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SANDY, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1978
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No. 36
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Twice trimmed city
budget goes before
voters on Tuesday
It’s round three for the city budget
this Tuesday as voters will be asked to
approve a much reduced city levy
request from city council
C ouncil h as red u c ed th e city
operating budget by over 25 percent
since it was first subm itted in June
Council is now asking for $92,002 in
operating funds and an operating rate
of $2.93 per $1,000 of assessed valuation
above the six percent limitation.
The overall tax ra te will also include
35 cents for the tax base of $11,142 and
$2.13 for payoff on bonds for a total rate
of $5 41
Council had originally requested an
operating levy of $124.198 above the six
percent lim itation in its first attem pt at
budget approval on June 27. The figure
tran slated to a rate of $4 02 excluding
the ra te for the tax base and payoff on
bonds
INTHWACIA U M M )
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Kaye Barton photo
Conn and Mary Murray travel worldwide to promote universal language.
Esperanto speakers foster brotherhood
by KAYE BARTON
“ It takes an idealist to believe in
E speranto,” says Mary M urray.
She should know The Sandy woman
and her husband m ay have contacted
more of the w orld’s believers in the
international language E speranto than
any one else has
Mary M urray learned to speak
E speranto in P ortland m ore than 30
y ears ago. She has since traveled to five
co n v e n tio n s a ro u n d
th e
w orld
prom oting the language she says will
a d v a n c e u n d e rsta n d in g b etw een
nations and ultim ately deter w ar and
prejudice.
“ Doesn’t it m ake sense that a com
mon language would help people to be
less suspicious of one an o th er?” she
asked. “Through groups like the United
Nations and our treaty organizations it
is easy for people to convene, but it is
Inside The Post
RARE II: How the last roadless areas in
the County should be u sed ............. p. 5, Sec. I
A Sandy High grad spent the summer
bicycling through Europe............... p.3, Sec. II
Kelso Grade School should help ease
Sandys’ kid crunch........................ p. 11, Sec. I
still difficult for them to converse.”
M ary and husband. Conn, point out
that the United Nations alone spends
$18 million per year on interpreters.
“ We don’t advocate that E speranto
should take the place of a country’s
official language,” she com m ented.
“ But we think if everyone learned to
speak it as a second language all
nations would have a common bond and
m any of the world’s problems could be
solved.
The M urrays promote the use of
E speranto on two levels. “ There is the
esthetic level,” Conn explained “ When
you approach it from that basis you are
saying the world would be a m ore
beautiful place to -liv e if E speranto
could banish some of the strife and
contention.”
“ But there is also the economic
standpoint to consider,’’ Mary added
“ In Europe quite a few businesses
ca rry out their international tra n
sactions through E speranto.”
The language was devised in 1887 by
Dr. L. L. Zamenhof of Poland. It is
based on a composite of two basic
language fam ilies, with about 60 p er
cent of its root words taken from the
Rom ance languages and 40 percent
from the Teutonic languages
The M urrays explained that it is an
easy language to learn because it has
only 16 g ram m atical rules which a re
inflexible — “ there a re no exceptions to
confuse the student of E sp eran to ,”
Mary said.
The couple believes so strongly in the
concept of a universal language that
th ey
sta ffe d
th e
E s p e ra n to
headquarters in New York for a year-
and-a half on a volunteer basis Then in
1965 they attended the worldwide
E speranto convention in Tokyo. From
there they decided to continue traveling
around the world, promoting E speranto
w herever they stopped
T hey v isite d a p p ro x im a te ly 26
countries in Asia, the Middle E ast and
Europe Whenever they arrived at a
city th ey c o n ta c te d th e le ad in g
new spapers and offered an interview
e x p la in in g th e ir c a u se "N o t one
new spaper turned us down,” Mary
said.
In Manila and Kuwait Mary was
asked to teach classes in Esperanto.
The M urrays spent about three weeks
in Manila and lived in Beirut for three
months
They like to recall a shop sign they
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Brightwood man, deputies involved in fight
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Brightwood resident Jam es Purdy
said this week he was beaten and
m aced by three C lackam as County
deputies while he was being arrested
for impeding the prosecution of a crim e
at this home Aug. 28
P urdy, owner of the Mobil service
station on the Brightwood Loop off
Highway 26. said he was beaten without
provocation by the deputies, one of
whom was using a nightstick.
But Sheriff John Renfro, speaking for
deputies Bob Bates, Art LeTourneau
and Dale Frazell said P urdy instigated
the incident by striking one of the of
ficers in the chest as they w ere trying to
a rre st him .
Purdy denied the charge.
P urdy, 52, was arrested on one felony
count of hindering prosecution of a
crim e in which another m an was
alleged to have stolen a dog from a
third m an, J e rry Bush
Purdy was also charged with four
counts of assault and one of resisting
a rre st He was handcuffed at his home
afte r a struggle with the deputies, then
was taken to Oregon City and jailed. He
w as released la te r that night on $1,400
cash bond
Purdy, who said he never has been
arrested before, was to appear for
arraig n m en t on the crim inal charges
today (Sept. 7) in district court in
Oregon City.
Hoodland attorney Lowell Njust will
represent P urdy on the crim inal
c h a rg e s an d in p o ssib le civ il
proceedings.
The incident started when a stran g er
cam e to his g arag e and offered to trade
his broken down pickup truck for a ride
into P ortland with his girlfriend, her
belongings and a dog
P urdy agreed, loaded his station
wagon with th eir belongings and the
dog and headed for P ortland
When the ca r was two m iles east of
Sandy, a c a r driven by Bush drove up
alongside P urdy was asked to pull
over Bush claim ed P u rd y 's rider had
stolen the dog from him
The argum ent ended several minutes
later and P urdy continued into P ortland
Hand with his riders. Bush then called
the sheriff ’s department.
LeTourneau. who covers the Mt
Hood-Sandy area for the sheriff’s
dep artm en t, drove to P u rd y ’s service
station in Brightwood. He talked to
P u rd y ’s son, Dave who gave him the
add ress in P ortland where his father
h ad gone.
Purdy returned home at about 9 30.
LeTourneau arriv ed there 20 minutes
later and asked Purdy w here he had
taken his rider.
Purdy refused to say w here he had
gone stating his son already had given
him (LeTourneau) the address
L eTourneau left and said he would
get a w arran t for P u rd y ’s a rre st He
retu rn ed a half hour later with Frazell
and Bates
According to Purdy, two of the
deputies w alked up on his front porch
while a third deputy stood at the bottom
of the steps with a nightstick in his
hands
P urdy said the first two deputies
grabbed him by each arm and pulled
him down the steps.
The deputies said Purdy struck one of
them a t th a t point, startin g the alter
cation
In the ensuing flight. Purdy received
a cut over his eye and a bruised leg He
said his arm was twisted up behind his
back while he was forced to bend over
the tail end of a parked car as one of the
deputies sprayed him in the face with
m ace
Two of the three deputies also
sustained injuries in the m elee One
claim s he w as struck in the chest. The
other received a bruised leg
P urdy said he was never told he was
under a rre st nor given his rights
The incident has a num ber of
Hoodland residents upset. A petition
with 383 signatures has been sent to
Renfro calling for “ an im m ediate in
vestigation and full disclosure of your
co rrective and punitive m easu res’’ in
connection with the incident
Copies of the petition also w ere sent
to the governor’s office and the state
attorney general The petition asks that
Renfro reply to The Post by Monday,
Sept 11
Renfro stated this week that he did
not know w h e th e r h is d e p u tie s
"o v erstep p ed their authority” at this
tim e but th a t an investigation of the
incident would be m ade
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Voters rejected that proposal by a
m argin of 187-93 and the three-year rate
levy council had sought to establish.
V oters also turned down a second
budget levy Aug 15 which included a
reduction in operating revenues of
$3,000 over the original budget The cut
cam e out of the recreation and senior
cen ter budget.
The Aug 15 request was for a one-
year ev; only but was turned down by
a m argin of 137-87 with less than 19
percent of the city electorate turning
out to vote
Council has since m ade additional
cuts of $9.643 in recreation and the
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senior center, $11,250 from public works
by the elim ination of the city m ain
tenance d irecto r’s position, $5,745 from
the municipal court by elim ination of
the weekly court and $4.767 in other
expenses
The Sandy-area Cham ber of Com
m erce has taken an active role in
prom oting passage of the budget It
voted unanimously two weeks ago to
support the budget and has set up —
along with the Kiwanis Club — a call
line to urge city voters to approve its
passage.
City recreation and senior center
director Dick Halvorson said this week
that all positions in the d ep artm ent
have been m aintained but that the level
of service for community recreation
would be heavily cut back in light of the
budget reductions.
“ We’ve got enough funds to m aintain
a m inim al level of service in com
munity recreation, but th a t’s it,” he
said.
In other city hall i . jws , a citizen's
c o m m itte e of eig h t p e rso n s m et
Tuesday night to go over applications
for the job of city m anager A total of 33
applicants subm itted resum es for the
office
The com m ittee m et for 3 4 hours and
d e c id e d on eig h t c a n d id a te s to
recom m end to the council foi the
position.
It is unlikely the city will be able to
fill the position by the Sept 15 deadline
set by council
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