Editorial and Opinion
City losing money without lodging facilities
Nothing seems as frustrating —
or necessary — as attempts to
improve visitor facilities in Sandy.
Just try petitioning the state
Departm ent
of
Economic
Development (DED) as Oregon
Hospitality and Visitor Association
(OHVA) director Don Rickel did
recently on behalf of the Sandy
Area Chamber of Commerce.
In his letter to DED, Rickel
outlined the need for a new motel or
hotel in Sandy, and suggested that
the state might assist Sandy in
attracting a business group to build
here.
The Post called the Department
of Economic Development office to
follow the progress of Rickel’s
request. Curiously, no one
remembered the letter or seemed
too interested in the proposal.
Furthermore, we were told that
present government structure gave
tourism as a function to both the
Departm ent
of
Economic
Development and the Department
of Transportation’s Highway
Division. The responsibilities
might seem to overlap, but neither
government agency displays that
much concern. It seems as though
the Department of Economic
Development doesn’t consider
tourism a state industry under its
management guidelines. And the
Department of Transportation only
counts cars as they pass through
the state.
Well, there are a lot of cars
passing through Sandy on State
Highway 26. In fact, there were
approximately 10,000 cars passing
through Sandy every day
throughout 1977, according to the
state’s own count.
And most of them did just that —
passed through without pausing,
because there are simply few
places to stay overnight in Sandy.
Many travelers, of course, are
headed up the mountain for skiing,
hiking or fishing. Many more are
headed to central Oregon, with
Sandy the last major town visited
before crossing the mountain pass.
A number of them might consider
spending the night in Sandy, if the
town had adequate overnight
lodging.
Presently,
the only ac
commodations offered here are the
five rooms of Sandy Motel, and
three of those rooms are filled by
permanent tenants.
We’re not talking about the kind
of tourism that includes plastic
souvenirs and tours along the
Barlow Trail. Just a place where
some of those 10,000 daily visitors
could spend the night here.
Get the travelers to spend a little
more time in town, and the whole
population
will
profit
economically. Overnight visitors
would eat dinner here, window
shop and encourage cabaret en
tertainment and other services that
the resident population could enjoy
as well.
The worst they’d do is tip a
waitress and check out of their
motel by 11. Sounds like the kind of
clean, year-round industry that
Sandy needs.
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State of Oregon • Should
Ged “Off the Bottle
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The State of Oregon should not be
involved in the retail liquor
business.
A special commission set up to
study liquor control in the state is
expected to make that recom
mendation next week.
The proposal would turn over the
state’s liquor stores to private
business. The idea is to make sales
of liquor more convenient to con
sumers by having more outlets
with longer hours. Operators of the
liquor stores would still be subject
to state approval.
The idea is a good one. It offers a
workable compromise between the
tight control offered by Oregon’s
current system of “greenfronts”
and a wide-open state like Califor
nia where booze is sold in every
grocery store. The commission’s
suggestion would make distilled
spirits more available to those who
want them, but at the same time
still provide adequate control for
those who worry about un
controlled drinking.
The state would still control the
wholesale end of the liquor
business and would set wholesale
prices, keeping control away from
nefarious interests.
The current Oregon system is a
throwback to the days shortly after
the repeal of Prohibition. It is out
dated and car. only be improved.
The governor and the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission should
waste no time in implementing the
study panel’s recommendations.
Good News on Columbia River Water System
After struggling through a couple
of summers of drought conditions,
it’s pleasant to read that water
supplies on the Columbia River
system are near normal.
The Army Corps of Engineers
says every reservoir, save one in
Canada, is full and the one
malingerer will fill this month.
Columbia River water is used for
a number of things---- navigation,
irrigation,
fisheries, power
Letters-to-the-editor j
generation, etc. The fact that
reservoirs are full means we ap
parently are going to have suf
ficient water for all these diverse
uses.
Reservoirs
in
northern
California, which held virtually no
water a year ago, also are back to
normal.
In short, barring unexpectedly
dry weather this fall, the drought is
history.
A goodbye to readers
To the Editor:
It also seems I fail to in
This is to inform readers of clude a subject in some
my column, “ Nell’s Notes,” sentences which I am sure no
that I w ill no longer be one who read the column
w riting for the Sandy Post. even noticed. An AP style
After 30 years of plugging book is used for copy editing
away, at a very small paying of which I am not the least
job, and after receiving a fa m ilia r w ith, and fu r
letter from the editor John thermore don’t wish to be.
Kline, I feel it is time to
So it seems that the time
retire.
has come fo r a long
Mr. Kline objects to my association,
through
a
using words like “ sorta” and num ber of editors and
“ cause” as they are slang writers, that the last and
and must be changed. Also oldest employee should
that I should no longer put in retire.
so much fam ily news and put
in m ore a c tiv ity news,
Nell K. Howe
something I did very little of.
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From other editors:
EPA change represents progress
The
E n v ir o n m e n ta l
Protection Agency is going to
issue only one mileage rating
for 1979 cars instead of one
each for highway and city
d riv in g and a combined
average of the two, as in the
past. The new miles-per-
gallon quotation w ill be
based only on city driving.
This is progress, but not
enough.
EPA
A d m in is t r a t o r
Douglas Costle explained the
change this way: "Dropping
the highway and combined
ratings
removes
that
irresistible but human urge
to accept the highest num
bers available in buying a
car. Publishing only the
lowest number should help
make customer expectations
more realistic.
Inflation raises
worth of man
It should come as no
surprise that inflation is
making you more valuable
than ever before — any way
you look at it.
recently the price increased
early this year from $145 to
$165 and that that figure
likely would grow to $200 in
coming weeks.
Not long ago, the con
stitu en t
m inerals
and
chemicals of the human body
were valued at 98 cents. That
was the price estimated for
five pounds of calcium, one-
and-a-half
pounds
of
phosphate, nine ounces of
potassium, six ounces each
of sulfur and sodium and
about an ounce each of iron,
copper and iodine in a person
of average (160 pounds)
weight.
So, too, has the price in
creased for skeletons. The
hip bone connected to the
thigh bone — and all others
— is now up to $300 from a
previous price of $225, ac
cording to the report
A headline writer in The
Oregonian, dealing with that
heavy subject, wondered in
print if it might bring, in
turn, more skeletons out of
the closet
At today’s prices, these
same constituents would
bring $5.60, according to a
story by the Associated
Press.
U n lik e ly ,
we
would
suspect, but it most certainly
gives more reason than ever
for whistling in the dark
Not s u rp ris in g ly , then,
m edical
schools
are
rep orting
the cost of
cadavers spiralling upward.
One Midwest school noted
— The News Guard
Lincoln City
"T h is is not a fin a l
solution. This single rating is
a temporary step. I t ’s the
most immediate action we
can take to make the 1979
ratings more accurately
reflect consumer experience.
We are continuing to con
sider possible changes in the
program that w ill make the
ratings more representative
of actual driving conditions.”
I t ’s the latter point that
people care about. Most
d rive rs get much worse
mileage than predicted in the
EPA estimates.
The announced change
represents progress in the
sense of reducing the number
of fictional figures EPA w ill
be posting on the window
sticker. But the important
thing is to try to make what is
printed come closer to real-
life “ consumer experience.”
— Eugene Register-Guard
Crime prevention
is big business
If crim e in the United States is big business, so is
trying to catch the crooks.
In addition to police departments and other law
officers, the protection of life and property by private
individuals and organizations has become a big and
growing business.
The security industry has become a multi-billion
dollar business. Included in the field are thousands of
security agencies (most of them aren’t called detective
agencies anymore) and a growing list of manufac
turers of all types of alarms, locks and other types of
security devices.
Protecting people and their possessions against fire,
vandalism and theft may be one of the few activiites
which is recession-proof. An official of one of the
leading security agencies made thatclain, pointing out
that “ plants have to be guarded, especially when they
are shut down.”
With crim e continuing at a high level, the market for
the sleuths, guards and security advisers to business
management is virtually guaranteed. When a
recession hits the security business, the nation w ill
know it has finally begun to turn the crime picture
around.
—Lebanon Express
Biorhythms: A lot of hogwash
You can stop feeling guilty
if your em ontional, in
te lle c tu a l and physical
cycles keep failing to match
your biorhythm charts. The
charts are just so much
hogwash.
That's the conclusion
reached by a University of
Washington professor after
using biorhythms in research
with his students and com
paring the supposed physical
biorhythms of professional
athletes to their actual
performance on given days.
As might be expected, there
was no correlation between
the athletes’ performance
and their "biorhythm s” and
students proved highly
susceptible to suggestion
from the professor.
The professor, William
Sims Bainbridge, wrote of
his research in Skeptical
Inquirer magazine, which
was further reported in a
Seattle newspaper.
Biorhythms are based on
the assumption that each
person has a 23-day physical
cycle, a 28-day emotional
cycle and a 33-day in
tellectual cycle — all charted
from the date of birth.
The idea of cyclical pat
terns in human behavior
may yet prove a valid one.
but it certainly can’t be
reduced to the simplistic
formula the popularizers of
'biorhythms”
have per
petrated on a few gullible
followers. Given the vast
v a ria tio n among human
beings — from personality to
body type, in telligence and
metabolic rate — it is in
conceivable that anything so
complex as “ biorhythms”
could be reduced to a form so
simple as birth charts.
— Daily Joumal-American
Jackson should shake Cold War mentality
Ford rates
an award
When it comes to cour
troom
weaseling, the
week’s award has to go to
the Ford Motor Co.
Von Braschler, General Manager
John Kline, Editor
Caroline Duff, Office Manager
Mark Floyd, Staff Reporter
Kaye Barton, staff reporter
To the Editor:
On behalf of the Sandy
Kiwanis Club, I would like to
extend a thank-you to the
com m unity and to those
individuals who helped make
the F ly -In Breakfast a
wonderful success.
W ithout
the
great
assistance of the Boy Scouts,
Rainbow Girls, and many
local merchants, the task
would have been more than
our members alone could
handle.
For the 21 years in which
Ford went to U S .
District Court in an at
tempt to remove a recall
order against 150,000
M e rc u ry C apris. The
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration said
the cars had a suspected
windshield wiper defect.
Said Ford: The risk of
driving the cars to dealers
for repair would be 10
times more dangerous than
the risk of the defective
wipers
Especially in the rain, we
presume
—Daily Pilot
Orange County, Calif
Henry M. Jackson. Washington’s junior senator, just
can’t stop his knee jerk reactions every time he thinks
about the Russians.
Now he’s sore at President Carter. Not because
Carter has sent a personal message to Soviet President
Brezhnev, expressing concern for dissidents on trial in
Russia, but because Jackson thinks Carter hasn’t gone
far enough
What does Jackson want, for heaven's sake: A
declaration of war?
And, before the Senate is presented with a SALT II
agreement, before an agreement even has been
reached, he says it’s a manifestly unequal treaty and
the SOVEREIGN STATE of AFFAIRS
H O W S CARTER'S REORGAN
IZ A T IO N PROGRESSING?
VERY WELL
ONLY LAST WEEK..
w ill only persuade the Russians that we are weak
There clearly is a lim it to how far this country can go
m criticizing the trials of dissidents Anatoly
Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg. Carter has
expressed his nation's concern for human rights in
Russia with greater vigor than anyone before him
Instead of reproaching Carter, Jackson should
congratualte him.
But Jackson has never been able to shake his Cold
War mentality. Apparently, he never will.
— The D a ily Joum al-A m erican
Bellevue, Wash.
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GSA A N D REHIRED H IM AS
STRAUSS ASSISTANT
BOYD & WOOD
GEE THEY NEED TO GET
O R G A N IZE D BEFORE THEY
START R E O R G A NIZIN G
NOBODY TOLD ME
THAT BEFORE...