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
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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.
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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
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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
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