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
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passed by, two pickups stopped
and th e ir d riv e rs o ffered
W E A TH ER
assistance One, Roger Scheer
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(sp ) charged the battery of my Dec 14
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car with a jump cable The Dec IS
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other, whose name I was not Dec I t
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able to get. was kind enough to Dec 17
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help I t ’s nice to know there are Dec IN
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some nice people around.
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Sincerely Dec 20
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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our fine
friends and patrons.
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