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The S^ndy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Broschler. Publisher Caroline Duff Office Manoger Don Dillon. Editor Scott Newton. News Editor SANDY OREGON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11 1982 Ready city to allow it to grow Sandy City Council should pay heed to recommendations of a local Economic Development Commission, when the study group unloads its two-year fin dings Tuesday. That would take courage before cost-conscious taxpayers, of course, since the boosters ad vocate spending a little to get a lot for Sandy’s planned economic growth To provide the city with local jobs and a diversified tax base, the Council might need to sell bonds for capital improvements to accommodate new industry. The Commission doesn’t agree, but the Council even might need to offer incentives to compete for new industry. It could be worthwhile, since Sandy possesses good land, loca tion and other attributes valuable in the marketplace With a little sales effort and enough water and sewer capacity, Sandy could at- trapt light, non-pollutant industry to town. The Council also might be sur prised to hear recommendations from its own Economic Develop m ent C o m m issio n on im provements to assist downtown shopping. The boosters apparent ly feel the c ity ’s seven-year-old Downtown Plan for a pedestrian mall and new offstreet parking should be revived. The Commis sion bemoans lack of a major “ trip attractor” in the form of a shopping center or motel complex to lure shoppers downtown. In deed, municipal attention is need ed here The whole town would be richer. Only it might cost a little to lure the golden goose our way. Disaster here prompts concern Neighbors concerned about disaster relief in Sandy are p it ching in from all directions with city coordination to make sure Sandyites don’t shiver foodless in the cold. Response to Community Ser vices Director Sandra Potter- M arquardt’s call for volunteers already warms the spirit. More volunteers—p a rtic u la rly those who could learn something about mass food service—are needed, however. Sound futuristic? Well, recall winters when the power went out and the number of residents who were snowbound, cold and hungry for days. Senior citizens especial ly need a helping hand. Sandy is organizing hands to h e lp —h o p e fu lly 50-60 key workers—in a bold emergency services plan Day-long, half-day and weekend classes w ill be taught by the Red Cross at the Sandy Comm unity Center in March Volunteers may sign up by calling 668-5569 for the free classes. Response has been good, but more volunteers may be need ed. Trained key persons in times of local emergency here, according to Potter-Marquardt, should in clude faci’ ;ty managers, persons to canvas for needy, food servers, case workers and drivers who can get around in bad road conditions. Additional persons are needed for backup roles. Nobody w ill get a dime for all this work, and it requires a lot of tim e . C la c k a m a s C ounty Emergency Services and the Red Cross w ill help, but it ’s left to charitable churches, clubs and private homes to open their doors and pantries. Good neighbors, nonetheless, have stepped fo rw a rd to volunteer, and the d ire c to r reports Sandy’s emergency plan already looks bright. That pioneer spirit of neighbors helping neighbors still lives in warm, little Sandy. Salem scene: State ranks bottom fourth by JACK Z IM M E R M AN Associated Oregon In dustries Oregon'» poor business climate is hardly news to vast numbers of unemployed w orker», struggling em ployers and lawmakers who are vainly trying to match state spending with dwindling revenue in Salem Some, however, consider result» of a re cent national Alexander Grant business climate study a handy blueprint for long range im p ro vem en t of the »ta le 's economy The study measures general manufac tunng business climate in each of the 4« continguous states and compares states on basis of scores achieved in 22 categories It is conducted by a the Chicago tiased rut tlonal accounting firm at the behest of the Conference of State M anufacturers A ssociations (C O 8 M A ) AOI f’res Ivan Congleton said the cur rent study finds Oregon in Wth place a ranking similar to results achieved in previous years since 11175 A study conducted by the Eanlus Cor poration that year found Oregon in 40th place Alexarxler (¿rant studies in IW7W and I'tHO ranker! this stale ,'MWh and 35th, reaper lively “ Although the (¿rant firm cautions against comparing results of the varous studies because different criterion have been used in each," Congleton said. “ It is significant that Oregon remains in the bot tom fourth of all states, regardless of the yardsticks used to measure our business climate " “ This is not to imply that other factors are not important when it conies to espan ding or relocating an existing manufactur Ing fa c ility or establishing a new industry," (ongleton said But it does provide an important initial step fur manufacturers in determining site selec tion " The business association executive believes study results should t * an impor lard loot for those involved in Gov Vic Allyeh s efforts to promote economic recovery In a number of instances legislative action would go far toward Im proving the state s buaiaeu climate Florida Texas and Colorado are the (op three states in the new<*»l study While ifregon ranks Mth. only Washington < 17th) received a lower score among adjacent states California scored Mth. Idaho 14th Legislative Report from the Slab- Capital f XCLUSI VE Io Oregon's Weekly New.pa per* from Associated Oregon Industries and Nevada 13th Oregon's standing in each of the 22 measurement* follows State and local taxes per SI .(MM) of per tonal income 29th State and local government expenditure growth over three years, versus state and local government general revenue growth over three years 27th State and local government debt per capita 45lh State and local government public welfare expenditures per capita 31st Average unemployment compensation t*enefits paid per covered worker per year mth Net worth of state unemployment com pensatiun trust fund per covered worker 5th Maximum weekly payment for tern porary total disability under workers compensation insurance 40th Average workers' compensation in surance rate per tioo of payroll of selected manufacturing occupations 47th Annual average hourly manufacturing wage 44th « Percentage change over three years in annual average hourly manufacturing wage 21st Non agricultural labor union member ship per Ido non agricultural workers 33rd Percentage change over two years in non agricultural labor union membership per 100 non agricultural workers 12th Vocational education enrollment as a percentage of population 7th Average percent of estimated non agricultural working time lost due to work stoppages over two years .ttnd Fuel and electric energy cost per million BTLs lor manufacturers 17th State expenditures on environmental control as a percentage of total state ex penditures Mth Letters to the editor: ‘Don’t hit farmers to hurt Soviets’ The president’s trade sanctions against Russia for its part in the establish ment of m artial law in Poland was, according to President Reagan, an at tempt by the United States “ to speak for those who have been silenced and to help those who have been rendered helpless.” Once again our grain has been used as a sanction a g a in s t R u s s ia 's crackdown on freedom, and once again it has been more detrimental to our farmers than to Russia Russia will continue to get our grain at prices less than our farmer's cost of production Russia w ill continue to blatantly snuff out freedom, whenever it appears within it* sphere of influence Under previously signed agreements, Russia still has U S permission even encouragement to buy up to 23 million tons of our grain during I9R2 They will do so at below cost of pro duction Suspension of negotiations on further agreements only means Russia will become just another customer, like any other nation, on Sept. 30, I9H2 That means they can buy gram at rock bottom prices, just like the other countries do The president's grain sanctions aren't the first products It would be a time grain sales have been more effective way of com used in such manner When bating Soviet aggression R u ssia in v a d e d than sanctions that express A fg h an is tan . Presid en t indignation, but do little Carter imposed an em else bargo on grain sales to The legislation would Russia However. Russia have allowed the Secretary simply went to the nations of Agriculture to set a that originally had pur minimum price for export chased o ur g ra in a t commodities like wheat, giveaway prices. Foreign corn and soybeans It nations and international would allow the Secretary g rain companies made of Agriculture to collect the whopping profits from difference between free reselling grain we should market domestic price and have sold at higher prices m inim um export price. ourselves, This money then would be Wouldn't it make more stored in the Export Grain sense to charge Russia Bank and returned to more for our grain so our farmers pro-rata, based on farmers could make a pro their yearly production fit? Since Russia still can Why should we spend buy the grain anyway, wouldn’t higher prices be a billions of dollars to defend better sanction and make ourselves against Russia them spend their limited and then turn around and th e m g ra in at money supply on food, in s e ll stead of more weapons and giveaway prices? It's a monumental food stamp more oppression’ I have always felt it program for Soviet aggres would he better Better for sion. If fact, if American our farm er* Better for our fa r m e rs e x p o rte d a ll Russia s import needs for foreign policy That's why I d u rin g th is offered legislation last year w h e at marketing year, that sub to create an Export Grain Bank that would set prices sidy would pay for every man in its Afghanistan in for grain, which reflected our OPEC-like dominance vasion force! Or enough for the Soviet* to buy more of the international grain than 1,500 new tanks trade It would he a fair price for our farmers It U S Rep Jim Weaver would bring 120 million 4th District more dollars for our grain Aid helped T he Sandy P a re n t Teacher Club would like to take this opportunity to thank the local merchants of Sandy for their contribu tions to our chili carnival Our carnival was a suc cess. thanks to all the parents, teachers and com munity effort Mary Marshall P T.C president swim meet in which almost 100 y o u n g ste rs p ar ticipated, from ages five to fifteen Thank you, Sandy mer chants and Sandy Post, for your support and interest Peggie Hodge Officials chairman Resident proud Many thanks to the Sandy Rescue Unit and Alpine Ambulance for their expe diency and professionalism concerning our daughter’s accident February 7. In a recent article about Their concern during the the Blue Marlin Aquatic- call and expertise at the Club. the name of one of scene of the accident our sponsors inadvertently assured us our daughter was omitted The Blue was in the best of care. Marlins would like to thank Through the knowledge Griff's Longburger and all of th e ir p ro fe s s io n , of the other local mer understanding they showed chants who generously sup to our daughter and to us ported our recent swim and the concern for her meet A special note of condition after we brought thanks, also, should go to her home, we are even Scott Newton for his ex more proud to be citizens of cellent news coverage and such w o n d e rfu l and special interest in our thoughtful people of Sandy group of swimmers. David, Sandi and The Blue Marlin Aquatic Shana Strader Club is a non profit com munity group of parents LETTERS POLICY and youngsters open to The Post asks that anyone interested in swim all letters to the ming and swim competi e d ito r be ty p e d , tion at all levels Due to the double-spaced and community support we signed. Deadline is received, we were able to noon. Tuesday. host a very successful Marlins succeed Personally speaking: Dancing hen gets mountain burial Have you ever asked yourself what you would do. if your danc mg chicken died’ The death of a dancer was what I faced Jan 14, juat a few hours after my profile of this beauty- a black hanty hen—first was revealed to the world Dancer, that once ordinary winged bird who attempted to change her pro fession from egg layer to Broad way dancer parsed on To be honest, it was reality that finally struck me hard Here it was. nearly midnight It was around 25 degrees outside More than two feet of snow covered the ground I ¿ouldn t find my shovel, and I was going to have one beck of a time burying thia dancing chicken that migt have brought me fame and fortune I decided that an Indian-style burial was fitting for my late dan ring Chicken With hundreds of different native American burials to rhose from, I finally decided on one Clackamas Indians might have employed Their territory once ranged from where the mouth of the C la c k a m a s jo in s the Willamette to as far east as the summit of Mt Hood, north to the Columbia and south to what it now called High Rocks Prior to the arrival of the Hud son s Bay Company to these wilderness lands west of the Cascades, slave burials were common as drying huckleberries or spearing fish on horseback The warriors of the Clackamas by MICHAEL P. JONES would raid other tribes in the ter r ito r y . These included the M o la lla s , M u ltn o m a h » , Ca la pooi as and K la maths The warriors would take prisoners for slaves When their master died, those slaves would accompany him to the Happy Hunting Ground I abandoned that idea for another form of burial once employed by the tribe after the arrival o' fur trappers I was either going to bury Dancer in a canoe up a tree or tie her to a cross mounted high The canoe b u ria l seemed craxy First of all, I didn't have a cedar canoe or any other canoe for that matter Even if I did, 1 didn't fancy the idea of chopping a hole in the bottom This was a common practice back then because of pilfering pioneers who believed only their own graves deserved respect, I decided to bury the chicken Nez Pierce and Cayuse style. She d be buried on a crude ten- foot high wooden platform, sup ported by two poles Here she would be placed with all her worldly possessions, until she took the notion to make like a'skyw alker" and journey to the hereafter Having no desire to construct the burial perch in the snow. I set tied on a four foot metal barrel Since she had no possessions. I laid her to rest on a bed of bay with not much more than some egg mash and crushed oyster shells But as we stood there, no longer did this burial seem proper Per ched in the top of a tall Douglas fir were three ravens eyeing the stiff chicken Having seen what they do to "road kills. *’ I made a hasty retreat with the chicken's body back to my home to con template my next move. I took a walk to the small a n im a l g ra v e y a rd th a t highlighted a small clearing near a grove of trees Visible were on ly the top three inches of slab wood crosses that adorned the resting place of a conglomerate of chickens, ducks and my nearly life-long companion. Sheetawn Tonto Chicano Jones (or just plain “ black cat ") More than 4« hours now had passed since the chicken had died She had laid in “ state" on my back porch for all those who wanted to come and pay their last respects The mourners included raccoons, squirrels, a wild house cat, grossbeaks. swallows and even a bobcat. Determined, I cleared the two feet of snow away next to the grave of my cat and attacked the frozen ground Fifteen minutes .ater, I was lowering Dancer into her grave ’ covered her over with a pile of frozen dirt and two large buckets of stones Taking two iced-over pieces of slab- wood. I fashioned a cross and shoved it down through the pile of rocks However, not knowing what was proper to recite at the g ra v e s id e c e re m o n y a t a pauper's funeral. I decided to read the farewell poem on a 1JJ92 funeral plaque that contained names of my ancestors inscribed “ We loved them, yes, we loved them But angels loved them more, and they have silently call ed them to yonder shining shore “The golden gates were open ed. a gentle voice said Come,’ and with farewells unspoken, they calmly entered home." My dancing chicken finally was laid to rest The last official ordeal between the living and the dead finally was over
