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TW i LETTERS Sandy Post TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, I wish to thank my many friends that helped surprise me on my 80th Birthday Sunday. Many friends 1 haven’t seen for 25 or 30 years or more. There were two from Los Angeles, some from Astoria, Salem, Gresham, Troutdale, Estacada. Eagle Creek, and Portland besides from Sandy. I want to thank the many that brought presents and cards but just to see and talk to them was my greatest joy — I t ’s a day I can relive for a long time. I am c r ip p le d w ith Artheritus so I don’t get around much any more but I can remember this day with great joy for a long time. Thanks to all. Sincerely, Isabel (Gray) Wolf Rt. 2, Box 1050 Sandy Oregon GREAT WAY HE MT. HOOD PLAYGROUND! Walter C. Tayler, Lee Irwin, Co - Publisher» Eliiabeth Hartman, Editor Entered at the Post Office at Sandy, Clackamas County, Oregon, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March, 1879 Member of Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and National Editorial Association Published ovary Thursday by Outlook Publishing Co., P.O. Box M, Sandy, Oregon 97055 SVRSTHIPTION 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 August 21, 1969 S h ou ld Lodges He Taxed? City Club members will vote Iriilay on a report which, among other tilings, suggests (hal fraternal organizations he placed on the lax rolls. And not just as a partial rate, hut at the full rale charged a homeowner or business, for instance. The report examined Oregon’s tax laws, which il found “riddled with exemptions” and recommended a full-scale study of these exemptions. It also suggested taxation of fraternal organizations at the full rate hut « hurehes etc. a, a figure sufficient only to co st of si-rviees they received...i.e.. fire, police protection etc. Conlinucd exemption of educational institutions was recommended. The City Club report goes further, id' course, than legislation proposi-d at the last legislature. It also points out that there is a rather common misconception of Oregon tax practice relative churches and other non-profit institutions. P ro p erty which they own lor non-church use-for instance, a building operated as a commercial venture is lax at the full, going rate. It is not exempt as many people mistakenly feel. Oidy church properly actually used for worship services or for a church parking lot is exempt. We suspect the City Club report presages another full-scale attempt in the next legislature to shill some lax burden to lodges, churches etc. The burden on other taxpayers is such that every lax-exemption is suspect. When I was a young feller, I this feeling o f doubt, following used to hike a good deal in the after the first fine flush of mountain country in back of conviction, Ls an exceedingly M t. W ilson in Southern common reaction by all who California. In those days, there have had a brush with the was still a large expanse of strange and the inexplicable. rugged and primitive country In this instance, I was bisected by a few faint trails on sufficiently curious to return which one might walk the to the scene of my yesterday’s whole day through without experience to see what I could meeting another person. find, if anything. Sure enough, smog as far away as Hood River. If you don’t think wc have a smog One spring vacation in there were the lion tracks in Looking west, the sky took on a sort of problem, we suggest you drive over into gray lone, as we neared home almost a March, when there was still the snow, at times overlaying Eastern Oregon, look at the sky, come three or four inches o f snow on my own tracks. They had come yellow east, all this is marked contrast this high ground, I had taken a out onto the trail where I had home and rrpeut the same process here. to the brilliant blue of Eastern Oregon. long hike alone. I had not first had the “feeling” and had We were in the Tygh Valley area last John Mosser said in a speech allowed enough time and night left the trail where it turned weekend and the sky was so blue, the recently that river pollution and sewage fall caught me still a couple of down into the canyon and my air so fresh we’d liked to have bottled disposal were problems which could he miles from camp. As daylight nerves had settled back to some. hi ked, lie wasn’t so encouraging about began to fail, I had come out normal. I emphasize that these En route home via the Columbia on a fairly level plateau, tracks were the first and only air pollution. We see what he means. river highway, you could see signs of covered with clumps of brush tangible evidence that what I interspersed with trees and had felt was based on reality. la r g e ro c k fo rm a tio n s . Had this evidence not been Suddenly, as I hurried across available, I should never have th is area, a strange and been able to say with authority uncanny feeling o f being that this experience was more followed and observed swept than some sort o f mental over me. The hair on the back abberation. of my neck literally “stood T h is s to ry illu s tra te s up" and goose pimples raced extrasensory perception as Oregon drivers will have when making a left turn to emblem first approved by the up and down my spine. With between animal and man. In some new or changed traffic e n te r a private road or 1967 Legislature. The law was snow on the ground it was still this case I was the “hunted”, amended this year to make it laws to follow beginning Aug. driveway also has been clarified light enough to see for a short 22, as a result o f 1969 by new legislation. Beginning illegal to use the emblem in distance, particularly back legislative action, according to Aug. 22, the Division says a any way except on the type of| along the trail which was fairly the Motor Vehicles Division, driver preparing to take this vehicle specified by law - that straight in that place. 1 had Department of Transportation. action must signal for a left is, on a vehicle designed for seen nothing, smelled nothing^ One key change applies to tum and yield right-of-way to customary use at speeds of less and yet I knew beyond doubti entering freeways or other any vehicle approaching from than 25 miles per hour. Two new laws relate to that something was trailing me. arterial highways. It requires a the opposite direction if it is I stopped, looked back and truck drivers. One permits a driver to yield to traffic close enouth to constitute an listened half a dozen times., , maximum speed o f 60 miles already on such roads when a immediate hazard. There was never a thing or a per h o u r on In te rs ta te The state’s *‘U " turn law merging or acceleration lane highways which are posted for movement to be seen in the has been provided for his use. also was amended to make it higher passenger car speeds absolute quiet. A t first I unless signals, signs or police illegal to make a “ U ” tum on than the 55 miles per hour wondered if my imagination, the open highway where the officers indicate otherwise. designated speed on the open was playing tricks but every Another new law adds the driver cannot see the road for highway. On non-lnterstate time that I would resume myi term careless driving to Oregon at least 1,000 feet in either highways, the truck speed will way, the eerie feeling w ould1 law. It makes It illegal to drive direction. It also remains illegal come again. remain at 50 miles per hour. in a manner to endanger or be to make such a tum on any I finally decided (don’t ask The other new law requires likely to endanger any person curve or upon the approach to truck drivers to use flares or me how) that I was being or near the crest of a grade. or property. other signal devices whenever followed by a mountain lion. In cities, it remains illegal to The law on crossing the their vehicles become disabled These an im als were not center line on highways also make a “ IP tum between at night. Previously, the flares common in that place and I was changed. The new law intersections and, under the never expected to were required if the truck was s u re ly makes it illegal to cross the new law. it also becomes illegal e n cou n ter one. They are d isab led and its lighting center line when approaching to make such a tum within a experts in concealment and are equipment was not working the crest o f a grade or a curve city where the driver cannot seldom seen even where they Finally, a new law with if your view of the road ahead see the road for at least 500 are known to be around. If my subject vehicles to the state’s; is obstructed a distance which feet in either direction. (Such hunch was correct, my reason first inspection program. It would be hazardous if another turns also may be prohibited at told me that I probably did not authorizes Oregon State Police vehicle should approach from any location by official signs.) have too much to worry about There’s also a new law to stop and inspect vehicles to the opposite direction. even though it was getting Previously, the law made it about towing house trailers on determine if they mee t safety darker by the minute. Cougars illegal to cross the center line If highways. It makes it unlawful requirements. Drivers must will seldom if ever attack a you were within 500 feet of for a driver to tow a house stop and submit to inspection man. although, like all cats, where signs are posted and any hillcrest or curve which trailer containing passengers. they are curious and might Still another law does not inspections are being given. blocked your view o f the road follow him for a while. When must be apply strictly to drivers, but to D e fe c ts fo u n d ahead. hungry enough, they will A d riv e r’s responsibility use of the slow-moving vehicle corrected within 15 days. attack horses and a person on horseback In deep snow can be in trouble. But this was not my case. These reassuring thoughts raced through my mind during this half mile stretch o f trail but they really did not help much. I was as jumpy as a hot frog in a forest f ir e . After what seemed like an endless time. I finally came to where the trail turned down into a canyon and th e “feeling’' left me as abruptly as it had come Back in camp my story met with a certain amount of skepticism, particularly the mountain lion bit. as of course I had seen nothing and cougars were rare. In the light o f next VIEW OF WELCHES from foot of Hunchback we* taken about 1900 Note rail fence in morning, I wondered myself if foreground at east and of meadow. Picture loaned by R. M. Bodaty. Sandy, who. as a my cane o f jitters had had any real bests o f fact. Incidentally boy, cut hay in field now site of Bowman's gotf course. ft e H ave a Sm og P roblem , Slit M istake x SOUTH EAST CORNER of Sandy's new city hall, now nearing completion Public library will occupy upper level on east and city council chambers the lower level. (Post photo) Traffic Law Changes Noted for Motorists the receiver as it were. The question is how did 1 become aw are that I was being followed by a mountain lion, the moment that it occurred and no longer, when my ordinary senses were entirely unable to provide me with the information? It would make no difference if someone would rationalize that I had somehow seen or heard or smelled without knowing that I did so. He would be satisfied with his “explanation” but it would not '■*<true. . ’-now what happened and how I i„ ’* and what I did or did not see oi ? •«ar. 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