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SAN DY, OREGON, T H U R S D A Y , A PR IL 4, 1974
A Crazy-Quilt Pattern
Damascus residents are unhappy
with their pattern of telephone ser
vice. Specifically, they don’t want to
pay long-distance tolls to call across
the street.
It’s a long-distance call to the
Boring Post Office, which serves the
Damascus area. It’s long distance to
Barlow High where the students go to
school. It’s long distance to Gresham
where much of their shopping is done.
They can call toll free to the distant
reaches of Portland but not across the
street.
Phone companies (General and
Continental are involved) offer little
sympathy. They’re generally opposed
to change and say they can’t do
anything about toll-free service
without Public Utility Commission
approval.
Persons who live in the Gresham or
Sandy exchanges have sim ilar
frustrations. If you want to call the
State Police, for instance, for a report
on road conditions at Mt. Hood, it’s a
long-distance call (to Milwaukie).
But if you want to know about road
conditions at Mt. Spokane, you can
call the Washington State Patrol toll-
free. They have a Portland number
(in Vancouver). It’s easier to get to
the Washington State Patrol than
Oregon’s.
Similarly frustrating are the toll
charges between Gresham area
phones and Corbett.
The telephone companies say that
service areas were established some
time ago by the PUC on the basis of
predicted future growth patterns.
Those patterns obviously have long
since been changed. The time for
another look is way overdue.
The Magic Circle
If tourism is your business, you
shouldn’t suffer this summer if you’re
within the “magic circle.”
At least that’s what the travel
experts are saying.
The “magic circle” is defined as
those areas which are within a half-a-
tank of gas of a major metropolitan
center. In other words, if a family can
make it to your place and back home
on »-full tank, you’re in clover.
\fueh of the Oregon Coast obviously
is within the “magic circle” from
Portland. So are the Cascades. Up
north, most of the Puget Sound
vacationland is reasonably close to
Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, B.
C.
A tank of gas would do the trick.
Tourists may not be as numerous.
there may not be as much traffic. But
those who do come, will stay longer.
They’ll do more vacationing close to
home, much less driving.
State parks, in particular, should do
a land-office business this summer.
Most are reasonably accessible and
offer inviting vistas.
Out-of-state visitors probably will
decrease in number sharply. The
gasoline shortage, while eased, ob
viously isn’t over.
What it really amounts to is that
more Oregon dollars will be spent in
Oregon, more California dollars in
California, etc. Unless you happen to
have a resort high in the Blue
Mountains or deep in southeastern
Oregon, the summer shouldn’t be too
bad.
HAPPY president
unhappy with OEC
Gus Turner, president of HAPPY, the
Hoodland organization which is espousing
“growth through planning” for the Mt.
Hood area, charged that Larry Williams,
executive secretary of the Oregon E n
vironm ental Council, did not tru ly
represent environmentalist opinion in his
opposition to Cedar Ridge released to last
week's Post.
“ Unless one knew otherwise, M r.
William's pronouncements in The Post
would lead one to believe he is the chceen
leader of all environmentalists in the state
and that his organization is somehow
connected with government agencies,”
M r Turner said. “ Nothing could be fur
ther from the truth.”
“Therefore his threat of court action,
should the County Commissioners carry
out their duty of reviewing the Cedar
Ridge proposal and approving it when they
find it complies with standards set by the
Mt Hood Comprehensive Plan, is an
empty one.”
final adoption of the Mt. Hood Plan when it
was before the Clackamas County Plan
ning Commission
“Such opposition to the plan,” said
Turner, “ was irresponsible and demon
strated clearly that he in no way
represents any but the most extreme
within the ranks of environmentalists.
“ We of H A P P Y —representing as we do
most of the responsible leadership in the
M t. Hood a re a —cannot ignore M r.
W illiam s’ published invitation to ‘move
back to Portland’ where he resides, simply
because we refuse to agree with his wild
distortions of what Cedar Ridge will do to
the area where we now all live,” Turner
explained.
He said to claim that his group is in
terested only in the economic aspects of
the proposal—in the growth and jobs it
would provide—is to ignore the fact that
HAPPY members were in the forefront of
the drive to gain “ planning for the en
vironmental protection” to help Hoodland
grow as spelled out in the M t Hood Plan.
Hood a rea developm ent to be requested
A request to build a planned unit
development consisting of 79 units on the
north side of Lolo Pass Road ap
proximately one mile east of
Aschoff
Road goes before the Clackamas County
Planning Commission on Tuesday
evening, April 9
The conditional use permit as requested
by Robert J. Nottingham, will house 53
individual homesites and 26 units of at
tached housing
Because of a lengthy agenda at last
week's meeting, the planning commission
was unable to hear Nottingham’s request
The proposed site is currently zoned as
Recreat ional Residential.
Sandy man among Oscar nominees
Among the Academy Award nominees
for the best song for 1973 was "Love" from
the movie Robin Hood, written by George
Bruns of Sandy The song was one of five
Oscar entries p erform ed during the
televised annual presentation Tuesday
night
t
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Bruns, a native of Sandy, works for the
Walt Disney studios in Hollywood, com
muting by plane from his Sandy home. A
former resident of Hollywood, Bruns
moved back to Sandy two years ago with
his family.
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Don't we all?"
LETTERS ToThe EDITOR
To the Editor:
The C om m unity
Action
Council, Inc. of the Eagle Creek
and Barton area w ill be hosting
a public meeting April 8, 1974,
7:30 p.m. at the Eagle Creek
Grade School.
meeting will be held to
discuss the pros and cons of the
necessity of the Mt. Hood
Freeway to serve our area. We
suggest th a t a ll interested
parties, pro and con, be present
at the meeting. There will be a
detailed presentation of the
need of the M t. Hood Freeway
given at the meeting.
The C om m unity
Action
Council encourages the citizens
of our area to become involved
in all facets of the land use and
community planning of this
area.
Respectfully,
George Benshoof
President of Community
Action Council
To the Editor:
Once again 01’ Bill holds the
pack at bay through sheer
talent and reportorial ability
that nicely separates the men
from the boys (and the girls.)
C ongratulations
to
M r.
Steubs for having had a letter
printed! Perhaps he will feel
better now knowing that all of
this time he has not been
discriminated against by the
press.
In all fairness to M r. Steubs
he provided me with the best
laugh at the Cedar Ridge
hearing that I have enjoyed
since reading M r. Blaisdell's
letter written some time ago
wherein he stated that there
'were also opossums and skunks
on the proposed Cedar Ridge
site.
Now if we can just find an
AArdvark -----------------
M. Kasper
1725 N E 64th Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97213
To the Editor:
I realize it’s best to "let
sleeping dogs lie” , so it is with
some trepidation that I request
just one small favor. I wonder if
you could persuade 01' Bill to
just poke his head . . . not his
hat, over the top of that big
stump for about five seconds.
I also realize I risk incurring
the wrath of Ms. Fielding,
whom it appears has fallen in
love.
Fran Northrup
Rhododendron
To the Editor:
Bob Cook stated in a reply to
the charge made by M r.
Richard La Manna, financial
secretary for the Brotherhood
of Carpenters local 1388, that he
certainly has no quarrel with
the Carpenters Union on the
purchase of an acre tract on the
County Red Soil Land.
The problem stems from the
method used by Commissioner
Schum acker
and
C om
missioner Stefani in completing
t
this transaction. In th e ir
resolution, dated March 18,
1974, No. 74-362, they stated and
I quote, "The above described
real property is not now needed
for public use by Clackamas
County and it now appears to
business, it shouldn't surprise
anyone to some day find our
County Court House sold on the
block for a small fraction of its
cost without any prior public
notice.
Bob Cook
the best interest of Clackamas
County to sell at private sale
To the Editor:
such real property."
One of the main issues in the
This statement is such a
fabrication that it is hard to Jennings Lodge realtor Bob
believe that they would use it as Cook’s election campaign for
an excuse to sell such badly position two on the Clackamas
Board
of
C om
needed county ground. At the County
missioners will be the recent
rapid pace of county growth,
the land now available at the sale of an acre of county owned
Red Soil Complex w ill be in land to a Carpenters’ local for
short supply to m eet the $12,000.
Cook objects to what he
demands for building and
parking requirements needed terms the “ mder-the-table”
to support the additional county approach to the sale of a tract,
located south of the Clackco
services.
When we hear that these Federal Credit union in the
same County Commissioners county complex. If the county
have been advocating purchase determined the land should be
of the Butter building and the sold, then Cook feels the
transaction should have been
First National Bank building at
price estimates of up to a publicized in order to assure
quarter of a million dollars or competitive bids.
Cook sees the sale as an
more and then adding the
fantastic renovation cost to example of a “ bandaid” ap
proach to planning and may
improve those properties with
hamper future expansion of
no adequate parking facilities
county offices.
a v a ila b le , it seems highly
irregular to call the taxpayers
land on Warner-Milne Road
Robert F. Quigley
surplus. L a rg e am ounts of
Chairman
money such as this could be
more wisely spent in building Cook for County Commissioner
Committee
additional properly planned
facilities needed on this Red
Soils Complex.
Again quoting the W rit Order
No. 74-362, it states as follows
“This Board has caused an
appraisal of said real property
to be made by the Dept. of
Public Works of Clackamas
County and such appraisal
report has been made to this
board to the effect that the
above - described real property
has a true market value of
tw elve
thousand
dollars
$12,000.”
This again raises a question
as to how they justified the
$12,000 true market value price.
S im ply by checking com
parable sales in the area the
tax assessors office would have
given them much better in
formation. In a quick check for
a comparison in the area, I
found a transaction for ap-
p roxim atey one acre tra c t
directly across the street from
the county land. P ortlan d
G eneral E le c tric purchases
this tra c t from the F irs t
Presbyterian Church of Oregon
City on Jan. 7,1974, for the sum
of $20,000. Almost two months
later, the county sells a similar
one acre parcel for $12.000. This
leaves considerable doubt that
this appraisal is true market
value It will be interesting to
check the assessors tax ap
praisals that will be made on
this one acre trace in the near
future
If
our
guardians
of
Clackamas County taxpayers'
money are in whosesale land
-
'M r. Officer, how do you treat fellers that owe more
than $3.78?"
If you have
problems, you will
get good treatm ent
if you come see us.
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