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County Comment Candidates display few differences Lee Irwin, Publisher ___ __ Von Braschler, Gen. Manager Sue Lafky. Editor Caroline Duff, Office Manager. Douglas Gantenbein, Sports Editor Published w eekly Thursdoy* by O utlook Publishing Co So« 68 Sandy Oregon 9?055 Second doss postoge po<d al Sandy Oregon 668 5548 SUBSCRIPTION RATES In N orthw est ond Pociik Coost Stoles outside Oregon per year ............... *7 00 In M ultnom ah ond Clochomos Counties per year ........................... *S.BB Servicemen any oddress................ '5 00 MtMBfcR NÀ ER E fiP i O utside N orthw est ond F o o t * Coast MLMIt" ¡Oregon Newspaper 1 Publishers ' Association »1 I £ ■ Represented Notionolly by U S SUBURBAN PRESS INC No. 13 Page 2 Wi Mar. 30, 1978 „ . ^ e A nc hfd bureaucracy ^ ' Vote Yes for Sandy High Sandy High School has much to be proud of. Its students regularly distinguish themselves both academ ically and athletically and its faculty is active and involved. We believe, then, that a “yes’’ vote on the levy m easure will in sure that the school’s standards will not fall below what area patrons are accustomed to having. A school is like a plant, with money the water. Insufficient m oisture will stunt the growth of a tree and reduce its yield of fruit just as inadequate school funding will stunt the ability of a school to grow and produce well-educated graduates. Keep Sandy High growing and producing good graduates for this year and the future. Vote yes for the school levy next Tuesday. (DDG) Next Tuesday Sandy Union High School will seek approval of a $1.4 million levy for the 1978-79 school year. The figure represents weeks of work on the budget by the school’s adm inistration and budget com mittee, and while The Post has not always agreed with the com m ittee’s thinking we feel they have acted in good faith and with the best interests of local taxpayers in mind. The budget represents what taxpayers across the nation seem to be demanding from their schools: basic education without a lot of frills. This the school’s budget represents by providing the funds to m ain tain c u rre n t aca d e m ic stan d a rd s w hile resisting several voices that called for more, expensive programs. Honnon For College Post An unusually good group of people have filed for the at-large (zone 7) position on the Mt. Hood Community College board of directors. Any one of them would make a good board member. We 7/ Miss You Jeon So we urge our readers to call us if they have a possible news story. As one of our college professors so aptly put it, “ A newspaper is only as good as its sources of news.’’ Our readers are a vital source of news for us. Next week we will run a feature on Jean and her numerous in terests. Meanwhile, we thank her for a job well done. We’ll miss you, Jean. (SAL) The Post’s popular columnist, Jean Stein, has decided to retire from her position writing the popular “ Go Tell It On the Mountain’’ column. Instead, Mrs. Stein plans to devote more time to artistic endeavors and writing for The Post on a freelance basis. The Post staff is interested in continuing the good work Mrs. Stein started and wants to improve its coverage of the Mt. Hood area. Loss of Farm Land a 'Myth'? Fred Van Natta, executive vice president of the Oregon Home Builders Assn., is a better builder than he is a reporter. T hat’s the only conclusion one can draw from his statem ent that the loss of great acres of farm land in Oregon remains “ one of the great myths of the decade. He went on to say that “ Where the significant losses in crop land are occurring, there are virtually no subdivisions being approved or homes being built.” Wonder if he has been out to G resham lately? Or Troutdale? Or adjoining areas of Northern Clackamas County? New homes, new subdivisions still are springing up everywhere. The disappearance of acre after acre of farm land is no myth. It’s a fact. He also c ritic iz e s LCDC regulations which would restrict further urban growth to certain areas. His reservations as to LdDC restrictions may be well-founded but he simply cannot call the disappearance of farm land a myth. Anyone who has lived in the Gresham-Troutdale area for any length of time has seen many, many acres turned into home sites. And it’s still going on. A New Ball Game When postal w orkers next negotiate for higher wages, it may be a whole new ball game. Heretofore, they’ve bargained with Congress and Congress has been very susceptible to political pressures exerted by the postal workers. This time, however, they’ll negotiate with a Postal Service not only cost-conscious but also well insulated from political per suasion. Wages are by far the biggest expense for the Postal Service and hence coming negotiations may be difficult, indeed. 00*,, x" / ! I \\ B ureaucracies Would it really make all that much difference? Sandy siftings From here to eternity by Von Braschler General manager good five-minute cartoon comedy, “ That-a-that-a- that’s all-11111, folks!” I THINK WE SHOULD PAY IT VERY FUNNY ONLY PROBLEM IS. W I LL PROBABLY HAVE TO ... into a new sort of “ Mrs. R esident’ ’ role-p la ying : telephone soliciting There are no rules. (Welcome) Wagon Did you buy your zodiac Seems she wanted to verify As though being Gemini that I was The Resident of pin or ring last week from the Moonies? Yes, represen twins isn’t enough of an such-and-such address tatives of the Rev. Sun. identity crisis. I ’m faced That assumption true, Myung Moon’s Unification with the dilema of being several logical conclusions Church paid respects on the either “ Mr. Occupant’’ or follow ed, as the sweet Sandy area recently as door- “ Mrs. Occupant.’’ Neither whoever-she-was told me to-door salesmen w ith seems glamorous, and that five magazines (want sample cases of pins and dressing things up parcel- them or not) were certainly rings for every birth sign post with sly pseudonyms like “ M r -Mrs Resident “ or worth having, particularly at under the stars. a price of a quart of m ilk per Guess that flower power “ Postal Patron’’ doesn’t ease week. has gone sour at the airport my mind, either. Of course, I could and that sale of candies in f started to explain that I market parking lots has rationalize that all those im p e rs o n a l didn’t drink m ilk and that the likewise declined in Port s e e m in g ly messages by m ail are cat was a reformed m ilk- land. So they’re taking their case nothing more than Junk aholic now. too. to the people, in an outreach Mail. But why would anyone But I stopped in m id program to reach the masses in his right mind waste sentence on the chance she where they live and mean postage stamps and printing just might be that lovely while line the fiery Korean costs just to give me the songbird Debbie Boone here evangelist’s war chest. After satisfaction or problem of to Light Up My Life. It dumping all of this into the all, the stakes are b ig : world wasn’t that kind of phone garbage bin? wide political influence. call, however In fact, the So I ’m left with an identity Personally, I just couldn't mechanical voice at the crisis. w ait until their next sales other end without normal gimmick (a pizza crusade?) pauses or exclam ations Hence, when I receive a sweeps the nation, so I flyer on custom-tailored suits sounded very much like a cornered the firs t Moonie from Hong Kong, I must take recording. Merchant I could find on t e it that the Chinese tailor streets of Sandy for a price knows me personally to be a So I ’m on some kind of list. quote I deduce. F air game for any man of clean lines and The young minister didn’t striking figure—tweed or and all Aha! Find how I got promise me a place in glory there or who starts this wool. (Markone.) in this world or the next, but respond-or-die chain letter And when I get a catalog on he did offer me a Gemini pin Western wear through postal operation, and I can break for $2 or even two for $3. the chains that hold me fast. channels, every page tells I guess that Gemini’s get me just what kind of country Puzzling this little glint of this sort of price break on dude I am—or at least have light. I meandered out of my sets, being twins and all (the new apartment to the car, the potential to be. (Mark stars Castor and Pollux). stopping enroute to check the Twain.) The trouble in my case was m ail box. A note from the Sometimes I ’m an out- that my twins couldn’t agree postmaster, addressing me on whether to buy or set or doorsman when a new as the new occupant of 39275 catalog arrives to address not. Hood Street. Apt. E, wants to The young Missionary of me 01’ Eagle Eye. And know my true identity for the Moon wanted no trouble with sometimes I ’m a single fu tu re p e rs o n a l my sparking sister stars, honest man searching for correspondence.... however, and left my orbit knowledge, when I ’m ad D is a r m e d — b u t not ra th e r fast (a shooting vised to take a night class I vanquished, I respond, Moonie?). Anyway, one of get the latest news on how to “ Occupant Von Braschler.’’ me struck out alone, decorate my home, even So now. at least, we re on a determined to acquire and though I rent a furnished first-name basis. proudly wear his-her own apartment. ooo astrology symbol. Now that’s If all this “Sandy Sifting’’ And I get seed catalogs and class, and I guess I owe my gibberish seems trite to you. spiritual insight all to that the latest word on food consider this: No one has fed prices, even though I prefer young man. whoever be was. my muse in days. In face, toeatout. The other half of me. he's circling over my left though, thinks it a bit odd to shoulder like a Shadow of A ll this role-playing has see a so-called world wide me a bit confused about Death—an extension of self Christian crusade funded by myself, and scream therapy waiting to do me in for self the idolotry of mysticism, seems about the only way to neglect normally shunned by the release the inner tension Or maybe I ’ll justify my Christian faith (Fellow tenants please F irs t Column E ver by We make * no snap repeating the wisdom of copy.) ju d g e m e n ts h e re , Henny Youngman: “‘Folks, if nonetheless, on either the Think maybe I crossed the you hear any of these you U n ifica tio n Church or Edge of Night in Search for like, tell me and 1 11 do ’em astrology. Tomorrow recently when the again...” As the Eastern mystics phone rang, and I was lured Bye! sometimes note: “ Life is but a dew drop within a dew drop.” Or as Moonie Tunes sometimes say in closing a BOYD & W O O D »he SOVEREiCN STATE o* AFf * P S WHAT DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD DO ABOUT THE CARM BILL’ /A . „I Paint Your currently chairm an of the Cen tennial district board. In addition to his business and promotional background, Hannon has served 11 years on school boards (Lynch Elem entary and G resh am Union High before Centennial). He’ll obviously add expertise to the MHCC board. We think he should be elected by MHCC voters next Tuesday. From that list, however, we’re suppo rtin g Clayton H annon, executive director of the Portland Rose Festival Association, and the top of the list of those prim arily responsible for the Recently a friend of mine, erosion and loss of much of commenting sourly on the our rapidly narrowing right question of lawyers ad to be governed by elected ve rtis in g th e ir services officials of our own choosing Along w ith a state publicly, allowed that the le g is la tu re s e e m in g ly best advertisem ent any lawyer could have would be a equally disinterested in our tr u ly simple statement that “ I am m ain ta in in g representative type of civil not like those other government at the highest lawyers!’’ As the pre-primary lists of level, our governors have those who believe they filled every conceivable level should be considered by the of the state government with re g u la to rs : voters as outstanding a p p o in te d c o m m is s io n s , g u b e rn a to ria l m a te r ia l b oa rd s, swelled to a total of 15 can com m ittees, consultants bureaucracies didates ( seven Democrats authorities, and eight Republicans), some and “ groups .” In addition, they have observers detected signs of the “ l-am-different-than-the- allowed the organized aims others” type of campaigning and ambitions of many faceless, nameless pressure at work. groups to become firm ly 1 agree with my friend This could, if true, be the entrenched at strateg ic most effective claim of the points in the almost “ closed campaign! On the other so cie ty’ ’ of our state hand, when all of the can government. Of the five candidates didates use it, what a smashing and sinister im currently most likely to be plication it places on the nominated in this year’s primaries, one is the present entire group ! Like most other politicians governor, one has served two the candidates fo r the previous terms as governor, gubernatorial nominations and three are members of suffer under the current bad the state legislature. On what grounds can any p ublic image of the • politician.” Obviously, they of them be “ different?” Certainly, the present sad do not help matters a great deal by calling attention to state of affairs, where some the fact that all of the rest obscure, nameless bureacrat “ but me” fit nicely into that in an unknown cubby-hole presided over by an “ap tarnished image. This is the reservoir from pointed” hanger-on of the which we have been choosing state establishment who has our governors for many never taken care of a piece of years. It seems to me to be land or paid a penny’s worth counterproductive for any of property tax, exercises candidate to disclaim the more control over your home, farm and land than obvious. But there is another and you do, is not “ different.” No, that situation is not perhaps more sinister reason why the claim of a “ d if “ different” and unless we ference” w ill no longer quite get some relief soon it is “je ll” with the informed going to get much, much voter At the top of the three worse The quickest way to echelons of elected officials see how much worse it can in the state who are get is to permit those who prim arily responsible for allowed it to happen to allow protecting and maintaining it to continue. That grim and grey army our truly representative kind of government, our recent behind the candidates w ill governors have also been at give up nothing—easily. by Bill Sanderson THAT'S NOT FUNNY Groener endorsed by OEA committee People fo r the Improvement of Education, the political action arm of the O re g o n E d u c a tio n Association, this week en dorsed D em ocrat Ralph Groener for state labor commissioner. Groener, a former state representative, currently is a Clackamas County com missioner. The organization also announced other m ajor endorsements but notably absent was a choice for governor A PIE spokesman said the group would not endorse a candidate in the prim ary but planned to support a gub erna to ria l candidate in the general election. Other endorsements in clude Republican Sen. Mark Hatfield for re-election to his seat in the U.S. Senate and Rep. Bob Duncan, D-third District, for re-election the U.S. House of Represen tatives. Project approved C la c k a m a s C o u n ty Com m issioners Monday overruled an earlier decision by the county planning commission which denied a 16-lot subdivision for William Trimble Construction Co. at 222nd Drive and Southeast Donna Court. Planning commissioners and the county planning staff had recommended denial of Trimble Estates, saying that the land was better suited for agricultural use. A spokesman for Trimble Construction told the com missioners that other sub divisions already are under construction in the area and denial would be discriminatory. The commissioners voiced unanimous approval for the project which w ill be located on approximately 16 acres of land Holmes finishes training Navy Fireman Recruit Steven R Holmes has completed recruit training at the Naval Training Center, S an Diego He is the son of W illia m E. Holmes of Boring During the eight-week training cycle, he studied general m ilitary subjects de signed to prepare him for further academic and on- the-job training in one of the Navy’s 85 basic occupa tional fields SERVICE WE GIVE! INSURANCE WE SELL . . . Sandy High seeks 'junk' automobiles Sandy High School teacher Sam Sakamoto is seeking three “ junk” automobiles with hope for recovery “ Students have been working on dead stuff,” Sakamoto said at his power mechanics class “ Just as long as we can make them run, we’re not too par ticular ” Sakamoto said the high school is w illing to pay for the autom obiles He’s looking for a “ minimum of three ’ for the approximately 60 students in the class “ We need some hands on ex perience for the students ” Anyone wishing to sell or donate an old car may contact Sakamoto by calling 66B-4151. extension 51. The personal insurance counsel and advice of a local ogent is important to you in planning a complete insurance program. George Morgan Local Representative WALRAD Sandy, Oregon MG- 4421 4 I
