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í # 1 f A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL - ■ - Saédy G re a t W ay To T h e M t. H o o d P la y g r o u n d Vol. 34 Single Copy 10c SA N D Y , O REGO N, T H U R S D A Y , DECEMBER 21, 1972 Christmas atmosphere prevails in Sandy area THE. SANDY Kiwanis Club will dlatrlbutr over nxi ( hriatmaa baakrta to needy famllle« In the Sandy area Chrtatma« morning These baskets will be filled with food and toy« donated by ritizena of the H A PPIN ESS IS winning the merchant’s Chriatmaa display content, according to Georglann Ware Davla and Janie Carlson owner« of The C at’s Meow The «lore placed first in the Chamber of Commerce sponsored content Here the two accept the flrat place trophy from Chamber vice president Mel M m m and Harm Hurg of area It la hoped that thear baaketa will bring the (hriatm aa aplrlt Into the home«. Here \e d Dyal. left; Dal Nlcholla. center; and George Morgan get ready to help diatribute baaketa. Oregon T rail Saving« and Loan Oregon Trail thia year donated the trophy which will he awarded each year to the flrat place winner in the merchant« contest. Second place in the contest went to (e d a r Plaza Department Store and third place went to Oregon Trail. < Post photo i The Sandy Kiwanis Club will give a helping hand to Santa Claus this Christmas in the Sandy area The club again this year will distribute Christmas baskets filled with food and gifts to over 100 needy families. This project has grown every year and according to project ch a irm a n P ete Sulzbach, over 110 families are slated to receive baskets this year The baskets have been filled through donations from the Sandy community and will be distributed on Christmas morning by members of the Kiwanis Club. "There is still time for those wishing to make money contributions to do so,” said Dale Nicbolls, club president "Those wishing to do so should send the money to Don Deming, secretary !reasurer of the Kiwanis club. P O Box 71. Sandy." The money collected is used by the Kiwanis to buy food to fill the baskete, Santa Claus will make his last visit to Sandy before Christmas Eve at the Oregon Trail Savings and Loan office today Free pictures of the children visiting with Santa area available Last weekend, Santa Claus visited Cedar Plaza Department Store on Saturday and gave free sleigh ndes to over 300 youngsters and adults Santa’s wagon was pulled by two Belgium draft horses owned by M r and Mrs James Idlewine of Eagle Creek Also while in town Saturday, Santa Claus stopped at the theater to say "M erry Christmas" to the youngsters attending the annual free Christmas show and at the party being held at the Community Action Center The Chamber of Commerce will an nounce next week the winners in the residential lighting contest The winners in the commercial lighting contest were announced Tuesday Two year salary terms agreed at Sandy high School boards in the Sandy area are all in the pnx-ess of settling salary schedules for the upcoming 1973 1 974 schrxil year The only board to have completed talks with both c e rtifie d (te a c h e rs ) and classified employees is Sandy High School The high school board and the district employees have, in fact, agreed upon terms for the next two years, according to district superintendent Joe DeMarsh H ie district is also in the process of giving a job description to all the jobs in Legislators slate town hall meeting Do you have any action you wish to see the state legislature take when it goes into session after Jan 1’ If so, attend the town hall meeting at Sandy city hall on Dec 27 at 7 30 p.m S tate Senator Ken Jernstadt and Representatives Jack Sumner and Paul Walden will be in attendance at the meeting to discuss issues with the public The three legislatures in calling the meeting stated "we want to find out what issues the people in our districts see as most important before we go into session .” Local city and school off!<1 <s have been invited to attend the meeting as well as all members of the public. the district," said DeMarsh "The salary proposals were to be made at the school agreements were made on the basis of board meeting last night (Wednesday). these job descriptions ” "We are just getting started,” Mrs, DeMarsh said, it was felt by the school Lundy said, “ the teachers are bringing in board that an effort was made to bring the the first proposal to the board this year " district’s scales up to standards com Mrs Lundy also reported the district parable to other sim ilar districts had gotten approval from the Clackamas Sandy Grade School superintendent County Planning Commission to make use Tony Bryant reported talks with the of a mobile classroom The classroom will c e rtifie d employees had reached an be used to help ease the overcrowded agreement, but talks were still continuing conditions at the school and to take a with the classified employees classroom out of the library The same situation was reported at "The district hopes to have this mobile Welches Grade School by superintendent classroom in operation as soon after the Earl Covey The certified employees and first of the year as possible,” said Mrs the board had agreed and talks still are in Lundy process with the classified employees Both Boring and Bull Run Grade At Cottrell Grade School, superintendent Schools reported salary talks were in Mrs Jean Lundy reported the first salarv process at the school districts Council retains Ruth Loundree C ity re co rd er Ruth Loundree w ill remain with the city at least until the end of June following action taken by the Sandy city council at an adjourned meeting Tuesday night, Mrs Uiundree's office will end on Jan 1 when the new office of city administrator begins The council has appointed Mrs Ixiundree to become the administrative secretary starting Jan 1. "We will be able to fund her position through this fiscal year,” said mayor Melvin Haneberg, "but we will have to wait to see what the council and voters do as far as budgeting for her new position for the next year ” Mrs. Loundree has been city recorder for the past 14 years The new city ad ministrator, Carl Hatfield, J r will take his position on Feb 1. The council in asking Mrs Loundree to stay on, expressed the desire to make the change over to the city administrator as smooth as possible. "Ruth has been with the city a long time and knowledge will be invaluable to the city adm inistrator," said Haneberg. Taking first place was The Cat’s Meow The store is the first to receive the Oregon Trail Savings and Loan lighting contest trophy. This trophy will be given each year to the first place winner in the commercial lighting contest. Taking second place in the contest was Cedar Plaza Department Store and third place went to Oregon T rail. Special recognition went to Grokett Jewelry, The Country Flower Shop and Sandy Rexall Drug Store. The Sandy-Hoodland Jaycees will again be picking up Christmas trees after the holiday season Last year the club collected over 300 trees The Jaycees will collect the trees on Jan 6 this year Those persons living inside the city of Sandy should leave their trees on their front porch or lawn and those living <£/ 32 Pages outside the city can drop them off at the Sandy F ire station. All trees will be picked up before noon that day and the Jaycees ask that the stands be removed Sandy fire chief Bob Rathke cautioned area residents to exercise a little “com mon sense” in safety precautions with the fam ily Christmas tree He said residents should check for breaks in the electrical wiring used to trim the trees and avoid overloading circuits "When the holiday season is over, we urge residents to make use of the Jaycee t ree pickup to avoid the dangers of burning trees in the fam ily fireplace,” said Ra’ hke See a special Christmas feature on church services in the area on page l of section 2 Threee Section! No. 52 Stores to open Sunday here While area students are looking forward to Christmas vacation, many area mer chants will give shoppers an extra day to buy gifts. The local stores will be open Sunday. Dec. 24, for shoppers to have a chance to get those last minute gifts. Stores reporting they will open on Sunday are Lewis Hardware 9 to 5; Grokett Jewelry 9 to 5; Sandy Rexall Drug Store 9 to 5; The C at’s .Meow 10 to 5; Western Auto 10 to 4; Cedar Plaza Department Store 12 to 5; The Country Flower Shop 1 to 4; Carlson Chevrolet 12 to 5 and both Ron and Frank’s M arket and Thriftway will be open their regular hours So if you have any gifts to buy, Sandy is the place to shop. Fire causes *20,000 damage The Council hires first city adm inistrator The city of Sandy has hired Carl Hat was the fastest growing city in America I field, Jr as the city’s first administrator. had a unique opportunity to see growth Hatfield had already chosen Sandy as his taking place without advanced planning,” said Hatfield new home five years ago. “ In this job, I would like to assist the "We came to Sandy to get away from it a ll,” declared Hatfield, who moved his governing body in making plans for the fam ily here from California in February of growth that will come to this area " 1968 (Continued on [>age 2) "We wanted to live somewhere with fresh air, near a river or a lake, things we couldn’t have in California, because of the rapid growth We found Sandy to be the niftiest place in the Portland area.’’ The new city administrator, who has been public relations director for the Agri- Business Council of Oregon for the last five years, has had both education and ex perience in the field of public ad ministration Hatfield, was born in Omaha, Neb. in 1934 and spent his early years in Chicago, before moving to California at the age of ten He graduated from Long Beach State College in public administration, then did graduate work in same at the University of Southern California While an undergraduate, Hatfield in terned in city government, two days a week, for the city manager of Anaheim, Calif After graduation, he stayed on with the city of Anaheim for seven years as assistant to the city manager, and public relations director. In the field of public relations, H atfield’s experience also includes two years as editor and publisher of the Orange County Magazine, and two years as public relations director for Chiat Advertising, as well as the five years with the Agri- Business Council. "When I was with the city of Anaheim, it Cottrell area zoning slated The Clackamas County Commissioners will hold a hearing on the adoption of zoning in the Cottrell area The hearing is set for Dec 27 at 10 a m. in the county courthouse in Oregon City On Nov 13, the county planning com mission approved the RA-1, R ural (Agricultural) Single F am ily Residential Zoning, for property in the area Previous to this hearing, the four square mile area around the Cottrell Greade School has been unzoned Residents of the area initiated a petition and succeeded in getting over 50 per cent of the landowners in the area to ask for the zoning Sandy R u ra l F -e Protection ■ tnswered n»t re .oonses last week following a busy two week period Included in the calls was a $20,000 fire to the Ron Long residence on Tupper Rd. on Dec 12. No one was at home at the time of the fire, according to fire officials. When the firemen arrived at 8:35 p.m., the attic and the rear part of the house were involved in the fire. According to fire chief Bob Rathke, the fire apparently started in the rear laundry room and burned for about an hour before it was detected It appears to have started from an electrical short In other calls, the department answered two car accidents, one on Dec 14 on High way 26 in front of Timberline Trailers and the other on Dec 16 on Duncan Rd M ino r dam age and in ju rie s w ere reported at both accidents. On Dec. 19 the department answered a smoke scare which turned out to be smoke from a chimney in the city. Commissioners still seeking committee C A R L H A T F IE L D The Clackamas County Commissioners are still in the process of appointing persons to a review committee to study the county’s planning department and its director The commissioners are seeking to ap- point a seven member committee to study testimony in the case, but so far have had only four persons accept positions on the committee H a p p y H o lid a y s We at Carlson Chevrolet extend Greetings of the Season and Best Wishes for 1973. And speaking of 1973, just in case you've forgotten someone on your Christmas list why not surprise them with a new 1973 Chevrolet car or truck. It would make them happy and it would make us happy. We still have a large selection of new 73 Chev cars and trucks, including Blazers, 4 wheel drive Suburbans and pick ups We also have a new Corvette, Nova, Hatch backs and a Monte Carlo Sun Root, plus all the other fun cars and trucks from Chevrolet These lonely new cars and trucks would iust be thrilled to a peanut to come and live at your house Remember Happiness is Christmas, so we hope you may extend this happy spirit throughout the coming year. We at Carlson Chevrolet appreciate meeting and serving you during the past year, and we hope that somewhere in your future plans there is room for a Carlson Chevrolet Cariteli
