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DIURSDAY
OCTOBER 8
I he Sandy Post
1981
Area News
People
Home & Garden
Features
< in Eagle Creek mobile home fire
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A mobile hoiti« ,m
resulted h i the Je.ith
women and her f 1 \ « •
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\ 1 1 Sue \mi H an e y ,
’ hush ind Ricky. smoke
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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
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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
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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
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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 >
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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
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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
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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
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rec«»iv«* any federal
•o« v ,"i -' bool lunches or milk
A -it biil«*i Hay said, She do»*s a
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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
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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
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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