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andy l ost THE MOUSE TRAP Entered at the Post Office at Sandy. Clackamas County, Oregon as second class matter under the Act < f Congress of March, 1879. Member of Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and National Editorial Association Published every Thursday by Outlook Publishing Co. $2 Annual Subscription Sandy Po*t, Sandy, Oregon Page 2 by Jerry Crouse January 21, 1965 This Is the Town You Made have lived here in Sandy We can’t say ‘ They” are to blame if you : more than a year or two, this is the if there is something about the town tow n you made. we don’t like. Nor can we say “they At least I in part it is tile town you get credit” if there is something about made. the town we do like. Towns are only one thing: THE This applies to all of us. PEOPLE LI VINE IN THEM . . . And Not just the presidents of civic that means You. clubs, or members of the city council Sure, other people built the town or other civic groups. Those people were born in or moved into. are merely elected representatives— And at that time, those other people elected by you and me. We put them should be blamed for what we didn’t there. So. share their credit or blame. like about that town, or given credit And that’s true even if you never voted once in your life. Because by for what we did like about it. But after we have been a part of not voting, you changed the vote to- the town for a few weeks or a few tel. You can't escape your responsibili- months, we are a part of it. Our opin- ion begins to count, How we vote ty for the final total merely by say makes a difference, How we act ing you looked the other way. This town is yours. either helps or hurts the town, The town becomes ours. WE are No, somebody here made it the way the town. And. WE can’t deny our it was when you came. And, you made it the way it is. —J.C. Lay-T-ies andGen-T-iemen, the fan mail of TheSandy Post’s newest column writer has Just started to pour in . . . my liter ary ego has been inflated (now I didn’t say de-flated). With this opening I Invite you to feast your pea-plckln’ pupils -- that has something to do with those two slits just below the forehead called “eyes”, at least, that’s what I thought my health teacher was saying but I couldn’t be sure cause I was dozing in class most of the time -- on The Snooper’s reply to last week’s remarks. Oh yes, before I forget it, please tell the local optometrist to forgive me if I happened to name the portion of the eye’s components . . . maybe he’d correct me and I could use another letter next week. Any way, read this: P. S. Come to think of it, where is “Idaho?” Well, Snooper, you named it pretty well when you asked if Payette Is a suburb of “Payola” . . . cause they have a “Payola Day” every Satur day at 3 p.m. and when I left town they had $600 In the kitty just waiting for someone to claim. Really, I thought they’d be willing to part with at least a portion of that to get me out of town -- like a plane ticket or somethin’, you know, “the faster the better!” Also, Payette is what you’d call the hub of Treasure Valley and has a populous of 4451 in town. Idaho? Now that’s the last real “frontier” in the Northwest that bears discov ery. Yes, it’s filled with prim itive area and sagebrush and many of the people still wear cowboy boots and hats . . . didn’t see any Injun scalping while there, though! And now you dear hearts and gentle people this little “spoke” better begin “beating the brush” or a bigger “wheel” will be “cracking ... the Whip!” a. Dear Mousie, Gee thanks for the letter, Mousie, it was very nice. I think? This photo demonstrates a familiar scene along the Sandy river near Brightwood. I thought you’d like to know Noticable in the picture is a lady as she looks at the floor which has dropped out from that I read last week’s Post under the main structure. In the foreground huge boulders swept here by the flood from cover to cover. When I waters are visible. The water represents a channel dug out by the rampaging river that finished it I “wiped my brow wiped away many homes and huge portions of land. (Post photo) and sighed ‘phew’, he made it through the first issue and Most of us are cautious enough to In other words, we look at the total he’s still intact!” Record Run-Off be sure is water in the pool picture. It wasn’t too bad. In fact it Begins Training tlie plunge. During Flood When we do, most of us realize why was a pretty fair issue. You gs. however, we may folks say it’s wise to trade at home. might even say it was very Seaman Recruit Daniel L. Portland General Electric not be so ca good. That is, somebody might To the Editor of theSandy Post, service quickly, and Jerry Local merchants offer quality prod- Rathman, USN., son of Mrs. Lymp, head of the Clackamas engineers report a record say it. I wouldn ’ t, of course, When we sume part icular nets. We, the neighbors of Wildcat fairest prices( this in because after all I did tell Creek, want to take this op county road department’s Mt. amount of water run-off over Edna Rathman of Route 2, Bor merchandise or service, do we always eludes a lair and reasonable mark-up, you of my supertitious nature portunity to thank all the people Hood area, and his men also the dam on the Clackamas river ing, Ore., began nine weeks of or profit, above wholesale cost to and you did go right ahead and who were so kind to us during performed spartan duty dur was measure during the recent basic training Dec. 21, at the t. to all of us. But. him), backed up by the manufactur Recruit Training Command, have your picture on page one. the flood, especially the Fire ing and after the emergency. flood. we make up our er’s guarantee and the retailer’s rep These happen to be the folks The record flow, 93,000 sec Naval Training Center, San I told you how I consider this men, Hiway men, and ambul mind on price utation for satisfied service. to be very bad luck. But just ance girls, who helped us to whom we personally saw react ond feet, lasted for one and a Diego, Calif. Here again, ist of us probably between you and me, Mousie, evacuate and fed and cared for to the flood emergency. No half hours during the height of When we suggest you “Look Before think of oth I wouldn’t be at all surprised us in Sandy. Mr. and Mrs. John doubt the scenes were repeated the flood before subsiding. This important things. You Leap” from here to do your trad If you are able to overcome Griffith took us and the Flem around the state hundreds of run-off was equal in magnitude Where merchandise is concerned, for ing it is not with an “eye” towards to the amount of water in the this handicap. I sure do hope ings into their home and treat- times. Auto Parts and Machine instance, we want to know who made hometown loyalty. But rather, with an We can be thankful that we’re Columbia river during normal so cause you said, “if I go any ed us like members of the it, if it is guaranteed, if service will "eye" towards community progress. Shop Service farther, I’ll end up in the drink.” family and all the rest were Oregonians for two reasons -- low ebb. lie available if needed. firstly that such disasters are —J.C. 110 W. Proctor MU 7-2811 And it just isn’t seemly for edi equally cared for in different rare visitors in Oregon, and tors to drown! homes. Thanks again. Thank you for having it “put- Mrs. Charles Rubbert secondly -that when they do STOCK UP NO strike, so many valiant Ore- on-the-record” that you “in goinans are ready and willing tend to stick around.” It did to be counted “present” when ease my mind and I like people To the Editor, with good intensions. We who live at Mt. Hood the hard and dirty work must I’ve been looking all over all or part of the lime would be done. The losses that many of us The American Red cross Experience and knowledge quickly. This happened follow- for a house for your family, like to offer our appreciation Western States Floods Disaster extending back to 1881 are the ing the Alaskan earthquake and but your requirements are to the intrepid workers who suffered are softened by the Relief headquarters report foundation for the Red Cross tidal waves of last March, the making it kinds hard to find labored so hard during the firsthand knowledge that so Revlon there is an apparent lbw trend relief piogram in behalf of June floods in Montana, and sotnethlng suitable. Do yo6 Christmas flood to protect lives many people did everything hu manly possible to help. of the families in Oregon re Oregon flood victims which is again in the current catasfro- and your wife have to have a and property, and who kept on Sudden TOP BRASS bedroom? All to yourselves? laboring after waters receded. questing assistance. According now in its third week. phe. Hair Dressing Beauty Sincerely, But just to show you I’m on to C. Milton Jackson district Such vital things as repair The West Coast Christmas Trained national Red Cross John Stein with director for Oregon, “Most of week flooding was the third disaster relief specialists from the ball, I did find you a lovely ing destroyed water systems Rodger Eddy the people here are unaccus major catastrophe to strike many parts of the United States place. It has plenty of bed- and roads were done under ex FREE Scalp Welches, Oregon tomed to large-scale dis Red Cross Western Area ter were rushed to flood areas In rooms and even a swimming tremely adverse conditions. We Massager asters.” They are also unac ritory in 1964 -- highest num Oregon, California, Washing 1 pool! The owner, Don Avery, who are on the Welches water customed to looking for outside ber In any one year, and the ton and Idaho to work along said you can have It “rent system, for example, owe Aliens Urged to 16.7 oz. help he stated. $|00 Plus most severe since the Califor side Red Cross chapter volun free” -- providing you can find thanks to Alvin Eri and Duane Reg. $2.49 The kind of do-it-yourself nia Christmas floods in 1955 teers in meeting the needs of It! He suggests you start look Knapp of Firwood Veneer com Fill In Report Tax SPECIAL spirit in evidence everywhere for which the Red Cross ex families and individuals. More ing some place between here pany in Sandy for lending a in the state Is highly com pended $8.6 million in relief. than 35,000 persons were and Astoria. crew headed by Morrie Schol District Director Alfred J. Say what d’ya mean, the peo mendable, Jackson said, but Similar relief cost for help housed and fed in 50 Red Cross ten. These men packed pipe Urbano of the Immigration and he stated the Red Cross does ing families in the current dis shelters in the four states at ple in Idaho wonder “where in over log Jams and snow up the Naturalization Service remind Plus Tax not want any family to exhaust aster are expected to run flood peak. Arrangements were the world is Sandy?” Gee whiz, side of a mountain to restore ed aliens in Oregon today that its resources and tax its fu around five million, about two made for hundreds of other ref Mousie, everyone knows where water service. They were Glen Saturday, Jan. 30, is the dead ture to the point of unneces million of that to be expended ugees to stay in motels or Sandy is! But who ever heard Sheppard, Ken Loomis, Roger line for filing address report ONLY sary hardship. of “Payette”??? Is it a suburb Caba, Leroy Anderson, John forms as required under pro in Oregon. homes. In order to better acquaint Scholten, David Schawd, and visions of the 1952 Immigration Providing disaster relief for Normally, the mass care of of “Payola”??? They must not readers of the Sandy Post with needy families has long been even have a chamber of com Jim Brewster. and Nationality Act. emergency phase of a disaster- merce there. the efforts place forth by local a top priority Job fortheAmer- Likewise, Portland General The Immigration official relief operation is over in a Red Cross authorities the fol- lean Red Cross. The program matter of days, but such is not Well I guess I’d better get Electric company crews waded urged aliens who have not yet vj Limited lowing information is printed. dates back 83 years to the time the case this time. Many re- busy, as there is a lot of streams and overcame other filed their address reports to snooping around to be done. obstacles to restore electric do so no later than Jan. 30 to Time Offers when Red Cross founder Clara gions have been completely is- avoid possible penalties. Barton aided victims of the olated by washed-out bridges, And since you’re gonna be Michigan forest fires. Then in and by disrupted highway and “busy sneakin’ around the area too,” 1’11 sure have to keep 1905 the Red Cross was chart communication facilities. ered by Act of Congress and This necessitates continuation on my toes, as It would never For tinted and bleached hair charged with the responsibility of temporary housing and feed do to have you catch me goof- with conditioner £ in' off. of “. . . mitigating the suffer ing for much longer than usual. 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