Vol. 25
TWELVE PAGES
SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1963
Bakers Plead
Not Guilty
On Two Counts
Not guilty pleas have been
entered by Howard W. Baker
and Ruth L. Cate Baker to
charges involving the Dec. 27
fire which destroyed the San
dy General Store.
They were charged with first-
degree arson and with burning
and destroying property with
the intent to defraud the in
surer.
The Bakers entered the not-
guilty pleas Monday in Clack
amas
County
Judge Ralph M
siding.
circuit court,
Holman pre
Both are now out on bail.
Separate trials will be held on
the two charges and the dis
trict attorney has requested a
trial date be set first on the
arson count.
The Bakers are represented
by Oregon City Attorney Rob
ert M. Mulvey.
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Massey Fined
On Two Counts
James Edward Massey was
judged guilty of being drunk
on a public street (Shelley at
Proctor) in Judge Ruth Loun-
dree's court Friday.
He was sentenced to pay a
fi,.e of $50 and serve 10 days
in jail, with $25 and the jail
sentence suspended. He was
placed on probation for one
year.
The hour - long trial brought
out the fact that Massey had
been drinking beer in Port
land, then drove to Sandy with
his wife and another couple.
He came out of the Dew
Drop and was given a traffic
citation by Police Chief Bert
Smith for illegal parking.
Chief Smith testified that
Massey "smelled highly of liq
uor, that he staggered around,
talking loud and very vulgarly.
Massey pled guilty to a sec
ond charge of using vulgar and
obscene language on a public
street. He was fined $50, with
$25 suspended.
Students Take
Art Awards
fifth grader, who holds her clever shadow box
arrangement of dried grasses and field flow
ers. Camilla Linden, also a fifth-grader, took
first award for her artistically woven design.
(Sandy Post photo)
Voters Pass
City Budget
The Sandy city budget was
passed Tuesday when 98
Sandyites went to the polls,
70 of them to vote “yes.”
There were 23 “no" votes.
The turnout was almost
double last year’s when only
47 votes were east — 42
“yes” and 5 “no.”
Regional Science Fair
Draws Varied Exhibits
Sandy elementary school is
host this week to the regional
science fair and visitors have
found an outstanding array of
exhibits in the gym at the new
building. Gold seal winners in
this regional fair are eligible
to compete in OMSI state fair.
These three Sandy school girls took blue
ribbons for their original and clever artwork
at the recent regional art fair. On left, third-
grader Nancy Hedden holds her prize-win
ning entry. In center is Kathleen Turney,
No. 17
Sandy grade school submit
ted 34 entries this year to the
Clackamas County Junior Art
show sponsored by the Oregon
City branch of AAUW at Bol
ton school, West Linn. The
show ran April 17-19.
Nancy Heddin won a 1st
place, and Patrick Culps, a
2nd; teacher, Mrs. Katt.
Linda McDermed took a 2nd;
teacher, Mrs. Moore.
Ernie Eggleston and Tommy
Founds each took a 2nd; teach
er, Mrs. Spahr.
Camilla Linden and Kathleen
Turney each took a 1st; Laur
el Swails, 2nd; Mike Hite, 3rd;
teacher, Mrs. Lear.
Susan Drew won a 2nd;
Mary Whitlock, 3rd; teacher,
Miss Proett.
There were a total of 1,121
entries from 34 schools in the
county,
according to Mrs.
George Matile, coordinator of
the annual show.
Those awarded a gold seal
are:
Paul Knopp, Paul Garber
and Jerry Knopp, Ninety-one
school; Sandra Heckard, Con
nie Daugherty, Dan Collier,
Molalla,
Linda Winchester,
Bull Run.
Jimmy Mieland, Ted Amund
son, Clint Landeen, Sally Steele,
Mark Gardner, David Dietz
and John Trygstad, Canby.
Gary Bialostosky, Damascus;
Shirley Obert, Betty Haul and
Randy Farleigh, West Linn.
Silver awards were won by:
Terry Hatfield, St. John
school; Norma Aamodt, Nine
ty-one; Billy Rodberg, Molal
la; Carolyn Hamilton, Janel
Nielsen,
Rose
Pantenburg,
Glenda Witt, Karen
Keil,
Anne Carlberg, Yvonne Bar
row, Chrys Potter,
Ronald
Dobyno,
Bobby
Jangala,
Charles Stinson, Jean Stevens,
Kathy Vigus, Martha Nieland,
Linda Christensen, Nicolette
Lundeen, Jan Wattenburg and
Teresa Kletyok, Canby; James
Tunnicliffe, Park Place school.
Clay Westcott, Sharon Fuji
moto, Dwight Fujimoto, Da
mascus; Susan Moffet, Connie
Berger, David Whitlock, San
dy; Ann Kehrli, Sharon Splin
ter, Rick Farleigh, Toby Paul.
West Linn; Kevin Dworschak,
Molalla; Mardell Belcher, Jim
Ennis, Pam Jester, John Bur
rell, Cottrell.
Three of the awards to be presented at
the Moms and Dads Club award Banquet
are held by club president Al Gantenbein,
vice president William (Harold) Kitchen and
SRFPD
The
Sandy
Rural
Fire
Protection District heard this
week that the area can expect
an approximate 7 percent re
duction in fire insurance rates
for dwellings. The Oregon In
surance Rating Bureau, which
has completed its rating sur
vey, announced that improve
ments in fire protection facili
ties were sufficient to produce
Protection Class 9 (9b).
New rates for specifically
rated properties have not as
yet been determined, accord
ing to Lester L. Large, assist
ant manager of the rating
bureau. These will be publish
ed as soon as possible, he
promised.
He added that the reduction
for these properties will vary.
In some instances an increase
may occur. Misapplication of
previous rating schedules will
generally account for the dif-
ference.
Table IV reduction for Av-
erage Clause is now applicable.
Such authorized reductions are
generally greater than the pre
viously authorized Table V.
Large said the additional
rate information can be ob
tained from local fire insur
ance agents who have, or will
have within a few days, copies
of the new circular pages.
Supt. Charles Croston. Names have been
carefully taped for secrecy until the night
of banquet.
(Sandy Post photo)
Annual Banquet
Awards for outstanding stu
dents in all the many facets
of high school activity will hold
the spotlight Saturday evening,
May 4, when the Moms and
Dads Club gives its annual
Awards Banquet.
There will be awards in each
field of sport, in music, in
leadership
and
scholastic
achievement. Names of win
ners are being kept a secret
until the moment the award
is presented.
The banquet will be held in
the school cafetorium at 6:30
p.m. Tickets may be purchas
ed from Mrs. Bob Beehler,
Barbara Lymp, Elaine Popel-
ka or Ralph Richardson. Adult
tiekets for the swiss steak din-
ner are $1.50, with a special
"family rate” of $4.75 for any
size family.
High school student tickets
are priced at $1 with grade
school tickets selling for 75
cents. The committee urges
everyone to purchase their
tickets early.
Decor Unique
Mrs. David Weinecke heads
the decoration committee and
Pres. Al Gantenbein promises
that she will have an unusual
and very lovely decor.
There will be a musical pro
gram by Tom Lewis' music stu
dents and the "Four Seniors”
quartet will sing.
Ivan Barker is in charge of
installation of officers for the
coming year.
Jasper Potharst, foreign ex
change student from Holland,
will speak to the group.
Publicity is being handled
by Ruth Burg and Elaine Po-
pelka.
Lady Democrats
At State Meet
The Status of Women Con
ference in Salem, Wednesday,
April 17, sponsored by the
Democratic Party of Oregon
which celebrated the 50 years
of woman suffrage in Oregon
was well attended by Clacka
mas County Democratic wom
en.
Among those participating in
the program were: Mrs. Rob
ert Elkins, Molalla; Mrs. Rob
ert Beatie, Ann Chambers and
Mrs. Richard Long, all of Ore
gon City; Mrs. Elmer McClure,
Milwaukie; Mrs. Joseph Carl
son and Mrs. Merton Miller of
Lake Oswego; Margaret Ann
Fielding, Zig Zag and Mrs.
Leonie Brooke, retired Sandy
teacher.
Mrs. Robert Y. Thornton was
hostess to conference partici
pants at a tea in her home fol
lowing the day’s program.
High School Expansion Stirs Many
An $800,000 bond issue for
renovation and new construc
tion at Sandy high school will
be voted on Monday, May 6.
This bond issue, it has been
pointed out, will be voted on
separately from the high school
budget, on which voters of the
district will also be casting bal
lots.
The proposed high school ex
pansion and the land purchase
necessary for it have gener
ated much interest, many ru
mors and a number of requests
for information.
The often - repeated, "The
Bond issue is for l’a million
dollars!" can be cleared with
a definite assurance that the
sum for which the district
would bond itself, if the issue
carries, is $800.000.
The natural follow-up, "It
will raise our taxes!” is ob
viously true. In questioning the
school board and school ad
ministration the only softening
statement was, "We will do
our best to arrange repayment
of the bonds in a way calcu
lated to raise taxes as little
as possible.”
The district is working out
the bond repayment schedule
that will be most favorable,
but it is at present impossible
to state the exact amount
property taxes would be rais
ed It is estimated that the bond
issue will raise taxes from five
to seven mills.
Another statement
heard
from a number of sources is,
There are two rooms at the
high school right now that are
not in use. If this is true,
why are we being asked to tax
ourselves to build more class
rooms?”
Vacancies Brief
A careful check of sched
ules at the high school shows
that six different rooms are
vacant for one period during
the school day. while a seventh
is vacant for two periods. This
vacancy is in regards to a full
class only — these rooms are
used during their vacant per
iod either for counseling or for
department coordination.
Other room could be found
for counseling and coordina
tion work, Supt. Charles Cros
ton says. Actually it will have
to be, for the student load
next fall requires the addition
of three more teachers. These
must be fitted in.
Plans now are to use the bi
ology
experimental
room,
which is sub - standard, as a
classroom for one new teach
er.
It is hoped that a mechani
cal drawing and wood shop can
be built as an extension of
the storage and ag - shop
building, thus releasing the
mechanical drawing room for
a classroom for a second
teacher. The third will prob
ably hop” from one to anoth
er of the rooms when they are
vacant.
Remodeling Suggested
Why tear down the Pioneer
building? It may need some
fixing up. but it would surely be
chaper to fix It than to build
new!
Architect Palmer Hewlett
says this is seldom so. He
points out that in remodeling
an older building there is the
expense of taking apart and
clearing out existing construc
tion plus the cost of the new
work, with an end result that is
never the equal of completely
new construction.
Apart from the architects’
recommendation, a committee
of 10 lay persons from this
area none of whom had an ed
ucational position with the
school, made the statement,
The Pioneer building should
be scrapped."
The evaluation committee
made up of representatives
from the State Department of
Education.
the
Clackamas
County School Superintendent's
office and representatives from
colleges and universities of
Oregon came to the conclusion
that, "The facilities in the Pio
neer building are obsolete to the
point that the total school plant
environment suffers.”
Consultant Would Raze
The educational consultant
hired by the district in 1962
stated, "Your consultant has
no hesitation in recommend
ing that as soon as possible
replacement spaces be provid
ed and this (Pioneer) building
be removed from the school
site."
Another question that is ask
ed is, "Have they bought the
land for a new athletic field?
Where, exactly, is it?"
The school board has pur
chased approximately 25 acres
for a proposed athletic field.
The purchase price was ap
proximately $12,000. The prop
erty has been paid for, al
though there is one small piece
that would square off the pur
chased land that is present
ly under option.
This land is across Bluff
road from the high school.
Sufficient land contiguous to
the school site was unavail
able and such acreage as was
offered for sale was felt to be
too expensive.
Danny Miller, 14, looked at the shiny lure In a tackle store
and saw a big trout just waiting to snap It. He went over
to the counter and bought a fishing license in preparation for
the weekend that all fishermen had been waiting for — the
opening of the season.
(Sandy Post photo)
Minimum Size Set
The State Department of Ed
ucation ruled that no addition
al buildings could be built on
the present site until more land
was obtained. The minimum
size of a high school site is set
at 10 acres, plus an addition
al acre for each 100 pupils of
ultimate
enrollment.
This
means that when Sandy high
reaches a size of 1000 students,
as it will within a few years,
it will require a minimum of
20 acres.
By the time additional land
is needed, it is apt to be ex
tremely scarce. It was deem
ed wise to buy the tract across
Bluff road while it was avail
able at a reasonable price.
Sandy High School Physical Education Field Layout