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LETTERS Seniors date TO THE social hour EDITOR There will be a social hour at the Senior Adult Center, 50 NE Elliott Saturday, Dec 23, from To the Editor: 1 would like to express my 1 to 5 p m Seniors and their appreciation and thanks to a friends are welcome couple of good Samaritans, who There will be dancing, games helped me Sunday morning refresh m ents and other when I had car trouble My car pleasant ways to spend an had stalled at an intersection, afternoon and after several motorists •’•ÿÿÂ* passed by, two pickups stopped and th e ir d riv e rs o ffered W E A TH ER assistance One, Roger Scheer H L Pr (sp ) charged the battery of my Dec 14 31 19 tr. car with a jump cable The Dec IS IS 11 Ir. other, whose name I was not Dec I t 31 28 1.00 able to get. was kind enough to Dec 17 37 30 tr help I t ’s nice to know there are Dec IN 44 38 tr. some nice people around. $7 42 Dec. 19 .87 Sincerely Dec 20 SO 4M .22 Nancy Barker The T ro u td ale weather Rt 3. readings are made hy I: 30 p m Sandy C. T « r W , Lae Irwin. Ce Thom«» c . Taylor. Editor Entered at the Port Office at Sandy. Clackamas County. Oregon, aa » claaa matter under the Act pf Congress of March. 187» Member of Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and National Editorial Pwhlishod e v e ry T hu rsday by O u tlo o k PuMiahing Ce„ P.O. Bos M. Sandy, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Annual Subscription in Clackamas and Multnomah Counties $4 00 in United States Elsewhere in Oregon $4.50 Servicemen and Women SANDY. OREGON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21.1972 Merry Christmas To All Merry Christmas from all of us at the Sandy Post. This has been a year of growth and progress in the Sandy-Hoodland area and The Post is happy to have played a part. We hope all our readers have a merry Christmas and we at The Post are looking forward to another year of serving the community. Christmas Spirit Over 100 families in the Sandy area will have a merry Christmas this year thanks to the Sandy Kiwanis Gub. The Kiwanis again this year are delivering their Christmas baskets filled with toys and food to needy families in the area. The event is really a total com munity effort with donations for the baskets coming from the community. This effort by the Kiwanis and the community will bring home the Christmas spirit to many. Board Takes Right Direction The Sandy area is growing and one area where this growth is most ob vious is in our area school districts. Every district, except Bull Run, experienced an increase in enrollment this past year. And with this student increase, comes the problem of enough classrooms to give a good education to students. The effort made by the Sandy High School board last week to work with all area grade school districts (Bull Run. Sandy, Cottrell, Boring and Welches ) was a large step, in the right direction. Only Bull Run and Boring report no space problems at present, while Sandy grade school recently passed a building bond levy to ease its space problems. Welches reportedly will be able to make it through one or possibly two more years without needing to build more classrooms while Cottrell is awaiting permission to make use of a mobile classroom to help ease over crowded classrooms. The Cottrell board is also in the process of buying more property to be used for additional construction. The high school board announced at the meeting, additions were being planned to meet the needs of the growing student body At the same time, the board asked the grade schools to participate in an in-depth study to determine future educational needs of all the districts. We support this move and hope the five area grade school boards will also. It is important that the educational needs of the students are met. but it also is important that the taxpayer’s dollar be spent wisely in providing this education. Such an in-depth study could assure the taxpayer his money was being spent wisely and also it will help each district determine its needs for the future Politicians Please Note A study of how college precincts voted in the recent election discloses some interesting statistics. George McGovern got more votes overall from what might be called the college precincts than did Richard Nixon. This was particularly true at Portland State and the University of Oregon On the other hand. Pres Nixon carried college precincts at Eastern Oregon, George Fox, Linfield, Oregon College of Education (by a hair), Oregon State. Oregon Technical, Pacific (by a hair). Southern Oregon, Warner Pacific and Willamette. McGovern won at Lewis and Clark, Portland State, Oregon and the **T T H E OUTLOOK'S week at tke wert ef the wees arrived thia ■ new plaat Jest University of Portland The results show that, as far as Oregon is concerned, winding down of the war and ending of the draft did not swing the college vote to Pres. Nixon. What it doesn’t show is what the picture might have been had the war still been at its Lyndon Johnson-level. It also shows that the smaller schools and Oregon State basically adhere to conservatism; that the large liberal arts schools swing to the left Finally, it demonstrated rather conclusively that the 18-21 vote did not support George McGovern in droves. Which comes as no great surprise. Lack of federal funding hurts sewer projects In the past few weeks, the Post has run several articles about the need for more sewers in Clackamas County to meet the needs of new developments being planned Also we have had news articles and editorials about the state h ealth regulation which are forcing the counties into lim iting these developm ents u n til sewers become available This week the Pot, received a new release from the Depart ment of Environmental Quality which reports many of the planned sewer projects in the state may be in jeopardy due to the lack of federal matching funds. The following is the news release which tells of the effect the withholding of federal funds could have on the sewer projects planned in the state Oregon put up eighteen and a half million dollars today for sew er construction, as un certainty continued about the Federal share The State announced early last summer that it was laying state funds on the line to get sewer projects started and to assure eligibility for Federal funds when those became available State grant amounts are now final Still in doubt is whether enough Federal cash will be forthcoming to bring totals to the m axim u m level local communities are hoping for E n v ir o n m e n ta l Q u a lity Director L.B Day said in July the Federal Government was “ p laying politics w ith pollution.” He reiterated that criticism recently, adding that withholding the money “ might keep inflation at bay. but only at the cost of letting pollution go unabated " Oregon has in the past had a m atching g ran t system wherein the Federal govern ment would pay 50 per cent of sewage treatment plant con struction costs if the State paid 25 per cent C ities are responsible for the balance. Tlie problem has been that there wasn't enough Federal money to fund many of the needed projects This has made it necessary for Oregon to operate on a reduced grant basis The decision to make the State match money available was in effect a gamble that the F e d e ra l G overnm ent would eventually come through with its 50 per cent share Currently a v a ila b le F e d e ra l money averages only about 30 per cent of total costs Cities now have in hand the grant offers for the state’s 25 per cent. plus application forms on which to request the in creased Federal share What they don't have is any guarantee that the applications will get the hoped for results The increases would come from money authorized under 1972 amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, but it looks likely now that the total will have to spread thinner than expected, bringing a fiscal pinch on needed future works on local governments that have to pay the bill Reynolds to add fourth potline Reynolds Metals Company’s T r o u td a le a lu m in u m reduction plant will restart the fourth of its five potlines on Jan 3, 1973, it was announced Wednesday by H arry Helton, plant manager It had been announced earlier that the line would be put back into production but no specific date had been men tioned The start-up of the 25,000-ton per year line will mean tlie addition of approximately 75 employees to the p la n t’s payroll, bringing employment to around 700 persons, Helton said The energizing of the fourth line also means that Troutdale will be producing 105.000 of its 130,000-ton per year capacity of aluminum ingot Reynolds T ro u td a le plant was closed in November, 1971 because of a supply-demand im balan ce in p rim a ry alu m in um The com pany reopened one production line Sept 1, 1972, a second on Sept 15 and a third on Oct 8 When the fourth line comes on stream again, Troutdale will have three, 25.000-ton per year production unit which was the third line to be restarted No plans have been an nounced for restarting the fifth line at the plant. New administrator named (Continued trow Page 1) Hatfield will officially begin his new job Feb 1, but will work on a retainer basis starting Jan 1, until then. The Hatfield fam ily includes wife, Jeanne, son, Jayl and great dane Bandit. Mrs Hatfield is employed part time at the Orthepedic and Fracture Clinic at the Portland Medical Center, and is a sub stitute bus driver for Sandy Elementary, where Jay is a sixth grader The Hatfields live on the Sandy River, where the new city administrator has designed and built a guest house, a new wing for their house, in his spare time Oregon will have a 8150 million general fund surplus in 1973-74. This is the calculation of State Sen. vern Cook. This surplus will occur if no changes in services are made and spending remains at the same level, he said. The added funds will come from federal revenue sharing, plus an estimated 832 million surplus in the present budget. (Cook said if this had been known in advance the cigaret tax would not have been necessary.) Also included is s 10 per cent ...flation factor. The healthier economy is expected to bring in an added 890 million in taxes. However, Cook warns that the governor has already in cluded thaae surpluses in his He said tbs undoubtedly consider some tax alternatives One could be a p ro p e rty tax substitute or homeowners subsidy. T here also may be consideration of relief for renters and owners of mobile hornet If the Legislature decides (as suggested by Gov McCall) that property taxes should not be used for operating schools, then th is 8)50 m illio n would evaporate and a lot more money would be required from other sources People would need to agree on a substantial increase in income taxes, Cook said. Cook predicts the federal revenue sharing program will soon become known as the “revenue sharing fraud.” The nation is already operating on a deficit and the money going into revenue sharing is money an cut in state aid i, Cook said. COUNTY B A N K ^ y IN D e p e N D C N T _____________ SANDY OREGON 666 4141 HO O D LAND BRANCH. W E M M l 677 3131 Member Federal Dapotil Imurance Corporation OPEN FRIDAYS T il 6 P M G eneral fund surplus likely producing 24 pages at oae time Instead of the present 14-page lim it. Cater printing capacity will also he expanded. The press came from Chicago la twe tracks. The —*- plans oe moving Into the new In Fehraary Our wish for you is that the true spirit of Christmas may dwell in your hearts, and its light shine radiantly, as the , Star shone, with the peace and A happiness of that Holy Night long ago. Horn's to a Yule that's frosh and bright, sparkling with merriment for you and yours. Thank you, our fine friends and patrons. Mt. 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