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
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Eliiabeth Hartman, Editor
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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. I was there
and it happened to me: I would
simply class that opinion as
ig n o ra n t and the person
holding it is unable to enlarge
his concepts beyond with
w h ic h
he
had
been
indoctrinated. I feel keenly
about this because all too
often, people who have had
such
e x p e rie n c e s a llo w
themselved to be persuaded by
“clever” people that what they
know to be true just couldn’t i
be so.
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