Vol 71
No 43
SANDY OREGON THURSDAY OCTOBER 29 1981
LCDC likes
county plan
Single Copy 25*
BP A officials review plan
to increase power load
by M IC IIA K L P. JONES
Pott Correspondent
by DAN D IL LO N
The Clackamas County comprehen
sive plan will be reviewed by the state
I-and Conservation and Development
Commission (LCDC) tomorrow in
Salem
If approved, it would allow develop
ment of the Mount Hood Corridor—a
point of contention between mountain
groups and county officials
For the past few months, the Mount
Hood Corridor Citizens (MACC) has
studied the ramifications if the plan is
approved as proposed Their study
shows that some 3,000 acres in the cor
ridor could possibly be developed
The MACC study calls the plan vague
and c o n tra d ic tin g . It says the
Clackamas County Planning Commis
sion's own maps showed the corridor
area zoned for environmental protec
tion, forest land, winter range for
wildlife, as well as being zoned for
development,
Ken Dauble, principal planner with
the co u n ty P la n n in g D iv is io n ,
disagrees "The plan does not really
establish the zoning, but sets the stage
for zoning," he said. The comprehen
sive plan sets forth guidelines for
"planned designation
He said the plan gives the mountain
area adequate protection, particularly
to stream side area and visua l
amenities along the highway He said
the area is protected through the plan s
land designation policies and "also
through the environmental standards
set forth even in the developed areas."
LCDC commissioners also disagree
with MACC allegations. Last Friday,
the commissioners overruled the LCDC
staff recommendation and issued a
statement that they w ill approve the
comprehensive plan as proposed For
mal action lakes place tomorrow.
E dw ard J. S u lliva n , a tto rn e y
representing MACC and the En
vironmental Committee on Suitability
(ECOS), said Monday that intensive
political pressure played a major role
in LCDC’s decision.
"The Department of Land Conserva
tion and Development has concluded
that the area within the Hoodland Ser
vice District can be urbanized and sub
ject to further housing This includes
the Alderwood (mobile home subdivi
sion ) that was recently ruled against by
the Clackamas County hearings
officer." he said
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‘But outside the service district area,
Local florist M eri Lang anil "king kong" Bruce P arker prepare their act for Moonlite Madness this T riil.n night h i
the county has not provided sufficient
downtown Sandy. Store clerks will dress in spooky costumes for the annual moonlight sale 7 -ltl p in . Fridiiy
facts and reasons for further develop
ment," Sullivan said
Gordon Cabral, spokesperson for
MACC, said his organization will pro
bably appeal the plan once it is approv
ed
"We w ill go as far as the people
A spook house, hay rides, costume contest and spooky
their lives this Thursday through Saturday Hours a re 6 11
around us want to go,” he said " In
store clerks are main attractions of Sandy’s "Moonlite
p m nightly
dividually, we won’t fight it alone We
Madness" Friday, Oct 30
Entry will be from Proctor Boulevard There is a
can’t Together, however, we will pur
The Halloween events are sponsored by Sandy Area
nominal charge to offset expenses
sue it aggressively."
Merchants to complement the retailers' annual moonlite
Kids who wan, a hayride to a marshmallow roast a,
"T h e riv e rs are going to be
sale, set for 7-10 p m Friday
Meinig Park can catch the pony driven wagon of Sandy
destroyed There w ill be erosion and silt
Many of the (tore clerks themselves will dress up in
FFA Club every 15 minutes a, the Rexall Drug store p.u k
going into the rivers because of runoff
Hallow«*en costumes during the night, bu, kids who show
ing lot
The Salmon River will be overrun with
up in costumes can win prizes
Rides are offered for a nominal fee 6:30 '.fpm Oct 30
people and fisherman w ill not even
\ ouths, 4 14, can compete for cash prizes 6 30 p m F ri
Kids younger than 6 should be accompanied by a parent
have room to cast.
day in Heritage Square parking lot The earliest con
Many Sandy stores are planning special in store attra«
"And certainly, you won’t see any
testants all will win free Mountain Days T shirts
tions and refreshments along the Halloween theme
wildlife around here It ’s bad enough
A haunted attic above Sandy DeCorat the corner of Pro
Sandy Area Merchants, event sponsor, is a retail trade
already By unleashing the developers
ctor and Meinig will treat the braves, souls to the scare of
committee of the Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce
on these slopes, the future w ill surely be
bleak," Cabral claims
Dauble disagrees " I ’m not a wildlife
biologist, but I know that there is some
concern But you’ve already got built-in
c o n flic ts
w ith
the
e x is tin g
developments there The plan could
minimize these conflicts," he said
"Ideally, it ’s pretty hard to turn the
clock back We’ve not got the north face
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Dick Wilson, supervisor of the sub But to go on the cruise, people have to
of the corridor zoned for timber We
Post Correspondent
division
section said Bright and his pay all the transportation costs to
have this to protect that range area
timeshare operations have 20 days to Miami, where the ship leaves and pav
The southern range areas are already
The Oregon State Real Estate Divi
request a hearing and comply, or the the port fees "
developed," Dauble said.
sion last Thursday ordered Mt Hood
order becomes final
Timeshare of Welches to "desist and
A similar order was issued by the
Former Employee Explains
refrain " That order effectively stops
Washington Real Estate Division on
A former employee of the timeshare
the sale of timeshare vacations at the
Oct. 9 A hearing was scheduled last operation explained the tactics used by
Green Tee Motel, located on the golf
Wednesday in Olympia. Wash , bu, the staff
course at the Red Lion at Bowman's, in
representatives from the timeshare
The employee said that after people
the state
operation did not attend after being received their winnergrams. they ( all
In the order, issued by Real Estate
subpoenaed
SECTION I
ed long distance to see if they indeed
Commissioner William F Gwinn, the
Keeping Posted ........................2
had a "lucky number.” The callers
company was forbidden from "making
According to Robert Love, trade
Inside Business .................
3
were pu, on "hold” for 30 to 40 seconds
any sales, lease, transfer or disposition
practice consultant with the Better
School Lunch Menus
4
while their numbers were supposedly
of interests of any kind or nature
Business Bureau of P o rtla n d ,
Senior Center News ............. 5
looked
up
Mentioned in the order is Resort
numerous complaints have been lodged
Obituaries.................................. 5
The caller was then informed tha*
Timesharing, Inc of Welches, Mt
against Bright, who is president of
Editorials, letters ...................6
Hood Sales. Inc of Portland. Mt. Hood
Resort Timesharing. Inc and M, Hood they had won one of the prizes, bu, they
Sports, Recreation................. 7-8
Vacation Club of Welches, Mt Hood
Vacation Club, for misleading advertis had to take the tour of resort facilities
in order to collect
ing through direct mailings
Clearinghouse of Incline Village, Nev ,
SECTION II
The former employee said employees
and American Guaranty Financial
Ixjve said that "prize winnergrams"
Area News ................................ 1
were given instructions tha, the word
Corp of Portland who is selling the con
mailed by Mt Hood Clearinghouse
Around the County ................... 2
"tim eshare" was never to be used,
verted Green Tee Motel to Carl Bright
have misled potential buyers He said
About People ......................... 4
because of the negative connotations
of Welches
tha, the winnergrams informed the
Halloween Legend .............
5
associated with it The name "M , Hood
G Wesley Preis. examiner with the received tha, they had won either a 1981
Hoodland Happenings..............7
subdivision section of the Real Estate Ford Escort, 85.000 in cash, a year's tu i Vacation Club" was also never used on
Classified Advertising
13-16
the telephone
Division, said the order was instituted tion at the college of their choice or a
If people requested additional infor
because the timeshare operations were four day, three night cruise in the
SECTION III
mation about the prize, employees were
not registered with the state and the Bahamas.
Television Directory Inside Tab
instructedto say. "I'm sorry I'm just a
necessary consumer protection papers
"In reality." Ixjve said, "they all win
receptionist You're invited to take a
had not been filed
the cruise There is no chance involved
tour of our facility "
Moonlite Madness kicks off Friday
The Bonneville Power Administra
tion wants to increase power transmis
sion capabilities between Portland and
Longview. Wash In anticipation of that
move BPA has developed five options
for the route of a 500,(MM) volt power line,
one passing just east of Sandy
Monday evening BPA officials outlin
ed the options for area residents at
Kelso School and listened to their con
cerns
From responses gathered at Kelso
and similar hearings, BPA officials
plan to dr.ift a proposed environmental
impact statement for a second set of
public hearings in October 1982 The
final environmental impact statement
will be ready in May 1983 Whatever op
tion is selected would be operational by
1988
Without the new transmission line,
the existing line between the Portland
metropolitan area and Longview will be
overloedad by the late 1980s, said Bill
Schulenberg, BPA electrical engineer
with the Lower Columbia Area office
The option of greatest interest to
Sandy area residents calls for a
500,000-volt line from the Ostrander
substation near Barton, through the
area just east of Sandy, crossing the
Sandy River, and making a turn toward
Troutdale Those improvements would
be in place by the year 2000,
Schulenberg said
I he Sandy option would be the third
phase of Plan B. the second of the five
alternatives, which would also call for
r ig h t of w ay im p ro v e m e n ts in
Washington and Columbia counties
Those improvements would come by
1988 and 196»
Henry Beckmann. J6HO4 SE Kelso
Road, is one resident whose property
would be affected by the BPA move, it
the Sandy alternative is adopted He is
concerned about who w ill control
tansey ragwort, the effects of towers on
farm land and noise caused by the
500,000-volt lines
He said that pas, efforts to control
tansey with cinnabar moths had l>een
unsuccessful "They eat it down and go
into the ground," he said, "but as soon
as the moths are gone, it blooms again
Once they go to seed, there's not much
you can do "
Dennis Maxwell. BPA environmental
specialist, said the agency attempts to
work with landowners on tansey control
and when it places towers so that op
timum use can be made of the land by
the farmer
Dan Bracken, a sub contractor who
will prepare the draft environmental
impact statement for the project .said
that design improvements eliminate
some of the humming noise and that
nuisance shocks are spread over a
larger area, without worsening in
severity
Jim Minnick. 15470 SE 362nd Ave . is
another landowner affected by the BPA
lines He questioned the policy regar
ding the trimm ing of trees near the
lines,
BPA regulations require that trees be
cut only when they could create a
hazard for the lines, Maxwell said
Underground lines cost 10 times as
much as lines in the air
There are also trade offs in cost, en
vironment and reliability, he said
Local companies battle
slumping timber sales
by L IN D A CR O C K ETT
Lor The Post
ches. measuring and cutting the log.
The feasibility of using this piece of
equipment depends on the terrain and
size of logs It is profitable where ter
rain is flat and logs are small
While these firms are still operating,
other timber based companies have no,
been so lucky According to the latest
figures released by the Western Wood
Products Association, 17,278 Oregon
workers have been affected Eighty one
mills have curtailed shifts and another
48 Oregon mills have closed
High interest rates, a fragile housing
industry and the dehydration of the
market for fores, products have been
blamed as culprits
The Reagan administration is leaning
toward harvesting more now and tak
ing the loss in the future, according to
Pete Wagner, tim ber management
staff officer for the M, Hood National
Forest But just harvesting more
timber and producing more goods
results in problems of their own
If more timber is harvested now, the
supply for the future decreases The
U S Fores, Service's policy on timber
sales is based on an equal number
harvested annually
The Pacific Northwest is facing a
ripple affect" from its economic pro
blems, particularly from the suffering
timber industry, according to Adolf
H e r,ric h , p re sid e nt of V a np o rt
Manufacturing Co of Boring.
Yet, his company is one that has
discovered ways to survive during the
industry slowdown.
Vanport forsees no layoffs or
closures, according to Hertrich who
adds, if the market is not back in five
\ ears, every company may be forced to
sell their plants for scrap metal
In the meantime, Vanport survives
with a thriving export business, par
ticularly to Japan The firm is diver
sified and constantly sends graders to
learn the metric grading used overseas
I his is no, feasible for ail companies,
however Some find it difficult to be
that flexible because they have in
vestments committed and can't make
rapid changes There is also a limited
market in any one place and Japan is
having a housing recession of its own.
The Tad Yeager lagging Co., which
ships mostly to Tvgh Valley and The
The Fores, Service recently extended
Dalles, is one of the few companies with
the contrcts for harvesting timber by
a "harvester The machine eliminates
two years
the chainsaw, according to logger Joe
(Please turn to •Tim b er’ on page 4.
Lewellyn, hy trimming off the bran
section I.)
Timeshare sales stopped by state order
Index
The former employee said that poten
tial buyers were led to a bulletin board
in the office that had 12 to 15 numbers
on it If the customers had any one of
these numbers they won the car. cash
or college tuition No one ever won
those prizes
Jon W Pegg. chief of Washington's
land development registration, said
they there had been a number of com
p la in ts re g is te re d a g a in s t the
timeshare project, alleging that poten
tial buyers were led to believe that they
werp buying into either Bowman's golf
course or the Red Lion
He said that sim ilar sales tactics
have been used in other timeshare pro^
jecls "when, in reality, the people do
no, own any real property "
Customer Recalls Tour
John Saemann of Alameda. Calif.,
said tha, when he took the tour of the
Green Tee Motel on Sep, 20, he was
shown around Rippling River and the
golf course first It was not until the end
of the tour tha, he was shown a
remodeled room in the Green Tee
Saemann said that he learned about
Mt Hood Vacation Club while on an
outing near Bend When the sales staff
at the timeshare operation learned of
this, he was told that the Deschutes
River Ranch was "one of their proper
ties "
According to the Real Estate Divi
sion, this timeshare project is not own
ed by the Welches company However,
timeshare members may exchange
vacation time through a national
timeshare exchange network and stay
at the Deschutes resort
A former tour guide who worked for
M, Hood Timeshare disagreed that the
staff deliberately misled buyers into
thinking they were buying into the golf
course or Red Lion
She said it was stressed to them "they
were no, working for Red Lion or Rippl
ing River.” She said that because
timeshare was so new in this par, of the
c o u n try , “ people ju s t tend to
misunderstand no matter what you tell
them or how carefully you explain the
program ”
According to state Real Estate Divi
sion records, 87 persons have purchas
ed timeshare vacations at the Green
Tee Motel Buyers have paid between
82,500 and 810,000. depending on the
time of year they purchased their vaca
tion time
Bright has been unavailable for com
ment.