Editorial and Opinion
Industrial Park Answer to C ity’s Woes
With the decline in area logging
and the city’s need for a broader
tax base, Sandy would be wise to
consider a second industrial park.
Recent voter rejection of the city
budget with bulges to pay for new
utilities associated with growth
suggests a need to look elsewhere
for city revenue, as does the
disappearance of mills here.
Gone, too, are many of the
loggers. Approximately a half
dozen logging firms have slowed
down local operations or shut down
entirely in the Sandy trading area.
Some have moved elsewhere to log,
due partly to mills scaling down
and shutting down and partly to a
partial shut down in the Bull Run
Reserve and other parts of the
national forest. That’s a local
payroll amounting to around
$800,000. Come September, the
Portland City Council and the
F orest Service will issue a joint
environmental impact statem ent to
determ ine the destiny of log cutting
in the Bull Run Reserve, deeded to
the Rose City years ago as a water
shed.
But area logging is generally on
the decline anyway. Industrial
Forestry Association projects that
112 forestry jobs are lost annually
in a dwindling industry, with
another 224 jobs lost in associated
trade areas. It’s a downward trend
expected to continue. The full
impact of the Bull Run Reserve’s
partial shutdown (no new sales)
won’t be felt until 1980, according to
I.F A. spokesman Mike Sullivan.
So much for logging’s future as
Oregon’s top industry. What of
Sandy’s future?
New light, clean industry must
be attracted here while prices are
competitive and land available.
Sandy’s present industrial park is
n early full with expansion
limitations.
The City of Sandy has a golden
opportunity to plan a second in
dustrial park with lessons learned
from recent construction of the
present facility. Besides expansion
limitations, present site short
comings include the way in which
equipment and backs of buildings
face the highway.
The city’s industrial park was a
good idea and a first step in the
right direction. Now let’s take the
second step, - vb
Spreading the Word Via the A ir Waves
E ver hear of an electric church?
T hat’s the tag given the religious
broadcasting business, one of the
fastest growing entries in the field
of electronic media.
There are an estimated 1,200
religious radio stations in the
United States today and they’re
increasing one a week; there are 25
TV stations and they’re increasing
by one a month.
The number of these religious
radio stations has doubled since
1972, and TV probably will double
in the next few years. About $500
million per year is spent on radio
and TV time by religious broad
casting.
The biggest religious superstar is
J e rry Falw ell’s “ Old-Time Gospel
H our” from L yn ch b u rg , Va.
Others include Oral Roberts,
Herbert W. and G arner Ted
Armstrong, and Billy Graham.
Falwell began broadcasting 22
years ago. In 1971, revenue reached
$1 million a year. By 1975, that $1
million had grown to $1 million per
month and by next year it will be $1
million a week.
The overwhelming source of
support of the religious radio
program s are the so-called “ born-
again Christians.’’ Mar4 i Marty, a
Lutheran m inister and University
of Chicago professor of religion,
say s
“ T h ey ”
(th e
rad io
evangelists) are healers or positive
thinkers...They produce clienteles
instead of congregations.”
A N ew Car To Cost *10,000?
A news dispatch from Detroit
recently predicted that by 1985,
your average new car will cost
$10,000 com pared with $6,500 today.
Or com pared with $495 in 1934.
This w riter’s father was an
automobile dealer and we well can
rem em ber new cars selling for $300
or $400. An advertisem ent in a 1934
Outlook we chanced upon recently
quoted Fieldhouse and Fancher
Chevrolet as offering a new car for
“ as low as $495.”
Obviously, everything that goes
into a car is enormously more
expensive these days. Especially
m aterials and labor costs, plus the
various new federal requirements
for emissions control, safety, etc.
In d u stry officials say the
average price of a new car is rising
slightly less than the rate of in
flation. Thus, rising income levels
may make it easier for the average
w age-earner to afford a new car in
the years before 1985.
But somehow, $495 sounds a
whole lot better.
H ow about Today’s Traffic Problems
The new general m anager of Tri-
Met, P e te r Cass, says light rail is
the answ er to transportation
problems in the metropolitan area.
But this “ answ er” is from 20 to 30
years and several billions of dollars
away, he says.
What happens on today’s totally
inadequate streets in the mean
time? That question, the one East
County residents keep asking,
rem ains unanswered.
If traffic volume continues to
explode as it has over the past few
years, the resultant chaos in 20 or
30 years will be literally un
thinkable.
Yet, Tri-Met officials keep airily
talking about the future, not about
today.
Admittedly, planning has to start
somewhere, but we’d be a whole lot
happier if more was being done to
solve today’s problems today.
Von Broschier. General Manager
John Kline, Editor
Caroline Duff, Office Manager
Mark Floyd, Staff Reporter
Kaye Barton, staff reporter
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No 30
July 27 1978
A strange view
of lawman’s job
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Berkely Lent, one of the
seven justices on the Oregon
Supreme Court, seems to
have a strange view of the
policeman’s job. The judge
acknowledges that police
work can be hazardous but
then claims an officer has no
right to protect himself by
searching a suspect for
weapons
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Speaking of the hazardous
nature of police work, Lent
was
quoted
by
The
A s s o c ia te d
P re s s :
“ Elim ination of the hazard
’, must come through change
of law or profession, not
through disregard of the
law ” What he seemed to be
saying was that if an officer
felt he was getting into a
dangerous situation, one way
to handle it was to take off his
badge and say, “ I resign.”
” 1 Don’t Know...Maybe It’s My Age...But,
For Some Reason I Can’t Get Fired Up
About Reducing The Capital Gains Tax...’
What other editors say
High costs hit cattlemen
at the most favorable rate of
interest” for dairymen to
turn a profit.
Many dairymen, Josi said,
are making an income that
can be calculated at between
$3.50 and $4.00 an hour for
their labor.
In
labor
intensive
agriculture, such as fru it
orchards in the Hood River
area, the cost of labor for the
first time in the history of
agriculture is exceeding all
other costs.
For 40 months before
February of this year, 80
percent of all beef cattle
operators
lost
money.
Among these were 300
That was the consensus of Oregon ranch families who
a panel of a g ric u ltu ra l went out of business in 1977.
representatives last week at
C orporate fa rm s and
the annual meeting of speculators are driving up
O re g o n
n e w s p a p e r the prices of landing, thus
publishers.
influencing property taxes as
Among points cited were well as tending to shut-out
these:
young people from entering
A small fam ily operated agriculture. Among beef
dairy requires an investment cattlemen, for instance, the
of $250,000 to $500,000, ac average age has increased
cording to Tillamook’s Ernie from 47 years old to a current
Josi. But, income from milk level of 56.
sales is re la tiv e ly low,
Since 1950, corporate
making it difficult “ even farms have increased from
The price of beef w ill in
crease again in the fall of the
year. Most other food costs
w ill continue to increase.
Despite the fact, Oregon
cattlemen are expected to
lose money on about one-
fourth of the state’s 1.6
m illio n beef ca ttle. A
significant number of grain
and potato farms as well as
apple and cherry orchards
also w ill fail.
The paradox of failure
during a time of plenty ap
parently can be answered by
high cost of production and
low rate of re tu rn for
agriculturalists.
two percent of the national
total to 10 percent.
In 1977, an estimated 10
percent of lane involved in
sales went to foreign in
vestors.
The response to such
forces at the production level
necessarily w ill be higher
prices. How much higher;
however, is a problem both
for the agriculturalist and
the consumer.
The panelists agreed last
week that food costs would
need to increase from a
present level of 17 percent of
fam ily spending to 20 percent
before the producer’s in
come, and thus his return on
investment, would approach
the five or six percent that is
considered fa ir for business
and industry.
Clearly,
agriculture is
having a better time of it this
year than in recent times.
But, the going still is tough
and that means that food
costs very likely w ill con
tinue to rise despite a
growing protest.
counterbalance powerful
m in o rity
pressures
on
specific issues. All these
specific
pressures
ac
cumulate to produce high
spending, but there’s rarely
a single focus around which
to rally a m ajority for lower
taxation.
The rationale for referenda
like Proposition 13 is that
they provide this focus As
Milton Friedman and others
argue.
the
frustra te d
m a jo rity
interested
in
lowered spending is finally
enabled to cast a single vote
that would override all the
a c c u m u la te d
s m a lle r
decisions
produced
by
special interests This point,
we th in k , explains the
national outburst of en
thusiasm for the work of
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
fin a lly thought they had
But Lent said there was no
evidence that the policeman
had reason to believe the
suspect to be armed. Well,
forgive us, but what kind of
evidence is required before
someone caught in a legal
drug raid can be searched9
Does an officer have to wait
for a suspect to pull a gun or
a knife before he can frisk
the suspect?
The Fourth Amendment
p ro h ib its u n re a so n a b le
searches and seizures. The
courts in the last few years
have inferred ever-tighter
re s tric tio n s
from
the
a m e n d m e n t’ s
s im p le
language. But surely there is
still room in the Fourth
Amendment for a police
officer to make sure he’s not
about to be shot or sliced up
by someone caught in a
narcotics raid.
The Oregon Court of
Appeals affirm ed the drug
conviction that came out of
this case The state Supreme
Court refused to review the
matter. Both courts showed
some sense. Justice Lent
didn’t.
— Albany Democrat-Herald
Letters-to-the-editor
Hello tar,
good-bye gravel
To the Editor:
I wanted to express my
gratitude to our highway
department publicly, as a
citizen of Clackamas County,
so that the other people on
my road and the many roads
like it could join me.
I have lived on 287th
Avenue for over three years
now, and twice in that period
of time the little street I live
on has been repaired.
It happens in the summer.
First a truck drives slowly
along, covering the road
surface with hot tar. Then
another truck comes along
behind, sp illin g enough
gravel to completely cover
the tar. It looks so nice when
the crew has finished and
left.
Starting about ten minutes
later, a car comes down my
road, and then another, and
another. I know because I
hear the sound of tires
picking up tar-covered rocks
and flinging them against the
car body, mailboxes, passing
cars and children walking on
the side of the road. It sounds
like a hailstorm on a tin roof.
The tar causes the rocks to
stick to the tires long enough
to be flung loose with force.
Ever try to clean hot tar off
of a car?
Ever try to clean hot tar
and gravel off of a car?
Ever try to clean hot tar
and gravel off of shoes, or
bicycles or horses' hooves?
This goes on for about a
month, and by then passing
cars and pedestrians have
carried away the road-
surface paid for by our tax
money and we are left again
to the peace and quiet of our
clean potholes.
Thanks.
Mrs. Jeannie Parker
287th Avenue
Boring
— Tillamook Headlight
Herald
Tax interest is sporadic
Legislatures in California
and Massachusetts were so
embroiled in controversies
this month that they failed to
finish their budget work in
time for the new fiscal year
In Boston, state workers
marched to protest a week
w ith o u t
paychecks.
Opponents of PropAition 13
had predicted financial
chaos if it passed, and one
might expect state finances
to get rocky with all the
uproar over tax cuts and
spending lim its But the state
bogged down not because of
tax revolts but over public
funding for abortions.
It may seem a little
strange to have a govern
ment start missing payrolls
because of a theological
dispute, but there's a lesson
here about the way politics
work If you take a broad
but unfocused public concern
like high taxes and set it next
to a single issue like abor
tion, which is intensely
fought over by a .smaller but
w ell-organized group of
people, it's the special issue
th a t’s going to get the
politician's attention.
Except in very unusual
circumstances, high taxes
and unbalanced budgets just
don’t provide the same in
tense focus for activity as
does 'rig h t to life ” (or
women's liberation” ) A vast
m ajority may grumble about
taxes, but this concern is so
diffuse that it can seldom
Lent made his remarks in
a written dissent from a
Supreme Court decision to let
stand a case from Lane
County. According to the
press account, this is what
happened: Eugene police in
1975 conducted a drug raid on
an apartment.
Fourteen
people inside were searched
for weapons. In one’s pocket
police said they found some
heroin. The suspect was
convicted for criminal ac
tiv ity in drugs and appealed.
The <4ficer involved said he
made the search for weapons
based on his general belief
that persons involved with
drugs often are armed.
found a way out of their
fru s tra tin g
in a b ility
to
control their governments.
The trouble is that once tne
referendum is over again,
and if the public isn’t wat
ching, not even the state
constitutions can stand in the
way. In a representative
government, there’s only one
sure way to safeguard a
diffuse m ajority interest in
things like fiscal prudence.
That is to elect represen
tatives who have shown they
w ill keep it uppermost in
their minds. If the voters in
C a lifo r n ia
and
Massachusetts really want ti
ease their tax frustrations,
they should reward or punish
their legislators for the shape
of the total budget, not for
the:t stand on side issues
Graham tops God
in students’ poll
High school students responding to a Ladies Home
Journal poll question that asked who has done the most
for i eligion listed Billie Graham first and God second’
, ? ; T . . l.7‘n^ erJS also rank« 1 An" a Bryant with
Adolph Hitler for doing the most harm in the world!
How they could be so wrong on both counts has been
explained by a theory that the kids of today gain their
impressions mainly from watching television. But that
doesn't wash unless it is conjectured that the Lord is
ept too much offstage as an unseen prompter in
(.raham 's TV specials and, further, that today’s
younger set either embraces homosexuality or abhors
orange juice.
J \ \ ? 1.Ore.!ike,y ^ a t those youngsters questioned in
the LHJ poll couldn't resist a fantastic opportunity to
shock their elders. That old line about silly questions
deserving silly answers applies
The kids undoubtedly were more prompted to level
with the pollsters when asked to pick their current
per sopal idols The girls chose Kate Jackson, an Angel.
The boys. ( ur.t Eastwood, no angel but no paranoidal
Hitler, either
— Eugene Register Guard
— Wall Street Journal
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