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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1978)
The year of the horse County comments This is the year of the horse Sue Lefky. Editor . Bob Biumhegsn, Aset. Publisher . Caroline Duff, Office Mana^r Douglas Gantenbem. Staff Reporter Ray Tipton, Advertising Manager P u b lish ed • » •♦ k ly T h u rtd o y t by Tho O u tlo o k P u b lish in g Co Bo» 6 8 Sondy O re g o n <»7055 Second <lo*s p o n o g e po.d o» Soody O re g o n SUBSCRIPTION RATES In M u H n o m o h ond C lockom o» C o u n tie * per yeo r ..............................‘ 5 0 0 S e rv ic e m e n ony ad d re ss MEMBER n lP f lP E R In N o rth w e s t a n d P o c itk C oost States o u ts id e O re g o n p er y e a r ...................‘ 7 0 0 . . . . *5 00 O u 's id e N o rth w e s t ond Pocdic Coost stotes p e r y e a r ....................................‘9 0 0 in O re g o n o u ts id e M u ltn o m o h an d C lo c k o m o * C o u n tie s p e r yeo r* 6 .0 0 Oregon Newspap«' Publishers Associât tort Ì Page 2_______ Sandy Post, Sandy. Oregon 97055 Represented N o tio n o lly by U S SUBURBAN PRESS INC No. 3 WR Thurs., Jan. 19, 1978 The Worth of a College Degree A spate of stories have appeared lately about the improving job m arket for college graduates, how 1978 should find jobs much more plentiful than over the last few years. The best fields seem to be engineering, a cco u n tin g and business. Conversely, the most crowded seem to be law and education. W hatever the value of a degree in landing a job, the evidence is in disputable that over a person s working life, a degree is worth many thousands of dollars. Sure, plumbers and electricians and truck drivers still get the big wages to start, but over the years a college degree will pay for itself many times over. This is true of even the liberal a rts fields where any immediate worth as far as employment is concerned often is difficult to identify. Many firms consider a degree an irreducible minimum, below which they’re just not in terested. Higher education may have taken its lumps in the early and mid-‘70s but it’s back in full bloom today. — and Clackamas County’s horse of the year A Man to Remember There are some persons whose nam es nearly become synonymous with a community. Such was the case of long time Sandy Fire Chief Lyle Seaman, who died this past week. Seam an was a man who devoted much of his life to the Sandy Fire D epartm ent and many rem em ber him as one of the persons who helped put the departm ent in the excellent condition it is in today. Seaman became assistant fire chief in 1941. That’s during the days when the departm ent had two trucks and 20 members. In 1942 Seaman was appointed fire chief and he served in that capacity for 30 years until his retirem ent in July, 1972. For 18 years Seaman worked voluntarily as fire chief. It w asn’t until 1962 that the job became a part tim e paid position and in 1968 it became a full time pay scale job. We a re grateful for persons such as Seam an who give of themselves for the benefit of the community. Too often we take the3 fire depart ment and volunteers for granted. We shouldn’t. (SAL) Jape Happens Here, Too In nightmares—and too often in ;al life—women are faced with the ecision of what to do in case of iolent attack. That nightm are ecam e reality for a sorority at lorida State University this week ith the tragic slayings of two >eds. The incidents will probably lead > stepped-up security in college am p u s re sid e n c e h a lls an d jroritiesfor a while. Self-defense lasses will undoubtedly draw )me new students—especially in le southeastern section of the ountry. It’s hardly feasible for a woman 3 keep herself under lock and key nd never see the light of day for ear of being mugged or raped, fet, it also is unrealistic for a voman to believe that she isn’t vulnerable to attack, .udies in dicate that rape, a crime of violence not sex, is a crim e that occurs more often than it is reported. And yes, it even happens in nice places like Sandy. One of the best presentations around on how to understand the unpleasant topic of rape is offered by Roi H okinson, h ead of Clackamas County’s Rape Victim Advocate Program . She will be a t the Sandy Community School from 7-9 on Wednesday, Feb. 1, to share some thoughts on rape awareness and explore myths about the crime. The evening could keep you, your daughter or your friend from being a victim. T hat’s certainly worth more than the fee being charged for the class. (SAL) Timberline: Creme-De-La-Creme Everybody’s favorite — Tim berline Lodge—has gained still more recognition during its 40th anniversary year. On Monday the announcement was m ade that the lodge dedicated by then President Franklin D. R o osevelt in 1937 has been designated a national landmark. The title is reserved for the “ erem e-de-la-crem e” of national landm arks and the designation is well deserved for the lodge which has literally drawn millions to the slopes of Mt. Hood. You can hardly blame them. After all, i t ’s getting so The Chinese, in line with that it takes about 10 or 12 of their own inscrutable beliefs our dollars to buy a $1.40 and customs, are calling this barrel of OPEC oil! Nationally, money-talk in the “ Year of the Horse.” Am erican gamblers, to the Year of the Hor»e indicate a one-to-nothing reminds one of the kids advantage over an opponent playing poker with tooth in certain dice or chuck-a- picks - valued at a m illion luck games say, ‘ That’s a dollars each! You’ve heard horse on you,” and from our them: “ I ’ll bet one m illion. own well-filled bin of sayings I'll raise you two m illion, indicating a variance from and I ’ll raise you TEN the normal we say, ‘‘That’s a m illion” until all sense of horse of a different color.’’ real values has been lost and We predict 1978 w ill be a the game becomes as sense ‘‘horse’ ’ of a year, that it w ill less as the betting and the be “ on” we citizens and conversation. At the state level many of taxpayers, and that we can start coloring it “ expensive” us on the relatively low end of the financial totem pole any time now On the international scene count our blessings, “ after a new complaint is being taxes,” not before. We are heard from our “ friends' on now looking at the biggest the fa r-flu n g Am erican property tax statem ents ever, after a lackadasical “ receiving’line. We can all recall the daily legislature passed a property complaints that one or more relief bill that hardly offset of our “ friends” was not the biannual rate of in getting their fair share of our flation! It did not even American dollars in loans satisfy the insatiable ap and grants and goods Now petites of our public spend they no longer complain thrifts! And at the county level we about the “ quantity,” they are becoming m ig h tily have a "horse” of a lot of colors. A fte r dissatisfied with the poor d iffe re n t quality of all those round, closing down the county shiny - but not silvery - libraries for lack of funds our astute county officials spent dollars. as much money for an out-of- town “ co nsu ltan t” as it would have taken to have kept the libraries open in the first place! Parks and county roads are going to pot while the of the L ittle Sandy River Court House Gang spent a drainage, a future potential million on an inadequate, water source for the Portland badly situated building they Metropolitan area It would w ill lease, re p a ir and take a lawyer to determine remodel for an out-of-state this, but here’s the way it owner! Citizen’s use of the old court house w ill remain looks to me: It is possible that the new as precarious as ever. Little can be expected on Bull Run law a ctu a lly exempts what is now called the Elfers study to bring the “ Bull Run Watershed administrative efficiency to Management U n it” from the county. Adding rpore need to comply with other layers of non-productive laws such as the National administrative authority to the already top-heavy Environmental Policy Act. This would mean that no one structure w ill only create could challenge the Forest more confusion and less Service for logging in that efficiency. In addition to the study area without that agency fir s t com pleting an en itself, its cost, if it is im v ir o n m e n ta l im p a c t plemented, w ill become a useless burden on the statement. Since part of the mid county’s taxpayers in poor and irre spo n drainage of the Little Sandy services River has been excluded sibilities for years to come from the new boundary, the Worst of all is the great new law doesn’t apply to it, cost in time and patience and and it would not be exempt effort to rural land and home from whatever laws protect owners of the now disabled the national forests “ Rural Zoning Project” . Legal and planning of generally. I would think that opening ficials have now conceded up to m u ltip le use a (after more than half a year) p r e v io u s ly p r o te c te d the possibility that the Rural watershed would be a major Zoning Project may not have action requiring completion been conducted in s tric t of an environmental impact compliance with state and statement. This has not county regulations. happened, and I think They w ill recommend someone should challenge Thursday that the county the Forest Service, in court, commissioners amend the on this omission. com prehensive plan. Of Anyone wishing to do this course the real question is: sould act quickly, however, are they going to amend the because on Jan. 30 Judge plan to legalize th e ir James M. Burns w ill hear mistakes, or are they going arguments from Portland to amend their mistakes to users of Bull Run water as to legalize the Rural Zoning why rem aining claim s Project? After all, they are (including the NEPA claim) only now a d m ittin g the in the current class action validity of citizen reaction to law suit should not be the Rural Zoning Project dismissed. since it was first started. A “ fact sheet” on Bull Run In the light of these recent is now available. It refers to developments an extremely r e a d ily a c c e s s ib le interesting “ horse” of still documents in the Bull Run another color gets into the Interest Group open file, in picture with LCDC’s opinion the central public library in that "c itiz e n s have had Portland. adequate o pportunity to Joseph L. M iller Jr. participate in that decision 52815 E. Marmot Road making process as required Sandy, Ore., 97055 by LCDC’s goal number one.” By Bill Sanderson 668 5548 Timberline has been on the National Register since November 1973. Now it is one of the youngest buildings to be recognized by the U.S. D epartm ent of the Interior’s N a tio n al H isto ric L an d m ark s Program . letters to the editor Student rights To the Editor: The latest communication from Sandy High School in regards to in s titu tin g a detention study hall where youngsters w ill be “expected to read, and prepare class assignments,” causes me to w rite this letter in objection. When we use school work as punishm ent, we have taken the first steps a society can take to develop in our young adults a dislike for learning. To force reading also brings a dislike for reading, and to expect students to do physical work in a detention situation creates an a t mosphere of a work reform school. The element of “ trust” appears to me to be at a low at Sandy, from hall monitors, to calls home if handwritings don’t "m atch.” Many parents, including myself, feel that the majority of students do not need m on itoring in halls or detention study halls, so why continue such sad practices? Why not expell the troublemakers so students who want to learn can learn in an atmosphere of trust? Federal laws protect our children and give parents the right to choose what method of discipline to use in schools. Most parents feel that punishment does not solve the problem, causing the m ajority of students to rebel, by using terms such as “ hall you w ill fill it! Write the monkeys” or “ pigs.” It address below fo r more seems to me we are never the information. Parents for Student Rights wiser for it. Box 244 We continue the same Rhododendron. Ore. outmoded methods of Glenda Barbre punishm ent which should have stopped at the gram mar school level. I am s ta rtin g an Concern shown organization called Parents Dear Sandy Citizens, for Student Rights. Its On behalf of the “ Citizens purpose is to inform parents that punishment does not C om m ittee fo r a Sandy C om m unity C enter,” we w ork, th at p utting the student in a trust situation is wish to thank each of you who gave of your time and much better and that forced energy to vote at the City of learning, reading or homework is not conducive Sandy's Jan. 10 bond elec tion. to the development of our The passage of the Sandy students learning ex Baptist Chapel bond issue perience. dem onstrated this com You as a parent can say no. Your child does not have to m u n it y ’ s p r o g r e s s iv e do school work as a “ punish leadership in, and concern for, municipal services. ment.” You can speak out As the benefits of this against the practice of “ hall monitors” to watch your community center become a solidified part of our com children for the brief four m unity’s activities, we can minutes between classes. I also have experienced the proudly point to the citizens pleasure of fine teachers in of Sandy and their spirit of and com this area, including a cooperation mitment to improving the m arvelous concert at Welches School this quality of life in Sandy Sincerely yours, Christmas. I am aware of Ivan Barker, how hard it is to be a Howard Berger teacher—the work involved. Co-chairman I do not take issue with good teachers, but outmoded rules, situations of distrust Bull Run w ater and punishment at a high school level. A detention To the Editor: A peculiar situation may study hall is like self- fu lfilling prophecy. Create a exist regarding future legal detention hall, and in no time protection of the mid-portion • awrk - mogwk .«*- Much credit goes to the U.S. Forest Service, Friends of Tim berline and RLK and Co. (which leases the lodge) for the work that has gone into making Timberline the special place it is to many of us. (SAL) SERVICE WE GIVE! Carter and Hatfield: Pals Visiting with a group of Portland- area newsmen last fall, Sen. Mark Hatfield said “ I always have (prim ary) opposition and I suppose I will this year.” Hatfield was referring, ob viously, to the ultra-conservative fringe of the Republican party which never has found the senior senator a comfortable traveling companion. We haven’t heard of opposition to Hatfield this time but will be surprised if we don’t . . . especially after a compilation of congressional voting patterns shows Hatfield sides with the C a r te r a d m in istra tio n m ore regularly than do most Democrats. Hatfield backed C arter 66 per cent of the time, contrasted to 57 percent for Sen. Bob Packwood, and 58 percent for Reps. Bob Duncan and Les AuCoin. Only A1 UUman, 2nd district, was more loyal than Hatfield (75 percent). Hatfield’s record also is much more supportive of C arter than it was of R ichard Nixon when he was INSURANCE WE SELL . . . The personal insurance counsel and advice of a local agent is important to you in plonning a complete insurance program. "Now That Football Season Is Over... Allow Me To Introduce Myself. I’m Your Charming Wife, M ildred...” C aorga Morgan local Representative WALRAD Sandy, Oregon INSURINCE ISUCT
