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BY BOB KAYE
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
On the morning o f May 17,
1915,
we were all sitting down
Published ovary Thursday by Outlook Publishing Co., P.O. Bo« 68, Sandy, Oregon »7055
to breakfast when my Dad
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dream last night that he
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wanted to tell us about. Our
Elsewhere in in Oregon
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home was on a ranch in the
m o u n t a i n s o f so u th e r n
Colorado. My parents were
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August 2>, 1969
English and I had an older
brother and three sisters. I was
twelve years old and since this
was long before the days of
radio or television the dramatic-
Thrce-day holidays, siicli^ as (hat
can’t. Unfortunately, our business in impact o f Dad’s story on my
mind was greater than il
now coming up, will become a reality
one of those which can’t.
probably
would be on a child
in a couple of years. Oregon is among
Other businesses which must keep o f today.
those states which have ratified the
operating-riot everyone can head for
I can still remember the
plan.
the hill s when they like- will suffer in astonishment I felt that my
To a lot of people.' a three-day
father would mention a dream
(«Tins of overtime for Monday work.
o f his. My mother often talked
holiday sounds great. Service stations,
finally, we still dislike (he idea of about her dreams which often
motels, restaurants etc. fan hardly
shuffling
holidays around to create had a wonderful happy quality
contain their enthusiasm.
more
lime
for week end wanderers. We and which she could remember
For others, though, it’s going to he a
think the 4th of July, for instance u n u su a lly well. My Dad
mixed blessing, if that.
claimed that he never dreamed
belongs on that dale, not on July 7 or 2 and, in any case, he was not
In the weekly newspaper Ixisiness.
or whatever.
one who would be apt to
for instance, we’ll have 20 per cent of
our available time for that particular
Obviously, though, we’re in the consider a dream as worth
mentioning. Thus we were agog
week’s paper lopped off. never to lie
minority. We just hope that the to hear his story.
regained.
significance of these holidays isn’t
In his dream he found
A lot of people can just delay
iwing forgotten in the drive for more himself floating over a large
ship in the open ocean. He was
and more fun.
Monday's work until Tuesday; others
high enough to have a good
birdseye view o f both ship and
the surrounding water yet low
enough to see details clearly.
Depending upon the line print, we
Along with the new liases, however, He had the impression that the
think current efforts to gel new tax
we think there should he some ship was sailing from England
bases for Oregon’s school districts make
reasonable limitation on ihe number of to America. Eor some time he
good sens»*.
budget votes allowed each year. observed the various activities
taking place on the decks, the
A number of districts currently are
Further, perhaps there should he a new officers on the bridge, the
operating with tax bases which are
look at the annual increase...¡.e., should passengers lounging or strolling
Z badly outdated. Others, including
il he 5 per cent per annum instead of around and so forth.
Dad had always loved ships
Z several school districts right in our own
the present 6 per cent? ’
and had traveled over the
area, don’t have a lax base at all.
Both these features, of course, were ocean several times so that he
The idea behind present efforts is to
included in the sales-tax package was familiar with and intensly
adopt a new, up-to-date base for all
rejected by the voters last spring. It was interested in the scene below
“ districts. It would lor instance, he
unfortunate that they were appended him. He said that this was a
larger ship than any he had
predicated on the 1969-70 or 1970-71
to (he unpalatable sales tax.
been on and, although he was
budgets. If sufficient signatures can he
Nevertheless, we think that every never able to (make out her
obtained on an initiative, the voters
encouragement
should he given these name, he knew that it was a
would vote next fall to establish the
Cunard Line steamer. He
efforts to amend lax bases.
riev lax bases.
clearly saw the insignia on her
funnels.
Suddenly he was impelled
to look out over the sea and
saw what looked to be a
We couldn't agree more with the
of gas along a freeway and had to walk vertical rod protruding out of
Quinault Indian tribe for its action in
a b o u t a half m ile. We were the water and moving abreast
shutting off public access to 25 miles of
flabbergasted at the debris along the o f the ship some distance
away. Although he had never
Pacific Ocean beaches.
roadside.
| seen a submarine he knew
Go out into the woods anywhere instantly that this was the
The tribe took the action because of
and
you'll find lillerhugs have been periscope o f one and that the
years and years of abuse of the beaches
there
before you. Not long ago we ate ship was in deadly danger. A
by non-Indians.
lunch alongside an isolated mountain moment later he saw streaks of
foam moving rapidly toward
We hope the Quinaults make il slick.
stream. Only someone had been there the unsuspecting vessel from
Perhaps some senseless people might
belorc and left a hatch of Coca-Cola the direction o f the periscope.
thus tie shocked into behaving like
cans.
The people on board had
adults, instead of idiots.
Anti litter laws are hard to enforce: o b serv ed nothing. In the
We have driven along freeways and
it's difficult to catch the culprits in the dream. Dad tried desperately
watched people throw everything from
act. That is why some forthright action, to shout a warning to the ship
but was powerless to do
beer bottles to baby diapers out of
like that taken by the Quinuults. jus, anything.
their ears. Not loo long ago, we ran on,
might do a lot of good.
This feeling o f helplessness
was the worst part o f what
turned into a nightmare. There
fo llo w e d
a tr e m e n d o u s
explosion
on
the side of the
Gov. Met .all may have his problems
ground with ropes, hut nevertheless, it ship and an awful time of
with reluctant legislators hut he most
was an excellent stunt. And the confusion and panic. Ship’s
assuredly doesn I when he’s out among
governor and his very attractive wife officers tried hard to gain some
the folks.
sort o f order, but people kept
did the job superbly.
pouring up on deck from
Case in point was opening of the
below,
milling around and
McCall has a way with the people
Oregon State Fair las, weekend when
screaming. Dad could clearly
that wins votes, lie got a rousing hand hear the shouts and tumult,
the governor ami Mrs. .McCall wen, up
for the balloon bit and continued to even the orders being issued to
in a balloon to cut a ribbon opening the
make points the rest of the day at the abandon ship. A number of
new Agncnlt ure building.
Fair. It was a fine display of good, boats were finally lowered but
They-didn't go very high, maybe 15
many got fouled up in the
old
lime political showmanship.
fee,, and were securely held to Ihe
d a v its and o th e r s were
swamped.
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Realistic Tax Rases Make Sense
G erm an su b m a rin e . The
accounts given by the survivors
of this disaster were exactly
consistent with what Dad had
seen in his dream. After
allowing for the time zone
d if f e r e n c e b e tw e e n
th e
location o f the sinking and our
ranch in Colorago. we found
th a t th e dream occured
simultaneously with the event.
1 I cite this story as a good
example o f a clairvoyant dream
occurring concurrently with
the event. Later, I will describe
this type o f dream that will
deal with a future events that
have not yet occurred and past
events that were unknown to
th e d rea m er. Clairvoyant
dreams are not too uncommon
although seldom as spectacular
as the one described here. They
may be recognized as having a
very different quality from
ordinary dreams, being more
vivid and consistant for one
thing. They tend to lead the
dreamer to a conviction that
they have some sort o f reality
and significance. They are
usually remembered for a
considerable time afterward.
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MAMMOTH DAHLIA, displayed by Harvey Kubitz, was
grown by his mother Mrs. Barbara Kubitz, Sandy. Bloom
measuring over a foot across is supported by trunk like
stem nearly three-fourths of an inch in diameter.
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It is seldom that the reality
of a dream is so dramatically
confirmed as in this case. Often
the dreamer never learns about
the event o f which he dreamed
so that although he recognizes
that the dream was unusual, he
is left in doubt as to what it
may have meant. So fat as I
know, this was the only
instance o f this kind o f dream
that could be clearly identified
in my immediate family.
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Mr. and Mrs. George
H olm an o f Bloom ington,
Calif., were recent guests o f
Mr. and Mrs. Errett Moore o f
Sandy.
Mr. Holman is Mrs. Moore’s
uncle~___________________
Munching From the Federal Pie
Several political campaigns of
laie- notahly that of Boh Packwood
against Wayne Morse las, fall-made
much of the supposed blackout of
federal funds in Oregon.
Now, the Vancouver Columbian has
come up with some figures from the
Congressional Quarterly which paint a
vastly different picture.
Excluding defense contracts, Oregon
ranked 2,1th among the 50 states in
1967 in federal aid received per capita,
considerably ahead of such states as
Washington and California.
We got $144 per capita. Washington
$129 and California $131.
Aha, yon say. that excludes federal
spending anil that’s where all the loo,
cornea.
<
No, so. Listen to what the
Columbian had to say:
'Grants in aid may be a more
reliable indication of federal largess
than defense spending. Defense dollars
are paid (in theory) for services
rendered a dollar's pay for a dollar's
work. Grand in aid are the real federal
g ra v y . T h e y a re th e
tr u e
gifts handoiits- from the federal
government to the states and their
citizens."
I he Columbian goes on to say it has
no idea how much Wayne Morse had to
do with these federal grants. But it
infers that Morse took a bum rap when
blamed for how "poorly” Oregon was
doing at the federal larder.
We couldn't agree more.
Meanwhile Dad noticed that
the submarine had surfaced
and was cruising leisurely
around the stricken vessel but
keeping at a good distance
away. The ship had been listing
more and more. Finally it
plunged down bow first. This
w as followed by a huge
underwater explosion which
left the surface covered by
floatin g debris and many
people struggling in the water.
At this monent, Dad awoke in
a state o f dazed shock He got
up and happened to kx>k at the
clock. It was about 2:30 a m.
We did not make the trip
into town from the ranch more
often than once every week or
ten days. That trip took all o f a
day. Thus it was several days
before w e first teamed o f the
sinking o f the Lusitania by a
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