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SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1971
Another Defeat for Schools
For the second time in two tries the
voters have said “ no” to the Sandy
high school budget. This tim e the
margin of defeat was only io votes
compared to 14 earlier.
We hope that when the budget
committee again takes a look at the
proposed 1971-72 budget that they are
able to gain comments from those
who voted against it the last two
times.
Last tim e the budget committee
held a well publicized meeting and
nobody attended the meeting to tell
the committee members why they
voted against the budget.
We know that now as the committee
takes another look at the budget it
would welcome the help of any in ­
dividuals in showing them where the
budget could be cut without hurting
the educational programs.
We have supported the budget the
last two times, but feel the committee
w ill have to cut the budget to get it
passed by the voters following this
second defeat.
We also feel that some form of
citizens com mittee w ill have to be
formed to get the voters out in support
of the budget.
A M a tte r of Self-Determ ination
Supporters of the war in Viet-Nam
say we’re there to help protect the
rights of the Viet-Namese people to
self-determination.
This means, of course, that they can
determine how they’ll live, what kind
of government they w ill have etc.,
without outside interference.
Which brings a logical question,
how is self-determination doing here
at home?
Not very well if you ask a 19-year-
old who is about to be drafted and sent
to Viet-Nam against his w ill. (See
Pres. Nixon’s Tuesday night news
conference).
Not very well if you ask someone
who has a difference of opinion with
the bureaucracy, say on a tax matter.
Not very well if you ask any of the
160,000 reside nts of M u ltnom ah
county w h o ’ ve ju s t been d isen­
franchised by the legislature. (See
city-county consolidation measure).
Self-determination apparently isn’t
so critica l on the home front.
We’ve long considered Selective
Service the most blatant kind of in ­
voluntary servitude and the Nixon
adm inistration rig h t now is ram m ing
through another two-year extension.
And when the President reaffirm ed
Tuesday night his intention to con­
tinue sending draftees to Viet-Nam,
all the pious talk about “ self-
determ ination” had a very hollow
ring.
I t ’s p re tty d iff ic u lt to e xpo rt
dem ocracy abroad when w e’re
debasing it here at home. And we are.
They Haven't Forgotten Tri - M e t
Probably the worst thing to come
out of the 1969 legislature was the
enabling legislation for Tri-M et.
This was the bill which perm itted
Portland to bail out Rose City Transit
by a payroll tax levied upon all em­
ployers in the tri-county area of
M ultnom ah,
W ashington
and
Clackamas counties.
The tax, you’ll recall, was bitterly
opposed by suburban and rura l in ­
terests since it was discrim inatory,
levied by an appointive board, and
taxed areas which couldn’t con­
ceivably benefit by bus service.
There was much m uttering that
legislators would “ do something” in
1971.
They have. The House has given the
Tri-M et board even more authority to
tax. This tim e i t ’s imposition of a 1
cent per gallon gasoline tax.
The tax has one point in its
favor . . . most everyone w ill pay
now, not just employers.
But frankly, we just can’t see how
Tri-M et needs more tax revenue.
A lre a d y ,
th e y ’ re
m uch
m ore
favorably treated than Rose City and
the Suburban Lines because (a) they
pay sharply reduced gasoline taxes,
(b) they pay no PUC taxes, (c) they
pay no property taxes, and (d) they
have received considerable federal
aid.
But Tri-M et, it seems, is another
pet project of the Portland establish­
ment and as such, i t ’s apparently
sacred.
So goes politics in Oregon.
Hearing set
The board of Clackamas
County Commissioners w ill
hold a hearing on a request by
Theresia Baunach for the use of
a mobile home for a residence.
The hearing w ill be an appeal
on the request which was
| denied by the Board of Ad­
justment The Hearing w ill be
held June 16 at 10 a m. in the
courthouse at Oregon City.
The property to be used is
located on the east side of
Langensand
Rd.,
ap­
proximately 4 mile south of
Highway 26 near Sandy
Merger bill
action slow
ONE OF T H E F IR S T cars to make use of the dump at
Sandy on June I when It became a fee dump Is shown
here. They have buried moat of the old waste ln the dump
and now transport the new waste to other dumps.
Post Photo
The city-county consolidation
bill, HB 1054, is now in the
House-Senate co nfe re n ce
committee
The bill as passed by the
Senate was amended to in­
crease the number on the
charter commission The two
bodies must come to a common
agreement on the bill.
There appeared little ttoubt
on Wednesday that the bill
would be passed and sent to the
governor who is expected to
sign it.
T H E LAST O F the old Welches School was
being burned during the past week as
crews took only one week to tear it down.
The school was located on Highway 26 and
Welches Rd. across from the Hoodland
Park Plaza shopping center.
Post Photo
Rummage Sale
the Forest Service
a standard m ulti­
appraisal of the
an inventory of its
About 2*2 m illion board feet
are cut each year from the
Portland owned forest and
about 17 million from Forest
Land in the watershed. Some of
the logging is selective but
most is clear cut.
Set June 4-5
The public is invited to an
“ old house" rummage sale at
the old Reich house on Friday
June 4th from 1 p.m. to 8 pm .
and on Saturday June 5th from
10 to 2 p.m. To find the location
of the sale turn south on Bluff
Road, turn right and go to the
end of the road.
All proceeds w ill go to the
Good Shepherd Home of the
West, a Lutheran Home for the
retarded.
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The 1970 U S census shows
153 cities with more than
100.000 population.
Cigarette tax, air quality
bills gain support in Senate
it should be on the Senate floor
some time next week. The bill,
which has already passed the
House, would require that
perm its be issued fo r a ll
sources of a ir contaminations
except agricultural pollution.
The D epartm ent of E n ­
vironm ental Q uality would
issue the permit though it could
give the regional air pollution
authority the same power.
M ajor sponsors of the
measure say that it w ill allow
the state to identify all sources
and types of air pollution so
that full control measures can
be drafted. It allows the
Departm ent to w ithdraw
permit from any person or
business found in violation of
air quality standards. If the
p ollu te r couldn 't meet the
standards, he would have to
quit operation. The bill would
go into effect 90 days after the
end of this legislative session.
A Senate bill has died in
committee which would have
allowed continued backyard
burning.
The
Columbia-
W illam ette A ir Pollution
a u th o rity and the City of
Eugene have moved to stop
most open burning. It was
introduced to reduce and ease
restrictions because of the solid
waste management problems
which occur when householders
cannot burn trash.
House B ill 1036, known as the
bottle bill, has been amended in
the Senate Consumer Affaires
Committee to reduce the 5 cent
deposit on stubby beer bottles
to 2 cents and lim it or spell out
some of the redem ption
prodecures fo r bottles and
cans.
In the Committee on Natural
Resources this past week, two
major bills providing protec­
tion and comprehensive land
use planning for Oregon's
coastal area passed the House
Senate B ill 687 set up a planning
comm ission
w ithin
the
executive branch to make a
thorough study of Oregon
estuaries and to submit to the
Legislature in 1975 a long-range
plan for development of these
areas
Essentially, the new com­
mission would be composed of
the present Oregon coastal
conservation and development
committees with six members
appointed by the Governor
from the state at large. After
some controversy over the
membership formula for the
new commission, the House
Natural Resources Committee
amended the bill to bring in
more in land representation on
the predom inantly coastal
m em bership of the com ­
mission.
In order to provide some
protection for the estuaries
before the comprehensive land
use plan takes effect. Senate
Bill 224 was also passed by the
House this week setting up a
permanent system for all land
fills and public waters of the
state over 50 cubic yards The
bill was considerably tightened
in the House Committee on
Natural Resources The State
H ig h w a y
D e p a rtm e n t
previously exempted from the
bill was placed under the
permit system Permits have to
be obtained within 24 hours of
the start of any land fill.
Previously, seven days were
allowed before permits had to
be obtained
These two bills provide the
strongest estuary protection
measures ever enacted by the
Oregon Legislature
The
House
N atural
Resources Com m ittee also
passed b ills tra n s fe rrin g
ju ris d ic tio n a l a u th o rity for
drilling of geothermal wells to
With the Oregon Legislature
rapidly reaching adjournment,
m ajor decisions are being
reached within the House and
Senate on some of the more
significant pieces of legislation
to have been developed in this
legislative session.
The Oregon Senate has voted
26-4 to raise the state tax on
cigarettes by 5 cents a pack.
The bill earlier passed by the
House now goes to the
Governor for his signature. The
increase is the only major
revenue bill requested by the
Governor or passed thus far by
this legislative session. It is the
first increase in the cigarette
tax since it was adopted by the
Oregon voters in 1966. The new
tax per pack w ill take effect 90
days a fte r the L egislature
adjourns. The new bill w ill
produce an anticipated $36
m illio n durin g the 1971-73
biennium . This is a sum
necessary in order to bring into
balance the state’s $793 million
budget
Cities and counties each w ill
continue to receive 1 cent for
every pack sold in the state
The remaining 8 cents w ill go
the state's general fund.
Also in the Senate this week,
the major air quality protection
bill of this legislative session
has won approval of the Senate
Environmental Affairs Com­
mittee The bill has been ter­
med the permit to emit bill and
Letters to
the Editor
To the Editor:
;
Once again we would like to
remind all of the people who
are interested in the en
vironment and development of
the Mt Hood area that there
w ill be a meeting of the
Rhododendron
Improvement
Committee, June 5, at 2:30 in
the afternoon at the Women’s
Club across from the new
Welches school.
We have already begun to
raise money to be matched with
federal funds fo r a Com­
prehensive Land Use Study.
James Hall of the Clackamas
County Building Commission
has advised us that this study
can be made by highly qualified
personnel, engineers, etc., any
firm that deals in land use
study to be of our own choosing,
at a cost of $24,000 Federal
funds from HUD in the amount
of $16,000 w ill be alloted to us
with the remaining $8.000 to be
locally raised
This really should not be too
difficult to do as the whole Mt.
Hood corridor which is 27 miles
long and m miles side is in­
volved The committee has
collected over $200 which is a
good start but only a start.
Your donations are needed as is
your participation We are
asking for $10 but more would
be most welcome as would any
amount
In view of the June 2 public
hearing which w ill have taken
P,ace three days prior to our
meeting there undoubtedly w ill
be much open discussion which
should prove to be of great
interest
Again we would like to em­
phasize the im portance of
raising our $8,000 matching
fund as quickly as possible so
that we can get an effective
land plan going
Rhododendron Improvement
Comm.
Dale Lamoreaux. Chairman
the Department of Geology 4
Mineral Industries.
There are vast areas in
Oregon and Washington that lie
above n atu ra l deposits of
subterranean steam—the type
of steam that comes from the
e a rth ’s Old F a ith fu l in
Yellowstone Park. This type of
steam has recently been
harnessed to provide electrical
energy. E nvironm entalists
point to the obvious benefit of
this e n tire ly pollution free
source fo r steam turbines.
Developers see geothermal
power as an answer to the
lim ite d
resources
of
hydroelectric and fossil fuel
(coal) power reamining in the
Northwest.
In other action, the Oregon
House passed and sent to the
Senate a bill establishing a
reg ula tory
and licensing
system fo r surface m ining
operation. The bill required
that those planning surface
mining must first get a permit
from the State Department of
Geology and Mineral Industries
which includes a reclamation
plan. The reclamation plan on
the land which is mined must
be carried out within three
years a fte r the m ining is
completed.
The Legislature's Joint Ways
and Means Committee has
THURSDAY NIGHT
SPECIAL
STEAMER CLAMS
voted to trim the auditing
duties of the Secretary of State.
This is the first step in what is
likely to eventually be the
Legislature's take over of the
auditing duties.
The Oregon House has also
passed a bill which would call
for the creation of a nine-
member board to set up health
insurance plans fo r state
employees.
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