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Editorial and Opinion
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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