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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1938)
_ ' i • • * * * * *>*«l Volume 1 Foothill Highway Thru Here Sought By Loca[Citizens ■ ^¡■ ■ ''" ' ■■ w ■ -•■■ ’v ." * > ■ - ' ■ a • ’ « - GatewaV íoM í. Sandy, Oregon, Thursday, January 6 1938 SANDY GRANGERS TO BE HOSTS TO STATE DELEGATES HERE Number 1 Co-op Telephone THE SANDY POST System Planned For Community One of the outstanding events of the new year for Sandy, takes The Sandy Post enters your home perhaps uninvited and a place Wednesday, January 12, when the Sandy Grange will be host to total stranger. As a matter of fact, the Sandy Post has Grangers from all over the state, just been born. When a stranger enters the community, the and points in Washington. More residents are entitled to know something about the new Stale Highway Commission than 300 delegates are expected to .Lower Rates Contemplated comer. With that thought in mind, the editor of this paper arrive for the all day session which Listens to Arguments For Rural Subscribers desires to offer for your approval some (of the reasons why starts at 10:30 a.m. when the busi- j ness of the session gets under way. he is here. First, we have had an opportunity to meet many The citizens of Sandy ar.d other At the close of the session of the Sandy citizens took definite ac of the folks of the community and we are frank to state communities turned out enmasse, morning, lunch will be served and tion to overcome the present un- that the newly-formed acquaintances have been most grati Thursday, and met with the State { music will be furnished by the high 'satisfactory telephone situation Highway Department in the Public I school band. j last week when the Sandy Chamber fying. Residents of this community, as evidenced by their Service building, in Portland, to j At 2 p.m., a program presented ■ Commerce gave its support to conversations, have a deep and profound desire to advance advance the interests of the Foot by the local hosts will be thrown , the niove to organize a local coop- their territory. They are civic minded. They believe in the hill Highway construction through open to the public. Dinner will be erative phone company and voted community and are staking their efforts and capital to de Sandy. The meeting involved the served at 5:30, and another p r o -ito place responsibility for immed- velop their own home country and make it a better place ring ot hearing of arguments argum ents from inter- gram ~ranl will w;ii be offered | nt ¡ate action on Frank Christensen. at 8-20 8:30 nm p.m. late in which to live. In that connection, a newspaper properly ested parties and when the affair Active in the extensive prepara- Mr. Christensen is a competent was concluded the highway depart tion, is Mrs. Will Bell, who states J telephone executive and citizens are edited can be of immense benefit. The editor of the Post ment had promised exactly noth that all residents are invited to aid reported to have shown marked in enjoys the hobby of community development. Community ing. Reports of c.■»’«mission mem in making the day a pleasant one terest in the project a t its incep development will be the major ambition I of this »paper. bers disclosed the facts th at in re- for the visitors. tion. Probably no where is there a territory so attractive to the cen‘ checks, more than 30,000 cars Many residents of Sandy are re tourist, the home seeker, and the business man as this. We and 10,000 trucks cover this road COUNTY TREASURER ported to be ready to sign up for are certain that no better field could be found for a paper annually. Information further dis SAVES PUBLIC FUNDS the new service and offers of finan to be of service. The outside world is entitled to know about closed that only two and one half cial support are said to be sufficient the entire Mt. Ilood district. It will be the constant effort ' —-------- miles of road remain to be com Reports rrom County Treasurer to make the project a success. ed to connect the route with the of the Post to acquaint as many prospective tourists Loop highway. This construction, W. W. E verhart’s office this week Those actively engaged in the move and home seekers of the glories of the “Loop” as possible. as estimated by highway engineers, show financial transactions highly claim that phone service can be ex- With the idea of service in mind, we set forth the platform profitable to the county. Figures tended to the extreme limits of the would cost $3,500 00 to complete. show that in 1935, through increas- Sandy district at a price that rural of the new paper; ia highway, if completed, of- ed payment of delinquent taxes, the dwellers can afford. It is further a direct route for traffic county was able to buy up county claimed that while the present rate 1. To print all the news of the community, honestly and <- Salem to the Loop highway bonds in the sum of $43,000, and within the city may not be reduced, with the utmost accuracy. I through Sandy. It has been general like purchases were made in 1936 the outlying country can be suppli- ly understood that the highway de amounting to $28,000, totalling ed with service on a basis of very 2. To print, in addition to the news, features and construct partment has suspended work on $71,000. These bonds were sold Jan equitable rates, thereby giving the ive matter that will interest the entire family and the com the road pending action of parties uary 4th to Blythe W itter and Com entire district the benefit of a com munity. in other portions of the county pany for the sum of $79,419.01, plete service, and, as is pointed out, 3. To give the widest possible publicity to the advantages Rwho desire to have the construction making a net profit to the county with a savings to the community of the territory in which we perve to the outside world. re-routed to connect with the Loop of many thousands of dollars an of $6,421.67. highway at a point above Sandy. nually that now goes to outside 4. To work and fight, if neccessary, for those advantages derived from this sale I No open arguments were offered will The be funds sources. that the territory is entitled to. appropriated to retire at Thursday’s meeting to advance The present move to better condi- h a v e QUr p ja t f orm> w e L»e m o re t h a n county w arrants outstanding, and this procedure, however, and it is . ,, ,. , . , ; e according to Treasurer Everhart, tions was made as a result of a reasonable to believe th at if such will save the county more than long drawn out period of dissatis- glad to have any one m the district make suggestions for action is being taken, it is of the $3,000 in annual interest payments. faction with the present set-up and the improvement of the paper, 1 rom time to time, and to Sub rosa type. According to county figures, there more recently when the present op- ¡cooperate with us in making the paper just what we have iReaidents of Sandy feel th at their are still outstanding w arrants erating company got an authoriza outlined, a good newspaper for this community, for only Jaims for final completion of the totalling $290,000, but present in tion from the state utilities depart with the cooperation of the community can |any paper be , . , Aginal route are sound in view dications show that this figure will ment for a toll charge on calls be- the fact that the highway de be cut to the neighborhood of tween Sandy and Gresham. Present t h a t which it should be. subscribers point out th at in view ' partm ent now owns the present $225,000 by May 1st. Band Fund Raised To $410.00 of the fact that the Sandy and SPORTSMEN CLUB right-of-way and would have to buy By School Board Appropriation Gresham exchanges have been op new properties to make the change. Sportsmen To Shoot SEEK GAME POACHERS erated as a single unit since their Also, they feel that Sandy is en The high school band fund was It Out Sunday inception, and in view of the short titled to the benefits th a t would ac Incensed by the activities of put over the top by the board of ed The Sandy Sportsmen association digtance between the cities, the rate poachers who have recently preyed ucation with a an emergency appro crue from increased traffic over the mnnnnoo another merchandise I should . . . never » have » been - authorized. ¿ t — t — > on ^ e pheasant crop in this - - new road. They also point out that announces local- priation amounting to $70 accord travelers are entitled to be routed shoot for Sunday morning, January More complete plans for the new ity, the Sandy Sportsmen Club has ing to an announcement made at through the business district of 9th. These shoots are becoming company will be announced in the posted a reward of ten dollars for the Sandy Chamber of Commerce Sahdy and the advantages that more and more popular and a good Post in the near future. the arrest and conviction of these ; meeting Thursday night. This was naturally come to tourists who are ly crowd is expected. culprits. Members complain that made necessary by reason of an in need of emergency attention to I the stand of pheasants is being de- agreement with the chamber to Leo McGlade and Family Grade School Has their traveling needs. ¡pleted by this illegal hunting and i match the chamber fund dollar for Return from Spokane ( are determined to stamp it out if I dollar. ■ Principal arguments were made New Teacher The final figures showed $170.00 to the commission by Roy Meyer, Mrs. Forest Peetz, of Welches, Leo McGlade, and family, return- possible. Anyone who wishes to cooperate raised by the Chamber of Com of Eagle Creek; Ivan Barker and has arrived to replace Miss Cather- ! e<l Sunday from Spokane, after a hSayor Charles Scharnke, of Sandy. ine Barger as teacher in the grade holiday visit with relatives there, in bringing about the arrest of the merce which was matched by the Among others who attended the school, according to the announce They motored to the Washington guilty parties sh< uld contact any school board and the emergency member of the club and proper appropriation brought the total ex ■eeting wehe R. S. Smith, R. P. ment of Robert S. Smith, school city. steps will l>e taken to cause the a r penditure for instruments to Gollins, L. J. Gieske, Roy Wilcox, board member. rest and conviction of the suspect $410.00 Louie Rich, who jerks sodas Gtos S. Fenger, Ted Johnson, Will ed parties. and schnapps at the Schmitz Ball, Kieth LeRoy, Mrs. Widmer, They say that the main difference Cafe, said he had a half a There’s something wrong with Victor Lundeen, M. Suchow, M. between a snake and a flea is that A business has two strikes on it mind to get married.Well, a i this picture. A Texas man who had Zog of Sandy; and Carl Rehberg, the snake crawls on his own stom when it starts and three hundred ■ not kissed his wife for a year, just of Eagle Creek; R. Suchow and ach while the flea isn’t so partic- I half a mind is about all a man 1 strikes afterward. ' shot a man who did. has when he gets married. ftie d a Lang, of Boring. ular. i
