Éhndy tost
Vol. 24
SIXTEEN PAGES
Schools Tell
Candidates
Two-year-old Hugh William Gilges caught
the Easter Bunny ahead of schedule, pos-
sibly because blond, blue-eyed Hugh looks
enough like a little bunny rabbit to put the
fuzzy fellow off guard. Hugh is son of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Gllges, Sandy.
(Sandy Post photo)
Chamber Endorses Frasier
As Zone 6 College Man
The Sandy Chamber of Com
merce at its Tuesday noon
meeting passed a resolution in
favor of formation of the pro
posed Clackamas county Com
munity college and endorsing
Charles Frasier as the director
from zone six.
Frasier, who teaches wood
working and mechanical draw
ing at Sandy high, has a back
ground eminently suited to the
type of community college that
Clackamas county hopes to de
velop, according to Charles
Croston, Sandy high principal.
Not only is Frasier versed in
the teaching of the vocational
work that is wanted for the col
lege, but he has also had prac
tical experience in the field of
industry in which such skills
are used and is acquainted with
Industrial needs along these
lines, he declared.
Frasier wrote his thesis for
his master’s degree on the sub-
ject of vocational schools and
training available in this area,
and from his research has a
fine background of what is
needed.
Also running as a candidate
for the board from zone six,
the Estacada-Sandy-Damascus
area, is John Mac Rae, Esta
cada.
Election Dated
Date of the election is May
18. Voters will cast ballots on
whether the community college
education district will be form
ed and will vote on a director
for the seven-man board. The
voters of each of the six dis
tricts will vote only on the can
didates in their own district.
Deadline for filing candidacy
was 5 p.m. Wednesday, April
18. When the Sandy Post went
to press 11 persons had filed
for the seven college board
posts in six county zones.
There was one petition still out
and one request for a petition.
Petitions for candidacy requir
ed a minimum of 50 signatures.
Zone 1, Milwaukie, which
will have two directors, has
two candidates, Al Gambel and
Bryan Shields. Gambel has
been active on the county com
mittee seeking formation of the
college.
From Oswego, zone 2, two
candidates have filed, Mrs.
Mary Goodall and Ray Ziegler.
From zone 3, Concord, Glad
stone and West Linn, two can
didates have filed, W. E. Acker
of West Linn, and John Kins
man of Concord. One petition
was still out.
From zone 4, Oregon City,
one candidate has filed, Guy
Barnett.
From zone 5, Colton-Molalla-
Canby area, two candidates
have filed, Maurice Buxton and
Wade Bettis, Canby There was
another request for a petition.
With school election schedul
ed for May 7, voters are
seriously considering qualifica
tions of those who will have the
responsibility of administering
and guiding the educational in
stitutions in their districts.
At Sandy union high school
only Ken Fredrickson has filed
for the five-year term that is to
be filled at this time.
At Sandy elementary school
there are three candidates for,
the five-year term: John Row
ell, Rt. 3, Box 173, Boring;
John Barnett, Rt. 1, Box 580,
Sandy; Robert Ihrke, Rt. 3,
Box 70. Boring. For the three-
year term Hazel Murray, San
dy and Harold B. (Ben) Salis
bury, Sandy, have filed.
Bull Run school announces
the filing of Charles C. Marsh
and Gorden R. Markvardsen
for the five-year term.
At Dover school only Mrs
Jean Hauber filed for the five-
year term.
At Cottrell Leona Jones and
Cloyd Boyles are running for
the five-year term.
At Welches Amby Caulkins
and Tom Day are running for
one vacancy and Mrs. Peter
Radmilovich and Jack Strong
for the other vacant board po
sition.
There are three positions on
the ballot for Clackamas Coun
ty Rural School board positions
this year, among them one for
member-at-large. The three-
year position will have Wayne
LaFarge and Lloyd Ewalt's
names on the ballot.
In zone 2 Walter I. Kall is
the incumbent, and John D.
Rego is also a candidate. In
zone 5 only the incumbent, Wil
lard Boring, will be on the bal
lot.
SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1982
Sandy Rural
Fire Area
Vote Apr. 30
April 30 was set as election
date by the Sandy Rural
Fire Protection District at its
latest meeting Monday, April
10, according to V. Dell But
ler, secretary - treasurer of
the district.
The election will be 2 p.m.
to 8 p.m. at Shorty’s Corner
service station, east of Sandy
off the Loop highway at Fir
wood Rd.
The recently formed district
would establish a tax base of
$19,131 which represents six
mills of the assessed valuation
of $3,188,590 for the district.
If this is approved, the
board announces it will submit
a budget based on a 4% mill
levy, with one mill to cover
the 1962 expenses which have
been underwritten by board
members, and 3*4 mills to cov
er 1963's budget.
School Land Deal-
Sandy Grade School Super
intendent Clyde Sutherland re
ports there have been a number
of queries reaching his office
concerning the recently an
nounced purchase of a 13-acre
tract at Kelso for construction
of a new grade school.
Sutherland says first of all,
that purchase of the Kelso tract
has not actually been complet
ed. The school board has an
option to buy the land for
$6900. The money for this is in
the budget in the “capital out
lay” department.
Actual purchase of the tract
awaits approval of this land by
both the State Department of
Education and the State De
partment of Health. However,
the school board, which has
considered many parcels of
land previously and is well ac
quainted with state require
ments, is confident the pur
chase will be completed.
Other questions asked are,
"Why were the people of the
district not consulted? And why
wasn’t a committee of citizens
selected to investigate?”
In answer to these questions
“I did my first television
show in New York City —
showed tomato plants.”
Television
stands
pretty
firmly on its own feet today,
but though Bill Drips "retir
ed" in 1950, television refuses
to let him go. His "RFD 6”
begins the day for KOIN-TV’
at 7:30 every Saturday morn
ing. bringing a half - hour of
fresh facets and "how-to-do-it"
demonstrations on gardening
and outdoor living.
Eye-Appeal Told
"A television show," says
the man who helped raise tele
vision. "is 60 per cent eye-ap
peal and 40 per cent ear-ap
peal
You start with that
knowledge and begin to plan
your show.”
The work behind a really
good half • hour show might
surprise the uninitiated Drips
puts it into three compart
ments
First, he says, he gets his
guests Second, he puts the
emphasis on getting interest
ing, timely material. The
third stage is the actual pro
duction of the show.
He doesn't,
Drips says,
write a script for his show.
This does not mean, however,
that he just brings people and
props together and lets things
unfold as they may.
“I plan the show pretty
carefully,” he emphasizes. "I
know what I’m going to say,
what questions I’m going to
ask my guests — not word-for-
No. 16
Sutherland emphasizes that
while this option to buy may
appear to be an impulsive
move, in actuality the school
board has been seeking ap
propriate land for another
school for several years.
Jaycees Say
Eggs A wait
Eager Kids
An important reason for the
relative quietness surrounding
this transaction is the fact that
when word gets out that the
school wants land, prices are
often raised. By quietly inves
tigating all available lands,
this possibility is avoided, the
superintendent pointed out.
In answer to those who would
continue to enlarge the present
grade school buildings. Suther
land says the state will not ap
prove any expansion of the
lower grade building. Approval
may be granted for a nine-to-
ten classroom addition to the
upper grade building.
The state recommends that
no grade school be over the
1000-pupil size. Above that num
ber transportation problems,
playground use. as well as oth
er administrative functions be
come unwieldy.
Attention all kids!
The third annual Jaycee East
er Egg Hunt will be held Sun
day, April 22, on the Sandy
High School grounds at 2:30
p.m.
Prizes will be awarded in all
three age groups hunting for
the "Bunny Eggs.” The age
groups will be through 3, 4
through 7 and 8 through 12.
No paper sacks or other car
tons will be allowed within the
roped off areas.
Chief Easter Bunny, Jim
Martin says, "We have some
real nice prizes this year and
want to see all you youngsters
out to try to win them.”
Other committee chairmen
include: publicity, Ben Salis
bury, Egg distribution, Jim
Wolf; boiling and dyeing, Jer
ry Oliver; and grounds and
M.C, Deane Wesselink.
MT. HOOD FEATURED
The variety and contrasts in
both scenery and climate of
the Pacific Northwest are fea
tured in the current — April
—issue of the "Equitable News
Letter.” Prominently display
ed among other northwest
sceñes is snow-clad Mt. Hood
as it towers above the Hood
River Valley. Equitable stock
holders in every state of the
nation as well as a number of
foreign countries received cop
ies of this issue.
FALL BREAKS ANKLE
Miss Marie Koennecke who
spends much time at her
weekend cottage, Rt. 1, Box
1130, Sandy, fell down the
stairs at her Portland home
recently and broke an ankle
in two places. She is now im
proving and hopes to leave the
hospital soon though her leg
will be in a cast for about
four months.
Chief Easter Bunny Jim Martin, Grounds Committeeman
and Master of Ceremonies, Deane Wesselink and George Pul
len. Jr., brought the big bunnies that will be prizes for find-
Bill Drips, Editor, Radio and TV Man, Says Education A Must'
Back when television was
in knee - pants. Bill (William
E.) Drips of Welches, was
there to take the youngster in
hand. It was an experienced
hand the big man held out to
the wobbly newcomer, for it
brought the know-how of an
editor and the skilled show
manship of a network radio
broadcaster to this promising
new medium of communica
tion.
“I first worked in television
at the World’s Fair in New
York in 1939,” Drips said, as
he leaned back in a comfort
able chair at his home by the
swiff - flowing Salmon river.
"It was a highly experiment
al medium at that time. Act
ually we just played with it—
I had a bunch of Borden cows
there at the fair.
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word, but still I have to have
a clear-cut idea of just how
the show will run.
Props Chosen
“Then I plan what props I’ll
need. When I have it clearly in
mind I plan it out with the di
rector. We discuss what I’ll
show, what I’ll emphasize in
the matter of display.”
Drips sat up straight at this
point. "The hardest part of a
TV show,” he said, "is not
how to get the show on, but
how to get it off, having ac
complished what it started
out to do.”
How does a young person get
into the field of television?
Drips was very emphatic in
his answer to this question
To make a career of television,
first get an education.
"The kid who doesn’t finish
college today is in the posi
tion of the kid who didn’t fin
ish high school 40 years ago,”
he says. Twenty years ago fhe
National Broadcasting Com
pany wouldn't hire anyone, not
even a page boy, unless he had
a college degree, Drips said
Type - Setting learned
Drips himself is a graduate
of the University of Wiscon
sin, where he majored in ag
ricultural journalism He was
bom in South Dakota and went
to high school in Illinois. His
father was in the weekly news
paper business and Drips says
he learned journalism "at
home" as well as at school
He laughed as he recalled
that he was one of the few
"left - handed type - setters,
with a stick.”
Drips started his career as
a journalist and was associ
ate editor of "Wallace's Farm
er" at Des Moines, Iowa, for
11 years He went from that
to radio, when radio was very
young, and worked in that med
ium close to 40 years.
He ran the National Farm
and Home Hour, an NBC pro
duction, for 15 years. He was
Agricultural Director for NBC
in Chicago.
“I’ve broadcast from every
state in the Union,” Drips said,
as he looked back through the
pictures of past programs and
events.
Originates Short News
The pictures held enough
story material for a full-length
book. Even the high points
were too many for a short
article. There was his cover
age of both national political
conventions from 1928 - 1948
There was the origination on
the Farm and Home Hour of
the popular five - minute news
cast.
‘T’ve given a lot of my rec
ords, notes and scripts to
Michigan State University,” he
said, as he described that uni
versity’s “school of communi
cations" which combines jour
nalism, radio and television
work.
The Drips’ home was, 50
years ago, the old Welches
resort, a day’s ride by horse
and buggy from Portland.
Drips says he bought it by
long distance telephone He
says that it has been added
to and changed many times,
though the remodeling was
done before he and his wife
bought It.
"Usually Mrs. Drips and I
rattle around in this big
house by ourselves," Drips
said "This week we have our
granddaughters with us while
our son, Bill, and his wife are
in Philadelphia.” He is just
ly proud of his doctor son,
who was representing the Uni
versity of Oregon medical
school resident staff at the Am
erican College of Physicians
convention
He is obviously proud of
Mrs. Drips' journalistic back
ground, too, which includes not
only an editorship of Better
Homes and Gardens Magazine,
but also the distinction of hav
ing edited the very first "Bet
ter Homes and Gardens Cook
Book.”
Wife’s Cookbook Popular
Mrs. Drips, who wrote un
der her maiden name of Jos
ephine Wylie, has the first
and the millionth copy of that
cookbook. And she and her
husband have a home that
could have come right from
the pages of the magazine on
whose editorial staff she serv
ed. The big bay window over
looking the patio above the riv
er is alight with colored glass
keepsakes and blossoming vio
lets.
The walls are hung with
some of the many, many
plaques and awards that have
honored Bill Drips over the
years. There are too many to
list, but to touch on a few,
there is the Meritorious Serv
ice Award from the National
Association
of
Agricultural
Broadcasters There are hon
orary niemberships in the Fu
ture Farmers, the 4-H Club»
of America, the American Ag
ricultural Editors' Assn . the
A g r i c u Itural Broadcaster,
There are many, many more.
And how does Bill Drips re
lax’
The slow, easy laugh pre
ceded his answer. "I cut the
grass and chop wood See that
pile of wood over there? Judge
Alan Davis and I cut that last
summer."
He scooped up the littlest
granddaughter,
two-year-old
Jennifer, while four-year-old
Linda and a young friend play
ed around his legs Bill Drips
has done a lot of living, and
there was work, he says, in
the things he did, as there still
is, but his enjoyment of it is
plain to see
era of “lucky eggs” at the third annual Jaycee Easter Egg
Hunt for a “trial run" In the spring sunshine. Terry Martin
shows how the egg-gathering is done
(Sandy Post photo!
Republicans Slate Dumo Rally
Clackamas County Republi ed for small fry with baby sit
cans will rally for dinner and ting service by the GOP Cen
speeches Wednesday, April 25. tral Committee.
Mayor Lee Stidd, Jr.. Oswe
at 6:30 pm, in the Episcopal
church annex. Milwaukie. Fea go. Republican candidate for
tured speaker will be Edwin the state senate, will act as
R. Durno, Oregon U.S. Con master of ceremonies
gressman who now seeks the
Other Clackamas County
GOP nomination for the U.S
Republicans to be heard in
Senate. Brief talks by local clude Dr. Arthur Guild,
candidates will round out the Russell Phillips, Robert Dick
evenlng’s program.
inson, George Elvers, Helen
Tickets for the all-county ral Cannon and Roger Martin,
ly are being handled in the all candidates for the four
Sandy area by Al Greenwait, House of Representative posi
Wemme Adults will be dined tions. George Combs, running
for $1.50 each, children under for county clerk, and Eric
12 for 50 cents. The nursery Fisher, candidate for county
room of the church is reserv
commissioner will speak
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