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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2022
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2022 • B1
WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week — 2012
undreds fi lled the downtown streets Saturday
in every way, shape and form.
The newly renovated Astoria City Hall was
opened for the public’s viewing for the fi rst time; the
Garden of Surging Waves project broke ground in the
soon-to-be renovated Heritage Square; and the Liberty
Theatre began its third phase of remodeling.
“This is a very special day for Astoria,” said Mayor
Willis Van Dusen as the ceremony began.
City Councilor Arline LaMear added, “This is just
such an exciting day. I’ve been fortunate enough to
visit a couple of cities in Europe that have wonderful
squares. And you can’t imagine those cities without
those squares. And I think that there will come a day
when we will look back at this day and think, ‘Was there
ever a time when we didn’t have a Heritage Square in
Astoria?’
“The most important thing we’re doing today, I think,
is the groundbreaking for the Garden of Surging Waves.
This is to honor a group of people who have contributed
so much to our city, to our community. And it’s about
time we honored them.”
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A big celebration, an archivist and an ener-
gy-effi cient home in Astoria are 2012 recipients
of the Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards.
In fact, the North Coast earned three of the
seven awards given this year.
The Astoria Bicentennial Celebration, Liisa
Penner of the Clatsop County Historical Soci-
ety and the Owens-Adair home for seniors and
the disabled run by the Clatsop County Hous-
ing Authority will be recognized during an
awards dinner and presentation at 7 p.m. on
April 27 at the Willamette Heritage Center in
Salem.
The Astoria Bicentennial Celebration was
noted because of its year long success marking
Astoria’s 200 years of history and heritage.
Penner is praised for her eff orts in preserv-
ing, promoting and disseminating the history
of Clatsop County and fostering an apprecia-
tion for local history.
WARRENTON — Half the events were “wind-
aided,” and the other half were “water-resisted,” Thurs-
day afternoon at a track meet in Warrenton.
The Warriors hosted a four-way meet with Clats-
kanie, De La Salle and Rainier at the Warrenton Grade
School track — a meet that the participants will be
talking about long after their high school careers are
over.
At the start of the meet, lanes one , two and three were
underwater for about a fourth of the track; and lane six
had developed a giant air bubble under the surface, right
near the fi nish line.
Thursday’s rain never really let up, and by the end of
the meet, lane four was underwater, and the bubble was
about 4 inches high and had grown into lane fi ve .
Warrenton coach Josh Jannusch was trying to look
on the bright side, as the meet was concluding.
“The one good thing is, the kids are having a good
time,” he said.
50 years ago — 1972
The calendar says it’s the middle of April. But, snow
or hail on the ground this morning said something else.
Some snow fell in higher elevations and hail remained
on the ground in some areas as a cold air mass moved
through the area.
The state Highway Division crews worked through
the night to clear the Sunset, Nehalem and Columbia
River h ighways where between 2 and 3 inches of snow
fell in the passes.
CANNON BEACH — The Tillamook Head
Trail offi cially became one of 29 trails in the
United States to be designated as a National
Picketers outside Bumble Bee Seafoods in 1972.
State Sen. Betsy Johnson, right, honors retired professor Duncan Law, second from left, at the groundbreaking for the
Garden of Surging Waves in 2012.
Delclaux, director of public and customer relations for
Pernod.
Pernod conducts some 500 fi shing contests in France.
It bands some 1,200 trout and releases them in the rivers
of France. The fi rst persons in each region catching the
banded trout and calling the phone number on the band
will win a four-day trip to a foreign country — two days
for fi shing and two days for sight-seeing.
75 years ago — 1947
Chinese fi recrackers strung from a bronze sculpture
delight and deafen the crowd during the groundbreaking
of the Garden of Surging Waves in 2012.
Recreation Trail in a brief and damp ceremony
at Indian Beach in Ecola State Park Saturday
morning.
The Fort Clatsop Boy Scout District Scoutcapades
held Saturday was termed one of the most colorful and
well organized, according to John Foster, associate dis-
trict scout executive.
Scoutcapades, held at the 4-H Fairgrounds in Asto-
ria, had 24 booths depicting the many aspects of the pro-
gram. Over 2,400 tickets were sold for the annual event.
There was still no break in the price dispute
today between West Coast commercial troll
fi shermen and the major buyers. Offi cials of
the West Coast Trollers Association pinpointed
Astoria as the center of activity Tuesday.
Informational pickets were set up Tuesday
at several of the county’s major fi sh processing
plants and pickets were expanded this morn-
ing at Bumble Bee Seafoods facilities and in the
Warrenton-Hammond area.
Several hundred Frenchmen may invade Clatsop
County and the salmon fi shing waters off the mouth of
the Columbia River in June 1973, and again in 1974.
Two Frenchmen have been here for three days to
determine if this area will be off ered as the prize for 150
or more winners in a fi shing contest sponsored by Per-
nod, one of Europe’s largest distilleries.
“Astoria is a very good looking city and off ers the
possibilities for an exciting fi shing party,” said Christian
The Tourist No. 2, the second ferry operated between
Astoria and Megler, is expected to be on the run Sun-
day to aid the hard-pressed Tourist No. 3 in taking care
of heavy traffi c.
Despite the fact that only one ferry was on the job
Sunday, the number of passengers and cars was the
greatest since Sept. 29, 1946.
Floyd Simon, state maintenance engineer, reported
today that 1,175 passengers and 433 vehicles, including
13 trucks, were transported across the river Sunday and
19 scheduled trips and one extra trip. If as many as 10
cars are waiting at Megler, the ferry makes an extra trip.
The multi purpose dam threat to fi sh brought
more than 400 concerned people from Clatsop
County into an anti-dam rally at the Viking
T heater on Monday night, where seven speak-
ers, representing a cross section of the fi sher-
ies interests, urged listeners to “write your con-
gressmen and friends: take up the fi ght.”
“We went to our Oregon delegation recently,”
said Anton Sorensen, manager, Union Fisher-
men’s Cooperative Packing Co. “We didn’t get
any help, not even from our own representative.
“They advised us,” Sorensen said, “that they
were governed by Oregon votes and the Ore-
gon votes were about 15 to 1 for the construc-
tion of a series of multiple purpose dams across
the main stem of the Columbia.
“We’ve lost many runs of fi sh and all we
have left are the August and fall runs,” he said.
“Two more dams between Bonneville and the
Snake River will destroy these.”
WASHINGTON – A U.S. H ouse A rmed S ervices
sub-committee today directed the U.S. N avy to supply
within a week a fi nal and complete study of Fort Barran-
cas and Fort Stevens, rivals to Del Monte, California , as
sites for a N avy postgraduate school.
Pack 302 Cub Scout Richard Bruett negotiates the monkey bridge at the Fort Clatsop Boy
Scout District Scoutcapades held at the 4-H Fairgrounds in Astoria in 1972.