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Vacation B-Ball Vacation school page 7, section 1 Vol. 71 page 1, section II No 26 Striale Copy 20* Mt. Hood climbing expedition ends in tragedy J by MICHAEL P. JONES The bodies of four mountain climbers were removed Monday from the nor them slope of Mount Hood in the wake of the worst climbing accident in history on the 11,235 foot peak Sunday afternoon. A fifth climber in the 17-member par ty died Sunday night in a Portland hospital and five other climbers were hospitalized. Dead are George Anderson. 4H, of Damascus who was the leader of the climbing party; Jim Darby. 35. of Newberg, Garth Wescott. 35 of Bend; Uarry Young, 30. of Corvallis, and Leah Klaudt Lorenson, 30, of Vancouver, Wash , who died at Portland Adventist Hospital after being airlifted from the mountain. mountain. She She suffered suffered a a heart heart attack attack climbing at 10:40 p m Hardman, who has been involved in Chief Deputy Don Hardman, of the rescue operations since 1959, called the Hood River County Sheriff’s Depart area “ dangerous " ment, told The Post that Anderson, the " I f you fall from any given area on lead climber, slipped or fell about 2 the north side, you fall onto the Elliott p m from the steep slope of the Cooper Glacier," he said " I t ’s like a funnel It Ridge Trail near Elliott Glacier “ which just sweeps you through " pulled down the other climbers who David R Turple, 51, of Portland, and were all roped together 17-year-old Bill Pilkenton of Newberg "They dropped 1,200 to 1,500 feet died June 6 in a sim ilar accident in the through a snow field filled with rocks," same area While the pair was descen Hardman said “ With the lead climber ding from the summit, Pilkenton fell roped in with the rest when he fell, it and Turple tried to block him just dominoed the others ” With four persons dead, another in Hardman said that 13 of the critical condition and four more in 17 member party fell from the Cooper jured, John Richard Goss, 20, of Spur, but could not explain how the four Portland, who was also involved in the remaining persons were not swept fall, climbed down the mountain until down onto Elliott Glacier which ran he met other climbers coming up north of the area from which they were Cooper Ridge They returned to Cloud Cap Inn and notified the Hood River Sheriff’s Department with a radio on the premises According to Sheriff Robert Lynch, in charge of the rescue operations, his of fice received the call around 3:15 p m and immediately headed for Cloud Cap Inn to set up a command post He criticized early media reports that confused the Mount Hood incident with a n o th e r in c id e n t Sunday on Washington's Mount Rainier in which 11 climbers were killed by an avalan che He said rescuers “ were aware of what they were dealing with from the very beginning " Lynch said three helicopters from the 304th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, the National Ski Patrol, as well as the Crag Rats, the Alpinees and the Moresco search and rescue teams assisted in the operation Hampered by high winds and heavy cloud cover, the injured were airlifted from the mountain by dark Sunday They were taken by helicopters to The Dalles General Hospital, Hood River M em orial Hospital and Adventist Hospital and Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center in Portland The hospitalized were Jan Young, 29, of Corvallis; Jack Bohl. 29. of Portland. Susan Cox, 39, of Portland; Bob Vreeland. 36. of Portland, and Goss Early Monday morning, a ground team left Cloud Cap Inn at 6 a m The last body was recovered from the mountain by l a m The operation was accomplished by "manpower and guts alone." said one sheriff's office representative Budget set; council OK’s adjustments Hardman, who fielded calls from media nationwide, emphasized that bad conditions and accidents never closed the mountain off." "Caution and awareness are the things you live with when you climb the mountain," he said " I t can kill both in the dead of w inter and in the middle of summer with no snow on the rocks." Sheriff Lynch said, "Climbers must lx* prepared and have the proper ex perience for what they are attempting to do If not their own experience, then the proper experience in their party. But. even then anything can still hap pen." Dr. Chris Mackert. president of the Mazama Club, said all 17 climbers in the party were experienced inoun taineers Local schools try 3 ballots again Tuesday bv DAN DILLON The city of Sandy budget for fiscal 1981 82 is finalized Following some minor fine tuning to incorporate a higher-than-expected cash carryover, the Sandy City Council Monday evening gave its stamp of ap proval to the $2,056,394 document. The cash carryover from the current fiscal year was approximately $40,000 more than ( ity Manager Roger Jordan had anticipated At the same time, however, the city lost $21,819 from an ticipated CETA reimbursements forced by Reagan administration cuts Those cuts w ill cost the city the equivalent of one and one half posi tions With nearly $20,000 in excess, Jordan distributed those monies in the budget. Unbudgeted fringe benefit increases received $10,000, police overtime and court time. $5,000; the library person nel account, $2,000, and the contingency fund, $3,000 That raised the contingency fund to $44,678 and Jordan told the council that that fund is particularly important Failure to have a good beginning cash balance means you have re a l problems,” he said “ If we lost our beginning cash balance, we could be in a world of hurt " He warned the council that while the budget looks “ rosy," the beginning cash balance is necessary for operation of the city “ Hopefully, we can carry the majority of the contingency over to next year for a begming cash balance. ’ Jordan said He told the council that federal and state revenue sharing are both “ up a lit Oscar and Felix bring their antics as The odd Couple" to the Sandy Community tle " The federal money w ill go toward Theatre on I rector Boulevard next Friday. July 3. kicking off a three-weekend equipment replacement and paying for a sander The slate monies are targeted for parks and parkway improvements rhe council also saved the city some money Monday evening when it approv ed purchase of lia b ility insurance through City County Insurance Ser vices, a group formed through the by M ICHAEL P. JONES League of Oregon Cities and the A resident living near the develop Association of Oregon Counties. The ment reported that he saw a pumper The investigation into who was plan was written specifically for the truck backed up to the waterfall area needs of cities responsible for the sewage spills at Rip and thought it was “ going to go off the pling River and how they occurred The annual premium on the new edge." policy will be $16.455 I^ast year, the city seems to have become clouded by According to Dan Bush, soils scientist paid more than $30.000 for liability in regulatory agencies lacking funding with Clackamas County Environmental surance and manpower to do the job Services Department which has begun I he savings won't have a major im When the byproducts of a spill or its own investigation, he was more pact on the 1981-82 budget, however, deliberate "dum ping" were discovered pessimistic than o ptim istic about because the insurance payments are along a small waterfall just below six discovering who is really at fault broken down in five separate funds 5.000 gallon sewage tanks near the "We are not going to get very far to "There's not any big boon to any one development, the Department of En be honest. " Bush said "We need hard, fund," Jordan said Tuesday, “ but it will vironmental Quality <DEQ> threatened undeniable facts like a photograph or to fine the developers help out. The plan appears to be better eyewitnesses which we just don't than what we've had in the past and i t ’s In fact, after Dick Wixon of DEQ in have " cheaper." itially investigated the spills, he warn A ccording to Robert Hornsby, The city's agent of record. George ed Rippling River personnel that they superintendent at the Sandy Sewage Morgan of Sandy, presented the city must notify his office if a spill ever oc Treatment Plant which has a sewage with a pair of policies to choose from curred again or they would be subject treatment agreement with the develop The other policy, from Transamehca to a fine Now. however, lacking fun ment, he has had problems in the past Insurance, was for $18,378 84 ding and manpower, the investigation treating sewage from Rippling River In other action, the council: has halted that actually did not come from the A closer examinatin of the spill area — Granted Jordan a merit increase in development." raised questions because of the large his salary and commended him for his In a letter written to Rippling River job as city manager, based on its quantities of restaurant or kitchen officials Dec 8, 1980. Hornsby said the evaluation of his actions * We re very grease found in the area Rippling treatment plant had "recently ex pleased with the work you’re doing and River does not have large quantities of penenced the discharge of a large the way the city is operating," Council grease flow ing into its tanks and some volume of burnt grease into our believe the spill might have been "m id President Deane Wesselink told Jor system However. I am confident that dan night dumping." the grease did not come from your Photo by Sanrti Pnulala run. Hank Fmrich. left, plays Oscar, the incurable slob. Glen Dickman is Felix his impeccably clean roommate. The opening night performance begins at x p m Sandy's two school districts take their B ballot proposals to the voters this Tuesday, June 30 For the Sandy Elementary School District, the vote represents the final attempt to salvage several existing pro grams For the Sandy Union High School District, the vote offers an opportunity to counter a projected shortfall in state revenues The elementary school district's B' ballot was defeated initially in March. A proposed $160,000 kindergarten pro gram was eliminated, but the ballot went down again in May Under state law, Tuesday’s vote is the last time the district can present a •R ballot to the voters this year If approved, the $198,000 ballot would provide funding for the talented and gifted program, after school athletics and activities, outdoor school, guidance and counseling services for grades 16, Sandy Community School program, the purchase of two school buses and a grounds maintenance tractor, and im provements to the aquatic center If the levy passes, district patrons w ill pay an estimated $8 25 per $1,000 assessed valuation The high school district, on the other hand, is making its first attempt to pass a B ballot since the May approval of its 'A' ballot Its $355,296 proposal would buffer against projected losses in state monies and provide $96,000 for renovation of an art room, hiring a guidance counselor, library improvements, athletic field improvements and a new school bus Unlike the elementary district, the high school district can approach voters again in September if it fails this time Rippling River investigation clouded system ” Hornsby said because the treatment plant is set up to process fresh sewage only, when old sewage is discharged in to the system, problems can develop In the case of the burnt grease, it took two full days over a weekend t clean up ap pro xim a tely 800 pounds of "o ld restaurant grease" that got into the system . In the same letter, Hornsby also com plained that the deve lo pm e nt’s "sewage hauler," Schulz Sanitary Ser vice of Portland, was delivering sewage d u rin g u n a u th o riz e d hou rs, on weekends and holidays, which did not allow the plant workers the opportunity to observe what wa being discharged into the system He emphasized that new controls were going to be instituted in order to "have better control over this m atter." "While I am in no way implying that any commercial hauler is dishonest," Hornsby wrote, the present arrange ment certainly presents the opportunity to be." Shortly after Rippling River officials were notified of the stricter controls. Schulz Sanitary Service stopped haul ing for the development Cascade Sep tic Service of Estacada took over the pumping operations Dei 18, 1980 He-nsby says that since Cascade took over the operation there has been no grease or old sewage processed from the development Bush said the possibility that Rippl mg River s holding tanks were being used for disposal of sewage from other holding tanks or residential septic systems exists He said the develop ment may have had sewage pumped d irectly into their holding tanks through the cap on the pumping riser Bush said that most people have little reason to question where their sewage goes after it's pumped, leaving it up to the pumper to properly dispose of it Sewage is out of sight, out of m ind," he said " I t ’s a headache that’s expen sive The priority of sewage is the lowest in peoples mir.ds It does n t become a priority until i t ’s a problem " Bush would not say that Rippling River is not at fault for the spills because DEQ has held fast on their fin dings But, he did say, all new informa tion would be turned over to DEQ and this "could be a case where Rippling River is an innocent victim, and they may not know it." He commended the development's of ficials for cleaning up the spill and cooperating w(th the investigation According to Clackamas County of ficials, a cap on line leading to the pump station that had been related to at least two of the spills was mortared to prevent future problems a Index SECTION 1 Keeping Posted Senior Center News Obituaries Editorials. Letters Sports, Recreation . SECTION II Area News.. About People... Around the County Bits it Pieces ., What’s Cooking Hoodland Happenings Classified Advertising 3 $ s • ..7 -8 1 2 ........3 4 6 ........7 11-14
