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December 9, 2016 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 5A Twelve timely tips for holiday electrical safety Winter festivities offer unique electrical safety issues By Alisa Dunlap Regional Business Manager Pacific Power ’Tis the season of merriment and gatherings of families and friends. Taking a few minutes to check for safety shows you are a wise man or wise woman and will help ensure a festive and fun holiday season. The following list of 12 recom- mendations is the best gift you can give at home: • Look first. Inspect all electrical decorations for damage before use. Cracked or damaged sockets, loose or bare wires and loose connections may cause a serious shock or can start a fire. • Don’t overload electrical out- lets. Overloaded electrical outlets and faulty wires are a common cause of holiday fires. Avoid over- loading outlets and only plug one high-wattage appliance into each outlet. • Three string rule. Never con- nect more than three strings of in- candescent lights. More than three strands can trip a circuit breaker or even cause a fire. • Look for the label. Check dec- orations for certification label. Dec- orations without a label from an independent testing laboratory such as Underwriters Laboratories have not been tested for safety and could be hazardous. • The out- siders. Make sure all exten- sion cords and electrical dec- orations used for outdoor decorating are marked for out- door use. Alisa Dunlap • Evergreen, ever safe. If you have a live tree, keep it fresh by watering daily. Dry trees are a serious fire hazard. When trimming the tree, only use non-combustible or flame-resistant materials and lights approved by a nationally-recognized testing labo- ratory. • Don’t flame out. Use bat- tery-operated simulated candles in cause of home cooking fires. • Turn off, unplug and extinguish all decorations when going to sleep or leaving the house. Unattended candles are a disaster waiting to happen. Half of home fire deaths occur between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. • Don’t kid around. When buying (or, shopping for) electronic toys for children, be sure to read the manu- facturer’s instructions and warning labels. Check if the item is appro- priate and safe to operate for the child’s age group, determine wheth- er adult supervision is required and plan accordingly. Additional details and safety tips are available on Pacific Pow- er’s website at pacificpower.net/ safety. place of traditional candles in any location near flammable objects. Almost half of home decoration fires are caused by traditional can- dles, according to the National Fire Protection Association. • Three foot rule. Keep combus- tibles, including Christmas trees, at least three feet from heat sources. • Get wired. Protect electrical cords from damage. To avoid shock or fire hazards, cords should nev- er be pinched by furniture, forced into small spaces such as doors or windows, placed under rugs, locat- ed near heat sources or attached by nails or staples. • A watched pot. As much as is possible, stay in the kitchen when something is cooking. Unattended cooking equipment is the leading OBITUARIES Richard Robert Schultz Marilyn Jean (Paulson) Halbrook Sept. 16, 1922 — Nov. 22, 2016 Richard “Dick” Schultz was born to mother Frances Mattson, the daughter of im- migrant Swedes, and father Richard Samuel Schultz, a ref- ugee farmer from the Ukraine. He grew up in the Depression, spending every summer in Gearhart, caddying at the golf course for 35 cents a round plus a 10 cent tip, and roaming the woods, dunes, and beach- es barefoot with his .22 rifle, his dog Fritz, and his buddies Gene and Boyd Poppino. The three were amazed at the Clat- sop open graves at the Nea- coxie, which they considered a sacred place. He learned how to golf on the Gearhart Golf Course by playing holes 15 to 17 at twilight, over and over until dark. The family stayed first in a Habicost cabin, then at the Habicost house, a converted wing of the old Gearhart Ho- tel that was salvaged after the burn. His dog, Fritz, died and still lies buried at the Habicost fence line at the Ridge Path. He attended Washington High School in Portland where he met the love of his life, Jeanne Briggs, and they were insepa- rable for the next 78 years, 71 in marriage. The day after Pearl Har- bor, his sophomore year in the Theta Chi house at the Univer- sity of Oregon, he enlisted in the Navy, where he trained to fly PBY Catalinas in subma- rine warfare against German U-boats along the Gulf and east coasts, and was a noted stunt flyer, irritating his supe- riors, in the skies over Florida and Georgia. After earning his wings, he and Jeanne were married in Portland. He requested a transfer to the South Pacific, where he longed to fly the lean Grummond TBF Avenger, but as the war wound down he was assigned to teach instru- ment navigation in Pensacola until the Japanese surrender. Dick and Jeanne returned to Oregon and bought a house on the Gearhart beach front for $3,750, lived there one winter with sand blowing through the walls, keeping warm by driftwood fires with their dog, Amber. Deciding they could not live on beach air and razor clams, they moved to Eugene where he earned a master’s degree in American literature at the University of Oregon, Richard Schultz spending summers as the golf pro in Gearhart. The year 1947 was a high- light of his golfing career, when he beat long-standing champ Ralph Dichter at the Gearhart Golf Course Club Championship, at the second hole of a sudden death play- off, which Dichter double-bo- geyed. After earning his de- gree, Dick taught high school English in Bend for several years, renting a different house each year and vacating it for the summer holiday in Gear- hart, where he continued to work as the golf pro. Weary of teaching high school, because “the orders don’t come from the bottom up,” Dick moved back to Port- land where he took a desk job at ESCO and then Hyster, tak- ing the “daddy train” on sum- mer weekends into Gearhart, where he was a regular at the Sandtrap and Gearhart Hotel, and befriended many Gearhart regulars, including the actor Johnny Sheffield of Tarzan fame, and screenwriter Beau Stone from whom he made a small fortune in golfing and chess bets. He golfed, dug clams, hooked salmon, and with Jeanne, socialized with Roy and June Maden, Pat and Tom Livesley, Brian and Sheila Taylor, Jon Blissett, Ray and Jeanne Weston, Harry Mc- Call, Dave and Emmadine MacDonald, and many others, and was a generous regular at the blackjack table at the Fire- man’s Ball. He soon tired of pushing papers and returned to U of O to enter a doctoral program in classical Greek, but his advi- sor died halfway through, so he finished with a second mas- ter’s in Greek drama. He then went on to be the first lecturer in classics at Portland State Oct. 22, 1938 — Dec. 1, 2016 University, teaching Shake- speare and American literature on the side. A bibliophile collector of first editions, his immense knowledge of literature in- spired that sharp and wicked wit that endeared him to many, unless they were on the wrong end of it. Dick never lost the con- nection to Gearhart, where he claimed to have spent the best times of his life. In the early 1970s he grieved to see the Gearhart Hotel razed, but managed to salvage a “Drift- wood Lounge” sign for his den, and channeled his anger to win the Gearhart Grand- fathers’ Golf Tournament, matching the Gearhart course record on the back nine. In the 1990s he was instru- mental in stopping the Sahh- alie condominium develop- ment at the Neacoxie estuary in Seaside by testifying on the desecration of the Indian grave sites there that he knew from childhood. He was a life-long athlete, a gymnast in high school and college, and completed two Seaside marathons in his 50s. He was in retirement for 30 years, traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe. He died two months after his 94th birthday, and six months after his 71st wedding anniversary, while enjoying a life of leisure on the Croatian Adriatic coast with Jeanne and two of his chil- dren, Stewart and Julie, who are resident in Croatia. Dick will be remembered as a brash, freewheeling, and irreverent member of the Greatest Generation, a lover and promoter of classical liter- ature and ideas, a natural golf- er with nerves of steel, a friend and protector of old Gearhart, and a devoted father and hus- band who was convinced each of his children was destined for greatness. He is survived by his wife Jeanne; brother Bill; children Julie, Stewart, and Todd; grandchildren Rick, Erin, Adrienne, Henry and Anne- gret; step-grandchildren Jenni- fer and Matthew; and several great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. His eldest son Rick, volunteer Gearhart fire- man, classified ad manager at The Daily Astorian and cham- pion golfer, preceded him in death. Marilyn Halbrook left this world peacefully on Dec. 1, 2016. Marilyn had just cele- brated her 78th birthday with family, friends and good food … just the way she loved it. Marilyn Halbrook was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, to Gunder and Muriel Paulson (who preceded her in death) on Oct. 22, 1938, along with her beloved sisters, Ganet Moe (who preceded her in death) and Mary Kay Erickson of Seaside. The Paulson family moved in 1944 from North Dakota to Vancouver, Washington, and then in 1946 moved to Verno- nia, Oregon. In 1952 they set- tled in Seaside, where Marilyn graduated from Seaside High School in 1956. Marilyn worked at the Times Theater, Leonard’s Can- dy Store and did some live-in babysitting for Dr. McClean. After high school she worked for Avery Law Offices in Sea- side. Marilyn and ex-husband, Harvey Wade “Swede” Hal- brook (who preceded her in death) began life with their chil- dren, daughter Janet Halbrook, and sons Wade Halbrook and John Halbrook (Abby Tuers). Living in Portland, Oregon, in 1960 Marilyn worked for a law firm. Marilyn and her children moved back to Seaside in 1963, where she lived until her peace- ful passing in her home. Marilyn worked for Crown Zellerbach, Cavanham & Wil- lamette Industries (same posi- tion) from 1965 until her retire- ment in 2000. Marilyn brought such joy, laughter and humor to any situ- ation. She never knew a strang- er, was considered by all to be a really good friend, and was always thinking of others. Mar- ilyn was the one you called on if you needed something done and done right; she said, “if it had big plates” she would plan it, otherwise is up to someone else. Her volunteerism proved that over and over, be it for the SMART program, Miss Ore- gon Scholarship Pageant or Re- lay For Life. Marilyn was our matriarch and a planner, be it trips with her sister, Mary Kay, or family get-togethers, Marilyn was the one to start the ball rolling. The LETTERS letters from Page 4A Sued for our trees Many people are not aware of the $1.4 billion Linn County class action law suit filed against the State of Oregon. Nor are they aware of the impact it could have on the place where we live. If the suit succeeds, Oregon De- partment of Forestry will be un- der pressure to operate much like the timber industry in order to squeeze more logging reve- nue out of state managed for- ests. The mandate to ODF will be to log, mostly clearcut, for greater revenue. We will lose the goal of balance with other val- ues such as environment, spe- cies protection and recreation . Look around you at the clear- cut hills. More of this is what we would be choosing. But wait, we don’t even have to choose. In fact, if we say nothing, since it is a class action suit naming 15 counties including Clackamas and Tillamook, we will just si- lently slide right along with the pack. Incidentally this suit, al- though called by a county name, was backed and financed by the timber industry. The hard truth for some of us is that the timber industry does not live with the consequence of their actions. They do not live with hills that have been denud- ed and sprayed. They do not ex- perience the effect of toxic spray in the water, the mud slides and flooding in the winter, the silt- ation of the streams and rivers, the dying off of wildlife and fish and the loss of forests. We are, in fact, even forgetting what the word forest means. It is not acres of homogenous trees. A few of us were lucky enough to know for- ests as children, to play in them and learn from them. This is a val- ue beyond money that we hope to share with our children’s children. We still have time. Contact your County Commissioners. Ask them to opt out of the Linn County law suit. Ask them not to support a forest management policy destructive to the place where we live. Gwendolyn Endicott Nehalem powered by Marilyn Halbrook laughter, the love, the adven- tures, the more the merrier. The last six and a half years Marilyn has fought a long, hard battle against cancer. She may have had cancer, but cancer never had Marilyn — such in- credible strength, dignity and humor, she never gave in or up. Heaven gained an amazing spirit in our Marilyn. Those of us blessed enough to know and love Marilyn are better because of her. She will be missed by her family and many friends. She is survived by her niece, Kim Gould; nephews David (Tuf) Gould, Kevin Gould, Randy (Tammy) Moe and Scott Moe; great-nieces Nicole and Samantha Gould, Ashtyn Routh, Ronnie and Sydney Gould and Kaitlyn and Karlee Moe; great-nephews Gregg Gould and Joel and Beau Routh; grandchildren Jessica Heslop, Mindy Olsen, Job and Jalessa Johnson, Gunder Hal- brook and Angela Tuers; and great-grandchildren, Alyssa and Madison Burmister, Zion Moore and Elisa Johnson. Some people come into our lives and leave quietly, and others, like Marilyn Halbrook, leave footprints in our hearts, and are unforgettable. Those wishing to contribute in Marilyn Halbrook’s honor may do so to Relay For Life of Clatsop County or Miss Oregon Scholarship Foundation (Mari- lyn “Pageant Angel” Halbrook annual memorial scholarship, P.O. Box 1032 Seaside, OR 97138). A celebration of Marilyn’s life will be held 1 p.m., Satur- day, Dec. 10, 2016, at the Sea- side American Legion. 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