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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1966)
’> ™“ SANDY (Or. ) ROST Thur«., Oct. 6, »M* FßOH U f^lVEfVS EDGE By George MacAlevy ANO MRS. WILLIAM BOOTH Wed 65 Years Neighbors and friends from Tile celebration took place rwar and far attended the recent at the Booth home on Rt. 1, open house in honor <4 the 6!>th Boring, the afternoon of Sin- wedding anniversary of Mr, and day, Sept. 25 and was given by Mrs. William Booth, well known the memlMT.s of the Booth fam area residents. ily. SANDY BUSINESS DIRECTORY FARM TRACTOR CO Johnny Soi - BUYING? - - SELLING? - - TRADING? - See Us tor New Jacuzzi Pumps and Repairs on All Makes Of Pumps 24-Hour Phone Service when calling Johnny MO 5-3491 with J. J. WALKER AT 8-5045 4930 NE Union Portland SP-H Farr's Rainbow Ranch Loop Hwy & Boring Road Gresham, Oregon Telephone: MO 5-4164 SPtf Lawn Mower ROHDE & ROHDE Trout Fithing - Garden Gift Shop 107 So. Bluff, Sandy I mile* East of Sandy Out US 26, turn left on Sylvan Road Phone Cherryville 7 Phone MU 7-3503 Steam Cleaning Rich's Sandy Mobil SALES & SERVICE FARM TRACTOR CO. Ph. MU 7-4061 for Appoint. loop Highway & goring Road MO 3 4164 Gr»»ham Saw« - Mower» - Tillers THIS SPACE Salat and Repair Les Wallace Rt. 2, Box 595, Barnttead Rd Sandy • Phone MU 7-2044 For Monday Pickup 4 Delivery AVAILABLE CALL MU 7-278 Brightwood Extension The Brightwixrf Home Ex- tension Unit is to hold its monthly moating at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 14, in the home erf Sadie Weng-from, Mountain Air Park. The program to be presented by Betty Rota and Carol Schnare is '‘Laundry Wash and Wear and Other New Fab- ric»” and will provide Informa tion on suitable water tempera tures, use <rf bleaches, removal at stains, etc. Luncheon will be provided by the hostesses Sadie Wengstrom, Marg Frazier, Rudy Kasch, and Diane Peterson. In addition to the regular meetings, members of the unit interested in various arts and crafts instruction and work are holding twice — monthly ses sions on the first and third Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the recreation hall of the Hood Course Mobile Trailer ¡Estates, Welches Road. Cur rently the women are engaged in working on articles to be available for sale at the unit's Holiday Bazaar to be held In December. Any woman from the Hood land area is cordially invited to attend any of these meetings. Further information may be obtained from Mary Ellen Stauf fer, Zig Zag, or Joyce Bowman, Wemme, or any member. Although this was most in had to be fished from the bank. The Metolius river at Camp Sherman la a beautiful place teresting to watch, it wasn't The small flies were ignored. this time at year. It wa* hot catching any fish. I had with Here it appeared to require in the early afternoon uf Labor me a box at flies I had tied big meaty looking flies, as some Day when we arrived. The high from Courtney-Williams book- natural stoneflies uf fairly large stayed tie low 80 degrees every A IXctlonary <rf Trout Flys. size could be seen on the water, day <rf the balance <rf our stay This is an Englishbook,written aid some <4 them were being there. Bright days that were about English patterns on Eng taken by feeding trout. Here again an experimental ■erftened by a few fluffy clouds lish streams, but the descrip and a gentle wild from the tions were Interesting, so I fly was the order of the day. had tied 20 erf these patterns, 1 had tied some *8 Medium southwest prevailed. The first morning there, 1 intending to try them. Here Sedges and in the process had was on the water about 2 hours , was a golden opportunity. Plenty winded two of them with A- before the sun hit it, and that of fish were present—I could tel ope halr. One of these I was a mistake. Until the air see them. The fish were fad gave to my fishing partner erf over the water was »unwarmed, ing on some kind of a fly— the evening and put the other on the river seemed fishless. I I could see that, too. So on my own leader. Between then cast pattern after pattern those went a »14 February Red, a and nightfall we took three farily first hours aid no rises could pattern from Wales. This is large trout apiece on these, and be Been. Then as I felt old a rather simple pattern con that made my limit for the Sota warmth permeating sisting of orange mohair spun day. So, all in all, my first through my sweater, I began to on red silk and hackled with day on the Metolius was a see a faint dimple here and a rusty dun hackle. This worked huge success. The six succeed there and some smallish flies well for about a hall hour. ing days were all good fishing made their appearance on the Being on a barbless hook, mo*t days, all, like the one described, erf the fish that took It got requring numerous changes erf riffles and glide». By 10 o'clock the fish were oft before they could be netted. pattern and experimenting to rising steadily, but no takers But before it got soggy and achieve results. So as not to harm released appeared for my flies. I had wettable from fish mouthing tried progressively, large cad it, I must have had ten fish fish, most of my dry fly fish dis pattersn on #8’s, Hackle hooked on it of which three ing Is done with barbless hooks. tip wing Fox patterns on 12's, were creeled. By now It wa* The Metolius in the fall still and all feeding carries a lot of fish, mostly blue duns on 14’», and some 1 o’clock rainbow of heavy girth and firm busy spider types. So, remem stopped. texture. These fish that sur bering an experience on this After cleaning and Icing the same river uf two years ago, fish, the wife and I wandered vive until fall have seen an a search thru the fishing vesta around Camp Sherman under the awful lot erf flies cast over array erf pockets came up with big Ponderosas, watching the them, and can be irritatingly a half dozen Gray Hackles on birds, talking to people, and erf selective. This adds a further *18 and 20 hooks. Using these course, stopping in atSegner’s chanciness to the game and tiny flies also calls for a CX Cafe for some delicious pie. presents quite a challenge. The leader tippet. Nothing larger They make their own and are most important thing about it becomes the taking of the fly will go thru the eye uf those famous for it. Around five in the afternoon, by the fish. Putting him in the minute hooks. Number 20 flies and CX leader tippets demand a one of my neighbors at the creel or releasing him is sec very gentle touch when setting resort took me down the river ondary. Sure, the battle to land the hook and playing the fish. to an area he preferred and him is fun too, but the aim of The Grey Hackle red in this which I had never fished be the game Is to fool him Into tiny size proved to be the trout's fore. This was deep water and taking your offering. undoing, but the «ids were 60-40 in favor of the trout. After hook ing 10 fish I had 4 in the creel, four had thrown the fly and two had ripped flies off the end of By George MacAlvey the leader and made away with them. As a few larger flies of When fei-dlng trout are ex for a tall, and hackled with 3 the ephemer idae type ccxild be tremely selective because they turns of a strongly marked seen emerging here and there, are fe>-ding on tiny midges and grlz ly hackle. Smaller flies and, wanting to conserve my smuts that are far too small than 420 cease to be practical. meager supply of #20’s for to imitate, they may often be The wire from which the hook another morning, I switched enticed into taking a *20 Grey is made Is too fine to hold back to 14’s and tried several hackle Red. I tie this fly much, and the gape of the hook patterns. One fly tried here, with a red silk body, two long is too small to hook into the received a number of in fibres of orange dyed goose fish. spections, which I could watch in the clear sunlit water. This was a White Mayfly ( a Penn sylvania limestone area pattern designed by Wetzel.) The fish would rise abreast of it very slowly, put their nose right up By NELL HOWE to It, and abruptly turn and Hood-Land Reporter slowly cruise away. I think soon as their place is sold. left on our Just before we It was the narrow red strip Sounds as though the mountain at the top of the wing that vacation, we had to have our pet cat put to sleep. It was is going through a migration aroused their curiosity, a pretty rough time for all of season. I will miss the Purdys, us. You don’t live with a cat even if I don't see them very for 17 1/2 years, and not feel often, It is nice to know they that he Is a member of the are handy to call on if I wish. Bert Stauffer left on Monday family. In fact we still miss for Saigon to work on construct him. Old age finally caught ion in that area. If I recall it up with him, and I couldn’t have stood it to see him suf right, he signs up for two years and then he can return home. We fer, so the family convinced me that it would be better for him wish him well and hope that to go to sleep. Sure is not the the time will pass most rapidly, same around here, and I ab cause the whole mountain is solutely refuse to acquire going to miss him. With all the planes and heli another pet to get that attached copters flying overhead on Sun to. Noam! and Walt Blaisdell day, last, looking for the downed down to Salem to visit daughter plane, it kept me busy going Dianne at College. It was par out and checking on them. The ents’ week-end, and they had helicopters seemed to be almost a most Interesting and enjoyable on the roof, and I had to keep running out to see how low they time. Catherine and Gene Anderson were. Of course I had to wave, and family will be moving to , like any kid. If you know of something that Seaside. I should say, ten miles I I can put in my notes please out of Seaside. They have traded call, or drop me a note. I’m the store for a Trout Farm, and will be raising trout. Certainly more than happy to print any should be a most Interesting of the local news, but need the change from the grocery bus cooperation of all of you. If iness. Will have to report more , you are having company, or on the new folks In the store , know of new members in the when they arrive. Our very best t community please let me know. to the Andersons in their new With the new phone numbers, to reach me, call 622-4554 or drop venture. Leona and Loren Purdy are me a card to Wemme. planning a move to Canada, as Lure of the Week Nells Notes PI Exposition Service Lines Marine Lance Corporal Slated Oct. 14-22 Michael B. Pierce, son of Mr. Ranch style rodeo, top talent entertainment, an antique car show, flowers, paraders, prancing performance horses arxl 3,000 of the west’s best in meat and milk producing ani mals -- these plus i*ople hav ing fun are the mix tor the 56th annual Pacific Internation al Livestock Exposition Oct. 14-22. The Mg show wUl be staged in the same familiar stand, but the building in North Portland has been refurbished as the Multnomah County Exposition Center. Reserved seat tickets went on sale Oct. 3 at Stevens A Son in the Lloyd Center and at the PI box office. Tickets go on sale Friday at Sixth Avenue Records, 511 S. W. Sixth Ave. The arena shows will combine a Class A horse show with a Northwest Finals Rodeo and a changing bill of variety enter tainment. The feature perform ers are Mort Sahl, Oct. 14 and 14; Mrs. Elva Miller and the Your« Folks, Oct. 16, 17 and 18; and Al Kader Shrine Mount ed Patrol and an antique car parade, Oct. 19, and the Good Time Singers, Oct. 20, 21 and 22. Farm Calendar Oct. 11 Clackamas county home Extension unit meeting, firing - water, Colton, Firwood, Gar field, Meridan, Aldercrest, Wichita Oct. 12 Clackamas county home Extension unit meeting, Ladd Hill, Boring Oct. 13,Clackamascountyhome Extension unit meeting, Wild cat, Dover, Barton, Brightwood Oct. 13 4-H Achievement pro gram, Boring grade school, 8:00 p.m. Oct. 14-22 Pacific International Livestock Exposition, Portland. and Mrs. R. C. Pierce of Route 2, Sandy , is in the Da Nang area of Vietnam, serving with "M” Company, Third Battalion, First Marine Regiment, Third Marine Division. The 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines are located near Mar ble Mountain, about 12 miles southeast of Da Nang. As the basic unit of the in fantry battalion, his company’s primary mission is to locate and meet the enemy, and to capture or destroy him. Private First Class Darrell C. Thompson, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emery A. Thomp son, Route 2, Sandy, reenlisted for three years in the Regular Army Sept. 9 while serving with the 10th Artillery in Eur ope. A connoneer in Battery A of the artillery’s 6th Battalion, Thompson entered on active duty in August 1965 and was stationed at Ft. Sill, Okla., before his arrival overseas last April. Thompson attended high school in Gresham. NEED A CAR? LOOK IN CLASSIFIED AV ait $200,000,000 strong and we 're celebrating with a SPECIAL GIFT for SAVERS The Benj. Franklin has just passed the $200 million mark in assets. To commemorate the occasion we are offering this famous Sheaffer fountain .pen with matching pencil-an $8 95 value-Free when you add $500 to a new or present savings account. INSURE 0 HISTORICAL SOCIETY SCHEDULES MEETING The Clackamas County His torical Society will meet Mon day evening, Oct. 10, at Mert- Ie Stevens' Guest House, 607 Washington Street,Oregon City. Refreshments will be served at 7:30 and a program will fol low. The public is Invited. 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