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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2022
THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2022 • B1
WATER UNDER
THE BRIDGE
COMPILED BY BOB DUKE
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago
this week — 2012
M
cGOWAN, Wash. — Middle Village and Sta-
tion Camp Park held its grand opening Satur-
day after more than a decade of planning and
collaboration.
The park is part of the National Park Service’s Wash-
ington expansion of the Lewis and Clark National His-
torical Park. Located between the north end of the
Astoria Bridge and Chinook, Washington , along U.S.
Highway 101, the park has been in the works since 2002,
during the preparation of the Lewis and Clark Expedi-
tion’s Bicentennial.
“For some of us, it’s a miracle that it’s happening,”
said Jim Sayce, the Middle Village and Station Camp
project liaison with the Washington State Historical
Society. “To build a park in the middle of a recession is
just amazing. It just tells you that there are things worth
doing. This is for the future. This has incredible worth
across cultural lines.”
The project is the result of a partnership between the
Chinook Indian Nation, the Washington State Histori-
cal Society, the McGowan–Garvin family, the National
Park Service, the Washington State Parks and Recre-
ation Commission and the Washington State Department
of Transportation.
It was a “thanks, but no thanks” moment
at the Astoria City Council meeting Monday
night, when the council was asked to accept
a gift from Foss Maritime of the former pilot
boat, Arrow No. 2, and declined unanimously.
The Columbia River Maritime Museum sub-
mitted a request to the city of Astoria to accept
the gift, because the museum cannot aff ord to
handle the donation at this time of a vessel that
will require some maintenance and restoration.
The U.S. Coast Guard c utter Alert, the 210-foot
medium-endurance cutter homeported in Astoria and
often seen moored near the Columbia River Maritime
Museum, recently received a much-needed overhaul on
its hull and shipboard equipment at the Fairhaven Ship-
yard in Bellingham, Washington.
After representing the Coast Guard at the Portland
Rose Festival, Alert’s crew arrived in Bellingham in
early June for a 62-day maintenance period.
During this period, new equipment was installed that
improved the crew’s ability to perform damage control,
including fi ghting fi res and combating fl ooding, offi cers
said.
WARRENTON – Several local schools and
a few from outside the area got a jump on the
fall sports season over the weekend, as Astoria
hosted a soccer tournament scrimmage at the
Warrenton Soccer Complex.
The Lady Fishermen and Lady Gulls staged
an unoffi cial, 60-minute “Clatsop Clash” scrim-
mage Saturday afternoon. Seaside’s Emily
Becker scored two goals and Hannah Garhofer
added a third to help Seaside defeat Astoria,
3-0.
50 years ago — 1972
One of the original writer-producers for the television
series “Mission Impossible” scoured Astoria last week
looking for a fi lming location for a new series about mis-
sions that sometimes seem impossible.
Allan Balter said he and his writer-producer partner,
William Read Woodfeld, are preparing a 90-minute tele-
vision pilot fi lm for the CBS network on the U.S. Coast
Guard.
Unlike “Mission Impossible” which portrayed some
outlandish adventures, “Erickson’s Log” will chronicle
the real-life adventures of a Coast Guard troubleshooter.
The U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet will be rep-
resented at the Astoria Regatta by the USS
Wallace L. Lind, an Allen M. Sumner class
destroyer. The Lind cruises the western Pacifi c
waters and carries a crew of 275 offi cers and
enlisted men.
The HMCS Chaleur will also visit Astoria
during the Regatta celebration Aug. 24 to Aug.
27. The Chaleur is a Bay-c lass minesweeper
which is employed in a training role, giving
navigation experience to junior offi cers and sea-
manship training to seamen both reserve and
regular forces.
The waterfront park in Astoria is going to get its
90-foot aluminum alloy fl agpole thanks to the Angora
Hiking Club of Astoria. The c lub gave $11,000 for the
pole to the Columbia River Maritime Museum last
week.
The money is from the sale of Angora Hiking Club
property on Tillamook Head several years ago.
1972 — The USS Wallace L. Lind.
2012 — From left, Sam Robinson, Chinook Indian Nation vice chairman; Jane Pullman, council member; Joan Wekell,
tribal elder; Natalie Elliott with her mother, Kate; Carol Shepherd, tribal member; and Jeremy Wekell, council member,
sing a song of gratitude following the dedication ceremony of the Middle Village and Station Camp project in McGowan.
prize of $50.
Once, when the little brass cannon boomed,
all of Astoria fl ocked to the docks to watch the
arrivals of infrequent steamships from San
Francisco, California, bearing oranges, fresh
fruits and news of the world to this Northwest
port.
The little brass cannon still draws attention
as it keeps silent watch over a number of pio-
neer treasures in the front window of the Pacifi c
Power & Light Co .
The window is one of two displays sponsored
by the Clatsop County chapter of the Oregon
Historical Society.
2012 — Seaside’s Whitney Westerholm, left, sends a shot
past a Banks defender that rolls just wide of the goal
during a match at the Warrenton Soccer Complex.
The Astoria Regatta started in 1894 as a pro-
motional idea to create more enthusiasm in
the community. The idea apparently was that
of E.J. Smith, editor of T he Morning Astorian,
who had read of similar activities in Australia.
In the early days, fl ags and buntings were
placed in residential areas on homes and on
downtown places of business.
The fi rst Regatta queen was selected in
1897. In later years, the girl who sold the most
Regatta buttons wore the Regatta crown.
The Regatta was postponed in 1916 during
World War I , in 1940 when a fi re destroyed the
Regatta Pavilion and again during World War
II .
Featured in 1908 were sail boat races, where
Gyro Field now stands. A “Bridge of the Gods
Pageant” was held in 1910 at the city park. It
featured a burning canoe fl oating down Youngs
River, depicting Chief Multnomah’s canoe, and
a red ball of fi re on Green Mountain to simulate
the eruption of Mount Hood.
CANNON BEACH — Some residents of this com-
fortable coastal beach community were apprehensive
when the doors of the Cannon Beach Youth Hostel
swung open in late May.
But for the most part, say hostel organizers, the town
has accepted the project, located in a cozy, comfortable
old home at Hemlock and Washington streets.
So have hundreds of young travelers, who fi nd an
inexpensive evening’s respite at the experimental hostel.
The word is spreading via the traveler’s grapevine that
the hostel is a unique experience.
75 years ago — 1947
Crowds lined Seaside’s Broadway Street at 2 p.m.
Saturday to see a parade of more than 350 costumed
schoolchildren on fl ower-decked bicycles, tricycles,
wagons and fl oats, while adults observed the city’s
annual Dahlia Festival at a county wide fl ower show Sat-
urday and Sunday.
A fl oat depicting Cleopatra and her court, entered by
Earsom’s Jewelry Store, was awarded the sweepstakes
Sports fi sherme n’s luck prior to the Salmon Derby has
been the “limit” on salmon during the past two weeks
near the bar, according to Dave Lawson, who with other
sportsmen have caught the limit twice. Most fi sh caught
have weighed around 25 pounds.
Over 150 boats are expected to participate daily
during the six-day Salmon Derby, to be staged Aug. 30
to Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 to Sept. 4. Seventy boats have
registered with the Chamber of Commerce and over 50
free lance boats will participate.
Pacifi c County Pioneers elected Roy Whit-
comb, of South Bend, Washington , president
at its annual picnic Sunday at Bush State Park
in Bay Center. Al Gile, of Chinook, was cho-
sen vice president with Mrs. Roy Moore of Bay
Center as secretary-treasurer. Six hundred peo-
ple attended the picnic.
John T. Welsh, of South Bend, 56 years a
county resident, was speaker at the afternoon
program. Welsh paid high tribute to the beauty
and ability of the real aristocrats of the 1,100
miles of Pacifi c County land and water and the
Indians of the local tribes.
An ordinance prohibiting the erection of a fi sh can-
nery and conducting of a fi sh receiving and processing
business within an area near the center of Astoria was
up for a fi rst reading at the Astoria City Council meet-
ing Monday.
This ordinance may have been inspired by reports in
the fi shing industry that a New York fi sh broker is seek-
ing to acquire a site from Clatsop County on the water-
front in the vicinity of 10th Street for the purpose of
erecting a cannery.
Among reporters and special correspon-
dents swarming to Astoria to cover the Salmon
Derby is Irv Blumenfeld, photographer for Life
Magazine.
He reported to the Astorian-Budget today.
He is planning to cover the derby from land,
water and air.
Blumenfeld is interested in the housing of
derbyists and their off -the-river recreation. He
wants to get pictures of them in action with rod
and salmon. He will take to the air for pictures
of the army of derbyists.
Blumenfeld became acquainted with salmon
fi shing on the Columbia River in 1932 when
he was a star reporter on the Daily Messenger,
a defunct Astoria newspaper. He came to the
Messenger fresh from being dismissed by the
University of Washington as associate editor of
the smart and gay monthly Sun D odger.
1972 — Cannon Beach Youth Hostel director Ron Burns, in chair, sits with travelers.