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fundless Hospital Is Expected by Festival Time; Benefits Slated T he S andy P ost gain Gutters, Doors, W indows, Roofing, Bough Plumbing B efore Festival Time SB SB Continuation of th e hospital m ay depend on the outcome .¿Sandy Straw berry F estival th is year. The hospital finances «ftbe - point where the b arrel w ill be dry about the tim e of u ctrawberry Festival. % t to be done on th e hospital before th e finishing begins . 2 construction of gutters, th e finishing of th e roof, and the idling oi windows, doors and ro u g h plumbing, i f th ere S money left, some rough-in w ork on th e w iring will be done ’’W metal w orkers have been on th e job fo r th e past for the construction ofO----------- F iveek vents, edgings, and s®1! Torf "construction. M remainder of th e cedar The n i o r th e shingles ro o f have ar- , , n„ Hospital Hill an d are • laid by crews this week. b£X door 'and window casings « expected to sta rt arriv in g « and then inside w ork can S o n the plumbing and pos- ¡ Siy the wiring. | 1 | ’ Money Raising nuring the last few m onths J/eral money-raising schem es « started and ended. land donated to the hospital Lv Jennie Welch and Mel Ohris- 4Lon were to have been sold, C tile " actual sale is to be postponed until later, th e hos pital board decided, A minstrel s h o w w h ic h w ill ' utilize the talent of th e moun- tainside is planned for early fall. The show was originally sched uled for April,, but it w as decid ed that it had b etter be post poned in favor of an all-out ef fort on the Strawberry Festival. Ticket Sales The committee on th e Straw - , jerry Festival is holding re g ular planning meeting^. Two organizations haye chosen candidates for the festival. Tick ets to. the festival are going strong, sellers indicate. On the hospital last T h ursday a crew organized by Mrs. H azel W, Johnston worker 12 hours. Those who, worked w ere G. R. Olson and C. W. Form an. Serv- ' fag lunch were Hazel W. Jo h n ston, Mrs. C. W. Form an, Mrs. priebe and Mrs, Meeker. On Saturday Carl R annow donated four hours w ork on tot metal for the roofing. Í Sandy Kiwanis W ill Travel To P o r tla n d Sandy Kiwanis will atten d a meeting at the Masonic Tem ple in Portland, April 14, a t 6:45 [p.m, Mr. Rolston, governor of Pacific Northwest K iw anis district, w ill foe the speaker. At their regular m eeting, A pril [ 13, club members will ballot fo r ; their choice of princess fo r th e 0 Strawberry Festival. Gene Vedder will be program chair- i man with members of th e Ore- i City Toastmasters club pro- i viding entertainment. BOWLING SANDY CITY LEAGUE W näy Kiwanis ...................64« Collins Haulers .............. 63 American Legion ........ .62 Norquist Electric ............... 59- i Curt and Del’s ...................52 Barker Drug ...................... 49 ’Hartwig Electric . .............47 i Fellows ................ 36 L 44 45 46 49 56 59 61 72 Dates and D o in g s A calendar of events, club activ- I ®cs and public meetings for this I 'fe«k in the Mount Hood area. Brightwood Extension Unit, HMirsday, A p ril 13, 1 0 :3 0 a .m ., Sleepy Hollow. : Boring Extettsion U nit, Fridav, [April 14. L.^lara^ei of Commerce, Wed- W , April 19, M asonic hall. [ forças Society,-Tuesday, A pril 'J ^ y Volunteer Fire Départ ant, Wednesday, A pril 12, F ire Nose-Counters In Region Get Taste Of Muddy Roads, Flat Tires, Americans, First Hand Sandy Clubs Will Send 4-H Students To Summer School S andy area organizations are m aking plans for sending del egates to th e annual 4-H sum m er school to be held a t Ore gon S tate college in Corvallis Ju n e 13 th ro u g h 23. Each club raises about $20 in scholarship m oney to send a w orthy 4-H m em ber to th e school fo r ad vanced study in his or h e r chos en field. T he Clackam as County bank offers a $20 scholarship each y ea r w ith a boy or girl winning th e aw ard on alternate years. G erald Benson, a Sandy dele gate of la st year, won a county w ide scholarship. N ew O fficer Slate For Firwood Extension U nit N ew officers w ere elected at th e reg u la r m eeting of th e Fir- w ood E xtension unit, Tuesday, A pril 11, a t th e home of Mrs. W. H. H arris on the Loop high w ay. Elected chairm an w as Mrs. Ire n e A rm strong; vice chair m an is Mrs. P a t R ickm an; sec retary , Mrs. R uth Howton and trea su rer, Mrs. D elight Blake. Topic fo r th e m eeting was, “Choosing an d M aking L am p shades,” A fter the business m eeting th e 20 m em bers pres en t gave a surprise baby show er fo r Mrs. John M etsger. T hree absent m em bers sent gifts. H a r r y H a r v ie To J o in G o vern o r’s ? M e e t In S a le m P rincipal H a rry Harvie, of the S andy grade school, h as been invited to atten d th e Oregon G overnor’s Conference on Child ren and Y outh held in th e sta te capitol A pril 13-14. T he confer ence is p a r t of th e w ork done b y th e governor’s com m ittee on children and youth w hich inves tig a te s progress in Oregon’s schools and rep o rts to teachers over th e state. G eneral sessions of th e con ference begin T hursday in the H ouse of R epresentatives, w here G overnor D ouglas McKay will preside. O utstanding educators and social w orkers of Oregon and o th er p a rts of th e nation w ill address teachers and prin cipals on education and fam ily psychology. Som e of th e topics to be dis cussed a re th e adequacy of Ore gon’s schools, com m unity health p ro g ra m s fo r school children, m ental health o f th e school child, recreation facilities, juvenile de linquency and child w elfare. T he problem of educational facilities fo r m entally and phys ically handicapped children will be p artly solved fo r Sandy’s children w ith th e beginning of th e next school year. A special in stru c to r will give full tim e to teaching *handicapped children, tho se too advanced beyond th eir contem poraries and those re tarded. M rs. Saidie O rr D unbar is chairm an of th e Governor’s S tate C om m ittee on , Children and Y outh in Salem. Grade School P-TA, •T uesdi April 18’ 8 p “m ” sch001' housed’ « ■ ■ ■ I BMBjB Th^eran Women’s League, P^rsday, April i 3j 1:30 p.m . 18 iu,Onie Todge, Tuesday, A pril hall, 7:30 p.m. -J‘w t Tea<2hers Organization, [14, § school, Friday, A pril Ihesdai ^ oble-Grand Club, Wed- I ? ’ April 19- T he to ta l in th e Red Cross camDaign fo r funds in Clack- am as county is new ?1J9’P42A8‘ Joe Davies, cam paign chairm an and Mrs. Floscia Mehren, exec utive director, m ade a tourv of th e county F riday and reported th e drive progressing, well, “W e look forw ard to reaching o u r quota w ithin th e next two W s eeks” Mr. Davies. S y said h as reported coUections am ounting to 8124 ’ S - GirIs’ M ountain View k o n j Wednesday, A pril 19, B oring-D am ascus,, $32U.zo, u-ai venR ock Creek, $182.50; Cottrell, $93.60; Eagle Creek, $97.65, Sun- LodKe, T hursday, I w 7,190 F hail- ’C e \ S < M e w ill m a t e . (April 17 Scouts, Monday, ^ ade 4:15 p.m. Visit to Clackam as ■ W » . anSe Card Party, 21. H eadquarters w i l l bet m E lks Temple, Oregon City, from C ’ April !5- a.m. until 3 p.m- nQW I q eague Youth Fel- 11 Clackam county has: i p.m. Sunday, A pril 16, 7:30 repaid th e as deficit in blood it L 11.- ■ 1 HI ■Bi the hospital before it reaches the finishing and equipping/ stage. Yet left of the major outside construction is the building of gutters, the installing of Windows and doors, and the finishing of the roof. Inside the crews will go to work on the rough-in plumbing. A Salute To Sandy Heard Over PGE Radio Program “ The Sandy river, after which the tow n of Sandy is named, w as discovered in 1792 by Lieut enant Broughton, an officer in th e B ritish arm y. I t w as called “B arings R iv er” afte r a g reat E nglish fam ily of bankers. How ev er in 1805 Lewis and Clark passed the m outh of the river and, noting th e trem endous quantity of sand it threw out, th ey renam ed it ‘‘Quicksand Riv er.” ; This nam e lasted for al m ost 50 yeafs before it whs ap p aren tly shortened on the tongues of A m ericans to th e “Sandy River.” ■‘In 1853 a Mr. Revenue settled n ear th e present site of the tow n o f Sandy, an d the spot w as known to everyone as “Rev enue.” However in 1870 Richard Gerdes bought property n ea r the Revenue farm and opened a store. He soon applied fo r a postoffice, w hich w as established in April, 1873, and w as called “Sandy.” ‘Today Sandy is . a thriving little com m unity of over 600 people. N oted fo r its fertile bulb and b erry farm s, its lum ber and its hospitality, Sandy is in deed a cherished p a rt of m ighty Oregon.” T his is p a rt of the radio scrip t featu rin g Sandy over the P ortland General Electric prog ram on radio stations KGW and KSLM Tuesday, A pril 4, on the PGE “Favorite S tory” hour. Granddaughter Of Sandy Couple Dies Tuesday V ic tim o i Gas ■Hi Here’s a picture of Sandy taken from the top of the, Sandy Memorial Hospital chimney. The brick work on the chimney was done by Fred Smart, local brickmason. Construction of the chimney was one of the last major bits of work to be done on Jersey C attle Club W ill M eet In Sandy The Clackamas County Jersey Cattle club will hold its next m eeting Sunday, April 16, at 11:30 a.m., at the Firwoodeen Cult To Cast Curious Jersey farm near Sandy. F ir In Icy Cold Creek woodeen is the home of Mr. and Five Hundred members of Mrs-. Anton M alar and th eir son, “fresh air and sunshine” clubs, M. C. Malar. from four Northwest states A potluck dinner will be and British Columbia, will served. F eature of the day will gather in a regional confer be a Jersey judging contest in ence at thq Squaw Mountain which only women will p artic ranch near Estacada about ipate. Some of th e outstanding July 4. The club members, Jerseys owned by the M alars known to outside groups as will be the subjects on which ' nudists, warn that they wish the women will test their judg only privacy and that inter ing. lopers will undoubtedly be Special guests a t this meeting more embarrassed than mem will be m em bers of the Mult bers. nomah .County Jersey club who “Any unwelcome curiosity have indicated th eir acceptance. Plans for th e club’s spring seeker will find himself dunked in an icy mountain creek,” show, to be held on th e county since male members of the fairgrounds, Canby, Tuesday, May 23, will be discussed club are trained and rugged. Sunday. No Burglaries, No Arrests Makes Sandy Safe To L iveJn This W eek “Sandy was a strictly sober, O- safe and m oral town this week,” said Municipal Judge F ra n k Reh- berg Wednesday. T here were no arrests fo r burglary, no drunk and disor derly charges, not even traffic violations. T hat is, w ith the ex ception of Robert J. Babineau of Cherryville whose car had no tail light. T hat could happen to any of us, as Judge Rehberg observed. A -couple of parking tickets w as all th a t disturbed city pol ice w ithin th e last few days. Sandy w as even safe from fire this week, according to F ire Chief Lyle Seaman, the fire tru ck has stayed in its garage fo r days. Now law enforcem ent and fire prevention oficers are wondering w hat calam ity is in ’“s to re fo r them afte r such an uneventful week. Susan Marie Zumwalt, the three-month-old granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Oberg, Sandy, died in Portland, April 11. She w as the dau g h ter of Mr. and Mrs. M arvin Zumwalt, of Route 2, Gresham. Besides, the parents, and m ater nal grandparents, other survivors are the p atern al grandparents, (Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Zumwalt, Portland Stages of Troutdale, and a brother, Ray Douglas, a t home. | . Strike Friday A .M . ’ F uneral services will be held E ffo rts at conciliation by A pril 13 in care of C arroll’s F u n eral Home w ith Dr. G. W. officials of Portland Motor S tag es, Inc., and the M otor Coach Bruce officiating. Employes Union failed to avert a strike against th e bus firm called fo r 1 a.m. Friday, April 7. The union postponed a w alk out of its 42 m em bers from 1 a.m. Wednesday un til Friday. The union has asked fo r a 15 cent an hour increase for its drivers along w ith tim e g u ar the p ortiand center, w ith antees, ex tra driver requests and - 36 pints collected „ a << t - the • last a num ber of other contract visit of th e bloodmobile. fir changes. Drivers now receive order to keep ab reast of th e $1.41 per hour. cu rren t needs fo r blood, as well E. G. Larson, G resham m an as m eet any em ergency need, it is im portant th a t residents of ager, speaking fo r th e firm , Clackam as county give this said it will refuse to g ran t any demand which will resu lt in an blood. increase in operating costs. In a recent broadcast over “I t is our opinion th a t we KGON, Miss Virginia Cooke, superintendent of th e Oregon charge all the traffic will bear,” City bosptial said, ‘The blood you Mr. Larson said. He pointed o u t th a t w ages give m ay save a life, the life you save m ay be one very dear w ere increased in January, 1949, to you.” .... and th a t the public utilities com Anyone able to give blood is m issioner granted a raise m: asked to caU Red Cross head fares to accomodate the increased q u arte rs and volunteer. The operating cost. The com pany blood quota fo r the county at noted, however, th a t there w as each visit of the bloodmobile is a decrease in passenger traffic, 100 pints. Clackahias county indicating th a t a point of dim inishing retu rn s w as reached. has never reached its quota. Air Force Private O il “ v i Enum eration for the 1950 census is proceeding rapidly in this a re a ’s more thickly populated districts and the report on Sandy and the Firwood district is expected to be finished within a week, according to district head, Mrs. Myron Dale. Those nose-counters covering the more ru ral districts reported flat tires and mud holes. Mrs. Eleanor Howard, enum erater in the Firwood district, w as bogged down in a muddy farm lane for an hour before she resorted to digging herseli out w ith a pitchfork. The census takers saw a cross section of the average Mt. Hood — ^housekeeper’s day. They en- M ■ countered ladies up to their necks in weekly laundry and one enum erator found herself witnessing the ‘putting up” of a freshly killed pig. All hotels, motels, ' tourist courts, roadside camps and flop- houses across the nation were the ta rg e t fo r census takers from 5 p.m. Tuesday to Wednes The insidious effects of carbon day noon. F or one special day, monoxide poisoning were dram en u m e ra te s tried to com er the atically revealed in the case of elusive transient to register his Fred Fisher, 20, of Gresham nam e for Uncle Sam’s 1950 fam who collapsed at’ his home April ily inventory. 8, 12 hours after he had been Work Began April 1 exposed to the fumes. Census crews began w ork on F isher w as traveling from April 1 w ith each enum erater Roseberg in the car of a friend, responsible fo r about 1000 Friday, fo r a visit w ith his par people. Mrs. Dale, district lead ents, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Fisher. er, again emphasized th a t no He had had a tooth pulled and citizen need fear giving inform lay down on the back seat where ation to census takers since each he fell asleep. Carbon monoxide enum erater is required to take fum es from a leaking connection an oath which carries a heavy filled the car, and though the penalty for revealing census in windows were open, fresh air formation. failed to reach young Fisher, Mrs. Dale reported few recal whose head was below the win citran t people in her district. dow level. Those who are hesitant in giv Reaching his home a t 1:30 ing h er inform ation are turned a.m., F isher slept fo r eight hours over to an area leader who tries and told his m other a t 10 a.m. persuasion before reporting to th a t he w as too tired to get up. national headquarters. Giying W hen she returned from shop inform ation to a qualified cen ping, she found him talking de sus ta k er is required by national liriously. His face was bright law, a fact not m any people red. know. Survey The Sandy ambulance, driven by Allen Searls, was summoned Most people interviewed by and Fisher was rushed to the census takers will answer only OSteopathic hospital in P ort certain basic questions. Only land. He was given oxygen and every fifth person will answ er returned to his home the next the questions pertaining to hous day. ing and income. These figures “He’s - still * coughing badly,” will be a base for reports on the Mrs. Fisher said, “and the doc average housing and income con to rs say th a t he will have a ditions made by the N ational chest x-ray before he goes back Census Bureau. fo work,” Residents are warned against Fisher is a logger in Roseberg chiselers who pose as census and expects to retu rn there Sat tak ers to get th eir feet in the door and then try to sell or can urday if he has recovered. vass for products. No quali fied enum erator can sell any Eager Baby Born In thing. Gresham Boy Is M B County Red Cross Quota To A pril 17> S an‘ Be Completed In Two Weeks hall. Com^ani-S’ 'Thursday, A pril 13, ipj^umty Church annex, 6:15 Census Counters See Early End to Firwood, Sandy Urban Canvass ' lii Poisoning Fri. Sandy Ambulance Sun. An eight pound baby boy made an abrupt entrance into the world in the Sandy am bulance while it passed 82nd street in Portiand, Sunday, April 9, at 1:35 p.m., en route to Emanuel Hospital. The baby’s young mother, Mrs. Dale Johnson, Eagle Creek, was attended by Dr. E. P. Greenwood and Mrs. Vernon Dahrens, Sandy am bulance matron. Lyle Sea man and Vernon Dahrens were drivers of the ambulance. Mother and son were report ed doing weU by the grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Hoffmeister, of Estacada; Fire D estroys Ski-tow Power H ouse M onday An early morning fire destroyed the power house for th e ski tow up M ultorpor moun tain, half a mile from Govern m ent Camp, Monday a t 9 a.m. George Beutler, th e owner who lived in the building, thought th a t the fire m ay have started w ith chimney sparks when he w as cooking breakfast. The building was totally destroyed. Mr. Beutler w as unavailable fo r comment Wednesday so it is not known w hether the $10,000 loss w as insured. So fa r there are no known plans for rebuild ing^ the power house.. Sandy People Are Eligible For Mt. Hood Music Association Pvt. Buryi N. Taylor, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Taylor, of Sandy, has reported to Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, to begin The Mt. Hood Civic MusicO his air force basic indoc association was organized in point five sub-division workers. trination course. The 13 weeks G resham last week w ith Mrs. To Sandy residents the Mt. of basic training will prepare J. H. M urton elected president. Hood Civic Music association him for entrance into Air The association is now a mem means opportunity to see na Force technical training and ber of a nationwide organization tionally known artists without assignment in specialized fields. known as the Community Con th e necessity of traveling long cert Service, which acts as book distances or paying higher sums r individual concerts. Sandy License Examiner To Be ing agent fo r m any top-flight ar fo tists arid enables a sm aller com campaign w orkers’ nam es will In Sandy On April 20 m unity to obtain fam ous m usi be announced when they are appointed. The license exam iner from the cians for programs. O ther officers nam ed a t the office of »’ the secretary of state The Mt. Hood association will will be in Sandy a t the city be financed by a yearly week organizational meeting were: hall Tuesday, April 20, between long membership drive, which David Ott, first vice president; fhe hours of 10 and 3. A1 th is year will begin May 22. Mrs. Wallace Hoch, second vice Remseyer, license exam iner who Adult memberships will cost president (autom atically head w as in Sandy March 24, w arns $6 and students’ $3.50 (both in of the cam paign); Mrs. J. C. th a t all those who will apply clude federal am usem ent tax). Lindquist, secretary; Russel A. should be a t the city hall early A m inim um of th ree m ajor con McNeil, treasu rer; Mrs. J. Cyril to insure am ple tim e fo r diving certs will foe presented each Lowit, dinner chairman. Named to the board of direct season; all concerts will be held tests. ors were: Dr. Corinne Chamber F o rty applicants w ere screened in the Gresham high school. Ben Lobdil h as been nam ed lin, F ath er Richard Fall, Dr. Wil in the M arch 24 test, which was one of the busiest days Mr. Ram- G resham cam paign chairm an liam Grashorn, Mrs. William seyer had in this area. | The w ith Mrs. N. B. Welch, cam Hessel, Sr., Dr. H. A. Shews, g rea t num ber of applicants paign secretary and Nancy P et R ay Martin, Mrs. M ark Nicker showed the need for the estab erson, publicity chairm an. About son, P. M’ Olson, Burton W alrad Carl Zimmerman. lish m en t of a reg u lar service 20 campaign w orkers w ill be and Campaign headquarters this in Sandy, Mr. Ram seyer said. needed fo r G resham and the year will be in the Gresham of Of the 40 who took the driv Sandy area. The chairm an will fices of the Portland General ing test, 33 passed. Many of appoint 10 workers, each of Electric company w ith the per who will appoint 10 division th e applicants w ere high school heads and each of these will ap mission of Jack H. Murton. students.
