Sandy-Hoodland Area Feeling Boom
WHEN CHILDREN from Sandy's Immanuel Lutheran
Church visited fire station recently this young lass,
dressed in fireman's garb, demonstrated she knew proper
way to handle fire axe.
(Post photo)
Is the Sandy-Hoodland area
on the verge of a population
explosion? Has one already
begun, as some believe; or is it
merely growing at a predic­
tably normal rate?
That its population is ex­
panding rapidly is a fact; that it
w ill continue to expand a
certainty, but even the experts
fail to agree on population
estimates for 10 to 20 years
hence. There are too many
unknowns
involved
and
projections based on past
growth trends are admittedly
unrealistic in the face of the
modern surge of movement
from urbia to suburbia and
from suburbia to sub-suburbia.
C o n s e q u e n tly , p re v io u s
population projections for the
area are being revised ever
upwards.
In 1964. Joseph Kozlovski,
planning consultant for the City
of Sandy, estim ated its
population would increase from
that year’s 1315 to 4700 by 1990.
However, current annexation
policies of the city and growth
trends since then have caused
him to feel that this prediction
is low.
In its “ Feasibility Study for a
S anitary Sewer System ,”
prepared for the city in 1968,
Boatwright Engineering, Inc.,
taking a vailab le facts into
consideration, forecast a
population of 4500 to 6500 in the
city lim its of Sandy by 1990
The “ Population Study”
made in 1968 by the Clackamas
County Planning Commission
indicates Sandy had a 1960
population of 1147, a current
population of 1420 and a
projected population of 8500 by
the year 1990. (Present
population of Sandy is now
estimated by the city recorder
to be 1580.)
Post Office, telephone and
e le c tric company figures
furnish an interesting, though
not necessarily accurate,
picture of growth in the Sandy-
Hoodland area.
In 1964, Sandy’s post office
delivered to 945 boxes on two
rural and one star route, in
addition, 460 P.O. boxes were
generally completely rented. In
1969 the office delivers mail to
1235 patrons on three rural and
two star routes and has a
waiting list for P.O. box ren­
tals. Population in the Sandy
delivery area was estimated by
Postmaster John Metsger at
5,200 in 1964 and 6,600 in 1969.
A t Rhododendron, Post­
master Hal Dudley had 75 box
holders in 1964 and presently
has 156. He estimates there are
now 475 permanent residents in
the area as compared with an
estimated 225 in 1964.
Brightw ood Postm istress
State Traffic Toll
Sets October Record
The highest October traffic
toll ever recorded in Oregon
was established this year with
Wild Chase
Costs Life
Of Passenger
Trying to escape the law at
100 plus miles per hour cost the
life of a passenger tu. 2 p^t I
driver in Gresham General
Hospital early Monday mor­
ning.
The sheriff’s office reported
that a car driven by Reginald
A. Hunt, 22, of 166 NE 162nd
Ave., ran a red light on E.
Burnside at 148th. A deputy
took chase at high speed. The
driver also ran the red light at
181st.
A road block was set up at
223rd on SE Stark but the driver
got through. Hunt failed to
make the curve on Stark
beyond Troutdale Road. The
car hit a tree and was broken in
half.
The passenger, Joseph S.
Anderson, 21. was killed Hunt
was reported in good condition
at Gresham General Tuesday
The sheriff’s office said Hunt
was driving with a suspended
drivers license and Anderson
was AWOL from the Army and
was wanted on a larceny
charge in Seattle The car was
a new 1970 model.
This was the fifth traffic
fatality at the same location in
recent months, officers said.
THE
73 reported fa ta litie s , ac­
cording to the Oregon Motor
Vehicles Division.
The single most frequent type
of fatal crash was the non-
"'’ •lision crash in which a
vehicle ran off the road. The
Division noted that in recent
years, “ ran off road,” “ fixed
object” and “ overturned in
roa d ” fa ta litie s have been
increasing consistently.
In 1968, it noted that traffic
deaths in which two vehicles
collide actually declined 20 per
cent over 1967. Deaths in “ ran
off the road” crashes increased
four per cent; “ fixed object”
deaths increased 12 per cent;
and overturned in roadway
fatalities increased 45 per cent
over 1967.
UGN Campaign
Nearing End
The East Metropolitan
division has reached 66.2 per
cent o f its UGN quota
As through last Thursday’s
report meeting, $84,831 o f the
$128,176 quota in the East
Metropolitan area had been
contributed. Ben Doerksen o f
Gresham General Hospital is
the area chairman.
assessed valuation of Welches
Grade School District grew
from $15,209,720 to $23,925,280 -
a boost of well over 50 per cent.
While some of these in­
creases are due to a rise in land
and property valuation, much
results from new home,
business, resort and con­
dominium construction, par­
ticularly in the Hoodland area
itself.
In the past five years or so,
condominiums have become
increasingly popular in the
cities and suburbs of the nation
and also in its resort areas.
With first-class developments
at Bowman's Mt. Hood Golf
Club and Government Camp,
Hoodland is very much in the
condominium picture.
While Sandy, itself, has
virtually nothing to offer in the
way of overnight facilities for
visitors, the advent of the
condominium is expected to
have a tremendous impact on
the economy of the Hoodland
area, a major limitation in the
past having been a lack of
s u ffic ie n t accomodations to
attract the tourist away from
other resort areas.
The single biggest factor in
the accelerated growth of the
Sandy-Hoodland area, in the
opinion of Phil Jonsrud of
At the present time, he said,
land sales continue to be active
but the high cost of money has
caused a halt to any sizeable
new development projects and
has also slowed individual
home construction to a large
degree
When the long awaited im ­
provement is made on the
Alder Creek to Zig Zag bot­
tleneck section of the highway,
it ’s anybody's guess then as to
what w ill happen to the already
fast growing Sandy-Hoodland
area then.
Population explosion? If i t ’s
not here already, it's just
around the corner from now.
GREAT WAY
TO THE M T. HOOD PLAYG R.OUND1
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Vol. 31
SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1969
S in g le c o p y lu c
No. 45
Housing Request
Splits Council
In an unusual difference o f
o p in io n , the city council
Monday night voted three to
two to request the Clackamas
Housing Authority to study
the feasibility o f construction
o f a low income housing
Names Asked
For Telegram
Backing Nixon
A giant telegram, backing
Pres. Nixon’s actions in Viet-
Nam, is being prepared at
Gresham General Hospital.
Persons who wish to sign
their names to the telegram
may do so by coming to the
hospital. There is no charge.
Over 200 names already have
been signed. The 100-word
telegram
endorses
the
president’s actions. Sponsors
hope to send the telegram this
weekend.
development in the city.
used for religious services.
Those favoring the move
Speaking in favor o f the
were Councilrnen Don Deming, application were Mrs. Irene
Mervil Kirby and Ed Perren.
Boyd, Richard Huntley and
Councilrnen Jim D uff and Roscoe C om er. No one
Warren Decker opposed the appeared in opposition and the
request because there was no council voted unanimously to
assurance that occupancy of grant the petition.
the housing project would be
restricted to those low income
families already residing in the
area.
Aden & Josi
D uff said recent liftin g o f
r e s tr ic tio n on residency
re q u ire m e n ts fo r welfare
benefits also applied to housing
and while he was anxious to
see better housing for needy
families in the area, he was not
convinced that such a project
would solve the need.
Councilman Jim Martin was
not present at the meeting.
After the public hearing on
the matter, the council also
approved the application by
J e h o v a h ’ s W itn e s s e s
congregation for a zone change
on property located in Bluffs
Acres.
The Conditional Use change
from R-l zoning was requested
to permit construction o f a
building and parking area to be
Buys Jerry's
Aden & Josi purchased
Jerry’s L t d , 20 N. Roberts,
Gresham, and took possession
Saturday, Nov. 1.
The firm now operates
clothing stores at Lloyd Center
and Eastport Plaza
Marvin Stricker, 33, who has
been with the company at the
Eastport Plaza store since 1962,
w ill be the manager of the new
Gresham outlet. He lives in
Gresham, is married and has
two sons, 11 and 5 years old.
Jim Davidson, who has been
with Aden & Josi at Lloyd
Center for the past two years,
w ill be assistant manager He
has been in retail clothing sales
for nine years
NEW MEETING PLACE but the same fim iliar faces gathered around the council table
(same old table, too) Monday night for the first city council meeting to he held in
Sandy's new city hall. City Recorder sits with back to camera, others are, from her left,
Councilrnen Ed Perren, Warren Decker. Mervil Kirby (only partly visible), Don Deminn
and Jim D uff, City Attorney Paul Biggs and Mayor Harold L. Edes
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Sandy Kiwanis M ulls
Drug A le rt Series
The p o s s ib ility of co­
sponsoring a television series
was discussed by the Sandy
Kiwanis Club at its weekly
meeting last Thursday
Information regarding the
Operation Drug Alert project
was reported to the Sandy club
by Tony B ry a n t, Howard
Berger, Don D em ing, Ned
Dyal, who along with George
Jones rece ntly attended a
training session for Kiwanis
Club
o ffic e rs
held
at
Clackamas High School.
TW O P O R T L A N D Y O U T H S and a Sandy couple were hospitalized after Tues
morning collision on rainswept Highway 26 near Kelso Rd. Police reports indicate t
the driver o f this westbound Volkswagen lost control and swerved across highway i
path of eastbound Adamson car Driver Donald David Schomberg 17, 11028 SE M ill I
M t. Hood Highway near Krlso Rd. that injured four persons three seriously. Et
Portland, remained in critical condition yesterday at Gresham hospital. His passery
Adamson, R t. 1, Sandy, driier o f this car, and her husband were both reported in oi
Donald Hatch,
Jonsrud said the local trend
has been for suburban home
site acreage with the numbers
of places being farm ed
g ra d u a lly d im inishing. He
pointed out that Sandy’s new
sewer treatment plant will
make concentrated growth and
development possible. He noted
many fine homes have been
built in the vicinity in the last
few years that are not noticed
because of their seclusion in the
surrounding wooded hills and
valleys.
< ir'
In addition to “ Operation
Drug A le rt,” a m ajor project of
Kiw anis In te rn a tio n a l, the
Sandy Kiwanis is considering
co-sponsoring, with other area
clubs, a television show entitled
“ You and the Law .” The show
is hosted by actor Raymond
Burr of Perry Mason fame now
starring in NBC’s "Ironsides.”
119 SE 127th, Portland, was treated for minor injuries at Gresh
hospital and released to Bess Kaiser hospital
Sandy’s Jonsrud Realty Co.,
was the improvement (com­
pleted three years ago) of US 26
to a four lane limited access
highway.
Sandy Post
The toll could still be revised
upward if persons later die as a
result of injuries received in
October.
The October toll shoved the
state's 10-month count to 573,
9.5 per cent above the com­
parable period in 1968.
Maudie Sladky said she rents 380 meter connections in Sar.dy
the same number of boxes (168) in 1964 and now has 463. In the
this year as in 1964 However, service area outside the city
she pointed out that the (east of Sandy,' north to the
disastrous ’64 Christmas flood county line, south to Eagle
wiped out so many homes in her Creek and east to the top of Mt
area that it has taken five years Hood), Jackson said the
to rebuild to the pre-flood point. company had 2,647 m eter
She looks for a decided increase connections in '64 and now has
in Brightwood patrons in the 3,053.
near future.
The
follow ing
school
Naomi
B la isd e ll,
post­ enrollment figures also provide
mistress at Wemme, reports 69 another facet of the growth
box holders and 40 star route picture in the vicinity;
patrons in 1964 and 101 box
1964 1969
holders and 72 sta r route School
patrons in 1969
Sandy U High
701 850
872 1060
General Telephone Com­ Sandy Elem.
182 226
pany’s area manager, Tom Welches Grade
Kent, said the number of phone
A more practical method of
connections in the Sandy
district has increased over 50 ascertaining growth in the area
per cent in the last five years - might be through a dollar and
from 1078 in 1964 to above 1600 cents approach.
at present.
According to Clackamas
Subscribers of the Hoodland County Assessor Don Hattan,
branch of Western Valley assessed valuation of the City
Telephone
Company,
as of Sandy was $6,382,240 in 1964
reported by Charles Augustine, and $9,241,410 in 1969, an in­
have zoomed from 400 in 1964 to crease of about 32 per cent.
1,000 at the present time. This
The Sandy Union High School
150 per cent increase is at­ District, which encompasses
tribu tab le to the 1966 im ­ the Sandy, Welches, Cottrell,
provements that allowed the Bull Run and part of Boring
service to expand its facilities grade school d is tric ts , in ­
as well as to growth in the area creased approximately 40 per
served.
cent in assessed valuation from
Neil Jackson, local manager $51,353,520 in 1964 to $71,657,040
for Portland General Electric in 1969.
Company, said that PGE had
During the same half decade
(Post phe
fair condition yesterday at Gresham General hospital. Adamson was pinned in car af
crash and freed by Selvage arW Rescue unit from Sandy F ire District No. 72. l Po,t Pho
ternational projects were also
made to the Sandy Club.
The basic intention of the
"You and the Law” TV series is
to act as a public service by
providing a forum, an open
place for dialogue, allowing for
free
and
unrehearsed
discussion of current problems
facing society
Club Slates
Benefit Races
The Hilltoppers Motorcycle
Club will sponsor a benefit
m o to rc y c le scrambles on
Sunday, Nov. 23 in memory o f
Jack Wright, club member who
died of a sudden heart attack
Oct. 18 while on a hunting
trip.
To be known as the Jack
Wright Memorial the scrambles
will begin at noon one-fourth
mile south of Sandy on the
Estacada h ighw ay (211).
Follow the signs.
Operation Drug Alert is an
In te rn a tio n a l K iw anis Club
project which began this year
with the purpose of informing
today's youth of the potential
Admission is by a donation
problems
and
hazards of $2.00. All proceeds w ill be
surrounding drug use and given to the widow, Dorothy,
abuse Other reports on local, and their three young children
d is tric t, n atio na l and in ­ Bonnie. Clayton and Jimmy.