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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2022
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2022 • B1
WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week – 2012
T
he Astoria Regatta celebrated its 118th year with
high spirits, fun community activities and gor-
geous weather. The festival, themed “A New
Beginning,” began Wednesday evening with the Kiwanis
Junior Parade and lasted through the Sunday afternoon
with boat races.
About 400 people attended the a dmiral’s reception Fri-
day evening, and more than 100 entries fi led through the
Lektro/U.S. Bank Grand Land Parade Saturday afternoon.
“The turn out has been good, and everyone’s very
excited,” said Eric Paulson, 2012 Regatta president, Satur-
day of the various Regatta events. “I couldn’t be happier.”
Last weekend’s Regatta sailboat races turned
out to be very exciting and eventful. Heavy seas
and heavy weather conditions added new dimen-
sions to Regatta activities that could be themed
“Thrills and Spills on the Water.”
Astoria Yacht Club hosted three days of sail-
boat racing on the Columbia River east and west
of the Astoria Bridge, along the city’s waterfront
and north of the N ew Youngs Bay Bridge.
Seas were heavy with breaking swells in every
race. Strong northwest wind built to small craft
advisory level in excess of 20 knots for Sunday’s
afternoon races. These challenging conditions tested
the training and competence of the boat crews and
also the integrity of the individual race boat.
2012 — Drum major Geordie Patterson, left, has been leading the Clan Macleay Pipe Band for decades. The band joined
in the fun of the Grand Land Parade on Saturday.
CANNON BEACH – Just how much time will it take
to run from the beach to one of 10 emergency assembly
areas in Cannon Beach after a massive earthquake?
It depends.
How old and fi t is the person making the escape? Do
fences or bushes block the evacuation route? Is the travel
surface on sand, street or something in between?
To answer the question — “H ow long does it take? ” —
scientists from state and national agencies will use Cannon
Beach as a pilot project to study how the landscape, com-
bined with the town’s demographics, will determine the
safest evacuation routes.
McGOWAN, Wash. — Contractors continue
to put the fi nishing touches on the National Park
Service’s Washington expansion of the Lewis and
Clark National Historical Park in preparation of
its grand opening Saturday.
But something about the place is already com-
pelling motorists to slam on their brakes as they
pass by it.
Maybe it’s the fl urry of activity taking place
next to the distinctive-but-unassuming St. Mary’s
Catholic Church along U.S. Highway 101, where
excavators are stockpiling driftwood.
The three concrete canoes situated on sand
beds near the roadway might have something to
do with it, too.
But perhaps it’s the sense that something is
nearing completion after being long awaited.
Some would say for eons.
2012 — Rattler and Zephyr spar in Sunday’s Regatta race
on the Columbia River.
75 years ago — 1947
2012 — Driftwood was strategically placed in the sand
along U.S. Highway 101 at Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park’s Middle Village and Station Camp.
50 years ago – 1972
The nation’s smallest, but most visible, military ser-
vice – the U.S. Coast Guard – celebrates its 182nd birth-
day today.
The Coast Guard mans 21 cutters and 51 marine-based
facilities in the Pacifi c Northwest with only about 2,000
service personnel.
Despite those slim numbers, the Coast Guard has earned
a reputation for its search and rescue missions, many of
which involved heroism on the part of Guardsmen.
WESTPORT – “Did you get a picture of
Bobby Harris?” yelled the press agent. “Who’s
Bobby Harris?” responded a tide-soaked studio
photographer.
“He’s the guy everybody went down to West-
port to see Friday evening – the one who’s been in
‘Bullitt’ and ‘Diamonds are Forever.’”
He even doubled for Elvis Presley in fi ve fi lms.
Everybody was there to see him, but hardly any-
body knew his name.
Harris – relaxing between takes, smoking a
cigarette, answering questions from newsmen –
was about to run his red Malibu off a ramp at
Westport onto a moving ferry.
The fi lming was for Warner Bros.’ “Delphi
Bureau,” part of a television series on ABC pre-
miering in September.
Clatsop Community College has been allotted a budget
of $69,195 for the current 1973 fi scal year out of Oregon
State University’s $1,793,700 Sea Grant allotment for the
year, Dr. Jackson Hargis, program coordinator at the col-
lege, said Friday.
Dr. Hargis said the additional money will permit some
expansion of the training program for commercial fi sher-
the junior level clothing style revue at the 4-H-
FFA Fair in Astoria.
After completion of that contest, Linda
switched to the events she likes best – horse show-
manship and horsemanship .
Asked how she has done in past horse events
at the f air, Linda said she was, “OK . I learned a
lot.”
She must be better than she indicated. Last
summer, she tied with Margaret Maki, of Asto-
ria, for the high point trophy in horse events.
And, during the past three days, she and Pokey
have collected an impressive array of ribbons –
two purple (championship) ribbons in showman-
ship; three blue (fi rst) ribbons in the trail class,
English equitation and showmanship; and three
red (second) ribbons in horse judging, Western
equitation and bareback classes.
The arrival of the August run of salmon in the Colum-
bia River was more or less offi cially announced Satur-
day at 6 a.m. a t Union Fishermen’s Cooperative Packing
company cannery by August Mattson and his son, Dale
Mattson.
The Mattsons delivered 1,811 pounds of Chinook
salmon, almost twice as much fi sh as any other fi shermen
reported today. Average deliveries at several canneries
ranged from 425 to more than 500 pounds.
The Mattsons used a diver net. Most of the other gill-
netters had fl oater nets. Mattson has been a gillnet fi sher-
man for years.
The freighter Pathfi nder put out to sea Sun-
day with the largest cargo of lumber ever loaded
at a single port in the Columbia River.
She carried 6,660,000 feet of surfaced, lumber
stored under her decks and 450,000 feet on her
decks, making a total of 7,110,000 feet, net mea-
surement. This cargo was loaded at the Pope &
Talbot mill in St. Helens.
GEARHART – Clatsop County golfers reached the top
of the heap in the Oregon Coast tournament Monday as an
all-time record fi eld of 257 completed qualifying 18-hole
rounds at the Gearhart g olf club.
R.K. (Bob) Stephens, former Astoria country club
caddy now of Portland, fi red a round of 35-35-70 to win
medalist honors in the men’s under 32 division, beating by
one stroke the scorers of defending champion Glen Spivey,
The Dalles, and fi ve others who carded 71.
1972 — U.S. Coast Guard members swab down helicopter.
men that is one of three phases of the c ollege’s Sea Grant
activity.
The other two are the training of marine technologists,
principally in seamanship and navigation, and the training
of oceanographic technologists, technicians who assist sci-
entists in oceanographic research.
Late last week, Linda Johns, 12, of Warren-
ton, was modeling a two-piece green pantsuit in
1972 — Clatsop Community College’s fl otilla includes the 50-foot fi shing vessel Sea Duce.
Columbia River buyers have raised the price
of tuna to $515 a ton in the fourth price boost of
the season. Since the fi rst albacore was caught in
a shark net off Newport, the price has gone up
$105 a ton.
Jig fi shermen, who catch the tuna on trolling
lines and use feathered lures, are again coming in
with the bulk of the catch. Grays H arbor land-
ings were heavy Monday after most of the fi sh
were found north of the Columbia River.
SEASIDE – The literary works of Chic Sale have gone
out of fashion here since Monday night, when the C ity
C ouncil passed an ordinance prohibiting the construction
of privies.
Would-be imitators of the “The Specialist” were
enjoined to cease and desist in their eff orts to build bigger,
better and more beautifu outdoor plumbing.
But that wasn’t all. A joker in the ordinance said that it’s
also unlawful to repair privies in existence.
“What’ll I do,” a citizen inquired plaintively, “if the
door falls off ?”
People of the l ower Columbia heard at break-
fast this morning a skeptical radio broadcaster on
an out-of-town station who just could not believe
what he called a “fi sh story” he had received over
the wire.
The story was to the eff ect that the freighter
Diamond Knot sank Tuesday with 157,000 cases
of Alaska salmon off the Straits of Juan de Fuca.
The broadcaster, who is in the performance
of this duties, must have told many far-fetched
yarns, said he refused to believe that a “fi shing
boat” had that much fi sh aboard.
Anyway, he gave the listeners the news, plus
his doubts. What sounded most “fi shy” of all to
the radio man was that salmon cargo could be
worth $3. 5 million. This was too much for the
broadcaster.