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Kiwarns Slates Fruit Cake S a le Sandy Post Holliday fruit cakes w ill be offered for sale by the Sandy Kiwanis Club at three locations in Sandy this weekend. Joel Medders. President o f the Sandy K iw a n is C lu b , announced the wives o f Kiwanians would be staffing the fruit cake display tables. The one and a half pound Benson’ Old Hom e Fruit Cakes OtKAT WAY ^TO TH1 MT. HOOD PLAYGROUND1! W a ite r C . T a y la r, L a * Irw in , Co • Publisher« E lizab eth H a rtm a n , E d ito r Entered at the Post Office at Sandy, Clackamas County, Oregon, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March, 1870. Member of Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and National Editorial Association w ill be sold for $2 .00 each. Proceeds w ill go to the Sandy Kiwanis Com m unity Service fund. Medders said arrangements bad been made for display tables at the Clackamas County Bank, Rexall Drug and at Ceder Plaza. The sale w ill begin Friday afternoon and continue through Saturday. Published e very Thursday by O utloo k Pu blish in g C e „ P.O. Box M , Sandy, O regon 97055 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Annual Subscription in Clackamas and Multnomah Counties $3.50 In United States Elsewhere in Oregon $4.00 Servicemen and Women $4.50 $3.50 Novem ber 13, 1969 Sandy Pest, Sandy, O regon How Is the War Going in Viet-Nam? The B rem erto n , Wash., “ S u n ” r e c e n tly m ade an in te r e s tin g com p ila tio n o f official remarks on V iet-N am . T hey speak for them selves: S ec. o f the Arm y Brucker in 1955: “ With a little m ore training the V ietnam ese army will he the equal o f any o th e r .” G en. O ’D aniel, Am erican aide to Vietnam in 1959: “The A m erican aid program has proved an enorm ous success, one o f the major victories o f Am erican p o lic y .” O ’Daniel in 1961: “The C om m unists now realize they can never con q u er free V ietnam .” S ec. o f D efense McNamara in 1962: .“ E v e r y q u a n tita tiv e m easurem ent show s w e ’re w inning the w ar.” A dm . Felt in 1963: "T he S ou th V ietnam ese should achieve victory in three y ears.” Arthur Sylvester, assistant Sec. o f D efen se the sam e year: "The corner has definitely been tu rn ed .” S ee. o f State Rusk in 1 9 6 4 : “T he V ietnam ese them selves can handle this p rob lem .” Rusk in 1966: “T here is an erosion o f enem y m orale.” A m bassador Lodge in 1967: “ I expeet the war to achieve very sensational results in 1 9 6 7 .” G en. W estmoreland in 1967: "We have succeeded in attaining our o b jectives.” Later that sam e year: “T he end begins to com e into v ie w .” S ec. o f D efense Laird a few w eeks ago: “Trem endous progress has been m ade in V ietnam izalion o f the war and w e are turning the corner.” T he dreary recital could go on and o n , but the words speak for them selves. All this drivel cannot hide the fact that w e are n ot winning the war, all w e are doing is sacrificing A m erican lives n eed lessly, sham efully. Redistricting the High Schools T he O regon S ch ool A ctiv ities A ssn, has d one a good jo b realigning the sta le ’s prep leagues e x cep t for one aberration...the m yop ic insistence on k e e p in g th e e ig h t-te a m football playoffs. T he O S A A ’s rigid dem ands for eight Glass A A A districts leads to such problem s as that in the Metro league this year w hen Sunset has the better record, yet David D ouglas w ins the cham pionship. T he S co ts, you see, fa r e d b e lt e r under th e league’s ex trem ely-com p licated point system . T he O SA A can perm it only eight Class A A A districts since only eight team s can get in to a football playoff; any m ore w o u ld leave som e byes and But if the existing leagues were divided properly, eaeh team w ould play every other team . There alw ays w ould be a clear-cut cham pion. * In its insistence, how ever, on on ly ' eight districts, the OSAA has created leagues with 15 team s (D istrict 4 ) , 12 (D istrict 3 ) etc. District 4 obviously cou ld be divided into tw o leagues...but this w ould foul up the O S A A ’s footb all p layoffs. W e’re n ot at all con vin ced that the footb all p la y o ffs are a w orthw hile thing; neither are a lot o f educators. It seem s to us that m eaningful divisions w ith in existin g leagues are more im portant than fo o tb a ll p layoffs w hich at best involve on ly eig h t schools. thus problem s. S m a ll s a v in g s g ro w 5 ! I ! SEEIT H E A D E D FO R S T A T E Swimming Championships at Eugene this week end are these five Pioneer swim team members. In fro n t row are John Johnson, left, and Ron Kipp. Standing are Laurie Samsel, left, Rob Bignall and Kathy Cousing. (Post photo) ★ Letters to the Editor ★ L and C Choir Editor The Sandy Post homes for those low income fam ilies w ith permanent residency in the community. Local low income families in need are generally assigned housing on a basis of: In reply to the housing article in The Sandy Post issue of Thursday, November 6, 1969, please be advised: 50 per cent for elderly families, 10 per cent for disabled families, 25 per cent for veteran families, 15 per cent for w elfare families.” “ M r. W allace Telford, E xecutive D ire c to r of The Housing A uthority of Clackamas County states that this is not migratory housing and has nothing to do with bringing in migrant or welfare families. The homes are built to accommodate only those jn need in the community. The City determines this need and the number of homes needed. The housing program is only started in the community after the City has requested the Local Housing Authority to do Sincerely, Wallace M. Telford Executive Director If the City wishes to proceed with the program it will provide1 By Bob V i Just a few cents saved steadily out of every dollar earned in one of our Dates Concert Savings Accounts can bring you The Lewis and Clark College Choir and Young Oregon Musicians w ill present a concert of light popular music and some sacred music on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 8 p.m. at P am plin Sports Center on campus. Those from the local area singing in the choir are Mrs. Chris (Judy) Hartman and Miss Connie Berger of Sandy and Ed Lythgoe from Wemme. Adult tickets are $^.50 and student tickets are $1.25. Proceeds will be used to cover the cost of music and travel. The choir will go on tour to Hawaii Dec. 1-12. They will have appearances in churches and clubs, and sing for the service men. 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Things were the young differ from those of society, in fact it was an tough enough as they were their elders to a greater degree economic situation where without Injecting discord and and in more fundamental ways worry, want, hardship and disorder within the family and hopelessness were permanent community. Our children were than has been usual in the past in n early every too dedicated to attaining There probably have been guests such periods before, but never household, in some degree at security to feel free to rock the boat. No one could possibly in the history that we know least. It was not a question of a expect to “ get ahead" by being about has mankind faced the c r u c ia lly f u n d a m e n t a l college graduate being able to a rebel in word or deed. problems that threaten its very pick and choose among the Therefore, conformity became survival to the extent that it positions being offered. It was king by necessity. Is it any faces them today. Youth is the considered fortunate if one wonder that the man in the grey time when Instinct requires it to found any sort of permanent flannel suit in his tick-tacky venture out upon new paths, work to do no matter how houses and his cooky-cutter when it is relatively unbound by humble and unglamorous it jobs became the symbol of that period? habit and tra d itio n . Age might be. Before young people of the Like youngsters of any period becomes cautious and con servative. Therefore, it is not to we fell in love, wanted to “now” generation get entirely be wondered a t th a t the marry, have children and form carried away with the un cleavage between generations households of our own The bridled brashness and over crucial question was, could we whelming sense of their own has become intensified. There is one aspect of this afford it? In many cases we infallability that seems so often situation that needs to be couldn't. Money was the to characterize their attitude considered if we are to un scarcest commodity around. towards their elders, I wish derstand it more fully. This We did not think in terms of they would pause and reflect relates to the vast change in the getting a "position" with all it's that the previous generation economic c lim a te of our prestige and fringe benefits. managed to create out of an country that has occurred in Our ambition was mainly to get economic chaos the most af the last 30 to 40 years. Possibly and hold a Job. It was any port fluent society the world has ever known They literally it takes someone like myself, in a storm. Our children are the parents converted rags into riches. Not who has lived through these years, to com prehend the of today's youngsters. Fear of only th a t, but they were tremendous change in attitude want and economic insecurity universally involved in four and thinking that this change in in their childhood moulded years of war which disrupted the economy has wrought. their ambitions Neither we nor their lives to a degree that is People are ruled by habits of they were politically minded, unimaginable by today's youth. I would feel more sympathy mind no leas than by habits of nor do 1 believe that either muscles and both are farmed in generation was p a rtic u la rly for the young in their struggle their you-n by the pressures of critical of their parents in the to break the mold of conformity their emrjraoment Nothing is current sense of the word. 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