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POST Thun., June 21, 1973 (Sec 1) Area service station hit by gas crunch limit hours; supply local customers By Jim Baldwin The cutback has eaten into the Shell station's tire, fishing worm and ice business also T ru esdale cannot keep the station open for these sidelines, because, he says, “ people get plum nasty when we lock up the pumps " More typical of the local stations is Bill Granstrom's Arco dealership Granstrom pumps 1500 gallons a day. 96 per cent of last year's pur chases, but says he could do twice that if he had the gas The station pumps gas while the day's quota lasts, then closes The shorter hours, according to Granstrom. put the local customer ahead of the tran sient Lim iting the amount of purchase would penalize everyone equally The Arco station is now closed Sundays, despite lease requirements Granstrom has laid off "a man and a h a l f ' since the shortage, in spite of his em phasis on tire sales The Sandy Rocket Station is getting an allotment of 86 to 90 per cent of last June's gallonage. according to Mrs Terry’ Enckson No limits have been set on the amount of purchase because says Mrs Erickson, “ we have too many good customers to do that ” The Rocket station operates about thirty hours a week less, and may have to close one day a week in July. Noting a slight decline in vacation traffic, Mrs Enckson added, “ It's too bad the gas shortage had to come in the summer when everyone Feature Writer D espite some decline in tourist traffic to M t Hood. Sandy service stations are finding that the demand for gasoline still exceeds their supply Many local gasoline dealers are responding to the West Coast gas crunch by opening later and closing when their daily quota has been exhausted This, they explain, is an effort to assure a gasoline supply for local people M ajor oil companies and gasoline distributors have limited station purchases to a percentage of last year's levels Each month's quota is an nounced at the beginning of that month Fred Truesdale s Sandy Shell Service is particularly hard hit by the shortage The station took a 25 per cent cut in gas sales for May, forcing closure the last two days ot the month Truesdale's quota this month is down even more As a result, the station has laid off one employee and reduced tw'o others to part time hours Truesdale opens every day to satisfy the requirements of his contract with Shell, but closes when he sells the quota or a bit more One Sunday, he opened the station, pumped two tanks of gas and closed again “ I'll see my regular customers have gas, even if I have to sell it by appointm ent o n ly ,” says Truesdale wants to travel Some stations notice the restrictions less The Ernie Beers Texaco station is sup plied with 100 per cent of what they sold last year The station is closing at seven o'clock, earlier than usual, but Jerry New says "so far we just close down to make sure we don't run out of gas If a customer wants five drums, we'll fill them up “ The R S Smith Chevron Station is not expenencing any difficulties, according to Don Smith Smith gets a 95 per cent quota, but maintains his 24 hour, seven day a week operation “We only enforce our ten gallon lim it sign when we get lo w ,” says S m ith, who sometimes has to close down for an hour or two waiting for the Chevron truck to arrive “Our traffic is down because people are staying home," he adds Smith lays the blame for the shortage on the ecology movement, pointing out that ecologists blocked construction of four new Standard catalytic plants a few year back In creased gas consumption caused by pollution control devices adds to the problem "We'vegot to h avea little smog once in a while," said Smith All the stations have one thing in common, they don't know what the future will bring President Nixon's pnce freeze will hold gas pnces at June firs t through eighth levels, but the supply if slue tuating Many station owners fear it will only go down only go down Traffic volume increases C ARS JAM the R.S. Smith Motor Co. Chevron Station try ing to fill up with scarce gasoline Don Smith reports "no real difficulties" in keeping the station open 24 hours Traffic volume on moat of Oregon's highways showed an increase in vehicular traffic in M arch, 1973 com pared to March of 1972, according to the monthly report compiled by the Oregon S tate H ig hw ay Division A sum m ary of tr a ffic recorder data for rural and urban state highways showed an increase of 9 1 per cent in vehicular traffic in March. 1973 compared to March. 1972 The first three months of 1973 showed an increase of 10.2 per cent in ve h ic u la r tr a ffic compared to the first three months of 1972 a day. seven days a week, but he has had to put out his "out of gas" sign recently while waiting for a shipment from Chevron. ,, , . . < rost photo I 1973-74 Budget Hoodland Rural Protection Dist. 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P ro c to r’ i S i i 6 6 8 -5 3 5 0 The public hearing on the proposed Clackamas County budget for 1973-1974 has been delayed until July 2 at 10 a m according to a spokesman for the Clackamas County Commissioners Last week the Post reported the meeting would be held on June 2». but the com missioners moved the meeting date back to enable the county to meet the legal publication requirements The board of commissioners and the county budget c o m m itte e last week released a proposed budget for the new fiscal year of »6,980.087 for general fund categories The figure, which is within the six per cent limitation, will not require a vote of the people The budget also includes approximately $200,000 in federal revenue sharing funds for balancing The commissioners have indicated the possibility of the county going for a tax base increase election this next year because of limitations now being faced in attempting to balance demands for ser vices and available revenues Taxes to be levied from the proposed budget are estimated at $2,018,675, with the rem ainder expected to come from other revenue sources, including charges for services provided The start of the fiscal year is July 1. * ____, ,9 7 3 4, for the purpose o f holding a public hearing on this budget Any person may appear to discuss the budget, or any part of it. fa rljz h tw o o d (County, (C ity, Total Tax Levy to be Certifier 1 to the -------------------------- Assessor on Form LB 5 Last Year Pii» Year Next Year 2 2 .6 2 8 2 3 .9 8 5 2 5 .4 2 4 non « non» non « Levy Within 6% L im ita tio n ....................... Levy Outside 6% L im ita t io n .................... Levy Outside 6% Lim itation (Serial Levy) Not Subject to Lim itation .......................... Total Proposed L e v y ...................................... SHOP SANDY FABRIC CENTER 2, (Governing Body) (Chairman of Governing Body) County moves budget hearing A copy o f the and 5 - 0 0 P M _ at ----- jno > ^ . ___________ -T a Pt C lackam a s SUMMER TRAVELLERS gas up at Truesdale's Sandy Shell Service. Fear of the gas shortage has slowed traffic, but Sandy service stations still pump all the gas they can get < Post photo. detaUed and --------a a n y Total Budget AU F u n d s ................................ HOT 2 2 ,6 2 8 2 3 ,9 8 5 “ 2 5 .4 2 4 2 8 .2 5 0 2 9 ,9 6 0 3 3 .0 0 0 Outstanding July I TYPE OF INDEBTEDNESS This Year (Actual) non« Authorized, Not Incurred, July I Next Year (Est., Tliis Year (Actual, n on » non« Next Year (Est., Bonds Interest Bearing Warrants Short Teim Notes T o ta l Indebtedness now non « FUNDS REQUIRING THE LEVY OF AN AD VALOREM TAX IO BALANCE THE BUDGET Last Year Total Personnel Services (Includes all Payroll Costs) Total Materials and Services ............................................... Total Capital O u t la y ............................................................. Total All Other R equirem ents............................................ Total Requirements (Including Transfers) . . . Total Resources Except Tax to be Levied Ad Valorem Tax Required to B a lan ce ............................. Estimated Tax Not to be Received ................................ Total Ad Valorem Tax Io be Levied ............................. Levy Within 6% L im ita tio n .................................................. Levy Outside 6% L im ita t io n ............................................... Levy Outside b% Lim itation (Serial Levy) . . . Not Subject to Lim itation .................................................. This Year I2 4 5 O 7^55 1 3 -0 3 7 6 .9 2 3 3x239 2 2 .9 4 4 2 ,2 0 0 2 0 ,7 4 4 Ix ff» 7 .6 7 5 2?.,£'15 5x975 2 1 .6 6 0 2 .3 2 5 2 3 .9 8 5 2 3 .9 8 5 2 2 .6 2 0 Next Year 1 5 , Rr 0 8 .8 9 0 8 .2 6 0 3 3 .0 0 0 Ö .6 0 0 2 4 .4nn ' 1 .0 2 4 2 1 .^ 4 2 5 .4 2 4 FUNDS NOT REQUIRING AN AD VALOREM TAX TO BE LEVIFD Last Year Total Total Total Total This Year Personnel Services (Includes all PayroU Costs) Materials and Services ......................................... Capital O u tla y ....................................................... A ll Other R equirem ents...................................... Total Budget R equirem ents............................................... Total Budget R e s o u rc e s ......................................................... 5x545 -------------------------- ------ 1 0 x 0 0 0 Lnnrral Next Year 1 2 .5 0 0 Fund
