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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2022
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2022 • B1
WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago this
week – 2012
S
arah Jacklich likes her job as a car-
nival worker. A college student in
Los Angeles, Jacklich spends her
summers luring willing customers to
shoot baskets for prizes. At least that is
the job her boss gave on Saturday at the
Clatsop County Fair.
“I love traveling, and I love the peo-
ple,” she says about her job with Davis
Amusement Cascadia. It is one of several
carnival companies that entertain millions
of people around the country every year at
county and state fairs.
Jacklich and many others like her are
shattering the image of the typical carni-
val worker as a person who is down on
their luck and can’t land another job. In
fact, many carnies these days are col-
lege students pursuing degrees and do the
work because they love driving around
the country making people happy.
2012 — With triple-digit temperatures in Portland and throughout the Willamette Valley, thousands of people fl ed to the beach to beat
the heat – only to fi nd temperatures in the 90s. The beaches were packed, as this view near Sunset Beach shows.
Two Astoria schools, John
Jacob Astor Elementary and
Lewis and Clark Elemen-
tary, have earned the designa-
tion “Model School” under the
Oregon Department of Educa-
tion’s new ranking system. The
schools are among only 27 in
the entire state that received the
designation.
HAMMOND – “We were in for a big
shock last year when Star of the Sea shut
down,” said p rincipal Chris Schauermann
about being the only private school left
other than Fire Mountain, near Cannon
Beach.
“We only got one student (from Star of
the Sea). We fi gured we have created an
image that is not attractive.”
The North Coast Christian School
is now off ering new fi nancial aid incen-
tives and expanding its curriculum –
using an online and in-class model – into
high school off erings. The private school
has more than 80 students enrolled and
is trying to grow to approximately 130
students.
“The school has taken to the idea of a
hybrid learning program,” said Schauer-
mann, who is also the pastor of the Gate-
way Community Church, on the property
of which the school is located. “Kids can
take online courses and get the support of
the teachers at the school.”
One of the world’s most
advanced oceanic research plat-
forms, the size of a small cruise
ship with advanced equipment
around every corner, rests at Pier
1, earning the P ort of Astoria
about $500 a day in dockage fees.
Crews come and go, add-
ing and taking away compo-
nents on its deck, readying it for
the arrival of one of the world’s
most advance deep-sea robots.
They’re preparing the Marcus G.
Langseth, a research vessel pur-
chased in 2004 by Columbia Uni-
versity’s Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory in a cooperative
agreement with the National Sci-
ence Foundation, for its next voy-
age to communicate with sea fl oor
devices planted along the Casca-
dia Subduction Zone, a sloping
fault where the Juan de Fuca and
North American plates sit.
50 years ago – 1972
The U.S. Coast Guard today put into
eff ect new safety rules for motorboats and
assumed authority to board boats operated
in an unsafe manner.
The service authorized its boarding
offi cers to order immediate correction of
certain safety violations and to require
that any unsafe boat be taken to the near-
est mooring site if on-the-scene correc-
tions cannot be made.
The boarding regulations apply in
cases already spelled out for lack of suf-
fi cient lifesaving devices and fi refi ghting
devices or that are overloaded.
Gov. Tom McCall said Friday
there is danger that tourists will
destroy Oregon.
He made the statement to
explain why he has said that Ore-
gon might have to withdraw its
invitation to tourists.
He said his recent statements,
which have drawn fi re from Ore-
gon tourist associations and motel
owners, mean only that it may be
a mistake to attract more tour-
ists to trample the state’s environ-
ment into oblivion.
The annual 4H-FFA Fair at the Clat-
sop County Fairgrounds starts Wednes-
day. And if you ask 10-year veteran Molly
Ficken what she likes best about the fair,
LEFT: 2012 — Despite the heat, the carnival at the Clatsop County Fair was a popular place to be Saturday afternoon. The carnival, run by
Davis Amusement Cascadia, has 38 rides, 11 food stands and 15 game concessions. RIGHT: 2012 — A carnival ride at the Clatsop County Fair.
restaurant.
When Newman took off his clothes at
the police station, one ring fell from his
belt. Police found the other ring in New-
man’s stocking.
“I don’t know how they could have
gotten there,” said Newman .
The Astorian-Budget is being
published today from its new
location in a completely remod-
eled building at 10th and Duane
streets.
Transfer of the newspa-
per’s offi ce equipment, typeset-
ting machines and other heavy
machinery was accomplished
Saturday and Sunday. Heavy
machinery was moved by the
Heavy Hauling company, which
today is transferring the news-
paper’s battery of job printing
presses from the old location on
Exchange Street near 12th Street.
1972 — Runners launch a race.
2012 — North Coast Christian School uses
the A Beka curriculum, which is ‘built on
a foundation of academic excellence and
Christian character training.’
she’ll tell you, “I like the excitement and
the people.”
She has lived the summertime whirl of
fair activities since she was a 9-year-old
sprout whose older brother, Sterling, was
a continuing success in fair events. It was
assumed by her family, Molly said, that
she would get into fair activities too.
She entered three contests that fi rst
year: livestock (a milking shorthorn dairy
cow), cooking and knitting – and won.
The c ity of Astoria’s two-stage
cross-country run, set in the
wooded Coff enbury Lake sur-
rounding, has come of age.
Last year, the fi rst annual one,
99 runners vied in the two Sun-
day events. When this summer’s
second annual event ended Sun-
day under almost 90-degree
weather and hundreds of specta-
tors on hand, the competition had
totaled 145.
Another monkey wrench has been
dropped into the planning machinery for
Astoria’s proposed sewer system.
The Environmental Protection Agency
has ruled that low bids by two contractors
are incomplete and aren’t acceptable until
further information about minority hiring
plans are provided.
CANNON BEACH – “Wood-
man, spare that blackberry!”
During Monday evening’s
Cannon Beach City Council
meeting, one councilman noted
that blackberries are growing on
some streets and sidewalks, and
that maybe something should be
done about it.
This brought immediate reac-
tion from the large audience.
“Wait until they ripen!” roared
the audience with what seemed to
be one voice.
Without further comment, the
c ouncil dropped the subject.
A 24-hour weather reporting facility for
the lower Columbia area is off the ground
fl oor, and will be on top of a mountain
near Naselle, Washington , according to
the Clatsop County P arks and Recreation
Committee.
The Clatsop County organization
undertook establishing the government
weather station as one of its projects last
year. The project appears “defi nitely in”
for the lower Columbia. They pinpointed
the location of the transmitter at the 1,900-
foot elevation on Radar Hill, near Naselle.
75 years ago – 1947
Adelbert Newman, 32, walked into the
U. Laine Jewelry company store Saturday
and asked to look at some rings.
Manager Howard C. Gocus obliged by
putting a number of rings on the counter.
When Newman fi nished admiring the
rings on the counter, Gocus prepared to
put the displays back in the case.
An engagement and wedding ring set
were missing. Newman denied taking
them, and emptied his pockets to show the
rings were not there.
Customer Newman left and Gocus
called police. Police sergeant P.H. Plog-
hoft discovered Newman in a local
It’s an ill wind that blows no good. But
Victor C. Forte, Columbia River Packers
Association worker, thinks the old saying
should also apply to tuna.
Forte could see nothing good at fi rst in
the tuna tossed from a truck that knocked
him unconscious last week, and put him in
St. Mary’s Hospital.
Forte went to room 206 nursing a slight
concussion and not at all in love with the
frozen yellowfi n tuna that laid him cold
for an hour and a half.
But Forte found more sympathy from
Gust A. Carlson, patient next door in room
205. Forte and his family had been endur-
ing cramped quarters in a hotel. Carlson
promised Forte and family roomier quar-
ters at 253 Grand Ave.
Both patients left the hospital last
week, but before Forte left he chuckled,
“I’m almost glad I got hit by the tuna.”
At least two dozen units of the
U.S. N avy’s Tongue Point housing
project will be fi nished by the end
of August, naval offi cials at the
project said today.
A number of units are virtu-
ally fi nished excepting for paint-
ing and linoleum, according to
the Navy.
Families are expected to be
moving into the apartment-like
units during September.
A Japanese rifl e with a broken stock
and the barrel of another Japanese rifl e
have been recovered in dredging of the
slips at the port terminals. They are pre-
sumed to have been tossed overboard by
returning servicemen.
Despite rumors that much canned food
had been dumped into the slips during
the war, the dredge Natoma has not come
up with a single full can. However, it has
pumped up hundreds of empty cans of oil,
paint and food, all with the tops gone.