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Hoodland
by JOHN KLINE
A long awaited plan to establish a
prim ary care medical facility for the
Hoodland area got off the ground
Tuesday night
Representatives from Providence
M edical Center in P ortland gave
assurances to a gathering of ap
proximately 60 Hoodland residents at
the Chamber of Commerce meeting
that they would work jointly with
persons interested in the project toward
establishment of a permanent medical
center.
The facility would alleviate what is
regarded as a critical need for medical
services for residents in the area and
persons coming off the mountain in
need of emergency treatment
Providence administrator William
Connelly said he and a group of resident
doctors at the Center have studied the
idea of establishing a medical facility in
Hoodland and are ready to commit
themselves and the resources of the
Providence complex toward getting the
p roject underway "a s soon as
possible.”
The idea for establishing a medical
center in Hoodland has been in the
works for a long while. Connelly was
approached with the idea of involving
Providence in the establishment of the
Hoodland facility by members of the
Hoodland Chamber less than a month
ago
The facility would include emergency
services plus at least one full time
physician for fam ily medical services.
Plans for the facility and identification
of the medical needs for people on the
mountain w ill be worked out by a joint
committee of 10 persons five from the
Hoodland area and five from the
Providence Center staff
Chamber president Lowell Njust said
he and Chamber executive secretary
Gus Turner are accepting names of
people interested in serving on the
committee. The names should be
submitted to them by Wednesday, Sept
27
Connelly and three doctors affiliated
with the Providence Center gave their
views on how the groundwork could be
laid fo r the Hoodland fa c ility .
Presenting views on various aspects of
the proposal were Dr Dale Reynolds, a
general p ra ctitio n e r, D r
Gary
Rothenburger, a surgeon, and Dr
David G ilb e rt, internal medicine
specialist.
A near unanimous show of hands
from the people in attendance gave the
contingent from Providence assurance
that people in Hoodland are supportive
of the medical facility.
Dr Rothenburger said that from
indications he has seen the area could
support from two to three full time
physicians
“The crux of the problem is you need
physicians who can take care of a wide
range of ailments, a general prac
titioner who can treat colds, sore
throats and the like ”
Dr Gilbert said that what is needed is
a prim ary care center that could serve
elderly patients as well as children.
"The kinds of doctors we may be
looking for are interns with 3-4 years
experience who are looking for a long
term place to establish a practice.”
He added that with the Providence
Center serving as a back up facility, the
resident physician would have a team
of specialists to consult with
D r Reynolds, a leading health care
planner in Oregon, said a number of
problems would have to be addressed
before the facility could be built
Among them are the amount of space
needed, what types of equipment would
be required and how the financing of
the facility would be handled
A d efin ite tim eta ble was not
established fo r com pletion of the
facility but the doctors said they would
like to be ready to open the facility by
June or July of next year.
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SANDY, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPT. 21, 1978
No. 38
38
New DMV office moves a step
closer for Sandy-area residents
by MARK FLOYD
Sandy residents may not have to
travel to Gresham to pick up their
driver’s licenses next year following
the State Transportation Committee’s
approval of a request by DMV
Administrator Harold L. Grover for
seven new field offices, including one in
Sandy.
The final obstacle facing DMV of
fic ia ls is authorization of the
Legislative Emergency Board to spend
the $571,000 allocated for the new of
fices The Board, com prised of
members of the state House and
rates
Of that amount, $571,000 w ill be used
to build offices in Sandy, Florence,
Lincoln City, Cedar Hills, Stayton.
Madras and Heppner
The remaining money w ill be used for
relocating or remodeling offices in
Albany, Tillamook, Astoria, Burns, The
Dalles, McMinnville, east Eugene,
Bend, Medford and Grants Pass.
It is hoped that the new offices w ill
take some of the strain off existing
DMV divisions The Gresham and
Beaverton branches are overcrowded
and DMV officials are confident that
the proposed Sandy and Cedar Hills
offices w ill take off some of the strain.
However, no one is quite sure what
kind ,i effect the expansion ml^ht have.
‘‘ I t ’s a wait and see thing,” said Sid
Ruvensky, manager of the Gresham
office. “ But there’s a lot of people up
the mountain that wouldn’t have to
Sandy Union High School w ill remain
construction, voters turned down the
come this far.
open for the remainder of the year after request, 292 to 162.
“ We also get a lot of people from the
voters in the district approved a $1.4
School s p irit was in evidence
Warm Springs Indian Reservation who
m illion operating levy for the school
throughout the state for operating
stop here when they come into Portland
Tuesday.
levies as all but one passed. The Corbett
to do their shopping,” he added
The levy, which was defeated by 64 levy failed by a margin of 328 to 286.
“ We’re sure hoping it w ill help,”
votes in A pril, passed by a handy
In addition to the levy approval at
Ruvensky said “ I think it w ill, but it’s
margin of 1172 to 812, a 59 percent
Sandy, other levies in Clackamas which
hard to predict how much.”
approval rate.
passed were in Estacada, West Linn,
The proposed offices are part of a
But in Welches where the school
Dickey Prairie. But a $57 million
program to improve services and
board there was seeking approval of a building levy in Estacada went down,
directly related to an opinion from the
$2 99 m illion bond package for school
1,092 to 910.
Attorney General’s office suggesting
that the DMV charge more to private
agencies fo r inform a tion on non
crim inal offenses, accordng to DMV
public inform a tion o ffic e r Venita
Howard.
If the Legislative Emergency Board
authorizes the spending of the money,
DMV officials say they hope to have the
Sandy Elementary superintendent drawing and specifications from the
buildings ready for use in Janaury
Clark Lund w ill meet with architects of state Department of Education last
It is not known where the DMV w ill be
the new Kelso school at 2 p.m. next month. DOE architectural consultant
located in Sandy, but the City is more
Tuesday to open construction bids on W.G. Wilmot said in his letter of ap
than ready to accept the new office,
the project.
proval that ‘ ‘the architectural work
according to Mayor Melvin Haneberg
The bid opening w ill be held at the presented is exemplary of the highest
said. “ We’ve had a lot of complaints
office of Broome, Oringdulph, O’Toole, standards of the profession.”
about people having to go to Gresham
Rudolf and Associates in Portland,
The school board w ill meet in special
or Portland for the DMV.
architects for the school
session Sept 26 to consider the bids and
“ We would welcome that sort of
Lund received approval on the award a contract.
service here ’’
Senate, w ill convene Oct. 12-13.
Funding for the project w ill come
from the DMV, according to the
assistant public information officer
Dave Davis.
“The money comes from increased
user fees from private insurance
companies and non-law enforcement
government agencies,” he said. ‘‘It
doesn't cost a lot to set up and operate
the buildings, they’re not going to be
mammoth things.”
Davis estimated that the DMV w ill
receive $2 million in revenue for the
current biennium from the new billing
SUHS levy approved;
Welches bond fails
School bid openings
set for 2 p.m. Tuesday
Reynolds trial goes to the jury
by JOHN DEAN
OREGON CITY — Prosecuting and
defense attorneys delivered concluding
arguments yesterday in the tria l of
Jake Clarence Reynolds, 27, charged
with robbery and aggravated felony
murder in the shooting death of Kermit
Carney of Portland in Irene’s Tavern
June 10.
Deputy D istrict Attorney Steve
Maurer, the prosecuting attorney for
the state, claimed a “ chain of c ir
cumstances’’ linked Reynolds with the
shooting
But defense attorneys Richard Crist
and John Lowe in their responses said
much of the circumstantial evidence
was contradictory.
Circuit Court Judge Dale Jacobs is
presiding at the tria l The ju ry is now in
seclusion.
In the scenario Maurer drew for the
jury, Reynolds and Jerry Lane Nored,
who is also accused in the shooting, had
been in the tavern several hours
earlier The defense did not contest this
assertion.
Maurer told the jury that Reynolds
took on a look of disgust when a bar
maid at the tavern informed him he
couldn't collect on the games he had
won on a pinball machine
Reynolds then asked tavern owner
Lorraine Urnaut what time the bar
closed and left with Nored, Maurer
said.
Urnaut and Barbara Holder, a friend
of Carney, testified they saw Reynolds
and Nored leave the tavern in an
orange van.
Maurer then drew links between
Reynolds and Nored and the masked
robbers who held up the tavern at 1:30
am .
Holder testified that Reynolds' voice
in the tavern was the same as that of
the robber who shot Carney.
Another witness. Charles Smith, had
testified that the voices were different,
but said all other characteristics bet
ween the masked robbers and Reynolds
and Nored were identical, Maurer said
When state and local police arrested
Reynolds at his home later that mor
ning. they found an M -l rifle under his
bed, the same model used in the
shooting
Sgt George Matsuda of the Oregon
State Police crime laboratory ran tests
that showed Reynolds’s rifle was the
one used in the shootii^, Maurer said.
Matsuda had testified that when he
shot a teat bullet with the rifle, the
marks left by the barrel of the rifle on
the bullet matched those of a bullet
found in a wall of the tavern after the
shooting.
Maurer said police also found a mask
with two eyeholes on Reynolds'
property which fit the description of
witnesses,
Maurer recounted testimony by state
policeman Fred Huffman, chief in
vestigating officer, that Reynolds told
him, “ I know I did it... Well, if I did it, I
must have did it while I was drunk .”
But defense attorney Crist pointed
out several alleged discrepancies in the
testimony linking Reynolds to the
robbery
Crist said the robber thought to be
Reynolds wore black, shiny boots and
dark blue pants, while those who had
seen Reynolds in the tavern testified he
wore brown boots and white pants
Crist said the “ reasonable ex
planation" why Reynolds asked Urnaut
what time the bar closed was that he
wanted to return to play off some of the
games he had won, “ It doesn’t
necessarily mean he was going to come
back and rob the tavern,” Criat said.
Crist said the “ masks” introduced as
evidence against Reynolds were
merely a handkerchief sized piece of
cloth with two holes cut in it. “ The state
Cont. on page 4
Vic Atiyeh: “Voices are not being heard’
Staff photo
‘The^peoples choice*
Atiyeh lines up behind ‘6’
by JOHN KLINE
Republican gubernatorial candidate
Vic Atiyeh reaffirmed his stance in
favor of ballot Measure 6 here Tuesday
as “ the people’s choice" for property
tax relief in the state
He came down hard against his op
ponent, Gov. Bob Straub, for what he
termed a lack of leadership and for
aligning himself with Measure 11 which
the Legislature adopted in special
session two weeks ago.
Atiyeh made his remarks one week to
the hour in which Straub addressed the
same Sandy area Chamber of Com
merce audience the previous week.
Straub gave a hearty endorsement to
Measure 11 last Tuesday but Atiyeh
lambasted the plan as “ a shallow at
tempt to hoodwink the people of
Oregon.”
Atiyeh’s speech dealt prim arily with
the issue of property tax relief He said
the issue points up a striking differencg
between himself and his opponent
Atiyeh acknowledged "fla w s" in
Measure 6 as it now is written but said
they could be “ cleaned up’’ in the next
session of the Legislature
He
suggested the final plan be sent before
the voters for approval sometime in
February
Atiyeh proposed a redrafting of
Measure 6 in the Legislature special
session but the plan was defeated by a
30-30 vote in the House and 17-11 in the
Senate
" I know Measure 6 has its flaws,’’ he
told an estimated crowd of 100 Tuesday
at TJs “ But it’s the plan of the tax
payers
“ There were over 200.000 people who
signed the petition to have it placed on
the ballot," he said. “ Those voices are
not being heard by the present
governor,”
Atiyeh said if Measure 6 is passed and
receives more votes than Measure 11,
he would propose that assessed
valuation of property be kept at 1977 or
*79 levels instead of having them rolled
back to 1975 levels as is called for now
with Measure 6.
He also proposes to do away with the
2 percent per year increase in assessed
valuation and allow property values to
be raised by a consumer price index
figure established by the Legislature.
Atiyeh pointed out that Measure 6
places an upward lim it (1.5 percent) on
the amount of taxes that can be levied
against a property owner He said
Measure 11 offers no guarantee on the
amount of taxes that can be levied
“ Measure 11 calls for the state to pay
half of all property taxes." he said
“ But who is the state? It’s you and me
We ll pay half locally and pay the other
half in income taxes. We re being
bribed with our own money.”
When asked whether schools would
be affected if Measure 6 goes into ef
fect, Atiyeh said he did not believe they
would but added “ it ’s time for all of us
to tighten our belts "
Atiyeh also stated that he has been a
backer of property tax relief legislation
for several years. He said Straub
jumped on the tax relief bandwagon
only after the issue made headlines in
the state after passage of California’s
Proposition 13.
Kent announces for mayor
John W Kent, owner of The Theatre
in Sandy, announced his decision to file
as the sixth candidate for the office of
mayor of Sandy in the Nov 7 election
Nov. 7 elect ion
Kent, 37, said in a prepared an
nouncement that he is running on a
p la tfo rm of bring ing ‘ ‘C hristian
honesty to city government through one
simple rule: do to others as you would
want them to do to you. "
Kent worked in lumber and building
m aterial sales 10 years before coming
to Sandy to operate The Theater He is
an associate member of the Sandy-
Hoodland and the Gresham Javcees
He lived in Gresham eight years before
moving to Sandy earlier this year
Kent joins councilmen Jim Duff and
Bruce Cook as well as Dick Harrison,
Ruth Loundree and Dennis Wolf in the
race for the mayor’s oP»ce.
Duff. Cook and Harrison are the only
candidates who have subm itted
petitions w ith the required 20
signatures to the City Recorder’s office.
Deadline for filing is Oct. 6 at 5 p.m
Inside The Post
The U.S. Forest Service hires coneheads to
work in the fo r e s t...........................Pg - 9 Sec. I
Seniors from Sandy tour the Mt. Angel
Oktoberfest.....................................pg. 4, Sec. II.
Retired widow operates blueberry farm in her
spare t im e ....................................... pg. 3, Sec. II