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The Sandy Post 16 Sandy, O regon T hursd ay, OPINION A u g u s t 21, 1958 11 Civic Interest A t Low Ebb THE G R O U C H " By Bill Perkins It seems q u ite a p p a re n t to us th a t there tim e and ta le n ts on b e h a lf o f the city. One of these days I ’m going Just how much additional is a w o e fu l la ck o f c iv ic interest being d is myself and the funds the exposition board W e have been s in g u la rly fo rtu n a te to surprise nonnln who may __»-.ikl.. _______ i of xt few people possibly • — plans to J demand the corn- pla yed in Sandy th is yea r as the tim e d u rin g recent years to have such men give this column a speedy, ----- J -- “ ing legislature we have no nears fo r filin g p e titio n s fo r n o m in a tio n s o p e ra tin g o u r c ity governm ent. In our once-over and write some present knowledge. But you fo r m ayor and c ity c o u n c ilm a n . ju d g m e n t, M a y o r Ruben H o ffm a n and thing nice about something or cart rest assured, it will be a somebody. sizeable sum. And it should It is tru e , o f course, th a t service on the m em bers o f the present c ity co u n cil have But this isn’t one of those be. Oregon can reap real and c ity co u n cil e n ta ils m any hours o f p u b lic done a good job, as have th e ir predeces weeks. I’m more than slightly lasting benefits from an in disgusted with the 1957 legis ternational trade fair. But service w ith o u t recompense o f any kind. sors d u rin g the past several years. lature and the Bob Holmes The m oyor and m em bers o f the cou ncil B ut it apears to be som ew hat o f a administration for attempting you can’t do it with peanuts. Old Father Oregon is going to are ca lle d upon a t any hours o f the day thankless job, and it has become in c re a s .! to promote a world’s fair in have to dig down in his jeans or n ig h t to ta k e care o f m u n ic ip a l p ro in g ly d if f ic u lt to get good c ity o ffic ia ls Oregon with a measly little and come up with some of that appropriation of $830,000. If 1 surplus left over by the 1957 blem s, m ost o f w hich are inconsesuential to stand fo r re-election. they couldn’t arouse enough legislature. in na ture . For o u r p a rt, we w ould like to see a enthusiasm among the legisla But I’m sort of a suspicious tors to get an appropriation old codger. I’m not sure that B ut if Sandy is to grow and prosper it nu m be r o f ca n dida tes file fo r plqces on of at least two or three mil Bob Holmes and his cohorts m u st have a sound m u n ic ip a l governm ent. the c ity c o u n cil. F riend ly c o m p e titio n w ill lion dollars, they should never ever thought for one minute It m ust have a m ayor and c o u n cil who are arouse m ore inte rest am oung the citizen s have started the thing in the that the paltry $830,000 appro first place. priated nearly two years ago able and w illin g to give fre e ly o f th e ir g e n e ra lly in th e ir c ity governm ent. But having started the would even begin to do the Centennial Exposition with a job. I’ve got a hunch they de probably after tasting a slice' cor^ of high-priced press cided to take the paltry sum It y Rostt A m h 'r n i'ii broiled for the first time; i agTnt" and managerJ a? d aa- and get things under way, knowing that they could come argued that all great nations thing left to do but go through back in 1959 and get a real ap lived on fried food, and that with it. propriation to finish up the America was the greatest of During the past few weeks his end up by learning how to We now learn that the E x job. them all, owing to the energy- your reporter has been regaled to lie. position Board plans to go be The state has gone too far with some of the weirdest Don’t overstock yourself producing qualities of pie, fore the 1959 legislature and to back up now. It’s got to see fishing tales ever heard by with those four pound fish liberally shortened with lard. seek additional appropriations the thing through. Two years During several years ex man. The reports covered the yarns, though, because the perience as a farmer your in an effort to finish what ago they got their foot in the landings’ of everything from boys have been bringing them they have started. An inter door with the $830,000. At the sardines, sahnon and one or back from their vacations till scribe has heard a great deal national exposition and trade next session they can expect two whales, which the nar I have enough to last me for about the foolishness of hens, fair takes money. If they don’t to get enough additional funds but when it comes to right rator reluctantly admitted got a year of Fridays. down plum foolishness give get it, Oregon is going to fall to get the job done. away. It would appear that Your reporter claiming to me a rooster Don’t get me wrong. I be every time. He flat on its face and become some of our local fishermen be put in history and religion the laughing stock of the free lieve the Centennial and trade must have the denisons of the finds no listing of fish on is always strutting, stretching world. fair commemorating Oregon’s Sandy and the Columbia riv manifest of Noah’s Ark, but and crowing and bragging 100 years as a state will be a ers pretty well terrorized. • the lard-producing hog was about things with which he has ter, he crows, and when the fine thing, if it is properly nothing to do. When the sun other rooster licks him, he promoted and publicized. But I never could quite figure duly listed. rises, you’d think that he was crOws; and so he keeps it up it out, bu* there seems to be Perhaps that was where I think they should have de something about a fish that the “Ham and” theory origin making all the light, instead of straight through the day. He manded and received a far makes even a cold-water dea ated, proving that Moses’ in all the noise. When the farm- even wakes up during the greater appropriation from the con see double. junction against pork must er’s wife throws the scraps in night and crows a little on 1957 legislature instead of I reckon it must be that have been dissolved by the he barnyard, he crows as if general principles, starting with a niggardly al But when you hear from a lowance, while Eve was learning the circuit court because Noah in le was the provider for the knowing they could first principles of dressmaking cluded a couple of shoats in whole farmyard and was ask- hen, she’s laid an egg, and she apply sufficient pressure to from the snake, Adam was his cargo and called one of his ing a blessing on the food, doesn’t make a great deal of get more money from the next off bass-fishing, and keeping sons Ham, out of gratitude When he meets another roos- noise about it either. legislature. 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