The Sandy Post
Von B roschier, P ublisher
C a ro lin e Duff, O ffic e M a n a g e r
Editorial & Opinion
SANDY, OREGON
Dan D illo n . Editor
Scott N e w to n N ews Editor
THURSDAY OCTOBER 1. 1981
Fight cold economy like cold war
It’s nice to see a community hud
dle together in cold times. That ap
pears to be the picture in Sandy, as
the chamber of commerce and
merchant association meet now to
see how Sandy can weather the
economy.
Inflation and recession have
taken their toll everywhere, of
course, particularly Oregon where
timber and home building have
been important. Even a boom area
like Eugene now reports double
digit unemployment, and Salem
leaders are preparing large tracts
of land to lure new industry needed
there.
Times are tough all over, and lit
tle mom-and-pop businesses like
those in Sandy often are ill-
equipped financially to weather the
winters.
Sandy business persons are
holding hands for group strength
now and campaigning to convince
the rest of the community the
economy isn’t half as bad as people
think People are over-reacting to a
sluggish economy and tight financ
ing, they reason, and it’s best to
look old man winter in the eye and
laugh.
The huddled merchants see this
as a good chance to strengthen
home shopping and develop new
rapport with their neighbors, who
can’t afford to drive down the
highway to a mall uhere goods are
no cheaper anyway. They see this
as an opportunity to tell their story
in black and white and sell their
prices and selection. What’s no
doubt coming from their brain
storming session last week is a
“ Sandy has it’’ public relations
campaign. It's no phoney line,
either. They mean it.
It makes good sense dollars and
cents to think that way, too,
whether you’re a struggling m er
chant or a housewife looking for a
way to put real meat on the table.
Consider that every dollar that
goes through a store cash register
in your community changes hands
a minimum of six times. That’s a
multiplying factor of six, which
means the town is six times richer
as a whole every time a fresh dollar
turns over somewhere in town
Dollars grow like snowballs roll
ing down a hill (’are to built a
snowman with a sneer? < VB)
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Billboards on mailvans no solution
The debt-ridden Postal Service
has concocted a great new schem e'
to make a buck Uncle Sam’s mail
vans will carry advertising on their
appointed rounds, if study deter
m ines enough cash can be
generated from such com m er
cialization.
The prostitution of mailmen isn't
limited to billboards on vans in the
proposal, however. Mailboxes,
backs of stamps and other high-
visibility spots would lx» exploited,
too, to help hold down postage
rates.
Other ad spaces the government
might sell includes postal meter
s tr ip s , s ta m p bo o k lets and
postmarks, which already carry
such non commercial slogans as
“Give Blood.”
Public reaction to Marlboro Men
on vans and Jack Daniels decals on
stamps is sought If you agree the
government shouldn’t venture into
commercial hustling of products,
drop a note to W.L. Davidson Jr.,
Customer Serices D epartm ent,
US. Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant
Plaza West S.W., Washington, D.C.
20260. Or drop him a note, even if
you think the plan’s great. After
all, it’s still your government and
your money. < VB »
Try a limited ‘psnxtf war
Once upon a time in The Beautiful Green
Valley where the wildflowers grew, the
leader of the Goodguys invented an in
genious new concept- the limited Psnxtl
war
Now, Psnxtls were fruminous beasts with
poisonous breaths and voracious appetites
A mednum sized Psnxtl could gobble up half
a million people before breakfast without so
much as a polite belch
Both the Goodguys and the Badguys had
been breeding Psnxtls for years Each side
had thousands and thousands of Psnxtls
The Goodguys said they had to have Psnxtls
because the Badguys had Psnxtls And the
Badguys said they had to have Psnxtls
because the Goodguys had Psnxtls
But both sides were very, very careful to
keep their Psnxtls locked up Eor each side
figured that if it released any of its Psnxtls,
the other side would release all of its Psnx
tls And everybody would get eaten up
So for 30 years, the Goodguys and the
Badguys lived more or less at peace And
the Psnxtls waited
Then one day, the leader of the Goodguys
said. What good s a Psnxtl if you can’t use
it? ’ And his generals said. And what
good s a war if you can’t win it’’ "
“ Wait a minute," said the leader “ What
if we trained some of our Psnxtls to eat up
just their Psnxtls and their leaders and not
all their people’ That way, if they get uppi
ty. we can teach them a thing or three ’’
“ And we could win a war again*“ said the
generals, happily rubbing their hands
Thus was the concept of the limited Psnxtl
war born
Sure enough, sooner or later, the leader of
the Badguys got mad and called the leader
of the G oodguys “ a p u ffle headed
numblewit ’’
“Honey, why did you call this light a !?* ! idea?”
Letters to the editor:
‘Scam,’ nucs, blood draw mail
Buyer, beware
W'e would lik«» information
concerning the unauthorized
selling of household property
belonging to K a th e rin e
Nephew at Hood Chalet
Mobile Court. 17655 SE Bluff
Hoad No 66, Sandy on the
evening of 9-23-81
W’e will refund purchase
price if you call 666 913» or
667 3252
W’e have filed a theft com
plaint and would like to
m ake recovery as soon
possible
JoAnn Wohlford
Kay Petersen
public as to the critical shor
tage of units of blood for
operations. It seems that
generally when a shortage
occurs, units of blood are
reserved for em ergency
operations only Operations
that can be delayed such as
those in chronic illness will
rescheduled by the patient’s
doctor for a later date Of
c o u rs e
d e la y in g
such
surgery can raise many sup
positions usually leading to a
lot of extra worrying by the
patient
Give bkxxl
W'e are very fortunate to
be in a Red Cross Service
A rea ra th e r than in a
Private Blood Bank Area as
the latter service costs the
patient substantially more
Many p«»ople have heard
announcements on the local
TV stations informing the
Becoming a blood donor is
a unique human transaction
Only humans can make this
life saving fluid The only
reason for giving blood is to
support the survival of so
meone else We urge you to
take some time out of your
schedule on Eriday, Oct 2
and meet some new friends
at the Sandy High Blood
Drive.
Your help is needed!
Stan Bowman
Area Blood Coordinator
‘Stop nucs’
I must add my voice to
those calling for the termina
tion, not mothballing, of WP
PSS ecnomic disasters No 4
and N o. 5
E c o n o m ic
realities dictate these planks
will not be completed unless
“ ie g io n a liza tio n " by the
federal BPA occurs Study
after study shows we are far
better off to stimulate con
servation and renew able
resources than continuing
these nuclear lemons
C ertain public u tilitie s
should resist an offer by the
aluminum industry of $25 to
$40 m illio n towards the
mothballing costs in return
for dro pp ing th e ir suit
against BPA’s new contracts
with this industry These
contracts re stric t BPA's
ability to interruprt power to
the aluminum industry in the
event of a regional power
shortage When a shortage
occurs BPA will be forced to
buy extrem ely expensive
power outside the region to
satisfy the constant and huge
energy requirement of the
aluminum plants The pro
jected subsidy is upwards of
$10 billion over a 20 year
period.
L e t ’s te rm in a te these
lemons now and spread the
sunk costs as equitably as
possible. At the same time
le t’s address the hidden
issue of original federal
responsibility for the entire
Northwest nuclear power
program
While we re at it, let’s take
a second look at nuclear pro
jects No 1, 2 and 3 whose
constructions costs are being
subsidized by all ratepayers
in the regin (in spite of an
Oregon voter approved pro
hibition on such costs) The
billions left to spend could
just as well be spent on cost-
effective conservation and
renewable resources
David McTeague
Salem
Newsman Redford never saw this scene
Sic e m 1 the leader of the Goodguys
told 47 specially trained Psnxtls And off
they eagerly flew They ate up 45 enemy
Psnxtls, all the Badguys' leaders and. being
none to reliable at best, every resident of
Pinsk
Maybe we should apologize to them for
P insk,’ suggested the leader of the
Goodguys nervously
The first thing the generals said was,
Apologize to whom ' The second thing
they said was, “ IN C O M IN G '“
After the Badguys Psnxtls had eaten up
all the Goodguys leaders and every resi
dent of Peoria, the remaining Goodguys
retaliated by unleashing their Psnxtls on
Minsk and East Vladimirvichograd
The remaining Badguys, who definitely
didn t understand the concept of limited
Psnxtl war, struck back by unleashing their
Psnxtls on Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Ee
Then the Goodguys
But the limited Psnxtl war didn't last
forever, of course Eor in scarcely any time
at ail. the voracious Psnxtls had eaten up all
the Goodguys and all the Badguys They
even ate up all the wildflowers, too
Moral leaders may have their limits
But Psnxtls don t
Maybe, it was Robert Redford’s
smile flashing so much larger than
life, right up there on the silver
screen
Maybe, it was the way the girl I'd
paid to go to the movies with me lost
her haughty composure in the
darkened theater and squeezed my
knee when he flashed it
But when I floated out of the
theater that night after watching
“ All the President’s Men," I knew
I'd made the right decision when I
hacked into the romantic journalism
field
Geez, what a life Get up in the
middle of the night to go stand in a
darkened parking garage to get the
goods on Richard Nixon and his gag
gle of tricksters Bring innocent
secretaries to the brink of tears and
dry them away with a well-timed
show of dimple Hang out with guys
like Jason Robards and Dustin Hoff
man, plotting to air out the presi
dent's dirty laundry
Nothing could taint my quest for
that black inked byline
And sure enough, my chance has
come.
Now. I get up in the middle of my
dreams about knocking out I jir r y
Holmes to chase the scoop
Like the night the sawmill burned
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DAN DII I.ON
and shot flames hundreds of yards
into the still night air I was there
In fact, I shot 43 frames of my
best-ever photography before I
realized the camera wasn't loaded
and the fire was out
T h e re w e re o th e r chances,
however, to change lives with what I
wrote
Erstwhile Post Editor M ark Eloyd
and I wrote a lovely series of notes to
a high school columnist at another
weekly newspaper, pretending to be
just the girl for him We carried on
the correspondence for weeks until
he insisted on setting up a rendez
vous
We decided we weren’t that kind of
girl and dropped him from our m ail
ing list
Redford seemed to spend hours
talking in hushed tones on the
telephone, badgering uncooperative
scoundrels out of ounces of informa
tion that could hold his theories
together, like so much verbal super
glue
Now I ’ve discovered “ Reporter's
Phone E a r ’’ is as rampant as
doubleentendres at an office party
It explains why reporters hair
grows shaggier as they advance in
age They 're trying to cover the fact
that their left ear is the size of a
small pizza from all those tips taken
over the phone
I m trying to do my part I take
calls Like from people who call and
ask why they haven't received their
mail in a week
It seems that either telephone
operators can’t distinguish the San
dy Post from the Sandy poet of
fice—which is an understandable e r
ror. telephone static being what it
is or else I've been showing up for
work at the wrong place for the last
two years and no one bothered to tell
me, because they need someone to
sort their m ail anyhow
And newspapers get mail Here at
the Dandy Post. M r and Mrs Sandy
Post or U S Post O ffice- take your
pick, they've all found their way to
my desk - w e get lots of mail and I
like to open it
That way. I get first crack at the
press passes which mean I can do
stuff for free like go to opening night
at the dog races without admission
and watch a good night of beer
money go out the window, riding on
the nose of a hound who finishes first
in the fourth race when he started in
the third
The press pa >ses come, of course,
because their senders know I will
carefully take notes throughout the
evening and write about what a
wonderful time I had and how I think
everyone should go out and lose their
beer money when they could just as
well go out for a beer or twelve in
stead Of course
In the end, even Robert Redford
didn't get the girl, despite his
flashing teeth and w ell tim ed
dimples, but he did get a president
Me. I think I ’ll get to that ringing
phone Maybe I can sell someone a
stamp