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Land use planning
Sue Lafky. Editor
Douglas Gantenbem. Staff Reporter
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No 29
Sandy Post, Sandy, Oregon 97065
Thurs., July 21, 1977
Local Hearings A re Needed
It looks as if the House and Senate
are going to pass up an opportunity to
bring government closer to the
people.
Rep. Teno Roncalio, D-Wyo., this
week wrote to Portland Mayor Neil
Goldschmidt and said hearings on the
future use of the Bull Run watershed
won’t be held anywhere in the Port
land Metropolitan area.
Roncalio, chairm an of the sub
committee on Indian affairs and
public lands, acknowledged in the
letter that field hearings “ would
maximize local input.” But he also
said that such hearings are im
possible during the next several
months because of conflicting
schedules
We believe that sentiment con
cerning the future of the reserve isn’t
as unified as Congressman Robert
Duncan and other m embers of the
Oregon delegation seem to believe.
There are many who have strong
doubts about the abilities of the
Forest Service to manage the Bull
Run Reserve on its own. Questions
such as who would pay for a filtration
system for the water if the need
should ever arise (and most everyone
publicly says that they hope that this
won’t be the case) haven’t been an
swered.
There are many people interested
in the outcome of the Bull Run issue
who won’t be able to afford to go to
Washington to testify next week.
True, there have been hearings on the
future of the Bull Run in the Portland
area, but those hearings weren’t
concerned with the three bills
presently before Congress.
We fear this issue won’t get the
attention it deserves in Congress. And
it just doesn’t make sense that
Congress would reopen areas of the
Bull Run to recreation for six months
under the guise of allowing more time
for a perm anent decision to be made
and then turning around and trying to
speedily m ake that decision without
covering all their bases. (SAL)
A ir C onditioned C om fort
W hile the rest of the nation swelters
in 100-degree heat, the Pacific North
west rem ains cool and pleasant.
Weatherwise, we don’t appreciate
how lucky we really are.
Much of our sum m er still rem ains
and we can expect our share of hot
weather. Even so, our sum m er
clim ate is so much better than the
rest of the U.S. that it begs com
parison.
We’re fortunate, of course, because
the prevailing westerlies pass over
the cooling w aters of the Pacific
Ocean. Only when high pressure
causes winds from the east do we
experience any sort of extrem es; and
that isn’t very often.
Someone could make a fortune if he
could bottle our weather and m er
chandise it on the sweltering E ast
Coast.
Probing D eeper in to K oreagate?
The news media often a re accused
of “ selective m orality.” We pan our
enemies and praise our buddies.
A case in point certainly seem s to
be the oft aborted investigation of
Korean influence-peddling among
members of Congress
The media were in the forefront of
those who tore the Republican party
apart over W atergate. It’s strange
that they’re exhibiting so much less
interest in digging out the facts on
purchase of Congressmen by Korean
lobbyists.
Pres. Cart«- has set the example, erf
course, by refusing to appoint a
special prosecutor as was done with
W atergate. There’s no comparison
between Watergate and the Korean
affair, obviously. But C arter’s reluc
tance to push the investigation only
adds more flame to the fires.
It seems to us that the Democratic
party is making a big m istake with
such dilatory tactics. The air should
be cleared before the rumors get any
further out of hand.
Looting in New York City
The disgraceful scene in New York
City last week—when looters ravaged
parts of the city during a power
blackout—is being exorcised in all
sorts of ways.
Apologists for the looters blam e the
whole situation on white businessmen
because they didn’t provide jobs for
the Negro and Hispanic youths in
volved Clear at the other a id of the
scale are those who say Gov. Carey
should have called the National
Guard and crushed the disturbance
with an iron fist.
Probably the most intelligent
response cam e from a black borough
president, Percy Sutton, who said
“Persons charged with looting,
vandalizing and burning must not be
excused because they are poor,
because the poor are as m oral and as
honest as any other people. ”
That, we think, is the real point.
Being out of a job is no excuse for
taking someone else's property. If a
person is totally lawless with no
respect for the rights of others,
merely providing a job isn’t going to
overnight turn him into a decent, law-
abiding citizen.
New York must be a very sick city.
G e ttin g Uncle Sam To Pay
Sen. Robert Packwood has released
results of a study by the General
Accounting Office which indicates
that Uncle Sam quite often is tardy
paying his bills.
We can concur.
Every so often, we run recruiting
ads for one branch or the other of the
military and seldom are we paid
within the custom ary 30 days. Quite
often, there is a 60 to 90 day delay and
once, with a bill to the Air Force, we
had to wait from November until
I
April.
Other forms of government usually
are slow but pay quicker than does
Uncle Sam. We often encounter a 30-
day delay with school districts and
cities but the problem well could be in
our billing cycle, local entities
usually try to pay on time.
M ultnom ah
and
C lack am as
counties usually pay promptly, so
does the State of Oregon. But Uncle
Sam, obviously buried in a sea of
paperwork, has his problems.
Clackamas County's rural
zoning project for four areas
(defined as I, Carus M olalla,
II, Redland. I l l ; Estacada-
Colton and IV ; T u a la tin -
Wilsonville) was kicked off, up
and down at an “ informational
meeting'' Wednesday evening.
July 13
About l(X) people appeared to
be present. However, a small
arm y of “ planners" and others,
including many of those in
terested in the future fate of
possible
or
probably
de
velopments, somewhat reduced
the total representation of the
20-30 thousand citizens affected
The meeting was not a
“ hearing" but a "telling’’ with
Extension
Agent
Ardis
Stevenson making the in
troduction
and
general
description of the project and
Dominic Mancini getting down
into the specific details of the
goals of the project.
Few questions were asked by
a generally apathetic audience
and fewer still were answered
by the speakers.
The entire proceeding was
more than faintly reminiscent
of the planning department's
almost frantic effort to get the
“ first" comprehensive plan
accepted, and failing that to go
into a crash program to get a
“ second" plan readied and
adopted that would correct and
include some of the missing
Kiwanis Club, we would like to
“ conditions" imposed by the
extend our thank you to the terms of a federal grant.
com m u nity and those in
One of the most rem arkable
dividuals who helped make the
similarities is the constant
Fly-in Breakfast a continuing
reminder to nervous citizens
success
that they w ill be given an op
port unit y to “ have a say" in
Without the great assistance
finalizing the proposals
of the Boy Scouts. Rainbow
Since most of the important
Girls. Key and Spade Club
decisions appear to have
members and many local
already been made there is an
merchants, the task would have
understandable skepticism
been more than our members
apparent on the subject of
alone could handle
citizens participation
Few knowledgeable citizens
For the 20 years in which
have forgotten the "kind" and
Kiwanis has been having the
the degree of citizen par-
Fly-in, M r
and M rs Rich
Wesselink have continually
given th e ir o verw helm in g
support
letters to the editor^
Gallant effort
To the Editor:
On the afternoon of Friday.
July 8, we called the Alpine
Ambulance and the Sandy F ire
District to a home medical
emergency.
Their immediate response
and their gallent efforts to save
the life of our loved one w ill
always be appreciated In our
grief, it is a consolation to know
that everything possible was
done to save our boy.
We feel it is worth reminding
the residents of the Sandy area
how fortunate they are to have
these well equipped units,
manned by such skilled and
caring personnel, always on
call to aid in times of distress
The fam ily of
James I. Chandler
Sandy. Ore.
Success
To the Editor:
The officers and members of
the Sandy Lions Club would like
to convey their appreciation
and gratitude to the Sandy City
Council, the local merchants
and the individuals who helped
make the Mountain Festival
Days such an astounding
success.
The high point of the
festivities was the dunk tank in
the Lions Club Beer Garden
M ayor Mel Haneberg, City
Manager Paul Helton as well as
many other charitable towns
people gave of their tim e to
endure the chilling experience
of posing as a target in the dunk
tank
All contributions to the dunk
tank w ill be donated to the
National Foundation for the
Blind
Tad Yeager,
President
Sandy Lions Club
Fly-in support
To the Editor:
’ on behalf
of
the
Sandy
A special acknowledgement
to M r. and M rs John Johnson,
owners of Rich's Airport, for
extending
them selves
In
allowing Kiwanis to make this
community event possible
Sandy Kiwanis Club
Sandy. Or.
Band program Thursday
No library card is necessary
W e a th e r p e rm ittin g , the
session w ill be held outside in
Meinig Mem orial Park.
M O N D A Y. JU L Y 25
The City of Sandy Budget
committee w ill meet at 8 p.m.
in the City Council Chambers to
discuss passible uses of 812,433
of state revenue sharing funds
Citizens are invited to provide
written or oral comments to the
budget committee regarding
use of these funds
TU ESD A Y, JU LY 24
The Sandy City Council will
hold a public hearing at 8 p.m.
on uses of state revenue
sharing fund proposed by the
budget committee on state
revenue sharing funds. The
meeting w ill be held in the City
Council Chambers.
ooo
Roy Bunting of Linton and
Associates w ill address the
noon meeting of the Sandy
Chamber of Commerce at the
Foothills The public is invited
to attend
WEDNESDAY. JULY 27
Taking Off Pounds Sensibly
(TOPS) w ill meet at 8:30 a m
in the basement of the Sandy
Community Action Center.
o oo
The Portland Metropolitan
A rea
Local
G overnm ent
Boundary
commission
will
consider a request for an ex
traterritorial water line ex
tension outside the City of
Sandy at 7 p m. in room 802 of
the
M ultno m ah
County
Courthouse
The request was made by the
City of Sandy to extend its
water source to Alder Creek.
ooo
Sandy
A rea
M erchan ts
(SAM ) w ill meet at 7 a m at
TJ's Fireside Dining Lounge
All merchants are welcome to
attend
established in area
Gresha m area customers of
General Telephone Co. will
soon have a chance to rate their
service.
The company has initiated a
N o r t h w e s t - w id e
s u rv e y
p ro gram
called
T el-C el
(Telephone
Surveys
of
Customer Expectation Levels)
to find out Just what people
think of their telephone service,
according to District Manar "
Henry Kutschia A ra:
sample of 100 customers .n
each of the company's 17
districts in the Northwest will
be conducted by the Walker
Research G roup of F o rt
Wayne, Ind
The
five-to-seven
minute
survey
w ill
cover
s u ih
categories
as
operator
“ Veterans planning to attend
a school with registration in
September should apply for
advance pay in July." Arndt
said. "This w ill allow for any
small delay in the school
certifying the enrollment to
VA ."
For students to get the pay
advancement, the school must
agree to process the advance
payment and the student must
have had at least a full
calendar month break between
school terms
The new advance payment
procedures are the result of
legislative action which also
e lim in a te d p re p a y m en t of
monthly VA allowances, ef
fec tiv e June 1, Students
enrolled in June classes
received their June payment on
July 1. < Subsequent monthly
checks will follow each ad
ditional month of enrollment
Because of the changes in
payment procedures, students
planning fall enrollment are
encouraged to consider budget
requirements beforehand
Complete information on all
VA
educational
assistance
programs is available from
veterans representatives on
campus or the Portland VA
regional office
assistance, dialing services,
repair, installation, and billing
accuracy Only one category is
used during an interview and
researchers w ill lim it calls
from 8 a tp . to 8:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
Kutschia said the purpose of
the survey is to see that the
company s measurements are
uniform throughout the system
and to assure th a t the
measurements the company
has established for itself are
the measurements customers
are concerned with
If during an interview, a
customer indicates a problem
that requires imm ediate ac
tion, a memo w ill be forwarded
to the appropriate office for
investigation.
SERVICE
WE GIVE!
Changes noted in GI bill
G I Bill students seeking a
money advance at the start of
school should review the new
V e te r a n s A d m in is t r a t io n
p aym ent procedures that
became effective June 1.
The advances are no longer
automatic, according to Donna
M
Arndt, director of the
Portland VA Regional Office
Students must request the two-
month advance through the
school The request, plus the
school's
c e rtific a tio n
of
enrollment, must reach VA one
month before the start of
regular school registration to
insure timely delivery of the
check to the school
W
Phone service survey
Keeping posted
THUR SD A Y , J U L Y 21
Sandy Elem entary school
summer band students will
perform at 2 p.m. on Thursday,
July 21, in the Interm ediate
Building Play shed
The concert m arks the end of
the summer band program,
which has attracted students
from Cottrell and Sandy.
A short party for the summer
musicians w ill be held after the
concert. Dave Anderson is the
summer band director. The
public is invited to attend.
o oo
Oregon T ra il Coffee Hour will
start a t9 :3 0 a .m
SA TURDAY. JU LY 23
The second session of the
Sandy Public L ib ra ry ’s Tom
Sawyer Art Class w ill be held
from 10 a m until noon Beth
Gale from Hoodland w ill teach
the class, and those attending
are asked to bring a small paint
brush Students of all ages are
invited to attend the free class
ticipation permitted in the
public "review " of the present
comprehensive plan, including
the euger promises of all three
(then) county commissioners
that the plan would “ make no
changes ' and that it would be a
“ policy statement" only.
Its present highly ballyhooed
status as the planning "la w "
makes one wonder who got
what into it and for how much
As a plain m atter of fact, the
blatant use of a planning
"policy statement" to Justify
furtive, or at least unpublicized
change's In accepted In
terpretations of county or
dinances is basically the reason
for the county-wide flood of
com plaints re g a rd in g the
citizen's inability to get proper
informationout of the planning
department
Members of the Clackamas
County Planning Commission
and of the Board of County
Commissioners have them
selves recugnized this problem
To introduce the same sort of
confusion into the project for
zoning and-or rezoning 42S
square miles of this county is
more than adding insult to
injury. AND T H E R E M UST BE
M O R E R EA SO N F O R IT
TH A N JUST P I A I N IN E F
FICUCNCY!
The sad. sloppy and terribly
costly history of land-use
planning in Clackamas County
staggers on under its ac
cumulation of past errors,
present
b lu nd erin g
and
inadequate preparation for the
future
It will get worse UNLESS the
people whose deeds and titles to
their land, whose paid tax
receipts and whose labors give
them the rig h t and the
obligation to say. once and for
all. “ Get your pointed little
pencils off my land and let M E
show you how to do it I **
But they probably won't and
they w ill goon paying m oreand
more taxes on land over which
they have less and leas control
Hitler raised a lot of H - l with
people like that!
INSURANCE
WE SELL . . .
The personal
insurance counsel
and odvice of a local
agent is important
to you in planning
a complete Insurance
program.
O o a rg a M o rg a n
lo c a l R e p re s e n ta tiv a
WALRAD ÏÏÏUT"
Sandy, O regon
668-4421
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