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M ayor and wife earn leisure
Couple plans to enjoy retirement
everyone else. We enjoyed
moved again,” laughed Mrs
ourselves.”
Haneberg
One particularly memorable
In any case, the newcomers
were far too busy to consider occasion was his sister's
moving from the house which is wedding, which was so special
still standing, once they were that the young Melvin was
established in the small required to wear shoes.
“ In those days, you went
community at the end of the
Portland Railway Light and barefoot ’till they roped you
and shoed you,” Haneberg
Power line
“ On Siaidays, the family was recalled “They caught me in
always ready with plenty of the morning and put shoes and
food for v is ito rs ,” M rs. new black stockings on m e.”
Later, his mother thought of
Haneberg offered. "Hundreds
of people came out on the something she needed at the
Bull Run store, and sent her
railroad ”
The steady stream of city newly shod son walking after it.
"Y ou know a fte r going
people visiting each week,
enhanced the already full social barefoot, shoes chafe,” con­
tinued Haneberg " I should
life of the small community.
“ I think back on it, we were have taken the shoes off
as poor as church mice,” because I wore a blister on my
smiled Haneberg. “ but so was heel, and by the time I got
home, it was swollen and in­
fected They had to cut the shoe
off.”
An old Swedish frien d
recommended
fresh
cow
manure as a poultice for the
abused foot.
“ My brother filled a flour
sack with the cow manure, and
put my foot in it, and I sat
through the wedding that way.
By evening, it had drawn the
poison out.
“ That was quite a wedding' ”
His own wedding to school
teacher Etkia Dagsland wasn’t
to be for many years. Haneberg
met his bride-to-be
the
Christmas after her family
moved to Bull Run from
Washington, in 1930. She was
teaching in East Amwood,
Wash., and was home for the
holidays.
“ There was a New Y e a r’s
Eve dance, and my brothers
needled me about taking the
new
school
te a c h e r,”
remembered Haneberg, who
did just that.
“ We went together 13 years
before we got m arried,” said
Mrs Haneberg. “Our children
thought that was terrible.”
It wasn’t easy to get married
in those days, with the
depression on. The bride-elect
taught 15 years, much of that in
Washington schools before the
wedding in February of 1945.
Meanwhile, Mel Haneberg had
taken a job with the City of
Portland Water Bureau, and
entered the service in World
War n .
“ I had injured my back in the
war, and was in a convalescent
hospital in Modesto, Calif.”
Haneberg recalled. “We were
married in February and came
home in August.”
By that time, the new Mrs.
Haneberg had been teaching at
Bull Run after receiving an
offer she couldn’t refuse.
“ I had stayed home in 1942 to
help with the berries,” she
G A R D E N E R Haneberg shows off a special plant In well tended yard.
recalled. “ Bull Run offered me
(Post photo)
a job in the primary grades for
$1,000 less than I got at
Longview where I ’d been
teaching.”
She didki’t take it, but the
school board was persistent.
“ I was out in the rain one
d a y ,”
continued
M rs.
Haneberg, “when here came a
school board member offering
me a job for all eight grades at
the same salary I ’d been get­
ting. I took it.”
Teaching 32 students in all
eight grades didn't phase her
after her early years at East
Amwood where she “learned
the hard way.”
“ I t ’s kind of lonesome in the
smaller schools," commented
M rs
Haneberg, who ad­
mittedly preferred the larger
ones.
Since the beginning of her
teaching career in 1930, she has
taught off and on until her
retirem en t. D uring the off
years, she substituted 10 years
while the three Haneberg
children were young. After she
went back full time, she taught
first grade, the last four years
at Firwood
Edna and Mel Haneberg have
been busy all their lives, and
now that they are retired, they
are still busy.
Haneberg. mayor of Sandy,
retired from the City of Port­
land Water Bureau in M ay,
after almost 35 years His wife,
who has been with the Sandy
Elementary District 27 years,
taught her last day June 6
Both longtime residents of
the Sandy area, the Hanebergs
have many vivid memories of
life here in the early 1900’s.
“The roads were so bad then
we couldn’t get aro u n d ,’ ’
recalls Haneberg, who moved
to Sandy from Seattle at an
early age. “ We used the
railroads."
He has reason to remember
these railroads, which tran­
sported the Haneberg family
and their luggage to Bull Run,
but not at the same time.
"M y dad had gotten a job as a
millwright here, and sent for us
after he bought a little place on
the flum e,’’ Haneberg related.
"M y mother packed up our
things and shipped them off.
"The seven of us kids all
carried personal things on the
railroad to Bull Run For some
reason, the baggage went back
east, maybe to Bull Run,
Pennsylvania; seven months
later we got it !”
And they collected it on foot.
The roads in 1911 were indeed
so bad that a horse and buggy
couldn’t navigate the distance
between their home and the
railroed station
“ You can see why they never
“ I couldn't have asked for a
better place to teach than
Sandy,” she enthused.
Mel Haneberg looks back on
his years with the water bureau
just as fondly.
“ It was a wonderful job,”
smiled Haneberg, who spent
much of his time on the job at
the Bull Run watershed " I was
out in the woods most of the
time.
“When I started, there were
about ten miles of raod; now it
is more like 300,” he continued.
“ I ’ve driven as much as 100
miles a day, but there are some
roads I ’ve never driven I ’ve
seen the development of the
watershed."
Story and Photos
by Nancy Barker
Although retired from his
job, Haneberg is not retired as
mayor, which has been his title
since his appointment in 1969
when the elected m ayor,
Harold Edes moved to Canada.
He has been elected twice since
then. Will he run one more
time?
“ I really have not made up
my mind," he mused, “A lot
depends on how my retirement
turns out.
“ I have enjoyed it, but if
someone else is interested I ’d
step aside,” he added. “It has
been an interesting experience,
seeing the development of the
city.”
Community activities keep
both Hanebergs busy. He will
be president of the Kiwanis
Club, and is a member of the
American Legion, Chamber of
Commerce, F arm er’s Union,
and the Mormon Church.
She is currently secretary of
both the Immanuel Lutheran
Church Ladies’ Aid group, and
the Retired Teachers, as well
as a volunteer with the HELPS
organization. Both are active in
the Sandy Colder* Age Club,
and have individual hobbies.
“We have plenty of things to
do,” said Haneberg citing his
favo rites: hunting, fishing,
reading, and gardening
As for his wife, “sewing,
doing handwork, and taking
care of grandchildren” will
help fill time left over from
keeping house in their modem
home in Sandy.
“We need to get organized,”
she exclaimed.
Grandchildren include Todd,
almost two, who belongs to
their son, Lloyd in Medford,
and Steven and Teresa Amstad,
three and a half and two years
resp ectively, offspring of
daughter Anne Marie, Kelso.
Another m a rrie d daughter,
Carolyn Alcorn, lives in Sandy.
The Hanebergs plan to spend
part of the summer at their
beach cottage at Rockaway on
the Oregon coast, as they have
done every summer for the last
20 years.
“We enjoy it no matter what
the weather is,” Mrs. Haneberg
declared.
By 1976, they expect to be
organized enough for a trip to
the countries of their ancestors,
Norway for her, Sweden for
him. The mayor’s blue eyes
twinkled as he spoke of travel
plans.
“We’re going to enjoy our
retirem ent!”
N EW R E T IR E E S M ayor and Mrs. M el Haneberg were
delighted with a surprise visit from grandchildren
SPOON C O LLEC TIO N is just one hobby of form er
teacher Edna Haneberg.
(Post Photo)
Steven, left, and Teresa, right.
(Post Photo)
&Work hours hit peak
a_a
"NOW THIS Is the way te eajey a y
retirement," e ik a lm e d Haneberg. as be
relaxed outdoors
favorite book
patio
(Post Photo)
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Hourly and weekly average
earnings
of
Oregon's
m anufacturing
production
workers and for contract
construction workers reached
new peaks in June, the E m ­
ployment Division's Research
and Statistics section reported
In the lumber and wood
products category, the June
average hourly earnings were
$5 34 compared with $5 10 in
May and $4 96 in June. 1973.
The work week in lumber and
wood products in June went to
42.0 hours from 39 8 hours in
May, the Employment Division
reported
Record $5 06 hourly earnings
___$202
91 weekly averages
and
were set in June for the state's
m anufacturing
production
workers This was the first time
on record that the hourly
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a i/a e a d A
j-lir W fH
earnings
average n eclipsed
$5
per hour and the weekly
average went over $200 a week.
Prim e reason for the record
average was wage rate in­
creases reported in almost all
industries
The
work
week
fee
m anufacturing
production
workers went from 39 0 hours in
May to average 40.1 hours in
June, but employment division
officials report the increase
was mostly attributed to annual
vacation pay and hours plus
some increases in overtime
In contract construction, the
hotrly earnings average went
over $8 for the first time in June
to $« 02. up from $7.74 in May
and $6 96 in June. 1973 The
weekly average earnings in
June were $284.71, also a
record
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