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SANDY. OREGON. THURSDAY. JAN. 11. 1973
Plan Calls for Conservation
In our review of the just completed
comprehensive plan for the Mt. Hood
community, we were glad to see the
plan place a large emphasis on the
conservation of the natural en­
vironment of the Mt. Hood area
As it states in the CH2M report,
everyone is for enhancing and con­
serving the area’s “natural en­
vironmental living qualities". The
question which must be answered is
in what way or ways should the
community grow and still protect this
natural environment.
It is obvious the number of
residents is growing each year and
the number of recreational users is
multiplying each year. The report, in
fact, predicts an increase of double
the number of visitors during the next
20 years. Currently it is estimated
over 900,000 visitors come to the area
annually.
To meet the needs of the increasing
population in the Mt. Hood area, more
housing and services will have to be
built.
According to the CH2M report,
there is one major way of helping to
control these new developments for
the protection of the natural en­
vironment. This can be found in the
“ Issues. Problem s and Needs’’
section of the report.
It simply states. “The need to
require developers to bring an en­
vironmental benefit to the area. In
other words, the onus should be on
them to show how their development
will enhance the environment."
To go along with this, the report
recommends strip developing along
Highway 26 be avoided and new
businesses be developed in existing
business districts.
The people of the Mt. Hood com­
munity will have their first chance to
review this report at an open meeting
on Jan. 20, 2 p.m. at Welches Grade
School.
In the meantime, those wishing a
copy of the 136 page report can
purchase it from the Clackamas
County Planning Departm ent in
Oregon City.
The Tri-M et Tax: An A lte rn a tiv e
A considerable head of steam is
building up in the legislature to siphon
off highway funds for mass transit.
Highway funds are ‘ dedicated’’,
that is constitutionally limited to use
on highways, public parks etc. But
this could be changed by legislative
enactment and subsequent approval
by the people.
Gov. McCall and a number of
legislative leaders have endorsed the
idea of giving mass transit a chunk of
these admittedly sizable highway
funds.
And if the diversion ultimately is
successful, will this then eliminate
the odious Tri-Met tax? The Tri-Met
tax, of course, is levied solely on
businesses to support the erstwhile
Rose City Transit System and the
Blue Bus lines
Businesses in the Tri-County area
(Multnomah,
Clackamas
and
Washington) are taxed to support
m ass transit regardless of any
possible benefits. If highway funds
eventually become available, might
this then do away with the Tri-Met
tax?
Equity and justice certainly would
appear to say so. But once enacted,
few taxes ever go away. Businesses
can hope . . but not much more.
G e ttin g Ready fo r Spain
The Sandy Post sponsored trip to
Spain this Spring will be the topic of a
meeting set for Saturday night.
The meeting will be held in the
Sandy city hall basement at 7:30 and
everyone is invited to “get in the
mood for sun and fun in Spain."
The trip will be from March 14 thru
March 28 and plenty of sun is
forecast for the trip.
We hope to see you at the meeting,
and hope you join the rest of us when
we take off for Spain this Spring.
Don’t be left in the rain.
Mt. Hood plan ready
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benefit to the area In other words, the
onus should be on them to show how their
developm ent w ill enhance the en­
vironment.”
A low density planned development
(maximum four housing units per acre) is
recommended depending on the soil
s u ita b ility , w a te r supply, and the
availability of sanitary sewers.
The report calls for a service district to
be formed to meet the water and sewer
needs for the mountain area
Also, it recom m ends fu tu re com ­
mercial establishments occur in “ existing
shopping centers or in new centers located
to best serve the community. Strip
development along Highway 26 should not
occur ”
The CH2M report recom m ends a
detailed development plan be made for
each of the village districts (Government
Camp, Rhododendron, Zig Zag, Welches,
Wemme, Brightwood and Cherryville.)
The recreational use of the area is es-
pected to increase each year with it
reaching 1,800,000 visitors per year within
20 years This means the mountain area
must look at facilities to handle the ex­
pected increase
This would include a shuttle bus system
for the winter sport users.
The over-riding factor throughout the
CH2M report is the conservation of the Mt.
Hood environment
For those wishing to get a copy of the
re p o rt, it is a v a ila b le fro m
the
C lackam as County P lan n in g D e p a r t­
ment in Oregon City for five dollars. The
cost covers the printing costs.
Chamber officials have stated, they hope
to have copies available for sale at the
meeting on Jan. 20. Also, copies are to be
placed in the Welches Grade School
library and each member of the HPG has a
copy
County deputies investigating two area deaths
The Clackamas County Sheriff’s office is
investigating the death of two persons in
the Sandy-Hoodland area during the past
Mrs Merlyn E. Clark, 31, of the
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Hoodland area was found by her husband
in the front seat of the fam ily car near
Road 21, Rhododendron
Investigating officers reportedly found
empty sodium seeonal containers in .th e
car, and a note Mrs Cla k was last seen
leaving for work Tuesday.
Investigators reported n o t . * nee of
foul play in the death.
Results of a coroner’s investigation also
are still pending in the death of Ivor Stack,
71, who was found Thursday morning in a
ditch near Sandy.
A sh eriffs office spokesman indicated
no crim inal activity appeared to be in­
volved in the case.
"So, - W hat else is n ew ? '
To the Editor:
I ’m fairly new to the Sandy
area, but I ’ve been here long
enough to have a big complaint.
I ’m a mother of three small
children M y husband is a truck
driver, and is out of town much
of the time, as of yet I don’t
drive, so when I go anywhere, I
walk with my children and
always use the crosswalk I
have
never
seen
such
disrespectful drivers in my life,
including the city police.
I stood with my three small
children, one in a buggy, in the
pouring rain for a good ten
minutes trying to get home
from the drug store With three
children, it’s pretty hard for us
to run across the street, while
drivers are doing well over the
25 mph speed lim it.
This is not the first time, this
has happened nearly every
tim e I try to get across the
stree, it ’s the same story I ’ve
even waited as long as 15
minutes.
Everybody just drives on by,
if you are lucky enough to
finally get somebody to stop in
one lane, the other lane just
keeps right on going
I know I ’m not the only one
this happens to so it looks like
the city could do something
about this problem Nothing
will ever be done until it is
brought to light That is why
I ’m writing this letter to you
What better way for the public
to be informed than through the
newspaper
Thank-you,
Mrs Lynne Dennison
124 W Main
Sandy
Wartime
phone tax
reduced
A “tem porary” wartim e tax
on telephone service that began
in the 1940's as an emergency
m easure is fin a lly on its
wayout
G e n e ra l
T e le p h o n e
customers should notice slight
reduction in telephone bills,
according to a com pany
spokesman He said the ten per
cent Federal excise tax paid on
all local and long distance calls
has been reduced to nine per
cent. The reduction was ef­
fective Jan. 1, 1973
The reduction will continue at
the rate of one per cent per year
until the tax is completely
erased in December, 1982.
The tax, which is collected by
the company for the govern­
ment and which only applies to
telephone
u tilitie s ,
is
a
holdover from World War II.
Telephone companies have
long opposed the tax, since it is
felt that the tax discriminated
against people who have
telephone service
The reduction is s result of
the Federal Excise, Estate and
Gift Tax adjustment of 1970.
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The world's three leading
a u -ntive manufacturers inn
)97i » re General Motors,
Ford and . iyota. Volkswagen
was fourth.
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The lives of Americans are
insured for $1.5 trillion—or
about $21,800 of life insurance
p ro tection fo r the a v e ra g e
fam ily.
To the Editor:
In regards to the recent
action taken by Portland's
Bureau of Waterworks and M r
W A Liggett, which requires
the big horse teams, logging in
the B u llru n W atershed, to
exhibit and put up w ith
“diapers has nothing to do with
ecology but rather ignorance
It must have been e m ­
barrassing to those horses to
have all that publicity for such
a ridiculous act Since we've
gone back to natural foods it
seems that natural fertilizer is
the in thing with ecologists.
It also seems that most
watersheds are populated and
have been populated with some
type of wildlife and livestock
for hundreds of years
NO BIG T H R E A T !!
The real threat lies with the
“money powers” Could we
ever change the gasoline
motor’ Could we knock out
cars and put in a massive non-
p o llu ta n t
tr a n s p o r ta tio n
system? Not impossible but
improbable.
The big hazard is what we
Americans dump into our at­
m osphere—the
very
a t­
mosphere that gives us life. I
feel if we're going to be
ecologists lets not worry about
a little horse manure up in the
Bullrun Watershed
M r Liggett also stated “The
deer would have diapers too if
we could catch them" I wonder
if the creator of the creature
deer would have been insulted’
Perhaps he made them fleet
and wily for more reasons than
we know.
Rena McKay
Wemme, Oregon 97807
P-S For those of you who
would be interested
the
“Diaper waste products” are
being used on a lovely garden
site.
C ■ lassified
contest
A contest to name the new
girlfriend of Clarence, mascot
for The O u tlo ok’s Peachy
Classified Section begins this
week
Prizes of $15, $10 and $5
donated by W ally’s Thriftw ay
stores at 162nd and Division
and at 847 E Powell, Gresham,
wiU be given to winners.
Contestants m ay enter as
many times as they wish by
filling out an entry blank from
the Classified Ad Section
E n trie s , which must be
postmarked before midnight,
Jan. 31, will be judged by three
Outlook staffers
Sandy Centennial
coins cost less,
valui high
Due to a printing error, in
last week’s Centennial story,
the price of the sterling silver
coins was listed at 5100. Thia
should have been 510.
They are available at the
C lackam as County B ank,
through Howard Berger or
through B ill Richardson, who la
) the Chamber of
committee.
W E A TH ER
H L Pr
Jan. 4
45 35 .15
Jan. 5
44 20 00
Jan 6
40 28 .15
Jan 7
28 28 70
Jan. H
37 20 .00
Jan. 9
29 20 00
Jan. 10
32 29 00
The
T ro utdale
station
weather reading« are made bv
5:30 p.m
Fact
find er.
Dr
John
Abernathy, met with the Orient
School Board and teacher
representatives last Friday
Each stated th e ir case.
Abernathy has until Jan 17 to
report his finding He was
appointed by Dr Dale Parnell,
state supenntendent of schools,
after a mediator failed to get an
agreement from the parlies
Abernathy is a teacher of
economics at Southern Oregon
College Some of the issues
involved are salaries, teacher
evaluation procedures and
revision
of
grievance
procedures
In another meeting Saturday
the
Oregon
Educational
Association conducted a one-
day preliminary hearing on
conditions at Orient School The
meeting was at Sam Barlow
High School and lasted all day
and into the night
A spokesman for the OEA
told The Outlook that the
matters discussed were con­
fidential, but if a further formal
hearing is conducted there may
be a report of the findings
November, 1972, compared to
November, 1971, the University
of Oregon Bureau of Buaineaa
and Economic Research has
reported
Debits for November. 1972,
totaled <242.122.000 For Oc
tober, 1972, the total was
<200.137.000 and for November.
1971, the total was <196,453.000
Oregon w ith 405 banks
reporting has a percentage
increase of 11.2 in November.
1972. compared Moth October.
1972. and a 14.5 percentage
increase in November, 1972,
com pared w ith N ovem ber.
1971
Total
bank
debits
for
Novem ber.
1972,
were
<7.483.352,000 F o r October.
1972, the total was <6,727.091.000
and for November. 1971, the
total was <6.538,105.000
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County traffic
death rate
remains same
Fourteen Oregon counties
had fewer traffic deaths in 1972
than in 1971, seven others
reported no more deaths in 1972
than in 1971, yet the state's
annual traffic toll was the worst
ever recorded
Only one county, Wheeler,
recorded a traffic death free
year. It was also death-free m
1971. -
Counties recording decreases
in traffic deaths were Baker,
Benton, Clatsop. Douglas, ,
G ra n t, Jackson, Jefferson,
Lake, Lincoln. Manon, Morros,
Tillamook. Union and Wasco
counties.
Those with the same number
of deaths for the last two years
w ere
C lackam as
(44),
C olum bia. Crook, G illia m ,
W allow a. W ashington and
Wheeler counties
The counties contributing to
the new all-time record of 730
were: Coos, Curry, Deschutes.
H a rn e y ,
Hood
R iv e r,
Josephine, K la m a th , Lane,
Linn, M a lh e u r, M ultnom ah.
Polk. Sherman. Um atilla and .
Yam hill counties
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One in every 500 persons in
the U.S and Europe is blind. In
...
Asia and Africa the ratio is one
in every 100.
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The output per man year of
federal workers rose 7.7 per
cent in the period between 1967
and 1971.
Hey, cottle guards ain ’t built ¡ist to step cows’
Cettleguerds are for
cattle. Our safety
deposit boxes a rt
for pooplo.
Guard against theft
by renting one
today.
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