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District pg. 1, sec. III H V o l. 71 No. 7 The S A N D Y, O R E G O N , THURSDAY, FEB. 19, 1981 (USPS 481-180) City looking into legislative lobby The city of Sandy w ill investigate fo r ming a legislative subcommittee with other ru ra l Clackamas County com munities to gain some clout w ith the Oregon Legislature Councilman Tim Ward reported to the council Tuesday evening that he had attended a League of Oregon Cities convention and had learned of a sub committee formed by Bend, Redmond and Metolius to give the central Oregon area some legislative clout for their particular needs He suggested that Sandy investigate the possibility of form ing a sim ila r sub- comittee with Estacada and the Mount Hood com m unities to gain some C ounterfeiting charges filed legislative support. The city is currently working in a cooperative venture with Estacada and Molalla to attract industry to the three communities, said City Manager Roger Jordan. He w ill contact Estacada of ficials and see if a suitable arrange ment can be arrived at. In an abbreviated meeting, the coun cil also received the monthly reports from the city department heads, receiv ed a synopsis of the audit report of the c ity ’s bookkeeping which was found in good shape and endorsed liquor license requests for Sharon’s Sentry, Irene’s Tavern, the Tollgate Inn and Paola’s Pizza Barn. against you th A 17-year-old Sandy juvenile has been referred to Clackamas County juvenile authorities as a result of an investiga tion into a counterfeiting case in Sandy. According to Police Chief Fred Punzel, the youth cut a corner from a $20 b ill and glued it on a $1 b ill, making $19 each tim e he passed one of the counterfeit bills. Punzel said the youth also passed the altered $20 bills. Sheriffs levy Emergency number wrong in directory To save precious minutes in an emergency, Sandy residents should change the number of the Poison Infor mation Center in their telephone direc tories. Due to a printing error, the number of the poison inform ation center is incor rect on the inside front cover of the D e ce m b e r 1980 G re sh a m -S a n d y telephone directory The correct number is 225-8968 The center provides emergency help in accidental poisoning or drug over dose cases. The error was discovered last week by a couple who attempted to call the number shown in the book and received no answ er. Since then G eneral Telephone Co has placed a "re fe rra l” on the incorrect number. A referral calls for an operator to respond each tim e the incorrect number is dialed But Mary Grant of the Oregon Poison Control and Drug Information Center 1 OK’d by voters as CCC nixed The three-year, $14.2 m illio n serial levy for sh e riff’s services in Clackamas County was approved Tuesday by a vote of 10,735 - 9,165. advises residents to make the correc tion in their telephone books before an emergency arises "O r they can call here, state that it is a non-emergency call and ask us to m ail them a Mr. Yuck sticker w ith our telephone number on it, which they can place right on their phone or in their phone books," Grant said. For residents of the Sandy and Hoodiand fire districts with a drug overdose or poisoning emergency, c a ll ing the 9-1-1 emergency telephone number w ill get emergency personnel dispatched to the home of the caller. Russ P alm er, custom er service manager for General Telephone Co., described the printing e rror as unfor tunate. "especially because i t ’s right there on the front cover in the list of emergency numbers.” He added that the operator referral w ill remain on the incorrect number for the life of the cur rent directory. At the same tim e, voters rejected money measures for Clackamas Com m unity College totalling more than $30 m illion. Sheriff Paul M cA llister had said that improved law enforcement services for o u tly in g are a s, such as Sandy, Hoodiand and Boring, were tied to the levy’s passage. The levy w ill allow the department to add 24 positions to the sta ff and im prove records and com puter systems. This levy w ill be tied to the two other s h e r i f f ’ s le v ie s a p p ro v e d la s t November to complete a $23 m illion fiscal package. M cA llister said passage of the serial levy w ill allow the sh e riff’s department to again focus on drug tra ffic, fraud, auto theft and crim e prevention. Experts seek quake information from locals The earthquake that rattled Sandy and much of the Northwest F riday night did little more locally than cause some curious excitement among the residents Yet, scientists at the U niversity of Washington are hoping to learn more about the earth shakers and their ef fects by gathering the impressions of the quake from people who felt it throughout the region. In Sandy, the quake touched off just one alarm system, according to Police Chief Fred Punzel, and that was the sum total of the excitement However uneventful the earthquake may have appeared to be, the scientists still want individual's reactions to the earthquake which measured higher on the Richter scale than the trem or that preceded the May 18 eruption ol Mount St Helens last spring. Scientists at the Washington school want anyone who felt the quake to w rite them and tell them where they were and how* it felt. What the scientists want to know in cludes your location during the earth quake, right down to the address, the effect it had on the people present, and the number of people who were awakened or frightened by the quake. Scientists are also seeking inform a tion about related sounds you may have heard as the quake occurred ; a descrip tion of earth noises and physical effects and damages, and other effects on buildings, hanging objects, small ob jects. furniture, piaster walls and win dows. Finally, scientists are interested in damage to structural elements of brick and wood, and whether damage was slight, moderate or great. They say the inform ation w ill be gathered after any future earthquake. To send your experiences, w rite : Seismologist. Geophysics Program AK50, University of Washington, Seat tle. 98105 The levy w ill cost approxim ately 79 cents per $1,000 assessed property valuation, according to the sheriff The owner of a $50,000 home w ill pay about $39 50. Two-alarm blaze guts mountain inn A two-alarm fire extensively damaged the kitchen and upper story of the historic Zig Zag Inn, a log structure located on Highway 26, early Sunday morning. The firs t alarm sounded at 1:18 a m., according to Hoodiand Fire Chief Don A rm introut In addition to three engines and two tankers which responded from the Hoodiand Fire D istrict, an engine and a tanker from the Sandy Fire D istrict were also sent to battle the blaze A rm introut said the fire was brought under control at 1 58 a m " I t was a stubborn fire to fig h t,” the chief reported The blaze broke out in the kitchen, where grease burst into flame When the burning pan was set off the stove, the fire spread to the rest of the kitchen, according to A rm in trout The chief said the fire spread to the beams between the kitchen ceiling and the flooring material of the upper story Both floor and ceiling had to be torn out to make sure the fire was extinguished. The owner, M e rrill B a rtru ff of Zigzag, said the building was constructed in 1927, and he has considered asking the National Register of Historic Places to include the inn in its listings. Most of the inner and outer walls of the building are traditional log construction Some of the logs were singed during the fire, but the prim a ry damage was done to the celing area in the kitchen. B a rtru ff said that repairs w ill be completed in one to two weeks by Smithwood, Inc of M ilwaukie Represen tatives of the building firm estimated that repairs would cost approximately 110,000 B a rtru ff has been operating the inn for 21 years He said that during the early stages of the fire, " I thought I'd lost the building ” The owner praised the quick response of the Hoodiand F ire D istrict "They were right here," he said, " and they stayed until they were sure it wouldn't start again." County officials complain of budget woes Increasing population, a rising crim e rate, overcrowded conditions at the county ja il and budget cuts are taking their toll on Clackamas County's ab ility to provide adequate police protection and court services That news was given to County Com missioners Stan Skoko and Ralph Groener by five officials representing the county’s justice system in an in fo r mal meeting last week The five — D istrict Attorney J,m O le a ry , Sheriff Paul McAllister. Com m unity C orrection D ire cto r T e rry Gassaway. Juvenile Corrections D irec tor Don Welch and Court Adm inistrator Jim Shofner - painted dismal pictures of their departments, focusing much a t tention on the ja il issue, "O ur prison system is crowded to the point that we re in real trouble." sad O ’Leary. To relieve the problem, crim inals are serving relatively short amounts of their prison terms before being paroled, he said "When a five-year term only means serving 90 days, when a 10-year term means eight months and when a 20-year term means 18 months, your prison system is no longer a deterrent to crim e ,” O'Leary said He told commis sioners during an inform al "state of the county” work session in January that many of the released crim inals end up back in ja il for repeat offenses. "When a guy is making $100.080 a year in drug tra ffic and is able to bounce out (of prison) in eight months, you tell me whether the cost to him is that great compared to the money he m akes," O’Leary said Compounding the problem is the re m SS m m E m m L cent increase in more serious crimes in the county, he said Felony cases pro secuted by his office increased by 28 percent in 19«) compared to a 5 5 per cent jum p in 1979 Misdemeanor cases increased by 23 percent, down from a 46 percent increase in 1979, he said. The result of early parole from lesser offenders and more felonies is that the county ja il has a higher percentage of felons, which causes its own problems, O’Leary said. Because of overcrowded c o n d itio n s at the Oregon State Penintentiary and Oregon Correctional Institution the stMc -’ -»n-nt be looked at for help, he said Problems are s im ila r in juvenile cor- reel ions, said director W elch The juvenile court recorded a 10 per cent increase in law violations ui 1980 he said Because of budget restrictions, the juvenile department lost one staff member, however, he said Overcrowded conditions at state juvenile institutions, which are being contested in a court suit, mean counties are having to look at alternatives, such as local or regional correctional facilities, he said The county received $485,000 in state funds last year for local correctional activities "and, by and large, it's saving our bacon." he said The idea for local correctional fa cilitie s.su ch as ha lfw a y houses located in suburbs, is part of a "grow ing. controversial movement" to ad dress juvenile and adult corrections problems in the nation, he said. C om m unity Corrections D irector Gassaway noted that his department would probably see a 20 percent reduc tion in state comm unity corrections funding But those services are going to come under greater demand as more prison inmates are paroled The effect of increased crim inal ac tiv ity on the courts is also a depressing one. said Court A dm inistrator Hofner. Both crim inal and c iv il cases increase annually, putting a squeeze on court tim e, he said The CCC operating levy, which would have cost taxpayers $1.14 per $1,000 assessed p ro p e rty va lu a tio n , was defeated 9,476 — 7,276. A second levy for capital construction, costing 39 cents per $1,000, was also defeated, 9,862 - 4,891 Constructions which w ill now be tabl ed with the levy’s defeat include an in dustrial occupations building, a learn ing resource center, remodeling of McLoughlin Hall and of student and col lege services space and an off-campus center in North Clackamas County. CCC President John Hakanson had said that the combined levy amount of $149 was less than the currently authorized rate of $1 60 which has never been fully levied "The college is already suffering a shortage of space," Hakanson said "W e need to move on w ith our long range plans for construction We just don't have the luxury of stopping ” Since 1970, the full-tim e student equivalent has doubled at the school to 4,000 Student population is expected to increase by at least 50 percent in the coming decade Index SECTION I Keeping Posted ....................... Senior Center News................ Inside the Church ................... Obituaries ................................ School Menus.......................... E ditorials, Letters .................. 3 3 4 4 5 6 Commissioner Groener told the of ficials that he is "fru s tra te d " by the "cornucopia of money going into correc tions every year with no end in sight " SECTION II Area News................................. 1 Around the County .................. 2 About People ........................... 3 Classified Advertising ........ 10-12 "M aybe we’d better slop right here and totally reverse our thinking I ’ve got to p r o v id e fu n d s to o th e r program s,” Groener said "W erespen ding too many of our damn dollars civilizing crim inals ” Sports, R e c re a tio n ................ 1-3 Television Directory Inside Tab SECTION II I *
