14 — SANDY (Ore.) POST Thun., June 28, 1973 (Sec 1)
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By
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G e o rg e M ac A le v y
The Glorious Fourth
The Fourth of July this year
falls on a Wednesday So far.
this has been considered a
sacred enough date that it
hasn't yet been transplanted to
a Mondav There .s'no three
da\ weekend attached to this
icrklAtmri as
bc it it is
ic in
in th*»
one * isolated
the
middle of the week one dav
n l> n « a t » in nnter
’
These olans should include a
p i c m ^ F ^ t h Sf Jul v picmcs
pteme r ourtn ot July pitmcs
enough to show themselves for and covered it thickly Such”a
several days The little resort cave looked like a great grassy
was always crowded to over mound with a door on the north
flowing on the Fourth Hun side The temperature in such a
dreds of kids, and all with their cave if it was covered with
bag
of
fire w o rk s ,
w ere enough earth was usually about
a‘* menled b> a steeP‘> r,slnK 50 degrees
When evening
ridge acruss ttw n v e r whlch came' there were ®as h« hts-
was done on a
t ®ave
m ai1 ec^ ° louder than and the cooking
«■»
bang itself
gas range Everybody had gas
The fam ily picnic tables were in Pennsylvania, but electricity
St>' up
-v ard Several d,dn 1 comt‘ to the rural Parts
'* a‘ ‘‘rm e‘«ns‘ ^ose tog long until the R E A days of the
dark green ones which were 1930's
n
n> R x»r ' were «wash in the spnng We much since then Picnic food is
a pretty good sized n v e r
y
upon t0 turn tbt, (h
Then
picnics
normal summer days were crank on the ,ce cream freezer were had by families Sn
filled with fishing, swimming,
and canoeine On the Fourth '
* hat seemed an ln hom»‘ grounds of the relative
though all these p X . t e X r e term indabk t,me awa> from lh«« bad the most available
make noise
There was always nlentv of
company for a buf
faSulv
pan.
lor a big
family
picnic Most of the youngsters
had picked up a little money
e a rlie r
I had m ine fro m
picking sour cherries and
selling bait to fishermen
My carefully saved hoard
would have been spent about
the second of the month for a
bag full of Chinese firecrackers,
salutes, torpedos, Rom an
candles, pinwheels fountains,
and skyrockets On the third
day of the month, a launching
Actually, each 01 us were
re<’ uired to Put ,n about ten
minutes at
task There was
no running wate r -m y chore
why the clan always gathered
at our place on the Fourth of
JuJy
Day Now the
,dea for a picnic is to go off to
was to carry water from the
spring to the cottage There
was no electricity, but there
was an icebox in the kitchen
Much too small an icebox to
begin to accom odate the
potato salad, deviled eggs,
cold pop. and all the other food
that had to be kept cold As
relatives arrived, all that food
had to be carried out to a cave
someplace i / the backward It
someplace in the National or
state Forests
There are no fireworks for
kids to fire off all day, only the
capgun
rem ain s
legal
fireworks for the ordinary boy
citizen When the picnic food is
consumed, all that remains is
(0 juke, fish, or sit around the
picnic table and talk You put
ajj the food and gear in the car,
aboard a" d
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By 9 a m the dog would have convenienMiarik v°u dug the
< Post photo disappeared:
i
in fact, all the cave
and huiit inside the
dogs along the n v e r would have hole If you had no bank, you
disappeared. Some of them huiit the room below grade and
would not get over the shock hauled a great heap of earth
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Column Comments
By Clayton S. Wills
Extension Agent
The beautiful woods of Camp
Colton have echoed to the
sounds of children's voices and
tramping feet during the past
two weeks of 4-H summer
camp
About 400 9-13 year old
youngsters from every com-
Hatfield cites
more funding
for rural areas
Sen M a rk H a tfie ld said
Tuesday,
June
26,
th at
agriculture budget additions
S
X
S
A gnaSS?
.
uy uie senate Agriculture
Appropriations subcommittee
in rural Oregon
A m em ber of the sub
committee, Hatfield said he
will work for retention of the
additions when the full Ap
p ro p r ia tio n s
C o m m itte e
reviews the budget bill
A total of $30 million was
added for the FHA Rural Water
and Sewer program The Ad-
rv,
p U J . • ,
m inutration budget included
_ h H a tfie ld called
the
n Z ? r7 , n l ? r reV
Za Ofl
,,F
. re8 ° y'
sought m o r T f ¿ X ' f o r thu
c ritic a l program
yet Ad-
m inistrario n ^b u dg et^cutters
continue to act 8as if the
not exist ” Hat-
?r<5
/
nOt eX18t’’ Hat
.“ “ ,d .
.
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Without adequate sewers
and
new
economic
op-
portumties we cannot stem the
migration of sma 1 town Oregon
residents to our larger cities,"
he said
__
Hatfield added $160,000 to the
budget fo r increased hor-
tic u ltu re research at the
Corvallis LSDA laboratory as
w ell us $41,800 fo r pear
pathology research at the Hood
R iv e r
USDA
a g ric u ltu re
research station
Funding for the Pendleton
USDA soil and water research
station for fiscal year 1974 will
be increased $86,100, bringing
the funding level to $307,500
Hatfield said the school milk
program w ill receive $70
million in added funds
munity in Clackamas County
have eiyoyed a wide range of
fun and educational activities
while attending the annual 4-H
summer camp
The camp (¿rectors were 4-H
Agents, Laurel Stulken and
Tom Zurcher Besides their
leadership, the volunteer help
of B ill Headnck. Beavercreek,
and
M a ria n
Beasley,
Clackamas, helped make the
camping program work These
people provide the experience
to keep an operation this large
moving smoothly In addition,
40 high school age counselors
and Registered Nurse, Nancy
Schwarts, were at the camp at
all times
An “bserv allon I made whlle
attending camp last week was
seriousness shown by these
voung counselors for d
a
* rriv e ' * * *
iood ® ln * * *
camP lcebox
is the camp
° VC l °
h0< f0od
more enterprising also have
lawn chairs and chaises to
unfold and set up Packing all
that stuff and getting there has
consumed a goodly part of the
day
No one goes far from the
table as the eating part of the
picnic is at hand already Some
never stray too far from the
picnic table as hunger returns
often on a picnic The fisher
man in the crowd usually
disappears shortly after the
food is on the table and won't
be seen ag ain u ntil the
prearranged time to leave
The kids will play in the
creek, or swim in the lake If
you go to a park with a con
cessionaire. probably there will
be water craft of various sorts
to rent, ice cream in various
forms to buy, and of course,
pop The trimmings are dif
ferent but the basic picnic
remains the same A lot of
people get a lot of enjoyment
out of a picnic The basic part,
the core about which a picnic
revolves
is the
a m e -th
e largi
revolves is
the s
same—
the
large
picnic table with the food
Watermelon is still the f r u it
ex c e T n c e X a m c m c ^ o S o
the salad or separate
always there
Fireworks are still the idea of
the Fourth, but are in the hands
of
c iv ic
or
p riv a te
organizations with permission
to use them
Thus, the
i ire works are
a gigantic
gigantic
fireworks
are on
on a
scale, set off on an organized
program for an assemhled
W
assembled
audience A fter your Fourth of
a s h e r e i a t e s <*
0WT1 age ,n a
camping July Picnic, hie yourself either
situation This is one of the homeward to Sandy or to some
other place which has such a
measurable, direct benefits of
fireworks presentation m°
Each
re
year these displays get more
Voun4sters alao have a chancc spectacular and longer The
S assume responsibility for night sky is filled with the
C ^ ning
qii ari ! ? and eo,ored brainstorms of the
aj , of the 8 e are U ught b we U.
quai,fied vojunteers
As the 1973 camping season
for 4.H members comes to a
cloBe a tired and 80lled group
of yOungsters will return to
their homes with a better ap-
p reciatio n of those about
th e m -a n d of themselves
pyrotechnic expert
The
complied with
SANDY FABRIC CENTER’S
40% Off
4th of July - 4 Hour Sale
Monday, July 2nd 12 noon - 4 p.m
40%
off regular price
Plaid I Printed S aa rM o k a rt
Sprint Cottons
Eyalats
Ginghams
Fiockad Ginghams
Scraan Prints
Dottad Swiss
Fiockad Voilas
Nylon Jarsays
Cotton Knits
Polyostor Doublo Knits
4 HOURS OHLY
12 Noon ’til 4 p.m.
MONDAY, JULY 2nd
Closed M o n d a y m orning to
213 W. PROCTOR
prepare for sale
Use your
668-5350
old
time skyrocket with its single
puff of a galaxy of stars _
replaced with the aerial bomb
which explodes with such great
fancies of golden showers, blue
stars, fiery red sunbursts, and
combinations which defy the
imagination I do miss the fiery
tail of the ascending skyrocket,
and that breathless moment of
anticipation wondering when it
was going to reach the lim it of
its ascent and puff forth its
cargo of wonder
Jaycees say no hair
means jail July 4
Sandy residents are hereby
The Jaycee
W hiskerino
forwarned that any male adult contest will be held during
citizen, without either a beard Centennial weekend, on August
or a Jaycee Shaving perm it,
11, from 1 00 p m to 2 :00 p m ,
will risk being incarcerated in a at Sandy High
special ‘‘ja il’' during Wed
A special 10 minute " ja il"
nesday’s Fourth of July ac will also be held July 22, at
t i v it i e s
S a n d y -H o o d la n d
noon, to 3 30, at the Oral Hull
Jaycees a re p re p a re d to Foundation's Barbeque, at the
The builders board of the "arrest" any violaters.
Oral Hull P ark Proceeds from
State D e p a rtm e n t of C om
The Jaycees are selling the the sale of the permits will go to
m erce has announced th a t Centennial shaving permits for
the Jaycee group
persons doing work on homes those who wish to remain clean
must be registered with the shaven, instead of growing a
Oregon Builders Board
beard or mustache for the
The board has contracted C entennial
o oo
N on-w hiskered
with special investigators to individuals may obtain their
Between 1960 and 1972 the
contact builders throughout the shaving permits (for $D at the number of blacks in the U.S
state to d e te rm in e if the Sandy Rexall Drugs, Sandy population, age 14 to 24, grew
Homebuilder's Law, which was Rocket Station, or from a from 3,300,000 to 5,800,000, or
from 12 per cent to 14 per cent I
effective July, 1872, is being Jaycee member
All builders
must register
examples of the two new trucks which are
expected to be delivered late in December
Both have I.(NW gallons of water hauling
ability and will replace IMS and IM I rigs
which have a combined water hauling
ability of 4M gallons according to fire
chief Bob Rathke.
ground
was asked to make a case study
of a p a rtic u la r in d iv id u a l
within his cabin, observing him
and the changes that have
taken place during his week of
cam ping M a n y youngsters
C<i nl (rorn home situations
* h,ch Prov,de
°PPortunity
ior seM expression At camp a
youngster ma v ‘find himself ’
P make the camp
" « “monthly
Some of the crafts and skills
laught ,nclude 8W im m jng
archery, forestry practices, fly
tying and other
crafts
VOTERS A PPR O VED a $ 190.WMI bond
isNur for the Sandy Rural Eire District this
spring which included funds to purchase
two new pumper trucks Tuesday night the
fire board awarded the low bid on the two
trucks to Western States F ire Apparatus,
Inc. Pictured above and below are
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ENTER
N
O
W
:
ALL ENTRANTS MUST BE GIRLS 3 to 12 TEARS
OF AGE. LIVIN G IN THE SANDY AREA.
The city of Sandy it celebrating its Centennial on Aug. 10 11 and 12th
and we d like to have . Little Mitt Oregon Trail Saving,' r e p rin tin g u.
during the celebration . . . and the big parade'
The Queen and her 4 prince,, a t will be choten Saturday, Aug 4th at 2 d m
m the Sandy High School caf.tonum . . . to you mutt a n ,., ! Ow
or
before July 16th by depotitmg coupon below at our Oregon Trail Sandv
Branch, Corner Cherry and Proctor.
“■"uy
Judging will be on the bat., of the mott original Centennial Costume and
judging will be final.
. . . SO ENTER NOW AND HAVE FUN A T THE FESTIVITIES AND R in iw r
THE OREGON TR A IL SAVINGS FLOAT
ND R ID IN G
JUST FILL OUT TNE ATTACNEO COUPON AND BRING TO
OREGON TRAIL SAYINGS SANDY BRANCH NO LATER
THAN JULY 10, 1073
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