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