OREGON BEACH CHRONOLOGY.Byline: The Register-Guard 1899: The Legislature declares 30 miles of beach a highway "forever open as such to the public" between high tide line and low tide line from Columbia River Columbia River River, southwestern Canada and northwestern U.S. Rising in the Canadian Rockies, it flows through Washington state, entering the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Ore.; it has a total length of 1,240 mi (2,000 km). to Clatsop County south boundary. 1913: Gov. Oswald West Oswald West (May 20, 1873 - August 22, 1960) was an American politician, a Democrat, who served most notably as the 14th Governor of Oregon. Called "Os West" by Oregon writer Stewart Holbrook, who described him as "by all odds the most brilliant governor Oregon ever had. persuades the Legislature to amend 1899 law to extend wet-sand beach highway to include all tidelands along Oregon Coast. 1947: The Legislature changes designation of beach "highway" to "recreation area." 1966: William Hay, owner of Surfsand Motel in Cannon Beach, fences off section of dry sand adjacent to motel and posts it for "Surfsand Guests Only." Although most Oregonians believed all Oregon beaches were public, 112 miles of dry-sand beaches above high tide line were deeded to private individuals such as Hay, who sought to exercise his right of ownership. 1967: State Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, headed by Loren L. "Stub A small software routine placed into a program that provides a common function. Stubs are used for a variety of purposes. For example, a stub might be installed in a client machine, and a counterpart installed in a server, where both are required to resolve some protocol, remote procedure " Stewart of Eugene, orders preparation of Beach Bill to ensure public's access to dry-sand beach area. Idea gains backing of Gov. Tom McCall and slightly amended bill eventually passes in the Legislature. Bill provides for public recreational easement easement, in law, the right to use the land of another for a specified purpose, as distinguished from the right to possess that land. If the easement benefits the holder personally and is not associated with any land he owns, it is an easement in gross (e.g. between high tide line and line 16 feet landward land·ward adv. & adj. To or toward land: sailing landward; the landward side of a coastal fortification. land , approximating beginning of vegetation. 1969: State Supreme Court upholds beach law in landmark Thornton vs. Hay case in which Attorney General Robert Thornton sues Surfsand Motel owner Hay for refusing to remove fence outside his motel. 1994: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the state's beach law by declining to review a state Supreme Court decision against Irving and Jeanette Stevens, owners of Ecola Inn in Cannon Beach. The couple wanted to build a seawall seawall: see coast protection. on dry sand adjacent to the motel so they could expand their building. The Register-Guard CAPTION(S): The Oregon Beach Bill is a part of the enduring legacy of Gov. Tom McCall. |
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