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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
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Nov 14
54 40 .12
Nov. IS
50 35 .00
Nov 16
46 36 .30
Nov. 17
47 44
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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.