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Fort Bureaucracy Sue Lafky, E ditor Douglas Gantenbem, Staff Reporter County comment County's bureaucrats w ill 'move In 1 Caroline D u ff, O ffice Manager Carl Weaver, Advertising Manager by Bill Sanderson Published weekly Thursdays by The Outlook Publishing Co Bos 68 Sandy Oregon 97055, Second class postage paid at Sandy Oregon 668 5548 SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Multnom oh and Clockamas Counties per y e a r .............................’ 5 00 In N orthwest and Pacific Coast States outside Oregon per y e a r ................. *7 .00 Servicemen ony ad dress.................‘ 5.00 In Oregon outside Multnomoh ond Clockgmos Counties per year*6 00 *tat—. P** MEMBER Bf A 9Lg>NA L N e W p J I p ER tosocuhon ■ fo u n to d 1895 Page 2 Outside Northwest ond Pocific Coost y *o r...................................................*9.00 viwai- Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association I Represented Nationally by U S SUBURBAN PRESS INC Sandy Post, Sandy, Oregon 97055 No. 21 Thurs., June 2, 1977 Our front page story (along with several other stories we have run) outlines what the city is putting before voters on Tuesday. If voters do have questions on the budget proposal, they should contact Sandy City M anager Paul Helton. He’ll be more than happy to field specific questions. A strong point for property owners is that the estim ated tax rate is 29 cents per $1000 lower than the previous year’s tax rate. That’s good news. There are some increases. For one, the city is offering a badly needed increase in salaries for the city employes. This will upgrade their salary to the level of nearby areas (in some cases the salaries will still be lower) and encourage valuable employes to stay with the city. A high turnover rate in employes is costly to the taxpayers. All in all, we think the city is doing a good job of keeping its belt tight. We urge3 a “yes” vote. But how ever you want to vote — do exercise that right and privilege. (SAL) First Impressions Are Positive On first impressions, we like the new superintendent for Sandy Union H ig h S c h o o l. Jack P eters was the enthusiastic and unanimous choice of the high school board and cam e highly recommended from the Coos Bay d is tric t. P e te rs a p p e a rs un pretentious, straightforw ard and in tellig en t: He has a stro n g background in c u rric u lu m development which should prove useful to the district. P eters told The Post that he plans to stay in Sandy for many years. "We' don’t move lightly, ” he said. In choosing Peters, the board worked together and took the advice of a screening committee consisting of a cross section of community members as well as advisors from the outside. We wish P eters the best in the coming years. (SAL) We were all done a disservice by the m edia’s coverage of last Thursday’s g am e betw een the P o rtla n d • Trailblazers and the Philadelphia 76ers. Not of the gam e itself—we lost fair and square and this fact needed to be conveyed to the disappointed but still interested fans. The disservice was the m anner in which an unseemly third quarter brawl involving both fans and players was paraded before us in slow motion, stop motion and repeat motion. CBS showed the incident three times, carefully zooming in on the com batants to create maximum effect while the announcers clucked like hens at what a disgrace it was. Disgraceful, but they sure seemed to be enjoying it. Media delight in the ¿ght didn’t end there. In its late report, one of the Portland television stations led off late evening news with a verbal description of the fight, then repeated it on video tape twice during the regular sports slot. Underscoring the excessiveness of this reportage was the fact that the release by Moluccan terrorists of the 105 Dutch school children not only took back seat to the gam e in the broadcast order, but received several minutes less coverage as well. Basketball crazy though Portland may be, it is in the best interests of both fans and non-fans alike to be spared the grim details of a barroom brawl by a gang of overpaid ball players, and given a bit m ore com plete coverage of the world at large. (DG) That Old Feeling It’s not news, of course, that Mt. Hood Community College is having problems at the polls; five straight levy defeats attest to that. College officials would give the proverbial family jewels if they knew just why. One reason, it’s suggested, is that the College has lost touch with its constituents. Thus it was interesting last week to hear Dr. Stephen Nicholson, College president, say he hoped to set up ‘‘Blue Ribbon’’ committees next year and the year following to study and report back on the vocational- tech n ical and college tra n s fe r programs. The prototype, of course, was the Blue Ribbon committee on athletics and other activities which recently completed its report. In lauding work of the co m m ittee, N icholson suggested sim ilar citizen groups might very profitably study other areas. Citizen involvement was one of the keys, if not the most im portant key, to Mt. Hood’s early successes. Hence, we think Nicholson’s suggestion to implement in-depth studies of College programs might go a long ways toward restoring that old feeling. The Class of 1977 This is graduation time, a time when a whole new life will begin for a whole new crop of young people. We’re speaking particularly of high school students, not so much of those who have gone on to college. High school graduates face a world where the emphasis is not so much on higher education but increasingly on vocational-technical skills. A college degree, unless it be in a professional field, no longer is much of a passport to anything Today’s graduates who enter vocational or technical fields can expect to advance, both in salary and prestige, just as rapidly as those who go on to higher education. But w hichever ro u te to d a y ’s graduates may take — vo-tech co u rses, higher ed u catio n , the military etc. — education, additional training, is absolutely necessary. The Class of 1977 is just beginning its education. I I 4 - * # ^ LJ Î " Joi» See unity City Tax Rate Lowers Put us on the record in support of the City of Sandy’s proposed budget for the 1977-78 fiscal year. The budget document is easy to understand and we believe the city staff and council have more than adequately supported what increases have been proposed. -h ▼ ’ W TH 'PBOCE/1 fetters to the editor N u cle ar concern To the Editor: Your May 26 issue featured an article by Sen. Ken. Jern stedt making favorable com ments about nuclear power safety and the desirability of another nuclear plant at Pebble Springs Those of us who are gravely concerned about nuclear plants fear them for a variety of reasons They continually give off small amounts of radiation into air and water They produce tons of waste which are a hot mixture of radio active elements giving off gamma rays for as much as a half million years. We have no place in the United States to safely store, process, or make safe these wastes and no technology to treat them. Their accumulation at Trojan and elsewhere is a threat to our own and future generations Nuclear plants are built with safety features to prevent a “ meltdown". Vast quantities of water are circulated around the steel containment vessel to carry away heat so great as to melt steel and concrete within a minute or so if the flow is stopped. Operators will make quick use of control rods to stop the chain reaction. There is however, a residual “ decay" heat that can rise to meltdown temperatures and for this emergency gas or diesel pumps are provided. Read Readers Digest article, Burning Question of Brow ns F e rry where nuclear catastrophe was averted with a razor thin edge. Sen Jernstedt compares nuclear safety record with auto deaths about which we do not get excited. He forgets that a million dollar federal report (Rasmussen) stated that a meltdown was a remote chance but that one could kill 45,000 people outright and give radiation sickness and lingering death to several times that number and render a state sized area unliveable for years. We all should be interested in the decision of Judge James B McMillan, Federal District Court, Charlotte, N C . on March 31. The judge found the Price-Anderson Act un constitutional This law provides insurance for nuclear plants as a direct subsidy and limits what people m ay collect in lawsuits following nuclear accident. The judge found that there, would be no nuclear plants if Congress had not provided most of the liability insurance at public expense He stated, “ Private insurance companies won’t write policies to cover such loses" and “ the Act (Price-Anderson) violates due process clause because it allows destruction of property or lives without reasonable certainty that the victims will be justly compensated " Likely a swift appeal to the Supreme Court will be made and failing there the nuclear industry will pressure Congress for relief of risk (that they claim is minimal). Meanwhile we are likely just as well off without another nuclear plant. W. PeteSulzbach 38630 SE Hudson Rd. Sandy, Ore. Thanks To the Editor: We, the Cub Scouts, Webeios, Leaders, and Parents of Cub Scout Pack 248 wish to thank the citizens of Sandy for their support of our recent paper drive. It is the biggest fund raising activity of the year. This year we picked up 15^ tons of newspaper, which is the most we have ever done. We thank you again, and hope that you will continue to give us your support Cub Scout Pack 248 V o lle y b a ll fe a t The Post received a copy of the following letter addressed to the Sandy Union High School sophomore class. The class recently broke the world’s volleyball marathon record to earn a place in the Guinness Book of Recdrds “ To the Class o f’79: I extend my hearty congratulations on setting a new volleyball m arathon record for the Guinness Book of Records Long after you graduate you’ll look back to the fun and agony of meeting this challenge. With this same enthusiasm, organizational a b ility and perserverance, your remaining two years will be highly en joyable and undoubtedly most rewarding. If the quality of a class can be known by its spirit, then yours must be an ex traordinary one I wish each of you continued success in all you do. Sincerely, M ark O. Hatfield United State Senator Jernstedt supports land-use notification State Sen Ken Jernstedt has noted a “ frantic" increase in activity in the state senate as the end of the session ap proaches. On one recent day 39 bills came before the senate for final vote. Several key bills are still awaiting final action. One of them, SB570, Jernstedt has termed the major piece of land use legislation to come out of the senate. "Under SB570," Jernstedt said, “ landowners who would be affected by a land-use decision would have to be notified by first class mail This is a definite protection for property owners and is long overdue ” In the past, the government could makechanges in land-use designations without notifying the land owner Jernstedt said the bill has moved out of his E nvironm ent and Energy Committee with a “ do pass" recommendation. The bill would also restrict the ability of the Land Con servation and Development Commission to take over local planning if it feels local governments are not doing the job. In the energy arena, a bill favored by Gov. Bob Straub that would alter distribution of Bonneville Power Ad ministration power is having a rough time. The b ill, SB320, would establish a n**w Domestic Rural Power Authority that would distribute Bonneville power between public and private u tility organizations at preferential rates. The new system would be triggered if Congress fails to work out new regional power and utility rates. Jernstedt foresees a big problem for the bill as it goes before the Ways and Means committee. He said several members of that committee opposed the bill in the energy committee Jernstedt said, “ I would wager that the bill still has a long way to go before the governor will have a chance to sign it into law and time is c e rta in ly working against him.” Commencement due Sandy Union High School will hold their 1977 Commencement exercises this Sunday, Junes. Weather permitting, the ceremony will be held outdoors in Rannow Stadium No ticket will be required for admission • In the event of rain, commencement will be moved into the school gym, in which case an admission ticket will be required Preceding commencement will be a baccalaureate service at 2 p m. in the gymnasium. Senior valedictorian for Sandy High will be Sarah Koepke Salutatcrian is Virginia Hewgley and Outstanding Senior is Gretchen Denhart There are 200 seniors in this year’s graduting class. War is declared! County's bureaucrats will “ move in"! Clackamas County’s central g o v e rn m e n t—bureaucratic, that is—threatens to invade several portions of the county. A sort of a “ shape up or ship out" ultimatum was issued in a news release dated Mav 18. from the office of County Extension Agent Ardis Stev enson who coordinates the county’s citizen involvement program ” Also quoted in the “ ultimatum," excuse me, the release, was a Mr. Dick Van Ingen, identified as a “ plan ner," a county employe In the planning department. After announcing a stepped up time-table for zoning the county’s rural areas with a target date of December, 1977, and identifying certain areas where community planning organizations are already working with planners, the news release continued: “ However, in the unin corporated areas of Redland, V iola. Logan, C ottrell, Estacada and Molalla, no citizen organizations are identified." The implication was: that's bad! The concluding im plication, arid the real purpose of the release as I see it, was that both Ms. Stevenson and Van Ingen stressed, (in their own words) the inevitability of a recalcitrant community's defeat and final submission to coordination, and coercion. Actually, if it were not for the ridiculolus spectacle of a- couple of county bureaucrats threatening to impose a sub standard, unworkable set of rules, regulations and operating procedures upon perhaps as many as 10 thousand county property owners who got where they are without the questionable benefit of either a "coordinator" or a "planner" this threatened "w ar” might be serious But in truth, this level of administration directs and encourages the root-structure of the most noxious and destructive growth on the A m erican scene: the ' ‘government bureaucracy and that's serious! Specifically, there are three things wrong with the proposed stepped-up program of coerced cooperation to bring the "non cooperating" communities into line. The first and most important is that there is no law, no county ordinance and no properly created and identified public need or demand for such local organizations defined, chartered and controlled by a county bureaucracy. The second is that obviously the non-conforming com munities do have some sort of community organization or consensus thut enables them to maintain and continue their independence The third is that such com munities may have been completely disenchanted and dissatisfied with the county’s past performance in the fields of la nd-use planning and citizen involvement and participation. The record could hardly be worse, So—ho. Cottrell, Redland, .Viola, Logan, Estacada and Molalla, watch out! Here they come and each of you will have a small handful of citizens willing to say that they represent your area and are willing to "go along" with the dogma of a controlled citizenry It may be that the threadbare cloak of individual freedom and independence is all that you will have left, after December. Well, wear it in personal pride for the heroic defense of your principles, as you freeze to death inside of the warm and cozy ring of the coerced, coordinated, and comfortable Keeping posted æ City Couridl meets Monday o oo THURSDAY, JUNE 2 The Sandy Area Chamber of Oregon Trail Coffee Hour will Commerce will discuss the start at 9:30 a m. implementation of goals for the ooo coming year and see a short SUNDAY. JUNE 5 show by Post There's an old fashioned box slide social in the making for the photographer Douglas Gan- San-Cada CBers and their tenbein. The noon meeting Is at guests from 2 - 6 p.m. at Oral Babe’s Big Boy Pizza Parlor Hull Park The public is in and is open to the public. ooo vited. Women will make the W EDNESDAY. JUNE 8 lunches and men will buy them Take Off Pounds Sensibly Proceeds will go to Oral Hull (TOPS) will meet at 9:30 a.m. Foundation for the Blind. at the Sandy Community Action ooo Center. MONDAY. JUNES ooo The Sandy City Council will The Cottrell School Board hold its regular monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the will meet tonight at 8 for its Council Chambers The agenda regular monthly session at the includes a public hearing on a school The public is invited to house termed a “ nuisance" attend and “ unsafe" as well as a request for water from an Vandals hit outside city limits user. ooo TUESDAY. JU N E 7 Vandals incurred about 177 in Sandy voters will go to the damage at the Mt. Hood Fruit polls to vote on an operating M a rk e t on H ighw ay 26 levy for the City of Sandy. sometime late last Friday Voting booths will be open from night, May 27. 8 a m. to 8 p.m. in the Sandy A number of ceramic garden City Hall basement. Precincts decorations were shattered by 101-102 will vote. the vandals. All Lines of Insurance & Bonds I REPRESENTING: United Pacific Unigard USF&G North West Austin Mutual St. Paul Life & Many Others 39051 Proctor Blvd. P .0 . 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