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Keeping Posted SUHS board meeting Sue L afk y, Editor THURSDAY. SEP T.» Well Baby Clinic from »:15 - 11:30 at Immanuel Lutheran Church. ooo Oregon Trail Coffee Hour starts at 9:30a m. ooo The Sandy Com munity Center committee will meet at 8 p.m. in the city library. ooo FR ID A Y . SEPT. 1» The Sandy Union High School varsity football squad will play Dallas at home at 8 p m . ooo The Red Cross Bloodmobile w ill be at the Hoodland Women’s Club from 3-8 p.m. Caroline DuH. Advertising Manager Published weekly Thursdays by The Outlook Publishing Co Box 68 Sandy Oregon 97055 Second closs postage paid at Sandy Oregon 668 5548 SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Multnomoh ond Clockamos Counties per year *5.00 Servicemen any oddress................ *5.00 In Oregon outside Multnomoh ond In Northwest ond Poche Coast Stotes outside Oregon per y e a r ................*7.00 Outside Northwest and Pocitic Coast ^lockomo^Countia^jar^ao^^ MtMBER Represented Nationally by U S SUBURBAN PRESS INC Page 2 Sandy Post, Sandy, Oregon 97055 No. 37 Thurs., Sept. 9, 1976 The PGE Rate H ike Portland General Electric is get ting another rate increase, bringing to something like 42 per cent in creases granted within the past 12 months. And how many of our subscribers have received a 42 per cent raise in the past 12 months? We’ll w ager very darn few, if indeed, any at all. PGE didn't, of course, set the new rates unilaterally. They had to be approved by the State Public Utility commissioner after a request for rate hikes by PGE. The Public Utility commissioner, Charles Davis, weighed such things as return on investment, dem ands for more service, additional costs due to e n v iro n m e n ta l re s tric tio n s e tc . before granting PGE most of its requested increase. Like other public utilities—w ater, sewer, telephone etc—there isn’t very much the consumer can do but pay up. You c a n ’t tu rn off y o u r refrigerator or go without lights during evening hours. But we do expect a lot of people will be cutting back wherever possible on electric appliances, shutting off every unnecessary light, getting by with a little less hot w ater etc. There simply is no way the public can absorb that kind of increase (42 per cent) within a year. Banging A w a y at the O pposition It’s a political fact of life that most people don’t vote for someone or something, they vote against. Thus, w e’re seein g a 1976 presidential cam paign where both m ajor candidates a re focusing on alleged shortcomings of the op position, rath er than their own vir tues. Jim m y C arter and the D em ocrats w ould h a v e you b elie v e m ost A m e ric a n s a re p e rm a n e n tly unemployed and starving in the s tre e ts . G e rald F o rd an d the Republicans would have you believe that C arter and Co. a re ultra liberals who would tax and spend us into poverty in six months. Neither is even rem otely true. But both candidates are attacking the other’s alleged shortcomings. You seldom h e a r D e m o c ra ts ta lk in g about the “ F o r d ” a d ministration. It’s always the “ Nixon- F ord’’ administration. Republicans say Carter is unknown, untried and evasive. Largely overlooked in the rhetoric is the fact that both C arter and Ford are honest, decent people. Fordcannot be attacked for the sins of the Nixon a d m in stra tio n . C a rte r m ay be inexperienced on the national level but this could be a suprem e virtue. The voters will have to listen closely to separate the wheat from the chaff. We hope the election is decided on positive, not negative, issues. The Student Loan Scandal One of the most appalling statistics we’ve seen in years concerns the number of college students who are defaulting on the loans which allowed them to get a degree. In the Pacific Northwest alone, it’s estim ated that 10.000 students have defaulted. In some states, the number of students taking bankruptcy to avoid their obligations has risen 300 per cent. An official of the U.S. A ttorney’s office in Seattle says many students avoid paying the loans by declaring bankruptcy, “ Then they go out and find jobs. Some of the delinquent debtors are doctors, dentists and business executives.” U nder the g o v e rn m e n t’s Guaranteed Student Loan Program , low-interest loans ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 have been handed out regularly to students. But Congress and the public lately have attacked the program because of the in creasing num ber of defaults. Student bankruptcies have roughly doubled in the past year. Bankrupt cies in other segm ents of society are expected to decrease by 2.7 per cent. Why do students default? Some, unquestionably, cannot pay back the money. Others default as a way of getting back a t “ the system .” Some couldn’t care less about the social stigma or financial rep er cussions from bankruptcies. The typical defaulter is likely to be b etter informed, m ore liberal and wealthier than the norm. A great m any are law students or exposed to business courses. The default ra te is much higher in the m ore liberal parts of the country, much less in the Corn Belt, etc. Columnist Ralph N ader recently wrote about the problem and through some sort of convoluted reasoning inferred that virtually all the trouble was with so-called proprietary schools (private, vocational schools) and somehow was the responsibility of the White House. Nonsense. It’s a m atter which in fects big universities and colleges most of all. And the rem edy is disarm ingly simple . . . a return to old-fashioned morality. 'Back to school' party set for Christian singles A -'b e c k to school' party (or the Mt Hood Christian Singles will begin at 7:30 p m Satur day. Sept 11 at the home of M r and Mr». C .E . Coatney, Sandy Those attending are asked to bring early school pictures as these will be judged and prizes awarded Those coming are also asked to wear cotton dresses and jeans, if possible. M r. and M rs . Coatney, directors for the group, live at 38901 Sandy Heights Street. More information may be obtained by calling 668-6307 or 668-6171. M- I m II* r I D ll *\ Boring man drowns in rescue A Boring man drowned Sunday in the Columbia River trying to save his daughter who had slipped off the deck of a sailboat about a mile above Multnomah Kails. William Wilson. 31. of 19897 SE Tulstrom, had been sailing on the 34-foot sailboat Teorna when his eight-year-old daughter. Kristen, slipped and fell into the river at about 10 a m the Coast Guard reported. Wilson dived into the river to rescue the child but never resurfaced The Coast Guard said the area was searched for over four hours but the body was not found The mother, Susan Wilson, was able to maneuver the boat into position to pick her daughter out of the river [ letters to the editor J On amendments To the Editor: On b e h a lf of the vast majority I would like to state a few facts. The 8-23-76 hearing before the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners was on the 44 pages of planning department and planning commission proposed amendments to the “ M t Hood Community Plan.” This was NOT a hearing on the M t Hood Planning Unit Draft E n v iro n m e n ta l Im p a c t Statement or its summary. That hearing was 4-26-76 at the Lions Club in Wemme. In fact the planning commissioners decided to use the statement for reference only. The “ M t Hood Community Plan” was done by the in t e r n a t io n a lly re c o g n ize d professional planning and engineering firm , Cornell, Howland, Hayes & Merryfield, la te r C H 2 M -H ill and the Clackamas County Planning Department under James Hall, director. This plan had citizen input from individuals of the com m unity, three fed eral agencies and four participating organizations. The “ Mt. Hood Community P la n ” has land use designations and specific densities for orderly planned growth. All lands under the Recreation-Resort designation are under County Planned Unit D e v e lo p m e n t (P U D ) regulations The Hoodland Chamber of Commerce and many unaf filiated citizens spoke highly in favor of the “ Mt. Hood Com munity Plan” with amend ments for clarity and prac tical usage that the resident community had initiated. They did indeed speak in opposition to the Planning Staff and Planning Commission initiated 44 pages of u nrealistic amendments In fact the staff proudly labeled 18 amendments as theirs T ru e , various speakers received applause and cheers as they denounced the efforts of the plannning department and planning commission to riddle our “ Community Plan” and to strip us of our individual property owner constitutional given rights. The 44 pages and land category maps had NO previous presentation or consideration by anyone There were no meetings or hearings whatsoever on these proposed amendments prior to the 8-23-76 hearing. All planning depar tment and planning com mission workshops are closed to public input. These 44 pages are not the result of professionals but are the result of an exchange in four, only, workshop meetings between the planning department and planning commission. The Clackamas County Planning Department is not really in the same league as CH2M-HÜ1. The planning department is not a representative group of lay people. and I ’m being charitable. There is no such thing as forced development. This is fear ridden imagination. We would probably all agree with planners that our area has “ more than local significance'' but would be inclined to in terpret that to mean that we should make more provision for visitors from farther away to stay overnight, rather than keep them out. The plan for the " M t Hood Community,” initiated by the concern of the local people has been accepted by the com munity and the plan created for us has been rejected. The Board of County Com missioners would be wise to endorse this result by reaf firming the plan they adoped in 1973, implementing it with amendments acceptable to the community and see that the necessary ordcnances are written so that we can at last proceed with a reasonable plan. Maryann Hill Government Camp A helping hand To the Editor: We have so many thanks to give to so many people in and around Sandy and this seems to be the best way to do it. We lost absolutely everything when our home burned Aug. 2. Tlie fire department men were magnificent, but they were helpless to save more than they did Everyone of our wonderful neighbors offered shelter The next day friends, neighbors, people we didn't know well and some we didn't know at all, came with clothing, food and help for the salvage and clean up So many people have offered to help and we certainly can use it. We are waiting for the planning commission to give us rmission to get a mobile me. Our special thanks to each and every one of our good neighbors and to persons with big hearts and brains to match who are helping untangle the red tape in more practical ways Thanks to Clyde and Pliyllis Cansler, Lorraine and Roy Domine. Rita and Jim Gillies and to the Bull Run School Community Club. Also thanks to our friends of many years and to our new friends. Thanks for helping and for all your many offers to help. We really appreciate it. Bill, Doris and Leslie Brockner 15851 SE Ten Eyck Road Sandy. 97055 Editor's note: A special fund has been set up to raise money for the William Brockner fa m ily in care of the Clackamas County Bank in Sandy A happy day To the Editor: I sincerely hope this finds you well and in the very best of sprits this fine day There can be no happier day in my life than that day when a kind friend gave me a copy of your fine paper, the Post. I read it from beginning to end and it is now one of my treasured possessions May God bless you for the good you are doing in your publication and for the help I have found in its pages I am a leper patient with already deformed hands and feet, almost invalid. I have 13 children including five boys and eight girls. All attend school except the four older boys and one older girl who were forced to quit school because of our family financial problems I have no parents to help me in my poverty and affliction It would give me great pleasure to see my humble name in print. I should be very glad and thankful for some of your good readers to write and spare me some love while I'm still in this present life of mine and before kindly death will bring me to our heavenly home. Antonia Alinsog Culion Sanitarium Culion, Palawa Philippines 2913 as properly amended, was impressive, I am certain that since that hearing many of the no-growth adherents have been bombarding the commission with misinformation Therefore, while Hus Friday, Sept 10, is the final day for comment, if there are any residents of the area who have not taken time to write, please do so. The county com missioners will accept for the record any communication poytmarked Sept 10 or before You should write if you are opposed to: 1. Elimination of ZigZag as a village 2. Leaving our highway a two-lane traffic hazard except for a three-lane turnoff at Hoodland Plaza 3. Designating the Truman Road and Lolo Pass Road areas as “ ru ral“ with homes limited to five acre farms 4. Otherwise scattering and spreading papulation all over the mountain rather than providing for growth in three higher density areas- namely. G o v e rn m e n t C am p, W elch es— W em m e— and Brightwood. 5. Increasing our taxes by providing that any future sew ers cannot be connected which could save thousands of dollars. These are but a few of the more flagrant provisions of the five planning commission members There are many others! If you favor the present Mt. Hood Plan, amended so as to To the Editor: While the fact that nearly 100 of us from the Hoodland corridor appeared before the C lackam as County Com mission for the hearing on the effort of five planning com mission members to substitute their own no-growth program for our present Mt. Hood Plan make it more workable as proposed by the Hoodland Chamber of Commerce, then you a Iso should write Simply say you're for our present plan, as limited by the Hoodland Chamber Amend ments You II be glad you did Dick Seller Alpine North ZigZag Germany • '38 To the Editor I certainly hope the San dy Chamber of Commerce rem ained polite as they escorted D avid M cB ride, mayor of Beaverton out the door As chairman of the board of CRAG, McBride naturally is going to be In favor of Its continuation If as he said, (TtAG is merely an extension of our already elected officials; why have it then? Here’s one more politician to remember ladies and gen tlemen. Let's see; there’s Straub, Goldschmidt, McCall, Skoko—and McBride We can be grateful for elected officials like Mayor Hale of Cooa Bay, and Tom Telford commissioner of Clackamas County. These gentlemen won't let the stench of LCDC and CRAG rub off on them! Just read the comprehensive plan being pushed by CRAG. It's “ Germany 1938“ all over again! They spoon feed it like honey now; later on they’ll have a knife to your throat!! (CantInusd on pa»« 111 SERVICE WE GIVE! INSURANCE WE SELL . . . i The personal insù ranca counsel and advica of a local agent it impor tant to you in plan ning a compiate insur ance program Write now Clackamas County Bank <_ _ _ _ _ _ s MONDAY. SE PT . 13 SUHS school board meets at 8 p m at the high school ooo TUESDAY, SEPT. 14 The Sandy C ham ber of Commerce will meet at noon at Foothills Inn Dave Spooner from Mt. Hood Community College and George Morgan, head of a group supporting the SUHS budget, will speak ooo W EDNESDAY. SEPT. IS There will be a meeting of the Taking Off Pounds Sensibly group at 9 a m. at 21421 SE Kirwood Road This is the home of Barbara Boswell ooo Sandy Area Merchant's will meet at G riffs at 6:30 a m WALRAD Sandy, Oregon AGENCY 6684421 Have you joined ban C lub U flllU IL U U Sandy, Oregon • Phone: G68-55Q1 HOODLASD BRASCÏÏ Wemme, Oregon • S22-3131 Y et? Call for details f. A
