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Vol. 24 FOURTEEN PAGES SANDY, OREGON. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1962 No. 25 Single Copy 10c Meet Mulls Highway Sandy Post Gives World’s Fair Tips Planning to visit the Se attle World’s Fair? Who isn’t? Then you’ll be interested in the Post’s story of how to see and enjoy the fair. See Page 2 of this section today. Crash Kills Wayne Trull Carol Ackers, 17, Sandy high junior, has been chosen by tlie ladies auxiliary of the American Legion to go to Girls’ State, Salem, the week of June 1117. During this week young people set up governing body, run for offices and prepare bills for legislature, gaining Invaluable experience in gov ernmental procedure. (Sandy Post photo) A Boring man, Wayne Elliott Trull, 26, was killed when his poultry truck crashed into a pole along the Pacific Freeway south of Salem. The accident occurred Monday morning. It was Trull’s first day on this job. He is survived by a wife and three children. Sheriff Says Deputy |.oca| Reserve Will Remain in Sandy Unit Helping A A resident resident will will continue continue to to be stationed in Sandy. Clacka- mas County Sheriff Joe Shobe told the Sandy Post this week. A rumor has been circulating that the precinct here would be closed and the deputy, Sgt Tom Cutsforth, would be work ing out of Oregon City. There will be only one dif ference, Shobe said, in that the Sandy sheriff s telephone num ber will be a direct line to Oregon City. Then the Sandy officer will be dispatched from Oregon City by radio. The line formerly went to the precinct, and to Cutsforth's home when there was none at the precinct. "I hope that especially dur ing the summer months that I can get another car up there part of the time,” Shobe add- ed. Shobe also said the sheriff’s number listed in the current Hood - Land Chamber of Com merce directory is incorrect. He asked the users of the book to mark in the correct number, MU 7-4365. County Commissioner Darrell Jones said that the Precinct office in Sandy would be closed in July. He felt service to the community would not be les sened by the action, since it ties in with the new telephone service, and leaves unchanged the manpower situation. Jones also indicated that eventually a fulltime manned precinct will probably be re quired in Sandy, but that bud get limitations presently pre clude it. T w Goodwill Offer The Mt. Hood unit of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Reserve is taking a hand in an international goodwill pro ject. Dirindra Kumar Dultla- Barman, of Calcutta, India, was to arrive yesterday at Portland International Airport, and thence to University of Oregon Medical school hospital in Portland for a heart - valve operation of the type initiated by doctors there. The Indian visitor original ly appealed to Eleanor Roose velt for an operation to restore a normal life, and was placed in contact with the Portland school. Ken Shoup, Welches, a mem ber of the Mt Hood reserve unit, became interested in the case from a story in The Or egonian last year. Shoup was to meet Dutla - Barman at the airport in a sheriff’s car, and escort him prise" plan ask or accept sup to the hospital Wednesday. port from the Federal Govern During a three • month con ment when Federal hand - out valescent period following the is exactly what this plan, rep operation, the reserve unit will resentative of free - spirited arrange placement in various Americanism, is trying to Oregon homes for periods of avoid?” several days so that the visitor Dr. Noehren's trip to Chica may see the state. The Twenty go, which is financed entirely Miracle Miles on the Oregon by himself, brings a strong pos Coast will be one host. sibility that the national policy Several other organizations of the AMA will develop from have offered assistance to the the work and thought of San ailing man for underwriting dy’s "home town" doctor. various expenses. Dr. Noehren Flies to Chicago AMA Meet Sandy’s Dr. Walter A. Noeh ren flies to Chicago Friday car rying hopes that his medical care plan will find approval with the American Medical Assn, annual meeting there next week. Noehren's plan, under study by the Council on Medical Services of the AMA since last fall, was approved by the Clackamas County Medical So ciety in April and by the Ore gon State Medical Society in September. Part of the plan was approv ed by the AMA House of Dele gates in November, with the plan as a whole, termed "Res olution 16”, set for further study. To support the work of ac quainting the nation with his "free enterprise medical care” plan. Dr Noehren has only $50 contributed by the community, $25 from a Portland doctor and $500 from Nettie Connett. Underlying Dr. Noehren's work is the question. "Who should support this type of re search? Should a free enter- The Sandy City Council met with Harold C. Ayers and H S. (Si) Cox. Oregon State High way Department engineers at a well-attended forum - type meeting at Sandy grade school Monday evening. Mayor Ruben Hoffman and five councilmen heard the opin ions of both local citizens and the highway engineers on the route highway 26 should take through Sandy. After introducing the state highway engineers, Mayor Hoff man turned the meeting over to Duane Knapp. Knapp outlined the three choices -a four-lane highway in the present (Proc tor Ave.) location, two one-way streets, and a by-pass. Apparently, he said, the city had only two real choices. He then called on engineer Ayers to present the highway depart ment’s thought. Ayers spoke emphatically in favor of the two one - way streets, which the highway de partment terms a "one-way couplet.” He said wherever this has been tried the city has a tremendous increase in safety. He said it also brought growth to a city, though safety was the factor most heavily stressed. Couplet Cheaper Knapp questioned whether the one-way couplet, which would mean routing two lanes of traffic east on Main street and two lanes west on Proctor avenue, would be cheaper. Ay ers said it would. Ralph Richardson said that while the planning commission had discussed the highway route at great length he did not believe It had ever voted to recommend one route in pref erence to another. In explaining details of the two routes the state men said the one-way couplet would di vide the traffic in half and also allow room enough to dress the the streets up, curb to curb. They propose two 12-foot fanes with 10-foot shoulders and again stressed the safety element, saying that in building this type highway they were not build ing in a hazard. No Left-Turn Lane If the city’s choice were a four • lane highway, would there be no fifth left • turn lane. There is not, say the en gineers, sufficient room for the left turn lane, as the four four-lane highway, there would be no fifth left-turn lane. There is not, say the engineers, suf ficient room for the left turn lane, as the four lanes would require the entire 80 feet. They described the four-lane high way as requiring a two-foot me dian, four 12-foot lanes, two 10- foot parking lanes with five feet on either side for side walks. In either the four • lane or the one - way couplet the side streets would retain access, they said. Although the department recommends the one ■ way couplet, the engineers assured that the state would build highway whichever type through Sandy the city council voted for Deane Wesselink of the Jun- ior Chamber of Commerce brought up several questions. In answer to one concerning who would maintain the high way, Ayers said the state would take care of total main tenance. Increase L'nestiniated Asked the state’s estimate for the anticipated increase in traf fic for the next five years, he was told there was no way of accurately estimating To the question, "What if the state doesn't take over Main St." Knapp gave the reply that the city of Sandy has approxi mately $4000 it can use for this purpose. From the floor came the question of how soon the state anticipates the need to bypass the town. Ayers said there is no way to estimate this accur ately but the one way couplet would postpone this need. Concerning crosswalks Ayers stated that a highway depart ment division would work with the city, and when a decision is reached will paint them. He said too many cross - walks are considered unwise. Other queries brought out that the state does not plan to install traffic lights, should the city decide on the four - lane highway. Neither does it plan new street lights. State Sets Speed Asked who sets the s p e e d limit on the highway as it goes through the city of Sandy, Cox said the state has this power, but would confer with city of ficials on this matter. Olin Bignail brought up the matter of the wide highway through town tending to send most of the tourist business to one or the other end of the town, but was assured this had not occurred in other towns. Bob Smith spoke in favor of the four - lane highway, say ing he did not want Sandy to lose the tourist profit which he estimates at about $70,000 "I go through Lebanon, which has the one - way couplet, and I don't spend any money,'" he said. He added that he felt the state should maintain Main street regardless of where the new highway was put. Mrs. Howard Berger said that she favored the one - way couplet as the Bergers lived in Lebanon at the time this sys tem was put in there. She said it did much to develop the town and increased safety. Couplet Suite School Grade school Supt. Clyde Su therland said the one - way couplet would require a few more safety patrol youngsters, but this could be arranged. He also felt that the extra block SANDY CLACKAMAS COUNTY soft drink concessions to games of skill. All proceeds go to charity and to the Jaycee Com munity Development Fund Paul Seamatter, first vice president of the Jaycees and chairman of the street dance committee, said this week. This year's dance will be a tremendous success The en thusiasm of Sandy residents and the cooperation of all the people involved in this project makes it quite clear that in terest in civic affairs is high.” if Meet our 1962 Bride and Groom—Beverly Hauglum and Wally Gunderson who last week toured Sandy stores and learned just how complete Sandy is as a shopping com munity. Bev and Wally were married Fri day at the Emmanuel Lutheran church In Randy. A reception in the churl h followed. The couple scheduled a beach honeymoon * OREGON fl » J'Here are map« of Sandy’« present and perhaps future patterns. Top map shows traffic count from recent state ■ survey. Totals for various pointe are written in. Bottom map shows one-way couplet proposed for Sandy by state highway commission. Commission will follow Sandy city council recommendation, which will probably be given dar ing July council meeting. Choice is between one-way coup- । let or four-lane highway on present route. i H9«e -ÎS°£I2B or two some of the busses would have to travel would be of small consequence. Marvin Prestwood of PGE asked about the west junction which was said to be planned at the present location. The gap at Sandy Ridge cutoff wil be closed. "We are letting bids for this job very soon,” Cox said. "That is the reason we are ings include classrooms, a mul ti • purpose room and heating plant. School board spokesmen said unsettled legal technicalities prevented the measure from being placed on the May 7 school election ballot. Other hard working members of the Street Dance committee are Orville Scheel. Gary Op perman. Mick Lawson. Clint Bogart. and Bob Rhode. The jaycees will have a dart game, a sponge throw and a dunk tank Jaycettes will have a game and refreshment stand Concessions will open at noon with free admission to the game area with children of course invited The dance will begin at 9 p.m. City Hall !__ I ÍAVI. Lz Street Dance July - Planned for Sandy Preparations are well under way for the annual Sandy Gay way Street Dance July 7 at Sandy elementary school. Sponsorship of the dance is by the Mt Hood Junior Cham ber of Commerce Sandy s group of young business and professional men Service organizations from Gresham Sandy. and the mountain area contribute each year to the success of the fes tivities by erecting booths of all kinds ranging from food and Poet Ottico School SI6NÍD ROUTH Cottrell School Ballots Monday Cottrell school district will hold its election Monday, June 25, from 2 to 8 p.m. at the school. This election is to vote on $75,000 in bonded indebtedness for building additional build ings Some of the planned bulld- • before returning to their new home between Gresham and Sandy. They met In the 7th grade at Orient school. Wally works in the aircraft division of the Iron Fireman com pany and Bev is employed by the Industrial Hospital association. For their tour, turn U> page 4 of today’s Post. (Sandy Post photo) pressing for Sandy's decision on the highway route through town now. We would like to get blds for all work now.” Sept. 19 is the day set for bids on the Anderson road — Duncan road section and the department would like to have all projects tying in with this ready by that date. Some Want Bypass Some Sandyltes spoke in fav or of bypassing the town com pletely "Sixty - four hundred cars a day ought not to have to piddle through our village,” was one comment. Cox said the by - pass was not even contemplated at the present time as it would cost immeasureably more to buy new right - of • way and start from scratch on a new high way to by • pass the town. Asked how soon a decision was needed by the state, the council was told there was no hurry just so the decision was made before "tomorrow.” After a show of hands in dicated a more than two-to-one vote in favor of the one ■ way couplet, Knapp recommended the council reserve decision till "next time.” He said there was a need to discuss such things as fire hydrants, water lines, curbing etc.
