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2 - SANDY (Ore l POST Tburt., July 21. 1977 (Sac 2l
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Over-population top problorn m dog world
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by Tony Knoidek
staff reporter
Editor's note. This is the second in a
series on anim al control in Clackamas and
Multnomah Counties, la the final in
stallment nest week The Post w ill look at
programs available to have dogs and cats
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neutered or spayed.
••There is no perfect way to k ill an
animal. The thing to do is to keep them
from being born.'*
— M ary Scriver. educational
coordinator at the Multnomah
County Anim al Control Center
in Troutdale.
If there is an agency or organisation that
is a whipping boy for the public when it
comes to anim al control, it is the center in
Troutdale
“ People have attacked our investigators
with everything from guns to two-by-
fours.” M ary Scriver. educational coor
cknator for the county anim al control
center said “ W e've had officers beat up
when out making pick-ups and someone
tried to strangle me once ”
I t ’s a catch-22 situation for the animal
control center “ As far as the public is
concerned, there are two things the dog
catcher can do wrong,” Scriver continued.
“ He can go out and catch dogs or he
cannot catch dogs People want the dogs
picked up. but they want the dog catcher to
leave their own dog or a friend’s dog
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The number one problem. Scriver said,
is pet over-population. Logically, the
solution to the problem is for persons to
have their animals spayed or neutered
“ If dogs get too over crowded, nature
takes over T here’s too much competition
for food and space and diseases set in,”
Scriver said
At the Multnomah County Animal
Control Center in 197«. 18.472 dogs were
Impounded Of these, 12,405 were killed
and 1.735 were impounded dead
Both the anim al control center and the
Oregon Humane Society in Portland use
the Euthanaire method to destroy the
not the case at a ll.”
At the Troutdale center, dogs are held in
the kennels for a m axim um of seven days
If
they
or adopted out in
they
*re are
not not
c la claimed
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that time, they are killed, ‘ je n ia te d and
reduced to a pile of paper like bones that
are shoveled into trash cans.
Walking through the kennels, one feels
as If he la passing through a death row for
dogs In kennel after kennel dogs howl or
play or simply star« ttt
unaware of their fate
“ People bring in Utters all the time,
Scriver said “ And the litters get killed In
our modern, throw away society, people
animals
Euthanaire is a highaltitude simulation
machine in which the animals are taken to
an elevation that is equivalent of the top of
treust dogs like they are paper plates
“ They say they want their animals to be
free Well, that's the same as saying they
are worthless If there is no Investment in
the animal then people don't care And
M t. Everest
“ They quickly become groggy, go un
conscious and then die w h ile un
conscious," Scriver said. “ I t ’s a lot like
carbon monoxide poisoning except that it’c
safer for the person operating the
they call i t ‘free '
Scriver said the laws that are written
for animals may someday be re written
for people “ No dog ever breaks the leash
law People do, but the dogs take the rap
machine ”
The Euthanaire method for destroying
animals also is used in Clackamas County,
where Richard Wick, director of dog
control there, said more than HMM) dogs
had been killed by the county through
for
u
And when dogs are picked up by owners
at the kennel, people treat the dog as If it
should have known better than to leave the
M ay.
In Clackamas County, the dog control
center “ gets the dirty work,” Wick said
“ After we impound the dog. we bring it in
to the kennel If there is no identification,
we ll hold it for five days before doing
anything with it. If there is identification,
we sent people a letter that the dog has
yard
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“ People consider this place a dog jail,
Scriver said. “ They come in here, find
their animal, and say. Now listen here
dog I hope youve learned your lesson
Now maybe you’ll stick around the yard '
“ The dog. aits there and looks and
listens, but what the devil - he's not the
been impounded
“ If no one shows up after five days, we
can adopt the dog out or put the anim al to
one that broke the law
“ U everybody was a good animal owner,
we'd be out of business,“ Scriver a d
m itted '’But we wouldn’t mind that at
sleep.“ W ick said
The statistics are equally as grim in
Clackamas County, where W ic k M id 75 per
cent of the dogs impounded are killed
The problem. Wick said. Is irresponsible
•r e destroyed.
a ll.”
For Scriver, there la no sugar coating
the statistics and the problem of anim al
overpopulation
raising a child
• People don't let their children run all
over the country and they can’t let animals
do it either ”
Director of the Oregon Humane Society
Gene Burgess said be believes .the
Euthaniare (or high altitude) method of
and
owner
irrespon
sibility
“ The way we feel la that people have to
know what is going on We have to make it
mors difficult for irresponsible anim al
owners and leas difficult for the reapon
pet owners “ Responsible pet owners can
end the problem People have got to
realize that having an anim al in this day
and age requires just as much care as
Utility cutback plans ordered
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thara are manv miacon
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said there are many miacon
ceptions about Euthanaire. “ A lot of
people have visions of lungs being turned
inside out and brains exploding. but that's
1 Scriver
A YO UNG pup struggles tu
greet visitor« at the Multnomah
County Animal Control center
In Troutdale. Up la 75 per cent
of the dogs brought to the
center are destroyed.
Bible ones
“ Nobody want* to say, Hey. I went out
and killed 30 or 40 dogs this morning ' But
It’s happening everyday and we have to
tell it like it is.
extrem ely unlikely, but are
i« n i„ d .d in case of d ire
“ If the publicity gets 75 per cent of the
not continue, and 10 per cent if inclu ded in case
people to go out and get their dog spayed or
mandatory curtailm ent Each
killing
the
animals
is
the
most
humane
one
emergency
they do continue at 7 to 8 per
is to be triggered by the in
neutered, then that's great
In Stage I I of mandatory
there is.
cent below forecast usage
creasing probability that the
curtailm ent, cuts would be
• Thia idea of not saying how many are
“ I'm strongly In support of the method l
Mandatory curtailment can
region s reservoirs w ill not be
based on a customer's monthly
killed In a day or a month la wrong The
know we have our critics, but I m con
be implemented only if the
able to supply enough elec
usage one year prior to the
problem la that thia la happening “
vinced that it is the most humane method
governor
d eclares
an
tricity until next spring, when
emergency, which can be curtailm ent A customer who
going ”
stream runoff begins again
extended beyond 30 days only used more power than allowed
Latest predictions from the
by the legislature, meeting ui would first be charged an ex
Northwest Power Pool com
special session. Plans would be cess-power surcharge, based
puter model are for 52-54
implemented by the utilities on the e x tra cost to the utility of
million acre feet of water by the
supplementing its less ex
under PUC supervision
end of the month, worse than
In a third conditional use
area The lot is currently zoned
The plan provides th a t pensive supplies with more
depth to width ratio of 4 65 to 1
any recorded year and just
T h re e
ap p licatio n s
for
costly power to meet that
for Rural Residential Farm application, Sandy Union High
im tead of the required 2 5 to I .
about h alf the h istorical residential customers who can
conditional use permits and one
School wants to build a farm
prove they have curtailed customer's demand.
Forest use
The lots affected are about
median of 106 million acre feet
If noncompliance continued, for an ordinance change w ill be
voluntarily since Gov
Bob
Placement of another mobile structure for instructional use
2000
feet
north
of
the
Hoff
Probability of mandatory
Straub's request in March will a customer would be discon among the requests faced by
home on a non residential on the south side of Bell Street
meister Road and 257th Avenue
curtailm ent this fall is 50 per
parcel la In a request made by 900 feet west of Bluff Road on a
not be forced “ to curtail on a nected for two days the first the Clackamas County Plan
intersection
lot
c u rre n tly
zoned
for
compound basis.
and can tim e and five days for further ning Commission at their next
In a conditional use ap D S . Rogers He would like to
violations, in addition to the meeting on July 35.
obtain adjustments
install a mobile home on a reaidentinl use.
plication. L arry Rafferty has
The planning commission
In the ordinance waiver.
on the south side of
Under the proposal, volun surcharge No customer could
asked to place a mobile home parcel
w ill meet in the Clackamas
disconnected
w ithout Igino Warangon has requested
tary curtailment first would be
and storage shed for use at h it Thomas Road In the Sandy
entail a general request for written notification of appeal permission to create three lots father's residence on a lot on area The lot is currently zoned County Courthouse In Oregon
on a 7.22 acre piece of land In
City
cutbacks — which in effect rights
Weber Road in the E a g le t reek far Transitional Tim ber.
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Utilities would monitor their the Boring area, each with a
Gov Straub issued in March —
and then a more urgent request major-use customers and all
to adjust thermostats and custom ers who previously
eliminate unnecessary outdoor violated curtailment orders All
other customers would be
lighting
M a n d a to ry c u r t a ilm e n t monitored of necessity on a
it to log on convex slopes and
would re q u ire u tilitie s to random, representative basis
cooperative program involving s m a lle r than any system
Researcher* in the Oregon
Some q u asig o vern m en tal
restrict electricity use. impose
several timber companies, for available in the U S . It la uneven terrain
S ta te
U n iv e rs ity
forest
It la also leas damaging to the
excess-use surcharges or and governmental users —
testing the OSU forest The tractor <kawn and it takes its
engineering department are
forest floor than either tractor
disconnect service for ex including hospitals, police and
Mini-Alp, built in Scotland, is power from the tractor
attempting to find economical
or large skyline operations
ceeding allowed usage At this fire stations and other facilities
being tested to determine ita
methods for harvesting small
The OSU Forest Extension
of
critical
importance
—
would
One of Its unique features la
stage, employment and in
suitability to Northwest con
its ability to utilize a system of Service will demonstrate the
dustrial production would be be partially exempt from the tim ber on steep terrain
ditions
Studies show that an in
first two stages of mandatory
intermediate supports along Mini-Alp to repreaentatlvea
disrupted
creasingly large percentage of
the skyline This technology from the logging industry thia
C u rta ilm e n t
of
outdoor curtailm ent
Relatively, inexpensive at
The new plan w ill in most Oregon's tim ber supply w ill be about 860.000 the M ini-Alp la borrowed from ski lift», enable» faD.
lighting would be followed by
c o m ii< from stands of smaller
across-the-board
percentage cases supersede plans which
cuts for all customers, and have been on file since 1973 and tim ber, rather than the large
old growth trees Much of the
finally restriction of retail, 1974, when utilities first were
commercial, industrial and required to file them. While the smaller tim ber is on steep
does
not slopes and uneven terrain
government operations along com m ission er
Presently, loggers employ
p ub licly
owned
with service interruption or re g u la te
advises letting the strawberries only in late spring or summer
voltage reduction
to all utilities, state statutes require huge skyline yarders to harvest
When the harveat of June-
on steep slopes, but these
They are distinguished from
customers on a rotating basis all utilities, whether investor
b earing
s tra w b e rrie s
is go dormant from mid-July to
systems are too expensive to
mid-August. W ater and fertilize everbearers (Quinault, Gem.
The most severe measures are owned or publicly owned, to
finished, the beds should be
make them practical for small
Rockhill),
which
the berry planta In mid August Ogallala.
have plans on file
cleaned up
produce two crops, one in June
wood harvest
U
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ready
them
for
the
fniit-
•That means removing old
A leas expensive method of
and another In U te summer or
aetting stage that follows
and dead plant m aterial.”
logging uses tractors, but they
t e l.
J u n e -b e a r in g
v a r ie t ie s
says
Duane Hatch, Oregon
Everbearing strawberries do
often cannot be used on steep
(M arshall. Northwest. Hood.
State
University
Extension
slopes, especially when the
Shuksan. Rainier) bear fruit not need to be deaned-up now.
S S O R B W E A S SEPARATES
ih * « * ’®P*
‘N rt*
home gardening coordinator
ground is soft.
ood p o o » oil pionoed to go w»th m ooy thing*
The clean up can be done by
The OSU forest engineering
Stretch you» w orm w eO ther w O fdrobe ot greot »Ovings
department has been studying hand, or with a rotary mower
set at the proper height (Set
Took top* *hort* *wim *mt*
amallwood harvest since 1972
active sportsw ear
the mower so It cuta Just above
A recent study of European
ood more
methods revealed small wood the crown of the plant.)
It is important to get rid of
harvesters In operation
rotted and damaged fruits that
B
One such system, the I gland
could become a source of
O regon's
to ta l
u nem
Total employment in June
Jones Mini Alp, was purchased
passed the one million mark for ployment rtiae 1.000 to total
by the International Paper disease
Once the bed is clean. Hatch
the first tim e In ( )regon history, 91.900 in June, while the civilian
C om pany. aa P « rl ot •
according to Rosa Morgan, labor force increased by 28,300
Morgan said that June brings
assistant director of the i t it e
Employment
Division
The U rge gains in the size of the
total figure rose to 1,088,800 labor force due to the seasonal
entry of youth and other
persons employed.
At the same time, Morgan temporary workers into the job
reported that the statewide market
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SPECIAL INTEREST IN CHILDREN
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» n iim o r v c u tb a c k s do
if voluntary
cutbacks do
v n in n voluntary
ta r v a n d and
three three
stages
of of
cent cent
if volu
ntary_____________
stages
Oregon's electric utilities
must develop curtailment plans
in case the Northwest drought
creates a serious electricity
shortage this coming year.
Public U tility Commissioner
Charles Davis said Monday
Davis' order came following
public meetings in 12 cities and
a public hearing in June to
discuss the idea
We hope we w ill never have
to im p le m e n t
m an datory
electricity curtailm ent, but in
case of a shortage, we must
have w o rk a b le , u p-to -d ate
plans. “ Davis said
The plan has two stages of
Planning commission to hear requests
OSU engineers test logging system
Save
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End of season doesn't end work
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NOTE!
Million employed
first time in history
THE MERCHANDISE LISTED
BELOW WILL NOT ARRIVE
IN TIME FOR THIS WEEK'S
"WESTERN DAYS"
CIRCULAR
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Clarification
We wish to clarify the war
ding In a story In last week’«
paper <wi the Sandy High School
meeting In the story reference
was made to the question of
whether two recently resigned
empioym should receive ” back
pay.
T h ia should have been
re fe rre d
to as “ accrued
vacation pay.” We regret any
confusion caused by the wor
>4in* in I ho n r le ln a l atnrv