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County comments A uto production accounts fo r ’surge' Sue Lafky, Editor Caroline Duff, O ffice Manager Jim Fugelstad. Advertising Manager by Bill Sanderson Published w eekly Thursdoy» by The Outlook Publishing C o . Boa 68 Sondy Oregon 97055 Se<ond doss po t tog« poid ot Sondy Oregon The complexities of our economic system bear strange fruit in the un-looked for and unw an ted side effects of “ tin k e r in g ” w ith the 668 5548 SUBSCRIPTION RATES In M ultnom ah and Clockomos Counties per y e a r ............................. *5 00 In Northwest ond Pocilic Coos» States outside Oregon per y e o r .................*7.00 Servicemen ony oddress.................*5.00 In O regon outside Multnomoh ond Clockomas Counties per yeor *6 00 member »Ni Page 2 ER Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Sandy Post, Sandy. Oregon Outside Northwest ond Pacific Coast stotes per yeor ................................ *9 00 Represented Notionolly by U S SUBURBAN PRESS INC No. 16 UN W| Thurs.. April 21, 1977 Election Results: A Mixed Bag You can read in national magazines how “angry taxpayers” are “up in arms” over tax increases and how special levies “are being voted down in droves.” That just isn’t the case here in Oregon. Final results from Tuesday’s balloting remain to be tabulated, but there just wasn’t massive resistance to school and municipal levies. Here in our area, Mt. Hood Com munity College lost again. So did Reynolds (by two votes), Gresham Union High and Corbett. But Gresham Grade won easily, likewise Fire District 10, Centennial (the latter by three votes), Sandy Elementary, Orient, Bull Run, Oregon City, Parkrose, Lake Oswego, etc. Voters obviously were in a mood to pick and choose but just as obviously were not in a mood to reject everything that smacked of tax in creases. Mt Hood Community College continues to have its problems, losing its fifth straight money issue over two years. Further deep cuts seem inevitable. Recounts may be called in some of the elections . . .Reynolds loser by 2 votes, Centennial winner by 3, etc. A further spate of elections this spring must be scheduled by those districts who were defeated Tuesday. There may be some “angry tax payers” in our area, but that sort of feeling certainly isn’t universal. A lot of people obviously feel the schools and municipalities are doing a good job and are willing to increase their taxes as a result Those Extra Costs We’ve been hearing a lot lately about “ mandated costs”, costs assessed against a government entity through legislative action. The legislature decides, for in stance, that every county should have a grunion inspector. No money is provided to fund the new office but the counties have to obey the law and provide one. This is a “ mandated” cost (mandated by the legislature). An excellent example of just how expensive these costs can be was outlined in a staff memo from MHCC Pres. Stephen Nicholson this week. The Public Employees Retirement System (State of Oregon) has raised employer contributions by 1.30 per cent on each as of July 1, 1978, 1979 and 1980. This eventually will boost the College’s current 7.6 per cent con tribution to 12.81 per cent on July 1, 1981. It means MHCC will have to in crease its present retirement con tribution of $561,250 per annum to $931,233. What else does this mean? Funding for 357 less full-time equivalent students for one. Or to put it another way, nine of the College’s fourteen departments have budgets of less than $506,000. Which department should MHCC eliminate to take care of the retirement program mandated by the state? Local governments have com-, plained bitterly about these kinds of uninvited costs. We can understand why. If the legislature wants to im pose new burdens, perhaps they should provide the money to pay the freight. ' They Just Don't Believe We listened to a radio talk show Monday evening just after Pres. Carter’s message on energy con servation. Not a single caller, not one, believed the energy shortage was real. All felt it was contrived, manufactured or just not true. Some of the reasons were weird, others made sense. One caller said that as long as the government allowed illegal aliens to enter the country by the thousands and thousands, he couldn’t believe there was any shortage. Another relied on the law of supply and demand. Service stations have all the gas they want, there isn’t any shortage anywhere. “If the problem is so bad,” he asked rhetorically, “ why doesn’t the government start cutting back on supplies? ” In the face of such almost total public disbelief in any crisis, Carter may have a very tough time selling his energy program. We happen to believe what he says, that we’re running very, very short of energy. But thus far at least, the ad ministration hasn’t convinced the taxpayers. A Call for Order We hope that the April 25 school board meeting will be more orderly and have less of a zoo atmosphere than some of the past few meetings have had. The controversy involving the school board has gone beyond issues at hand—many personality conflicts are involved and The Post staff does not believe it is the purpose of the newspaper to nurture such conflicts. Issues should be brought up in the open—at public meetings. We dislike unsubstantiated rumors floating around the community. Last week we wrote about a session which, at least during one portion, disintegrated into a minor fiasco. The board chairman and a district patron were yelling; other members of the audience were chiming in. We think patrons have a right to come to meetings and state their opinion. This is a public forum and we like to see patrons who take a con structive interest in the district and its students. We do not appreciate members of the audience muttering, talking back and forth and generally speaking out « of turn like several did at the last meeting. We also think the board should retain a tighter control on meeting order and insist on the use of parliamentary procedure at all times. Last week we reported that Phil Sober and Board Chairman Charles Marsh got into a shouting match after Sober stood up to make a point at the meeting. Sober had been trying to get the chairman’s attention for some time. But Sober was clearly out of order when he spoke, in our opinion. Don’t get us wrong—he had a right to make his comments—just not at that time. Sober has told us that our indirect quote that he said the board would have to physically throw him out of the meeting was inaccurate. We believe Sober, however, when he said we should have attributed that one statement to another man, whom we haven’t identified. We apologize to Sober. But if people would wait until they’re recognized by the chairman before speaking, their chances of being m isquoted would be dramatically reduced. (SAL) They want a 'running' shot letters to the editor Staff likes visits To the Editor: The teachers of Sandy Union High School are good teachers dedicated to providing the best possible education to each student that they have in or out of class, contrary to the article appearing in last week’s Sandy Post, suggesting that teachers are put out by citizenry visiting the classrooms. We believe that part of the best possible education is p a re n t-te a c h e r com munication; we therefore, encourage parents to become involved in their school and its a c tiv itie s by v is itin g the teacher’s classrooms, not just one a year but often. We also encourage patrons of the school who have no children or have no children in school now and the school board to visit the classroom to become acquainted w ith the staff and the quality education being offered. W e also support the visitor’s procedure. Paul Montgomery Sandy Education Association (SRA i Sandy Union High School Thanks To the Editor: The Boring P .T.A . would like to extend their thanks to the area’s businesses and in dividuals who donated prizes, supplies, and a d v e rtis in g space. Your contributions along with the enthusiasm of our Boring students helped make our Annual Carnival a beauti ful success. Clarice Moss P.T.A . Secretary Visiter? To the Editor: I am a p p a lle d by the statements of Supt. DeMarsh and SUHS Board Chairm an Marsh, as reported in The Sandy Post April 14. As a p ar ent, I rejoice in Mrs. Brew ster’s dedication and initiative. I consider M r. DeM arsh and M r. M a rs h ’s b eh av io r irre s p o n s ib le and ungen- tlemanly. I t is disturbing that an elected representative of the public should be considered a “visitor.” As a taxpayer, I con sider her part of the school It is also disturbing to realize that the adm inistration and personnel of the school, and the board chairman, not only do not appreciate a selfless hard working board mem ber, but actually seem to resent her I feel strongly that we need more board members with M rs Brew ster’s dedication, and would therefore like to recommend for Board Position 2 Pete G riffen, who w ill be a Stolen auto gets wrecked An automobile stolen from a Sandy re sid en t ended up wrecked on the outskirts of Gresham last Wednesday. A 1963 Buick belonging to Dan Greer, Bluff Road, was taken from G reer's home and was involved in a high-speed chase, ended by the d riv e r’s wreck on Highway 26 near Gresham. Oregon State Police apprehended a Juvenile in connection with the theft. SUHS budget hearing May 9 The Sandy High School Budget Com mittee Monday night finished work on a proposed 63,138,903 buget for the 1977-78 fiscal year. A public hearing on the budget, which is due togo before voters June 28, w ill be held Monday, M ay 9, a t 8 p.m. in the high school resource library. The proposed budget is up from this ye ar’s total of $2,787,481. SUHS Business M anager W illard Boring said even though the total proposed budget to higher than last year, the levy will be “ T h at should be good news for voters,” he said. The proposed levy for 1977-78 to $1,597,016—down from this ye ar’s levy of $1,707,541. The reason for the reduction in the proposed levy to the addition of more revenue from state sources, as well as extra income from tuition students from the Redland district the 1977-78 financial resources w ill amount to $1,1*7,470, said Boring. Thia year the district received a total of 9M9.57O from sources such as the State of Oregon and Redland tuition. Copies of the proposed budget document m ay be inspected or obtained between the hours of 9:30 s.m . and 4 p m . at the high school administration office. hard working and responsible member I hope that the arrogant behavior of the ad ministration w ill not deter other qualified people from seeking board membership. Dorothy C Bruns P.O. Box 57 Sandy, 97055 Editor's note: This letter was received after the publication of the pre-election edition of The Post. machinery. Econom ists of nation al stature have never been among m y fa v o rite people, and especially those who have attained that preem.nence by attaching themselves to one p a rtic u la r sector of the economy — a relationship suggesting the peculiar aliance of the armed hunter and lus little beagle dog The short-legged mutt cannot catch rabbits with his loud bayir« and the hunter cannot frighten them into running with his silent gun But the part nership—hah!—that’s a dif ferent matter, and the rabbit always loses And now, Dear Rabbit, er, that is. “ Reader” here is how one of those “side-effects of tinkering with our wonderful p e r pet ual-m ot ion-economic- money-machine Just happened to pop up last week. In January and February the word got out that something lik e >6 b illio n would be available to the American public through the ISO tax credit, work programs and various other cash credits or handouts— (they mean the same, they only have different names). Am ong the ve ry sm art operators who could see the woods behind the trees in such a situation were the automobile manufacturers, sadly won dering what they were going to do with hundreds of expensive plants tooled up fo r the production of big, expensive and gas-guzzling cars. In the same row of seats at the g o v e rn m e n t's banquet ta b le — (o r m oney trough, according to how hard you have been hit lately) sit the great energy producers, hungrily licking their lips over what could well become another opportunity for another rip-off based on their nationally known economist’s appraisal of the situation Came the end of M arch and then the day in April when the economic score card for March would be totaled. What a surprise? P ro d uctio n fo r M arch , buoyed up by the expectation of the so o n -to -b e -av aila b le 6 billion plus was up almost 1.5 per cent, the highest monthly Jump in the last nineteen months! T hat would have been great for everyone except for one thing Much of that rise in national production was caused by a great forw ard surge in the n u m b er of autom obiles produced, and an unusually large per cent of them were big, expensive and gas-guzzling ones! So now we have an indication of an up-turn in the economy which ushers in a greater consumption of our scarce energy supplies, which will contribute to a greater scarcity of gasoline supplies, which will cause a n o th e r reason for raising the price of TH A T power source, which w ill cause another down turn in national production. W ell, run, little rabbit, run, and I do hope you won't get shot from behind with a great big brand new car Just as the next little beagles of inflation are baying fo r an ab so lutely necessary raise In energy prices School superintendent says: Growth seen as challenge Last of s series. by Sue Lafky, Sandy Post editor Sandy Supt. Clark Lund said he isn't looking at the projected g ro w th of the Sandy Elem entary School district as a crisis situation. “ I see this as p art of the day- to-day process,” he said. Growth can lead to a crisis situation in a school dtotcict, but Lund doesn’t see that happening In Sandy. _jhe superintendent said he is approaching the projected steady increase in the student papulation in a m atter of fact, problem solving manner. Sandy’s growth, which to expected to In c re ase moderately during the next five years, w ill probably be one of the m ain topics of the Sandy E le m e n ta ry School B oard meetings in the next few months, Lund said. In a study done by the Field Training and Service Bureau from the University of Oregon College of Education, alter natives were noted such as building a new facility in the Kelso area, going to neigh borhood schools and reorganizing grade structure in district buildings. The study team noted both long and short-range options for the district, and pointed out that both the Firwood and Interm ediate Buildings are now being used a t m ore than 100 per cent capacity. Copies of the study team's report are available a t the d is tric t o ffice of Sandy Elem entary District. Lund said the board w ill be considering options besides the ones listed in the bureau’s study. The Sandy district staff to currently doing cost projec tions on a year-round school program sim ilar to the one now in effect in the Gresham Elem entary School District. Izind said the board has indicated a desire to narrow down the options to one or two alternatives, and working with architects on those proposals. “ By giving the architects the information, they can give us an estimated price tag," Lund said The growth of the Sandy district could be influenced by a number of factors, including future energy availability and trends in the development of industry and housing In the area. The bureau, in making the study, in d icate d th a t the greatest growth will be the prim ary grades within the Kelso area The Lund said the district will population growth will be want to gain citizen input on the slowest in the Sandy Ridge and proposed alternatives. Dover area, the study team “ When the board narrows noted. down the viable alternatives, Lund said the growth of the we w ill actively pursue com community was slowed during munity response to the in the last energy crisis in 1974. formation. We w ant to know There weren’t as many what the mood of the com people moving out to the rural munity to going to be in areas due to a shortage of gas, w eigh ing one a lte rn a tiv e Lund said. “ That was reflected against the other.“ in school enrollments.” A slide show featuring the The greatest growth year on district’s growth and alter record was In 1971, with 100 natives tor growth to available students added to the district from the elem entary school o ver the previous year's district enrollment. In 1972 there wan “ I w ill be taking the slide an increase of 18 students, program wherever I can find followed by an increase of 43 interested groups," Lund said. students in 1973 and only one student in 1974. There was an increase of 52 students in 1975, bringing the total district population to 1,372. This year, the enrollment is a t 1,455—an increase of 56 The annual Welches School students over the previous year. Next year, the University kindergarten registration or ha* been of Oregon study team projects “ R o u n d -U p ” that there will be 1,506 students scheduled for Tuesday, April in the four Sandy schools 26, at 10:30 a m . in the school (F irw o o d , Sandy Ridge, library. Pat-ents are invited to bring Interm ediate and Upper their kindergarten age children G rad e). Moat of the growth will be in to this inform ational meeting Round-up slated r H O tii .0 Uj O oc 3 UJ z & SHOW 5 Times Larger Then Lett Yeerl Assembly Hall MEMORIAL COLISEUM April 28 ■ May 1 Thurs., April 28 ..................... 8pm-10pm Frl., April 29-Sun., May 1.........Noon-10pm A d u lts.................................................. $2 50 Juniors (6 15)....................................... $1 00 Children (Under 6 ) ............................ Free I O' unbelievable low show pures read the Apn ZK’ ti Portland O'eqnnian Hep,nr Clinir.1 • Demonstrations • Seminars • Display I 3 X s m CZ)
