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Post PLAYGROUND1 Vol. 30 TWELVE PAGES Yule Season Starts Soon In Sandy SPECTACULAR BLAZE AT CHERRYVILLE home of Mrs. Lee Schneberger Friday brought Sandy and Hoodland fire trucks to scene. The Christmas will come early to Sandy again this year when area stores stage their second annual Holiday Festival. Scores of free gifts will be given away in drawings during the festival, planned by the Sandy Area Chamber of Com merce and local merchants as a means of saying “ Thank You” to customers for their patron age during the year. Free tickets, good for m er chandise prizes will be given away during the next two weeks by participating merchants. A prize drawing will be held Sat urday, Dec. 7 and another on Dec. 14. Also, Dec. 14 a public draw ing will be held for the grand prize rumored to be a port able, color television set) Special for the youngsters will be free movies Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Sunset theater and this will be topped off by a visit from Santa Claus with candy gifts for all. Christmas trees will light each end of town and lighted Qiristmas decorations will or nament the business section. The Cham ber of Commerce will also conduct its annual Christmas lighting contest for homes and businesses. Further plans and more details will be announced later. alarm was given too late to save house but firemen battled to prevent attached trailer from destruction. (Post photo) Flames Level Family Home A mother and her five ch il dren were left hom eless Friday by a raging fire that complete ly destroyed their Cherryville dwelling and gutted the attached trailer. Mrs. Lee Schneberger was away at work and her chil dren, four boys and a girl, aged 8 to 15, were at school when the fire, which apparently had been burning for sometime in the isolated rural home, was first sighted through the trees by three men working on the county road above the farm. mother, who lives in a small house on the property, was alerted by their shouts and in formed them that there was a possibility that one of her grandchildren was in thehouse. The men, Ken Truesdale and Earl Joiner, heroically entered the blazing building and search ed through both floors before they were satisfied that no one was inside. SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1968 WEATHER H 1. Pr. Nov 14 54 40 .12 Nov. IS 50 35 .00 Nov 16 46 36 .30 Nov. 17 47 44 .00 Nov 18 47 41 .34 Nov. 19 SO 43 .08 Nov 20 53 45 .10 The Troutdslo s t a t i o n weather readings •r t imade by 5:30 p.m. Kidney Donor Leaves Hospital Donald Lloyd, 24, Boring, has been released from Uni versity of Oregon Medical Hos pital, following removal of one of his kidneys for a transplant to his brother, 20-year-old Kent Lloyd. S in g le copy 10. Former Editor Is New Pastor A former Sandy Post editor Warner Pacific College he is now an ordained m inister and has attended Pacific University has his own pastorate in Lake and San Diego State College Grove. The Rev. Jerry Crouse, and is currently attending nighi managing editor of the Sandy classes at Portland State, Post from Jnuary 1965 to Jan Although the Lake Grove uary 1966, is the new pastor for the Lake Grove Church Church is his first pastorate, of the Nazarene and delivered the Rev. Crouse as a deacon his first sermon there Nov. 3. supplied churches in Idaho and Oregon in interim periods for several years. He will commute to Lake Grove from St. Helens until the local parsonnage has been re modeled for his family and ex pects to continue part-time em ployment with the Sentinel- Mist-Chronicle in St. Helens. Northwest Gas Pays 1968-69 Property Taxes The younger Lloyd remains at the hospital and is listed in satisfactory condition. They are the sons of the Keith Lloyds, Rt. 2, Box 197, Boring. Donald was released from active duty in Viet-Nam to return home so that he could donate a kidney. State Police Probe Fire REV. JERRY CROUSE State Police are now inves tigating the blaze which caused $20,000 damage to Heidi’s r e s taurant Nov. 8. Arson is su s pected. According t< Stat T ire Mar shal Dick1 Thgram, reports have been turned over to the State arson squad. The new Swiss-chalet type restaurant opened in August. Owners the Don Eklunds, report that the damage has been re- paird and Heidi’s will re-open for business Friday at 7 a.m. The Mt. Hood Women’s Bowl for breatkfast, lunch and dinner. ing Club will hold their annual First Aid Classes rummage sale Friday and Sat Offered at Fire Hall urday, Nov. 22 and 23. The C lasses in First Aid will be sale, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, will be in the old held at the Fire Hall in Sandy McDonald Real Estate build beginning Tuesday, Nov. 26. The cla sses will beginat7:?0 ing on Proctor Ave. across p.m. and will be Instructed by from Trail Cafe. Proceeds will help pay ex Fire Chief Lyle Seaman. Any penses for bowling teams re interested persons are invited presenting Sandy in the WIBC to attend. National Tournament at San Diego, Calif,, next April. Persons having rummage to donate to the sale should bring it to San Re Esta Lanes in Sandy or call Fern Hunter, 668-6291; or Rosie Cool, 668- 4072, for pick up. Free coffee will be served. Lady Bowlers Plan Annual Rummage Sale Sandy and Hoodland F ire D is tricts responded to the fire call shortly after 11:15 a.m. and battled to save the trailer at BURNING HOUSE was discovered from road One of the men went to Alder tached to the already doomed by county road crew. Blaze was already out Creek to give the fire alarm frame structure, which was of control when firemen arrived on scene within and the others rushed down permitted to burn to the ground. minutes of fire call. (Post photo) to the fire. Mrs. Schneberger’s According to Dewey Monaga- han of the Hoodland Fire Dis trict cause of the fire could not be determined. The Schneberger property is adjacent to the old Cherryville cemetery and lie s on or near the old Barlow Trail. It is be lieved that the house was A hearing to determine the originally a stage stop on the possibility of naming a portion pioneer trail. o f the Old Columbia River high Mrs. Schneberger and her way between Troutdale and a scenic area children, who lost all their Springdale possessions in the fire, are was held Wednesday in the staying with neighbors at the Dalles by ihe State S c e n ic present time. Part of the loss Area board. A scenic area designation is covered by insurance. can be considered by the seven- man board if land adjacent to a public highway is in a state park, or of historical interest or affords a view of unsual beauty. The fifth annual Sandy high Once a roadway is determin school alumni dinner-dance is set for Nov. 27 at Jack and ed a scenic area no new sign permits are issued. E xistii« J ills, 162nd and Stark. Dinner begins at 6:30 and signs, according to the State Highway department, are al dancing at 9 p.m. lowed to stay for up to seven Persons desiring more in years. formation may call Gwen * ir fltc in . Crutcher, 663-5889, Betty Pen ner, 663-3677, or Patty Dah- rens, 668-6401. “ Going Home for Christ The dinner is held to raise mas,” a watercolor painted by The Clackamas County Dairy money for a Sandy high school of Government Wives will bold a bake sale Fri Phil Tyler scholarship fund. day» Nov. 22, at the Clackamas Camp, has been selected as County Bank In Sandy, Hours winner of the second annual of the sale will be from 10:30 Winter Scene Exhibit at the Grapevine Gallery In Jackson a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Butter cookies, ro lls, cakes, ville, Oregon. breads, and gift cheese will be The regional art competition The Hilltoppers, local motor attracted some 35 oils and featured. cycle club, will hold a Mud from Oregon, Proceeds of the sale will be watercolors Scramble on Sunday, Dec. 1. SANDY FIRENtEN RIG portable pump in pond near flaming house to add used to finance theannual Dairy Washington, California, Idaho, Races will begin at noon at extra hoses on fireline. New pump is tremendous asset in fighting rural Wyoming and Montana. It is the field one-fourth i.ille south Princess Contest and also for fires. When no nearby water source is available the fire district sets prizes awarde<l to winning dem sponsored by the Jacksonville of Sandy on Highway 211. The pump up in a portable pond which is supplied by tank trucks. (Post photo) onstrations of 4-H members at gallery in conjunction with Cor- public is invited. nsU, Howland, Hayes A M e rry - the county fair. No 47 Pastor Crouse is married to the former Loraaine E. Carley of Oregon City. They have four children, Colleen, 13; Richard, 11; Carla, 9; and Careta, 3, born while he v.os editor of the Post. A veteran of the Korean War, the new minister served four years in the U.S, Navy from 1952-56. For two years, before coming to the Post in 1965, he was co-publisher of the Pay ette, Idaho, newspaper. From Sandy he moved to St. Helens where he joined the advertising staff of the Sentinel-M ist-- Chronlcle, owned and published by his brothers, Gilbert and Eldrigde Crouse. Last year he left the Chronicle to return for a year of Bible school at Warner Pac ific College in Portland, and this summer returned to the Chronicle as an advertising re presentative. In addition to Northwest Natural Gas Com pany, which distributes natural gas in Clackamas county and in 13 other Oregon counties, has paid a total of $3,136,907.59 in property taxes, including tax es in two counties where it does not presently distribute natural gas but does own properties. This represents an increase for the 1968-69 taxes of $397,- J4-.82 over the taxes paid in 1967-68. In Clackamas county, North west Natural paid $250,533.73, which is an increase of $35,- 549.67 over last year’s taxes. Early Deadline For Next Week The Sandy Post will pub lish on Monday next weak because of the Thanksgiv ing Day holiday. Deadlines for all news, display ads and classified is 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23. Hoodland Artist Paints Winning Winter Watercolor Hearing Weighs Scene Markings SUHS Alum ni Set Dinner Dance Dairy Wives List Bake Sale Friday Motorcycle Club Dates Scramble' (•y field, engineering and planning firm , with offices in Boise, Seattle, Corvallis and Port land, which provided the pur chase prize. ific Northwest settlers. The competition was de veloped as a means for pro viding widespread exposure of the work of Northwest artists, The painting is being re produced for the firm’s Christ Nebraskans to Meet mas cards, with the repro The Nebraska Social Club»» duction done by John and Elaine next dance will be Saturday, Witteveen, Jacksonville litho Nov. 23, at the 26th St. Hall. graphers. The original patntli« A potluck dinner will be served has been hung in the CH2M at 6:30 p.m. and old-timedanc- Portland office. ing starts at 8:30. Bring your Tyler’s painting, with Mt. own table service. Hood in the background,depicts All Nebraskans and their the holiday spirit of early P»c- friends are welcome.
