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Thun , D m . 13. 1973 (Sac. 1» SAMOY (Ora.) POST - 21 IM M W M M M M W M W M M ' County IED gets audit report okay B y G eorge M acA levy The Lodge Chapter 4. When Tony entered the Lodge accompanied by Nat and Phil, there were several of the members in the great hall. A couple of the women im mediately rushed over to greet the new arrival Nat performed the introductions “This is Tony, ladies. Tony, I ’ll turn you over to Sally here and she can show you around.’’ Tony turned to Nat, “Thank you Nat, you’ve been very kind and thoughtful.’’ N a t blushed and turned away. He had been quite taken with Tony from the moment he first saw her. He felt he knew the questions and doubts that were going through her head He hoped Sally would not be too mysterious. Sally was a short vivacious woman She had arrived some time ago together with her husband, Vance. They were a professional fishin g-w riting team who had wandered into the valley from Vermont’s Battenkill river The pair were as opposite as the poles. Sally of our being is so strong it was an animated extrovert who supercedes any patterns newly talked a lot to everybody, yet formed in others. Your pattern of yourself, N a t, is your never seemed a nuisance. Vance, on the other hand, was strongest p a tte rn .” Vance paused, thinking, ‘I wonder if I definitely the strong silent type who said little most of the time am helping or confusing Nat ’ Vance returned from his unless it was important. Vance thoughts “ This is all my had a peculiar philosophy about theory, Nat. I can't prove it, nor things that intrigued Nat. do I have any great desire to With Tony in Sally’s hands, prove it. It explains this valley Nat felt the need to talk with to me in part, and the people in somebody so he sought out it, in part. I have told all this to Vance. Something Vance had you with the idea it might help said about substance at break you to adopt my theory, or to fast that morning had been lead you to a theory of your going through his head all own.” afternoon. He nad noted in the " I appreciate your telling me walk up the Valley from the Hut all this, Vance. It does sort of to the Falls, that Phil did not explain a few things.” seem to be seeing the same Both men sat silently for a things he did. Nat would like to time, before Nat spoke again. get Vance talking about that. “ By the way, Vance, we picked He found Vance in the library up a new member todav. A very reading. “Hi Vance, can I attractive lady. At least she bother you a little.’’ “Sure Nat, something on your mind?” ’ ♦ “ V ince, you stated at break M«hst4h«e was W By jX c ifp A R S O k S * state of mind, and then you shut up and Hidn't say any more. I Extension Agent didn't think anything more New technology is the about it until around noon when we passed a group of tall Black ingredient th at contributes Cottonwoods up near the Falls. most to increasing productivity I remarked to Phil how pretty and efficien cy of our industry in that grove of trees was. He a g ric u ltu ra l answered by saying that he had Clackam as County. A day always thought those Yellow never goes by that I do not have Poplars w ere im a new idea or information pressive. Vance, there wasn’t a crosses my desk that poten tially may favorably affect the Yellow Poplar in sight!” “ Nat, you are slowly lear production of some h or ning. I think I have learned ticultural crops. A few years ago the idea of rather fully. At least to my satisfaction, I understand this drip (trickle) irrigation of field valley. It all has to do with your grown crops began to receive concept of substance. You have attention. Drip irrigation had your idea of substance, but I ’ll been used in greenhouse crops bet you can’t define it simply.” for many years but no one could “ If I can feel it with my see a practical application to hands, see it, hear it, smell it, field grown horticultural crops. or taste it, I say it has sub Presently there are dozens of stance, whatever it is,” said different tyjjes of nozzles and water transmitting lines to fit Nat. “ And I d is a g re e ,” said practically any horticultural Vance. “Science has relegated crop and the idea is being everything; substance, energy, applied widely in field grown and most importantly your horticultural crops. Clackam as County sm all brain; to electrical particles. We cannot grasp an electrical fruits producers recently had particle as substance in itself. an opportunity to meet with Our thought processes are but M a rv in S hearer, OSU E x Mectrical energy flows. Could it tension Irrig a tio n Specialist not be that substance is just and view some of the new drip what these e le c tric a l irrigation equipment in use. discharges of ours desire it to D rip irrig a tio n is sim ply be. Our body is a concept we another method of moving have been trained to believe in water from a source to the since birth. The aging process plant roots and requires good is a process we have been management of the system in taught. You will realize Nat, order for it to be effective. It is that that will change here. Your perhaps the most efficient of body will age no more, but you our methods of applying water, will not change it into a younger but will not result in ex one. You are too comfortable in tra o rd in a ry yield increases it. You will not change your over present methods of concept of the Lodge either as irrigation, assuming of course it is already a comfort to you. that adequate water is being But what you see in the Valley applied w ith your present as a whole is what you want to system. Its efficiency is derived from see. It doesn’t look the same to any two of us. Certain places in the fact that all water which it seem the same when we are enters the system is conveyed there together These are the by plastic pipes and tubes to the things that we have known of in exact point where the plant the past so that the forming of roots use it most efficiently. the substance in thought is Also you are usually wetting easy. But two of us can be only the area where plant roots together and see d iffe re n t are concentrated In crops such things in the same place And a as tree fruits where plant year from now, you will not see spacing may be 15 to 30 feet the same things in the same between trees, only the areas under the trees are wet and a places that you saw today.” “ Let me see if I understand considerable area between the you," said Nat. “Do you mean rows remains dry. Thus less there is really no such thing as water per acre may be used but substance? That we are but not less water per tree Growers who have heard that bundles of electrical energy with no form, and that all we drip irrigation is cheaper than type irrig a tio n seem to see, feel or otherwise sp rin kler sense is nothing but patterns in systems may be in for a sur prise The coat naturally varies this energy?” "That is precisely what I between the different types of mean. Nat We, ourselves, will nozzles and water cooveying not be changeable in each systems used, and is also in others eyes because the energy fluenced by row spacing of e q u ip m e n t The 1972-73 audit report for a u d io v is u a l the Clackamas County IE D was re p a ire d ; special education recently submitted to the Board programs; data processing; of D irectors, according to and consultant services in the Verne A Duncan, IE D areas of curriculum planning, finance, c a re e r superintendent Kent & Snow, school the accounting firm responsible education, testing and outdoor for the audit, congratulated the educaton, to name a few a tri-county IE D staff on “good budgeting" Through p u rc h a s in g and improved internal controls c o o p e ra tiv e over cash receipts and program, Clackamas County schools may acquire school disbursements. IE D officials also announced supplies at a substantial this week that the 1973-74 IE D savings due to a competitive tax rate has decreased from bidding system . The IE D $3 20 to $2 99 per $1,000 of handles the entire purchasing assessed valuation The largest procedure, from ordering to portion ($2.55) of the delivery. The Clackamas County IE D Clackamas County IE D levy is used for the equalization fund offices are located at 1197 7th which is distributed to the local St. in Oregon City and are open school districts and used to to the public from 8 a m to 5 reduce their tax levies The p m weekdays. remaining $.44 is used for the IE D operation. The Intermediate Education District is the middle unit between the Oregon Board of Education and the school Pvt. Rick L. Hottman, 19, son d is tric ts of the county. It of Bobby L. Hottman, Rt, 1, carries out certain functions Sandy, com pleted a power for the schools as required by generation course at the U S. state law, but exists prim arily Army Engineer School, F t to provide services to the local Belvoir, Va. schools. In most cases, these The course is designed to services result from request by train personnel in the operation the schools for program s, and maintenance of hand and specialized personnel or other power tools, gasoline and diesel he didn't help. “ OK Nat, I ’ll see projects which the schools - for engines, and various electric what I can do. I am sure Sally economic or other reasons - generators. Students also will be as intrigued as 1 am. could not individually offer receive a working knowledge of We ll fix it up.” These include an in the installation, operation and ( To be continued structional materials center m aintenance of portable from time to time) where the schools may borrow generating equipment. films, records, tapes and have Shaft . . . V is it us now, w * have a fabulous collection of unique and unusual gifts from around the w o rld , in cluding music boxes from S w itzerland, w ood carvings, stems, copper, brass, bells, etc. I t ’s a delightful e x perience. C om e browse and shop. GIFT SH OP Weekdays 10 to 8 Weekends 9 to 8 Dec. 14 to Dec. 24 Daily 9 to 9 663 3511 Hottman gets training f *v t seemed very attractive to me. Her name is Tony. I turned her over to Sally just before I came in here looking for you. I had an ulterior motive.” “ Do you mean you weren’t really interested in what I had to say about substance?” Nat was flustered. “ Oh no, I don’t mean that. I was really concerned about that too. It is just that this seemed to be an opportune time to get your aid in another direction also. I ’d like to get to know this Tony better. Since it is your Sally that has her in tow, it should be easy for you to arrange a little private dinner for the four of us. It takes too long getting acquainted in a crowd.” Vance was amused. It had been a long time since he had watched love bloom from its beginnines. N a t’s apparent shyness could be an obstacle if Heidi’s Swiss Village IN C O R P O R A T E D Mt. Hood Frwy. between Gresham and Sandy Column Comments crops. In an orchard crop where row spacings are perhaps 30 feet, the per acre cost might be $150 while in a vegetable field at close row spacing the cost might exceed $2,000 per acre. Other factors to consider are value of crops being grown, cultural practices that may be performed by drip irrigation, amount of irrigation water available, labor availability, purity of water, topography of area, etc. So you see, drip irrigation is not as simple as it first sounded. Drip systems operate at relatively low water pressures and therefore require precise engineering for each field and crop on your farm. This will be especially true in C lackam as County because so many of the berry fields and orchards ard planted on sloping or rolling land. Research efforts a re un derway in Oregon to learn more about the application of water through drip systems on various h o rtic u ltu ra l crops. The branch exp erim ent stations involved are located at M edford, Hood R iv e r and Aurora. Last year Dr. Lloyd Martin, superintendent of the North Willamette Experiment Station at Aurora gathered information from blackberries grown under drip irrigation. 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