B1
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2022
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2022 • B1
WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week – 2012
C
ANNON BEACH — With increasing amounts
of debris apparently coming from the Japanese
tsunami and washing ashore on the Oregon and
Washington state coasts, U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici,
an Oregon Democrat, wants federal, state and local
agencies to step up eff orts to keep beaches safe and the
public informed.
During a briefi ng with representatives from sev-
eral government agencies, cities and organizations in
Cannon B each on Friday, Bonamici said the Japanese
dock that landed in Newport recently was a wake-up
call that debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami was
arriving.
On Friday, a 20-foot open boat, covered with hun-
dreds of gooseneck barnacles, was found beached at
Cape Disappointment State Park in Ilwaco, Washing-
ton. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration is working with the Japanese consulate in Seat-
tle to determine if it came from Japan.
“There’s a critical need to make sure that people are
safe and that there is an organized eff ort to handle the
debris,” Bonamici said.
WARRENTON — There won’t be a cluster
of wind turbine towers stretching hundreds of
feet into the air at Camp Rilea Armed Forces
Training Center anytime soon.
The Oregon Military Department has scut-
tled its plans to build the power-generating
towers as part of its pledge to attain net-zero
energy consumption at the facility.
A small open boat and related debris washed ashore in 2012 at Cape Disappointment State Park in Ilwaco.
SEASIDE — As kindergarten students from Sea-
side Heights Elementary School gazed with fascina-
tion at the arrangement on the table, Jamie Thompson,
a visiting instructor, told them, “Some of those bugs
don’t live here.”
Thank goodness.
The tarantula and scorpion and other creepy bugs
were safely dead and pinned inside a glass-covered dis-
play case as part of the traveling science class off ered
by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
But other bugs, including a Madagascar hissing
cockroach, nearly 2 inches long, and an Australian
walking stick, at least 3 inches long, were very much
alive and easily became the most popular attraction.
The U.S. Coast Guard, along with mem-
bers of the local commercial fi shing and tug-
boat industry, tested the Coast Guard’s new
e mergency t owing s ystem last week.
Students aboard the Tongue Point Job
Corps Center training vessel Ironwood
assisted with the drill and received hands-on
training with the kit after it was deployed by a
helicopter crew from Air Station Astoria.
The towing system is a prestaged package
of equipment that would be delivered to a dis-
abled vessel requiring assistance.
The kit can be deployed from a tugboat
or helicopter and consists of a lightweight
high-performance towline, a messenger line
used in deploying the towline, a lighted buoy
and chafi ng gear.
County Health Offi cer Dr. Noel Rawls told
the clinic staff and board of directors Friday
that c ounty commissioners Hiram Johnson and
Verne Stratton had agreed to support reinstat-
ing $14,500 of the $19,230 of the clinic’s pro-
posed 1972-73 budget.
75 years ago — 1947
Seaside Heights Elementary School kindergartners John
Peon, left, and Jose Cuavas-Ramirez, closely examine a
display fi lled with a variety of beetles in 2012.
Astoria has no right to license slot machines
and if it does so the sheriff should confi s-
cate them, Oregon Attorney General George
Neuner wrote Clatsop County District Attor-
ney Garnet Green in a letter which was read
at the C ity C ommission meeting Monday night.
Switch engine No. 4, which has been pushing and
pulling freight cars off and on in Astoria since 1904, is
not puffi ng blasts of smoke and steam here today.
This morning the old engine was replaced by a new
shiny rival, switch engine No. 11, a 660 horsepower die-
sel. The new engine goes about its work without the
laborious chugging of the old steam pot, which headed
up the tracks to Portland.
The Arrow No. 2, just back from performing one
of its hundreds of thousands of pilot transfers on an
incoming ship, bobs up and down, empty in the shadow
of the newer counterpart.
Invited guests board, tour and disembark the Con-
nor Foss, a sleeker, faster, and, most of all, safer pilot
boat that will replace the Arrow No. 2 after more than
50 years of service by what many have called the most
photographed boat on the Columbia River.
50 years ago – 1972
Tapiola Pool opened today to begin the Astoria
Parks and Recreation Department’s swim program that
will end Sept 2.
“We enrolled 1,003 boys and girls in ‘Learn to
Swim’ classes and nearly 37,790 persons enjoyed safe,
fun-fi lled hours of swimming at Tapiola Pool in 1971,”
said Gil Gramson, Astoria parks and recreation direc-
tor. “We expect an increased number to enjoy the pool
this year,” he said.
Tapiola Pool is a shallow-deep design 40 feet wide,
Construction of booths in the north end of the big
hangar at the Clatsop airport was undertaken this week
by Lloyd Burgess preparatory to the monster Clatsop air
fi esta to be held there July 4, 5 and 6.
The booths are for a community-staged carnival
enterprise to be presented in connection with the fi esta,
in which various local organizations are to operate
booths and concessions.
A young girl enjoys a pool in 1972.
100 feet long and holds 158,746 gallons of water.
The pool is 2 ½ feet deep at the shallow end and 9 ½
feet deep at its deepest point. The chlorinated water
is heated to 82 degrees and features a 3 -meter diving
board and 1 -meter board.
The Clatsop Mental Health Clinic may
receive funding next year from the c ounty after
all, even though it may not be enough.
“Cap,” an 118-pound Eskimo h usky, pad-
ding the pavement of Astoria, fi nds Astoria’s
climate too warm for comfort. The huge, brown
and white n ortherner misses the 40 below tem-
peratures of northern Quebec.
Maybe Cap misses his Canadian diet of fro-
zen fi sh and elk meat, for he has contracted
a mild skin disease since he came to Astoria
fi ve months ago. Now Cap is on a diet of liver,
according to a veterinarian’s advice to Cap’s
owner, R.W. Smith .
Once Cap worked with four other h uskies to
pull a heavy sled when owner-prospector Smith
ran a dog taxi in the winter season at Val-d’Or ,
Quebec.
The dogs broke heavy snowdrifts, pulled a
short ton of 1,800 pounds and traveled 35 miles
in as little as nine hours in those days. Cap does
well to carry his own weight now. His 10 years
of memories are heavy, too.
The Arrow No. 2 and Connor Foss pilot boats are seen in 2012.