and put her
up another foot. He made a fi ne approach, per-
fectly timed, but the leap was low. His legs fouled
on the crossbar. He landed badly on the hard soil.
Daddy had not bothered about digging a pit.