Boy hurt in tower fall
A unanimous answer
Lee Irw in, Publisher
Jo Espersen, Advertising Manager
Paul Keller. Editor
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to the ground, according to
Akre
Akre hurried down the tower
and extinguished W a lla c e ’s
clothes, which had caught fire.
He then ran to a telephone and
called the Boring Fire Dept.
rescue truck
W allace was taken
to
Gresham Community Hospital
then tran sferred to Good
Samaritan Hospital.
He suffered burns over about
40 per cent of his body. Wallace
is the son of Betty and Bob
Wallace of Eagle Creek
EAGLE C R E E K —An Eagle
Creek youth was reported in
fa ir
condition
at
Good
Samaritan Hospital Tuesday,
recovering from a broken ankle
and burns received in a fall
from a power tower near his
home Saturday.
Mike W allace, 14, was
climbing the tower with his
friend Rick Akre, 15, Saturday
afternoon.
He was apparently caught in
the electric field emanating
from around one of the 50,000
volt lines and fell about 45 feet
66. S and y, O re g o n 07055
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In Northwest and Pacific Coast States
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states, per y e a r .................................. S9.00
S A N D Y , O R EG O N . T H U R S D A Y , N O V E M B E R 21, 1974
Buss Belongs on Commission
We don’t envy the County Com
missioners.
The three-man board must pick a
local area resident to represent our
portion of the county on the
Clackamas County Planning Com
mission.
Names of 12 qualified and capable
locals have been su b m itted for
co n sideratio n.
The
im p o rtan t
decision is due next week.
The m ajority of candidates are
affiliated with local land use planning
groups in Sandy, Firwood, Boring,
Cottrell, Hoodland and Eagle Creek.
This nucleus is a logical reservoir
for such a position. These people are
already in tune with the workings and
implications of wise land use planning
within the county, especially this
area.
Three of the names submitted to the
commissioners are m embers of a
m ountain group who form ed to
support the planned Cedar Ridge
development.
While spokesmen for the group
deny that this is their only reason for
forming, the commissioners shouldn’t
overlook this as being the original
stimulus behind organization.
While several of the 12 candidates
come highly qualified, the Post feels
Ken Buss, of Sandy, would be a wise
choice for the County P lanning
Commission.
Buss has illustrated his ability as
co-executive officer of SCAN, the
local Sandy area land use study
group.
A civil engineer, he has had ex
perience in various phases of design
and construction of all sorts of
projects ranging from county roads
and streets to sewers, water, sewage
tre a tm e n t
p lan ts
and
m ajo r
buildings.
Buss is currently a geotechnical
m aterials engineer for the Mt. Hood
National Forest. Considering his past
experience and sincerity for the job,
he seems to be the best person for the
position.
The Railroad Is Running
Winds of change are blowing in the
community college movement. That
was all too apparent at the assembly
of the A m erican A ssociation of
Com m unity and Ju n io r Colleges
which this w rite r atte n d ed last
weekend in Airlie, Va.
Briefly, community colleges are
adapting to changing life styles by
offering more courses at different
hours, to different level age groups, to
different types of people.
The usual pattern in American life
was (a) go to school (b) go to work
and (c) retire. Now all three are
mixing together. People take a job,
then go to school to improve their
qualifications. Others work, then
retire, then go back to school to enrich
their later years.
Community colleges are appealing
more and more to adults. The
average age in the Denver system
this fall was 29 years old and at some
colleges in Florida, the average is
even higher.
Community colleges no longer can
aim just at high school graduates, say
those between 18 and 20. Getting a
diploma no longer is as important as
filling a particular need at a par
ticular time.
Speakers at the AACJC assembly
also emphasized that community
colleges have a responsibility to know
when not to lead. Sometimes, others
can do things better. Moreover, a
college must be as willing to lop off
courses as to add them. Ju st because
a course once was popular shouldn’t
mean it’s forever.
The time of unlimited expansion for
all schools is past and community
colleges were urged to take the lead in
rethinking old policies and programs.
The ideal situation was described as
one in which the institution joins
hands with the community in seeking
new ways to serve.
And how does our school, Mt. Hood
Community College, score? Rather
well, we think. Many of the things
they talked about in Virginia already
have been implemented at Mt. Hood.
Like adult-enrichment courses, like
classes at different places in the
district, like classes in the evening
when ad u lt p a rtic ip a tio n comes
easier.
F u tu re grow th in com m unity
colleges will come from non-
traditional services, offered to non-
tra d itio n a l au d ien ces, in non-
traditional ways. In other words,
different courses offered to all ages in
all sorts of settings. Mt. Hood already
is on the way.
Trouble in the M iddle East
East Coast newspapers seem much
more preoccupied than those in the
West about possibility of renewed
Arab-Israeli hostilities.
P e rh a p s
i t ’s
geographical
proxim ity, p erh ap s th e re a re
financial overtones, p erhaps i t ’s
m ilitary p re ssu re . W hatever the
reason, you get the impression that
renewed fighting in the Middle E ast is
almost inevitable.
The Israelis, one theory goes, are
being forced into a pre-emptive strike
by growing Arab strength It’s not
considered unlikely that the Israelis
may strike and seek to hold at least
one of the major Arab oil fields.
The danger to the U S.. to all of the
free world is incalculable. The West
would immediately be cut off from
Arab oil and slow strangulation for
many countries would be inevitable.
M oreover, th e long-feared con
frontation between the two super
powers, the US and the USSR,
wouldn't be far behind.
The frightening prospects explain
the intense U.S. effort to defuse the
situation. Realistically, the Arabs
have to give up their bombast about
driving the Israelis into the sea. For
their part, the Israelis have to give up
some of the territory they’ve taken by
force.
Israelis and Arabs eventually are
going to have to live together in
peace. Is a war necessary for them to
see the light?
Supplemental budget passed
The Sandy city council unanimoualy
approved its proposed *44.233 72 sup-
piemental budget Monday night.
The budget is based entirely on federal
revenue sharing finds,
THE O-O-O-N-NLY WAY TO F lY I’
LETTERS ToThe EDITOR
To the Editor:
Editorial writers continue to
wail at the predicament of the
school d istricts of Oregon
whose
boards
and
ad
ministrators have to call the
voters to the polls again and
again to pass an operating
budget. The articles cry about
wasting hundreds of thousands
of tax dollars on these elec
tions. And they point out that
three Oregon districts, on the
verge of slamming their doors
on the students, were only
saved by a drudging electorate
at the last-ditch Nov. 5 election.
The
w rite rs
urge
the
Legislature
to
legalize
something that will separate
the voters from their franchise
to turn down a budget.
In one district of nearly 1000
students, the superintendent
was asked to furnish the school
board with figures on the cost of
a second election. The figure
was
*381.00—for
ballots,
election - board, poll books,
advertizing—the whole bit. Of
course w ith the counties
fumbling with the elections for
the last year, this coat would
multiply.
In many cases a board will
attribute a budget failure to
“lack of communication,” and
will re-submit the same budget
after a suitable period for
brainwashing. Sometimes this
gimmick works, but when it
doesn’t, the board reconvenes
in a sweat for a frenzied session
of fat-cutting, as they should
have done in the first place.
Most budgets fail because
they are too high. In the above-
mentioned d istrict the fa t
cutting amounted to *46,000.00,
and in another year, *36,000.00.
The editorials don’t mention
the millions saved by astute
voters in turning down these
over-fed budgets. And let’s not
belabor the possibility that
education will suffer for lack of
these funds. Voters have had a
belly-full of today’s high school
graduate, only half as well
educated as his parents, at ten
times the cost.
Oregon
School
Law
adequately
provides
for
districts to adjust their tax-
bases by election. Few tax-base
elections would fail if boards
would submit the figure of this
year's budget to be next year’s
taxbase. But boards get
CRAG to discuss
hiring specialist
by Margaret Hoard
The executive board of the
Columbia Region Association
of Governments (CRAG) will
take action on hiring a com
munication specialist at its
meeting Tuesday, Nov. 26, at
527 SW H all, Portland.
H ie meeting will begin at
7:30 p.m. with a 15 minute tour
of the new CRAG facilities,
located on the third floor of the
P ortland State Book Store
building.
The board normally meets
Thursday but moved the date
up to Tuesday next week,
because of Thanksgiving.
Following the tour, agenda
items to be discussed include a
staff report on the Fasano
Decision; release for public
discussion of the Columbia-
W illam ette
Region
Com
prehensive Plan; and a com
mittee report on state bond
highway project priorities
The Metro Committee of the
League of Women Voters has
studied the need for a com
munications specialist at
CRAG. They recommended
investing funds in the com
munications position to aid the
public in understanding of
CRAG’S fisiction.
Alum ni fund
dance slated
Sandy
High
Alum ni
A s s o c ia tio n ’s
annual
scholarship fund dance will be
held next Saturday, Nov. 30 at
the Cosmopolitan Airtel on 82nd
Ave near the Portland airport
Music will be furnished by the
Twilighters
Admission will be *5 per
couple, with proceeds going to
the alumni's scholarship fund
This year the class of 4* is to
be honored. All Sandy High
Alumni over 21 are invited
For further information call
Janet Fox 650-4002, Joann
Tuma 701-601*, or Shelia Jones
«
For further information call
Dick Etherington at 221-1646.
Hearing set
on Sandy
water
The Portland Metropolitan
Boundary Commission has
announced a public hearing on
form ation of a com m unity
water system to be located nine
miles north of Sandy.
Called “ Hideaway Hills,” the
community water system has
been proposed for the east edge
of Herrick Road and both sides
of Latigo Lane.
The hearing will be held
Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 7
p.m. in room 680 of the
Multnomah County Court
house, 1021 SW 4th Ave. in
Portland.
Any interested person may
appear at this time to testify on
the proposal
Mobile home
turn down
appealed
A denial by the Clackamas
Couity Board of Adjustment on
a request to use a mobile home
for a temporary residence will
be appealed to the Board of
Couity Commissioners on Dec.
4, at 10 a m. in Room 201 of the
County Courthouse in Oregon
City.
Walter R. Von Bergen has
filed for the hearing. The
mobile home is located on the
west side of Keisecker Road
just south of Reim Road in the
Sandy area
Von Bergen would like to use
the home as a residence for his
parents who require special
greedy -o r lazy and want to add
“just five or 10 per cent. ” So the
election fails.
There is nothing the matter
with the law, and nothing the
m atter with the voters. Boards
need to hold tax-base elections
presenting a base that will
barely squeak by. And they will
pass. If the press wants to enter
the picture, it had best do so by
fairly reporting the issues,
costs and savings. And let’s let
our legislators know that we
don’t need any more bills
referred to the voters which
meddle with local school
finance. They would do well to
make the state devise an in-
tellegible budget summary for
publication.
Milton M. Fox
Box 75,
Brightwood
Ï , . s “» S . « * ' *
Sandy, Oregon 668-5501
Hood-Land, Wemmo 622-3131
Clic.
Member F.D .I.C .
Open Fridays 'til 6 p.m.
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OPERATING COSTS.
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and extended maintenance intervals for Chevy^i
best-seKng 1975 pickup-projected through 5 0 ^ 0 0 0 n
C h e vy is serious ab o u t truck econom y. Fo r 1975,
C hevrolet has m ade m eaningful advances designed to
lower the costs o f o|»erating this ( ’ IO Pickup Based on
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m aintenance in tervals, projected through 50.000 miles
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$ 6 8 0 com pared to last year’s com parably equip|»ed
model.
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using unleaded gasoline. showed about a 14'% rvdut -
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