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cfetteri to the ddditor Sandy Post Editor, I would appreciate it if you will print the following: Will the person or persons w ho dropped seven half starved, mongrel pups off on Highway 26 near Wisteria Trout Farm Monday evening contact me at 668-4453. We have taken the pups in and instead o f sending them to the pound would like to find good homes for them, it would help if we know what breeds are involved in their makeup The pups are about 12 weeks old and appear to be part Lab and some other type of hound. Also if some kind reader should wish to offer one or more o f them a home just give me a call. Sincerely. Mrs. John Elvrum Rt. 1. Box 108 Sandy, Ore. GREAT WAY TO THC MT. HOOD PLAYGROUND] W a lt e r C . T a y lo r , L o a Ir w in , C o • P u k o M te r * E liz a b e th H a r tm a n , E d it o r Entered at the Post Office at Sandy, Clackamas County, Oregon, as second class mstter under the Act of Congress of March, 1879. Member of Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and National Editorial Association P u b lis h e d e v e r y T h u r s d a y b y O u tlo o k P u b lis h in g C o ., P .O . B o x 68, S a n d y , O re g o n 9705S SUBSCRIPTION RATES Annual Subscription in Clackamas In United States and Multnomah Counties $3.50 Servicemen and Women Elsewhere in in Oregon $4.00 Page 2 Sandy Post, Sandy, Oregon .< $4 50 $3.50 J u ly 3, 1969 A Case of A cadem ic Freedom ? A right-wing Portland publication rips into a Mount llo o il Community College teacher in its June publication, received last weekend. The teacher is Mrs. Kaylene Goltra and the writer of the anonv rnous article lakes issue with her assign» d reading lor a MIICC history » ourse. College officials refuse to dignify the attack with a reply. They leel that unless lh«' anonymous writer identifies himself, there can’t he much substance Io w hat lie has Io say . In a broader context, however, this probably is the first major attack on academic freedom at Mt. Hood. The ipieslion. o f course, is whether or not course eonlent is Io he left Io the teacher and his superiors or to outside influences. We know very little about Mrs. Goltra’s course. Students who have ta k e n th e c o u rs e say i t ’s “ interesting...but different.’’ One girl told us it was the only course she didn’t skip once all quarter. College officials, significantly, have never received a complaint about the course, either officially or unofficially. They show no inclination to censor course content. The whole 02661298 ‘ is a teapot tempest and we’re happy to note that this is exactly the way it ’s being treated by MHCC officials. D r. W olfe on Cam pus Violence There is only one way to end campus violence in the opinion of Hr. Gregory Wolfe, president of Portland Stale I diversity. And that is to somehow make students realize (a) that they’re in college Io get an education and (h).only alter they get that education, will they lie in a position to make meaningful changes in our society. Hr. Wolfe is both tolerant and intolerant with rebellious youth, lie told the City Club last Friday that his response Io campus violence would he a mixture of ’ tenderness and toughness.” lie wouldn’t for a moment acquiesce to d is ru p tio n s o f classes, the University’s administration, or state or city laws. But he would try to talk and work with the dissenters to solve whatever the problem might be. But in the final analysis, he is critical of student dissenters who dissent...and little more. Few o f them, he said, have any constructive suggestions to offer: they’re just against what we now have. lie feels that only when students learn they’re in college to be educated, and then use that education-once achieved-to make changes, can campus dissent be ended. SALEM SCENE by E R R E T T C U TTER There is an old saying which expresses the average man’s frustration and resignation in d ea lin g w ith government: “You can’t fight City Hall.’ G ov. T om McCall, in a p p o in tin g th e fir s t ombudsman In the U.S., is trying to change it to: “Where there’s a will, there’s a w ay.” O m budsm an ( “ p eop le’s man”) is a Swedish concept, dating buck to 1809 and still working there and in some other lands. In amounLs to a complaint and investigation d e p a r t m e n t for p e o p le confused or dissatisfied with their brushes with government and its growing intricacies. Oregon's first ombudsman, effective July 1, is Marko Haggard, burly 45-year-old professor o f political science on leave from Portland State University. Until recently he has handled administration o f poverty programs for Gov. Met-all’s office The governor had asked the le g is la t u r e fo r a s ta te om b u d sm a n in his 1967 inaugural address, but the proposal died. Now he has created the position, ou t o f his own office budget, as a result o f the great success this year o f his government reorganization proposals “ Reorganization will make state government operate more efficiently.’ Haggard explains, “and that can make it seem more distant. We want to preserve the personal touch, to im p r o v e tw o w ay c o m m u n ic a tio n s b etw e en government and the people.” Haggard's position differs in o n e r e sp e c t from other ombudsmen. In Parliamentary countries they are independent from government •• “ their p o w e r is th e power to publicize ” (In some American c i t i e s n ew sp a p er le t t e r s columns and broadcast talk shows have expanded their service in this role in recent years.) O r e g o n 's o m b u d sm a n , however, alts in the governor's office with two secretaries and a telephone line to - and from everywhere. He serves as another ear for the governor, and he also has the ear o f this man who instituted daily open house in his office and Town Hall Meeting travels around the state. Since announcement of his a p p oin tm en t, Haggard has re ce iv e d m o re than 30 co m p la in ts or suggestions. Some of these he relays to Gov. McCall, some he discusses with various agencies, some he sto re s up to u s e in recommendations to the next legislature. Surprisingly, some ideas are c o m in g from government employees. They buttonhole Haggard around the Capitol and o f fe r suggestions to improve production in their own departments. Most calls come from the general public: compensation or welfare claimants, a man with a police record trying to land a job, a lady who considers herself treated rudely by a clerk. A blind Portlander’s complaint about the transfer o f “talking books” to the State Library helped to establish a free telephone line for the blind in Portland. S o m e inquiries concern s t r ic t ly federal problems. Haggard says, others are clearly county or city government questions. In such cases he directs people Into the proper channels. • B e s id e s h a n d lin g individual, day to day items, we are looking for patterns to emerge." said the ombudsman. “If we get a cluster o f similar complaints about one agency, for example, that’s where we zero in until problems are solved.” Difficulties o f the elderly bother llagard most. Usually they are poor, he maintains, and often do not know where to tum in today’s complex society. “They are perhaps as tragic a category as we will work with," he says. “We are getting a number o f their complaints. and hope to get a profile of their problems for the next legislature to consider.” Another o f Haggard’s roles is to act as investigator on his ow n if he su sp e cts improvements can be made somewhere. He expects to launch his own studies later this summer, in addition to handling individual citizen’s problems. “ I t ’s a n a m b itio u s undertaking and it’s going to take a lot o f time," says H aggard. “ But w it h reorganization changing the face o f government duties and r e s p o n s ib ilitie s , th e ombudsman will provide a vital response center to the needs o f the people. OVER 80 NEW AND RECONDITIONED APPLIANCES TO CHOOSE FROM (Financing Available) AMANA _________ FOWLER GIBSON MAYTAG NORGE SPEED QUEEN SYLVANIA MOTOROLA We Service All Makes And Models ESTACADA A P P L IA N C E CO . jutaLUaiiuklSUSill > '.6 THIS PRIDE OF MT. Hood Lions pause (forgive the pun, please!) for publicity picture during clean up chore in Wemme clubhouse last week where they were getting things ready for their coming Chuck Wagon Breakfast. Famous breakfast o f all you can eat for $1.50 (children 12 and under, $1.00) w ill be served from 7 a.m. until noon on Friday and Saturday, July 4 and 5. Also included on the morning menu is a turkey shoot and a hole-in-one contest. (Post photo) DANCE LIVE MUSIC BY Two County Sotons Named to Committee T w o Clackamas County legislators, Senator George Eivers and Representative Leo Thornton, both Republicans, were appointed in Salem last o n th e w eek to se r v e G o v er n m e n ta l A ffa ir s Committee during the 1969-71 interim. This com m ittee, one o f tw e lv e to handle specific problems o f the state during the 18-month period between formal legislative sessions, will be charged with the task o f unifying and revising local government laws. The com m ittee has been d ir e c t e d to stu d y local government laws and reform o f Oregon’s liquor laws. Other members appointed to the nine-man committee are: Senators Cornelius Bateson. D -S a le m ; Stan Ouderkirk R N e w p o r t; and Raphael R aym ond, R -H e lix . R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s G eo rg e W ingard, R-Eugene; Jack A nun sen, R-Salem, Connie McCready, R-Portland; and Norm Howard, D-lortland. During the last session Eivers was chairman of the ad hoc com m ittee to consider the Beach Bill vice-chairman o f the Education Committee and was a member o f the powerful Ways and Means and Judiciary Committees. T h o r n to n , d u r in g the Drop N oted in Farm Tractor Accidents A decided drop thus far this y ea r in t h e number o f a c c id e n ts in v o lv in g farm tractors reported to the Oregon Bureau o f Labor was noted today by Norman O. Nilsen, State Labor Commissioner. Nilsen said that only 14 su ch accidents have been reported for 1969 and only one o f these involved a person under 18 y ea n o f age. Death claimed six persons, none children, as a result o f the mishaps. A far different situation p rev a iled in 1 9 6 8 , th e Commissioner emphasized. For that year, 55 accidents were reported with 16 o f them involving persons 16 yean of age and under and tw o o f them involving persons 17 and 18 yean old. T im e were 25 deaths with six o f the victims 16 and under. “I am extremely pleased to see this decided drop in the number o f accidents. Perhaps persons driving farm tn c to n have decided to heed 6ur previous warnings about the p o s s ib le dangeis stemming from operation of these ♦ * * Greyhound buses had 76.8 m illio n rid ers last year, compared with 80.4 million in 1967 and 95.4 million in 1958. machines, “Nilsen said. “ H o w e v e r , w e m ust c o n t in u e t o make every p o s s ib le effort to ensure tractor safety. After all. the six deaths so far this year are six deaths too many.” CS F orum I C s e w w M > CefUya SCIENTIFIC ANGLERS More than 60 attended the Fly Fishing Clinic offered by S c ie n tific A n g l e r s in cooperation with Mt. Hood Comm unity College Friday evening. Representatives from S c ie n tific A n g lers gave i n d i v i d u a l tip s t o the p a rticip a n ts attending this Community Service clinic SUMMER SESSION ’69 Over 700 students have enrolled for classes at Mt. Hood Community College for the third Summer Session, according to Wilfred Burgess, deen o f student affairs. Classes are being offered in college transfer, vocational technical, a nd occupational extension regular session served as chairman o f the Public Welfare Committee and vice-chairman o f th e P u b lic H e a lth Committee and also on the Education Committee. SUMMER BASKETBALL Six local high schools are participating in a Summer Basketball League as a part of Community Services at Mt. Hood College. The schools are Parkrose, Reynolds, Wy East, Sam Barlow, David Douglas and Sandy High Schools. Three g a m es a r e p la y e d every W e d n e sd a y e v e n in g and S a tu r d a y m ornings. Each school plays twice a week. RAY OVERTON and The Moonlighters 9:00 P.M. Til 2:00 A.M. ALSO Live Music on Fridays and Saturdays Dew Drop Inn Sandy, Oregon
