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15 year-old girl " slain Tuesday Fernette after she failed to return home from school Tuesday afternoon. “She got off the schoolbus about 3 and took the shortcut toward home,’’ said Renfro. She was found approximately Lake. 50 feet from McKinnon’s Airstrip ap Clackamas County Sheriff John proximately 300 yards from her home. Renfro said the girl, who was found by The circumstances of her death were three neighbors, has been identified as being investigated by a team including Margie Fernette, daughter of Mr. and the Clackamas County Sheriff’s office, Mrs Winsor Fernette, 41100 SE Latigo Dr. Schilke’s office and the Oregon Lane, Sandy. State Police. Clackam as County Medical The Oregon State Police Crime Lar> Examiner Dr. John Schilke said the girl technicians and Sandy Police helped was struck on the head with a blunt with the investigation at the scene of instrument, but that the exact cause of the crime. death is still undetermined. School officials who knew Miss As of late Wednesday afternoon, law Fernette said she was a good student. Robert Fones, principal of Bull Run enforcement officials said the body of the girl was found partially unclothed. School where she attended eighth It had not been determined whether or grade, described her as a “solid B student’’ who liked horses and not she had been sexually assaulted. Renfro said the mother of the Sandy motorcycle riding. Fones said she was High sophomore apparently asked popular and “ very outgoing.” “She was polite—she came from a some neighbors to search for Miss A 15-year-old Sandy girl was mur dered Tuesday as she walked from a bus stop on Ten Eyck Road through a shortcut to her home northeast Roslyn Vol. 68 nice family,” said an acquaintance. “That’s what makes it super awful. You say ‘it couldn’t happen to me,' and yet it could.” SUHS Principal Bill MacFarlane called the incident a tragedy for the school and for the family. He went on the school’s intercom system on Wednesday to offer students a word of caution. He advised them to conduct themselves “ in a safe and a careful manner due to the inherent danger.” Renfro asked that neighbors noting suspicious activity should contact Lt. W.R Bradshaw of the sheriff’s department. The body was left where it was found overnight and deputies watched over the crime scene so no clues would be lost in the darkness. Investigators combed the area on Wednesday, looking for possible leads to the identification of the killer. The body was found at approximately 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, said the sheriff. No. 4 SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY. JAN. 26, 1978 Single Copy 15c Sandy High board OK's 'need to haves' \ The Sandy High School District budget board played their hand close to the vest Tuesday night, giving final approval on $2,702,182 1978-79 budget that adds little to Superintendent Jack Peters “need to have” original budget. The budget will require an April 4 levy election of $1,419,254.36, up from the 1977-78 levy of $1,218,033 The levy will put district property taxes at $6.49 per assessed $1000 of value, with $4.68 of that covered by the levy election. The balance comes under the district tax base of $248,930 inside the state’s 6 percent limit on tax in creases. The board amended the original budget proposal to include $49,500 for the continued modernization of the district’s buses, $7,400 for the purchase of a milling machine and a surplus lathe for the school’s machine shop, $400 for a new power grease gun for the machine shop and $3,700 for bringing the track up to state metric requirements. The board also allocated funds for an additional music teacher should that department’s enrollment next year show a need for one. The decision to make these additions was made a little easier earlier Tuesday wher it was fou<ul that he district would receive $53,004 more in state support than was originally thought Much of the additional budget allocations were covered by this wind fall. Not included on the upcoming budget were several items that Peters had termed “ nice to have” under his two pronged budget proposal of necessities and luxuries. One of the big losers was a proposed $46,088 career center which would in clude a provision for a journeyman carpenter to work half-time for the school providing construction in struction. Despite career guidance counselor Dick Harrison’s testimony that the center was a “necessary” addition to the school’s existing program the board did not feel that the cost of the program could be justified with the information currently available on such a center. Falling under the same axe stroke was a $25,000 emergency medical technician’s program. Like the career center, the board did not feel there was sufficient data available to justify its coat. Both the career center and the EMT program will probably re appear on the 19 a tx. budget a 'le r further examination, Peters said. Other proposals that did not make it on the final budget included funds for a marching band or drum and bugle corps, lights for the tennis courts and the complete resurfacing of the school’s track instead of the cheaper restrip ping. “ I thought they did a good job,” Peters said of the board’s final budget. “ It’s conservative but it maintains the high quality of education at Sandy High.” Peters said that copies of the budget are available at the school’s district office. There will be a public hearing on the budget on Feb. 23 prior to the levy election in April. Weather Jan. 19 Jan. 20 Jan. 21 Jan. 22 Jan. 23 Jan. 24 Jan. 25 H. 45 48 47 57 48 45 40 L. 41 42 42 37 33 32 35 Pr. .31 .04 .31 .22 00 .00 .00 A deceptive peace THE SUN shone peacefully on Roslyn Lake Monday but the area later became the site of a major tragedy when a 15-year- old Sandy High School student was murdered not far from here Tuesday evening. < Photo by Douglas Gantenbein) Miller continues Interest in remaining claims by Sue Lafky Post editor Sandy resident Joseph Miller, Jr. — instigator of a class action lawsuit concerning management of the Bull Run Reserve — has terminated the services of his lawyer Charles Merten. “ I think there are two sides to this business of dismissing the lawsuit: yours and mine,” Miller wrote to Merten in a letter recopied in a recent issue of the Bull Run Open Newsletter. Miller edits the newsletter from his home in the Marmot area Miller said he was terminating Merten’s services with great regret “ I can think of no other attorney who could be more capable of continuing to press remaining claims, thank you.” US. District Judge James M. Burns will hold a 9 a m. public hearing on Monday, Jan. 30, so Portland resident users of Bull Run water will have an opportunity to present their objections, if any, to the dismissal of remaining claims. Merten has indicated that he favors dismissal of the remaining claims “without prejudice to our right to reinstate them later.” Instead, the attorney noted, that environmentalists could make better use of their time by otherwise—to go on thinking there is no working on the management plan other recommended course but to passed by Congress last year. The bill dismiss the suit.” requires the Forest Service to adopt Miller said he believes that dismissal certain procedures for managing the of the lawsuit’s remaining claims “will throw away opportunities through court watershed. Miller added that it was hard for him action to obtain vital information that to terminate the lawsuit because he was will not otherwise be obtained, that is grateful for Merton’s past service pertinent to laying out a Bull Run “ which won the trespass claim; and for Management plan.” your working more than a year without He added that “ there is plenty of evidence suggesting a need for more pay. "Yet it would be wrong for me, out of information, soon, and there is no gratitude, to allow people—who might reason to believe it can be obtained in want to become involved if they knew any other way than through court.” Planners to air Cottrell proposals The Cottrell Area Land Use Planning Group has scheduled a meeting with county planning personnel for Wed nesday, Feb. 1. The 7:30 p.m. session will be held in the Cottrell School gymnasium Among meeting Planning Assistant those slated to appear at the are Clackam as County Director David Siegneur, Director Dominic Mancini and planner Dave Poese. According to Dale Russell, chairman of the Cottrell group, the county staff members will explain their suggestions for zoning in the areas, the reasoning behind the various steps in the zoning procedure and proposed changes in the county comprehensive plan “ Although the county’s suggested zoning is in agreement in part with the * Cottrell (Land Use Planning Group) plan, the total differences between the two are great.” said Russell “Perhaps Wednesday's meeting will lead to an acceptable compromise Members of the planning group have asked the county to zone for two acre lot sizes, but the county has recommended five acre minimum lot sizes for the area The Sandy resident said he believed pursuit of the National Environmental Protection Act claim should be carried on, “ especially with respect to the Little Sandy drainage.” If it could be established that the area does have potential as a future water source, and a decision were made to exclude the public and treat it as a watershed— “this should happen before the public gets used to entry, said Miller. "Experience in the Lolo Pass area shows how difficult it is to exclude people once they have been accustomed to enjoying a place.” The City of Sandy has indicated an interest in using the Upper Little Sandy River as a possible water source Sandy City Manager Paul Helton said the city is pleased with the law as it now stands and that the city’s future water source had adequate protection. Pursuit of the NEPA claim, ac cording to Miller, is also important for the Bull Run drainage area “ because the Draft Environmental Impact Statement is very inadequate and shows up flaws in management that need to become known before new management plans are crystallized ” Another reason Miller believes the remaining claims should not be dismissed is that, according to him. “ evidence already accumulated in the trespass action shows that the forest is not being protected." He added: “ I think this would be a good starting point for pursuing this claim Since it is proposed to turn part of the Little Sandy over to multiple use. it should be determined soon, before this has happened, what multiple use does to the so-called renewable resources.” According to Miller, court efforts to restrain harmful management prac tices have proved effective in Bull Run “Citizen action through input by non court methods has been ineffective ” Among those who support Miller's point of view is Ray Atkeson. well known Oregon photographer. In a letter to Miller dated Jan 16, Atkeson noted that “officials stated during the 1977 drought that Bull Run water users had no worry because our water supply was constantly being fed by fresh water springs. “Would those springs continue to gush pure water in plentiful volume after the great forests disappear, either under the ax or as a result of a man caused holocaust,” he asked “ The Bull Run Watershed should not be considered as a dead issue. All water users of the area and govern mental executives must take this m atter more seriously and do something to preserve our great birth right ” Next Monday's hearing will be held in Courtroom No. 717, U S Courthouse. «20 SW Main. Portland
