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The Sândy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Braschler Publisher Caroline DuW O ffice M anager M ark Floyd. Sports Editor Don Dillon. City Editor Brad loB rie N ews Editor b - SANDY (Ore.) POST Thurs., Feb 21. 19«O (Sec I , C ity’s assault on parking tim ely The city of Sandy is considering a new get-tough policy on downtown parking that offers many benefits. To anyone who has found it d ifficu lt to locate a parking spot downtown, the proposed two-hour parking lim it on Proctor. Pioneer, dow ntow n cross stre e ts and m unicipal lots offers hope. A forthcoming report from City Manager Roger Jordan to Sandy C ity C ouncil is expected to recommend enforcement of this tw o -h o u r p a rk in g re s tric tio n throughout downtown. Exceptions would be streets that connect Pioneer and Pioneer Boulevards at extreme ends of town near G riff s and D airy Queen W ith co n cu rrence of C ity Council, the city manager w ill exercise present powers to im plement a -new adm inistrative policy for enforcement A part- tim e civilian detached to the police departm ent for parking would check all affected streets and ticket violators throughout town. For anyone who has found it tough to cross Proctor or Pioneer on a weekend when more than 10.000 cars stream through town, the city m anager’s plan to restrict parking near intersections must sound good. Certainly, many fender-benders and wasted minutes could be elim inated by clearing a path of vision at these busy crossroads on the state highway through town To m inim ize loss of parking spots at these intersections, the city could lim it parking at corners to sm aller cars. Like all innovations for the good of the com m unity, however, these parking solutions would require some sacrifice by a few residents. Downtown workers who now park th e ir cars near their jobs without moving them all day w ill be asked to rotate parking spots or risk ticketing. Of course, the exercise and fresh a ir from w alking a couple blocks to work could be considered a side benefit for those asked to give up their day-long parking spots in congested downtown Sandy. (V.B) Guest editorial: It's what’s in a name that counts by R.L. FREEMAN Brightwood I t ’s o fficial now Hoodland roads, lanes, hidden or open now have names to go w ith their faces Firem en w ill be able to find the emergency faster. So w ill the bill collectors perhaps find their job a little easier Big Brother, the Bureaucrat, visible in most in stances of 'public good." for the most part let the naming of the roads stay in the hands of “ the people.’’ Some folks pouring over maps of the area may ponder the name. Rufus Ridge Road. However, the little forest lane that slithers through f ir and brush linking three fam ilies is more meaningful to me than Portland’s throbbing, pulsing paved giant called Broadway. N otices re que sting name suggestions were handed out by the firem en to residents living on the unnamed roads My neighbor, in com plying with instructions and without my knowledge submitted the name Rufus Ridge Road Rufus, m y golden lab. beloved by both set of neighbors had recently departed human companionship for a place in dog heaven Rufus had trod this unnamed road for years, calling his shots as he sn iffe d along, re -e sta b lish in g boundaries he expected to be honored by other canines Rufus, (his name unknown to me then* a seventy-pound golden lab. came on the Brightwood scene seven years ago Overpowering as a hot summer sun rising high in the eastern sky. he was ready to m elt all in his path by sheer in tim idation A full spirited, un fledged year-old at the tim e I met him , he approached our yard carrying an Easter basket Behind him he dragged my leashed neigh bor. his soon to be separated from, human foster mother. “ I brought over your Easter basket.’’ my kindly but subtle neighbor lady started in. The big dog by ?.ow had spit out the fa irly large basket of flowers and eggs, which spilled over onto the ground in front of me “ Oh, thank you.” I replied, bending to retrieve the overflow of Easter goodies My neighbor also stooped to help When eggs, flowers and basket were righted and in my possession. I suddenly realized I also held the leash to this four footed living quadrupex “ Enjoy the basket.” my neigh bor commented in a backward glance as she turned and breezily started home 'MOW, IF 1 X’ dusr r va*. ÊôM TC KIEW HAMPSHIRE... ' The Innocent Bystander: New fear and loathing meet draft I have checked the files Over the years. I have w ritten 32 columns at tacking the (ka ft. This w ill be the No. 33. It w ill be the hardest I hate the draft. I have attacked it as illegal, im m oral, irrational and the ultim ate abrogation of the social contract between the state and the individual Sentencing masses of citizens to years of lire-threatening labor solely because they are young and healthy seems to me the worst kind of involuntary servitude. Some causes may be worth risking one s life for Individual freedom, for example Each individual should be free to judge the worthiness of the cause But surely, when old men decide a cause is worth dying for and then force young men who disagree to go out to die fo r it, this is the epitome of hypocrisy “ But what about the dog." I called fra n tica lly. “ He’s the main part of your basket D idn't your wife tell you9 Check with her His name is Rufus ” And she was gone It was a rather fa m ilia r story. The neighbors daughter and fa m ily were moving to California into an apartment. N aturally, no dogs allowed, especially a moose sans horns Thus it was that Rufus helped him self to a chunk of Brightwood real estate. The years slipped by and tim e took its toll on the big guy. He is buried on a bluff in “ The Final Stay'. This is a sm all anim al graveyard at the back of the house that looks down and across into the canyon w alling in the Sandy rive r A large, tough, almost petrified stick that he always carried around is sunk in the ground above his head. R U F U S is carved into the limb. An epitaph reads “ A dog's life is made up of ‘w aits’ . Rufus was no different. He waited hundreds of ‘w a its’. He waited in the car for my return There was waiting as he lay in the grass while I mowed the yard or hoed garden weeds Those ever w a tc h fu l eyes tw is tin g th e ir glances to keep me in sight. Yet s till the inevitable w aiting until he could join me again for my fu ll attention. Well, he is waiting patiently for me now Somewhere in the quiet abbey of space, my Rufus, ever at attention for my call, waits Hang in there fellow. I ’ll be along ” If chance should take you over Rufus Ridge Road, be on the alert Look again if you see the golden sun s rays lighting up a certain rock Peer well at a pile of autumn leaves glowing yellow caught under a nearby bush It w ill be d ifficu lt to detect movement at night, but under a fu ll moon any golden shadow might be Rufus He loved the night and I ’m sure is again establishing the boundanes on his own Rufus Ridge Road * 1 have said these things over and over again in every manner I could. I have said them from the sanctuary of my typew riter. The draft has never directly affected me or mine. And I suppose I have taken some secret pride in what 1 considered the nobility of my stance Now the chickens have come home to roost When I read last week that President Carter had asked that all young people bom in I960, 1961 and 1962 be made to register for the draft, something w ithin me stopped for a moment. A young g irl I love very much was born in 1962 It is not that I fear she w ill register tor the draft It is that 1 fear she won’t. Maybe* she w ill see this registration business as I do — a political ploy by the president, a flexing of the muscles to cow the Russians, a step toward what used to be called "m obilization,'* a macho gesture to impress the voters here at home IF SO. perhaps she w ill feel that merely signing a piece of paper in a post office is not a m atter worth going to ja il over God knows I don't want this young g irl to go to ja il. Or maybe . .But I don't want to think about that. The choice, of course, w ill be hers Whatever she decides. I w ill be proud of her I w ill be proud either of her wisdom or her courage But it is a hell of a choice. IN MV eyes, she is an exceptional child In my admittedly biased view, she is b e a u tifu l, in te llig e n t, cooperative, highly principled, funny and very much alive. But she is also, like many of her generation, anti-establishment. And I know she shares my loathing for the draft If and when the time comes that she must choose between registering for the draft or going to ja il, I honestly don't know which she w ill do It is a hell of a choice. How easy it has been all these years to sit behind this typew riter and make these noble intellectual decisions And how te rrib ly d ifficu lt it becomes when they concern one whom you love. /\nd how b itterly angry I am at President Carter and those other old men in Washington who would even consider forcing such a choice on this young g irl. How ca llo u s. How thoughtless How cruel. (Copvnght Chronicle Publishing Co. Washington Report: National politics help range lands WASHINGTON - A surprise in President Carter s budget, submitted to Congress last week, is that certain natural resources concerns of the Northwest emerged in much improved condition “ Range management and reforestation benefited from a political year,*' commented an adm inistraron source. The president sent Congress funding requests for reforestation and rangeland management considerably above what the Congress ap propriated for fiscal year 1900 Carter has asked for 171.4 m illion to be spent for reforestation in FY 1961, which is more than >63 4 m illion above what Congress appropriated to be spent in FY 1960 The president also asked for >17.6 m illio n more in range mangement money for FY 1961 than was in the F Y I960 budget. Sources w ithin the Carter adm inistration say that while the range management funding in crease reflects a new attitude w ithin the Office of Management and Budget, the decision to in crease the reforestation budget was made at a higher level and reflects fatigue with the annual battle w ith Northwesterners on the ap propriations committees “ The Forest Service wants to m inim ize con flicts with the appropriations committees over reforestation funding,” says an aide to Sen Mark Hatfield. R-Ore Over the past several years. Hatfield, Sen. Warren Magnuson. D- Wash., Rep Bob Duncan. IX )re ., and Rep Norm Dicks. D-Wash . have worked to increase reforestation funding above what the president has requested in his budget. A STUMBLING BLOCK to higher ad m inistration funding for reforestation has been the capitalization rate (10 percent! which the Office of Management and Budget applies to that item In the past, OMB has said that money spent on reforestation must yield a return ( in timber harvest sales« that is equal to what the money would return at 10 percent per year over the life of the expenditire. Now, OMB reportedly is reconsidering the 10 percent capitalization rate. “ The 10 percent figure is now more in a state of limbo than it is a firm guildeline,” says a source in OMB “ I t ’s sort of up in the a ir — honored more infrequently. We have given some signals to the Forest Service that we would not go bananas if it looked at a rate other than 10 per cent ” Meanwhile, the amount Carter requested for tim ber sales off the national forests does not reflect any urgency w ithin the administration to increase tim ber harvest beyond the lim its of the even-flow, non-declining yield doctrine — a strategy the president has said he would explore. Carter's tim ber sales budget request for FY 1961 would allow for sales of 11.9 billion board feet, which would be 2 percent less than the 12.2 billion board feet harvest funded by the FY 1960 budget. A notable increase in the Forest Service budget — apparently reflecting a new attitude in the White House — was in research, up 12 per cent for FY 1961, over what was appropriated for FY 1980 Of the new research funds, there were significant increases in money requested for forest products utilization research and forest engineering research. “ There is a growing realization in OMB and the White House that the payback on research is good," said a Forest Service budget analyst. Letters to the editor: Pioneer band, helpful neighbors draw letters Boost band It made me very unhappy to read the article “ Band needs a bit of pep” in the Feb. 14 Sandy Post It would be just great if that much space were given to the band to te ll the people of Sandy about the good ac complishments they have made in the past, the con tests they have played for and all of the hard work they have put in to make a good showing at whatever they are doing The so-called “ pep’’ bend is more or less a thing of the pest, being replaced by the stage bend It is true that these bands tend to play jazz and modem music more than the typical pep' songs, but this is what the people like to hear It only takes a trip to the state basketball tour nament to see that all the schools are using this type of bend nowadays, playing the same type of music that the Sandy High bend plays Most of the music is “ up-beat' and lends itself to hand clapping, but it's been my observation when I have been at the games that the students that are there don't seem to care about clapping and cheering anyway. For a high school the size of Sandy, there is a very poor turnout for the basxetbail games W hatever happened to the days when the gym was fu ll for the games w ith the students standing and cheering for the team 9 I'm sure that it was an oversight when the band played after the basketball game had begun Sometimes student directors are used, and I ’m sure they were not tryin g to distract the players I have been at most of the games this year and have never seen this happen, so I'm sure this is not a big problem. I ’m sure that the problem of having basketball players dribbbng basketballs at a band concert will never happen, because basketball players are not required to attend band concerts as the band is required to attend basketball games In the future I would like to see only sports items on the sports page, and if there is a problem such as brought out in this a rticle , let it be brought to the attention of the music department of the high school, not spread all over the Sandy Post And I also hope that I w ill be reading about the good ac complishments of the band in future issues of the Poet. Gerald Barker Sandy *Our thanks’ We would like to express our deep appreciation to Sandy F ire D istrict 72, The Bull Run Community Club, the Aims Community, the SDA Church and our neigh bors and friends for their aid and kindness during and fo llo w in g the fir e th a t destroyed our home Roger it Joyce Atkins it F am ily
