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Published weekly Thursdoy* by The Outlook Publishing Co Box 68
Sandy Oregon 87055 Second dost postage paid ot Sandy Oregon
668 5548
MONDAY. JAN. 5
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
In Multnomah and Clockomos
Counties per year
........................‘ 5 00
The Sandy City Council will
meet at 7:30 p m in city hall.
Included on the agenda are
three zoning hearings and a
supplemental budget hearing
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At 8 p.m an organizational
meeting of the Welches School
board and budget committee
will be h eld at the school.
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The Firwood's Neighbor
board will meet at 7:30 p.m at
Firwood School.
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|n Northwest ond Pacific Coost Stoles
outside Oregon per year
*7 00
Servicemen any address.................'5 00
Outside Northwest ond Pocific Coost
states per year
‘9 00
In Oregon outside Multnomah ond
Clockomos Counties per y e a r.
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P°9® 7_______Sondy Post. Sondy, Oregon 9 7 0 5 5 ______ No. I_______ Thurs., Jon, 1, 1976
New Year— drive slow ly
The New Year holiday is over, but
the pleas for all persons to drive
safely are still valid. Sandy area
youngsters are still enjoying the
freedom of winter vacation and every
day the highway to Mt. Hood is
crowded with ski traffic.
Maintaining the New Year’s effort
towards safe driving is specially
important within the city of Sandy. It
is all too easy to allow car’s speed to
pick-up just a little to keep up with the
flow of traffic rushing through the
city. But increased speed in the city
increases the possibility of a serious
accident.
Almost every safety expert has said
at one time or another that most
accidents occur close to home. When
driving in Sandy we should all
remember this. Be that much more
alert to watch out for the other guy.
The police cannot reduce accidents
or even speed by themselves, the
drivers passing through Sandy aren’t
going to be that concerned with traffic
problems here, only we can do
something about it.
Observe the speed limits; maybe
even drive at less than the maximum
allowed. Be alert for pedestrians
trying to cross at intersections and
crosswalks, they have the right of
way. And always watch out for the
unexpected, some child may attempt
to cross the street in the middle of the
block or some parked car may pull
out from the curb without looking.
If we all make the effort to drive
safely this year, then 1976 can be a
happy new year all year long.
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devastating to Nixon.
The anti-Nixon hysteria which fed
upon the Watergate disclosures has
now paled and some things are being
put into perspective. Nixon was guilty
as charged but had the truth about
other presidential misdeeds been
told, things might have been put into a
different light.
Even though Nixon has long since
been pilloried, hung, drawn and
quartered, the deception goes on.
Frank Church, Democratic senator
from Idaho, currently is making a lot
of noise about alleged assassination
plots in the Eisenhower ad
ministration. The Monitor points out,
there is just as much evidence linking
Pres. Kennedy with plots against
Fidel Castro. Yet Church and Co. are
trying to keep that bottled up while
pinpointing Eisenhower.
Everyone knows that politicians on
both side of the aisle have done a lot of
dirty tricks. The visceral hatred with
which Dem ocrats and many
Republicans treated Nixon some day
will be turned the other direction.
The Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson
are certain early targets. The fallout
from Watergate is far from over.
Wounded Knee, A N ew Version
In opposing legislation to com
pensate heirs of Sioux Indians killed
in the battle of Wounded Knee, the
U S. Army is trying to rewrite the
history books.
Specifically, the Army is claiming
it was not a premeditated massacre
and it is “ unfair and inaccurate” to
characterize it as such. The Army
further claims an Indian fired the
first shot and others opened fire with
concealed weapons.
There is confusion as to who fired
the first shot. Actually, two soldiers
and an Indian were scuffling for a gun
and somehow a shot was fired.
Whoever fired the first shot, there is
no doubt what happened then.
Shots poured into the assembled
Indians from every quarter. As later
described in the publication “Great
Western Indian Fights” :
“ The steady roar of the Springfields
(rifles) was punctuated by the crash
of the Hotchkiss guns from the knoll.
These went into action at the first shot
from below, slamming two-pound
high-explosive shells into the camp
among the women and children.
“ It took two minutes to turn the
camp into a burning shambles, with
the surviving Indians scattered in
utter rout.
“The soldiers surged forward,
blood-mad. They fired at every Indian
who moved—man, woman, or child,
well or wounded. They shot the very
dogs of the camp, the horses.”
There were about 350 Indians in the
camp, nearly 300 died. Of the 25
soldiers killed, most fell to bullets or
shrapnel fired by their own men.
In its clumsy attempt to rewrite
history, the Army is only further
besmirching its record in the Indian
wars. Moreover, a country which
spends billions on social welfare
programs or putting a man on the
moon, certainly can afford $549,000
(that’s the amount involved) to
compensate heirs of those killed at
Wounded Knee.
Someone Likes Us
American investors, increasingly
faint-hearted in recent months,
perhaps should be more aware of
overseas competition.
A federally funded survey has just
reported that some $532 million has
been invested by overseas firms in
the Pacific Northwest. Japan,
predictably, led the way.
Overall, Japanese investors ac
counted for 38.8 per cent of the total
followed by Canada and Britain.
Perhaps because of geography,
Middle East money has not surfaced
to any great extent Two Lebanese
investments were reported plus one
from oil-rich Kuwait.
Japanese interests have for years
been deeply involved in Hawaii and it
is only natural that they should reach
out to the Pacific Coast. There have,
in fact, been several pretty well-
substantiated rumors in recent years
of Japanese interest in the Gresham-
Sandy-Hoodland area.
Largest outside investor in Oregon
is the Mitsui Corp, which has half
interest in the still aborning Alumax
aluminum plant.
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SPIRIT O F ’76
A One Sided Investigation
The Christian Science Monitor has
put into print what a lot of people have
suspected for a long time:
“ It is now coming into the open that
the Watergate investigators—from
Sam Irvin to Frank Church—have
been doing a shoddy, one-sided, dis
honest job of investigating.
“ It was not accidental. It was ap
parently deliberate.
“ They were concealing facts which
they knew would be damaging to
recent Democratic presidents. They
maneuvered the Senate hearings to
focus the glare of hostile publicity
upon one President, Richard Nixon.”
The article goes on to point out
that nearly all of the offenses of which
Nixon was guilty were offenses of
which Pres. Kennedy, Pres. Johnson
and Atty-Gen. Kennedy had earlier
been guilty.
But the investigators held back on
probing Democratic misdeeds to put
the heat on Pres. Nixon.
No one should be surprised that
Kennedy and Johnson, even Franklin
Roosevelt, did things originally
ascribed only to Nixon. All were
every bit as power hungry as Nixon.
But the hearings were engineered so
only part of the story came out, that
classes
start
Monday
CCC
Damages
deductible
jQtìeM M e
Basket thanks
To the Editor:
The Sandy Kiwanis Christ
mas Basket project for 1975
served 163 families totaling 593
persons.
The project was possible only
because a very great number of
boys and girls, men and
women, of the Boring, Cottrell,
Sandy, Bull Run and Welches
areas helped. Approximately
8,000 cans or packages of food
was collected in the schools.
Approximately 600 toys, games
and other presents for children
were contributed. $580 in cash
was contributed and used to
help pay for the fresh foods and
m eat
packed
w ith
the
“ baskets."
The purpose of this letter is to
extend the hearty thanks of the
Sandy Kiwanis Club to all those
boys and girls, their parents,
th e ir
teachers,
various
organizations, and people
generally for helping on this
community effo rt
The project gave abundant
evidence that people do care
about other people and that the
“ love thy neighbor" ethic is
still alive.
W. Pete Sulzbach, Chairman
Christmas Basket committee
Sandy Kiwanis Club
Post script
To the Editor:
The March 21, 1974 issue of
the Sandy Post published two
letters to the editor, one signed
by Fred Thomberg, of Wemme,
and one signed by Dick Seller,
of ZigZag. Both were highly
critical of my handling of a
news story for the Sandy Post,
(M arch 14, 1974). Thornberg’s
letter also mentioned my
“ vicious,’
cartoons
and
“ distortions" in a letter I had
written for another county
paper about the proposed
Cedar Ridge development.
had the legal benefit of an
Appeals Court review, and the
county's approval has been
reversed, I believe an ap
p ro p ria te answ er to the
Thornberg-Seller criticism is
possible, and long overdue. In
the Sandy Post news article I
wrote: “ ...the proponents of the
development had failed to
present the required detailed
plans
to
support
th e ir
proposals...". The Appleals
Court ruled that “ ...the county
commissioners should not have
granted the conditional use
permit because the property
developers did not submit a
detailed plan of the develop
m e n t”
In the letter written for
another county paper which
Thorberg called “ distorted," I
wrote: “ What will make this
case unique, and questionable,
is not that the commissioners
have lacked the authority to
make a decision, but that they
have lacked the specific in
formation upon which to base a
decision."
D am age
suffered
from
recent storms in Western
Oregon may be tax deductible
for 1975 according to John J.
Lobdell. director of the Oregon
Department of Revenue and
Ralph Short, district director of
the federal Internal Revenue
Service.
The important thing, ac
cording to Lobdell and Short, is
to substantiate the amount of
the loss This can be done by
taking pictures of damaged
property It would be helpful to
have pictures of the property
taken before the damage, but if
that is not possible, pictures
should be taken after the storm
and after repairs are made,
they said.
The property owner should
compile a list of items lost or
damaged, initial cost, value
before and value after the
storm . In computing the
amount of the loss the property
owner must deduct insurance
or other compensation received
to offset the loss and the value
of repairs and cleanup provided
In reversing the county’s without cost.
approval of the cedar Ridge
developm ent, the A ppeals
Court ruled: “ Local govern
ment cannot approve part of a
planned unit development when
it is impossible from the record
to know what is included in that
part.”
So much for the “ distor
tions.” No w riter comes T H A T
close, nearly two years in
advance, to the exact terms of
an Appeal Court ruling, by
"distorting “
As for the "vicious,' car
toons, ( and there were three on
the subject, not two), I still get
requests for copies from people
who think they were ap
propriate. and funny.
W ell,
“ tim e
heals
a ll
wounds,'*
a
philosopher
promised us, and that's nice
Tim e also straightens out most
records, and that nicer still.
Since the C edar Ridge
development proposal has now
Bill Sanderson
Route 2. Box 999
Estacada
Thank You ft
Happy New Year
To the Hoad of the household: W hat is your
most Important asset? Do you know?
It is your Earning Power. When that stops,
whet will your w ife and fam ily do? Don’t
you think you ow e it to thorn to give them
some security If you should pass out of the
picture? I know w e don't like to talk about
that, but do you know, according to Social
Security statistics, for ovary homo dostroyod
by fire, 16 hoods of households die before
their mortgage is paid off?
See W aif Hoffmann
FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP
38763 Proctor Blvd.
Sandy, Oregon
Bus. 668-7343 Bos. 668-4985
EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS
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C la c k a m a s C o m m u n ity
College classes start Monday,
re g is tra r
Chuck
Adams
reports
Persons may register from
5:30 to 8:30 p m ., Monday
through Thursday, Jan. 5-8, in
the
C om m unity
Center
Building. The last day to
register for winter term is
Friday, Jan. 16.
T akin g
a
com m unity
education class? Check with
your
local
community
education
center
for
registration dates and times
Baby clinic
scheduled
The Sandy well baby clinic
for January will be held
Thursday, J a n 15, 9 to 11:30
a m. at Immanuel Lutheran
Church.
The clinic is sponsored by the
Sandy C om m unity Action
Center and conducted by D r
Hollister Stolte, director of the
C lackam as County H ealth
Department Free examination
of infants up to three years old
is given.
Mothers may call 668-4746 for
appointments.
Tri-M at to m o at
The monthly meeting of Tri-
Met's Board of Directors will
be held in Lake Oswego at the
Armory, 1919 SW South Shore
Dr. at 10 a m. Jan. 5.
A public discussion follows
the agenda items
The Sandy Grade School
board meets at 8 p.m. in the
upper grade library
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TUESDAY. JAN. 6
At noon the Sandy Chamber
of Commerce will meet in the
Amber Lantern.
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The
C itizens
A dvisory
Committee for Cottrell School
will meet at 7 p.m. in the east
building of the school
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WEDNESDAY. JAN. 7
The Clackamas County board
of commissioners holds its first
meeting of the year at 10 a m.
in the county courthouse in
Oregon
C ity.
The
com
missioners will be selecting a
c h airm an
for
1976
and
designating
two
o ffic ia l
newspapers for the county.
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M t Hood Community Coltoga
by Rut Frank
Public Information
Spodallat
Dutch Triebwasser. MHCC
associate dean of physical
education, reports that 5,377
area residents and students
used the handball courts at the
college this fall. This was open
recreation use of this physical
education facility only and is in
addition to class or intramural
use. The firs t week in
December saw a record 593
people use the court facility.
Tuesdays and Thursdays were
the most popular days for
handball court use and
Saturday had its fair share of
community use.
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Calligraphy by Herman Zapf.
the art of ink drawing, is the
featured a rt exhibit this week
at MHCC. Opening last Mon
day, Zapf's work will be on
exhibit until Jan 16 in the
college center gallery. 8 a m to
5 p m ., weekdays Monday
through Thursday. This artist’s
works have appeared on cards,
graphic design and book
covers.
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The
MHCC Com m unity
Services-Education Program
will again offer area residents a
long and varied list of adult and
children's "short-shot" classes
Mast courses offered are four to
six weeks long, three per night,
and one night a week. Many
classes
from
“ Money
M anagem ent
for
S m all
Business" to "M im e" for
children are scheduled. All
classes begin the week of Jan. 5
and a small fee is required lor
each
course
taken.
Registration is accepted at the
classroom door during the first
class session or by mail prior to
the beginning of classes