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