con
LETTERS
TO THE»
EDITOR
Waiter C. Taylor, Leo Irwin, Co-Publi*hon
Jerry Crouse, Manager
Entered at the Post Office at Sandy, Clackamas County, Oregon as second
class matter under the Act of Congress of March, 1879
Member of Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and National Editorial Association
Mey 13, 1965
Firsthand Learning.. the Painless Way
From time to time we hear a school
youngster pop out with a statement
I sure
wish school
Recalling
own school days
when we have to
sympathize with youngsters' feelings.
However, there are ways of rejuven
ating the interest of students in school
and we read about one in this week’s
issue of the Milwaukie Review which
merits consideration by others.
We speak of tlie week-long class
room session by lilt» students of the
Lewelling Grade School. The young
sters spent a week in the woods just
the Salvation
Ulen learning
the great out-
As t l> e news article explained.
"They studied plant and animal life,
and tlie inter-relationships between
them. Mother Nature suddenly came
alive for the children and was not
in their own element and as capable
as their fellow students at counting
rings in trees and finding salaman-
ders.”
These
guided by
teachers
students
(mainly seniors) from Oregon State
University who were taking a special
recreation and education class. The
experience gave them a new perspec-
the field of education, too,
the article indicated.
Looking beyond the idea of study
ing the natural resources, etc. that
could never be gained from their text
book are the side effects of the ven
ture. For instance, the youth stayed
in cabins located there and learned
something of being responsible for
keeping their cabins clean, helping
with clean-up chores, learning to live
together, etc. in the great outdoors.
We especially like the comments
by Milwaukie Elementary Superinten
dent Art Keiz: “he thought the new
stature gained in the camp would car
ry through when the children returned
to the classroom,” and "The children
were learning and they didn’t even
know it.”
The spiral of learning—primarily
through a textbook in this day of in-
The
practlbility and stabilities of life that
can and are engendered in our young
sters through down-to-earth firsthand
experiences in the process of learning,
such as this experiment has revealed,
is seemingly overlooked along the ed
ucational route so many times.
In closin ; we join with our Mil
waukie cohort to say that certainly
with more attempts at learning in
this painless way, education could be
come the pleasurable experience it is
for all too few now.
—J.C.
News Columns Are Open to All
Some barbs have been aimed at
The Outlook since we accepted an ad
a couple of weeks ago from The Meth
odist Eederation for Social Action.
The ad protested against U.S. in-
volment in Viet-Nam and urged that
Some of our subscribers didn't
the ad. told us so. Hut we think
things should be made dear.
1. The columns of this paper.
paper
ion
Illgs
real
sort of public service and numerous
court decisions have been rendered
to the effect that a newspaper must
accept any ad which is not immoral,
libelous etc.
A great flap was raised just before
the elections last fall when the Clarke
papers in Portland inserted a scandal
sheet on Lyndon Johnson. The sheet
had been printed somewhere in the
Middle-West and had received wide
spread distribution.
Most people were repelled by the
sheet and said so, vehemently But
we think (he central point was over
looked :
The sheet (which had been cleared
by attorneys) was clearly within the
law Those people who had it distrib
uted were within their rights. One side
has just as much license to make itself
heard as another, regardless of how
ever scurrilous the message might be.
The public isually does a pretty
, anyhow,
too. happen
to think that our involvment there
is wrong But this had only a minor
influence on
advertisement in
question.
of The Outlook
That’s what
is all about.
A public hearing to consider Washington lias been announced
a proposed marketing agree by the United States Del
ment and order for regulating ment of Agriculture.
the handling of fresh Bartlett
The
hearing will open
pears grown In Oregon and Wednesday, May 19, at 9:30
a.m. In Room 420 of the Yak-
Ima County Court House, Yak-
ima. Washington.
USDA’s Consumer and Mar
keting Service said the proposed
marketing agreement and order
was submitted with a request
THE BEST IS NONE TOO
for a hearing by Pacific Bart
GOOD FOR HEAT
lett Pear Growers, Inc.
The program would authorize
JUST TRY OUR OIL
grade, size, pack and container
AND YOU LL REPEAT'
limitations for Bartlett pears
shipped for the fresh market.
It would also provide for mar
keting research and develop
ment projects to assist, im
F fog y
prove, or promote the market-
distribution
AMD
con
sumption of Bartlett pears.
L/// y
If sufficient evidence is de
veloped at the hearing to sup
port the proposal -- or ap
proprlate revisions of it -- and
the Secretary of Agriculture
approves it, the marketing or
der will tie submitted to a vote
of the Bartlett pear growers
in Oregon and Washington.
The hearing notice and pro-
posal are being mailed toknown
growers and handlers of Bart
lett pears tn Washington and
Oregon. Copies may also be
obtained from Robert H. Eaton,
Field Representative, Fruit and
Vegetable Division, Consumer
and Marketing Service, 1218
S. W. Washington St., Portland,
Oregon 97205.
145 NEGRO COUNTIES
There are 145 counties in
11 Southern states where Ne
groes make up more than 50%
of the population. Georgia has
34 such counties; Mississippi,
Alabama
florida and
Tennessee have only 2 each
Texas, 3.
HOOD THEATER
p
l
I
"Making Track«
KWith Jerry"
M ousetrap
Poor Richard said... Chang
ing countries or beds, cures
neither a bad manager nor a
fever. Content makes poor men
rich; discontent makes rich
men poor.
Editor
SANDY POST
Dear Sir:
In the "Post” of April 15,
1965: in the column "Hood-
Land Happenings” by The
Snooper, there is reference to
Raymond Sidebottom being re
lated to Charles Sidebottom.
Raymond Sidebottom is my fa-
ther and has been a resident of
the Hood-Land area for over
20 years. As was I until enter
ing college In 1958.
Perhaps this Information can
be passed along to The Snoop
er. I also see by the article
that my old friend Kathy O’Brian
is back in the area and I’ve been
dreadfully out of touch, would
love to hear from her.
It might be noted that yours
truly is a subscriber to The
Post, via a gift subscription
from my parents: to keep in
touch with the people and hap-
penlngs in and around the place
I still call home.
I’ve noticed that from time
to time you print something
about where some of the Ex-
Sandyites are now. My, but we
are getting them spread out all
over the world.
self any longer and said: “I promptly hailed by an officer
don’t want to bug you, dad, but who told him he was under
your music’s stopped and your arrest.
monkey’s on fire!”
"Under arrest?” the old man
said, "Why, I haven’t done any
An experiment in Chicago has thing. I tried to obey all the
sharply challenged the future of traffic laws.”
For such a seemingly small the old saying: "The rich get
Then the officer said, "Yes,
community there sure is enough richer while the poor get chil
activity going on. So many in dren.” It turns out that the resi but you haven’t got your
stallation banquets, etc. going dents of poverty areas want dimmers on.”
After looking himself over
on at the same time causes me smaller families than do the
very
carefully, the old man re
to wonder if perhaps I’m ac well - to - do.
plied, "Well, I put on every
quiring a splintered personality
This brings me to an item that
. . . whatever that might be. caught my eye the other day. thing the old woman laid out.”
After last Saturday night I It has to do with LBJ’s poverty
Here’s an item that popped up
have about decided to requlsi- program:
on my desk the other day: To the Editor,
tlon
tosses
cub
Reports say that the ad minis-
The following recipe is taken
Since you were so kind as to
size Jet to travel around in
Reports say that the admini from "Death’s Cookbook”:
print my letter concerning Holy
to shoot people and events with. strative costs of his anti-pov
If I thought I had a chance of erty campaign may far exceed Take one reckless, natural - Week, I am venturing to send
born fool, three drinks of bad in one more.
getting one I'd do it, too!
the money that will go to the liquor and a fast, high - pow
It has been called to my at
poor. An eye toward 1,500 em
The other day a local busi ployees is pegged by the office ered car. Soak the fool in the tention that the students boy
liquor, place in car, and let cotted the school cafeteria, be-
ness man stopped and asked me of Economic Opportunity.
him go. After due time, remove cause of a "Pickle’ episode.
if it really hailed here as much
Here is how the poverty of from the wreckage, place in a
Perhaps students viewing
as that picture I put in last fice is being organized:
black satin - lined box and gar Selma marches, believe that
week’s paper showed. I admit
A director at $30,000, per
they, so, have the right to
ted to him that it was for honest year; a deputy director at $28,- nish with flowers.”
A popular recipe nowadays
and
mumbled "I was
500 per year; A first assist but sure doesn’t sound very such protests, but they do not.
Anything that hurts or prevents
wrapped up in my work that I ant director at $27,000; A
the smooth operation of their
didn’t even notice.” I recom second assistant director at appetizing.
school, hurts their parents, the
mend that he take a day or two $27,000; and A third assistant
A parting shot goes like this taxpayers, who have delegated
off, gather the wife and family director at $27,000 per year.
Small daughter: "Daddy, freely some of their authority
in the hoople, and go camping,
Those figures just include the don’t drive so fast.”
to the school to watch over.
picnicking and fishing some-
bosses, say the report, and then
" Why not?”
protect and discipline their stu
where,
that much concen
there are nine assistants at
"Because the policeman on dent children.
tration on the noggin’s gotta go! $24,500. Then, there are 11
the motorcycle can’t get by.”
This authority -- from God,
more assistants at $21,445 a
to parent, to State school auth
There’s one thing atvut wea year and the small - fry as
orities, is a natural right. Stu
ther like we had last week . . . sistants (about 20 of them) will
BORING'S RATHMAN dents, as under-aged, have no
when Mr. Sun does return like only get $18,935.
civil rights -- neither to stage
he has this week it sure makes
TAKES AIR COURSE
With astronomical salary fig
sit-ins, nor boycotts. They do
it awful hard to stay indoors
ures like that you might wonder
Airman Apprentice Daniel L. not pay the bills, (thoughHeaven
and w-o-r-k!
One fellow sure has the right who’s getting the real economic Ra th man. USN, son of Mrs. knows they have more spending
Edna M. Rathman of Boring, money for pleasure than their
idea -- Garrett Hartke is on assistance.
has graduated from the avia- parents
vacation. His fishing pole outfit
too much
Another item goes on to say
didn’t arrive like it was suppos
ed to but he says thats alright that at a community in Vir tion familiarization course at
I’ll just spend my time at the ginia the government plans to the Naval Air Technical Train
spend $74,000 for an anti-pov- ing Center, Memphis, Tenn.
golf course. What a life!
ertv project. The barb is that
The two-week course inclu
A man was manually operat of the sum only $20,000 of it is ded history of naval aviation,
ing a rotisserie on his front earmarked for the poor. I did theory of flight, aircraft car
lawn, turning the crank by hand think it was the poor that was riers and operations, cleaning
going to be helped!
barbecuing a chicken.
and inspecting aircraft,surviv
A l>eatnik, watching from the
An old man came lumbering al evasion tactics, parachutes
sidewalk, couldn't contain hlm- into town in a Model T and was and jump techniques.
Dear Snooper:
If you can let my friends
around the mountain know that
I’ve accummalated a wife (Ele
anor) daughter (Janet) college
degree (Ba in speech) son
(Brett) in that order!
For the past two years have
been music director and evening
DJ on the top rated station in
the area, WLAN 5000 watts
at 1390 in Lancaster, Pa. Have
been guest of several TV shows
originating in the area. Have
done shows and dances (hops)
in the Vernacular, with The Or
lons, Kingsmen, Chubby Check
er, Letterman, Jimmy Cross,
Jimmy Velvet, etc. et al.
Professionally I’m known as
Chuck Raymond. That’s about it
from the great northeast.
I look forward for my copy
of the Post each week so I can
find out what’s been happening.
Perhaps we will get a chance
to say Hi this summer when
we plan to visit the mountain on
our vacation.
Sincerely,
Charles R. Sidebottom
43 Hampton Lane
Neffsville, Pa.
fact)!
Sometimes the innocent get
punished along with the guilty,
and where possible, school au
thorities should try to ferret
out the guilty party, so the in
nocent will not suffer, but isn’t
that the story of life itself—
that when one in A FAMILY
misbehaves, the whole family
Suffers for it?
John Donne said, "No man
is an island unto himself,” and
he meant that when one man
suffered
misbehaved
suffered in Society.
My children have orders to
eat at the Cafeteria, pickles or
no pickles.
It was established for their
benefit, and better than a sack
lunch any day, counting our
blessings! I don’t want to go
back to the horse and buggy
days, and I’m sure the kids
don’t either, but it’s not so
many years back that that cafe
teria was built for their con
venience. Let them check and
find out.
(Continued on page 6)
Hanging »na
J f or
Upright . . ■
" fuchsias
Hanging a
Upright
Plants
SAFE
DEPOSIT
«he Or«9°n
«lind Co"'"1.
DV
M»nv ••r
¥.rie»»«» A’»0
tMrrV. P,,r
e » v
W O”’“ 6
Powell Blvd. - Gresham - 665-2949
filled
WITH
OUR FUEL OIL
SAFE!
ALWAYS SPARKLING CLEAN
Don’t Forget . , ,
FRANK SCHMITZ SEZ
STARTS WEDNESDAY, MAY 12TH
Frank Sinatra and Clint Walker
NONE BUT THE BRAVE
ALSO
A GRIPPING MYSTERY
Starring Connie Stevens
TWO ON A GUILLOTINE
Selected Stock of
Bedding Plants brought
in fresh daily . . .
Also Busy Lizzy
Shrub», Lilies, and
Fertilisers, too!
> so good
to KNOW that
Large Hanging Baskets of Fuschias and
Geraniums from the worlds finest
growers, moderately priced.
(ret Them Note . . .
JANZ BERRYLAND
SANDY, OREGON
COUNTY BANK
S andy . oeE
mutual
7-2271