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Thurs., May 13, 1965 (Sac. 1) THE SANDY (Ore.) POST « By NELL HOWE Hood-Land Reporter Woman's Singles winner in the Post-sponsored tourney is Addie Perry. Here she holds the trophy she earned. (Post Photo) *T"er* th* ®andy Union High School Key Club, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Sandy, held a dinner for prospective members of the club last Monday evening at the school. New officers of the club were installed and a film on key clubbing was shown to the group, (Post Photo) ». # Miss Barbara Loehr, a missionary-appoint-e to Indonesia, with the Conservative Baptist Church, is shown here as she spoke to tha Mothar-Daughter Banquet held at Ning's Cafe in Sandy by the missionary society of tha Sandy Baptist Chapel. (Post Photo) Jerry Perkins (left) and Denny Gray are shown as they received the Sparkplug award from Garrets Hartke, outgoing president of the Sandy Jaycees, during joint Jaycee-Jaycette installation banquet last Saturday night. (Post Photo) Considered as Noxious Weeds Quackgrass, horsetail rush, morning glory and Canada this tle are classified as noxious weeds and will be prohibited in nursery stock sold in Oregon after Sept, 1, 1966 under an order issued last week by the Oregon Department of Agricul ture. The Nursery Advisory Com mittee to the Oregon Depart ment of Agriculture Proposed that the department establish the noxious weed list and asked for a hearing on the matter.. The hearing was April 15 in Salem and all attending approv ed the list. Poppy Work Day Slated A work day will be held on May 21 for the preparation of poppy corsages by members of the Carl Douglass American Legion Auxiliary in Estacada. Poppies will be sold May 27- 29, by the junior members of the group. Mrs. Nina Reed has announc ed that the unit has prepared 120 favors for the national con vention in Portland this summer and more will be designed on the regular work day of the group. New unit officers will be elected at the June meeting. ESTACADA YOUTH ■N ARMY EXERCISE Pictured above is the seventh and eighth grade band students during their annual spring concert held last Friday night at Sandy Grade School gym. The band pre sented the final numbers during the program. (Post Photo) George Stavros (left) observes his Spoke Award cer tificate and Sam Gray receives a handshake from Gar rett Hartke, outgoing Jaycee president, during Satur day's joint installation program for the Sandy Jaycees and Jaycettes. (Poht Photo) It looks like cowboy country here as a group of eighth grade boys at Sandy Grade School sing cowboy songs during the annual spring music concert held in the school gym. (Post Photo) Army PFC Darold D. Parki son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd E. Parkison, RL 1, Box 586, Estacada, Ore., is partlclpat- Ing in Exercise Silver Hand, a major Joint field training ex erclse conducted by the U. S. Strike Command at Fort Hood, Tex., May 1-15. Parkison is taking part in various tactical maneuvers de signed to develop techniques to insure that Army and Air Force units can deal decisively as a team with any type of emer gency. The 24 - year - old soldier, a truck driver in Company B of the 1st Armored Division’s 501st Supply and Transport Bat talion at Fort Hood, entered the Army In September 1963 and completed basic combat train ing at Fort Ord, Calif. He is a 1959 graduate of Estacada Union High School. Blanche Ness has a houseful, and a mighty happy person she is. Her son Gary, with wife and family, are here on a vlslL Now Blanche can enjoy those grandchildren she’s been want ing to spoil. Gary is here from Hawaii. Went into the big city and spent a lovely Mothers Day with my daughter and family. They took me out to dinner, and who should we .see, but Billy and Millie Lenz, with Millies moth er, Minnie Reed, and Bill’s mother, Helen Lenz. Hope I can look as good as Helen and Minnie do when I add a couple of more years. Browsing through some more historical Items, and discover ed that E. Henry Wemme,pur chased-the first automobile in Oregon, which he purchased in 1899. The car is believed to have been an Apperson. (Thats a new one on me) This is a little note written about the new car. Bet ter Than Horses — The auto mobile which made Its appear ance here a few days ago was meandering about town yester day and attracted considerable attention. It runs very smooth ly and noiselessly and is all right for those who like such things, but to people who have driven horses all their lives it don’t look quite right. It is too dead easy a game, said an old driver of 2 nags, yesterday; there Is no life or excitement about it. Give me a pair of good horses that will pull on the lines and with tails over the dashboard and whip in the soc ket, give dust to everyoneln the County Seeks Traffic Recruit Applicants Civil service examinations for recruit in the Clackamas County Traffic Department have been called by the civil service commission. Applications for the position paying from $380 to $460 a month will be accept ed up to May 25. The position includes work ing with the traffic department, Including assisting tn the en forcement of traffic weights and measures and other motor ve hicle laws and regulations. Aft er one year of successful ex perience the recruit would be eligible for promotion to deputy sheriff upon successful com pletion of a written tesL Applicants must be citizens of the United States, residents of Oregon and graduations from a senior Idgh school, measur ing from five feet nine inches to six feet four Inches in height. Only those between the ages of 21 and 28 will be accepted. DAVID TESCH IN The President's Award of Honor went to Leroy Rus sell last Saturday night during the installation banquet for the Sandy Jaycees held at the Mt. Hood Country Club. Garrett Hartke made the presentation to Russell. (Post Photo) The empty house occupying a portion of the used car lot of Richardson Chevrolet on Proctor in Sandy is coming down as evidenced by this picture. (Post Photo) BASIC TRAINING Seaman Recruit David M. Tesch, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Tesch of RL 2, Estacada, is undergoing nine weeks of Navy basic training at the U. S. Naval Training Center, San Diego, Calif. In the first weeks of his naval service he will study military subjects and live and work under conditions similar to those he will encounter on his first ship or at his first shore station. On completion of recruit training Tesch will be assigned to a school shore station or ship, according to the results of his Navy classification tests, his own desires and the needs of the Navy. COURSE TAKEN BY BORING MARINE Three members of the Sandy Jaycees received Ex hausted Rooster awards at the group's banquet held at the Mt. Hood Country Club on Saturday. From left to right they are Jim Wolf, Dick Alexander (barely visible), and Bob Griffin. Garret Hartke made the awards. (Post Photo) Marine Private Larry D. Konsella, son of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Konsella of Rt. 1, Boring, completed four weeks of In dividual combat training April 27 with the 2nd Infantry Train- Building up the approach to th; Brightwood Bridge is this cat. When the bridge is completed it will provide a roadway from Loop Highway down Brightwood Road and across the Sandy River to homes in that vicinity. (Post Photo) MAIL THIS COUPON Red Raspberry Festival Queen If you would like to become Queen of the Festival, July 24, Mail This Coupon Name Address Age Phone No (Enclose Picture If Possible) Moil « ab Raspberry Growers Assn. lOa.Rt. 1, Box 312, Boring, Oregon IVI 311 Birdseye peak through a break in the trees show work on the original channel of the Sandy River near Wildcat Creek. As many as 14 D B cats have been counted at one time working in this area. Following work by the cats waters will be brought back into the channel as it was before the floods. (Post Photo) BRUCE ANDERSON COMPLETES COURSE Pvt. Bruce D. Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Anderson, Rt. 2, Box 73, Bor ing, Ore., completed an engi neer equipment malntance course at the Army Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Va., May 4. During the 11-week course Anderson received instruction in the maintenance of gasoline and diesel engines, air com pressors, tractors, crane shovels and other heavy - duty engineering equipment used by the Army. The 20 - year - old soldier, who attended St. Martin’s High School, was employed by Al ford Logging before entering the Army In December 1964. He completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Field Day All 4-H Forestry Club mem bers and leaders are Invited to the Clackamas County 4-H Field Day to be held Saturday, May 15 In the Estacada area. Those attending will meet In Estacada at 9:30 a.m. The first visit will be to the U. S. For est Service headquarters. After this the group will take the tour up the Clackamas Riv er road to see some of the work being done by the U. S. Forest Service. Jack McDhenny, Dis trict Ranger tor the Estacada District of the Mt. Hood Na tional Forest, will be in charge of the trip. The county4-H forestry iden tification contest will be held during the day, according to Harold Black, County 4-H Ex tension Agent. Clayton Wills, County Exten sion Agent and Al Parker,State Farm Forester will assist with the Field Day. CLASSIFIED ADS PAY Notes! road, there is some life and some fun in that. The cost of such a team and the expense of feeding and caring for them spoils the fun of driving them for many, and there Is nothing to prevent racing with auto mobiles as well as horses. Rainy weather and muddy roads are not favorable to the use of automobiles, and there Is al ways a possibility of a blow up. A slight accident of this kind occurred on board Mr. Wemme’s machine a few days ago. which caused no damage, however, beyond scorching the woodwork. (Just makes us real ize how dangerously we are liv ing, driving these infernal ma chines. Boy would Mr. Wemme, get shook up at the speed we travel now.) If you haven’t had the op portunity to read Dr. Ivan Wool- leys’ book, Off To ML Hood, then you have missed a real treat. It is a delightful history of this country, from the time the first stages ran out here. Thats while I feel like one of the lucky ones, cause I traveled on some of those stages, and it would take us almost the entire day to arrive at the Tawney Hotel, where we originally spent every summer. From the book there Is a delightful descrip tion of Welches resort, as it was then known. Approxlmatelyone- half mile above Wemme, at the old Welches School, those en route to Welches and Tawney’s turned sharply to the right. This road was a straight, narrow lane for almost a mile, planked in some places and rutty and dusty in others. At the end of this line there was a sharp left turn as the road angled down ward a hundred yards or so across the face of the hill to reach the floor of the little val ley in wnich the resort nestled. It was worth a pause at the top of the hill to take In the beauty of the surroundings. On the right, across the Salmon River, which could not be seen from this part of the road, Huckleberry Mountain rose to a height of 3,800 feet. To the left Hunchback Mountain seemed to present an almost sheer verti- cal wall, rlslng behind the stretch of lush green pasture known as Welches Bottom in early days and as "Billys calf Pasture" in my child hood. It Is more widely recognized now las the Mt. Hood Golf Course. It took little Imagination to pic ture the scene In the early 1900s, when people used to ar rive by wagon to camp for the summer. Tents were pitched In the virgin timber near the river. The horses were turned Into the pasture across the road, and at times the corral was full of wild horses that had been brought In from Eastern Oregon, later to be driven on Into the Willamette Valley to be sold. The resort gradually de veloped on this site which had been homesteaded by BUly Welch and his father In 1882, each proving up on 160 acres. They gradually added to their holdings until they owned al most 1,000 acres. This all eventually came to Billy when his father died In 1898. In 1905 Clinton Kern and a Mr. Wren leased the property and opened a hotel resort which they operated until 1909. In 1911 Billy married Jennie Faublon and together they ran the re sort until 1917, at which time they closed the hotel, remodeled part of It for a home and built nine cottages which were rented to tourists and summer visit ors, and that Is where I spent every summer from then on. We always rented the cabin cal led Bachelor Button. No Indoor plumbing, a cold water faucet on the back porch, and a wood stove, and always plenty of wood. Bath night was a chore, heating the water on the stove, then pouring it into the old wash tub, and then mother trying to corral my brother and I and get us into the water. At one time we were playing hide - and - go - seek, in Billys barn, and running to touch base, I slipped and fell Into the trough, the one behind the cows, and slid full length on my face. Just to add insult to Injury, the barn hadn’t been cleaned yet that day. Seems no one wanted me to play with them anymore, and brother George made me go home. My mother didn’t want me either, but she had no place else to send me, so sat me under the water faucet in back. That lovely Ice-cold water didn’t really help matters much, and it took many baths and washings, before I was allowed among the natives again. Even the Indians didn’t seem to want me, I was a little ripe smelling even for them. Some day I will Journey back into the past with you again.
