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SANDY (O»
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Editorial and Opinion
From othereditors:
Sandy Should Court Skiers for New Industry
easy and profitable for area
The State Highway Division
businesses as a block and, sub-
recently concluded a count of
sequently, the community as a
vehicles on Highway 26 and
whole.
discovered a significant increase
Drive-through visitor trade could
here. Traffic isn’t as congested as
provide
Sandy with the clean, new
at the outskirts of Gresnam with
industry
it needs to broaden its
some 22,000 vehicles daily, but it's
economic base. Visitors here for a
getting there.
few hours would require few city
Average daily vehicle count of
sendees such as street or utility
9.500 east of Sandy and 9.000 west of
improvements. They would require
Sandy represents a 3.000 increase
little
more than a cordial invitation
daily over the last local count in
from
local m erchants who could
1976. according to the Highway
promote
their shops and the town
Division. East of Bluff Rd., the
along
the
strong
pioneer theme that
vehicle count was 11.000. The High­
Sandy projects.
way Division acknowledges that
vehicle count here may be even
A concerted effort should be
higher in the ski season.
m ade along the lines of a
Where do all the cars go? Many,
L eavenw orth.
or
W inthrop,
of course, head east over the
Washington, where even the gas
mountain for other towns and areas
stations, post office and banks were
renowned for hunting and fishing.
included in the total community
A good many, however, end their
sales effort. Mountain towns in
journev just minutes up the
Colorado appeal strongly to the
mountain for a day or weekend of
skiers by design of similar efforts.
local skiing, to return home via
W hen the skiers leave in the off­
Sandy shortly. A visit to Tim­
season. the entirt community
berline Lodge would verify that the
would benefit from the build-up in
ski season is already upon us. with
stores, entertainm ent facilities and
a parking lot filled with early
other improvements made to court
skiers and onlookers watching o\ er
the skiers. And while the drop-in
the U S. Ski Team quartered there.
visitors to town would not pay
Sandy could turn the traffic
taxes, the increased dollar flow
pressure on its highway through
into city shops would improve the
town into an economic advantage.
tax base in Sandy. (VB)
Courting the ski traffic would be
Neither Tax Measure Worth Voting for
The City Club of Portland will
vote Friday on a committee
recommendation favoring tax-cut
Measure 11 over Measure 6.
Minority reports will be heard
favoring No. 6. favoring both No. 6
and No. 11. and opposing both The
latter approach, suggested by
com m ittee member Richard Pope,
makes a lot of sense.
Pope feels No. 6 not only would
provide insufficient benefits to
Oregon taxpayers but also contains
legal problems. No. 11 is poorly
written and would not achieve its
stated goals.
“ The question and the initiation
of a constitutional amendment is of
such great importance that such
amendm ents should be worded and
written to a level approaching
ideal. The citizens of this state
deserve a better response from
their legislators than has been
apparent.
“ Without workable limits on
spending...both m easures should
receiv e
no
votes an d the
Legislature should take the time
necessary to write and refer a
more ideal constitutional amend­
m ent.”
There is much truth i. hat Pope
says. No. 6 clearly h a s 1 legal
problems and No 11 clearly is a
political boondoggle conceived in
haste and delivered with scant
concern or insight into what the
taxpayers really are saying.
It might be a better way. as Pope
suggests, to turn down both
measures and start anew.
Overeating eyed
as social problem
Every social critic worth
his
salt
knows that
Americans eat too much
and waste energy. But two
U n iv e rs ity
of Illin o is
scientists have raised guilt
mongering to a new level
by linking these two ex­
cesses. They calculated
that the energy needed to
produce the extra food
'« u f t iö t . t w u m
R o w — is x w - ta t
Americans unnecessarily
consume would supply (he
annual residential elec
tric ity needs of Boston.
Chicago, San Francisco
and Washington. D C .
Being overweight thus
becomes not just a per­
sonal problem but a social
problem as well.
—Wall Street Journal
B kx tlwce aówn ! '
Letters to the editor
Horse murder
To the Editor:
This letter is not easy for
me to write because of the
sadness I feel Early Sunday
morning my horse. Ceta,
leaped to her death trying to
escape the sting of a hunter s
bullet.
I had leased Ceta to a horse
rancher in Sutherlin She was
a registered pinto and was
due to foal in January
Sometime between mid­
night and 2 a m Sunday, a
thoughtless and irrespon­
sible hunter fired a shot that
ricocheted and creased the
back of her leg She tried to
escape by jumping the fence
and came down on a metal
post which cut her jugular
vein and she bled to death.
Whoever fired that shot
caused the death of a horse I
love very much and a
potentially valuable foal for
the ranch in Sutherlin.
Hunting with a spotlight is
both illegal and cowardly
because the animal doesn t
have a fighting chance when
blinded by the light Besides,
all animals' eyes glow in the
dark and it is impossible to
determine what kind of
animal it is
I'm urging everyone to be
on
the
lookout
for
irresponsible people who
hunt at night or during the
day in areas where there
might be domestic animals
or people Please report
anything suspicious to your
local game commissioner or
sheriff.
Anita L Spradlin
Sandv
this Vote NO on Measure 10.
Hector Macpherson
Rt 3. Box 845
Albany
Great rescue
To the Editor:
I feel the public should
know what a great rescue
team we have on the
mountain. I am so grateful to
them, they saved my life. I
don’t think I ’Ve ever seen
such devotion to humanity as
our volunteers up here have
exemplified.
I am home again for the
fo urth tim e and under
oxygen so it is comforting to
know that the rescue team is
only a phone call away and
that efficient help can reach
mein minutes
I feel this open letter of
thanks would let them know
how really grateful 1 am.
Estella Haugen
Rhododendron
Measure 6
tence from sa\ing much
money.
In contemplating the death
penalty we must accept the
fact that it is applied mostly
to the poor, the black and the
brown. The rich and white
very rarely live on death
row. Ex-w arden Clinton
Duffy of San Quentin prison
says the death penalty is a
"privilege of the poor.’
Murderers found guilty are
sometimes found innocent
later as confessions occur or
new evidence comes to light.
The death penalty is not
reversible
C ontem plation of the
moral factors in Measure 8
might induce us not only to
reject Measure 8 but to apply
a sim ilar analysis to other
facets of our living Is it of
moral stature to spend $115
billion a year to plan and buy
m ilita ry equipment which
could k ill 110 to 150 million
people in an hour or so and
devastate vast areas of the
earth — and to do so with the
certain knowledge that an
equal number and equal area
w ill die in our beautiful land?
The vengeance principle
isn’t really worth much, in
Measure 8 or in m ilitary
planning
Wilbur Sulzbach
Sandy
London Walt often related
how he could hear the baying
of his dogs at night when a
pale moon hung over the
dark, brooding shape of
Hunchback mountain.
,
Walt and Elsie lived in a
neat house at the end of a
narrow road leading from
the highway. A visitor to The
Homestead was always
greeted by the mellow
baying of thé hounds penned
in the yard No visitor was
ever turned away from The
Homestead.
But now the woods are
silent There is a gate across
the road leading to The
Homestead, and the forest is
gradually creeping in where
there was once a green lawn.
But a nostalgic visitor may
listen with a third ear. At late
afternoon the fir clad slope of
Hunchback mountain casts
long shadows through a
grove of alders Does one
with imagination hear the
baying of a restless hound
upon the hill?
Daniel Colbert
521 NE 117th
Portland
Not amateurs
To the Editor:
I am really disgusted with
a billboard I see around
Oregon which reads, "D on’t
let amateurs replace den­
tists.” My brother has served
the dentists of this state
faithfully for sixteen years as
a dental technician, and now
these high and m ig hty
dentists slap him and many
other
qua lifie d
dental
technicians in the face by
calling them "am ateurs"
and "dental mechanics.”
How is that for gratitude9
Perhaps
the
word
"a m a te u r” was chosen
because the technician is not
paid nearly as much as a
dentist. For example, my
brother and other dental
technicians are paid $125 for
a full upper and lower set of
dentures. The dentist in turn
charges the patient $500,
$600, and $700 and up for
these same dentures. I guess
th a t’s the professional
markup!
To the Editor:
Our "b rillia n t” politicians
can knock Measure 6 all they
Now let’s see who is really
want. It doesn't change the
the amateur when it comes to
fact that Gov. Strabb and his
making dentures. When a
band of “M erry Men ' had no
dentist graduates from The
intentions of working up a
University of Oregon Dental
To the Editor:
tax reform bill.
It took Measure 6 to bring
The UPI recently carried School after four years, he
them down off their thrones
an article about Measure has had to complete only nine
But even then they *ere not
5 that would almost be funny dentures This could have
listening. Measure 11 proves
if it was not so ludicrous The been done on as few as five or
spokesman for the "No on six patients. When he takes
it!
A shifting of monies from To the Editor:
F iv e ”
com m ittee
said his state dental board
I am glad to see that Paul "d e n tu ris ts are poorly examination, he does not
income tax to cover a
reduced property tax is not Walden is running for state train ed mechanics who have any practical test on
representative again. He did fabricate teeth." It appears dentures at all!
what Measure 6 is all about.
Reduce spending, that’s the a fine job for us the last time as though this spokesman,
Measure 5, which the
name of the game' Like it or he was in the Legislature
attorney Alex Parks of dentists are so opposed to,
Walden
worked
on Portland, should stick to
not, the bottomless pit which
requires that a denturist
is our pocket has just struck property tax relief long being a lawyer, for it is ob­
must have a minimum of six
before
the
so-called
taxpay
er
bottom
vious he knows nothing about years experience, plus six
revolt He helped write the
So if our Salemcrats find it
dentistry.
months schooling until 1982
impossible to cut spending Homeowner and Renter
Hardly a record of which we can To the Editor:
Americans as a whole like to
(two years schooling after
For
example,
these
Relief
program
which
helps
Ballot Measure 10. the land they should consider the
be
proud.
Because
of
special
cir­
1982) plus pass a rigid test by
"poorly
trained
mechanics"
picture themselves as the biggest,
use initiative, is so over­ unemployment line I'm sure people on lower and fixed
the State Board of Health on
as
he
calls
them
are
the
very
cumstances.
a
lot
of
Oregonians
incomes
afford
to
live
here.
Mr
Straub
w
ill
be
standing
shadowed by the taxation
the best, the strongest, the tallest,
a ll phases of denture con­
people
that
the
"highly
Walden
recommended
that
may vote this fall. But most school measures 6 and 11 that few in it after Nov. 7.
etc., etc., etc.
the Legislature return the trained dentists” have been struction. During that six
Ralph
A
Sandercock.
Jr
people
are
aware
of
this
and special elections are decided
President C arter pointed out an
39600 SE Algeier Rd. $170 m illion surplus in the sending their denture work to years experience as a dental
issue. The anti-land
technician they w ill literally
with substantially less than 25 critical
for years. Apparently Mr
Sandy state budget to the taxpayers
area last week in which we’re
use planning people are back
make thousands of dentures.
Parks
didn’t
want
to
mention
because
he
thought
it
was
the
percent
of
the
people
getting
out.
again with a tricky measure
undeniably No. 1.
Now I ask, who is really the
that
in
the
article
honest
thing
to
do.
He
spent
Oregon's voter registration laws so confusing it is hard to
That would be in not voting — in
Then he says the denturists "am ateur?” Perhaps the
many hours hammering out
know which way to vote, no
are so simple that there is no m a tte r
would not save the consumer real reason the dentists are
legislation to update and
staying away from the polls.
what
your To the Editor:
so opposed to Measure 5 is
money. Apparently attorney
even
phase
out
the
reason
not
to
vote
Remember,
you
philosophy.
Measure
8
on
the
Nov.
7
The president said that of all the
because 95 percent of the
Parks
is
doing
pretty
well,
inheritance
taxes
in
Oregon
Make
no
mistake,
it
is
an
ballot has not received much
have no right to grouse about taxes,
nations that grant people the right
dentists
in Oregon could not
since
he
considers
$200
to
Now
Paul
Walden
is
to gut land use plan
attention
This measure
zoning, governmental restrictions, effort
$500 savings as minimal. But comply with these standards
to vote. ‘‘We are No. 1 in non-
ning
by
having
the would return the death running again and he
then he has worked 10 years
etc., if you don’t vote!
legislature alter the goals penalty to Oregon We have deserves our unqualified
participation.”
"Replace Dentists?” They
for the State Board of Dental
and then stripping the LCDC defeated it before and support I hope the voters
most c e rta in ly w ill be
remember Paul Walden on
Examiners; they must pay
of powers to enforce what is hopefully w ill do so again
replaced, in making dentures
adopted The measure gives
well.
Proponents of Measure 8 Nov . 7.
anyway. Oh yes, you w ill still
George
L
Morgan
the legislature just 60 days to have the expectation that the
No on Five Committee have the freedom to choose
P O Box 666
Another project in Colorado act. an impossible task
severity of the death penalty
says they have collected between a dentist and a
We haven’t heard all the results
Sandy
Going back to the days w ill make a husband decide
$60.000 to oppose this denturist all right But who is
would
require
an
investment
of
$1
but as Congress presses for ad­
when there were no state not to shoot a wife in the
measure One has to wonder going to want to continue to
million
per
farm
family
and
would
standards for local planning drunken fury of a home fight
journment, very few pork barrels
who besides dentists are so be ripped o ff by the
result
in
a
return
of
only
50
cents
on
To the E ditor:
may be attractive to some, or w ill make a robber decide
opposed to this measure to
are being left behind.
who get
No recollections of the Mt. contribute that much money. “ professionals"
but it was a disaster for the not to carry a gun as he robs
the dollar.
their dentures made by the
C o n g ressm en
being
con­
Hood
area
would
be
complete
farm community. The am
These and sim ilar hopes
It w ill be interesting to see "amateurs” in the first
gressm en, they can’t resist special
without a few words about the list of their contributors.
bias in Lane County, for have been shown to be false
These are the kinds of projects farm
place?
Walt Creighton. Though the
example, was such that not
projects for the folks back home.
with the death penalty
The article is topped off
Jeane Cates
which spawn the tax-cut measures an acre of exclusive farm use States
p
ro
p
e
rty
he
once
do not im prove th e ir
with the support of Sen. Keith
One public works project in Bayou
P O Box 50
homesteaded was left to the
zoning was provided until the previous record nor show
springing up everywhere across
Burbidge of Salem who has
Baker
Bodeau. La., which President
G
irl
Scouts,
a
new
sign
has
state
got
tough
the United States Congressmen
that the death penalty causes
the panacea for it all. He w ill
The escalation of farmland
been put along the highway
C arter has threatened to veto
apparently still haven't heard the prices even with state goal a drop-off in crimes of to m ark the location of "THE introduce a bill to reduce
would benefit about 150 people at a
dental costs for low income
murder
safeguards is pricing young
message
HOMESTEAD.”
persons. Since he cannot tell
cost of about $150.000 per person
Some
people
may
feel
fanners out of the market
Walt came there as a boy the dentists what they can
To the Editor;
Without protection, the loss satisfactions of vengeance
when his father homesteaded charge, he can only i educe
I would like to correct
when
they
read
the
details
of
of good farm land to other
the property at the turn of the the costs by using that never some
errors
in
my
uses w ill cost active farmers, how a murderer dies in the
century He and his wife. ending flow of tax money.
background as a candidate
and ultim ately the con­ electric chair or by poison
Elsie, lived there until they This way the dentists' pocket for mayor
gas. rifle shots or whatever
sumer. dearly.
both passed away a few short book w ill not suffer Then we
In noting that I was
The uhnstian w ill get little
Another
provision
of
years ago.
middle income taxpayers seeking my first elective
satisfaction
from
such
news
Measure 10 threatens to put
Walt's hobby was raising can again foot the b ill; not office, it is only the first time
as he contemplates himself
some
developers
into
Von Braschler, General Manager
John Kline Editor
as a recipient of mercy and black and tan hounds — the only by having to pay twice for mayor as I held the
ban kru ptcy by s ta llin g
Caroline DuH Office Manager
Mork Floyd Staff Reporter
that
vengeance finest hunting dogs to be the price that we should for elective o ffice of city
needed development for knows
found anywhere He had a our own dentures, but we recorder for 14 years Based
Kay« Barton, Staff R«port«r
belongs
to
the
Lord
months It guarantees a 90
passion for hunting, and his would have the added burden on two year terms, that
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keeping
a
person
in
prison
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the
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had
the
number
of
appeals
Most
all
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Advisor for the first four
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years. I am also a member of
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Vote
YES
on
Measure
5.
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