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1 0 - SANDY (Ore.) POST Thur»., April 29, 1971 (Sec. 2) Sandy linked with Oregon Trail Ingvard Henry Eide, historian and photographer from Missoula. Mont., was in this area last week on the last lap of a long journey photographing The Oregon Trail Eide. called Hank, Henry or occasionally “ The V ik in g ", because of his tall stature and Norwegian ancestory, is the editor and photographer of the book, "American Odyssey, The Journey of Lewis and Clark,’’ published in 1969 The big grinning man with his profusion of camera equipment is following The Oregon T rail for a similar pictorial history of the great western migration. The new book, to be published this fall, will feature his photographs of the Trail, as seen by the pioneers, w ith excerpts of actual settlers’s diaries. His problem is, of course, to document the T ra il as it was originally without the civilized influences of dams, power lines, flood control projects and highways He estimates that in another 10 years it might be too late to photograph many of the original trailside scenes. Eide is an expert at camouflaging the engineer’s handiwork. Last week near the mouth of the Sandy River, where some settlers chose to disembark after rafting down the Columbia, he cleverly concealed a distan t tran smission tow er behind th leaves of a tree. A fter a h a lf-h o u r’s pain- this summer let Allis'Chalmers handle the work ...you handle the fun! Here are a couple of top picks to handle lawn and garden chores There s a tractor that's just right for your lawn in the Allis-Chalmers lineup. 6 to 14 horsepower models with plenty of accessories to take on all your yard work. And the SCAMPER Riding Mower with shift-on-the-go automatic drive and fingertip handling is perfect a for smaller lawns Stop in and see them today Outdoor FARM TRACTOR S E. Orient Dr & 282nd Gresham 6 6 3 -4 3 5 3 staking work setting up his tripo d and camera and selecting the right filters and lenses he stopped short spotting a metal cable around a tree trunk. “ No good," he muttered backing off to find another view. A rive rba nk view was discarded because of a piece of driftwood with a sawed end. "N o pioneer,” he mused, "would have seen that.” And then there is the waiting. After he is satisfied with ac curacy Eide works for artistry. He waits for the light to hit the mountains just right. He waits for the texture of water to change. He waits for a student pilot to complete a seemingly endless series of practice landings at the Troutdale Airport. "Once,” he recalled, “ I had a remarkable picture with a row of weeds in the foreground. Had to cut them all down when I discovered they weren’t in troduced to the area until after the migration.” Blustery rainy days are no problem. “ I ’ve had to wait for bad w eather,” he says, “ especially to get thun derstorms in the Midwest as described in the diaries.” After completing filming in Troutdale Eide, accompanied by his friend and photography buff, Bert Wells, Portland, set out for the Barlow Trail and Oregon City. As he has all the way from Independence, Mo., he works through museums, his diaries and hours of con versation with descendants of early settlers. He sometimes gets so im mersed in the past i t ’s hard to pull him back to this century. He is actually able to see and INGVARU HENRY Eide, photographer of America's historic trails, ponders scene near the mouth of the Sandy River. Eide has spent last four months photographing Oregon Trail scenes from Independence, hear scenes that faded from other men's senses more than 100 years ago. “ 1 found a place,” he remembers, "where many wagon ruts descended to a river campsite. It was there that I could re a lly hear it . . . the rumble of the wagon wheels, the yelling of children. Mo., westward for inclusion in a book about the Oregon Trail. Eide. an exacting cameraman, insists his scenes be just as the pioneer trail-blazers viewed them. the barking and yapping of dogs and the roar and cursing of the wagon masters.” Such moments compensate for the disasters. In the M id west vandals broke into his camp trailer and exposed film that was the work of 45 days’ shooting. Everyone has been talking about the changes in Oregon's population, but now figures from the 1970 census show just how the state's people have changed, reports Robert Coppedge, Oregon State U n iv e r s ity e x te n s io n economist. C oppedge u rg e s businessmen, legislators and others in decision-m aking positions to use the data on population characteristics in their planning. Generally, Oregon followed the national trends during the 1960-70 decade and now counts more young, more women and more Negroes in its population. Nationally, the median age declined to 27.8 years, but this is expected to rise by 1980 thanks largely to decling birth rates. In fact, the smaller birth rates of recent years is already having an effect in census data, Coppedge points out, as the under 5 age group was the only general age grouping showing a reduction in numbers. Oregon shows an 11.5 per cent decline for this age group from 1960 while nationally a decline of 15.5 per cent was reported. All other age groups in Oregon increased during the past decade, particularly the 15-25 bracket which indludes the "w a r baby” boom. The 15 25 group in Oregon grew 61.5 per cent in ten years to total 480,000 people, or 23 per cent of the state’s 1970 population of 2,091,385. Everyone “ knows” that women outlive men and the 1970 census proved it, Coppedge notes. In 1960, Oregon counted 99 men for every 100 women. In 1970, it had declined to just less than 96 men for every 100 women. In fact, 51 per cent of the state’s population is female. The same picture was true nationally, where men dropped from 97 per 100 females in 1960 to just under 95 per hundred women in 1970. While the Negro population nationally increased to 11.2 per cent of the total population, Oregon continued to lag in number with 1.3 per cent of all Oregonians being black. Oregon's 1970 population was 97.2 per cent white, 1.3 per cent Negro and 1.6 per cent "other races.” Although the growth in non white population in Oregon was small in absolute numbers, Coppedge points out, it out paced the national average in percentage gain. The census shows a 45 per cent gain in Negro population and a 78 per cent gain for "other races” compared to a 17 per cent in crease for whites since 1960. Plus O n e slated The Mt. Hood Community College Plus One folk singing group w ill perform at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 25, at Powell V alley M ission Covenant Church. The entire evening w ill be given to their m inistry of singing and testimony. Criminal code, consumer protection, nuclear bills discussed The Oregon Senate this week passed Senate Bill 40 which is a new crim inal code for the State of Oregon. The bill now goes to the House for consideration. Senate passage of Senate Bill 40 put the first stamp of legislative approval on almost four years of research, public hearings and in-depth study and discussions. In discussing the bill on the Senate floor, Senator Anthony Yturri (R-Ontario), Chairman of the Criminal Law Revision Commission, praised those individuals and groups who worked so long and hard to formulate the new code. The bill now goes to the House J u d ic ia ry Committee and, after hearings on the subject in the House, it is ex pected for floor vote in the next few weeks. In the area of consumer protection, the House Republicans took a major step in establishing their party’s position on this very important subject. Republican House members support the comprehensive consumer protection package designed to provide protection against defective products and unscrupulous and deceptive trade practices. The endorsement of this package is the omnibus con sumer protection bill which has been developed by a special House J u d ic ia ry Com m ittee chaired by R epresentative Robert Stults (R-Roseburg). The major proposals within the consumer protection package are as follows: The measure redefines deceptive trade practices, plugs existing loopholes and prohibits additional practices which are not covered by present law. In d o o r te m p e r a tu r e is a 1 2 -m o n th p ro b le m , hi th e w in te r you heat y o u r h o m e fo r c o m fo rt . . . in th e s u m m e r y o u n e e d c o o lin g . T h e p erfect a n s w e r is a m o d e rn a ir c o n d itio n e r that m a in ta in s y o u r p erso n a l c o m fo rt le ve l b y i lii' tu rn o f a d ia l. C ools, c le a n s , filte r s . the sea breezes into your home Being a hardy Viking he set out to do the work over and has been making his way westward ever since, blazing his own tra il across the old. When this book is done Eide w ill be off to the Santa Fe Trail. It ’s got to be done, he says, before i t ’s too late. Declining birth rates reflected in Oregon census Y o u w o rk b etter, breathe' better, s lee p better. A p p lia n c e d e a le r s an d c o o lin g c o n tr a c to r s h a v e u n its to s e r v e a s in g le r o o m o r a n cut iri' house' o r b u ild in g . Get y o u rs this w eek while* th e m a n y b a rga in s are* available. P o r tla n d G e n e r a l Electric* C o m p a n y Supplying clean energy for a b etter life. The bill also provides the government in which a site is by the council from five years State Attorney General with being reviewed, and a public to one year. —Exempt any thermal power authority to establish by ruling member designated chairman that ce rta in conduct is of the Nuclear and Thermal plant that has been approved Energy Council. by the Governor’s Nuclear m isleading and therefore —Give the council Development Coordinating prohibited. Courts would also be given a u th o rity to determ ine the Committee prior to the ef greater authority. This would siting and monitoring of future fective date of the act from power olants with 250,000 or getting a siting c e rtific a te include the a u th o rity to more kilowatts of electricity. under the provisions of House suspend business licenses for —Give the Governor veto B ill 1065. w illful violations. Work on S.B. 286 and 550 is Individual citizens would be power in regards to the allowed to b ring suit fo r co u n cil’s decisions on site underway and both bills deal damages against a company certificates but not to veto any with the control and mandatory arising out of a w illfu l decep refection of plant sites by the licensing of all terrain vehicles tive trade practice. They would council. such as snowmobiles, mtor- —Give the council the cycles, dune buggies, etc. have the opportunity to recover their actual damages, plus authority to order the operation Representatives from the of a plant halted without a A m e r ic a n a ttorney fees and costs. M o t o r c y c le Present law does not provide hearing or any prior notice if Association have offered the council judges the activities support and many witnesses for this. of the plant detrimental to are expected to appear. These Other portions of the bill public health and safety. two bills undoubtedly w ill draw include: — A p ro hib itio n Violators of this order are considerable attention over the against referral sales. next few weeks. —Restriction against home subject to a $50,000 fine. —Require that once an ap solicitation sales of consumer S c o tt in S p a in plication is received for a plant goods and services. Navy Fireman Apprentice site by the council that a —A requirem ent that Danny C. Scott, son of Mr. and hearing is to be held within 60 telephone s o licito rs id e n tify Mrs. David P. Cooper of Rt. 1, themselves and the purpose of days and a decision is to be Sandy, is serving aboard the made by the council within 90 attack aircraft carrier USS their call within 30 seconds. —A provision which would days after the hearing. F orrestal presently v is itin g —Reduce the moratorium on Barcelona, Spain, for a two- allow a buyer to assert defenses against a bank or lending in construction of plants certified week port call. stitution which purchases his installment contract or note which is secured by consumer goods or motor vehicles. —A provision whereby a buyer who defaults on his contract or loan that is secured by consumer goods, and his balance due is less than $500, the se lle r or lender m ay repossess the goods or automobile, but he would not be allowed to co lle ct the deficiency. Under present law, the seller or lender can re possess and s till collect on the deficiency regardless of the amount involved. —A three-day "cooling off” period on home solicitation sales. Under this provision, a buyer would be allowed three days in which to cancel the contract. Another m a jo r ac complishment took place this past week and the final com mittee action on House B ill 1065 known as the nuclear siting bill The House E nvironm ent C o m m it t e e a d o p te d Representative Irvin Mann's amendments to that bill and sent it to the House floor The bill with its amendments would : —Create a fourteen member Nuclear and Thermal Energy Council of five laymen and nine heads of state government agencies The nine agencies If you can find your n a m e . . . include the D epartm ent of (which has been cleverly hidden) Environmental Quality. State , in the classified section of this paper! Water Resources Board. Fish Commission of the State of Oregon. State Game Com mission. State Engineer. State Forestry D epartm ent. State Geologist, D epartm ent of ARE FOR A g ric u ltu re , and Econom ic Development Division in the Executive D epartm ent. 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