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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