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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1971)
I I Sandy Post GREAT WAY TO THE M T. HOOD PLAYGROUND SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1971 Sheriff county are having money problems WATERS IN THE Sandy River like other streams in the area were on the rise during the past week. Here at this section of the river near Wildcat Creek along Highway 26 the river can be seen cutting the bank away under Chuck Conarty's home which is located on the ground to the left in the picture. Conarty said he has been fighting the state otect his land before the rioods came as part of program of the new Mt. Hood highway con- le said he lost much of the land he owns to 64 and 1968. (Post photo) Council checking sewer bond move The Sandy city council rather than the present 43'/2 ft. moved to approve a zone right-of-way which is there change request asked by Q; is L. now. The reprw».r»-,,ive for ,^e Hilbum, Glenn W. Sheppard group said he would tell the and Averytt A. Brester if it council when the request was meets the city planning com met so there could be official mission’s request of road right- approval. away. The council then moved to The council also moved for have the city attorney look into more information on the HUD the interest rate of the sewer position in the building of the bonds for a possible switch new sewer treatment plant for from 30 years to 20 years the city. payment. Also the council is In the zone change request investigating when they should the group asked for a change put the bond out for bid. from R-l (single fam ily It was questioned whether re sid e n tia l) to R-3 (m u lti the project had to be started or family residential). 60 per cent completed before The council approved it upon any funds from HUD would be meeting the planning com received towards the project, if missions request that there be a it is sponsored by the federal 50 ft. right of-way for roads program Pubi ic meetings set in local area The Sandy-Hoodland area has several meetings planned during the next few weeks. On the mountain the county will be holding information meetings concerning the sewer plans for the Welches- Rhododendron area. The first meeting will be held on Jan. 26 at the Hoodland Community Hall at 7:30 p.m. This meeting is concerning plans in the area bounded by the Zig Zag River and Henry Creek Ave The second sewer meeting is set for Bowman’s at 7:30 on Feb. 2 with discussion cen tering around the area bounded by the Salmon River on the east, Welches Rd on the west, Loop Highway on the north and the National Forest on the south. Meanwhile th e Hoodland No m atter who buys the bonds mayor Melvin Haneberg said that the bonds must be put on sale and he would like to have this done soon so work can begin in the spring. If no one bids lower than HUD on the $450,000 bond issue the federal program will pick them up at 6 per cent interest rate according to city officials. City police chief Fred Punzel made a request for a new radar for the city but no action was taken. County head named Planning Group is planning to hold their public meeting on Jan. 28 at Welches Grade School at 7:30 p.m . This meeting will help the group gather questions to be asked on th e ir survey they a re planning for the Hoodland area. In Sandy on Monday night at the city hall the Oregon City Jay cees are sponsoring a meeting for local men between 21 and 36 who are interested in forming a Jaycee group in Sandy. Also Monday night the Sandy city council moved to hold a ' public meeting on Feb 8 to Robert Schumacher discuss the form ing of a R obert Schum acher, 39 steering committee for the 1973 was nam ed Centennial. The meeting will be G ladstone, held at the city hall as part of chairman of the Clackamas the regular council meeting. County Board of Com missioners last week. He is starting his third year as a commissioner after serving 11 years as county clerk. He succeeds Fred Stefani, group is set for Feb. 10 and Canby, as chairm an a fte r those interested in attending Stefani delcined to take the should contact Elsie Kithil at chairmanship he has held for MHCC. the past three years. S te fa n i n o m in a te d Cam pground Schumacher for the position while the third member of the vandalism board Thomas D. Telford, Boring, declined to take a hits $8,950. stand. Area adult ed planned G ary Lovejoy, Mt. Hood Community College instructor in adult basic education, was the guest speaker at the Jan 13 meeting of the Citizen Advisory Committee to the college from the Sandy-Hoodland area. The meeting was held at Zig Zag and Lovejoy told the group the college offers basic adult education p rogram s and G E D. classes and that no grades are given and each student works at his own in dividual level. This spring plans call for MHCC to offer first aid and photography at Wemme while at Sandy a combined original poetry-calligraphy course, scuba diving and a "rock hound” or geology class is planned The next meeting of the Mt Hood National Forest visitors destroyed $8,950 worth of cam pground and other recreation equipment in 1970 Forest Supervisor. Wright T, Mallery issued a statement reg ard in g the wanton destruction of $8.950 worth of publicly owned equipment An estim ated $12,000 worth of damage to equipment of timber operators occurred during the past year also . In another county a p pointment Merle Manly was elected to the chairmanship of the Clackamas County Board of Adjustment last week Other members of the Ad justment board are Dorothy Hayes. Neil Thompson, Ed Niklas. Bill Mart and Ron Anderson Duane Sherwood. Boring, has ^**n, elected chairman of the Clackamas County Planning Commission. WEATHER The Sandy C ham ber of Commerce heard Clackamas County chief deputy Bill Brooks say that the sheriff’s depart ment feels in order to give the protection needed in the county a $1.5 million serial levy is needed this spring. As reported in the Dec. 24 issue of The Post the sheriff is requesting the levy this spring with $300,000 being called for each year of the five years levy. Brooks stated that the levy is right now waiting approval from the county commissioners and budget committee before going before the voters of Clackamas County. “The main problem is if the county can find the $23,000 needed to hold the special levy,” stated Brooks. He was echoed in this statement by County Commissioner Thomas Telford who was a guest at the Chamber meeting. Brooks sta te d th at the sheriff’s department is not able Two fires reported H. L. Pr. Jan. 14 38 30 .24 Jan. 15 50 33 .96 A fire was reported in the Jan. 16 54 42 .83 Sandy area during the past Jan. 17 61 45 .40 week according to the Sandy Jan. 18 54 44 .67 fire department at Rt. 2 Box Jan. 19 57 45 .63 380, Sandy where a transformer Jan. 20 54 37 .50 on a power pole caught fire. The Troutdale station Little damage was reported weather readings are made by as the fire department ex- 5:30 p.m. Students set clean-up day for school A clean, neat school is the goal of the Associated Student Body of Sandy Union High School in it’s Clean-Up Day set for this Friday, Jan. 22, at 9 a.m. On that day teachers will be working on grades so regular classes are not being held. The students decided to take ad vantage of this day without studies to join together in an effort to upgrade the a p pearance of the school. Clean-Up day workers will bring a sack lunch and if they have broom s and cleaning equipment available will bring these also. Every student in the school is urged to help. tinquished the fire on Jan. 16 at 11:02 p.m. In other fire calls reported during the past week the department was on «tandby for the Boring fire station on Jan. 13 and on the same day at 11:06 a.m. a chimney fire at the S. Bisby residence at Rt. 2 Box 380, Sandy was put out. The local fire station hosted on Jan. 18 the regular meeting of the Clackamas Firem en’s Association this month. The Association is made up of all the fire departments in the county. to produce enough manhours out of its present staff and with the special levy they would be able to add four patrol units consisting of five men each to the department which now has only five patrol units of five men each. Brooks, who was subbing for Sheriff Joe Shobe who was in Hawaii on vacation, said that the county covers 1,893 sq. miles and has 13 incorporated cities in it with only nine of the cities including Sandy main taining its own police force. He stated that with the enlargement of the force the county would be divided into six districts of police coverage other than in the four it is now. The new district would be in the Boring area meaning the Mt. Hood district which includes Sandy would be reduced in size giving this a re a b etter coverage by the unit in this area having less area to cover. Commissioner Telford stated the county was now in trouble for money and that the com missioners were now in the process of asking for money from the budgets of the dif ferent county departments to meet expenses for the last six months of this fiscal year. Telford stated that much of the emergency funds usually available to the county were gone due to the extra amount of money it took during the Vortex rock concert this summer “ B ecause we have no emergency money there is no money at present available to hold the special election for the sheriff’s levy” stated Telford. It was also stated by Brooks that the county will have to pick up the levy money in its budget each year after the five year levy runs out if it is ever voted into effect Ned Dyal asked Brooks why the sheriff's department could not wait until the new budget is made in six months Brooks stated that by waiting it would mean the program of adding the new employees would be set back a whole year, “and crime has risen in the county at a 15 per cent rate over the past y ear.” Howard Berger asked if the county had checked into letting the state pay for the Vortex festival “since it was the governor’s idea.” Both commissioner Telford and deputy Brooks said the county had presented a bill to the state but they had been told in “no uncertain terms that the state will not pay for it.” Dyal stated that possible the county should ask for the state’s attorney general to look into who should be responsible for paying the bill for Vortex. Food program getting truck The county’s Abundant Food Program is getting a truck according to com m issioner Fred Stefani. The com m issioner stated that the U.S. Department of A griculture has approved Clackamas County’s Tailgate distribution system and will pay for the truck and driver needed for the program which enables the county to distribute food throughout the county. The county received word early this week from the USDA and they have been told to lease a truck until their truck is delivered, meaning that the county’s Tailgate program can start immediately. Stefani stated that the Sandy- Hoodland area will now he ahl<> to benefit greatly from the Aboundant Food Program because the truck will be available to deliver food into this area. During the past year, the Abundant Food Program in Clackamas County distributed 3,925,565 lbs. of government surplus food to 105,673 people in the county, according to figures recently released. The largest month was Dec. when 10,118 persons were served. According to commissioner Thomas Telford, about eight per cent of the food was brought into the Sandy-Hoodland and now with the truck this per centage will likely grow since the need is seen to be greater than that in t h i s a r e a Inform ation is sought The Sandy Police are seeking inform ation concerning a vehicle which hit a dog on S. Bluff Rd Tuesday sometime between 3 a m. and 4 p.m. The dog, a black labrador, is owned by Lavar and Anne Coy of Rt. 3 Box 136, Sandy Father, son safe in river accident MEMBERS OF THE Sandy Citizen Ad visory Committee and Mt. Hood Com munity College officials have been meeting in the area setting up plans for courses being held in Sandy-Hoodland area and for those courses to be held in the future. Pictured following one of their meetings are Tony Bryant, Charles Croston and Fred Proett from the Sandy school district, A father and his son walked The police report showed away safely when their boat Wherry was in the process of overturned in the Sandy River turning onto Hood St. from early Wednesday morning near Bluff Rd. when the youth Revenue Bridge and a 10-year- darted in front of his car and old Sandy youth escaped with was bounced onto the hood of only a few teeth missing after the car. he darted into the path of an on Bernie E. Holien, 24, was coming car Tuesday night, arrested with his brother Peter, according to the Sandy police 20 Tuesday night with Bernie department. being charged with drunk Norm A. Thompson and his driving and Peter for minor in son Norm of 12930 NE Morris, possession of alcohol. Portland were in the process of Both subjects pleaded guilty Shawn Hudelson. 34, kept his shooting the river when their with the older Holien boy, 14-foot raft tipped over in the Bernie, getting a $200 fine, 10 cash cool. Only trouble was it was phoney money. rain swollen Sandy River days in jail and 90 days He stored it in a Gresham spilling them both. suspended driving license His Sandy police chief F red younger brother was fined $25 frozen food locker Hudelson, his wife, Elzora, Punzel cited the wearing of life and got a two day suspended 34, and Dorothy Ekerson, 42, jackets for saving the two men jail sentence. have been charged with con from drowning. On Saturday, a burglary was spiring to u tte r and pass They had put their boat in reported at Rt 3 Box 456 on counterfeit $20 Federal Notes just under the bridge and had Dunns Rd in the Boring area of The two women were gone only about 20 ft. when it wedding gifts from the trailer arrested in Nampa. Idaho, last tipped. They w ere washed of Wayne Morris Light The week when they attempted to down stream to some big rocks estimated value to the stolen pass the bogus money where they held on for awhile property was $175 according to Hudelson was arrested later before ihe son made it to shore the sheriff's report at his commercial printing while his father swam down the An attempted burglary on plant in Damascus where he river to safety The older Thompson said he Jan. 7 to the McCall Oil Com published the Damascus Ob was under water for at least 100 pany west of Sandy on Highway server The arrest was made by yards at one point before he 26 was reported to the police Don Bell, agent in charge of made it to shore. Several The report said that the door to Portland Secret Service Hudelson led the agent to a fishermen witnessed this in the office had been forced open cident and reported it to the and a desk ransacked but frozen food locker in Gresham nothing was said to be missing where $102,000 in bogus bills police were packaged and marked as In the car-youth, accident On Jan 8 grand larceny was dog food the boy was Emilo Briseno and reported by the county police at Bell declined to tell which the driver of the car was Allen a construction company site at locker operator had Wherry of Rt 3, Sandy Rt. 1 Box 198, Boring. unknowingly stored the Tom Day from Sandy. Dave Spooner from MHCC, Elsie Kithil local representative from MHCC, O'Brien from Sandy and Dixie McKannay from Rhododendron. Not pictured are committee members Mel Lamm from Sandy. Brother Andrews from Sandy and Earl Covey from Welches school district. ( Post Photo) Cool money phony bills counterfeits. He said the person was unaware the stuff was there and it w ouldn't be very gracious to let his customers know It might lead to endless ribbing, he said Bell estimated that about $6,000 of the phoney notes had been passed Mostly, he thought, in Eastern Oregon and Idaho The three are to be arraigned Friday Teacher salary talks continue at schools Both the Sandy High and Sandy E lem entary School Boards a^e now in the middle of discussions with faculty and other school groups in planning the budget for the 1971 1972 school year High school superintendent C harles Croston sta te d Tuesday that the board and teachers have set a target date of Feb 24 to finish their talks and to present the proposed salary schedules to the Budget Committee on March 1 The budget committee will hold its first public hearing on Feb 1 with other hearings set for Feb 15, Feb 22, March 1 and the final hearing on April 5. Croston said the vote on the budget is now set for May 3. Tony Bryant, grade school superintendent, stated Wed nesday that the district's board and the teachers will finish up their talks on salary schedules hopefully by March 9 The elem entary school district budget committee will hold its public hearings <xi Feb 23, March 3 and April 13.
