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B1 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2022 THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2022 • B1 WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE COMPILED BY BOB DUKE From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspa- 10 years ago this week – 2012 ‘A s I stepped on the ship, I looked back one more time at a place I know and love,” said Meg Dowaliby, channeling her great-grand- mother, who was only 19 years old when she made the long journey from Finland through Ellis Island in New York and west to Astoria. “I knew this day would come, my family has been planning on it for years and saving every last penny to send me to the new land. “This immigrant was my great-grand- mother, ... who possessed what the Finns call ‘Sisu,’ otherwise known as guts, determination and stubbornness. If it were not for her Sisu, I would not be standing on this stage before you this evening.” Dowaliby, this year’s Miss Sweden, a recent graduate of Warrenton High School, was crowned Miss Scandina- via 2012 by the outgoing Cari Knapp of Knappa High School at Friday’s fl ag c er- emony for the Astoria Scandinavian Mid- summer Festival at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds. Backers of the proposed bal- lot measure that would ban gill- net fi shing throughout Oregon say gillnets end up injuring — and killing — too many fi sh that escape. They say studies show gillnets have a mortality rate of 80% . “The science is clear,” says Eric Stachon, spokesman for Stop Gillnetting Now, the mea- sure’s main backer. But the science is not clear. Studies suggest the mortality rate for purse seine nets, which the ballot measure would allow, may be lower — anywhere from 50% to 100% . “By my experience, if you’re handling 10 sockeye in a gillnet, you might kill fi ve,” says John North, fi sheries manager for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. “But it you lay out a seine and you catch 100, and the mortality rate is 5% , you still kill the same number of fi sh.” The measure is potentially a local boon to the national $45 bil- lion sportfi shing industry, which includes guides, charters and, most of all, companies that make and sell gear. An infl uential voice among the backers is Jim Martin, a former state Fish and Wildlife fi sheries chief who now works for Pure Fishing, a major sport tackle manufacturer owned by Jarden Corp. Gary Loomis, a nother ban booster and the founding chair- man of the Coastal Conserva- tion Association’s Pacifi c North- west affi liates, was a pioneer in the development of graphite fi sh- ing rods. The gillnetters feel the focus on their methods at the exclusion of the others is unfair. 50 years ago – 1972 The Norwegians won the tug of war, but it was the Finnish who ruled the day during the fi fth annual Astoria Scandina- vian Midsummer Festival on Saturday . Miss Finland, Rhonda Lammi, cap- tured the title of Miss Scandinavia, suc- ceeding Melissa Hill at a coronation cer- emony highlighting the day’s celebration. After the coronation, the crowd adjourned to the traditional bonfi re and later to an adult dance at which prizes were handed out for the best waltz, hambo, polka and schottische. Dancing in the arena at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds during the Astoria Scandinavian Midsummer Festival in 2012. Members of the Oregon National Guard hosted members of their families at a family day at Camp Rilea in 1972. Festival scheduling went off as planned despite a pesky mist that started just as the parade began moving through downtown Astoria. Some of those perched on the back of convertibles and on fl oats sheltered them- selves with umbrellas. Chester Pietka, and accordionist from Eugene, continued to play throughout the parade with a blanket draped over his instrument and holding an umbrella over his head. CANNON BEACH — A touch of rustic elegance will greet sum- mer patrons attending the new Coaster Theatre this season. Summer home of the Port- land State University Players for the past three years, the Coaster opens its new doors Thursday with “The Odd Couple.” The Portland State Summer Stock Co. is a feature of the Haystack ‘72 program and lasts through Sept. 4. The theater has undergone a complete renovation since last season. This year, the focus has been on the exterior with a new split, resawn shake roof and walls. Two porches have been added. ILWACO, Wash. — A 15-year-old Long Beach youth was hospitalized Tues- day after plummeting some 60 feet from a cliff in Beard s Hollow . Jim Farnsworth, of Seaview, slipped A sketch of the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach in 1972. while nearing the top of a shale cliff and landed on jagged rocks about 30 feet above the beach. Mike Wentworth, a friend who had been climbing with him, went for help and enlisted the aid of a passing motorist who notifi ed authorities. Farnsworth was placed in plastic air splints and was handed down the cliff from one man to another on a human ladder. Fansworth escaped major injury and is scheduled for release from the hospi- tal today. 75 years ago — 1947 Arrangements for charter of an air- plane to carry 25 Astorians to Walla Walla, Washington, on Wednesday were completed today by the Columbia Basin Fisheries Development A ssociation. The plane will leave Astoria early Wednesday morning and the party will arrive in Walla Walla in time to present the fi shing industry’s and this commu- nity’s arguments against construction of McNary D am. T he plane will return to Astoria in the afternoon. An estimated crowd of 5,000 Astoria boat fans attended the Astoria Yacht Club picnic and marine show held Sunday at the Youngs Bay grounds of the club. Miss Scandinavia Rhonda Lammi in 1972. Over 1,500 people were given free rides on various boats. SEASIDE — Three member of the U.S. Coast Guard from Port Angeles, Washington, were being returned to their base today after their leave was cut short when their plane crashed on a crowded bathing beach here on Saturday afternoon. The low fl ying plane, falling suddenly out of control, crumpled its left wing and undercarriage on an unoccupied area of sand near the water’s edge. Oregon Attorney General George Neuner has no inten- tion of singling out Astoria for a crackdown on slot machines, he said in a letter to Clatsop County District Attorney Garnet Green, which Green made public today. Green had no comment on Neuner’s letter. Astoria c ity offi - cials also had no comment. Green said a copy of the letter had been given to James L Hope, city attorney. No slot machines are now oper- ating in Astoria. Punchboards have disappeared from counters of some Astoria stores. The huge $4 million Tongue Point naval housing project expects to be shel- tering 368 naval families by January in multiple units of modern functional design, an Astorian-Budget survey of the 295-acre site revealed today.
