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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1965)
Work Progresses on Gas Pipeline Into Sandy Area Crew» wire moving along rapidly last weekend a» a 3’/i In h ga» pipeline was being laid along Highway 212 between Boring and Damascus. It will provide the Boring Da mascus ant Sandy area with Northwest Natural Gas facilifiat (pott Photo) Work commenced last week on a 10 mile bog natural gas pipeline which will run from the intersection of Market Road No. 16 in Damascus along Highway 212 until it me«ts the freeway at U. S. 26 and then torn east following the freeway into Sandy. Northwest Natural Gas Co., only recently received permis sion to bring their pipeline facilities into the Sandy-Bor- ing-Damascus tree for dis tribution. According to Paul H. Howe dlstrlbution department mana ger from the firm's Portland office, the pipeline will be completed about the middle of November and service to the resident« In this area will com mence shortly thereafter. Crews are busy laying a 3- 1/2 Inch line from Damascus into Sandy. The pipe is laid In 40 foot links. Directing the work here is Robert Lind who said Friday that the digging equipment was A workmen i» busy brushing coal tar enamel where two »ection» of the gat pipe - - - joint - Each is handwrapped with felt and then coal tar (Post Photo) line are joined together. allowing them to move ahead painted over the covering. at an average rate of 13 to if feet per minute. This Includes d over the wrapping before it digging a trench, laying a sec laid. Also, he added, this is tion of pipe down and then cov- Jone in addition to welding of •rlng it back up with earth fill. the pipe sections together. Lind said his crew started About 10 per cent of the welds on the project Monday, Oct 11, and the work was moving along are given an x-ray test, too he ■moothly. said. “We have to certify this It was explained by Howe that work,’’ Rowe commented, “and the pipe is being put down per we want to be sure that It Is manently and that each link It done right the first time.’* felt wrapped by hand at ths Once the 3-1/2 pipeline joint and coal tar enamel coat- reaches Sandy there will be a numerous others have indicat ed an interest In it. Roger Slelicky, supervisor, builder-dealer relations rep two-mlle grid of distribution lines laid in Sandy. This grid will use a two inch pipe. Sales representatives of the company have been In the area for about three weeks contact resentative for the gas com pany, said this week that the response to their coming into the area has been great enough ing home owners and business establishments relative to the gas heating of residences. They report that 31 persons have signed up for gas when the pipeline Is completed and that that they expect to meet their first year’s gas turn-on projec tion figure about the middle of December "'Sandy Post What was believed to be a brick chimney turned out to be nothing more than a stove pipe encased in a wooden GREAT WAY dell t had just moved their furniture and belongings into the homo and »farted a fire In the wood atove In the living room Photo» hero »how the stove and the damage caused in the Sunday afternoon fire. (Post Photo») TO THE MT. HOOD PLAYGROUND^ VoL 27 20 PAGES SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1965 Firemen Quell Kelso Blaze Search Here Firemen from the Boring Fire Department were called Sunday afternoon to extinguish a blaze at the Larry Caudell home at Rt. 1, Box 179, Bor ing. The home is located tn the Kelso area on U. S. Highway 26. The Caudell'■ were juat mov ing into the home which they had recently purchased from E. P. Smith, a former resident of the ares. Caudell stated that they had just finished moving furniture and other articles into home and had started a fire in the wood stove located tn the living room. He had left to get more wooc. when his wife observed the paint around what had been sup posed to be a brick chimney began to blister. Ing Into it as their permanent Mrs. Caudell took the chll- home. dren and went across the street He stated that the property to a neighbor's and help was was insured. summoned. Fireman managed to put out the blaze but the wall and celling In the kite lien were Irndly blistered. Smoke and stain damage was encount A public liearing will be held ers'! throughout the three bed- at the all-purpose room of the room horn«. After the fire was out It was Sandy elementary school on discovered that only a stove Wednesday, Oct. 25, to consid pipe ran from the wood er a proposed zoning ordinance for the City of Sandy. stove. The ordinance will apply to The home and property had only recently been purchased all properties located within the city limits of Sandy and will and had had renters there until Include the creation of zoning about two or three weeks be fore. Caudell remarked. The districts here. The zoning would family had repainted and fixed create residential, commercial up the home and were just mov- and industrial districts here. Also included among the items of consideration will be provisions for off-street park ing, etc. Time of the meeting Is set with the late president will be for 8 p.m. All interested per the theme song of a television sons are requested to lie pres series lused on his book”Pro ent. files in Courage.” A joint presentation of“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” will be made by the concert band a cappella choir. The Pionaires and the dance band will do two songs together too. "Five Mellow Winds,” fea turing a woodwind quintet, and “Echo Song,” by the two choirs are among other numbers to tie sung at the concert. Nancy Kitchen, a 1965 grad uate of Sandy high, will be at the concert to direct her own musical comjiositlon of “How Do 1 Love Thee.” She is at tending the University of Ore gon. . Zoning Public Hearing Set Fall Concert Set Friday Friday night at 8 p.m. the annual Mom and Pop Concert will t>e presented in the Sandy high school cafetorium. Scheduled to perforin at the fall concert program are the concert band, a cappella choir, Pionaires and a dance band. Among the numbers to be presented at the concert will be two songs associated with the late President John F. Kennedy. A song dedicated to him entitled “In The Summer Of His Years” was presented over a British television sta tion on the very evening of his assassination. It will be 3t>ng by ttie Pionaires from an ar rangement by Tom Lewis, school director. The other number associated Youth Corps For President Talked at Board Meet Candidates for president of the Mt. Hood Community Col lege probably will be narrow ed down to about five next week. The screening committee, made up of a number of prom inent educators, has been hold ing regular sessions and will meet with the full college board next week. At that time, the committee is expected to rec ommend the top five candi dates. A decision on the new presi dent thus may tie made in the near future. Board members were to have met Wednesday evening to dis cuss plans for another bond is sue or serial levy should gov ernment surplus property at 148th and Halsey become avail able to the district. One of the stipulations in ac quisition of the property is that some sort of building activity must be underway within 18 months. Now Available In Sandy THE FINEST IN AUTOMATIC LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT A brief discussion relative to sponsoring a Neighborhood Youth Corps program next year Was conducted during the monthly meeting of the school board of Sandy Union High School. The board members met Wednesday, Oct. 13, at the local school. Following the discussion the board approved the continuing sponsorship of the program from Jan. 24 to June 17, 1966. The Youth Corps program dis cussed and approved will be similar to the type sponsored ast summer here officials sta- ed. Neil Jackson, manager of the (Continued on Page 11) Stngia copy 10c No. 42 Sandy Youth Found Dead Fifteen year old Larry Lee Longstreet of Rt. 2, Box 857, Sandy was discovered by his mother on the floor of the family home bathroom Friday night, the apparent victim of carbon diguing. A bottle marked cartoon disulfide was found lying on the bathroom floor- nearby the dead youth’s sprawled body. The son of Foster and Lena Longstreet he was born In Portland on May 21, 1950. He lived in the Sandy area all of his life and was a sophomore student at Sandy high school. Services for the youth were held Monday morning at the Sandy Seventh-Day Adventist church with Elder Ira D. Fol lett officiating. Interment was at the Sandy cemetery. According to reports Larry was with a girlfriend for about an hour prior to the incident. He had returned home around 9:30 p.m. and after talking with hi s parents briefly had enter ed the bathroom. About 15 mln- Four Youths Stopped for Shoplifting utes later his mother entered the bathroom to find the boy’s body slumped on the floor. Besides his parents he is survived by two brothers, Rol land and William, and a sis ter, Pamela, all of Sandy. His grandmother, Mrs. Jessie Coward otios Angeles, Calif., also survives the youth. Moms and Dads Slate Job Corps Speaker Four Sandy area youths were arrested Monday afternoon for shoplifting. The youths were apprehend ed outside Brewster’s Family Store according to reports. Merchandise valued at >50.00 Members of the Sandy High from the store was in their School’s Moms and Dads Club possession. will hear leaders of the Tim They were taken to juvenile ber Lake Job Corps Center at halL their meeting slated on Mon day, Oct. 25, at the school. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. in the cafetorium. Howard Berger, club presi dent, urges parents and others Interested in the meeting to at tend and hear these Job Corps leaders speak. He stated that the Job Corps program in the fore the fire drove them out. camp located near Estacada Since the fire they have found plays an important part in our a home to live in on South Bluff and we should be informed about its program Road in Sandy. Many persons and functions. have provided them with beds The high school music de and clothing to wear, too. It is partment will also present a the old Ed Bruns home where couple of musical numbers dur they are staying now. ing the evenings program. Friday Night Fire Guts Three Story Home Here Fire struck the home of Don Fraly on Friday evening and the big three story building was completely destroyed. Firemen from the Sandy Volunteer Fire Department attempted to con tain the blaze which started In the top floor but were unable to hold it in control once the fire broke through the roof. The home, owned by Reuben Hoffman, is located on Ten Eyck Road and is generally re ferred to as the old Melnig home. It started as a chimney fire in the vicinity of the third floor. When discovered Mrs. Fraly went into town and con tacted Hoffman. He immediate- ly contacted the local fire de partment and found that they had already been notified. Meanwhile Fraly attempted to put out the fire himself. When the firemen arrived the fire was going strong in the third story and attempts to keep the roof intact were futile. Once the fire reached outside the hopes of saving the home dwindled. Mrs. Fraly took the chil dren uptown while the fire was being fought. The family emerged with just the clothes on their back. A washing ma chine. refrigerator and tele vision were also salvaged be- By the time the fire was ex- tingquished the entire roof and third story was gone and mostof the second floor was destroyed. The home was insured. Post Portions— The man who loses his head is usually the last one to miss it. FIGURING ON TIME A/hen it comet to buying a new stereo, color TV, or appliance, etc. — most of us are not able to reach into our pockets and pay the whole amount in cash . . . the dependable automatics, SO WE USE A TIME PURCHASE PUN I Model DE 102 Art*» MOUNTAIN ELECTRONICS ho» arranged Time Pur chasing Plans for their customers with CLACKAMAS COUNTY BANK in Sandy. On approved credit you can purchase TV», Stereo» and Maytag Appliance» right here and then make convenient monthly payment» at Clackama» County Bank . .. Model A103 DRYER . By these with our Clackamas County Bank per mo. IN MANY CASES YOUR TRADE-IN WILL APPLIANCE PURCHASE PLAN A R COVER THE DOWN PAYMENT Mountain Electronics MU 7-3261 Sandy «UBI A chimney fire Friday night in Sandy destroyed this old three story home. Known as the old Melnig home t it housed the Don Frely femily. It wes a complete loss, (Post Photos) Mountain Electronics MU 7*3261 Sandy
