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Vol. 25
SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY. APRIL 18. 1963
Bakers Face
Arson Charges
Indictments charging How-
aid William Baker and his
wife, Ruth L. Cate Baker, each
with two crimes were filed in
Clackamas county circuit court
last Friday.
They were accused of first
degree arson as a result of the
destruction by fire of the San
dy General Store which they
were buying under a contract.
The early morning fire last
Dec. 27 occurred on the day
foreclosure proceedings were
to have been started on the
delinquent real estate contract
in Clackamas county circuit
court.
In a second true bill returned
by the grand jury, both Mr.
and Mrs. Baker were charged
with burning and destroying
property with the intent to de
fraud the insurer.
The pair appeared before
Judge Ralph M. Holman in
Clackamas county circuit court
Monday morning, but their at-
torney argued successfully for
a week's delay in arraign-
ment. Mrs. Baker was releas-
ed on bail, but Baker is still
in custody
Previous Arrests
According to Sgt. Charles
Battaglia of the Clackamas
county sheriff's office, Baker
has been arrested three times
previously — once for em
bezzlement in Iowa, once for
false swearing and once for
obtaining money under false
pretenses.
St. Battaglia said he found a
truck loaded with furnishings
from the Bakers' home at Kel
so soon after the fire in which
they were presumed to have
been destroyed. The truckload
of furniture disappeared and
later Sgt. Battaglia found it
again at Beaverton.
The "disappearing” furni
ture and the Bakers’ proof of
loss statement were deemed
sufficient evidence to warrant
indictment for arrest on first
degree arson and burning a
building with intent to defraud
an insurance company.
The Sandy General Store had
been sold to the Bakers under
contract for §60,000 by Mrs.
Walter Alt and Harriet Mein-
ig-
Chamber
Set For
Banquet
SUHS District Votes
On Bonds, Directors
By Charles Croston
The bond issue for the pro
posed Sandy union high school
expansion, which will be voted
on from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday,
May 6. will be in the amount
of §800.000. The proposed bond
interest and principal repay
ment schedule has not yet been
adopted but it probably will
run over a 20 year period.
The present bonding capac
ity of the high school district
is §887.240. The district's as
sessed valuation is §8,766,670.
The district owes §183,434 in
outstanding bonds which will
be paid off in 1970. The repay-
ment schedule for the present
bonds calls for an average of
§26,500 payment of interest and
principal each year.
Contrary to the general opin
ion that school district mil-
leages always go up each year,
the Sandy union high school
district's
milleage
dropped
from 22.7 mills a year ago to
19.5 mills this year.
The two directors who have
filed for the two vacancies on
our Board of Education are
Angus McKinnon from the Bull
Run district and Willard Boring
from the Boring district. The
vote on the Board of Educa
tion directors and the school
budget for the next school year
will also be on May 6 this year.
JOE
C.
LONG
Joe C. Long. Oregon State
Northern
Supervisor of
Life Insurance Co., will be fea
tured speaker at the semi-an
nual banquet of Sandy Cham
ber of Commerce.
Long, well - known in the
area for his lively wit and
attention - getting talks, will
speak on "Mouth Harping
Makes Sense.”
Tickets for the dinner, which
is scheduled for Wednesday,
April 24, at 7 p.m. in the San
dy Masonic Temple, may be
obtained from any chamber
member or at the Clackamas
County Bank.
Single Copy 10c
No. 16
City Budget Govt. Camp
Readied For To Get Toilets
Tues.
Kote
The recent hearing on the
Sandy C.ty budget drew no pro
tests. The proposed budget in
cludes some much - needed
items, among them the pur
chase of a new police car for
which §2000 was put into the
budget.
Another new item in this
year's budget is $4500 to hire
a new man who will help out
in three different departments
— water, streets and police—
as needed.
Another §500 has been bud
geted towards the purchase of
a used dump truck which is
needed by the street and wat
er departments.
Repairs for the old city fire
truck, mainly to bring the
pump up to a 500 gallon per
minute minimum, are listed in
the budget at §750.
There is §1000 in this year's
budget for a cyclone fence
around the disposal plant, a
protective measure that the
council has felt was needed for
some time.
Voters of the community will
be voting on the city budget on
Tuesday, April 23.
Potter Trades
Coach Job for
Academic Role
George Potter, head football
coach at Sandy high for the
past eight years, has resigned
as coach and will devote him
self to teaching science and
health and physical education.
Potter has been at Sandy for a
total of 12 years, three of which
he was head basketball coach.
Athletic Director Bob Wood
ward says he has a number of
good applicants for the posi
tion of football coach and ex
pects to hire one by the end of
next week.
Gin eminent Camp will
get its desperately needed
rest rooms, says Cominisioii
er Darrell Jones. He has
been informed by G I e n n
Jackson, chairman of t h e
state highway commission,
that the highway department
lias accepted the responsibil
ity for building rest rooms
to accommodate the 20,000
visitors who come to the area
on ski weekends.
“We have to do it ” Jack
son told Jones. He said the
department lias already pick
ed out a site and will begin
working out plans immedi
ately. It is speculated that
the facility will be of a type
similar to the one the high
way department built and
maintains at Depoe Bay.
Moms, Dads Set
Awards Banquet
The Mom and Dad Club of
Sandy high school have select
ed Saturday, May 4 at 6:30
p.m. as the date of their annual
Awards Banquet. Awards will
be given in football for the most
inspirational, best
defense
man, best all around player.
In winter sports in basketball
and wrestling the award is
based on ability, improvement,
and character, and is selected
by fellow team members and
the coach. A merit award is
awarded to the senior boy and
girl who shows a leader's per
sonality, scholastic achieve
ment, character, cooperation
and is selected by the faculty.
The John Philip Sousa Award
will go to the outstanding stur
dent in music. There will be
various other awards given too.
Tom Lewis’s music depart
ment at the high school will
present a program of instru
mental and vocal selections.
The swiss steak dinner com
mittee is chairmanned by Mrs.
David Weinecke. Tickets are in
charge of Ralph Richardson;
publicity, Mrs. George Burg
and Mrs. Bill Dyal.
Tills picture of tile fire that destroyed the
Bennet home on Bluff road was snapped as
flames filled the interior and blazed high
Counties Plan
Juvenile Home
Clackamas county is study
ing the feasibility of participat
ing in a tri-county joint juvenile
detention home, accordng to
Stan Ely, county commissioner.
Clackamas, Washington and
Multnomah counties all need a
detention
home,
it
was
brought out at a recent meeting
of the Oregon Association of
Counties sub - committee. Ely
said that Yamhill county may
be asked to join in plans for
the detention fa ility.
Both Clackamas and Wash-
Rapp Promoted In F.S. Switch
-’tan Rapp. Zig Zag Ranger,
has been promoted to the posi
tion of staff assistant to the
Regional Forester in Water
shed Management His specific
assignment will be as Forest
Service representative on the
Dept, of Agri ulture task force
which is participating in the
Willamette Basin Watershed
survey authorized by resolu
tion of Congress.
He will be replaced by Pete
Wingle who is presently Rang
er at Summit.
The Forest Service has re
organized the three existing
districts which are Zig Zag.
Summit and Columbia Gorge,
into two large districts. The
Bull Run watershed, formerly
administered by Zig Zag dis
trict. becomes the administra
tive responsibility of the Co-
umbia Gorge district, headed
by Don Smith.
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The Summit district is incor
porated into the new Zig Zag
district with headquarters at
Zig Zag
and Government
Camp.
Headquarters Shifted
Columbia Gorge headquart-
ers will be shifted to Spring-
dale where construction for a
new office and dwelling is now
under way. Further construc
tion consisting of warehouses,
dwelings. etc., will follow.
The reason for adjustment of
boundaries and consolidation is
to promote efficiency. It has
been found that two larger dis
tricts have a more balanced
work load between seasons —
winter and summer.
There are no new additions
of personnel As the season
progresses
some
reassign-
ments may be necessary in or
der to tailor down the organi
zation where needed
Di k Fitzgerald. Zig Zag
Timber Management assis
tant, will take over the tim
ber management responsibili
ties of the Columbia Gorge dis-
timber man
trict.
Other
agement people moving are
James Conner. Fred Heisler.
Rusty Cain. Claire L’gelstad
In engineering Charles Sew
ard will assume Senior Resi
dent Road Inspector responsi
bilities at Columbia Gorge Al
so Ray Howard will go to Co
lumbia Gorge district.
Wingle's four principal staff
assistants at Zig Zag will be
Jerry Brown. Financial and
Timber Management. Allen
Groven Ray Stygier, Recrea
tion. and a brand new Fire
Control Officer Bob Gilmore,
who is filling in behind Ian
McAndie
Effective date for the two
new districts and movement
of personnel is May 12.
through tile roof. All agreed that home could
have been saved had water been available
with which to fight the tire.
ington counties lack any facili
ties for handling juvenile of
fenders separately. Clackamas
county detains them in the
county jail, a procedure which
became necessary when Mult
nomah county had to stop tak
ing them on a fee basis due to
crowded conditions.
Washington county is without
its own facilities and Multno
mah county is in need of addi
tional facilities.
In planning the joint estab
lishment it was felt the coun
ties could build a better one
than any county could afford
alone, and administrative costs
would be lower than in separ
ately staffed facilities.
The group presently favors a
site at Wilsonville which can
be reached easily from any of
the participating counties.
Kehabilltatlon Enhanced
The chance of success in re
habilitating delinquents would
greater in this county it
e were a place to handle
niles separately, county
missioners feel.
tome place is needed to de-
juvenile offenders where
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Saturday Fire
Burns Home
A Saturday morning fire de
stroyed t h e Bluff road resi
dence of Xva Ray Bennet de
spite prompt action by the San
dy Fire Department and as
sistance of the Boring Fire
Department, Lack of water was
blamed for the loss of the
home.
"The boys did a terrific job
up till the time they ran out
of water,” said Bert Smith,
Sandy police chief. He said
firemen had the blaze smoth
ered out with only roof and in
terior damage. Then they ran
out of water and had to go
clear back to Sandy.
They filled the tanker sever-
al different times from the 2-
inch stand pipe in front of the
fire hall. The fire blazed up
from the still hot embers and
finally destroyed the house
completely.
a study of them can be made
b> poisons skilled in this type
of work and thus enhance the
chances of the juveniles becom
ing successful on later assign
ment to foster homes," Ely
said "The costs of this proba*
bly would be too great for any
county to bear alone, but could
be possible through a joint ef
fort."
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