Sandy post., April 22, 1971, Image 1

Salmon
River meet
Wednesday
Sandy fire district
budget vote Monday
T here w ill be a p u b lic
meeting concerned w ith the
Forest Service management on
the Salmon R iver drainage.
The meeting w ill be held at
the Welches School. A p ril 28. at
7:30 p.m. At that tim e they w ill
discuss the Study Area and how
the public can present their
views in the management of
th is a rea S tim u la tin g the
public's presentation of their
views is the main purpose of
this meeting.
This area is currently being
studied by a team who are
considering a ll aspects of the
toal environment, plus man's
.needs, in developing a land
m anagem ent
plan.
T h is
m u ltid is c ip lin e approach is
designed to use all ecological
inform ation gathered about the
area.
This study w ill take about
twelve months to complete.
Public input into the study
effort w ill help assure its
success.
Corned
to open
Friday
"S tranger in the N ight” is the
junior-senior play set to begin
at 8 p.m. on both Friday and
Saturday nights at Sandy High
School.
The play was w ritten by Paul
McCoy and is a three act
co m e d y-m yste ry.
Students
have been rehearsing for the
past month on the production.
Co-directors of the play are
instructors Mrs. Howard and
Ken Steward.
Action of the play takes place
in the bookstore of a large
midwest hotel. Sylvia Lee and
Mabie Crane, Co-owners of the
shop, are v is ite d by a
new spaper co lu m n is t fro m
New York. The columnist has
come w ith the news that a
m urder is to be com m itted in
the hotel but nobody knows who
the v ic tim is to be.
F ro m here the suspense
grow s as h o te l em ployees
believe each of them is to be the
victim . Romance and comedy
also play a big factor in the
play
The two lead characters,
Sylvia Lee and Mabie Crane,
are played by K a ri Bergensen
and Linda St. C lair respec­
tively.
Other cast members are:
Don Hutchins, Mike Blakely,
Nancy Seiber, Gary Berger,
Kathy Kissner, Mike Dyal,
Deann
C a rro th e rs ,
C hris
P a rk e r, M a rk N a y lo r and
Diane K eller
A p ril 26 is the date set for the
Sandy Rural F ire D istrict No.
72 budget election. The voters
are being asked to approve
about $14,500 over the six per
cent lim itation of the district.
This is the firs t tim e in the 10
years of the district that it has
had to go to the voters to ap­
prove
money
o ve r
the
lim ita tio n .
The total budget for 1971-72, if
the levy is approved, w ill be
Fishermen's
breakfast
The Sandy R ural F ire
Department is sponsoring the
annual Fisherm an's Breakfast
this weekend at the fire hall
with opening of fishing season
Saturday.
Breakfast will go from 6 p.m.
on Friday to 12 noon on
Saturday.
GEORGE MacALEVY, sport colum inst for
the Post, gets in som e practice as he gets
ready for the fishing season which opens
Saturday. He gets help in spotting fish
from his fellow fisherman Ming, his dog.
George said Ming is a good companion and
also has tried to catch som e fish in his
time.
< Post Photo)
THE
Anglers are reminded all
coast streams rem ain o ff lim its
to trout fishing until May 22, as
do the high lakes in the
Cascades
and
P a u lin a
m o u n ta in s.
T here
are
numerous exceptions to this
rule and, if anglers have any
doubts, fu ll particulars w ill be
found in the 1971 a n g lin g
regulations.
NORTHWEST REGION
A long the n o rth coast,
anglers can expect some fine
trout fishing in lowland lakes
A ll have good populations of
w ild and holdover trout and
many will be stockeu witn
rainbows or cutthroats of 8
inches or more in length.
If past openings can be used
as a barometer, some of the
best angling w ill be at Cullaby,
C o ffe n b u ry ,
Hebo, L y tle ,
Smith, Spring, and Sunset. Lost
Lake in the Nehalem drainage
w ill be a top choice for anglers
as w ill the Vernonia Pond and
Gunners Lake in the hills back
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TO THE M T. HOOD PLAYG RO UN D
of Vernonia. Cape Meares Lake
is stocked, opening up a new
fishing lake in the Tillam ook
area. T ro llin g is usually the
most productive in lowland
lakes but the angler w ith
bobber and worm w ill do okay.
Only two streams in the north
coast area w ill have portions
open for spring Chinook angling
be g inn in g
A p r il
24—the
Nestucca up to Beaver Creek
and the Trask up to the forks.
A ll streams rem ain closed to
trout angling until May 22.
Along the mid-coast, some of
the best trout fishing is ex­
pected in Big Creek Reservoir,
Carter. Devils, Dune, Eckman,
Elbow, Mercer, Munsel, Olalla
R e s e r v o ir ,
S iltc o o s ,
Tahkenitch. and Woahink. Top
choices for big trout w ill be in
Cleawox, Munsel, and Devils.
Siltcoos should also provide
excellent trout fishing.
Should trout angling be slow,
anglers can test their skills for
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assured
Coming Next Week
April 29th, . . . Free
Ticket! to the 1971 Ice
Follies, if you find your
name in the Classified
Section. See page 6
for more information.
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54 36 .14
April 17
49 40 .22
April IN
69 42 .02
April 19
57 37 .00
April 211
65 42 .02
April 21
52 37 .17
The
T rou td ale
S tation
weather readings are made by
5:30 p.m.
One polling place
High school budget
figures are compared
tim e next year and if this was
In last week’s Post we ran an
acceptable to them they w ill set
editorial urging the setting up
up high school polling places in
of polling stations for the high
each elementary school d istrict
school d istrict budget vote in
for future elections.”
each of its feeder schools. In a
As it now stands the polling
statement to the paper this
place for the May 3 budget
week the school d istrict board
election is the high school.
The C o m m u n ity Club at answered.The board said they
When looking at proposed
C o ttre ll G rade School is had discussed the issue at two
budgets the best way to
sponsoring a ham dinner at the different meetings this year
analyze them often is to look at
school Saturday, A p ril 24, from and at their A p ril 12 meeting it
them compared to the current
5 to 8 p.m.
was decided that it was too late
year. The following are some
The menu w ill include ham, to set these polls up for the
figures on the proposed 1971-72
mashed potatoes, green beans, upcoming May 3 election.
budget as compared to the
rolls, cake, pie, m ilk and cof­
The board also stated that
current 1970-71 budget which
fee. Tickets w ill be $1.50 for they would be giving "serious
the voters approved last year.
adults, 75 cents for children, $6 consideration to contacting the
ASSESSED VALUATIONS
for fam ilies.
elementary schools in ample
1. 1970-71 Assessed Valuation
used for final election June
19, 1970. $100,319,856.
2. 1971-72 Assessed Valuation
used - $129,110,000.
OUTSIDE SIX PERCENT
LIMITATION
1. 1970-71 - $515,745.42.
Estim ated Tax $5.14 per
thousand dollars of true
F o llo w in g the fir e w hich
garage shed
cash value o f ta x a b le
gutted th e ir home Saturday
The fire was answered by
property w ithin the d istrict.
night the C. Duane W illiam s
both the Sandy Rural F ire
2.
1971-72 - $615,075.94
fa m ily is in need of help from
D istrict and the Boring F ire
Estimated tax $4.76 per
the community.
D istrict. It was reported by
thousand dollars of true
The fa m ily which includes a neighbors at 8:59 p.m.
cash value o f ta x a b le
g irl 10 years-old and three boys
Sandy sent two rigs and 13
property w ithin the d istrict.
8, 9 and 13 years-old lost all firem en and Boring sent two
INSIDE SIX PERCENT
their household goods in the fire fire rigs to the fire which was at
LIMITATION
which did an estimated $8,000 Rt. 3 Box 438, Boring, just
1. 197)9-71 - $155,975.53.
dam age
behind the Mt. View Lumber
Estimated tax $1.55 per
Persons wishing to help the Company.
thousand dollars of true
W illiam s can do so by phoning
The fire was extinguished at
cash value o f ta x a b le
one of the following numbers
10:12 p.m. and the last firemen
property w ithin the district.
668-4346 , 668-4538 o r 663-4476. left at 12:30 a m
At present the fa m ily is living
2. 1971-72 - $165,334 06
The W illiam s were not home
in a camping tra ile r and a at tim e of the fire, they were at
Estimated tax $128 per
the coast.
Cottrell sets
ham dinner
School bus safety
stressed to students
JACK CALAHAN, principal of the upper
grades at Sandy Elem entary School in the
background helped serve the lunch to the
eighth grade students who picked up litter
in Sandy on Saturdav. The students
planned and organized their clean up drive
and it proved to be a su ccess with several
truck loads of litter being picked up by the
students. About 4(1 students took part
Saturday.
( Post Photo)
Cottrell budget down
C o ttre ll School D is tric t
voters w ill be asked to approve
the amount of $78.746 in the
May 3 election This is $12,415
less than the current budget
which was approved by the
voters last May
An increase of $16,411 from
the Basic School Support Fund
re c e n tly
passed
by
the
legislature, w ill result in a
decrease of the amount to be
raised outside the 6 per cent
lim itation Last year the voters
passed the published rate of
$20.70 per $1.000 true cash
value For next year's budget,
voters w ill be asked to pass a
tax rate of $12 43 per thousand
true cash value This is a
decrease of $8 27 per $1,000 true
cash value This calculation is
based on the present assessed
valuation of the d istrict.
Included in the 1971-72 budget
are two new programs A band
or instrum ental program for
grades 5-8 and a fu ll tim e
physical education instructor
for all grades is planned A
re m e d ia l
la n g u a g e a rts
program financed through a
federal T itle I program
scheduled for next year
is
This year has brought the
greatest increase in enrollment
at C ottrell on record In 1965-66.
we ended the school year in
M ay
w ith
168 students,
whereas, this year, 1970-71, we
have 194 students in a t­
tendance
School bus safety is an every
day thought w ith the school
districts in the Sandy area, but
it is being stressed this week as
it is National School Bus Safety
week.
The Post chose to look at the
Sandy E le m e n ta ry D is tric t
buses this week and learned
some interesting facts con­
cerning the bus operation at the
d istrict
H e n ry
R eckm ann,
bus
supervisor and mechanic for the
d istrict, stated there are 15
buses in the d istrict There are
12 w ith permanent routes, one
is an a ctivity bus and two old
buses are used as backup
buses
Last year the buses travel
more than 87.000 miles and w ill
travel over 90,000 miles thus
year in the 180 days school
operates The increase is due to
two new routes added this year
According to Reckmann and
d istrict superintendent Tony
Bryant over 90 percent of the
students in the d istrict travel to
No. 16
SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1971
Fire victims
seeking help
There w ill be a meeting of the
L e t’s Get Together group at
Welches Grade School tonight
at 7:30.
At this meeting the future of
the Hoodland Planning Group
w ill be discussed. A lso a
p re se n ta tio n co n ce rn in g the
grade school budget w ill be
given
The meeting is open to all
persons in te re ste d in the
mountain and area.
FIND YOUR NAME
BE OUR GUEST
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.„2 great w ay ¿
Mountain
meeting
tonight
Reynolds Metals, Troutdale,
was am ong the B o n n e v ille
Power
A d m i n is t r a t i o n
customers to pledge a share of
$15 m illion over the next three
years to guarantee continued
o p e ra tio n o f the H anford
Nuclear Steam Plant.
There has been concern that
the loss of Hanford would
possibly cause a brownout in
the P acific Northwest. This
would mean the loss of several
thousand jobs
the southeast com er of the
d istrict.
The other substation w ill give
quicker and better service to
the Bull Run - Aims areas.
At present the staff at the
Sandy fire department consists
of a crew of 27 men including
eight officers Plans call for a
few additional men if the
budget is passed to man the
substations
With the addition of the new
large tanker the d istrict now
has 10 units to cover the
estimated 6,000 residents in the
district.
The proposed budget w ill
mean an increase from 79 cents
per $1,000 of assessed value to
$1.22.
The ».lection poll at the fire
hall in Sandy w ill be opened on
election day from 2 p.m to 8
p.m.
Sandy Post
Trout anglers set
to open season
O regon’ s a rm y of tro u t
fishermen w ill take to the out-
of-doors in full force Saturday,
m arking the opening of the 1971
trout season.
At dawn, ail lowland lakes
and most streams in the state
become a v a ila b le to tro u t
fishermen as do some of the
la rg e r
lakes
and
im ­
poundm ents in the h ig h e r
mountains.
Trout have wintered very
well and most impoundments
have ample water, the result of
a good w inter snowpack or
ra in fa ll. A d d itio n a lly , m ost
poj
fishing streams and
many lakes are stocked with
catchable-size trout.
The opening weekend and
several weeks following might
be m arred by adverse weather
w hich could m ake a n g lin g
m is e ra b le o r m uddy some
stre a m s
beyond
fish a b le
condition. Snow in some areas
w ill also block a few lakes and
streams until later in the
leason.
$55,680 compared to the current
The spending of $4,800
year's budget of $38,674.
to w a rd s the o p e ra tio n and
According to fire d istrict
purchase of the new tanker for
board members, reason for the
increase is to up grade the the d istrict. The new tanker
d is tric t
by g e ttin g
new
w ill help the d istrict meet
equipment and setting up two
better hauling capacity stan­
substations.
dards throughout the 62 square
Better coverage of the whole
miles which the district covers.
district which covers 62 square
The district is proposing to
miles w ill be made possible by spend $2,400 for new hose which
the equipment and the sub­ is another move to upgrade the
stations which are planned for district's equipment, according
the Firwood-Dover area and to fire officials.
the Bull Run-Aims area.
The d istrict is also proposing
Included in the new equip­ to spend money to build two
ment is approximately $6,200 substations in outlying areas of
worth of radio equipment which the d istrict to cut hauling tim e
the d istrict must buy in order to in half to these areas.
switch to two frequencies as is
One substation is planned for
being required by the county of the Firwood-Dover area which
all fire districts.
w ill cut the water hauling tim e
Other items in the budget down from the present ap­
causing an increase in spending proxim ately nine minutes to
in order to up grade this rural approxim ately five minutes to
d istrict are
and from school by way of the
school bus.
The cost of they bus program
last year was $44,214 and this
included the salaries for the
drivers
The drivers in order to handle
a bus for the Sandy district
must have both a bus and
chauffeur licenses and take a
c o m p le te
p h y s ic a l
examination.
Reckmann stated that many
of the bus drivers this year are
also taking part in a firs t aid
class being taught at the school
on Tuesday nights
At present the longest route
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Daylight
savings
Daylight savings time starts
this Saturday. April 24, in the
state.
Remember to set your clock
ahead one hour when you go
to bed that n i^ it.
thousand dollars of true
cash value of ta xa b le
property w ithin the district.
DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS
1. 1970-71 - $83,046.53.
E s tim a te d ta x $.83 per
thousand dollars of true
cash value o f ta xa b le
property w ithin the d istrict.
2. 1971-72 - $80,361.00.
E s tim a te d ta x $.62 per
thousand dollars of true
cash value o f ta xa b le
property w ithin the d istrict.
TOTALS
Budget 1970-71
$5.14
Outside 6 percent
Inside 6 percent
1.55
.83
Debt Service
$7.52
Total
Proposed Budget 1971-72
Outside 6 percent
$4.76
Inside 6 percent
1.28
.62
Debt Service
$6 66
Total
Estimated tax per thousand
dollars of true cash value of
taxable property w ithin the
district.
A lthough the C lackam as
County Tax Rate sheet for 1970-
71 only showed Sandy Union
High School's Assessed Value
as $71,657,040, the higher figure
of $100,319,856 was used last
year in estim ating tax per
thousand dollars of true cash
value of ta xa b le p ro p e rty
w ithin d istrict as most of the
property w ithin the district had
already been reassessed by the
budget vote.
FUCHSIAS - BEGONIAS
GERANIUMS
All Top Quality Plants
3 t o r * 1 25
Vegetables - 31 Varieties of Hybrid
Tomatoes, be sure to plant a few Burpees V.F. Tomatoes
this year. A triple blight resistant tomato especially
developed for cooler climate such as the area.
J
for
Perennials — Many to Choose From This
Year — Including basket
O
f
of Gold Alysum — Phlon.
3 ,»1.25
Annuals — 44 Varieties of
Petunias - Snapdragons,
Portulaca & others
69*
SHRUBS—TREES—ROSES
Tray Pac
ALL SPECIAL PRICED
JAMISONS
Bark Dust or Steor Manure
09
e
sack
Grass S eed.............Sit». ’2 .9 5
JA N Z PLANTLAND
West end of town Sandy, Oregon