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Sen. Cook considers State Sen Vem Cook, D- G resham , ca lle d a press conference in Portland Wed nesday (today) and announced he would be a candidate for either U. S. Senator or for governor. Cook calls this the "season of in d e c is io n " as numerous persons have been mentioned as candidates, but they hesitate to make commitments He intimated that what Bob Straub or Bob Duncan decide to do w ill affect his decision on which race to enter. 000 Wahvr C. Taylor. Laa Irwin, Ca • Publisher* Thomas C Taylor. Editor Entered at the Post Office at Sandy, Clackamas County, Oregon, as second class matter under the Act cf Congress of March, 1879. Member of Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and National Editorial Association Published every Thursday by Outlook Publishing Co., P.O. B om 68, Sandy, Oregon 97055 668 5548 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Annual Subscription in Clackamas In United States.......... ..................... $7.00 and Multnomah Counties............... $5.00 Servicemen and Women ...................... $5.00 Elsewhere in Oregon.......................... $5.50 Angry or impatient drivers cause accidents. So, play it cool, control your emotions and probably your fa m ily ’s future. SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOV. 8, 1973 Csll the Best All Types of TV and Electronic Service for East County residents Eastm ont TV R C A Sales 665 7212 18400 S.E. Division I ► By Ace Reid CO W POKES Engineers Absence Noted We agree with the dissatisfaction which several Sandy city council m embers expressed over the absence of city engineer Martin Boatwright. His absence or that of a member of his firm, Boatwright Engineering, has been obvious at many council meetings in the past year. The need for the city engineer to be in attendance is becoming greater each meeting as the council faces problems and questions which only an engineer can handle. This is especially true of questions relating to the expansion of the city’s w ater and sewer services. Maybe the engineer would not have to attend all council meetings, but the regularly scheduled monthly council meeting should be a must. This meeting is held the first Monday of each month at 8 p.m. in the city hall. B oatw right E n g in eerin g has provided the city with good service in the past, but because the firm is located out of Salem there often has been a communications problem between the council and the engineering firm. This has been helped with the ad dition of city adm inistrator Carl Hatfield, but as Monday night’s m eeting proved, the council is stymied on many issues without the attendance of the engineer. The council needs to work out a solution with Boatwright to this communications problem. It had better be done now, the role of the city engineer is increasing each day in city business. Sandy Chamber Not Alone The Sandy A rea C ham ber of Commerce is not the only Oregon cham ber thinking of a design theme for its city. The Dalles Chamber of Commerce announced this week it is considering changing the name of the city to Fort Dalles. Also, the city would adopt the theme of an old western town with all buildings being rem odeled and designed to meet this theme. The Sandy chamber is serious in its thinking, but no definite plans have been made concerning a them e for the city. It appears that after the first of the year, the chamber will go to the Sandy residents to gain support and selection will then be m ade con cerning a design theme. Tri-Met and Friends Tri-M et (th e Tri-C ounty Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon) is getting its share of the front page lately, and then some. First off, County Commissioner Mel Gordon unloads a six-page, single spaced, letter on Tri-Met culminating with the suggestion that perhaps the Metropolitan Service District should take over Tri-Met. Then, Tri-Met board mem ber John Piacentini suggests that toll stations be installed on all cross-Willamette bridges in Portland (except Sellwood and St. Johns) with the loot thus collected given to Tri-Met. Finally, Tri-Met board m em bers clash about a response to Gordon. Tri-Met, of course, was created by the legislature to bail out Portland's ailing Rose City Transit. It was empowered to levy several different types of taxes—without any prior voter approval—and picked a tax on employers with which to finance its operations. We've always been critical of Tri- Met because of its taxing power; we simply don’t buy tax programs im posed without vote of the people. LETTERS M a il TO THi®JB O E D IT O R ^ To the Editor: A, this time we would like to thank M r Gary Sandblast and his grade school students for th e ir fin e and much ap preciated fireworks display Without the assistance of Mr Sandblast and his students, the 1973 Sam Barlow Homecoming w ould have been less memorable. It is with pleasure that the students at Sam Barlow High compliment a fine member of the Sandy community. Thank you very much Gary Sandblast Sincerely Yours. Sam Barlow Student Body To the Editor: We would like to give special thanks to many parents and teachers whose tim e and ef forts made our Halloween fun night a success We’ve also c ritic iz e d Tri-M et routings as oriented with but one thought—to get people into downtown Portland. A person who wants to go from south to north, for instance, can forget about Tri-Met; you just have to settle for east to west. But we don’t think Tri-Met is at all as unresponsive as Commissioner G ordon indicates. Our b u sin ess doesn’t lend itself to bus riding—it would be pretty hard to cover a fire or an auto accident by bus—but Tri-Met hasn’t been all that bad on those few occasions we did try. Would Tri-Met be any better off under a Metropolitan Service District approach as Gordon suggests? We doubt it. After all, MSD doesn’t have much of a track record itself, being largely moribund since voter refusal to provide funds for its operation. Finally, Gordon criticizes Tri-Met for trying to make a profit. . .i.e., to demand as little as possible in taxes. If only a few more governmental agencies tried to break even, we’d be happy. Otherwise, someday the well just might run dry. D Boring area slates m eet on planning A meeting is set for Nov. 13 to The candy used as prizes was discuss planning in the Boring donated by fiv e generous area at the Boring Fire Hall, businesses from the Sandy- The meeting w ill begin at 7:30 Kelso area. p m Our p rin c ip a l, M r Car This meeting is part of the penter. both participated and planning being done on the gave us moral support proposed Boring-Sandy land The help given by policeman use plan Dave Farm er, Dan MacDonald All residents of the Boring and Scout Troop 176 was very area are urged to attend this much appreciated meeting and help begin the Thank you, work on this plan Sandy Intermediate Grades PTA WEATHER 0 00 H L Pr. Nearly half of all adults Oct. 31 «0 44 .49 responding to a recent national Nov. 1 53 a .32 survey said they had been Nov. 2 l a a (M turned down for a job because Nov. 3 47 33 .96 of epilepsy These findings, Nov. 4 46 36 .17 according to the President’s Nov. 5 a 35 .11 Committee on Employment of Nov. 6 II 35 .31 the Handicapped, underscore The T routdale station the neea to r gre ate r un readings are made by 5:30 p.m. derstanding by employers for the worker with epilepsv The Buck: "And that's m ig hty good fo r this la te in the season." "Jake, you better be glad that when you let this expensive colt buck through the fence he d id n 't g it blemished! Mt. Hood plans bond vote Mt Hood Community College plans a $6.3 m illion bond issue to complete its campus. D r E arl L. Klapstein, college president, said Tuesday he would make the proposal to the college board Wednesday, Nov. 14. The vote is scheduled for Feb 19 next year. The bond issue would provide funds to complete the remaining 25 per cent of the campus w ithin the next four years, Klapstein said. Mt. Hood’s 1972-73 tax rate was $2.03 per $1,000 valuation jQüèM tolte FcMoÎ To the E ditor: Once on the back street of a small California town, sat the Mission Santa Inez; indeed that was the name ftf the town! Peaceful and lovely! Then some innovator without an original idea in his brain except coils of dollar signs and a planning com m ission, decided to put false fronts on all the b u ild in g s, tu rn in g it “ D an ish ” and renam ed it Solvang! Now the Mission is forgotten on a side street while Bermuda- shorted young men escaping from their gray flannel suits, buy Apricot wine to satisfy their m aterialistic desire for anything strange, foreign, or novel! Solvang is as phoney as a B a varian v illa g e named Sandy! When a nation goes bankrupt spiritually and economically, then as a last resort, it turns desperately to T o u ris m —as Europe has! No one knows where the “ o ld " ends and the “ new-old” begins! World’s Fairs are another way of ja c k in g up the economy—usually ending in the “ re d ” —they s tirre d people around the country to spend money! W hile the p o litic ia n s get richer and more corrupt, the sm a ll business people are urged to tourism! How about cutting off foreign aid that make rich political “ contacts” with John Doe’s taxes? The heritage of Santa Inex was Spanish, not Danish! Why must Americans adopt a sub culture to im itate when she is unique in herself? (Albeit she is a dying giant.) What if the Warm Springs Indians had decided to reject their own culture and put in a western town complete with saloon girls? (Come to think of it, though, each and every Indian of the three tribes gets $60 a month, the planning board all have about $50,000 push button homes, so maybe they have!) Like TV I begin to wonder if there’s an original idea left! You could make every store front a green dollar sign with a Statue of Liberty in a man made lake and boat trips to it every hour! Idaho could make every store-front a spud, too— french fry, tater tot, etc., etc. Most Americans have mixed heritage— we re hash browns and it has been good for America and we re proud of it! My maternal grandma was brought as a c h ild from Cambourne, C ornw all Her father, Grandpa Pridieaux (a Norm an got in there somewhere) was a tin streamer, panning for ore in the riv e rs . When the ore petered out and the mines went underground and conditions became unbearable he came to America, land of Hope! Today C a m b o u rn e manufactures pottery! Do read D aphne D u M a u r ie r ’ s “ Vanishing Cornwall” if you wish to learn what tourism is doing to it! My maternal grandfather's parents fled Germany during a Pogrom to Basle, Switzerland. Obviously they didn’t like Swiss B a v a ria n , fo r they moved to Hamilton, Ontario to a homestead (Uncle Gottlieb s till lives in the original dirt- floor cabin); to an Amish Community in Pennsylvania. My Gramp ended up in M in nesota! A ll his brothers, and two sisters were named Amish- style from the Old Testament; Jacob, Meno, Manasseh, Solomon. Leah, Anna! My paternal Grandmother came with refugee parents to the F rench R evolution (a Duke) and settled in Troix Rieviers, Quebec. Grandmere’ could copy any garment and hat When they moved to Lowell, Mass., then to Hurley, W is., she sewed fo r the madams, no less, to keep her fam ily alive! Hurley was a wild one! My paternal grandfather was a French-Kanuck (Indian mix to you!) HASH BROWNS! My husband's grandparents were P olish fro m the old country My mother-in-law for years had a wonderful Polish root that made a poultice that healed long standing varicose ulcers! My d a u gh te r-in -la w is E nglish and p a rt N avaho! Every American is keen! Now what heritage would you adopt for Sandy? Migrant? Mexican? A frican’’ Disneyland Mountain? Pixieland? Horse- thieves? W ill the Pionaires become Swiss Yodelers? What a bore! Good-by Sandy! Sincerely, Mrs P. J. Bernard Rt. 1, Box 498 Sandy, Ore. P S I'm glad all the Swedes in Grand Rapids, Minn left it resort county and lakes and resisted a Swedish Village! It was a “ H am let on the M ississippi!” P S.S Talk to some MHCC kids in the C re ative A rts classes ages 29 on down, they’ll tell you what they think of what's happening to Sandy! and its current rate is $1.82. If the bond issue passes, the tax levy would be approximately $1.91. The rate would fu lfill the promise by the college when it started that the tax rate would remain between $1.50 to $2.50 per $1,000 The funds would be used to construct additions to the allied health center at the north end of the campus It would house an expanded medical, dental and nursing p ro gram , most of which are currently offered. Presently these departments are operating largely from trailers and modules. Also to be constructed is a Your valuables are safe and unblemished in a Safety Deposit Box at OUR BANK. »I COUNTY BANK lN t> e P £ N O £ N T K com plex of vo catio na l- technical buildings. Mt. Hood now has slightly more than one-half of its 10,000 students enrolled in its 50 vo- tech programs. Also planned is a college- community heated swim pool. 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