The year of the horse
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This is the year
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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
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