Image provided by: Friends of the Sandy Public Library; Sandy, OR
About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1982)
The Srfnäy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Braschler, Publisher Caroline Duff. Office Manager Don Dillon. Editor Scott Newton. News Editor SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY. JANUARY 28 1982 Leash, license could curb dog mess Loose dogs in Sandy a re becom Pioneer 10 a m. until 3 p m . ing m ore of a problem , and only Thursday on Jan. 28, Feb 4 or public concern can cure it. Feb. 11. The law is explicit here. The P rice is $12 for a fertile dog or $6 sta te requires th at every dog for a spayed or neutered dog. owner in Oregon license his or her Senior citizens with dogs get $3 dog County ordinance, enforced discounts, however. locally by Animal Control from Sandy Police Chief Fred Punzel the sheriff’s departm ent, requires notes at least six dogs have been that all dogs be under con hit by m otorists here in the last 10 tro l—either voice com m and or days. Most of them , he said, w ere leash. Dogs a re not allowed to run unlicensed dogs who roam ed the at large under county ordinance downtown area, getting into g a r The problem becom es one of en bage cans and other mischief. He forcem ent, however. The troops said that num ber is much higher a re willing, but their num ber is than usual. sm all. Sandy lacks facilities, so The dog problem is even worse police here turn dog com plaints up the mountain, according to over to the county. Consequently, Deputy Williams. Reports of big there is no city ordinance—only dogs who attack livestock, deer enforcem ent of the county o r and even people a re frequent dinance by s h e riff’s deputies there, she said. assigned to Animal Control. One theory is that cold w eather T here a re only four roving deputies and four pickups to cover has brought hungry stray or the en tire county, too. Locally, neglected dogs into business Deputy L arrie Williams covers a r e a s a n d b a c k y a rd s . Chief Boring, Sandy and the m ountain Punzel notes, however, that most area. She adm it sh e ’s spread p ret of the dogs recently hit by cars in Sandy had owners. It’s just that ty thin, but welcomes all calls. “ New com m unities spring up, owners often a re hard to trace and new neighbors move in—often without licenses. If the recent w inter w eather’s without fences,” she said. “ Sure, they w ant room for their dogs and brought dogs out of the cold, it th eir kids. But talk to your happens a t a poor tim e for Animal neighbor, if you have a problem Control officers who a re busy with their dog. Or call us. T h at’s licensing dogs now. w hat w e’re here for.” But, then, it’s usually irrespon D irect com plaints or inquiries sible dog owners without licenses to Animal Control a t 655-8628 or who let their pets roam wild. If try S andy’s toll-free num ber, th at describes your neighbor, 668-3501, Ext. 628 p le a se g e t involved w ith a Licenses m ay be purchased at neighborly request followed by a the Oregon City Animal Control citizen's report to authorities, if Shelter or at Sandy City Hall on necessary Salem scene: Sort elections & budgets by JACK Z IM M E R M A N Assorlsted Oregon Industrie« The Oregon Assembly has been conduc ting regular biennial legislative sessions in the early winter months of odd numbered years for nearly a century It ’s only natural that any group gather ing that long would amass a certain num ber of customs and unw ritten rules even though this body's major func tion is to enact written statutes for people to live by In that length of lime, one might suspect unwritten guidelines would be harder to change than those that can be amended or repealed by a majority vote of the members in each chamber This largely is true One unwritten rule, however, has been violated repeatedly in the last decade There are those in Salem this week who probably wish the traditional understan ding still prevailed The practice in question is the avoidance of conducting special sessions of the Assembly during even numbered years That could lessen temptation of incumbent lawmakers to capitalize on the meeting to further their political futures in the same year they are seeking se election This never was what you d call an iron clad gentlemen's agreement Odd year regular sessions have been with us since ifMf* Special sessions were called in I hmm and in 1920 tmth even numbered election years Eor the nest half century, however, Oregon's governors refrained from calling lawmakers back to Salem during election years That changed in 1974, when Ciov Tom McCall summoned a special session His successor. Gov Hob Straub. Called lawmakers to the capital city in 197« Gov Vic Aliyeh was impelled to invoke a the isno special session and again this year The advantages and disadvantages of election year special sessions are being egposed daily as current lawmakers wr*s tie with a 1240 million budgetary deficit they must erase Virtually all of the 40 member House of R e p re s e n ta tiv e s and h a lf of the mem tier Senate face election tests dur mg the May I* primary or the Nov 2 general elections So does Atiyeh To assume politics has no place in thia special session and issues override pel tineas is plain naive Republican Gov Atiyeh has offered a plan to balance the fmdgei That plan calls for accelerated employe withholding las pay menu by employers It would double the lax on beer and wine hearing down on delinquent tax roHettions and an average 10 percent «pending cut for stale agencies Dem ocrat«ontrolled House and Senate so far have strongly opposed slashing agency budgets another 10 percent fiem orrsU also have scuttled the gover ner'a las on bear and wine Instead, they re tanking at spending cuU in the I percent range and talking about corporate Legislative Report from the Stale Capital EXCLUSIVE to Dragon s Weekly Newipa pars from Associated Oregon Industries tax increases, a surtax in the personal In come and dipping into property tax relief fund Republican Atiyeh adamantly is oppos ed to major new or additional taxes on businesses or individuals, citing the economic recession as an unlikely time to increase such burdens He also is opposed to reducing property tax relief for budget balancing purposes, claiming such action equates with raising property taxes As this special session's first week drew to a close, it appeared the Republican governor and Democratic legislative leadership agreed on methods to accom modate something less than 5100 million of the 1240 million problem Observers generally agree both the governor and GOP lawmakers have ma jority Democrats in a position of putting the rest of the package together and living with it come election time Raising taxes of any kind is bound to pro voke adverse reactions at the polls It is assumed (ho*e upon whom the most blame can he placed will suffer proportionately Meanwhile, state employes, their unions and organized labor generally don t want agency cuts Ixx-sl governments fear tampering with property tax relief will fuel a growing revolt that would threaten their largest source of funding Then there are those who claim there is no such things as an implied agreement to avoid even year special sessions They claim Il's only coincidence even year m eetin g * were avoided for so long or that most of the reason* for calling special ses «ion* surfaced souner after regular ses »ions and in the same odd numbered years Speculation on the latter assump Hon along with the fact special sessions have become more frequent in the last two decades support* thaw who see still another reason behind the proliferation of even year emergency meetings They claim recent frequency of such sessions is prompted simply by the fact lawmaking now n more prone to mistakes than it used to be. regardless of when those who make the mistakes reconvene to correct their er rors Thu doesn t set well with the current Assembly Legislators know they may have to return to Salem yet again during this election year if they don t find sofa Hons new Dirt and banking ‘conspiracy’ scorned Clean laundry anymore, but on behalf of those who still do— I ask the owner to please “clean up his act!”. And by the way, Linda, my name is Nancy Nancy Nutter Sandy I want to thank Linda Fredrickson of Rhododen dron for your response to my letter It shows at least some people read the editorial page and get in volved. I guess the laundromat is in the shape it’s in because people like you don't feel Your attack on the Ad cleanliness is a big issue It ministration over the mail seems to me that clothing is a very personal item and subsidy is understandable, but your rational for conti if washed and dried in dirty nuing it is inadequate That appliances they, too, will is a typical example of the remain dirty. My letter wan’t written kind of th in k in g that to e m b a ra s s anyone, d evelop ed fro m the but—as the bid saying mid '60s when that wonder goes - “ If the shoe fits, ful ‘ humanitarian*’ (ha ha) Johnson started his wear it.” It's unfortunate that in Great Society the State of Oregon there Instead of re q u irin g those who freely choose a are no regulations govern ing the cleanliness of laun particular newspaper ser dromats, so It is left up to vice or magazine to foot the the owner to provide a hill, by all means let's fat clean atmosphere Like ten up the Federal Budget anything, It has to have and make everybody pay for the delivery of my issue re g u la r m a in te n a n c e , when so many people use of the Sandy Post' Now the facility does that make sense*’ Should hanks be subsidized It's my personal opinion by the tax payers, because that laundromats should be they foolishly loan money kept v e ry c le a n , as out to insolvent nations? Do restaurants are to be None we have to pay for their of us would like to “eat’’ in poor judgement** I think a dirty atmosphere not! Linda, I wish there had been more response by my Also, I was touched by letter, hut I guess Sandy your comm ent over a residents just don't care vigorous, free press Rut I enough I have no need to get really concerned to use a la u n d ro m a t think that the existence of Blame bankers that vigorous, free press should depend on a subsidy from “ Big Brother,” the federal government I'd Letters like to think that a free peo ple with a desire to know'' could overcome a subscrip tion increase Speaking of taking wild aim at people, that accusa tion of starving the Polish nation was ridiculous Ix^t's put this Poland situation in perspective Here is a country with a communist government that isn’t do ing too well running their country Whether we agree w ith th e ir p o litic a l philosophy or not, it's still their government and their country If the A F L -C IO , T e a m s te r U nion and Longshoremen all went on strike and our government s ta rte d pushing th e ir weight around to change the unions minds, how would we react if France or England started telling us how to run our own coun try? The problem is the Federal Reserve through an instrument called the World Bank (post W W II creation) has been loaning our wealth all over the world. So natur ally they feel we can go around tell ing e v e ry o n e th e ir business ! Ralph A Sandercock, Jr Sandy Recall Charlie On a cold, rather dreary day. Jan. 12, close family members and a few friends laid to final rest Charlie Augustine, one of the great men who have lived on the mountain. Charlie, as all his friends called him, was for many years “M r Telephone.” He came to the mountain in the early '50s, fell in love with it and stayed, living with his sister. Elsie and Charlie’s father. C h arlie acquired the local phone company from Frank Christiansen and put his whole heart, body and sould into serving the com munity. I suppose everyone who Charlie befriended on the m ountain could re la te stones about him I came to know Charlie when we moved to the mountain as perm anent residents in 1979, having been summer residents for 25 years We shared a mutual love for the mountain with Charlie, enjoying the grandeur, quietness, beauty and peace that is found on the mountain, as one walks in to its depths We hunted mushrooms together, related hunting stories and swapped stones about local happenings Yes, Charlie could get a little lengthy, but if one had the patience to listen, he or she would learn some very interesting things I can't ever rem em ber Charlie having one bad thing to say about anyone he knew on the mountain, even though some of his views didn't agree with theirs. I know a lot of Charlie’s friends are going to miss him I know we surely will. We were planning an early mushrooming with Charlie and maybe a little fishing Charlie's last words on earth were “Tell all my friends on the mountain I love them, and I'll see you all again soon ” Now Charles, my wife and I had talked together about a life hereafter in Heaven, so we knew what he meant by his last words Our mutual trust in Jesus Christ dying for man’s sins has made a way for all men to share in Heaven with Him. the Bible tells If it’s possible, I ’ll bet Charlie will be scouting some good stretchs of water to fish or finding some fantastic places to hunt mushrooms I hope so. because we ll be looking forward to that. I ’m sure every friend or acquain tance who ev er knew Charlie had his or her life enriched in some way. Bob and Bobbe Pearson Personally speaking: Lucky feeling drives man to Sandy The unemployment rate In Oregon was up to II 4 percent in December, according to the state s Employment Division Unfortunately, I know more about unemployment than 1 would like to admit 1 hesitate to tell this story for two reasons First of all, some will consider what I did foolish Secondly, I am sure there are some natives that don't like the idea of rnidwesters moving to their state Regai jless, I'll tell the story anyway When one cashes a check on a regular basis one lend* to forget Inal unemploy meat is a personal trageuy, not just something that counters the inflation rate, I left a newspaper job in Kan sas. a position I ’d held lor three years, to move west I loaded up a trailer, converted my saving* to travelers cheques, and said my farewells Discovery was the positive part of (he experience I moved to Eugene got a place to live, had new resumes printed up, and contacted the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Associa tion. the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association and the California Newspaper Publishers Association For some time I remained con fident I've held * lot of jobs since I was 15. and worked a good part by SCOTT NEWTON of the time I was in college With my work record, a journalism degree from the University of Kansas, and three years' ex penence, 1 wasn't about to sit around waiting for the telephone to ring I drove to the coast for jogging and sunsets fairly often, and spent four days camping in the Redwoods. But after sending off dozens of resumes and newspaper clipp mgs, and getting no responses. I began to get concerned I started applying for any job I felt I bad a chance at Still, I had terrible luck. 1 wor ried about little things Like, did I put enough postage on the envelopes in which my resumes were enclosed (I found out later they were indeed getting to their destinations). After a few months I became quite concerned After a few un successful interviews, and a few letters informing me “that the position has been filled.” I began to doubt my abilities Perhaps I had been naive In Kansas, the unemployment rate probably averaged four percent during the time I was growing up There were always farmer-, needing someone to drive a trac to r, gas stations needing someone to repair tires, and construction outfits needing someone to shovel cement When I moved west. I figured that even if one couldn't find what they were looking for right away, one could at least find work Not true I tried to keep my chin up. but had lost confidence I'd convinc ed myself I ’d really blown it. Then, I got a telephone call from the publisher of a small newspaper in California, south of San Jose He told me to come down right away I didn't argue I was ready to go to work Well, it seems to me moat job interviews go well, but that doesn’t mean anything At about noon I began the long drive back to Eugene After about 12 hours of driving I stopped for coffee somewhere in southern Oregon, off 1-5 I was tired and depressed I made a decision There would be no more sightseeing, and no more waiting on calls If I didn't get the California job. I was going home. I'd finally admitted defeat. At 2a m I arrived in Eugene. I didn't unload my car or brush my teeth, I just crawled into bed The telephone rang the next morning, waking me, and on the other end was Von Braschler He'd seen my classified advertis ment in the ON PA newsletter, and told me to come up for an in terview Ironically, I got to choose bet ween this job and the one in California Von provided a good sales pitch, and I liked Sandy, so tlie choice wasn't difficult When I left Kansas, I told a friend of mine at the newspaper, " I don t know what it is, but I feel lucky ” I was lucky. I got a better job, and had some fun along the way. But it was also a humbling ex perience, and I learned to be a lit tle more sympathetic toward those who are unemployed And. I learned you have to have at least a little respect for people who provide employment for others
