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Vol. 72 No. 13 SANDY. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1982 (IS P S 481-IM» dingle Copy 25« Voters OK city levy, fail school proposal Clackamas County voters went to the polls Tuesday in a tight- fisted mood, approving only three levy requests countywide. The city of Sandy was one of the lucky ones as voters narrowly ap proved its 1418,219 request Sandy E le m e n ta ry D is tric t didn't fare as well with its budget request Voters turned down the $2 26 m illion levy by a 749-636 margin City officials were jubilant Mon day as they counted themselves among the fortunate “ I'm very happy that we had sufficient support to carry the election," Mayor Ruth Loundree said, “ and that we w ill continue in the same vein as provided in the budget " The failure of the countywide senior serial levy changed the ci ty's budgeting plans somewhat, but the result w ill not alter the way the city plans to operate There w ill be a meeting of the City Council and Budget Commit tee tonight at 7:30 p m to review the results of the election and finalize the 1982-83 budget “ If the senior levy had carried, we would have revised our budget,” Loundree said, “ The on ly thing now, we just can't spread around the money which was budgeted for the senior center ” Had the senior serial levy been approved, the city would have had an additional $28,582 to put into the c ity ’s operating expenses Loundree said the city w ill now place a tax base measure before the public at the November general election “We have to do it whether we want to or not." she said It has been mandated by the state that cities attempt to secure a tax base at regular intervals Had the senior serial levy pass ed. the city's senior center would have offered expanded services to parts of Boring, Damascus and Cottrell Its operating budget would also have jumped some $13,000, At the elementary d is tric t, nothing had been decided Wednes day morning as to what the district w ill do now Superinten dent Clark Lund was not available for comment In the races for the district's board of education positions, in cumbent Sharron Cox was re elected to fill out the remaining year on her appointed term She outpolled Geraldine Richardson 566-503 In the race for Position 5, a four- year term, retired Sandy teacher Dorothy Mills outdistanced two opponents. She polled 644 votes, Paul Hayball, 257, and William Lenon, 195. CITY OF SANDY SPECIAL LEVY Yes ....................................... 232 N o ............................................ 222 SANDY E L E M E N T A R Y DISTRICT LEVY Y e s .......................................... 636 No .......................................... 749 SANDY E L E M E N T A R Y DISTRICT BOARD POSITION NO. 4 Sharron M Cox 566 Geraldine Richardson ........ 503 CLACKAMAS COUNTY ESI) BOARD POSITION AT LARGE Keith Lindahl ...................... 8.205 Steven Woodall.................... 8,628 SAN DY E L E M E N T A R Y DISTRICT BOARD POSITION NO. 5 Paul Hayball .................... 257 W illiam W Lenon ................. 195 Dorothy M Mills ................... 644 CLACKAMAS COUNTY ESD BOARD POSITION NO. 5 Clayton W ills___ . . . . Unopposed COTTRELL SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD POSITION NO. 4 Linda Loomis ............Unopposed CLACKAMAS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES LEVY Y es....................................... 11,327 N o......................................... 15,316 MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COL LEGE SPECIAL LEVY Y es.......................................6,336 N o.........................................11.241 MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COL LEGE AT LARGE POSITION Gladys Brooke Brooks .........7,361 Glenn Otto ........................... 7.484 Students face suspension without shots Governor sets campaign stop at chamber Th*> number of students in the San dy area who need immunizations is well below the state and county averages, according to a local school nurse, A survey released last week in dicated that 15 percent of Oregon stu dent immunization records have been sent to the County Health Departments for secondary review In Clackamas County, the number is 13 percent Meanwhile, only 83 percent of local students have had their im munization records sent to the Coun ty Sandy High School is running a lit tle higher than that, said Joyce Kramer, school nurse for SUHS, Welches. Boring, Bull Run and Cot trell The elementary students are even further behind the statewide total, but that can be traced to recent em phasis on immunizations before entering school, she said. The prim ary screening by schools was completed March 14 Records found to have incomplete immuniza tions or insufficient information and lists of students with no records were forwarded to the Clackamas County Health Department for the secon dary review at that time, Kramer said. On April 5, parents of all students determined to be in non-compliance with the new statewide Immuniza tion Law w ill be mailed an Exclusion Order by the County Health Depart ment. This o rd e r o ffic ia lly n o tifie s parents that unless necessary action is taken, his or her child w ill not be permitted to attend school on or after April 21. Kramer said a County clinic that provides immunizations generally visits Sandy on the second Thursday of the month, April 8, which would give an opportunity to catch up on shots locally. However, she said, the problem of getting everyone immunized is so new, "yo u ’re kind of making up the procedure as you go along ” There w ill be another immuniza tion clinic at Sandy High School on April 14 from 8 a m to noon Parents are responsible to get their children immunized if they receive an Exclusion Order. Gov. Vic Atiyeh, Sheriff Paul M cAllister and Commissioner Stan Skoko w ill address the Sandy Chamber of Commerce this month. A student excluded for school on April 21 w ill be considered an unex cused absence. Nothing in law removes the responsibility of the school administrator to notify the district or county attendance super visor of such unexcused absences Index SECTION I Keeping Posted .......................3 Senior Center News 4 School Lunch Menus................ 5 Obituaries ............................... 5 Editorials. Letters ............. 6 Sports. Recreation ............. 7 8 SECTION II Area News................................1 Hood land Happenings.............4 About People .......................... 7 Classified Advertising ... 8-12 SECTION III TV Revue............... Inside Tab Atiyeh’s visit here w ill be noon, A pril 20, at Tollgate Inn for a re servations-only Chamber lu n cheon Luncheon tickets may be purchas ed at the door, but seating lim itation of 80 persons necessitates reserva tions through the Chambers office, 668-4006 Clackamas County Sheriff Paul M cAllister w ill address the Chamber and visitors noon, A pril 13, at TolIgaU* In n .' Clackamas County Commissioner Stan Skoko w ill visit Tollgate Inn noon, April 27 Next Tuesday, Sandy Economic Development Commission Chairman George Morgan w ill address the Chamber on the Commission's three- year study S ta ff photo Sandy police officer Ed King gathers information from a driver involved in this fender bender Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Proctor Boulevard and Meinig Avenue. There were no injuries. Names of the drivers were not available at press time. The general public is welcome at these C ham ber noon luncheon meetings, according to program chairman Darrell Dempster. Water users fear *1.75 million loan application by MICHAEL P. JONES Post Correspondent A federal judge last week ordered the Farmers Home Administration to accept pre-application of a $1.75 m illion loan by the Alder Creek Water Company’s receiver FHA was ordered to accept the pre application as if it came from the customers of the new five special water districts themselves The order, signed by U.S D istrict Judge Gus Solomon, modifies the original terms of the receivership of Gene Ginther who took over opera tions in September 1986 The order instructs Ginther to “ submit the pre application to the Farmers Home Administration on behalf of the Alder Creek Water Com panies and any district or districts which may be formed for the purpose of operating and controlling such drinking water systems .’’ The Alder Creek Water Users Association is calling the decision “ Mt. Hood’s own Aldergate ” “ This is Aldergate* and there is no other way to describe it," said Jock Stewart, chairman of the association “ This is something that happens in Poland, not in the United States “ Whoever heard of a federal judge initiating a process which could ram a loan down people's throats who don’t want it in the first place?" he asked Stewart said the five special water districts w ill not be officially in operation until July At that time the districts w ill prepare plans to correct problems or rebuild any of the systems, if need be. No one has the right to go out and borrow money that somebody else w ill have to pay back, he said Stewart charged that Ginther is trying to recover money which he claims is owed from his acting as receiver That figure is reportedly approximately $200,000 FHA EXPLAINS Larry Spendler, of FHA, said M ar vin Price, Ginther's administrative assistant, filed part of the pre application package March 9—two days b e fo re the P o rtla n d Metropolitan Boundary Commission approved the five water districts. He said Price was informed at that time that Ginther is not eligible for an FHA loan because he doesn't qualify The pre-application was sub mitted anyway To qualify, Spendler said, the ap plicant “ must be a legal entity,” such as a water district, a cooperative, a non-profit corporation or any group that is non-profit. Also, the applicant "must be cu r rently serving a given rural water area whose facilities are located in that same rural area, with a popula tion being served that is less than 10,000 persons " “ Mr Ginther is not an eligible appli cant and (he and the courts» are aware of it," Spendler said “ (The pre-application form ) is nothing but a piece of paper.” Although he has not seen the federal order, Spendler said he would have concerns if such an order would require his agency to accept such an application my knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened, at least not in Oregon," he said. ALARM SAID UNFOUNDED FHA Regional A ttorney Arno Reifenberg, however, said his agen cy has no choice bu to accept the fe d e ra l o rd e r and the p r e application, however, that doesn’t necessarily mean Ginther w ill get his $1.75 million loan. The water users, he said, “ may be fearing too many devils" because G inther's move is only a pre application, not the actual applica tion. According to Reifenberg, the FHA w ill talk to those who would pay back the loan and use the service He said the FHA "w ill not pay for a Cadillac system, when a Chevy w ill do the jo b ," Stewart disagrees. He contends that Reifenberg may be playing down the seriousness of the situation because "every story has a beginn ing Reifenberg said that in more than 30 years with the agency, he has seen nothing like this before "T h e q u e stio n is ," sa id Reifenberg. “ can the federal court order Ginther to make an application and then order the FHA to accept the application, plus pay for not only Gin ther’s proposed water system, but all the money owed to him ” He doesn’t believe FHA funds can be used to pay off a back debt. Stewart, in the meantime, said the federal order unified the water customers and they are prepared to take the case all the way to the U.S. Court of Appeals, if need be He said the people are “ raising money to battle ‘Aldergate' right within the federal court system “ This case deals with not only the violation of individual rights, but also states’. Here we have the federal government intervening in what is a state case since the new water districts are under state jurisdiction and the quality of the systems are under the state Health Department," Stewart said A hearing has been tentatively scheduled for U S District Court in 30 days to listen to the concerns of the water users. Rhododendron woman in House race Carolyn Smith, Democratic can didate for House D istrict 23, got in volved in Oregon politics "because our future generations are entitled to the same high quality lifestyle that we have enjoyed " Towards that goal, the Rhododen dron resident said, “ I would support le g isla tio n to encourage sm all businesses which are our economic backbone " She said she would back all efforts to attract high technology industry to the state which is. compatible with Oregon's “ high-quality way of life ." The state's greatest asset is the natural resources she said " I would encourage alternate forest products usage to diversify the industry and provide more jobs," Smith said She cited recovering and recycling logging slash for both chips and fuel as an example of utilizing what is generally considered forest waste Quality education, Smith said, is essential to the state's economic growth. Diversified education, on both community and state levels, must be provided to secure people jobs, she said Smith said she supports services which allow the elderly, handicapped and d is a d v a n ta g e d " t o help themselves " She advocates the hospice pro gram, in home care, senior services and tax incentives for hiring the han dicapped Smith wants a balanced budget, hut would not support an "In e quitable sales tax " “ I do not represent any special in terest groups, but rather all the in Carolyn Smith terests of the com m unity," she said. Smith la active in community ac tivities. She is chairman of the Welches Community School Advisory Committee, a member of the Moun tain Community Park Association She is also active in planning issues serving on the steering com mittee for the Mt Hood Natural Resources Coalition and serving as vice chairman for the Environmental Committee on Suitability. A 1971 graduate of the University of C a lifo rn ia -B e rke le y in p o litic a l theory. Smith has been a resident of the new House District since 1974 She operated a small business in Estacada for five years and said she learned first-hand the problems (hat small businessmen must deal with. Smith has two sons, Nathan, 6, and Justin, 3.
