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
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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