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S A N D Y (Or® ) POST Thur*
May 21
1981 (S®r
I)
Road project in phases
eruption staged on Hood
One year after the eruption of
Mount St Helens, Mount Hood
erupted Monday, killing 12 people
and sending pyroclastic flows down
the Sandy River
On paper at least
The mock eruption was staged
Monday
the first anniversary of
the devastating Mount St Helens
blast
to test the Mound Hood In
teragency Volcanic Coordination
Plan A three day scenario was
crammed into one day as represen
tatives from some 35 government
agencies packed a small command
post in the US Forest Service’s
Mount Hood National Forest head
quarters in Gresham
The plan was developed last sum
mer, partly because of the eruption
of Mount St Helens and partly
because of seismic activity recorded
on Mount Hood last July The federal
grant that financed the plan re
quired it be tested within one year
As the exercise began Monday
morning, the agencies were aware
of volcanic activity on the 11,245 foot
Mount Hood and established an in
formation center to carry out a
hazard watch
And then at 10 04 a m it happen
ed
Seismographs on the mountain in
dicated the peak had erupted, sen
ding an ash plume some 30,000 feet
into the sky and disintigrating a lava
dome in the crater
Pyroclastic flows were expected
down the slopes of Mount flood, flow
mg into the Sandy, Zigzag and Little
Zigzag rivers
< louds obscured the mountain so
airplanes could not be sent to con
firm th<* information, according to
the exercise
There is something major going
on on Mount Hood," said Chris
Newall of the US. Geological
Survey, the agency which drafted
the scenario
Quickly the map-lined room buzz-
ed as officials phoned other agencies
to alert them A variety of informa
tion began to pour into the center
Weather forecasts, wind direction
and speed, and more passed from
person to person Hourly updates
Jake Olson handles telephone during mock eruption Monday
provided more information on the
peak
The second •‘day" began after
lunch.
The mountain's eruptive stage
was pretty well over, said Anne
Heisler, Forest Service spokesper
son Participants learned all the
bridges crossing the Sandy River
down as far as the Stark Street
Bridge near Troutdale
had been
lost making several populated areas
inacessible The Bull Run conduits
than supply water to Portland also
were destroyed, leaving Portland
with only the water stored in its
reservoirs
On the third "d ay," most of the
search and rescue was completed
The ash plume started blowing
south Roadblocks and the emergen
cy center were in place, Heisler
When improvements to
Tupper Road begin this sum
mer. the project will follow
the lead of earlier Sandy
street improvements and be
done in a phased approach
The Sandy City Council
Monday night gave its ap
proval to the plan because
the money is not available to
do the entire project im
mediately
As a result, the street will
be improved to 24 feet from
Highway 211 to 300 feet past
Sandy Heights Street where
curbs already exist At some
future date, the city and
county will widen the road to
32 feet and add a curb and
sidewalk on one side
Cost of the first phase will
be $110,1X8), according to
Nawzad
O thm an,
a
representative of Marx &
< hase,
the
G resham
engineering firm in charge
of the project
I he city, in cooperation
w ith Clackamas County
Department of Environmen
tal Services, received a
Community Blink Grant for
$105,(88) to improve the road
The county at that time in-
» hv K .1 Sin
said,
I th ink on the whole we
discovered it worked pretty w ell,"
Heisler said after the exercise
I he d rill revealed several areas of
internal communication that need
sprucing up, such as making sun*
everyone in the communications
center knows what is happening Of
ficials also realized that in a real
situation as much information would
be coming into the center as was be
mg sent out, Heisler said
I here also needs to he a person to
assess information as it arrives and
make necessary decisions about how
It should be used and its validity she
said
Heisler said the USGS labeled the
mock eruption "middle of the road,
it wasn t the worst possible nor the
easiest "
/ ri-Met set
to equip fleet
with radios
By May of 1982, Tri Met's
entire fleet will be equipped
with two-way radios and bus
dispatchers will have much
of their paperwork done for
them by automated equip
ment
The contract calls for all
components of the system to
be in place within 52 weeks
Each bus operator will have
the ability under the new
system to signal the dispat
cher silently when there is
an emergency situation re
quiring law enforcement of
ficials or medical techni
cians The radio units will
also allow the dispatcher to
know when a bus encounters
a
m a jo r
m e c h a n ic a l
malfunction
SUHS graduation W ednesday
The Cottreli School Board
meets at 8 p m in Room 3 in
the Fast Building
Friday, .May 22
Join ( arol DeLude in a
free swinging Friday Fling,
to u rin g
P o r tla n d s
Washington Park Rose and
Japanese Gardens Meet at 9
a m at the Sandy Communi
ty School for carpooling
The Timber Valley league
District Track Meet con
venes at Sandy High School’s
track at II a m
C liffs id e
C em etery
Association meets at 7 p m
m the basement of Sandy
Community Presbyterian
Church for the election of a
board member
Saturday. May 23
A work day is scheduled at
C liffside Cemetery. For
more in fo rm a tio n , c a ll
668-458»
The Timber Valley League
District Track Meet gets
underway at Sandy High
School's track at 12:30 p m
"Your Community—Keep
ing It All Together,” a
potluck at the Sandy Com
mumty Center scheduled for
today, has been postponed It
will be rescheduled in the.
fall
Monday. May 25
Today is Memorial Day
Tuesday, May 26
Hoodland Women’s Aglow
Fellowship celebrates its
sixth anniversary at the Red
Lion Inn at * Bowman's in
Welches with an 11 30 a m
luncheon
Sandy Union High School
will host Baccalaureate at
7 : 30 p m in the gymnasium
Wednesday, May 27
The Sandy TOPS (Taking
Off Pounds Sensibly) Club
meets at 9 a m in the Sandy
Community Action Center
The Sandy Union High
School Class of 1981 will hold
its
Com m encem ent
ceremony at 7 p m at Ran
now Stadium In the event of
inclem ent w eather, the
ceremony will be held in the
school gymnasium
Thursday, .May 28
Sen Mark Hatfield will ad
dress the Sandy Chamber of
Commerce at 12 noon at the
Tollgate Inn, in lieu of the
regular Tuesday luncheon
meeting Reservations may
be made by calling the
Chamber office, 668 4006
The Sandy Golden Age
( lub w ill host its semi
monthly potluck at 12 noon at
the Sandy Senior Center
The Sandy Design Review
Board meets at 7 30 p m in
the Sandy City Hall
I he Rebekah Ixidge meets
at 8 p m a, the I () () F Hall
D e a n e W e s s e lin k . o w n e r
Due to staff changes and
the impending vacation
season, "Your Community:
Keeping it all together”
potluck, scheduled for this
Saturday, May 23, at the
Sandy Community Center
will be postponed until fall
I he event, sponsored by
the Center and Sandy Com
m um ty School, w ill be
rescheduled and dates and
times announced
.
3 3 y e a rs e x p e rie n c e
Complete Automotive Repairs:
Ernest M. Cox
F u n e ra l s e rvice s fo r
Ernest M erritt Cox. former
ly of lion ng. were held Tues
day in the chapel of Carroll
Funeral Home in Gresham.
He died May 15 at a Portland
hospital He was 82
Born March 1», 1899. at
Eureka. Kan . he attended
Manhattan State College in
Manhattan, Kan He mar
ried Clara Ida Whipple in
November 1919 at Sappolpa.
ok la She has since died
In 1944 he moved to Trout
dale where he was employed
as a pot tender at Reynolds
Metals Co He retired after
more than 25 years service
Mr Cox was a member of
the United Steel Workers
DIET
CENTER
&
THE LAST
WEIGHT-LOSS
PROGRAM
YOU'LL EVER
NEED.
Union.
He is survived by four
sons, Charlie of Sandy,
Richard and Ernest, both of
Troutdale, and Robert of
Kennewick, Wash ; seven
daughters. Patricia Gasser
of Sandy, Betty Winchester
and Marilou Collins, both of
Troutdale. Thelma Walker
of Gresham. Alberta Net
tleton of Reno. Nev , Terry
l^arson of Camas. Wash .
and Joan Moyer of Van
couver. Wash ; a brother.
Wayne of Eureka, Kan , 25
grandchildren, and 20 great
grandchildren
Private interment was at
Douglass Cemetery
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Potluck nixed
Deane’s Auto Repair
Obituaries
Gresham Alarm
Tri Met recently awarded
the two way radio contract
Io Motorola Corporation of
Illinois
Keeping Posted:
Thursday, May 21
dicated it would inmprove a
street However, topography Roger Jordan to prepare a
28-foot section along Tupper
and right of way limits pre
staff report reviewing the
Road, which is a county road
vent that from occurring,
minutes of the Off-Street
inside the city limits as Tup
along with the gross ex Parking Committee which
per Road is.
pense.
formulated the off street
U n fo rtu n a te ly ,
the
Thus, the project was parking ordinances
county's road budget was
dropped to a 32 foot improve
A question has been raised
slashed and the city was
ment which will allow two
regarding the feasibility of
notified that the Department
way traffic and parking on making the vacant lot west
of Environmental Services
one side
of News' Union 76 station a
could no longer participate
In other action, the city
parking lot for the station
in the project, in terms of ac council.
However, because of cost,
tual cash outlay.
Awarded a hid for a new
the property owner is pro
The city agreed to transfer
backhoe to Case Power and
posing that the lot be gravel
its Community Block Grant
Equipment for $16,6(11 34
ed, rather covered with
Eunds to the county so some
—Asked City Manager
asphalt
im provem ents could be
made The city w ill not take
over the street until either
the county or city have the
total funds necessary to
BURGLAR
FIRE
make the improvements
SECURITY ALARMS
Ixist year, the Community
B lock G ran t p ro g ra m
a llocated an a d d itio n a l
$35.000 to the Tupper Road
improvement project, hut
— —--------------------------------------Inc.
$140,0(8) still would not pay
39373
Proctor, P.O. Box 40
for the entire project, so the
phased approach was in
668-5016 or 666*5200
itiated
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The Sandy comprehensive
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F R E E ZE R
plan o rigin ally indicated
that Tupper Road would
C IR C U IT T .V .
ALARM S
become a 40 foot collector
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(Eipires lune I, 1981)
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