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Thur«., July 6. 1978 )tec. I) SANDY (O r*.) POST— 3
After 19 years of work,it’s tim e to bid farewell
> JOHN KLINE
Ruth Loundree has worn
more thim a few professional
hats in her time But that’s
the way it is when you’re only
one of three employees
working for a city of 1,200
people
In 1959, Mrs. Loundree left
her job with The Sandy Post
to run unopposed for the City
R ecorder’s office here.
Those were the days before
federal help provided CETA
employees and a broad range
of other support funds.
“ You pretty much had to
rely on what was available to
get the job done,” she said
Nineteen years and several
job titles later, Mrs. Ixjun-
dree has decided to step
down from her position as
\dm inistrative Secretary for
tne city. 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.”
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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 . .
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