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Council sends Tickle Creek LID Von Braschler, Gen. Manager Sue Lafky, Editor Caroline D u«, O«ice Manager back to engineer Douglas Gantenbein. Sports Editor Published w eekly Thursday* by Th« O utlook Publishing Co.. Box 68 Sandy Oregon 9 7 0 5 5 Second dass po ttag e poid ot Sandy Oregon 668 5548 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ln M ultnom oh and Clockomo» Counties per year ...........................*5 00 In N o rth w e tt ond Pocitn Caost Claras outside Oregon per y e a r .................. 7 ° ° Servicemen any od óre»»............... . ’5 00 Out »i de N o rth w e tt and Pocific C oati »tote» per y e a r ................................ *9.00 In O regon outside M ultnom oh and ****■" «= « B ■ ft p A per 1 Tssl Oregon Newspaper lls œ x Represented Nationally by U S SUBURBAN PRESS INC No. 14 ItffiE I W||J|I( Thurs., Apr. 6. 1978 N ew Post Office Needed We appreciate the city council’s move to petition postal authorities for downtown mail delivery and a new post office. The time is come to make Sandy’s needs known to the U S. Postal Service. Right now the city has outgrown its post office on Pioneer Boulevard, and with Sandy’s predicted surge of growth during the next few years, the situation doesn’t promise to get any better. The Republican Primary A lot of politicians have already decided that Bob Straub and Tom McCall will face each other for the governorship next fall. A lot of politicians, but not 100 percent. There is a growing number which feel an upset could be in the making, that either Roger Martin or Vic Atiyeh could surprise McCall. McCall’s long delay in filing reportedly was due to difficulties in raising money. Not all parts of the business community will support McCall this time. Meanwhile, both Martin and Atiyeh are sniping away. A sample: There currently are 89 people on a waiting list for post office boxes, and that figure will only increase during the next few years. Sandy is rapidly • reaching the 2,500 figure which would make it eligible for downtown door-to-door mail delivery. That would tem porarily ease the crowded mailbox conditions, but plans still need to be made for a new office. (SAL) M r. MacUntried: "We are assisting them in getting involved in planning for themselves!" "THE "HELPERS" “ Roger Martin, unlike his chief opponent, knows the issues. Straight environmentalism isn’t one of them. Quality of life, a good job, take-home pay, building a house, Cox of Zigzag, who did an Goal reached and keeping government off our Thanks outstanding job. We would recommend them highly, for backs are.’’ To the Editor: To the Editor: This is good politics, painting Mr. and Mrs. Paul Spence We would like to thank all any auctions you may be thank the Sandy Area of the people who attended planning for the future. McCall as a one-issue candidate, Also, a very big thank you Merchants for the great trip the Mt. Hood Lions Club fund especially since some of the bloom to Southern California. to all of the Hoodland area raising Crab Feed and is fading from the environmental We had a great time and Auction on April 1. Thanks to businesses and others who took in Disneyland, Knotts your turn-out and goodwill, donated items for the auc rose. Farm and flew to San our fund raising goal for this tion. Without your interest The odds still are going to favor Berry We saw the San Diego event was reached As you and support, it couldn’t have McCall; he’ll probably win the Diego. Zoo. Sea World, went deep know, proceeds from this been done. Dick Quick GOP primary. But a lot can sea fishing and drove into event will go towards the Bruce Erickson Mexico. We also went to purchase of a heart-aid happen in the next two months. Co-chairmen Wax Museum. It machine for the Mt. Hood Don’t write off the challengers this Movieland was seven full days of great Community. early. fun. letters to the editor Mr. and Mrs. Paul Spence 20051 SE Bornstedt Road Sandy, Ore 97055 Another Baby Boom Coming? Back in the ’40s and ’50s, we called them “ war babies” , youngsters born in the years just following World War II. They had, and still are having, a tremendous influence on American life. But if you believe former Washington Gov. Dan Evans, you haven’t seen anything yet. Those same “war babies’’ now are starting to have children of their own. Evans said a “huge baby boom’’ now is in process. “It is a monumental wave that will reach its heights in the late ’80s or ’90s. Far more children will be born than in the years just after World War II.” Evans predicts this latest baby Manning The Post When it comes to a diet there are excuses a-plenty boom will hit the schools in no more than four years. The impact will be tremendous, he says. Schools which now stand half empty, again will be filled to by Sue Lafky overflowing. Confirmation of the baby boom Pest Editor also comes from the Census It seems as if anything Bureau which reports that while worth doing these days is kindergarten enrollment declined either fattening or causes for the first time in 30 years during cancer. I know. 1977, nursery school (pre My mother, a woman who kindergarten) attendance in was before her time, used to tell me that there are three creased. In other words, we haven’t seen anything yet when it comes to school costs. Districts must look four or five years down the road now, not just around the next bend. Portland State and Its Complex For reasons we’ve never fully und irstood, Portland State University suffers from an in feriority complex. It shouldn’t. Portland State is a good and growing school. Some day it probably will be the premier state school in Oregon. Why, then, this inferiority complex? Certainly, it’s fostered in part by policies of the State Board of Higher Education which inhibit PSU’s growth (i.e. refusing to permit duplication of courses already offered at Oregon or Oregon State). Perhaps also the school’s very newness makes it less confident, less assertive than Oregon and OSU. Perhaps because PSU is not the traditional campus-type school but rather an urban university serving students who are older, take fewer courses and who work at least part-time while attending school Whatever the reasons, the City Club has just issued a long-term report on PSU which seeks to stimulate and invigorate its role as a fine, four-year school We would also like to thank our two auctioneers, Paul Spence of Sandy and Tom The report urges, for instance, that State Board policies which have limited PSU’s course of ferings should be modified or removed. Enrollment quotas should be limited. Because of the greater number of part-time students, PSU should not be forced into the same financial patterns as Oregon and OSU. PSU should be given authority to offer courses outside the immediate downtown Portland area. For its part, PSU should improve its contacts with the community as a whole; it must do a much better job selling itself. Relations with community colleges (Mt. Hood for one) should stress continued c o o p e r a tio n . These and other points are made in the City Club report. This writer was involved in preparation of the report and came away from the four years of study convinced that Portland State has every potential to become a fine school. Obviously, it should continue its present ef fective job of teaching but it also should shed its inferiority complex and do a better job of self- promotion. things genteel folks don’t talk about in public: politics, religion and diets. It was wise advice, but today I feel the need for public confession. These days, there is every conceivable diet in the world available for those engaged in the battle of the bulge. You can pick your poison when trying for quick weight loss— everything from chalk-like m ilkshakes to binges of tomatoes, jello, sunflower seeds or steak. 1 know. And I’ve hated all of them But you should first hear my case before passing judgment—there are legitimate excuses for each of my diet violations. F irst, there was Halloween. I bought 35 packages of M & M’s with a few Hershey bars thrown in for good measure. “Give ’em variety,” I said in one of my more altruistic moments, thinking of the pitter-patter of little feet that evening. How was I to know that not one of those little monsters was going to come trick or treating at my door? “ It’s obvious that I had no choice but to consume ten candy bars that night and down the rest of them by the end of the week There’s no use letting the temptation stay around too long, right? I have to admit that it’s a little harder to tell you why I gave our sports editor a chocolate E aster egg in another moment of good will and later stole the egg and ate it. I just didn’t want to take time out for a health foods lunch. Now you’re probably wondering why I can eat oiie entire bag of taco chips at one sitting. Well, it happens that I was born in the wrong hem isphere and have a fanatical craving for Mexican food at least three or four times a week. And of course you need a six-pack of your favorite soda pop to wash it down. The diet stuff, they say, causes cancer in rats—and I’ve been called worse than that since I’ve had this job. If I have an interview or meeting after one of these Mexican feasts, it is only prudent that I pop a Life Saver or two to keep my breath fresh. Sometimes—to De on uic safe side—I consume the whole roll. But only out of consideration to those around me. So now it’s out in the open. My personal habits have been laid bare for all to see. In defense. I can only echo the sentiments of a friend who recently tried a health food meal and pronounced that it was ‘okay once in awhile,” but not for a steady diet. “ There s not enough grease ” The Sandy City Council which would follow the Monday night rescinded a creek. Council rescinded the resolution clearing the way for hearings on a proposed proposed resolution, pending Tickle Creek local im clarification of assessments. Peoples said that he will provement district, sending the proposal back to the city come up with a revised engineer to rework for assessment roll for those less council's next scheduled affected. This could be based either meeting. The proposal by city on square footage of the area engineer Dennis Peoples or 150 feet back north of the would provide a 12-inch sewer line. He will present revisions to sewer line within a proposed 60-foot road to serve eight council April 17, at which parcels of land north of time the council could ap Tickle Creek and provide for prove the resolution and set passible future hook-up to up a public hearing within 15 developments south of the days. There has been no field creek where the system work yet, and the city would would drain. The area generally ef come up with a concrete plan fected is west off Tupper to present to the people following the council’s Road. CRAG in its boundary adoption. If the city encounters no review com m ittee has named the area south of the obstacles in a public hearing, creek off limits for city then the city will set up a local improvement district annexation. The system, however, has (LID). The project would then be been designed to handle both sides of the creek, with cross advertised for bids. Presently, there are only overs and drainage on the two six-inch lines feeding the other side. Center line of Tickle Creek growth area The proposed new sewer would be the boundary, with the north side the assessment line would be a larger 12-inch transmission line, with one 8 side. The only three property inch feeder line right at the owners fully assessed in the curve on Sandy Heights and original proposal submitted another 8-inch feeder up into this week would be Emily Skyline Mobile Plaza. The feeder lines, however, Rich, Myron Tupper and have been requested by the Rubin Hoffman. Others would be less af affected owners, and cost of fected and could probably be these lines would not be assessed a lesser amount. figured into the overall Approximate cost of the assessment, Peoples said. project—without conside Skyline has septic tank ration of easements, would problems now. Peoples said, be $114,000, according to and there is a proposed PUD adjacent to Skyline. Peoples. Drainage would extend all Also, Frank Moore plans a the way up to Shorty’s subdivision, according to Peoples, who anticipates Corner. “There is not that much of little opposition to his a design obstacle to plan proposals. He noted that assessment ahead for units south of the creek for future hook-up into of property owners actually the line,” Peoples said outside present city limits There are provisions for would in effect force them development on Weaver into the city. Apparently, the city will Road. ! The system is designed not take that approach at this eventually to service more time. The city does, however, than 5,000 homes of the future, figuring the area's propose parks or one large maximum development park outside present city limits. potential. Peoples proposes ex One proposed park would tending the planned 60-foot be south of Tickle Creek road on the Frank Moore directly below the Moore property up Tickle Creek to property. intercept with Tupper to 211. A bicycle path also figures The sewer line then would in park plans for the go under the proposed road developing area. Mobile home permits Behan wins spot on Welches Board Leah Behan nabbed a spot on the Welches School District Board in Tuesday's election. Behan, a registered nurse, defeated Boyd Northrup by a 154-86 margin In Boring. Carl Aschoff and Gale Meier won in unopposed contests. Gladys Brooks took the seven-person race in the Mt. Hood Community College race for the at-large seat held by Rick Gustafson (who was not run ning for re-election > Coupled with B arbara R oberts’s election (unop posed) to the board, the college district board now sports five women and two men. Handy Subscription O rd e r Form . . . 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The county planning commission is due to review the proposal at a May 8 meeting at the Clackamas County Courthouse in Oregon City That meeting will begin at7:30p m On May 22. the county commissioners will review the proposed amendment during a 9 a m . session A spokesm an for the county said the proposal would allow the planning director to review temporary permit applications when the applicant proposes to use a mobile home as a temporary resident while constructing a permanent house or as a residence to provide care for a relative who needs special attention due to age or poor health The file is available for inspection in the office of the Clackamas County Planning Depart ment in Oregon City Ordinance reading slated The first reading of an ordinance to set the payroll tax rate at 6 of I percent, effective July 1, will be heard bv the Tri-Met Board of D irectors at its regular monthly meeting Monday, April 10. at 10 a m in the Water Service Building Auditorium. 1800 SW Sixth Ave The payroll lax is currently levied at .5 of 1 percent Min local sows, spins 11 months for prie« of 12 if you order now: In Clackamas, Multnomah Co..................$5.00 Elsewhere in Oregon................................ $4.00 Other Northwest States............................$7.00 Outside Pacific N.W...................................$0.00 Servicemen anywhere..............................$5.00 Enclose check & mail to: THE SANDY POST Box 68 Sandy, OR 97055 N a m e : ......................................... 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