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September 18, 1969
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A n oth er ‘Lost G eneration9
In their haste Io gel rid of the draft,
everyone from Pres. Nixon on down
seems Io la* forgetting about a lost
generation...those youths already in the
serv iee.
We agree heartily that the draft is
unfair, inequitably administered and
should lie abolished at the earliest
possible moment.
But uhal about those youngsters
who already have lieen drafted or who
‘'volunteered” ? They’re stuck with the
balance o f their term, while their
luckier counterparts on the outside
apparently will gel o ff scot-free.
What about those youngsters who
didn't go to Canada, didn't claim to be
conscientious objectors, didn’t have
enough pull or athletic ability to get
into a reserve unit? T hey’re stuck with
the war in Viel-Nam and whatever
other nasty assignments they may be
handed.
Meanwhile, their counterparts at
home no longer need worry about the
draft if Pres. Nixon’s pians tor a
moratorium ami a 19-year-old lottery
liecome a reality.
Those servicemen who give up two,
three or four years while everyone else
slays home and prospers would have
every reason to lie tremendously bitter.
If the itdministration plans Io
eliminate th e 'd ra ft and substitute a
1 9 -y e a r-o ld
lo ttery, they’d best
rememlier those youngsters already
impressed into service.
They
deserve ju s t as much
consideration, probably a whole lot
more, than those who stayed home and
lore up the colleges.
A Break for Farmers?
Mure and more farmers, it seems, are
making use of the Farm Use Deferral
Act, the so-called “Green Belt” law.
Basically, the law allows farm land
to
be
taxed as just lh al-farm
land -despite the fact that surrounding
developments may have markedly
increased the actual value o f the land.
As long as the land is actually being
farmed, the farm owner can defer
payment of higher property taxes.
County assessors, in effect, keep two
sets of hooks. One reflects the actual
market value of the land, the other
reflects a lower, farm use valuation.
Payment of higher taxes may be
deferred as long as the land continues
in agricultural use. When and if sold for
residential or commercial development,
for instance, the higher accrued taxes
become due. A , no event, can higher
taxes he carried hack further than five
years. The property owner is not held
for more than five years.
The original Green Belt law was
passed in 1963 hut proved of little
practical benefit to farmers. Assessors,
it seemed used sales o f adjoining
farmland to figure value of farm
property and since these often reflected
housing developments, there was scant
relief.
The 1967 special session, however,
passed a new approach utilising the
capitalization rate. This rate was the
prevailing interest rale (Ihen 6*/i per
te n t) plus the area tax rate. This
formula meant a substantial saving for
farmers and has resulted in greater use
of the Green Belt law.
Obviously, the slack must be picked
up somewhere and utilities, industry
and the property owner will pay the
tab. In Multnomah county, the effect
probably will not l»e great hut in
counties where agriculture is dominant,
it could Itc considerable.
Much more will be known when lax
levies are certified (le t. 15. Meanwhile,
any farmers who have not taken
advantage of Green Belt provisions
Registration O pen
in Pigskin Contest
Boys age 8 through 13 in
the Sandy, Hoodland and
B o rin g areas can start
registering for the ninth annual
Punt, Pass & Kick Competition
in which they will show their
football skills in punting,
passing and
kicking and
compete for trophies and the
chance to represent Sandy in
future competitions.
Registration and entries will
be accepted now through Oct.
10 at Gios Ford, Sandy, Ore. A
p a re n t or guardian must
accom pany
th e boys to
r e g is te r .
The
e n t ir e
competition is absolutely free.
There is no body contact in
PP&K competitions and ail
equipment such as footballs
and kicking tees are provided.
Every boy who registers will
receive a free Punt, Pass & Kick
Tips booklet which features
stories and competition tips
from N FL Don Meredith and
Mike Clark of the Dallas
Cowboys and Billy Lothridge
of the Atlanta Falcons. The
booklet also features Don
Shula, the coach of the
Baltimore Colts, and includes
physical fitness exercises for
boys in the PP& K Competition
age group.
Every boy who participates
in PP&K has an equal chance
to win for he competes only
against boys in his own age
group. Points are awarded for
each foot of distance the ball
travels on the fly, with points
subtracted for each foot the
ball lands to the right or left of
a center line.
The overall competition is
divided into six levels— Local,
Zone, District, Area. Division
and National.
AS
The first level— the Local
c o m p e titio n -----features 18
handsome trophies which will
be awarded by Gios Ford.
Dates for the local contest will
be announced later.
Gold trophies go to First
place finishers, silver to second
and bronze to third. The first
place winners then move up to
Zone competition.
W in n e r s
of
Zone
c o m p e titio n s
will receive
trophies and runners-up are
aw arded certificates. Zone
w inners move to District
c o m p e titio n s
w h ere 216
District champions will be
awarded trophies and go on to
c o m p e te
fo r
A re a
c h a m p io n s h ip s
at
NFL
stadiums. Area champs travel
to Divisional competitions in
N FL stadiums in Dallas or
Detroit where twelve finalists
are chosen—
six from the
N FL Eastern division and six
fro m
th e
NFL
Western
d iv is io n .
W in n e r s
are
accompanied by both parents
to all Area competitions.
The 12 Division winners go,
with their parents, to the
Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida,
for the National Finals during
the annual N FL Play-Off
Game. All 12 National finalists
and their parents will then tour J
Cape Kennedy, the site of the
historic Apollo moon shots,
and the Air Space Museum.
Ford Dealers of America
and the National Football
League sponsor the Punt, Pass
and
K ic k
C o m p e titio n
nationally.
* * *
Army Sergeant First Class
P.L. Bennett, son o f Mrs.
Josephine Gierke, Sandy,
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returned recently from duty in
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Vietnam and spent a few days
AMANA,
here prior to leaving for his
FOWLER
new station at Fort Gordon,
GIBSON
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accompanied by his wife and
SPEED QUEEN
two children, who resided in
Sandy while he was overseas
' SYLVANIA
Bennett is a 1952 graduate ol
MOTOROLA
Sandy High school.
We Service All Make? J
VETERANS BIG FORCE
And Models
Veterans now comprise 13%
[o f
our
p o p u la tio n
I (26,000,000) and 51% of the
civilian employees on federal
payrolls (1,466,000). About
17% o f th e government
3rd at M a in 6 3 0 -5 8 4 5
workers are disabled veterans.
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BY BOB KAYE
SEE IT
Mias Doris M cK inley o f
Welches has done quite a b it o f
vacation traveling. She gets
around into far countries and
odd pieces. A couple o f year*
or so ago she wee In Durban
South Africa. On e Sunday she
was Invited to see a firew alking
c e re m o n y
at
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n a t iv e
com m unity about an h ou r’s
drive from the city. This was
the a c to n in the
coming
d nm a appeared to be eitner
doped or In trance. T heir eyes
were dilated, staring and glassy
They frequently staggered and
stumbled and often required
support by the people walking
with them . All were males
ranging In age from a boy o f
about 15 to men in their 4 0 ’s
i maybe older.
I
It was easy to Identify the
principals from the rest o f the
c ro w d
a p art
fr o m
their
entranced behavior. A ll o f
them had Ivory skew en, three
to four inches long piercing
their tongues, lipa, cheeks or
sen.
Most comm only the
to n g u e
was h e ld
In
a
p ro tru d in g
position by a
skewer through I t ’s middle
which, o f course, prevented It
from being withdrawn into the
mouth. One fellow had a little
extra In the way o f a pair o f
meat hooks through the akin
and muscles o f his shoulders to
which was attached a cart
which he dragged behind him
as he walked. In no case did
Doris observe any blod or signs
o f pein even in the case o f the
an annual affair and part o f the
re lig io n s customs In
that
region. Like moat o f us, she
had heard o f '‘firew alking’’ but
had never seen It done so she
was eager to go.
The layout consisted o f a
roped o ff area o f “ H o ly
G round” in which had been
dug a pit about 12 feet w ide by
40 to 60 feet long. A large pile
o f wood was burning in this p it
when she arrived. She wee
stationed at one end o f th e p it
no more then ten feet aw ay. A
g ro u p
of
n a tiv e s
th e n
proceeded to spread the fire
over the bottom o f the p it to
produce a bed of g lo w ing coals
dx to eight inches deep, the
waa so intense th at Dorie
to move back a M t.
the nattvaa w ho man w ith the cart.
w o u ld
do
tb o
a c tu a l
After some tw enty minutes
fir e w a lk in g
w e re
o f this parading around, the
the roped o f f
participants began to walk over
by Mends or the red hot bed o f coals from
In a sort of Informal one end o f the pit to the other,
There was no chanting
o f them ran across but
wRh
■ long as a full
In the p H The man
the cart bM has
detached before he made
money was not involved. Thus
walk with the hooks still In we may take it that this was
place. On
coming out of the purely a religious ceremony by
fire the man walked through a and for the local people.
small pit In which the women Therefore, it would be most
had poured milk. When all had unreasonable to suppose that
completed their walk, the firewalking would have deep
whole band o f devotees walked significance for them if it did
up to a churchlike building not involve some extraordinary
that was on top of a rise of risk and danger, or lacked
ground several hundred yards elements o f what they would
away. What happened from consider as supernatural.
then on was secret and so far as
F ire w a lk in g
has been
Doris was concerned, the event
reported by travellers ia maay
was over.
parts of the world, particularly
It Is Interesting to note that
India and Polynesia. The mazv
a lth o u g h
th e
m en
were
have, as usual, scoffed. The few
unsteady beforehand, once
have wondered about how It
they had commenced their
was possible. There was in
walk they appeared to be ln f
excellent report on firewslkiag
complete control of their
In Tahiti by a Mr. Irwin Row.
movements. Also they did n o t 1
visibly break out in sweat or
show signs o f pain One must
realize th at stepping into a bed
o f coals that deep their feet
would frequently penetrate up
to their anklee Were this not
ao, one might think that the
soles
o f their feet were
calloused enough to prevent
the heat from penetration their
flesh to the point o f injury It
b regretsble that Doris did not
h ave
th e
opportunity to
examine th eir feet for signs o f
burn even though none was
manifest In their behavior.
However, thia event was not
geared fo r tourisu, and D orb
waa t h a n w ith a very few other
oMy by
no
who, for what it is worth. Is a
Ph.D. This appeared in the
April, 1966 issue of Fate
magazine (which, I have fousd.
tries to do careful reporting 6n
this sort o f thing). In Rob’s
case the walk was over sto«es
which had been heated for two
days in a fire pit 15 by 30 ft.
by 4 ft. deep Here it was ala» a
religious ceremony but Md
become more or lees a to«*st
attraction. While the pit *as
possible shorter than the one at
Durban, the walkers made no
leas than three round trips aver
the hot rocks, led by a < *e f
who made Onelher trip by
himself to begin the event b»d
wound rup by crawlii^
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