News In Brief
November 23, 1983
Newport, Ore.
Oregon coast is threatened by more oil from freighter
Waves pounding a Japanese freighter wrecked off the coast Saturday threatened to break up a main fuel tank and spread more oil on a contaminated estuary where endangered brown pelicans and other birds were killed by oozing crude.
The oilslick of 3,000 gallons from the 350-foot Blue Magpie spread 4 miles up the coast and 5 miles up the Yaquina River.