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c i io n ''N DIURSDAY OCTOBER 8 I he Sandy Post 1981 Area News People Home & Garden Features < in Eagle Creek mobile home fire 7z * > . A mobile hoiti« ,m resulted h i the Je.ith women and her f 1 \ « • Has It. \ 1 1 Sue \mi H an e y , ’ hush ind Ricky. smoke . ’ ' h Malt Shield- Bonn Tuesday that they ar caused the fin dth> are sure it oeeut t • f ¿■orner «»f the fr« around' ShiehIs, who tn dong m dth th«* 1« d u ll ;>r w*<‘n ar ■ • k n o w t t ie I m s»' o f th e • ot oxtensive dam ages o y nid her son Shane < found together in the tin trailer house by luo io entered the trailer when l>«-<»p|( u t i e still inside ' ‘In ! u im en wen* taking •i ding h i there, and were ' ' tie f lie- out dill Illg the ' iou the\ would not have been able to revive them. Shields said The Boring Eire D epartment took the call at 4 1.» a in , and got to the scene at 4 *4 Shields said that there was a delay in their getting the call as the person making tin* call had to go through the operator to get ahold of them The trailer, a 20 by 45 foot 1965 ABC, was in the Hillcrest Mobile Home Park, lot five, 29200 Judd Hoad The estimated value of the trailer house was put at 16.000 The value of the contents was pu, at $4,000 From talking with Mr Harvey, Shields said that apparently he awoke, possibly having heard children cry ing he wasn't sure what woke him and left the back bedroom and wen, into the middle bedroom, with his wife following him He said the smoke was so thick he couldn't see his hand in front of his face, said Shields, adding that it was “ real hot ” Both children were in one bed, and he grabbed one of them, who turned ou, to be lasa Smith, 6 He broke a window out with his fist, suffering severe lacera tions, and then lowered Lisa ou, the window He reportedly “ took a big gulp of smoke and then dove out the window , thinking his wife would hand the other child out the window He then tried to ge, back in the win dow, but it was a high, small window A neighbor had come ou, by then, and they went to the opposite side of the trailer to a sliding glass door A, that time a “ back draft.“ which is when oxygen enters a super heated at mosphere, caused an explosion Not a violent one, Shields said, but a "whoof” type of explosion. The front of the trailer "from the ceil ing to a foot off the fltx ir" became engulfed When the fire department arrived the front living room walls and the roof had collapsed Shields said an autopsy is being per- formed, but that the probable cause of death was asphyxiation Shields said that new trailers have standards tha, might have prevented as much damage as occurred to the Harveys’ trailer, such as larger studs, which would have resulted in the trailer not collapsing as stxin, and non flammable trim Shields said, "One of the things this brings out is the value of smoke alarms " The trailer might or might not have been destroyed. Shields said, bu, they would have at least have had time to get out "Every second counts on something like that." he addedd A fund has been established for Ricky Harvey and Lisa Smith by the Seventh day Adventist Church in Milwaukie ( ontact G M Richardson, pastor, at 654-1676 or 653-2571, for more informa tion $5,000 fire damages at Govt. Camp By MICHAEL P. JONES Post Correspondent Phot.» i>y Scoti N«*wion II 0111(1 ' 4. Bering runs unique lunch program by SCOTI ' , WTO One of the most umu program s in the stab taking the SUHS job, at ility she visited a few h > » bilious kitchen, (with) equipment you could the pas, five years by Boring, Juanita Shuler During the thri >■ h .lf I shifts at Sandy I'«. i»n dreds of students a it t| ■ a, vending machines tfi.it ot' •« ty of sandwich«- >nd th«* h-- fresh fruit, Jello, i•«•<,•' many other items Ther«* is also a tad i .« There are no standard •• d trays, or the mounds < • fe » thrown away that g > > ith tf •• “Like I’ve said many I o , them good qunltti ,o«’>‘ ■ > i trol what th«*y «•;«,, ’ th«* ■ visor said about the fr< t the students Shuler said that tip r< n«> ,,, how many students e it hin- t, school because there s no > w hen they buy \ ia a n . «1 ■ t* t bu, her gues* is th >t r|>«\ t i cent of Sl'HS - |,?io student Asked if th< stutlenls I \ tional habits, she «aid I ■ part, I think they do Jus, liecause , f s t u d e n t t m through a machine <lo«*sn , u . the process is inip' i- -ii t makes an effort to h e o n th«* times during the Inn h ' ■ •<-. , “ They go through th e r e pr«-t, faster than you eould take .«« through a line.” Shuli r • d ( >f course th e n - a n i But, Shuler said I t| > pt«*,,y p o sitiv e a,»out it “ I think the plus he • is t we offer them T h -« • things ,o c I h ' o e f r o m " And. hop« fully w «• h -, >* s.n here tha, w ill app«- il to n o .... Shuler, wb- worked o » m anagement for over i i v •i want. : . ii d ba, whole operation for ' .........lay ind I found ou, that 1 a re » i,mg the sam e i'n theie a> they are here ” IT bi s, i’n, $,23.5,1 on food and ' v H of tha, amount, the »' id i b< subsidized $I5,(HXI ■■ g..... . ' lin’d “ which is a very i'” n, f isine - ud loan Hay, Sandy manager We run a -' «♦->•• rec«»iv«* any federal •o« v ,"i -' bool lunches or milk A -it biil«*i Hay said, She do»*s a ' • vending machines an* rented s Vending in Portland They * o- h i on duty to leak«* change and pair the machines D ’ di. * nts sometimes pu, their "i - in too , is,, anti the machine • time to count, Shuler said ” more traditional program * * «-(pin «• 1 ho u rs of labor per day , • ’v I ion pi«'giam requires v’ bdl d to Di (Superintendent f 'e t e r s a n d some other people H - I think th-s is the best kind a program to have. ' 1 - 1 -L go ,uid buy what they want, ea, i, and we don', have is thrown away, hardly ever I b mb if d a pretty good contribu- ' ' elf If the kid- aren 't eating it, , orth n awfully lot to them, is -* deilei and another employee start iv i, 6 to m the morning, and she :1 the ’her four kitchen employees I d i< f iv .it various times in the Although Shuler doesn’t ge, every we«*k«*nd and holiday off. she gets more of them off than she used to That was one of the things that lured her to St IIS, she said “ I thought, ‘Gee, it would really be nice to fie able to have some weekends off Being that the school cafeteria is one of the few places locally tha, is able to handle a large number of people, Shuler does work preparing meals, on occa sion, for Eastern Star and St Michael s The kitchen staff prepared ham dinners for 734 recently for St Michael's. “ I enjoy these groups,” Shuler said I’hey appreciate what you do for them and tha, means a lot " Shuler also directs preparations for special staff get-togethers, such as Christmas dinner, and things like the twice-yearly booster club dinner Shuler gets help from two students studying food services who are working for credit “ It’s good experience for them,” Shuler said " I f they wanted to go out and get a part time job in a restaurant or something they’d feel a lot more comfortable. I'm sure, after wha, they’ve been exposed to here.” Shuler, who might order two crates of lettuce and 300 pounds of hamburger in a typical week, or who might have 200 submarine or french dip sandwiches, or 300 slices of pizza, made up for a days’ consumption, not only feels that they have a workable system, but perhaps the most feasible one for their par ticular situation “ This kitchen was set up to ac comodate about 500 students, you know,” she said “ That’s (the vending machines) about the only thing we could do with it, as it is right now anyway.” Shuler, and her husband Jack, have four grown children and six grand children None of them live too far away, so she gets to see them, when she can find the time Women’s Club members express concern about boundary reduction bv Ml< HAEI. P JONES P o s t< orrespondrnt Confusion and anger surfaced at Monday n ight's meeting of the Women s Club over concerns about their lease Concerns were firs, raised after discussions about the boundaries and their exclusion from the proposed city u, Welches at a September meeting of the club A resolution was passed direc ting Linda Fredrickson, recording secretary, to send a letter to the city plan’s originator, Carl Bright, re questing that the club’s buildings, ten nis courts, playground and parking lot, lx» removed from the boundaries Also included in that request was a large trac, of undeveloped land a, the junc tion of Highway 26 and Salmon River Hoad, that was said to have been designated as a park It was believed, a, that time, that this entire area was covered in the club's agreement with the county On Sep, 19, Bright responded to the request in a letter which stated- Please be advised that your request to t»e deleted from the proposed boundary for incorporation, is aekowlcdgcd and will be respected,” However, last week Carolyn Smith of Rhododendron, who serves on the Mountain Community Park Association w hich is attempting to construe, a park on the undeveloped northern tract of the land, discovered that this portion of land was not removed from the city because it was excluded from the club’s lease Also, Smith learned that this acreage, which was believed not to have been dedicated as a park, had indeed been dedicated on Aug 6, 1965 Since March, the Clackamas County Park Department and the Clackamas County Commissioners have maintain ed that it was undedieat«*d and their records reflect it as such A Sandy Post article on the front page of the Aug 12. 1965 issue, carried a story on the park's dedication as well as a photograph of the dignitaries in at tendence “ Hoodland Park becomes the 9th recreational park in the county to be dedicated,” said the article " I t is located on the new Salmon River road and commands a view of majestic Mt. Hood in the background The park is a jo in t venture sponsored by the Hoodland W om en’s C lub and Clackamas County Commissioners Stan Ely, Stan Skoko and Darrell Jones ” Women’s Club President Renee Knapp said that she spoke with Dan Zinzer of the park department to clear up the confusion, but said tha, he could not give her any reason why the dedica tion of the area was not in their records Knapp said that the lease she signed July I had the entire 11 5 acres in the agreement She claimed that after it left her hands and was mailed to the commissioners for their signature, the area was reduced She said that the county disputed this, and maintained that the lease she had signed had this same reduced boundary. Fredrickson asked why the original 1965 lease had the entire 115 acres and this year's lease had only the developed portion "The main issue is Is there a change in the original lease?’" Fredrickson asked ‘‘The new park area is currently exclude«! “ The letter I wrote to Carl Bright ask ed him to please remove the Women’s Club and the property from the c ity ’s boundaries Does this mean it ’s not all excluded?" a chimney fire in a storage room at the Summit House Restaurant in Government Camp Monday night caus ed an estimated $5,000 damage to the structure. The building is owned by Maryunne Hill and Robert and Sue Brock, all of Government Camp Don Armintrout, Hoodland fire chief, said that the fire was discover«?d by a resident in an apartment above the restaurant He said tha, the fire was reported to his department at 6:15 p m Twenty fire fighters, three engines, a tankard and a rescue rig, responded to the call. All the residents living above the restaurant were evacuated Armintrout said the fire was caused by an improperly constructed fireplace located in the east portion of the building tha, formerly was used as a ski shop He said that the cement pad below the fire box was placed on top of the floor joists When the fire box go, hot the heat was trasmitted through the cement to the wood, which caused com bustion Armintrout said it took his crew a half hour to get to the fire, being tha, it was burning in the ceiling joists The ceiling had to be torn out, as well as some b ricks removed from the fireplace, before the fire could be ex tinguished. Lane Wintermute, assistant fire chief, said that the fire “ looked like it had been smoldering for quite some tim e" before it was discovered Five hundred gallons of water was used to put ou, the fire as well as to keep the ce ment pad cooled down enough to pre vent the materials from reigniting The departm«»nt cleared the scene at 9:30 p m Armintrout cautioned tha, with the cold weather season upon us, tha, residents should take the time to get their chimneys cleaned, and to make sure that their fireplaces and stoves are installed properly. He said that a ll combustable materials should be moved away from heating devices. Armintrout said tha, his department would be happy to inspect chimneys and the installation of stoves and fireplaces, in order to prevent future fires Armintrout said that in the event of a chimney fire to first call the fire depart ment before doing anything else Next, if you have a stove, shut the dampers down and make sure the door is closed “ Why is this a point now,” asked Caryn Priest of Welches. "Is it because of Carl Bright or is it because of the peo pie who want to build a park’’ ” Marilyn Leslie of Zigzag said, " I t is both reasons that made the dedication question and the lease's boundaries, an important issue at this time “ Our main concern is the old lease showed the entire 11 acres,” said Leslie. "In June we thought we were approving the entire area Now we find out we actually approved only part of it If you have a fireplace, the screens Were we mislead’ ” As the meeting grew to the boiling should be shut to prevent sparks from point, a motion was passed to table the shooting out discussion until Nov 9 when John Mcln With the rains here, we have only tyre, the director of the Environmental changed from brush fires to chinmey Services Department, the county's fires," said Armintrout. " I t ’s time to (Continued on Page 2) exercise caution ” Economic slump causing layoffs in the county OREGON CITY Few buildings are being built in Clackamas County because of high interest rates and the corr«*sponding decline in the lumber in dustry and that has caused county of ficials to lay off three p«*ople and eu, 25 other p«*ople hack to four days a week John McIntyre, head of the en vironmental services department, said the cuts were made in the development services division because there isn't enough business to pay the department's payroll as it was "This division is like a private business - when tne market is no, there you have • . to eu, back," he said McIntyre said the development staff is paid through the fees charge for ser vice* “ There aren't enough permits being issued," he said The division issues permits for buddings, plumbing and septic systems, as well as charging for blueprint inspection We have laid off three people As of the firs, of October the entire develop ment services section from the depart men, head on down will work four days a week with corresponding cuts in pay,' Mcln,rye said Tha, w ill save the department about $143,000 "And if construction continues to decline, we ll have to cu, some more,” he said Other departments have fel, the pressure of declining budgets Jono Hilner, administrator of the Human Resources department, said he has reduced his staff about 10 per<ent over the last year He said the funding is arranged differently than it is in the development services division. Human Resources may take a drastic cut in the future if Congress decides to reduce the money it returns to county governments, he said. The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act program operated through the county was cut back by about 30 percent this year, he said ” We reduced the staff by about 15 people - through attrition and shuffling people to other job*.” Hilner said Carole Berggren, county fiscal analyst, said the county lias no need to panic because of tight budgets. “Out of the general fund, we haven’t had to lay anyone off,” she said There are a lot of Ifa’ out there hut I refuse to panic,” *he said
