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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.
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