Sandy post., June 21, 1979, Image 1

Vol 6 9
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Pratt
to lead
parade
(ie rry P ratt, Ho»t of television's Town
Hall program , w ill serve a» grand
marshal fo r Sandy'» Mountain Day»
Parade on 'I’hursday, July 5
The 7 'to p m parade w ill »tart at
Paul Koch Ford on P roctor Boulevard
and make it» way to Sandy Union High
School on B luff Hoad Entries w ill
include float», hands and even a little
humor m the form <rf Keystone Cops
Pratt has gamed popularity through
hosting
the
Sunday
afte rn o o n
discussion program on KATU TV In
Portland He ha» also served a» a
lat.sin<*ss w rite r for The Oregonian and
i» currently president of Fred Meyer
Saving» and Iatan Association
Lynn Fill», one of the organizer» of
the Sandy Mountain Day», »aid final
deluil.s are falling intoplace for the July
2 H activities
< Ine change in the o rig in a l schedule is
the cancellation of a lied race planned
for the half h«xir before the parade A
spokesman for the Sandy Lion'» Club,
which was going to sponsor the event,
said his group dropped plans to hold the
invitational race becaiae they were
stretched too thin “ A fter the parade
the Sandy Area Merchants w ill sponsor
their annual MtamJight Sale
Other activities during the week w ill
include a Classic Car Show at Paul
Koch Ford and a Corvette Show at IV te
Carlson Chevrolet
On Wednesday, July 4. Sandy w ill
offer a variety of a ctivities fo r those
who don I want to stray too fa r from
home fo r Hie holiday
The Sandy A rea C ham ber of
Commerce w ill sponsor a bring your
own food picnic at M einig Memorial
Park at 4 p m Games and prizes w ill he
held for y«singsters attending the
com m unity event
At 2 p m on the Fourth, the Sandy
C o m m u n ity
P la y e r»
w ill
o ffe r
entertainm ent at the Sandy Theater A
m ulti media slide presentation by
Sandy photographer Sandi Ptsitala and
a magic show w ill precede 8 3 p m
auction featuring more than :too item»
Proceed» from the auction w ill go to
Rock racing will again draw the undivided attention of some festival goers
purchase lights for the theater group
As dusk conies, the Sandy Lion'sC lub
w ill launch a colorful arra y of fireworks
at “ Pop'' Kan now Stadium off B luff
Hoad,
On Saturday and Sunday, July 74. the
sixth annual Sandy Mountain Festival
w ill lie held in the park behind Sandy
C ity
Hall
To accommodate the
expected crowd, shuttle bus service w ill
be provided from several parking areas
around the city
Festival organizer Lynn E llis said
last year's festival drew an estimated
5O.(XM) people She's predicting an even
larger crowd fo r this year’s event
The Mountain Festival w ill feature
arts and crafts from artisans from
throughout the Northwest, as w ell as
food booths from local organizations
and lots of music
Both the Sandy Com m unity Theater
Players and the Birdcage Theater
group w ill offer dram a presentations in
the park during the festival
Ullman: ‘Energy crunch is no imaginary issue’
Hie energy crisis and diesel shortage
are not figments of the nation's
im agination That is the message Hep
Al
U llm a n
of
O regon's
2nd
Congressional D istrict brought to
Sanity Friday on a weekend trip
through the state
•'There is a real and actual shortage
and I'm w orried if we don't get the
problem solved simmi , w e're going to
have a breakdown in deliveries anil a
c ris is ." U llm an told a breakfast
meeting of the Sandy Chamber of
Commerce
The answer to the problem is further
energy research and development Hut
Itiere are no easy answers
" A ll new sources of energy are
costly, very co stly," la1 said Oil prices
currently stand at approxim ately $2t)
per barrel, U llm an said, but developing
new sources would be the equivalent of
adding energy at $25 to $¿10 per Itarrel
It would be worth it, he sAid, “ if it
helps us get self sufficient
To finance new research, Congress
recently passed a w indfall profits tax
proposed by-President Jim m y C arter
That money, U llm an said, would be
turned hack into research "as quickly
as possible “
The decontrol of oil prices which
spurred the passage of the tax b ill was
aimed at finding a new supply of oil and
reducing im ports It was designed to
boost production from old United States
oil fields amt bring on a new rixind of
exploration to add to current supplies
U llm an called the price impact of
decontrol, however, "v e ry m inim al
Foreign oil producers, he said, “ by and
large, have us where they want us ”
The only way to get exit from under
that shroud, I ’ llm an said, is to offer tax
incentives
That method would be "to g e t private
capital into those areas like geothermal
research to get some of sort of self
sufficiency, if we are to m aintain some
sort of sta b ility in our national
s e c u rity ," he said
The Alaskan oil is not being utilized
wisely, U llm an charged One problem
is shipping it a ll the way to Galveston,
Tex., via the Panania Canal to be
refined
Another sore point In the United
States attempt to decrease reliance on
M iddle Fast cixintries was the handling
of Mexico by Energy Secretary James
SUHS voters face low er rate
The Sandy High School D istrict is
"holding the lin e " on expenditures and
program development To accomplish
that, it w ill place a budget before
d is tric t patrons next Tuesday that, if
pa»M*d, w ill require a lower tax rate
t luin last year
To balance the budget, a $1,71X1,923
levy must tie passed That w ill pass on
to the taxpayer an estimated rate of
$tt 27 | mt $I.’XHI assessed valuation,
compared w ith $6 54 a year ago.
according to Jack Peters, district
superintendent
"W e are confident,” he continued,
"th a t increased state support w ill drop
tlu il under six dollars "
V irtu a lly no new programs are
in clu d e d in the 1979 ho budget,
according to Peters “ We re holding the
line on I mi H i expenditures and program
development u ntil our long range
planning com m ittee has completed its
work "
To a rriv e at the proposed $¿1.161,219
total budget, over $2txi.(MX) was cut from
the o riginal requests
Those cut«
included new positions and curriculum
The total cut involved reducing five
new proposed positions in the d istrict,
re d u c in g
th e
c u rr ic u lu m
fo r
construction classes and the salary of
th a t te a c h e r, re d u cin g th e new
cu rricu lu m for a health cluster and
e lim in a tin g one aide and a reader from
the Communications Department
Added to thiwe reducttons was a
straight Id percent across the hoard cut
from purchases services, supplies and
m aterials and capital outlay
New construction was elim inated on
the science wing and reniiMicling of the
a rt building Proposed renovations on
the school's track were also postponed,
according to Ginny Brewster, vice
chairm an of the school hoard
M oney
e a rm a rk e d
fo r
the
c o n s tru c tio n of a new d is tr ic t
adm inistration office from a bond
election four years ago was applied to
remiMleling the roof of the school which
insurance companies had requested
A pproxim ately $ ho otxi that was left
from the bond election for remodeling
and
the
re m a in d e r
fro m
the
contingency funds w ill be applied to the
new r«M»f
The d istrict has not reached an
agreement w ith the certified personnel
of the d istrict Those negotiations have
gone to fact finding At a meeting last
week, 72 points of negotiation were
considered
Brewster pointed out that salaries
range from $11,020 for a teacher w ith no
experience to $19,329 for a teacher at
the high end of the scale, hut said that
final figures could not he published w ith
the budget u ntil th«we negotiations are
completed A reasonable estimate of
salary and fringe benefits was included
in the budget, Peters said in his Budget
Message
"T h e hudget document represents a
diversified set of needs,” he said,
“ p a rtic u la rly those of the d istrict's
property
owners, parents of the
d is tric t s 1,4« h students, c e rtifie d and
classified personnel, the com m unity as
a whole, and our main consideration,
the students ”
Schlesinger U llm an was responding to
rem arks Schlesinger made about
Mexican oil production.
"T here's no question He has to go I
assume that before the summ er is out,
that w ill happen," U llm an said “ Our
d e a lin g w ith M e xico has been
indefensible, inexcusable It's stupid
fo r that kind of treatm ent of a
neighboring nation Mexico has to be
part of the equation-for the energy
solution ”
U llm an said it was realistic to expect
at least 10 to 15 years before the United
States gets any appreciable results
from wind or solar energy research
Geothermal, he said, w ill be quicker
Turning to other problems, U llm an
said he is w orking and doing everything
he can to get housing starts to an
appropriate level If starts get much
lower, it "could be enough to throw us
into a recession "
Ullm an said the HAKE II study
recommendations had a "good basis in
Oregon " He continued, “ We need 3 5
m illio n acres back into m ulti pur pose
use to stabilize the tim ber economy "
The problem w ith youngsters picking
berries, he said was a problem unique
to the Northwest
He backed the
u tiliz a tio n
of
‘ ’yo u n g ste rs and
housewives" to pick the fru it He called
the insecticide rule "a rb itra ry and
u n fa ir ”
A constitutional amendment to
balance was te rm e d * a grave
m istake." But Ullm an conceded that
the United States needs to take steps to
strengthen the economy
He pledged to fight for an increase for
federal funding fo r sewer projects
While Oregon has used its allotted
money, some states are sitting on theirs
w ithout using it. "W e re being short­
changed." U llm an said
County O&C suit still in limbo
OREGON CI TV — To pursue or not to
pursue That is s till the question, even
though action was taken by the
Clackamas
County commissioners
Thursday
The commissioners voted 2 1 last
week to drop a six year court struggle
to obtain the county's share of tim ber
receipts
However,
Commissioner
Ralph Groener, who was the sw mg vote
in Thursday's action, said Monday it is
s till possible he w ill vote to continue
w ith the $.»ix> m illio n suit
" E ith e r way I don't feel com fortable
w ith this s u it," Groener said. "B u t if it
personally means that much to Stan
«Commissioner Skoko) then I c«xild
probably go along w ith it."
" I think Ralph Groener has just taken
the livin g breath out of the lungs of
Clackamas County,” said Skoko after
Thursday’s decision Skoko has been a
longtim e supporter of the suit
Both commissioners Schumacher
and Groener said they feared Congress
m ight re w rite the federal act which
allocates nearly $5 m illio n in Oregon
and C alifornia tim ber receipts to the
county annually, if they continue w ith
suit
In annoutx’ ing his decision Thursday.
Groener said he had a "feeling of
am bivalence" abixit the suit "M y
judgement is that it's a mistake, not in
the intent or righteousness of the case
hut in assuming if we go up to the
Supreme Court level. Congress won't
decide to do something about that fund
" I don’t think you can win on this in
the long run "
The s u it a lleges the fe d e ra l
governm ent im properly appropriated
O & C tim b e r funds, saying the current
allocation form ula is inaccurate. The
federal act gives the counties 75 percent
of tim b e r receipts, hut the counties
have not been receiving th iit amount,
according to the attorney representing
the county. Donald W alker
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