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.
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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
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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
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Nearly half of all adults
Oct. 31
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responding to a recent national Nov. 1
53 a .32
survey said they had been
Nov. 2
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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
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