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Harbingor of Spring
A C H IP M U N K , out enjoying the sun after a cold M arch, examinee an In trader to his
Foes attack wilderness proposal
MHCC no;
Sandy ok'd
Mt. Hood Community College loot its
fifth levy in a raw but other schools
passed their budgets on Tuesday.
Sandy Elem entary and Bull Run
School Districts were given the go
ahead on their 1977-78 fiscal year
budgets in Tuesday's election
Sandy Supt Clark Ixind exprnmed
pleasure in the budget passage,
which was approved w ith 470 “ yes"
votes and 383 "no" votes
“ We had a lot of people who cam e
together in behalf of the school
system ," Lund said of the victory.
“ 1 understand that thia is the first
tim e in about a doten years that the
levy has passed on the first a t­
tem pt,” said the Sandy superin­
tendent. ” lt seems as though it has
been a tradition that the first levy
attempt has been unsuccessful ' ’
In board elections, Paul Tucker
edged nut Pauline Buhler and
M a rle n e Tebo fo r position 1
representing the Bull Run area on
M t.
Hood
Community
College Operating Levy
(Total votes)
Yes: 8704
No: 10,815
< Clackamas County)
Yea 086
No: 1,293
( Multnom ah County)
Yea : 7630
NO: 9244
(Hood R iver)
Yes 98
No: 78
by Sue Lafky
Sandy Post editor
the Sandy Union High School Board
Tucker w ill replace retiring Board
Chairm an Charles Marsh.
Ralph “ Pete" G riffin, J r., ran
unopposed
fo r
position
2
representing the Welches area and
w ill fill a spot vacated by resigning
board m em ber Robert Dowaett.
In a close race far position 1 on the
Sandy Elem entary District Board,
Donald Brader won by three votes
over Helen Leith
The
Sandy
E le m e n ta ry
School Board is expected to appoint
a new board m em ber to IM1 a term
vacated by A. A. Brewster at its M ay
meeting
That pesition did not go before
voters in Tuesday’s election because
Brewster's resignation came after
the filing date for board openings
Board elections are held once a year
in Oregon
Other unofficial election returns
from the Clackamas County Elec­
tions Office are as follows:
ML Hood Loop Water (three
positions)
Naomi Blaiadell: 48
Nadine (P ic) Ericson: 50
Nell K. Howe: 51
W right said Hatfield has proposed the
Pauline Buhler: 449
M arlene A. Tebo: 270
Paul E Tucker: 538
W ilbur Olaon 131
G eri E ric kso n : 61
Measure No. 3*1: Bull Run
School District Operating
Levy
Yea: 80
No: 32
Bull Run School
Position 3
Director
Sandy High School Director.
Position 2
Ralph “ P ete” G riffin, J r .: 979
Measure
3-21:
Sandy
E le m e n ta r y
S ch o o l
District Operating Levy.
Yes 470
No: 383
Sandy Elementary School
Director, Position 1
Donald M Brader: 389
Helen L Leith: 388
Jim Boiler man: 51
Bull Run School
Position 5
Director
Charles D. Croaton, J r .: 80
Welches School
Position 3
Director.
Joan B erg er: 85
Don L. Thornberg: 180
Hoodland
(th ree
term)
Fire
Directors
positions, full
P a tN .K a a c h : 148
Richard E M cAbery 128
Al Moore: 124
Hoodland F ire D irecto r
( unexplred vacancy)
M ilton M. Fox: 209
Government Camp Sanitary
Sandy Fire Director
positions)
M ary Ann H ill: 18
John W Larson: 17
Lloyd A. Musser: 15
Cottrell School
Position 1
Cottrell School
Position 4
Director.
Boring Water Commissioner
(three positions)
Director,
Henry Norris: 50
D avid L. Ross: 58
Don Snow: 74
DonaldR. Boyles: 108
Cottrell School
Position S
Wayne Belcher: 79
Steven B W atts: 62
Director,
Boring Fire Director (two
positions)
Glenn L. Althauaer: 248
E a rlS . M eier: 550
DeeWsacott: 488
wilderness designation for the Zigzag area
without taking into consideration the Mt.
Hood study and without further study.
This is not the first tim e that Hatfield
has proposed such a bill.
Hatfield said he has revised his earlier
bill in two ways. F irst, he has deleted eight
areas which are sim ilar or identical to
areas in Oregon already being studied for
their wilderness potential by the U.S.
Forest Service
Second, he has expanded the proposed
Bull-of-the-Woods area In the M t. Hood
National Forest to include the entire
proposed Hidden Wilderness In the M t.
Hood and W illam ette National Forest
“ We want to develop legislation which
recognizes unique qualities of these
sanctuaries in our national forest, and
insure
their
protection
for
future
generations ”
Hatfield held field hearings last year in
Grants Pass on his earlier version of the
legislation.
“ At the same time, we also must review
the economic impact of these proposals,”
Hatfield said. “ I rem ain convinced that we
can protect more area as wilderness
without economic loss if we manage our
p u b lic
forests
m o re
e ffic ie n tly .
” 1 w ill continue to press for full funding
Agenda set
(two
Tim othy C. Kaach :472
Charles “ Chuck" M arkw ell: 588
Ron Coleman. 108
Opponents of Sen M ark Hatfield's
proposed Wilderness Omnibus Act w ere in
Sandy trying to gain support this week.
The Senate is slated to hold a public
hearing today on the proposal which would
add 292,710 acres of wilderness area In
O regon, In c lu d in g 17,990 ac re s of
wilderness in the Zigzag Mountain area of
the M t Hood National Forest
There were no objections to holding a
hearing, according to M ike Sullivan of the
Industrial Forestry Association There
are objections to the location of the
hearing—Washington, D.C.
“ The people moat effected by this should
have an opportunity to respond,“ Sullivan
told the Sandy Area Chamber of Com
merce on Tuesday.
Sullivan said testimony would fee ac­
cepted on the proposal until the middle ef
next month, and urged individuals to write
Hatfield and members of the Oregon
Congressional delegation.
The Sandy Chamber went on record
Tuesday in support of local hearings
concerning the proposal The Sandy group
w ill ask nearby Chambers to sign a letter
supporting local hearings. “ You can be a
sparkplug,” SulUvan told the Chamber.
Sandy businessman Stan W right Mon­
day night asked the Sandy City Council to
go on record opposing the bill.
W right told the Council that adding more
wilderness area in the M t. Hood National
Forest would hurt the area's economy to
the same extent as the Bull Run Reserve
closure.
Senior High School Director,
Position 1
Boring School Director
Photo by
Douglas Gantenbein
territory near ZlgZag.
The Sandy Union High School District
Board w ill finalize selections to the
superintendent's screening committee at a
Monday night meeting
The board w ill meet at 8 p.m. on Mon­
day, April 25, in the high school reference
lib rary
O th e r agenda item s in clu d e the
possibility of a girls' basketball program
and financial assistance to the Sandy Ski
Club.
The board w ill also discuss the ap­
pointment of a replacement for form er
board mem ber Robert Dowsett from the
Welches District
for proper forest management and
reforestation through my membership on
the Senate Appropriations Com m ittee.”
Sullivan told The Post that the economic
loss w ill be severe if Hatfield s measure is
passed He said tlw re would be a loss of
266 5 million each year in annual business
income A total of 476 forest industry jobs
and 952 service and trade jobs would be
lost, he said .
There would be a 21.585,890 annual loss
to counties from receipts from the sale of
stum page, said Sullivan.
Sullivan said those figures were based
on a loss in annual allowable harvest of
63.4 million board feet of national forest
tim ber
The following areas are included in the
W ay
V o k 67
Single Copy 16c
197^ version of Hatfield's Omnibus
Wilderness Act .
Boulder Creek in the Umpqua National
Forest; Hidden Wilderness in Mt. Hood
and W illam ette; Kalmiopsis Additions in
Siskiyou: Wenaha and Tucannon in
U m atilla ; and Zigzag in M t Hood.
There would be 420,210 acres of forest
land involved
T o T b a Mt» H ood Playground
SANDY, OREGON. THURSDAY. APRIL 21, 1977
No. 16
Packed Chamber audience
hears Congressman Ullman
by Douglas Gantenbein
staff reporter
Second District Congressman Al U lim an
fielded questions covering a wide range of
subjects st a packed Sandy Chamber of
Commerce
breakfast
last
Thursday
morning.
U llm an, chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee, was in fre g o n to
visit with constituents and to attend a
political symposium in Portland.
Among the topics broached by the
Chamber was the sensitive issue of land
use planning Bill Anderson, a contract
logger, asked Ullm an for his opinion on
Senator Hatfield's wilderness bill, which
would freeze large areas of timber.
“ M y approach,” said Ullm an. "is to take
these areas one at a tim e as opposed to
packaging them like Sen. H atfield."
U llm an believes that timbered areas
should be evaluated individually to
determ ine their adaptability to sustain
yield foresting, m ultiple use or wilderness
preservation.
Ullm an said that “ a sustained yield area
favors multiple use, but if an area can't
regenerate rapidly I don't mind the
wilderness concept.”
intra-state oil laws there are substantial
untapped reserves of gas and oil.
“ But,” he warned, “ we can’t deceive
ourselves;
we are
running out of
petroleum. Our production peaked out in
1972, and we w ill never get back to that
peak.”
U llm an said that in 1972 the United
States imported 37 per cent of its oil. That
figure has since risen to 50 per cent, and
could be as high as 65 per cent in two
years.
"W e must conserve, and convert to a
new energy base," he said. “ It w ill be a
massive job, and it w ill involve all of us.”
U llm an warned the Chamber that
energy is going to cost more regardless of
the source However, he foresees tax
rebates sufficient to cover the increased
cost of basic use energy, and that those
who exceed a basic, “ reasonable“ use will
pay a higher price.
Other subjects covered included the new
estate tax laws and the Indian School
Renovation Program The breakfast was
held at T J .’s.
Ullman added that he opposes too much
infringement on comm ercial timber,
saying
that
“ blanketing
areas
for
wilderness is wrong.”
On a related subject. Dr. Joseph M iller
of Sandy asked Ullm an if he felt any
special control over logging was needed in
watershed areas such as Bull Run and the
L ittle Sandy. M iller is one of the authors of
a class action lawsuit aimed at controlling
logging in watershed areas such as the
Bull Run.
Ullm an replied that although he sup­
ports careful tim ber control in w ater­
sheds. “ good logging is beneficial to a
w ater supply ."
He declined to comment on the need for
special legislation controlling timber in
watersheds and said he would rather see
people in this area decide for themselves
on the issue of watershed boundaries.
A topic more national in scope was
raised by Dale Nicholls of Sandy, who
asked U llm an if he felt enough effort was
being expended at the federal level to beat
the energy crunch.
Ullm an said that even with the price and
distribution problems caused by inter and
Congressman Al Ullm an
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