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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.