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The Sdntíy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Braschler, Publisher Caroline Duff. Office Manager Oar» Dillon, Editor Scott Newton, News Editor SANDY OREGON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25 1982 Post office sites don’t conform Som etimes it seem s big brother government is just too big and busy to listen to folks in little towns like Sandy. So it seem s with Postal Service picks for possible expansion sites in Sandy. Despite pleas from city hall and elder citizens, the feds who make the decision down the road have their eyes of three sites outside the downtown core area. We’re not saying the Scenic Fruit site, Tupper Park site or west highway site near Paola’s wouldn’t make great locations for a new post office in Sandy. The ci ty’s many seniors, tired of walk ing, said it already. So did the rest of the town in a municipal com prehensive plan that calls for maintaining a strong downtown core. They deserve to be heard After all, it’s their town and their post office. Som e m ay argue th a t economics in a free marketplace dictates best use for land. Is a cer tain corner lot better used for parking or a gas station? Let money talk. Oregon communities, however, h ave e le c te d to plan their neighborhoods more personally and more carefully. A lot of public testimony and grassroots involve ment goes into a city comprehen sive plan like that in Sandy. Federal bureaucrats down the road should respect their deci sions when they com e to town. Bike safety should be taught here Why send a child into the street, if it’s not safe? Parents knowingly do this cuily, when they send kids not trained in bike safety into traf fic. Young bicyclists on the wrong side of the road, weav ig across roads and riding wi .hout lights or r e f le c t o r s , h a v e b e c o m e a frightening sight all too common here. The sam e parents, who’d think it irresponsible to let an untrained youth of 16 behind the wheel of a two-ton car, worry little about let ting an untrained biker of 10 onto the road. The Sandy area boasts many fine organizations that promote safe cycling, and some even offer bicycle inspections and tips to young riders We have bike rodeos, bike-a-thons, bike con tests and bike clubs. What’s needed here, however, is a group willing to educate all y o u n g ste r s—perh ap s through schools—how to ride safely in traffic and observe sane rules of the road. Perhaps city or county reserve police could assist. Someone will have to print the handouts and ar range large audiences, though. It’s imperative every young bicyclist get the words, because it could mean a life. It could mean a lot, too, for the motorist who runs down a wrong-way child some night at dusk. Think about it. Then have a friendly chat with your child—and that neighbor boy who drives you crazy on his bike. Salem scene: Businessmen wrestle odds by JACK ZIM M E R M A N Aasociated Oregon Induatrie« Last Wednesday was a big news day in .Salem Moat of it was bad, however Gov Vic Atiyeh, responding to another 5100 million in deficits, chose a Capitol news conference to reveal his latest plan Legislative Report from the State Capital for balancing the ailing state budget E XC LU SI VE Io O e q o n s Weekly Ncw-.pa The Employment Division announced p e n (ro m A s v x i a t r d (Jreqon In d u s trie s the highest total number of unemployed workers since 1952 We blamed Inflation and existed for the The L iq u o r C ontrol Com m ission moat part in a time of plenty reported significant declines in the sales of That wa* particularly true of the hard liquor and beer. Legislature The state income tax seemed Banks were boosting the interest rate for a never ending source of funds, capable of p rim e b o rro w ers paying for whatever new ro'e government Also, business leaders met in the capital might aasume Things got to the point by city to launch an examination of economic the late Seventies where lawmakers pluses and minuses in search for ways to figured they had enough surplus fund* improve the state's job climate from income tax collection* Therefore, All events were connected Only the last they could give a little of it hack and divert might have been construed as good news many millions more into providing proper The G overno r's budget balancing ty tax relief, message listed a variety of spending cuts In fact, the 1979 I^egialature's tax relief and revenue raisers the latter including a package waa in the neighborhood of 5700 boost in personal income taxes, a property million more than twice the deficit facing tax shift and a higher levy on beer and the record long special session in Salem wine He already had raised taxes on hard All that money came about primarily liquor because people w ere w o rkin g Newcomer* Biggest reason for the state's budgetary were flocking to our state, and they were deficit is the projected shortfall in Income finding jobs Inflation pushed wage* tax revenue caused by soaring unemploy hig h e r, and m ore and more dollars flowed m ent into state coffers, as workers ascended Declining borne sales caused some from one level to the next in the state’s speculation whether additional taxes graduated Income tax structure would produce the desired amount of First sign of the crunch to-come was reven ue when projected revenue began to level off. Rising interest rates also appeared to when the majority of workers found preclude any acceleration of home themselves in the top bracket Still, building activity that might rejuvenate millions were coming in. and lawmakers Uregn'a depresserl forest products in continued to spend The present state of dustry the economy was predicted so far in ad Several years ago. Gov Atiyeh began vance (and was so long in coming* that reminding iYegimiana one has to have spenders appeared unable to believe it ac eggs to make omelets The allegory ig tually would happen. n o ted by m a n y listen ers now has become Now everyone hunger* for the omelet painfully clear to psaiple who find it dif daya, and the Capitol is filled with people flcult to afford egg* looking for egg» The situation isn't unique to Oregon That’s why the Job Climate Task Force Many »talas are struggling with budget that met in Salem last week can be called deficits in the current nationwide rocea good news It* members hope to publicize sion < ongreaa is having its own budgetary good things that can produce new and ex problems panded taxable payrolls They also I »ope to Even in a slate accustomed to economic find ways to change the bad thing* that peak* and valleys because of its major tend to cloud our job climate Some of economic dependence on forest prodta ts. tboae changes will require legislative ac the present state of affairs appears tion Hopefully, those who serve in the 1983 without precedent Legislature w ill he willing to take in history has thia state's whatever action is necessary been confronted with a pro While they deliberate let's hope they jaded deficit of t » 7 million. AUyeh said also take a look at the size of Ute govern ment the Legislature has created Total That's a lot of money Simply realizing •pending from the state s general fund 10 its a lot of money might provide fuel for op year* agu was only »lightly more than tim ts m Many of mb can recall when I I twice the sise of the current deficit < 57M I million waa a staggering sum Multi million I. m illion dollar figures followed, then Some 90 years ago. total spending wa* wan trillions Moat of ua just about the tam e (K»6 5 million), as the Io tile proliferating sereoa amount we re in Ute rod today. Letters to the editor: Land-use, religion, war scrutinized Town splitting? As a concerned citizen of Sandy. I'm very glad that our city officials are happy these days about the way things are turning out with plans for grow th and business But how long can we stay happy about progress, when we hear the post of fice plans to move out of the center of town, while ci ty representatives nor citizens have a vote in Ute s e le c tio n ? S h o u ld n 't we--Ute people who live in this city, pay taxes and support it—have some say’ By moving our govern mental buildings to the out skirts of the city. Ute heart of our original city Is sentenced to a slow but sure death. Business in the c e n te r w ill d e c lin e , buildings will decay, no in vestor will take a second look and the passerby will carry home a sad story of the new ghost-town, Sandy O u r s e n io r c itiz e n s especially will suffer by feeling more dependent on others with cars Most of them live, out of necessity, close to Ute center I know our city still has quite a few sites available in Ute middle of town, which are very suitable to be the location of our po«t office of Ute future These sites are level, most of them do not need additional traffic lights and some are eye sores of the town, which could be put to use Elvira Muff Sandy Mormons respond establish We stand on these truths and other revealed doc trine as the Church of Jesus Christ We claim no p ro testa nt ism, no sectism and no cultism Indeed, we deny them We are The Restored Church of Jesus Christ (2 Thes 2 3, Acts 3:19-11). T h e tr u th and the understanding about Mor mons best can be learned by sincere investigation of the church itself, with the d o c trin e s and fa c ts presented by the Lord’s ap pointed servants It is true of any organization that serves the truth that they are best represented by one of their own number who is knowledgeable—in other words, their spokesman We are open to such in vestigation Indeed, we in vite it These remarks are given not for deniion. but with the intent to inform and estsablish our proper place and image Max B Holbrook 2nd Counselor Gresham Oregon Stake Presidency I respond to an article in the Sandy Post Feb 11, 1982, Page 3, en titled ‘ Series on Cults Set ” In the article, several organizations are singled out by Ute Rev John Van Lierop as being cults and sects Among them is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (M or mon). Under the definition of cults and sects given by Rev Van L ie ro p , the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Mor- man) is neither We, the Mormons, are a c h u rc h founded upon apostles and prophets, with Jesus Christ as chief cor ner stone (Eph 2:20), We accept Jesus Christ as our personal savior and as savior of Ute world We belong to His church and work out our eternal salva tion on the basis of repen tance and baptism, which he sent his apostles into the The prospect of another w o rld to tea ch and Vietnam type war in El Another Vietnam Salvador fills many of us with loathing and adds to our fears of a nuclear war Were the president and Sec of State Haig not con strained by public opinion, we would surely have Marine or Army un'ts there now, upholding the weak Duarte government with its dominant m ilitary and death squads Sec. Haig speaks of Rus sian penetration, but the only foreign soldiers and foreign aircraft in the El Salvador civil w ar are ours We provide the great bulk of arms and money that keeps the war going President Reagan and Sec. Haig have properly and indignantly assailed the Russians for crushing freedom in Poland, their client state The dead in El S alv ad o r cry out the crushing of freedom by our client government in El Salvador T h e R u ssian s h ave General Jaruzelski acting for them in Poland. We h ave G e n e ra l G a rc ia dominating the El Salvador government and leading the repression there Our present national stance of leading the arms race, beligerant talk, spen ding o u rs e lv e s into bankruptcy (5208 billion in 1982) on nuclear bombs and their delivery systems all seem to me to point to a dead end, contrary to the fine ideals we profess and the religious convictions we hold The whole idea of using m ilita ry force to solve human problem s in a nuclear age is something approaching insanity. We and the Russians have painted ourselves into a nuclear corner W Pete Sulzbach Sandy Get shots I was very pleased with the parents and students who completed their im munization at our clinics T h u rs d a y, F rid a y and Monday. There still are many at the high school who are not complete and much fewer at the grade schools March 12 I must send Clackamas County Health Department records on ail students who still are in complete Then parents will be dealing with the H e alth D e p a rtm e n t in Oregon City after exclusion notices are sent So, please—for my sake as w ell as yo u rs—get records in! For more infor mation, call me at school, Joyce Kram er SUHS school nurse Personally speaking Wild remarks earn locals awards I believe it's time some people in the community were honored for saying or doing outrageous things Without these brave, crazed soles, we at The Post would have even less interesting things to put in the newspaper. It ts with this in mind that I am starting the Two Swipe Award*, The winner* of these ( soon-to-be * coveted awards are entitled to two swipes of my orange flavored Chap Stick These awards, in adherence to Post policy, will be given at e r ratic intervals to avoid any op portumty for consistency Two Swipes go to the Jack Naugher family for improving in te rn a tio n a l c o m m u n ica tio n When Cathy Jeudi of France visited Ute family last fall as part of a North Atlantic Cultural Ex change League program, she told the Naughers that she needed to buy some cowboy boots for her brother When asked. Jeudi M id he would need a size 43 "We narrowed it down to a 10,” Joyce Naugher said Two Swipes to Marge Brown of the Mountain Players for hones ty In explaining the formation of the Players, she began. "We were all sitting at the bar. like Two Swipes to John Smith, assistant football coach, for being cool under pressure As the Pioneers ran out the clock in the closing minutes against Silver by SCOTT NEWTON ton, Smith was having quarter back Mitch Paola wait for his signal before starting the plays One time it didn't work, and the referee called a delay-of-game penalty "How long do we have,” Smith asked The referee told him 25 seconds "We got it off in Smith M id, holding up his wrist and showing his watch. ” 1 have a Timex tliat never stops ticking " Two Swipes to lineman-turned running back Bob Weyer for pay ing attention He picked up a fum ble and ran it 35 yards during Sandy's 4 3 « erup tion over Molalla Two Swipes to Darby Binder, Sandy cross country standout, for her description of the state meet She M id, "Everybody's always trampled and pushed around, spiked " I t ’s great, a lot of fun ” Two Swipes to Jim Buckelew. who makes and sells wooden toys. He M id he thought about putting a sign above his booth at the Saturday Market in Portland that would read: "M ad e in Oregon from Oregon wood by a damned oT Texan ” Two Swipes to Ron Calhoun, wrestling coach, on the progress of Chris Jones, who was involved in a tragic car accident “ Yesterday he showed his greatest sign of improvement,” Calhoun M id in early December "He ate part of a hamburger ” Two Swipes to Dan Martin, SUHS senior, for telling it like it is. He was ta lk in g about wreatlers that run from him to avoid being pinned ” ! hate chas ing 'em " Two S w ip es fo r Anna Carpenter, defense attorney in the Santa Claus trial, which was a project of !>en Eaton's street law class After the jury found Kris Kingle guilty. Judge Bryan Noe asked if Uie defense had any final statem ents Said Carpenter: "Naw . what the heck'*” T w o S w ip es to B e v e rly Stonebrook, the woman who is allergic to Christmas tactually, »he s allergic to the wreaths end flower arrangements common to the season*. She M id, " I love the Christmas season and the Christmas greens, but being allergic to them is get ting to be more than I can handle ” Two Swipes to Robert Karsten, coach of the wild and crazy ski team at SUHS, for the way he handled the boys fourth place finish in a meet at Timberline They wore their turtlenecks too tight and choked," he M id Two Swipes to wrestler Mike Rohweder, who outscored his op ponent from Estacada M in the third period for a 20-15 win His topsy-turvy, high-scoring m at ches are great for the spectators Two Swipes more to Ron Calhoun for a description of the wrestling team a few weeks ago "We re just nothing but the walk ing wounded around here,” he said Two Swipes to the Sandy boys basketball team for keeping things interesting They remain ed in the thick of the league race two weeks ago, winning one game in two overtimes and dropping anotlier in four Two Swipes to Ed Storey, assia tan t vice president at the Clackamas County Bank, who tackled and held the first man to rob the bank in its 71-year history Keep on M ying and doing crazy things, folks. We’re not proud Why should you be?
