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No. 17
M on., A pril 21, 1975
It's Twice a Week for The Outlook and Post
Today’s issue marks the beginning
of twice-weekly publication for The
Gresham Outlook and The Sandy
Post.
This is something we’ve con
templated for some time and
something we haven't undertaken
lightly. Shortages and the recession
have caused us to take this step most
gingerly.
However, the continued growth of
our area and the resulting need for
greater news and advertising
coverage convinced us now was the
time. The Monday paper obviously
will give us twice the opportunity to
serve the community. And that’s
what we’re here for.
We’re sure it will take a few weeks
to work out all the bugs and kinks in
the new paper. But given some time,
we’re sure the Monday paper will
very soon become a much-anticipated
equal of our Thursday edition.
Meanwhile, our most sincere
thanks to all our readers and ad
vertisers who have made the Monday
paper possible. Without you, we
obviously wouldn’t be here.
How To Finance Tri-Met
Tri-Met currently is holding a
series of hearings (one is scheduled
here next Thursday) to discuss its
money problems.
Tri-Met has projected tremendous
deficits and wants to cut service or
raise taxes. The hearings are
designed to bring out public sen
timent relative the various alter
natives.
One of the alternatives certainly
will be to increase the payroll tax. By •
law, Tri-Met can go to .5 per cent of
gross payrolls in the metropolitan
area and since the figure is at .4 now,
it’s a pretty sure bet they’ll stick it to
employers again.
But Tri-Met can’t solve all its
money woes, real or imagined, with
the payroll tax. It has to seek other
sources. By law, it can enact a sales
tax or an income tax, but both of these
are pretty difficult politically.
A more likely answer is a gasoline
tax which Tri-Met tentatively tried
and then backed away from last
winter. Whatever the ultim ate
solution, Tri-Met’s paw is going to be
in your pocket somehow.
However, we’re not alone in mass
transit woes. Taxpayers
in
Washington state had better be
prepared for some bad news from
Olympia where the transit lobby is
pulling out all the stops.
Legislation there doesn’t give
transportation districts any taxing
power at all, at least compared to Tri-
Met. But changes are in the wind.
The legislature is studying
proposals that “public transportation
benefit’’ areas be formed in which
sales taxes, or a household tax, could
be levied. Also being considered is an
increase in the motor vehicle excise
tax.
The High Cost of Living
The next time you sit down to work
out the family budget, you should
start with the big items like food and
housing. Right?
Wrong! If you want to start with
the really big items, start with
taxes.
The Tax Foundation Inc., says that
taxes are by far the largest single
item in the average family budget.
If you’re a typical American, you
spend two hours and 35 minutes of
every working day toiling for the
government.
One hour and 38 minutes goes for
federal taxes; another 57 minutes
goes into state and local taxes. This is
more than the working time required
for food, housing, clothing, medical
care, any other necessity you can
name.
Only when we demand that our
representatives cut spending, only
when we quit demanding more and
more from the government, will the
tax bite be reversed.
Unless, of course, you like working
for Big Brother.
Lessons Learned in Viet- Nam
Historians probably will record that
the Truman Doctrine ended in the
spring of 1975 when the Communists
over-ran South Viet-Nam.
The Truman Doctrine dates from
March of 1947 when then-Pres.
Truman asked Congress for funds
with which to aid Greece and Turkey.
It worked well for 20 years .. .in
Greece and Turkey, in Korea, in
Lebanon and to a degree, in the
Dominican Republic. Basically, it
was a commitment to help anyone
asking for help against a Communist
take-over.
The Truman Doctrine started to
unravel when Pres. Kennedy and
especially Pres. Johnson committed
us in Viet-Nam. The latter decided,
early in 1965, that a massive infusion
of American troops and supplies were
needed.
This brought on the longest, bit
terest and most divisive war in U.S.
history. We bought a few years of
tenuous freedom for the Vietnamese
but only at a terrible cost in money
and manpower, U.S. and Asian. In the
end we were ignominiously defeated.
Pres. Nixon started tentatively to
pull back from the outer fringes of our
commitments but his altogether
praiseworthy efforts in foreign affairs
fell apart with Watergate. Now, a full-
scale retreat has been forced on Pres.
Ford.
The lesson from Viet-Nam is one of
overcommitment. Compare what we
gambled and gave away with what
the Russians or Chinese invested in
Viet-Nam. And they came out the
victors.
This is not to urge a new
isolationism in our foreign policy. But
it is to hope that future U.S. com
m itm ents are weighed more
carefully, a whole lot more carefully.
EXTRA GUEST
1912, a Portland councilman,
How would you like to come Clyde by name, rhapsodized
home from a hard day at the about the glories of con
office and find an elephant in solidation He felt Portland
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police could "handle the county
That’s precisely what hap easily", and the mayor's duties
pened recently to Dr Dale King ‘ ‘would not be greatly in
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153rd (inly it creased
Moreover, dozens of
wasn’t a real elephant, it was a employees
“ could
be
big papier mache job which eliminated ”
really does fill up half the
T im es—including fantasy
King's living room.
flights by politicians just
Mrs King, you see, is in haven't changed
charge of decorations for the
all-night party scheduled May
30-31 for graduating seniors at
Reynolds high There just
wasn't any other place in the
King household big enough for
the elephant.
ooo
ALL IN TH E F A M IL Y
The new Foothills Inn (nee
The Father-Daughter dinner
the Dew Drop Inn) will open sponsored by the Centennial
Boosters Club will run from
this week in Sandy and you
m ight say The Outlook is 6:30 to 9 p m Wednesday, April
somewhat involved
30, in theTown and Gown Room
at M t. Hood Community
Owners are Joe and Cheryl
D arr and Reg and Suzanne College
Tickets are on sale at Cen
Ashmun Suzanne, of course, is
tennial.
Outlook “ People's editor." The
Dance team members will be
logo for the new restaurant was
honored guests at the dinner
developed by Roy Bunting,
head of our co m m ercial Centennial's C-Notes will be
printing department
entertaining at the banquet A
Roy, along with Velma Lown style show, with boys and girls
(pasteup) and Vince U hlig from Centennial as models, will
be featured at the banquet
(press), provided the menus
Gresham Moose Lodge No.
2265 was burglarized sometime
during the night of April 11 and
beer,
snacks,
cigarettes,
decanters uixl a television were
taken, according to Gresham
Police reports
Loss was
estimated at $365
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MT. HOOD
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A ftlllatad So Baptist Convention
875 N.E. Division
Grange Hall Gresham
666 6294
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Sunday School
Centennial
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“ You Say You’ ve Been L a id O ff U n til
N ext Easter?”
j&feM M e Fdifob
To the Editor:
The attached is a copy of a
letter I have sent to D r Cherry
and Senator Ed Fadeley,
Chairmen of the Legislative
Committees on Education.
1 feel it is time that people of
the district need to understand
the position in which the school
board was placed.
Curtis R. Close
555 NW Riverview Pl.
Gresham
1 am writing to urge your
support for revision of the
Teacher Tenure Law
I am on the Board of the
Gresham Elementary District
I do not necessarily speak for
that Board, but as an in
dividual.
Last Monday night (April 7)
our Board, at the request of
Mrs. Pat Miller, a probationary
teacher in our district, held an
informal hearing regarding our
action not to renew her con
tract, which would have given
her tenure.
The hearing lasted from 6:30
p.m. to n early 3 a m. the
following morning.
The questions involved in the
hearing related to Mrs M iller’s
ability to get along with her
fellow staff members and
participation in professional
activities relating to her job. <
At no time was there any
question about her ability to
function in the classroom, or to
relate to the parents of her
children. There was widely
based support for her from the
parents who had children in her
class and felt she was doing an
outstanding job.
There was likewise sub
stantial testimony from her co
workers to the effect that they
could not get along with her,
and in fact, went out of their
way to avoid having any
dealings with her.
If the Board had the option of
extending her probationary
period (perhaps w ith her
consent) it may have been
possible
to
resolve
the
problems, and she could have
been retained.
The tragic consequences of
that hearing were predictable:
an effective classroom teacher
was not retained, and her
c a re e r
very
seriously
jeopardized, teachers were
pitted
against
teachers,
parents were understandably
irate, the school and district
were thrown into a turmoil, but
most importantly the children
in her school suffered because
they did not understand and
teacher effectiveness lost.
1 strongly urge your serious
consideration of the suggested
modification, whereby Boards
may have an opportunity to try
and find solutions to a problem
without the extreme measures
now mandated by the Tenure
Law.
To the Editor:
The F a ir Dismissal Law was
not designed to guarantee a job
scheduled
for a lifetime or keep inef
fective teachers on the job. It
only guarantees that no teacher
can lose his livelihood without
due process.
I strongly take exception to
the editorial “ Tenure Law is
the Problem ;” this is “ passing
the buck.” If the teacher in
Gresham Grade had had the Ralph F uccillo , our sales
opportunity to due process as director, handled the a d
defined
under
the
F a ir vertising. Outlook Sandy Post
Dismissal Law, an unbiased classifieds were used to hire the
decision would have resulted help and to dispose of old fix
tures
based on evidence presented
And finally, Betty Sword,
Causes for dismissal of
permanent teachers number receptionist at The Outlook and
more than criminal activity or an amateur artist, provided
paintings for the inside
proven immorality. They are:
ooo
inefficiency; insubordination;
neglect of duty; physical of GARDEN NOTES
Poking around in the woods,
mental incapacity; inadequate
performance; failure to comply we've observed a truly ex
with
such
reasonable ceptional crop of trilliums this
requirements as the board may year.
Only please don't pick them
prescribe to show norm al
improvement and evidence of If you pick the blossom and
professional trzining and take off the leaves at the same
growth;
any
cause
for time, you'll kill the plant. It
revocation of teaching cer won't come back again
. The flower itself has a short
tificate; reduction in teacher
stem so most people pick the
staff from failures of levies
This is true that a ll the blossom, leaves and all. This is
evidence was not brought forth fatal.
Trilliums are, of course, a
because the school board
limited questions to witnesses part of the lily fam ily and can
that kept the real reason behind ba, spread either by seed or
bulb. But they shouldn't be
closed doors.
Under the F a ir Dismissal disturbed; don't spade around
procedure for perm anent them.
But most ot all. don't pick the
teachers there is a definite due
process — simple, inexpensive, flowers!
ooo
with a short timeline — which
presents all evidence openly, CURTAIN CALL
Reynolds high students saw
permitting an im partial ap
peals board to make a fair one of their teachers. Bernard
decision for either party The Leopold, on television Thur
sday night.
procedure is:
He is an actor on the side and
1 The superintendent shall
give w ritte n notice to the had a bit role in an episode
teacher of his recommendation from "Movin' on", a weekly TV
show Leopold, who is a pretty
for
dism issal,
indicating
statutory
grounds
and friendly guy in real life, played
statement of facts, and limiting the part of a heartless field
evidence to allegations sup boss
ooo
ported by personnel file
statements as of notification DOUBLE F E A T U R E
Someone in the Hood theater
date.
has a sense of humor
2 If the board approves,
Their weekend double-bill,
teacher shall be notified.
advertised
in Thursday's
Teacher can appeal to the F a ir
Dismissal Board composed of Outlook included:
“ Blazing Saddles"
people outside the school
plus
district.
“Where Does It Hurt’ "
3. F a ir D ism issal Board
ooo
hearing allows representation,
R EP E A T P ER FO R M A NC E
witnesses and right to cross-
We just didn’t realize how
examine
Is it that difficult to remove a persistent Portland folk have
been in pursuit of city-county
teacher from his job?
consolidation.
Teachers ARE accountable,
In an Outlook from July 9,
but they ask due process
guaranteed any citizen under
the Constitution.
Pat Wohlers
OEA consultant
6900 SW Haines Rd.
Tigard
To the Editor:
My husband and I would like
to express our appreciation to
everyone who supported me
through the recent non-renewal
of my teaching contract, and
the subsequent hearins before
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An Ill-advised Decision
It was only a few years back that
just about everything from fallen
arches to the end of Western
civilization was predicted unless
Congress killed the SST program.
The SST, of course, was the
supersonic jet being developed for the
U.S. government by the Boeing
company in Seattle.
Leading protagonist for the anti-
SST forces was Sen. William Prox-
mire (D-Wisc ), abetted by a noisy
claque of assorted environmentalists.
Proxmire’s arguments evoked so
much fear and concern that the SST
project was scrapped. Foreign
nations, also developing their own
versions of the supersonic jet, didn’t
have the advantage of Proxmire’s
b u rg larized
wisdom and thus proceeded un
concerned.
Now, little by little, Proxmire’s
arguments are being demolished and
despite the presence of foreign ver
sions of the SST. the sky hasn’t begun
to fall. In fact, Russell Train, head of
the Environmental Protection
Agency, has given his blessing to the
landing of foreign supersonic
transports in and out of New York and
Washington, DC. “The noise im
pact” , Train says, “ is not
distinguishable from current big US
aircraft.”
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