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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2022
THE ASTORIAN
• TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2022 •
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WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week – 2012
I
f they’re lucky, fans at the upcoming Oregon Junior
Baseball state tournament will get to experience
a Knappa Logger-Astoria Fisherme n showdown
somewhere along the line.
Because if it’s anything like the last three meetings
between the two North Coast rivals, another Logger-Fish-
ermen battle will be worth the price of admission.
The Knappa and Astoria Ford summer baseball teams
met for the third time this season Friday night Aiken
Field, and for the third time, put on a dramatic show for
those in attendance.
The Fishermen scored another one-run win over the
Loggers — their third of the summer – as Astoria’s Chris
Leonardi lined a base hit to center fi eld in the bottom of
the seventh inning, scoring Andrew Bergeson with the
game-winning run, 5-4.
Going purely by distance, Hollywood, Cali-
fornia , is roughly 1,000 miles from Lewis and
Clark National Historical Park.
By metaphor , it’s farther away yet, well
beyond a metaphysical plane separating the
River Styx and the Elysian Fields. They are two
completely diff erent worlds.
In the history-rich forest of the park, there
are no botox clinics, no B lue tooth-eared agents
and no Charlie Sheen.
But every summer, fi lmmakers fl ock to the
forest, and most haven’t even graduated high
school yet. The budding auteurs come as part of
the park’s Teen Film Camp. For the fi rst time
in the camp’s three-year history, a group of stu-
dents has garnered the type of recognition that
Hollywood insiders desperately seek.
They’ve received an award from the National
Academy of T elevision Arts and Sciences.
Three high school students – Brooke
Reichert, Lindsey Nordit and Caelan Hensley
– from Oregon and Washington were awarded
the regional Emmy for a video they directed
and produced with the help of advisory fi lm-
makers at NW D ocumentary, who worked with
last year’s camp. Titled, “We Know Where We
Came From,” the video tells the story of the
Chinookan creation myth of the Clatsop-Ne-
halem Tribe.
The regional Emmy win was the fi rst award
given to participants of the fi lm camp, says Will
George, a park ranger and environmental edu-
cator for the park.
DEEP RIVER, Wash. — The century-old Deep River
Lutheran Church stands as a reminder of an earlier time.
With porch steps 4 feet from the asphalt, the 18-foot-
tall National Historic Landmark sits expectantly on the
edge of a winding country road in rural village of Deep
River. Its simple Gothic Revival architecture and fresh
coat of white paint recall the Finnish pioneers who built
it.
The pristine-looking spectacle wouldn’t be possi-
ble without the love, dedication and care of community
members.
“It has stood through everything,” said Eva Maler-
ich, whose family has helped preserve the church since
the 1930 s.
Deep River resident Mark Erickson spearheaded the
recent project to renovate the church.
2012 – Middle school-aged campers at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park’s Nature Survival Camp prepare to pile
into canoes at Netul Landing for a paddling trip on the Lewis and Clark River.
fi shing 150 miles off Cape Blanco on the south-
ern Oregon C oast aboard Pattterson’s 84-foot
halibut schooner, the Hazel Rob.
Sixty to 70 mph winds whipped the old
schooner for three days until fi nally Saturday
it began to break up in particularly rough seas.
“It was heavily loaded with tuna and sim-
ply could not stand the force of the sea. Boards
began ripping away from the keel,” Patterson
said.
As winds and waves continued to buff et the
craft, Patterson radioed to other fi shing vessels
in the area, which reached the stricken craft
within 45 minutes.
“All in all, it took about 1 ½ hours for it to
completely sink, ” he said.
“It was a good boat. I’ve had some problems
before – sometimes with other boats during my
30 years as a fi sherman, but this was easily the
worst.”
2012 — The Deep River Lutheran Church, built in 1902
and listed as a National Historic Landmark, is nestled
along a quiet, winding road.
SEASIDE — “I only missed the beach by a mile and
half,” laughed big, nerveless Jim Bonner, Astoria para-
chute jumper, after he was rescued from the ocean during
the Sportsmen Pilots’ air show here Sunday.
Bonner stole the show from stunt pilots, nine P-51s
of the Oregon Air National Guard and a helicopter when
a trick change in the wind set him afl oat in the drink
after and exhibition parachute jump from 5,500 feet at
12:45 p.m.
Wearing a Mae West life vest, Bonner fl oated for 30
minutes with the Oregon Journal helicopter hovering
overhead until he was rescued, wet but unruffl ed, by and
amphibious DUKW operated Clinton G. White. White
operates a passenger ride service with the vehicle on the
beach here.
50 years ago – 1972
NEAHKAHNIE LODGE – A 50-pound Jap-
anese horned mine had been exploded today
after it drifted ashore and threatened the lives
of vacationers at this summer resort yesterday.
Guyon Biisset, owner of the Neahkahnie
lodge near Nehalem, recognized the mine after
reports reached him that children were play-
ing with a strange looking object that came in
with the tide during the night and settled on the
beach.
He placed the children in charge of the
mine, as he believed they were the only ones
who would “mind” and stay away from the
object, and notifi ed the U.S. Coast Guard. One
of the children was found sitting on the explo-
sive when Capt. Kenneth Hawks, and ordnance
expert from Fort Stevens, arrived on the scene.
Hawkes touched off the mine with a fuse and
dynamite mechanism. The explosion shattered
dozens of windows in cottages within a half mile
radius and sent a black column of smoke mush-
rooming into the air.
WARRENTON – The Skipanon River Bridge issue
is alive again.
The s tate h ighway d ivision has received word from
the U.S. Coast Guard that it must, within two years,
come up with a solution to the problem of the controver-
sial span on Harbor Drive in Warrenton.
That solution must permit navigation of the Skipanon
River.
One of the alternatives the s tate might consider is
to construct an alternate route eliminating the existing
bridge altogether, h ighway offi cials say.
The suggestion has left E.R. Baldwin, c ity man-
ager for Warrenton, alternately amused and dismayed:
“I would like to think they were only kidding. The boat
basin would be basically inoperative. They must have
been fi shing for comments.”
Access roads to the c ity-operated boat basin are posi-
tioned at the east end of the bridge.
Another alternative is to replace the existing bridge
with a lift span.
Cutting d onuts can be dangerous.
That is, it can be dangerous if the donuts
you’re cutting are big circles on the beach and
if you’re cutting them with a car.
Sgt. Stan Gray, of the Oregon State Police,
says that cars “cutting donuts” can “fl ip over so
fast. They’ll be going along fi ne, then they hit a
pocket of softer sand and just fl ip.” As a result,
he doesn’t recommend playing games with cars
on the beach.
The recently purchased Bettie M., Bumble Bee Sea-
foods largest tuna seiner, has been berthed since Sun-
day at the Bumble Bee docks and will leave Wednesday
morning on the fi rst leg of its inaugural cruise. It will
stop in San Diego to pick up additional crew, then move
to Panama to pick up tuna nets and fi nally begin fi shing
later this summer.
The 191-foot boat has a 1,000-ton capacity, a depth of
18 feet and a draft fully loaded of 21 feet. It will travel at
16 knots with a sustained maximum speed of 14 knots.
Dick Patterson must have slept well Monday
afternoon.
It was probably the fi rst good rest he had in
several days.
Patterson, a 46-year-old Astoria commercial
fi sherman, returned home Monday morning
75 years ago — 1947
1972 — When the temperature rises, go to where the
water falls — a little motto this youngster worked up as
he frolicked in the cool spray of Youngs River Falls.
1972 — Road-driving rules apply to beaches, too.
after a harrowing experience on the high seas
Saturday.
He returned without his boat, but thankful
that he and two other companions were alive.
Patterson and the others, David Patterson,
29, Astoria, and Henry Snell, 17, Seaside, were
Eleven hundred Elks will arrive in Astoria by special
train Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. to visit the Astoria Col-
umn, Tongue Point naval base and the fi sh canneries,
according to Ellis O. Link, Elks secretary, who returned
to Astoria from the n ational Elks c onvention in Portland
last night.
Older Astorians remember when Dr. Nellie
S. Vernon fi rst set out her shingle. It was the
Astoria of 1903. They recall that the woman
doctor received a cool reception.
Most male physicians believed a woman
belonged behind a house apron, not a doctor’s
apron. Dr. Vernon did not agree.
Clatsop County began to like her as a
woman; to believe in her as a physician. She
never refused a call for help. By horseback or
buggy, by fi sh boat or on foot, she went wher-
ever she was needed.
No one knows how many times she crossed
the Columbia in a fi sh boat. Often expect-
ant fathers waited there on horseback, till she
jumped on behind.
A city offi cial once said that a third of the chil-
dren on the streets were delivered by Dr. Ver-
non. The doctor did enjoy pointing to a young-
ster as she smiled, “That’s one of my kids.”