Image provided by: Friends of the Sandy Public Library; Sandy, OR
About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1981)
Vol. 71 No. 49 Single Copy 25 Court upholds contention of Sandy worker Planning idea OK’d but no group named The U.S Supreme Court Monday confirmed what a Sandy man and two co-workers had maintained all along when it upheld a ruling allow ing Seventh-day Adventists at the M artin Marietta Corp.’s plant in The Dalles to avoid paying union dues or an equivalent ‘service fee" to a union. Arnold Bakke of Sandy and his co workers challenged the payment of dues and membership in the United Steelworkers union which became mandatory in October 1976 at the plant Monday, the court let stand a ru l ing that barred Martin Marietta and the union from firing the Seventh day Adventists as long as they pay an amount equivalent to the union dues to the Am'»* ican Cancer Society. Accord-ng to Harold Wynne of San dy, spokesman fo r the church. Seventh-day Adventists prefer not to belong to unions because they sometimes resort to strides with resulting violence Church members, he said, do not wish to unwillingly be drawn into a situation where violence may arise. He added that Adventists do not believe that it is m orally wrong to belong to a union, however, as was asserted in some reports of the court’s decision This marked the first time that a case of this sort had reached the Supreme Court, although a number of sim ilar cases have been heard at lower federal court levels. After the union dues became man d a to ry , the th re e A d v e n tis ts challenged the payment or the fee. They offered instead to pay an equivalent amount to a non-religious charity, but the union refused. After they filed the suit, two other church members began refusing to pay dues or a service fee. The total amount of money the Seventh day Adventists at the plant St« ff photo would have paid came to approx imately $1,200 a year Four-year-old Kelley Robison of Sandy braves an audience with Santa Claus (Bruce Parker) who rewards her with a Bakke has since retired from the candy cane and balloon in other hand. Santa arrived in Sandy last Saturday and plans other stops at downtown stores company here Dec. 19 through 24. Mountain rescue saves drowning hiker by MICHAEL P. JONES Post Correspondent A late afternoon hike last Thursday almost ended in a tragedy averted by a quick response from the Hoodland Rural Fire Department's special rescue team On the snow-covered M irro r Lake tra il, Richard Howard of Vancouver, Wash., had a seizure For 25 minutes his companion, Douglas Bouers of Portland, watched helplessly When the seizure subsided, Bouer propped Howard against a tree and went for help. He ran the two and a half miles down the mountain tra il in 20 minutes When he arrived at Highway 26, he hitchhiked two miles to Government Camp and called the fire department for help. The call was received at 5:15 p.m. and the rescue team was dispatched. They picked up Bouer in Government Camp. When the rescue team—Fire Chief Don A rm introut, Assistant Chief Lane Wintermute, Mick Eby and Dick Hoflund, accompanied by Bouer—headed up the tra il, nearly a half hour had elapsed since Howard was left at the lake. It was pitch black and freezing rain made the going d iffic u lt. The rescuers carried flashlights and some w ere e q u ip p e d w ith headlamps. The steep terrain was covered with two inches of snow when they began their clim b to the lake. As they neared the top, the depth increased to two feet Arm introut said the group stopped for a short break about halfway up the trail. When two of the rescuers, carrying heavy packs, stopped for a second break, Arm introut, Winter- mute and Bouer continued on. " I had a funny feeling that when we didn’t run into the victim on the tra il that something was wrong," A rm in trout said. “ I can't really explain why. It was just one of those feelings ” The trio reached the lake 45 Three enter commissioner’s race A Lake Oswego city councilwoman and Clackamas County Corrections administrator have announced their intentions to attem pt to unseat veteran Clackamas County Commis sioner Stan Skoko in the May 1962 prim ary, Skoko, a Democrat, announced last week that he w ill seek the seat he has held off and on since 1948 This would be his sixth term He w ill be challenged by Bev Henderson, a Republican from Lake Oswego, and S cott Taylor« a Democrat, Index SECTION I Keeping Posted ..................... 2 School Lunch Menus .............. 3 Senior Center News ............. 3 Obituaries ............................... 5 Editorials, Letters ................ 6 Sports, Recreation ........... 7-6 SECTION II Area News................................1 Hoodland Happenings.............3 About People 4 Classified Advertising 12-15 SECTION III Television Dtrectorytnside Tab Skoko was first elected to the board of commissioners in 1948 He won a second term in 1962, but was turned out of office in 1956 He regained a spot on the board in 1964, lost in 1968 after an unsuc cessful recall attempt, and returned in 1974 He was re-elected in 1978 Skoko has gained a reputation as the "lone w olf” on the board of com missioners, often casting the lone dissenting vote against Commis sioners Ralph Groener and Robert Schumacher. Henderson lost a seat on the board in the last election when she came within 317 votes of unseating the in cumbent Schumacher. Ironically, Skoko supported her in that race. " In I960, the voters of Clackamas County came close to making a change in the County Commission," she said, "based on key issues involv ing the tightening of the budget to cut coats, better communication with the citizens and improving the working relationship among the members of the board. "These issues have not gone aw ay," Henderson said, "In fact, they have intensified." H enderson has a 20-year background in business and the forest products industry, as well as involvement in public service on the national, state and local leveta. She was firs t elected to the Lake Oswego council in 1974 and was re elected in 1978. She has served on the National League of Cities Transportation and Communication Policy Committee, the League of Oregon Cities Energy Task Force and the Clackamas Coun ty Library Policy Board. T a y lo r is the m a n a g e r of Clackamas C ounty's M ilw a u kie residential center for work release prisoners He is concerned about the county's fiscal problems and the lack of citizen involvement which have bothered him in the county. He claims that personalities split the present board of commissioners more often than the actual issues do He also said that Skoko has alienated county administrators Tree causes pow er outage on mountain An estimated 1,000 residences and businesses east of Sandy were without power for about an hour ear ly Tuesday evening According to a Portland General Electric Company spokesman, the problem was caused by a tree limb fulling on a 13,(XM>volt feeder line near Brightwood Power was cut at about 7:10 p.m. and restored about 8 p.m. minutes after they had left Highway 26. Howard was nowhere in sight so they searched the area. They spotted Howard face down in the lake. Wintermute and Arm introut jumped into the lake, pulled him out and began giving him basic life sup port procedures “ I believe in my mind, if we would have stayed with the others, he never would have made it," Arm introut said. "He was breathing his last breath when we reached him .” Armintrout contacted the dispat cher by ra d io and requested Emanuel H ospital’s L ife F lig h t helicopter Bad weather, however, kept the helicopter grounded The 304th A ir National Guard Search and Recovery helicopter crew was notified of the situation. They headed for the lake. Alpine Ambulance transported Dr Clare Koznek, of Mt. Hood Medical Services in Sandy, up the mountain to assist. Halfway there, they received word that immediate medical advice was needed. Koznek gave medical procedures and prescribed medication from a pay phone at the state weigh station on Highway 26 near Brightwood to G o v e rn m e n t C am p w h e re a firefighter with a radio relayed the information to personnel at the lake. H ow ard was s u ffe rin g fro m hypothermia, shock and a possible head injury. "The question was tim e ," said Koznek "We had minutes, rather than hours to work with We also had no idea just how long he had been in the lake " By that time, the 304th's helicopter reached the lake "We could see them but they couldn't see us," said Armintrout "So they landed in the parking lot and picked up one of our radios so we could communicate and bring them in.” Once Howard was loaded on the helicopter, he was taken to Gresham Community Hospital where he body temperature was just 82 degrees He was treated for hypothermia and pulmonary adema, a lung condition typical of drowning cases. Koznek believes the hypothermia may have saved Howard's life because its victims do not require as much oxygen. Tuesday, Howard was released from the hospital. More than 300 Mt. Hood area residents last Friday voted to form a community planning organization (CPO) to represent the area, but stopped short of handing that designation to the Environmental Committee on Suitability (ECOS). In lieu of that, Clackamas County officials w ill mail out the organiza tion’s bylaws to those who attended the hearing at Welches School for review Then, on Jan. 28, another organizational meeting w ill be held to decide what the bylaws of the CPO w ill be and what group w ill become the CPO. ECOS had appeared before the Board of County Commissioners on Oct. 29 seeking to be recognized as the CPO for the Mt. Hood corridor. Their proposed boundaries extend from Zigzag to Wildcat Creek on the east and west; it was bordered by National Forest land on the north and south. . the first hearing, commis sioners sided with a group who claim ed they did not have advance notice of ECOS intentions. They asked Ardis Stevenson, assistant director of the Department of Environmental Ser vices, to set up a community meeting and act as facilitator. The county notified 3,(MX) property and the meeting was held Friday. Paul Rice, owner of Merit Proper- ties of Welches, told Stevenson F ri day that another organization is not needed "We went through this several years ago and the people of this mountain told you folks of the county what we wanted,” he said " It's call ed the comprehensive plan and it took a lot of work, a lot of hours "Why don’t we just go with that comprehensive plan? We've already told you what we want. I don’t think we need another organization." P h il C la rk of B rig h tw o o d disagreed, saying Rice’s statement was “ totally irrelevant” to pro ceedings "T he comprehensive plan has already been recognized by the s ta te . . . in d e v e lo p in g the m ountain," Clark said "A ll this is for is to give citizens some input as to what to do with the mountain." Before a vote was taken on whether or not to form a CPO, Stevenson told the audience that the decision is en tire ly up to residents, not up to coun ty officials. " I f you think i t ’s an advantage, i t ’ available," she saia. " I f you think i t ’s a waste of time or a disadvan tage, don’t vote Stevenson said that county re quirements include that a communi ty planning organization include residential, property owner and business interests. Commissioner pledges support for mountain by MICHAEL P. JONES Post Correspondent A handful of Mt. Hood residents met with Clackamas County Com missioner Stan Skoko Tuesday even ing to seek solutions to illegal sewage dumping in the area. At the meeting, the residents hand- delivered a letter to the commis sioner requesting that steps be taken by the county to stop the dumping. The letter asked that the matter be turned over to the district attorney's office for investigation and prosecu tion. It asked that an ordinance be adopted which would require the county to regulate septic tank pumpers, as well as the owners of private septic systems and holding tanks. That, the letter said, would in sure that sewage is disposed of in a treatment facility. Finally, the residents urged the county to initiate a program to make the citizens of the area more aware of the problem. It recommended that the county to establish a reward for citizens aiding in the apprehension of persons responsible for the sewage dumps, Skoko was to present the three re quests to the Board of County Com missioners today. He told the group that he was confident the board would respond positively and begin dealing with the area's dumping pro blems. The residents told Skoko that they are concerned the county and state are not actively seeking solutions to the dumpings, nor taking them very seriously. In the past, sewage has been dumped into the Salmon River at Welches and into a Henry Creek near Rhododendron, but there was little response from the county Health Department or the Department of Environmental Services. Last month, sewage was dumped directly on Bright and Fairway Avenues by a pumper truck, a stone's throw away from the new Hoodland Sewage Treatment Plant at Welches Area resident Larry Hoyt, who found one spill, complained of poten tial health hazards to the county. The roads were not cleaned until three weeks later. Skoko agreed that some county employees are not taking the moun tain's situation seriously. "When the m ajority of the county employees get that little tin badge pinned to their chests, they do things only when it's to their convenience," he said. "They could do more, but they won t." Personnel from the state Depart ment of Environmental Quality and the county Code Compliance Section have said there is little they can do without eyewitnesses Both agencies maintain their hands are tied by budget restraints which prohibit dispatching staff to look for "m id night dumpers.” " I t 's a cop-out," Skoko said. "T hey’ve never made an honest ef fort to solve this problem. "We must catch whomever is responsible and really hang it on them. Whoever’s doing this is violating laws that pertain to fish and the health of human beings," he said Meteor lights up night Oregon residents from Salem to Sandy, and on up to Seattle were treated to a surprise light show last Thursday night as a bright meteor streaked through the evening sky. Its light was powerful enough to turn the night to day, according to one resident. But, what actually flashed through the night was probably smaller than a bread box " I t doesn't take much (to cause a great amount of light) since they are moving at such a high velocity," according to Burce Spainhower, acting director of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s planetarium The meteor fell through the earth's atmosphere about 10 30 p m .said Spainhower. He said although reports were received that small chunks of the meteor struck the earth, they are unconfirmed Spainhower said the event was "random " and occurs several times each year Thursday’s meteor was "one of the bright ones," he said. It likely was a small meteor, between a baseball and bread box in size, he said The light a meteor produces is caused as it enters the earth’s atmosphere about 50 miles above the surface The meteor is moving at such a velocity about 35 miles per second- that the air can’t get out of the rock’s way The air heats up and the heat is transferred to the meteor As it burns up. it leaves a tra il of light. "A very small mass w ill generate a large amount of energy . . and lig h t." Spainhower said The meteors which create falling stars are the size of a grain of sand Bright meteors such as the one which fell Thursday are called "bolides ”
