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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1978)
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She now looks back over a career which saw major changes take place before her eyes in city ad ministration and facilities. From a staff of three - herself, the chief of police and the janitor - the city has grown to 33 employes The city budget has jumped from the $50,-60,000 range to almost $2 million. Mrs. Loundree came to Sandy in 1943 She took a job with the Sandy Post in the early fifties where she was part of a two-man operation which cranked out the paper every week. “ I did a little bit of everything back then,” she recalled this week. ” 1 was the Society E d ito r, ad salesman, poured the lead for the press and delivered paper when they came off on F riday.” M rs. Loundree unopposed fo r the ran C ity Recorder’s job in 1958 when fo rm e r Recorder F rank Reberg stepped down from the position The job title was somewhat misleading in that she handled more duties than just recording the official business of the city. One of the more interesting sidelines of the position was her duties as municipal judge She was the arbiter on traffic tickets and other minor violations which did not make it to district court. “ It was a funny situation,” Mrs. Loundree recalled. "There were times when I would be listening to someone’s case in the court and somebody else would come in to pay a water bill. “ So I ’d just say, 'Excuse me,’ and I ’d go over and take the water bill and then come back to hear the rest of the case,” she said City hall was then a wood frame building on Shelly Avenue at the present location of T J’s parking lot entrance. It contained offices for the police chief and Mrs Loundree plus the city council chambers An ad jacent lean-to shelter housed the c ity ’s only fire truck “ It was nothing like what there is now,” Mrs Loundree said “ I can remember a time one winter when it got so cold inside there that the oil stove was clogged. It was 10 degrees above zero and snow was knee-deep around the building “ So I grabbed the snow shovel, cleaned off the walk way and called in the city maintenance man to fix the stove. I told them that until they got the fire going, I would be at home doing my Take one in the face, please It was all for a good cause when Pete Sheppard (left and Jim Wilhite squared off against one another Sunday armed with whipped cream pies. The two were the high bidders for the pie throwing event at an auction Sunday to raise funds for the newly formed One Way Theater. Over $400 was raised at the auction in (John Kline photos) which merchants in town donated goods and gift certificates which were sold off to the highest bidder. In top photo. Wilhite gets the first crack with a direct hit square on the nose. Sheppard retaliated with a low flying shot to the kisser. w ork," she said. Preparing the city budgets back in those days was quite a chore for the City Recor der. “ We did n ’ t have a ty p e w rite r w ith a long carriage so we had to make do with what was available,” Mrs Loundree said “ There w eren’t any copying machines. It was all done with carbon paper ” Plans for the present city hall were made when the state fire marshall con demned the old structure. Voters approved a bond issue for the new building on Pioneer Boulevard and the dedication ceremony for the structure was held in 1969 Mrs. Loundree assumed her title as Administration Secretary in 1972 after the c ity ’s new city charter was revamped That was one of many changes she has seen as the employe with the longest record of service to the city. Mrs. Loundree sees two m ajor changes as having the greatest impact on city life in her years at city hall. The first was enactment of zoning laws in the early sixties. Prior to that time, lending institutions were hesitant to write house loans for new construction. The second was the passage of the $450,000 bond issue for construction of the present sewage treatment plant. The facility can handle a population of 5,000 with the capacity to increase to 10,000. Both items have helped put the city on the road to an expanded population. Mrs. Loundree is now on an extended vacation leave from her job. She w ill not officially leave the post until the end of November. She took her last vacation in May, 1973. For the present, Mrs. Loundree, 65, plans to spend time with her husband, Carl, and to work on the fam ily garden. “ I t ’s going to take a while to get used to not working,” she said. “ But I think I ’m going to enjoy it.” il j L □C ee .MJ i<7 ii; 'W if qo r fi íe id «i V •Z it) >8 1« ÎC Î8 It ifi n w íí 7' *b R u th L o u n d re e Man dies in highway crash « 44-year-old Madras man was killed in a head-on collision in heavy fog on U S. High 26 Sunday. Cecil R. Barnhouse died around 8 p.m. Sunday after the station wagon in which he was a passenger collided with a vehicle driven by Alan C. Gowdy, 48, of Portland Gowdy was taken to G re s h a m C o m m u n ity Hospital where he was treated and released His wife Jean, 47, is listed in satisfactrory condition. Clarence B a ird , 44, of Parkdale, was driving the car in which Barnhouse was killed Baird is listed in sa tis fa c to ry condition in P o r tla n d ’ s Em anuel Hospital. “ Congratulations to Clackamas County Bank on your beautiful, new branch bank in Boring. We are proud to have played a part in the construction . . Tí A* ft tí Q A i lì E 6 d 3 g O b I ! 4 1 /■G O O D ‘ »REASONS to sec y o u r g o o d n e ig h b o r a g e n t --Boring's n e w Clackam as C ounty Bank CAR «HOME LIFE «HEALTH Beautiful Cocktail Lounge ft Dining Room « Delicious New Lunch Menu * Try our Chef's Ron Norquist 38720 PrKtOf Pioneer Square Sandy 668 4327 Ltkr a good netyhòor. SfoOr Farm it t h r r r GOURMET DINNER MENU * Veol Normandy * Chicken Jerusalem • Scampi Facon du Chef * Lobster Alpenhous * New York Marchant de Vin • Roast Prime Ribs of Beef (au jus) Reservation» Suggested. Phone 663-5343 HOURS — Bar: 11:30-11:00. lun ch*«*: 11:30-3:00 Dinner: 9:00-10:00 GIFT SHOP 903-3911 BAKIRY 093-9400 BOUTIQUf 003-0099 HCIOt'S RI9TAURAMT 003-3444 ALPSNHAU9 003-9343 Mt. Hood Froowoy (Hwy 20) Soring I b N Visit our Show Room in Pioneer Square! Soo our ortontito library of homo plant. Froo otfimafot— our plant or yourt! CORNER OF SCALES & PROCTOR SANDY, OREGON » V 4«0u
