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Tku»a i..lw 13 1972 (Sac. I I
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Confab for blind visits Oral Hull
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JUDGE GEORGE Howeiler, Sandy, and Mrs. Claire
Belsher stand in front of the Oral Hull Booster Cabin.
which houses caretakers Joe and Marie Webb.
GUIDE DOGS are led to a bowl of water
located outside the Gardens of En-
chantment. but seem more interested in
getting to know each other.
Approximately 250 American originated with Claire Belsher.
Council of the Blind convention of the Oregon State Federation
goers from over 34 states of Garden Clubs, who saw a
visited the Oral Hull Foun clipping about a "five senses'
dations for the Blind Park garden in a magazine Funds
located near Sandy last week for the garden and the park
The convention was held July have
been
obtained
by
5-8 at the Portland Hilton Hotel
donations
According to Judge George
An outgrowth of the garden is
Howeiler. Sandy, the purpose of the Touch and Grow Garden
the organization is to advance
the interests of blind people
The trip to Oral Hull Park
provided a break from the
convention routine with a tour
of the Gardens
of
En
chantment. a barbecue chicken
dinner, which was sponsored by
the Parkrose Lions' Club, and
en tertain m en t
by
the
Twilighters, a group of blind
DAVID SCHRIBSTEIN, New York, reads one of the
musicians
braille information plates which are located around the
The Gardens of Enchantment
garden. Tape recordings are also available in the garden
is a “ five senses" garden,
which is constructed so that
for blind visitors.
—
the blind may enjoy the beauty
of a garden in a park which has
taken their special needs into
consideration
Audio tapes are stationed
throughout the garden and tell
of the highlights of the special
sections of the garden Braille
m arkers fu rth e r assist in
proximately 150 pages on the
The annual picnic of the
identifying plants and a tree
history of Sandy
Sandy Pioneer Association will
exhibit which was prepared by
Stones, family histones, or
be held on Sunday, July 30,
pictures for publication in this the U.S Forest Service
beginning at 1 p.m. at Pioneer
Five distinct gardens ac
book should be brought to the
Park, corner of Highway 26 and
tually comprise the Garden of
picn-c or given to M a n e Sch
Duncan Road.
Enchantment There is a touch
warts.
There will be special music
Coffee will be furnished, but section, a fragrance section, a
and the speaker will be Mrs
taste section, a section for
tableware,
plates and food
Claire Belsher. who will talk
sighted garden visitors, and
should be brought by in
about the Barlow Road
even a hearing section, com
dividuals
attending
the
pot-luck
The Pioneer Associations is
Dlete with a fountain and wind
working with the Sandy Cen dinner
It it is raining, the picnic will
tennial Committee in preparing
be
held at the Masonic Building
for 1973 The committee plans
to publish a book of ap- on Main Street in Sandy.
Club for the blind
Oral Hull Park consists of a
22 acre tract of land set
along the Sandy River with
the garden, a fish pond stocked
with trout, a bicycle ring,
cam p er and tra v e l tr a ile r
facilities for eight units, a
stove shelter, and a caretaker s
cottage.
section, smell section, sight section, and
even a sound section complete with chimes
and a fountain
THE GARDEN of Enchantm ent are
comprised of five distinct gardens which
can be appreciated by both the sighted and
the blind There is a touch section, taste
F u tu re plans include an
orchard of dwarf fruit trees
which will provide new ex
periences for many who have
never before picked their own
fruit fresh from the tree Then-
are also plans for a rose gar
den and a garden pavillion,
which will accommodate up to
50 people
ooo
Half of the nearly 1 million
chem ical products on the
market today did not even exist
a decade ago
ooo
Thirty thousand gallons of
paint a year are required to
paint San Francisco's Golden
Gate Bridge
JACK GRANT'S
Beavers State Drivers
Training
SERVING SANDY AREA
Individual Lessons.
Dual c o n tro lle d cars
Teenagers to senior citizens
Days. Evenings. Weekends
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Order Now for Summer
Awnings - Ratio Covers - Screens
Also Screen and
Storm Door Repairs
Pioneers set
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annual picnic
Residential Window A Door
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SERVICE
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COUNCIL of the Blind con
who met In Portland July 5-*
isited the Oral Hull Foundation for bar-b-
ue chicken dinner and tour of the garden»
THAT SURE U/AS A BIG BREAKFAST FOR * 1 5 0
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LOG TRUCKS pull up beside this log ramp
at the Sandy Scale Station to be measured
before they go to th e ir
various
One way to give your car a lasting finish is
to race a railroad train to a crossing
destinations. Station m anager Rocky
Smart says that the logs go to over 28
destinations after leaving the station
Street a broad flat surface used tor ine
storage of "no parking" signs.
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Smart said he learned how to scale from
a district ranger who took him out to
examine logs, a scaling manuel, and lots of
experience
C ontrol
scalers
come
around
penodically to check the scalers and the
scalers also visit saw mills regularly "to
see if we’re estimating right ”
“We have to find out if a person is taking
enough off for a certain kind of defect or if
he it giving too much,” Smart said
When the trucks are coming in during
the peak season, the scalers are
sometimes working from 6 a m until 6 or 7
p.m.
" If you listen to those things all day,
said Smart as a log truck pulled into the
station, “ you about hear them in your
sleep at night ”
“See that yellow sport over on that
Hemlock," asked Smart as he pointed to a
log, "That ia rot If a log is less than one
third sound, we call it a cull log “
About the only thing a cull log is good (or
Fellow we know couldn't afford a watchdog,
so he did the next best thing — taught the
kids how to bark.
is pulp or chips, he added
Smart estimated that approximately 80
per cent of the logs that the Sandy station
scaled were either Douglas F ir or
Hemlock
“ However, we do get some White F ir,
White Pine, Western Red Ceder and a half
a dozen other odds and ends,” he said
The length of the trees that come in
vary, but Smart estimated that moat are
between 34 and 40 feet long “ It depends on
where the m aterial's going and what the
base length is,” he said
Maybe the angels who fear to tread where
fools rush In used to be the fools who rushed
FLY-1N
BREAKFAST
Old age is when you feel your corns more
than your oats.
If oats is what you need, FENW ICK F E E D
STORE has a full line of feeds and farm
supplies, 12 Mile Corner, Gresham.