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Thur»., Sept, 9. ,976 SANDY (Ore., POST - 11 County can't afford to fix roads as asphalt cost up, funds down by Keith Klippstein staff reporter Clackamas County la facing a dilemma with road main tenance. A study released by the Oregon-Columbia chapter of the Associated General Con tractors (AGC) in late August stated that unless 15.375 miles of the state’s badly worn roads are resurfaced within the next four years, an expensive venture, they will have to be rebuilt from scratch—a more expensive solution. The study, done by The Road Information Program (T R IP ) of Washington, D.C., said that 15 per cent of the state's 103,884 miles of roads and streets will need to be reconstructed by 1980 because of increasing traffic if resurfacing is not done. Resurfacing would cost $2 billion, compared with a cost of t t l billion for reconstruction, according to an estimate in the study. T R IP assessed that the averag e p er-m ile cost of reconstruction is four and one- half times more than the cost of resurfacing. Through Clackamas County has only 12,080 miles of road way to maintain, the problem may be much bigger. Lack of funds is the basic reason Don Broadsword, county chief of maintance, admitted that county roads are far below most standards "Nearly 90 per cent of the county’s roads are sub standard." said Broadsword "But we can't do much about it. Our funds are dwindling and prices are going up We now pay tw ice as much for asphalt." The county is currently loaing money for road maintenance on two fronts With the closing of the Bull Run Reserve the county will tose part of its* share of forest logging receipts that it collects for maintaining roads into the reserve. The second comes from the development of tw o-year licensing of drivers and motor vehicles where Broadsword said the formula for calculating county shares favors counties that have large numbers of farm vehicles, which are licensed annually He hopes that the legislature will make adjustments “ I ’m sure that the legislature didn't realize what would happen when it passed the two- year licensing law,” said Broadsword "Now that it can see what happened 1 hope it will make an appropriate change." Meanwhile, asphalt now runs 118,000 per mile, according to Broadsword With a working asphalt budget of 1807.000 annually, that money would only pave 33 miles of roadway. He said the county has been blessed with two mild winters which haven't taken their toll on county roads A rough winter can devastate a road "These two mild winters have saved us,” said Broa«L sword. “ Otherwise a rough winter eats away at the asphalt and creates cracks and chuckholes. When a road pumps mud the surface con tinues to be eaten away and then you have a mess." He pointed out that none of the county roads have been built with base rock, lending to the quick deterioration of the asphalt. One method of fighting road deterioration has been to field coat county roads with fluid asphalt, such as has been done recently on SE Coalman Road, to seal up fractures in the roadway Broadsword added that It does not improve the surface otherwise “ It's a band-aid approach that we do every six years,” said the county officer. "It's not much to what we really need to do" Broadsword noted that Bluff Road was resurfaced about five years ago, but weather has taken its toll. He said a good example of the severity of wear is along a two-mile stretch of Bluff Road just east of the M ultnom ah County line, Hillcrest Road is another example, he noted. " It's very frustrating," said Broadsword “ All we can really do is patch up the road. We have to come with another method of financing our department. We haven’t any ideaof how much it would cost to do necessary work because we've never had the funds to consider it.” The cu rren t departm ent budget totals 16,400,000, w ith in estimated 12,290,000 drawing from motor vehicle funds and Community center group to meet with architects The Sandy Community Center Com mittee will meet with the WEGROUP (a Portland based architectural firm ) tonight at8 p m . in the Sandy library The architect« will present conceptive sketches of a community building for review and comment by the Sandy Comimunlty Center Com m ittee The City of Sandy will be applying fdr federal fund« under the "Local Public Works Capitol Development and Invest ment Program” to construct a community center complex on acquired property adjacent to Meinig Park If Sandy’s ap plication were to be approved, the city would receive 100 per cent federal funding for its project. Committee Chairman Dick Halvorson said because of tim e , limitations the comfnitlee will be meeting regularly in September to assist the architect« in detailing the community center's program uses, design, estimated costs, etc. More information may be obtained by contacting Halvorson at 668-5569 establish a branch in the Hoodland area. The proposed bank would be located on the southeast corner of the intersection of Highway 26 and Welches Road in Wemme. There were 92 merit badges letters (Continued from 2 I R em em ber; CRAG and LCDC effect not only those with a thousand acres; but also the individual with a hundred by hundred lot! Being against I j CDC and CRAG is not being against land use planning. It's just being against appointed bureaucrats and power hungry politicians who long for the chance to abuse the public!! You can bet these same people were surprised to see measures 10 and 12 on the Novem ber B allo t! Unfor- tunately I understand they have the power to spend “ tax dollars" in order to drown us in a sea of bureaucratic propaganda! Don't lei them fool you citizens; the only right they want you to have left, is the right to pay taxes! We pay the taxes on the land, and they'll tell us how we can use it. Now isn 't that dem ocratic!!!! Ralph A Sandercock Jr. 39600SE Allgeier Rd. Sandy «*» o oo Some 296 million living veterans represent about 14 per cent of the nation’s population, the Veterans Administration and a number of National Rifle Association m arksm anship awards and hunter’s safety certificates awarded during an outdoor candlelight ceremony. Fifteen boys advanced in rank at the gathering, including Mark Vaeretti, Star; Stanley Dunn, K arl Rohweder, First Class; Brent Plaster, Scott Weidman. Tom Rutledge. Mark Hadley, David Hendrickson, Scott Finkle and Ted Solfich, Tenderfoot. Achieving Second Class rank were Locke Christman, Dan Langlois, Gordon Urban, Steve Brader and Paul Gagner H ie next scout meeting will be held Sept 13 at 7 p.m. in the Upper Grade Gym at Sandy Elementary School Soccer club registration set Registration for East County Junior Soccer Club will be held on Saturday. Sept 11, from 11 a m . to I p m at North Gresham Grade School, Sandy T h riftw a v and Damascus Square. There is a fee but no child will The T R IP AGC study went on to state that another 8,311 miles of roads in Oregon are so deteriorated that they must be reconstructed The study said that earlier resurfacing could have saved 13 8 billion from the 14.9 billion that it will cost to rebuild them now. The study recommended that state, county and municipal road agencies should resurface an average of 3,900 miles of roads and streets annually at a cost of 1513 million in order to avoid the need of rebuilding roads That does not include the cost of rebuilding roads that are classified as deteriorated beyond resurfacing repair. “ By comparison, the state Department of Transportation, county and municipal road agencies have budgeted only 1145.9 million in fiscal 1977 for all road programs." said T R IP spokesman William Peckham, also vice president of Hamilton Construction Co. in Springfield. and caps from rolling down the slanted surface When the cap or stem finally is caught between the rollers, the fruit pops off Fruit without caps or stems rolls freely through the water jets onto a conveyor “ But this device cannot successfully cap strawberries unless the cap pulls loose from the fruit at the time the Researchers at Oregon State University have sue ceeded in getting the strawberry to doff its cap with ease The capping process, developed by Agricultural Experiment Station engineer Dale K irk, brings Oregon's strawberry industry one step closer to full mechanization. "Plant bre ders now have developed strawberry selections which give more than 90 per cent stem and cap removal on our present equipment," said Kirk "Although the newly released Linn variety averaged just 82 per cent in tests conducted by OSU food scientist George Varsveld, a second capping machine working in tandem with a first would increase that percentage." Getting caps off strawberries has been a bigger hurdle for agricultural engineers than inventing a machine to actually harvest the fruit. Since 1970, an OSU harvester called the Clipper, which cuts strawberry plants near the ground but leaves the crown to produce another crop the next year, has been used to successfully gather fruit The hardest jobs involved in mechanical harvesting have been breeding a strawberry which would lend itself well to mechanical harvesting and developing a suc cessful capping machine suited to the properties of that berry K irk worked with OSU agricultural engineer Dean Booster iiMeveloping the capping machine, which now is ready for commercial testing F ru it first is dumped into water and then fed into several pairs of rollers which rotate in opposite directions. A jet of water pointed up the rollers keeps fruit with stems stem is removed,'' K irk said Processors want the green caps off before the fruit is frozen whole, sliced or made into preserves. USDA horticulturist Francis Lawrence, who has been stationed at OSU since 1955, has been trying to develop perfect strawberries tor mechanical harvesting First plants must stand erect enough for easy mechanical harvesting, them produce as much ripe fruit as possible at one time The fruit must be firm and well-colored for the processors and taste good enough to satisfy consumers as well as resist diseases “ In 1967, industry representa ties said if 50 per cent or more fruit were recovered by mechanical harvesting, it would be a success,” Booster said. “This year we mechanically harvested, stemmed and capped 58 strawberry selections. From 10 of the selections we recovered 90 per cent or more fruit.” New selections in OSU’s strawberry breeding program look very promising, the Agricultural Experiment Station researchers said, and soon growers may be able to replace the sagging, hand-harvested strawberry industry with a more economical and efficient mechanical system Right now, the OSU team is setting its cap for that goal Outdoor concert planned by A ir Force Band The A ir Force will be coming to Sandy on Friday, Sept. 17. The 72nd United States Air Force Band will present an outdoor concert in Sandy's Meinig Park that evening from 7to8:30p.m The concert will be open to The C lackam as County Sheriff's levy which will go before voters Sept. 21 has been endorsed by the Clackamas County Law E nforcem ent Council The measure is a proposed serial levy to provide basic county police services a t current levels with provisions for 20 additional patrol per sonnel and four clerks over the next five years. County officials say the passage of the measure will assure continued operation of the C lackam as County Burglary Prevention Team. If the measure doesn't pass, it would guarantee the loss of 14 existing patrol deputy positions Steve Evans, chief of police in Molalla and chairman of the law enforcement council, said that it is commonly recognized that the Clackamas County S h e riff’s D epartm en t is already severely undermanned of current law enforcement needs and that passage of the measure is essential to assure effective county law en forcement needs now and in the SUHS happenings World class wrestler joins school faculty 15 Boy Scouts advance Boy Scout Troop 662's Court of Honor and potluck dinner were held Aug. 31 at the home of Mr. and Mrs Howard Vaeretti Approximately 60 people attended the eveniqg of games, fellowship and food. Broadsword understood why the AGC was interested in the shape of state roads. "We (the county) can't spend the money to tell people about the condition of our roads," said Broadsword. "So the AGC is taking the time to tell people." He added that the AGC is pushing for the one-cent gasoline tax hike, but noted that it would add little to the county department's coffers Strawberries doff caps toured extensively in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Alaska and Hawaii. The band has appeared in festivities such as the Seattle Seafair Parade, the Pacific Air Fair, Expo '74 in Spokane and Portland's Rose Festival Parade. The men and women of the Air Force will perform pop, the public a t no cost. In the event of rain, the performance will be held in the Sandy Union High School gymnasium The 45-piece concert band is stationed at McChord Air Force Base in Tacoma. Wash Since 1963, the A ir Force Band has be turned away because of inability to pay. The club is looking for boys ano girls ages 7-17 to play soccer Games are played on weekends and will start around the first of October. (Editor's note: Mindi is a journalism student at Sandy union High School and will be writing a regular column about high school activities during the year by Mindi Ferguson H ie first day of school may be quite busy, but not much gets done. Tuesday, Sept. 8, Sandy Union High School opened its doors for the opening of classes There are about 1,267 students enrolled and the freshman class with 424 is the largest With this many people you might think there would be a few cases of trouble, but according to Gladys Sprouse there were no referrals during the first half of the day. Many new and interesting things are going on at Sandy High this year. A 1989 world champion wrestler, Fred Fozzard. is the new self-contained classroom teacher Bet his students won't be up to the usual classroom antics. On Sept 20 Coach John Stumpwill be taking his eight gym nastics students to their first meet at Barlow High School This is the first year Sandy has had a gymnastic team. Good luck! This is the first of a weekly column about Sandy High that will be appearing in the Sandy Host. Next week you'll be able to read about sports, rallies, dance team and pep assemblies classical and rock numbers Each of the musicians is a professional, working full-time to prepare and present programs Components of the musical unit include a stage band, a rock group, five-piece combo, eight-voiced ensemble and marching band. Jim’s Auto Repair Sheriff's levy Sept. 21 U.S. Bank files to open branch The United States National Bank at Oregon has filed an application with the Comptroller of Currency for permission to 12,555,000 coming from the Mt. Hood National Forest. The remainder of incoming revenue comes from federal grants and other sources. OSU research program 10% DISCOUNT next five years. H ie Clackamas County Law E nforcem ent Council is composed of the chief ad ministrators of all the police agencies in the county, as well as those of each of the other components in the criminal justice system or th eir representatives operating within Clackamas County. The council meets monthly to coordinate efforts, solve mutual problems and to plan for increased effectiveness in the local criminal justice system. On Your Fall Tune-Up 668-4563 Located 1 '/» miles east of Sandy on Hwy. 26, west end of Vic’s Auto Parts. 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