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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1978)
> ’ •■»«■*» I -r I V I, J Editorial and Opinion Erotn other editors: Council Should Lead in Handling Growth Although the evidence has not yet surfaced, there will soon be sub stantial changes in the city of Sandy in the not too distant future. From a small town where small problems could be managed with a phone call or two to a neighbor or local official, Sandy is on the verge of a population boom which will greatly alter the lives of the people living here. to be bending over backwards to accomodate developers — and with a greater housing density than is called for in the present city comprehensive plan. If “controlled” city growth is the intention of the people elected to run this city, they have so far not achieved that end. With a very small industrial tax base to support city services, Sandy is rapidly turning into a bedroom community where property taxes will continue to rise. Instead of having out-of-town developers, (whose interest in the city is strictly of an economic nature) determining the housing patterns, council should be taking that initiative. The growth of Sandy is inevitable — LCDC urban growth goals have seen to that. But the growth should be one where the quality of life and flavor of a rural mountain setting are not seriously threatened. (J.K.) Already over 500 housing units have been approved for con struction by the planning com mission and city council which will total out to somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,500-1,800 new residents. More developers are waiting with additional plats. The narrow 4-3 approval of council Monday night for con struction of Wewer Road Estates near Sunset Boulevard will add 146 new housing units to the city. Despite the objections of three of its members, city council appears City Enlists Market Help; Brochure Needed Sandy city officials have enlisted Port of Portland aid to prepare an updated city marketing study that could promote the city to its fullest potential. The market research should prove most helpful to Sandy as a market hub for the area, and city manager Paul Helton, coun cilman Jim Duff and ad ministrative planning aide Susan Greer deserve commendation for their involvement. Helen Greenough, area development representative for the Port’s Economic Development Division met with the city officials in Sandy last week to review possibilities of a port technical assistance project here. The port’s technical assistance program is designed to promote economic development in the tri county area. As many as 300 hours of port staff work could go into preparation of marketing research data on Sandy What the city chooses to do with the data is a local matter. The port would send a project team of 3-5 people who are specially trained in areas such as planning, research, real estate development and graphic arts. Greenough said that some local Finally, Kennedy’s staff is said to be preparing a bill which would enormously enhance the govern ment’s ability to break up big corporations. It may or may not be goad for the country, but it ties in perfectly with the populist-style politics Kennedy is embracing. Is Kennedy really a candidate? Has he overcome the legacy of Chappaquiddick? Does the Ken nedy name still have the magic of the John Kennedy years? Ted Kennedy apparently thinks the answers all are in the af firmative. If Carter’s popularity keeps slipping, the Democrats almost certainly will hop onto the Kennedy bandwagon. 668 5548 S U B S C R IP TIO N R A TE S 17 00 V 00 In Oregon outside M ultnom ah ond Clotkomos Counties per yeor M 00 NW A LPER k In N orthwest ond F o n t« Coast Stote» outside O re g o n per yeor jy qq Outside Northwest ond F o o I k Coast »’otes per yeor SH OO Oregon Nnwspapnr ___Pubtishers A • ■el Association I Sondy Poet. Sondy. Oregon *7095 lllll" - z m a nagem ent. The remaining reserve was also opened fo r m a n a g e m e n t p e n d in g consultation with the City of P ortland. However, the Forest Service w ill release the final impact statement; it w ill not be a jo in t statement between the city and the Forest Service. The forest products in dustry is still the biggest in the state, employing 90,000 and pro vid ing support, directly or indirectly, for nearly half the State. While the loss of the Bull Run (and it isn’t lost) to timber management would have been a blow to the Sandy area, it would hardly justify the flippant dismissal: “ So much for logging’s future as Oregon’s top industry.” Michael D. Sullivan Director of Public Affairs Industrial Forestry Association Portland In response to M r. Sullivan’s letter : The forest products in editorial entitled “ Industrial P a rk Answer to C ity ’s dustry is shrinking from its Woes.’’ Some figures are traditional role as prim ary attributed to me which I employer in the state, and cannot support in the context the Bull Run partial logging shutdown — while a tem in which they are used. situ atio n, has I do not recall saying “ 112 p ora ry forestry jobs are lost an reduced logging in this area. nually in a dwindling in While the industry still dustry.” I provided your employs 10-13 percent of all editorial w rite r with an workers in Oregon, it’s estimate of potential job growing at a rate less than losses should the Bull Run the rate of employment in the Reserve remain completely state. In 1950, lumber and closed to logging. I did not wood products w ith say those jobs would be lost a g ric u ltu re and food every year, nor did I say processing employed one- industry is dwindling. third of the state. Average The e d ito ria l contains annual em ploym ent of other misinformation not logging in 1977 totaled 12,300, attributed to me. The Bull down somewhat from the Run was never “ deeded" to 1976 total of 12,700 and the the C ity of Portland. 1974 total of 13,700. Gary Legislation passed last year B a rk e r of the state changed the boundaries of E m p lo y m e n t D iv is io n , the Reserve and opened up Research and S tatistics about half for multiple use D ivisio n provided these Aug. 34. 1978 i figures, along with the ex planation that 1975 em ployment rate dropped from 13,700 to 12,000 due partly to a recession. In 1973, however, there were 13,200 workers a nn ua lly employed in logging. The forest products in dustry is up 3.4 percent this year, but enjoys a less spectacular growth rate than either transportation (up 22 percent) or instruments (up 22.6 percent), according to Dr. Edward Reed, head economist for U.S. National Bank in Portland. Total employment in Oregon this year is up 6 percent. The mention of 112 forest jobs lost annually came directly out of a November, 1976, Industrial Forestry Association newsletter. Also, the B euter Report has projected a 22 percent decline in annual harvest in western Oregon. As for Bull Run, President B e n ja m in H a r r is o n establushed the Bull Run Forest Reserve in 1892 to protect the water supply of the area. The land was not deeded to Portland. Some 68,000 acres were set aside for physical drainage for the City of Portland’s water supply. In 1972, the Forest Service and the City of P o rtla n d signed an agreement fo r a land management plan to protect Portland’s watershed. Dr. Joseph M iller sued the Forest Service in July, 1973, for Bull Run management p ro c e d u re s , p r im a r ily logging in the area In November, 1976, a court decree stopped all recreation and logging w ithin established boundaries of the reserve. Oregon’s Bull Run Act reopened the reserve in 1977, except for 95,000 acres set aside for a Bull Run management unit as part of Portland’s watershed The act also provides for cooperative management by the Forest Service and the City of Portland which w ill review management plans annually. There are no new timber sales issued for the reserve pending a Forest Service final environmental impact statement, which a special City of Portland city ad visory committee is now reviewing in draft form, according to Myron Blank of the Mt. Hood National For est land us planning depart ment. The city’s water review com m ittee has provided imput into draft of the impact statement, which should be released and available in public libraies in about a month. (V.B.) On Nell To the Editor: A goodly number of people on the mountain regret to observe the demise of “ Nell’s Notes” , a column that for many years has served to relate the o rd in a ry hap penings of Hoodland in a delightful sort of way. At present, when there are more permanent residents living in this area than ever before, im p o rta n t events taking place more freq ue n tly, and greater development occuring and being planned. One would think additional reporting would be needed, not less Nell Howe's folksey, down to-earth style struck a cord mountain people responded to. H er column w ill be missed. Lowell Njust, President Gus Turner, E x e c u t iv e S e c r e ta r y Hoodland Chamber of Commerce Weekly editor answers government searches the publishers, but for years I have been hunting it. And even worse, I have mislaid the m anuscript of Tom Kromer’s second (first was “ Waiting for Nothing"), but unpublished novel. And while you are at it, try to find (without too much expenditure of time and tax money) the packet of pic tures of Greenbrier taken before 1900 Also, for years, I have been trying to find a Peyton Fam ily History that I borrowed from Angus Peyton and have lost. And the glass negatives that the •w SOVEREIGN STATE of AFFAIRS W H A T’S THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDM ENT ALL ABOUT? paper bought from Finley Taylor If they haven’t been stolen, they are around the place somewhere Only we can t find them. This is just a short list. I have a list that would make that of the High Lord Executioner's list look like a grocery lis t. I regret, hj.vever, that you won’t find much that w ill lead to a crime solution We use that all for blackmail as soon as we gel it. That's one way of keeping a weekly paper solvent. — West Virginia H illbilly BOYD a wooo IT WOULD MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO TREAT WOMEN DIFFERENTLY THAN MEN See if you can find that m issing m anuscript fo r Pearl Buck's “My Mother’s H ouse" I know the manuscript came to me from Represented Notionolly by U S SUBURBAN P»f SS INC No. 34 contrary to an editorial in the Oregon Journal, the “ ivy bear’’ on an old tree stump. The frame was made from lumber of a garage shared by two persons who had sum mer home sites on Alder Creek. Prior to that it was a garage in Portland The Journal editorial implies that Alder Creek was “ discovered” when two fine restaurants were opened It was discovered in 1924 when summer home sites were opened up in this pristine wilderness. It was not a resting place fo r those “ eager to reach the cool trees of Rhododendron ’’ The journey up Alder Creek trail was pure delight. It wound beneath the tow ering shade of giant evergreens and the banks were lined with moss If one I suppose that I am the only newspaper editor and publisher in these United States who isn’t losing any sleep over the recent ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court uliich permits officers with warrants to search news offices for evidence of crime violation, going through files and combing waste baskets, even if no one on the paper is believed involved in said crime. Welcome, thrice welcome, I say. And when you gen tlemen, you spies, you agents come snooping, I have a little list Fu bl.ihad weakly Thwrsdoy» by Th . O utlook Publ.*h.ng Co Bo, 60 Sondy Oregon 97055 Second cloi» p o t'a g e poid ot Sondy Oregon Sern rem en on y oddres» .J:.'* Letters to the editor---- Von Braschler. General Manager John Kline, Editor Caroline Duff. Office Manager Mork Floyd, Staff Reporter Kaye Barton, staff reporter In M ultnom ah ond Clorkomos Countie» per year F ra n d ’s compensation, He has been called Oregon's th ird senator and his claim for expenses, because Gerald Frank has was not an under-the-table or been Sen. Mark Hatfield’s improper thing except in one regard. Whether or not the good right hand. While it's generally known Senate was giving him a that Frank has little or no paycheck, the impact on the salary from the U.S. Senate, taxpayer was there. In his it turns out he’s been costing case, it's a deduction from a little more than had been taxes he would otherwise thought. It took the Wall have to pay. And if that is the case, then Street Journal to headline the cost of Hatfield’s staff the information that Frank, in his first four years on the increases by the $30,000 a year Frank didn’t pay in job, deducted $117,000 from taxes because he was his income taxes. The working for the senator. In te rn al Revenue Service The image of the Senator’s barred the deductions, but recently an appeals court top aide changes somewhat ruled that expenses of bona in light of the tax write-off fide public employees report, and it’s good for the public to be aware of the true usually are deductible. The Wall Street Journal on picture. There’s certainly no Aug. 2 noted that Frank scandal attached to the case could afford such hefty ex — it was debated openly by penses, even though the the IRS, and it was a d if Senate paid him only $1,200 a ference of opinion. But it year. His business provided remains that those trips he the Meier and Frank heir took for Sen. Hatfield to bring reports from various $88,000 a year, it reported. parts of the world really The inform a tion wasn’t didn’t all come out of Frank’s lost on Vern Cook, Sen. Hatfield’s Democratic op own pocket, as some had believed. The $117,000 he ponent in the November election campaign. He'll add didn’t have to pay in taxes helped out considerably. it to this list of reasons Oregonians should re tire Sen. Hatfield. Hood River News 1 I n city staff assistance might be needed, but that the project team pretty much does it all. Now the Sandy City Council needs to pass a resolution to request the port’s assistance, a prerequisite desired by the port There are only two major projects ahead of Sandy’s request, so On Alder Creek wished to find an enchanted forest there was not need for Greenough expects her staff to To the Editor: a further journey. return to the city with a proposal The recent letter recalling We drank the water from within a week or two for work to memories of Alder Creek Alder Creek and I have begin around the first of October. canyon brought back survived as a senior citizen. memories of my own of Alder If it is now polluted, while The assistance will address the Creek trail. other streams in the area are city’s comprehensive plan which The year was 1924. On a not, the cause should be warm, summer day when the investigated. calls for more economic growth. blew to the west one Donna Tucker There are no grants available wind might smell mash cooking at Sandy through the port to Nnd all that one point on the trail. At that new market data in a brochure to time more moonshine was On ripwrapping promote Sandy, Greenough said, being distilled in the Oregon woods than perhaps ever ran the Editor: but cities such as Estacada have through copper tubes in the To About the ripwrapping on pushed the project one step further Kentucky hills. I had no wish the Sandy rive r: it isn’t going to investigate where it had to help me or my family, but on the local involvement level. located. I think it’s nice to know Estacada compiled its market been It was between Alder and where my tax dollars are research data in a handout titled, W ildcat creek and was going for a change. They are “Take a Look at Estacada, barely more than 200 yards going to help my neighbors from highway 26 and con and friends! Oregon.” Sometimes, as in the case cealed by a grove of alders. A of Gresham’s community profile, large pit had been dug where Cindy Peetz the port has provided cities with a the old mash tubs were still 13333 SE Marsh Road Sandy camera-ready copy of their report. resting. It was five years after prohibition had been Sandy should prepare to publish repealed, and the obsolete such updated market data, if and wooden vats were not worth On forestry the port extends its assistance. the expense of removing, I To the E ditor: suppose. I just read your July 27 (V.B.) I wish to point out that The Kennedy Bandwagon Begins to R oll It is pretty obvious that Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy is cranking up for a run at the presidency. He is rapidly becoming the leading congressional advocate of national health care. He has openly broken with the C arter ad ministration, preferring a much more rapid approach than that favored by the administration. He also has announced plans to hit the campaign trail this fall in a number of states. Ostensibly, he will be speaking for Democratic congressional candidates across the country, but his appearances will be carefully orchestrated for maximum exposure. Frank’s ‘free time’ jolts the taxpayers I WHY DID THE HOUSE GRANT IT A N EXTENSION? they SAY WOMEN DESetVE SPECIAL CONSIDERATION
