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Single Copy 25' Vol. 72 No. 15 Second son charged with father’s slaying Prevention set on fire losses, education plan The younger son of the Sandy chiropractor whose body was found floating in the Sandy River March 5 has been cleared of murder charges k the case by DAN DILLON They say the three legged stool is the steadiest foundation because it is solid with the ground. The Sandy Eire District is taking that approach with a three pronged plan of attack to increase awareness of fire prevention techniques in the district. Eire Marshal Jim Gallagher spent the past month studying fire loss history in the Sandy district during the past four years and decided on objectives the district can follow to reduce the number of fires in it boun daries Gallagher spelled out inspection, investigation and education as the keys to a successful fire prevention program “ With a full inspection program, you can use a fire code which tells how you can use. maintain and pro tect a building," he said A fire code would give the district authority to make inspections. Cur rently inspections are done only by request. "We can expand our fire investiga tion program ," he said, "p rim a rily in relation to arson type fires by developing a closer working relation ship with the state police " Finally, the district w ill take what it learns and give that to the public in a series of educational opportunities Gallagher sees the three tying neatly together “ We have to know what caused yesterday s fire ," he s a id , “ so we can p re v e n t tom orrow 's" with inspection and education Gallagher's proposal is a nine- point plan that was presented to the Fire D istrict Board Tuesday night. The leading cause of fires since 1978 has been electrical failure, ac counting for 19.2 percent of the d is tric t’s blaze. The fire marshal's first proposal would be initiation of a program on identifiable electrical fire cause problems The program could be taken to elementary and high schools through home economics and shop classes, he said, along with adult education Wood stove installation and faulty maintenance caused 23 5 percent of the d istrict’s fires in the time period and Gallagher recommends expan ding the Wood Stove Inspection Pro gram Currently, he said, he does 25-30 inspections a month and a new printing was just completed of the wood stove pamphlet Arson fires accounted for 15.4 per cent of the districts fire alarms and G allagher can see th a t being eliminated with a strong investiga tion process that catches the arsonist and discourages future set fires He would develop a program th ro u g h d r iv e r e d u ca tio n and automotive classes that would teach students to know the signs of poten tia l vehicle fires, which accounted for 21 8 percent of the district's fires since 1978 One qu a rte r of the d is tric t's responses were to unauthorized burns, Gallagher said. That may not even be a true picture because many times, he said, the fire chief or duty officer goes out to the scene himself without a fire truck Gallagher sees the need for a tougher district policy on unlawful burning, to eliminate the need for district firefighting apparatus being on the road. "We re talking about something that's 25 percent of our responses," he said "W e’re talking about signifi cant figures and we are a volunteer fire department. The efforts of the fire prevention program are to get (fires) on a declining basis " And with remaining a volunteer department a major part of the district's master plan, the district's fire prevention efforts become more important. Index ■ « SECTION I Keeping Posted .......................2 Senior Center News 4 School Lunch Menus ............ 4 Editorials, Letters ............ 6 Sports. Recreation ............ 7 8 SECTION II Area News .............................. 1 Hoodland Happenings ... 2 Home and Garden .............. 4 About People.......................... 5 Classified Advertising........7-11 SECTION II I TV Revue............... Inside Tab That came five days after his older brother, who had earlier been im plicated. was charged w ith the shooting Sandy Police Chief Fred Punzel a r rested 19-year-old Harvey Hayden Hazelett on April 8 for the murder of his father. Hubert Harold Hazelett, 52. E a r lie r p o lice had a rre s te d Herbert Harlan Hazelett, 17, at the fam ily home March 5 for the murder and held him at the Donald E. Long Juvenile Home in Portland. Tuesday m o rn in g , Clackam as County Circuit Court Judge Charles Sams acted on a juvenile court peti tion against Herbert Hazelett and dismissed charg i against him, said Janine O'Neill, of the Clackamas County district attorney’s office She said the petition was made after further investigation in the case resulted in last Thursday’s arrest of the elder Hazelett son No further charges w ill be sought by the state against the younger Hazelett. Punzel said He has been released from custody. Harvey Hazelett had been arrested March 17 and arraigned on charges of hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence and unlawful removal of a body in connection with the case Those charges were dropped after the murder charge was filed. An autopsy showed that the elder Hazelett died from single gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen and multiple head injuries Harvey Hazelett is now being held in the Clackamas County Jail without bail Water users seek help, get no sure answers by DAN DILLON Just maybe the Easter bunny’s helpers left one egg in here, thinks four-year-old Nathanael Miller of Dodge Park as he searches for Easter eggs among the dozens of empty egg cartons stacked by Sandy Kiwanis members last Saturday in Meinig Park. Hundreds of children attended. A t Sandy library County tie-in seen with computers by DAN DILLON Patrons of Sandy Public Library w ill have access to more than 250,000 titles in the near future That's quite a jump from the 15,000 titles that currently rotate through the local facility. The boost w ill come with the in stallation of a computerized catalog and circulation system in the library that w ill link Sandy with 33 other libraries countywide " I think it’s going to add a lot to what we can do for the public," Librarian Sue Newlands said this week. " I t w ill give us an opportuniy to work more directly with the public because we w ill not have to be so in volved w ith the labor-intensive chores.” Those chores, which include billing for overdue books, filing in the card catalog and weeding out the collec tion, w ill be done by the computer That w ill be important because Sandy Public Library is growing. The library circulation in 1979 was 38,820 That increased to 46,856, or about 21 percent, in 1980. In 1981, the circulation jumped another 32 per cent to approximately 62,000. "Obviously, all the labor-intensive tasks associated with operation of a lib ra ry increase proportionately w h ile s ta ff le v e ls re m a in e d constant,” Newlands said. The automated system works by putting complete bibliographic in fo r mation and patron identification into the computer A code is attached to all lib ra ry materials and each in dividual's library card "Once our collection is converted, nearly every aspect of operating the library w ill be made more efficient, productive and cost effective," she said. Cost of installation w ill be approx imately $8.000 and include three te r minals, one of which w ill be for patron use. Maintenance of the system w ill cost the city approx imately $1,500 annually. " I f we were to hire one additional full-time equivalent employee to the library staff, it would cost the city about $13,000 a year," Newlands said. " I ’m very doubtful that one ad ditional person could accomplish what automation w ill." The lib ra ry w ill go through a 10-day shutdown in early summer when the computers are installed to give local librarians some hands-on experience and allow them time to code in the 15,000-plus titles in the Sandy library When it reopens, the county's whole lib ra ry system w ill be the library for locals with the a bility to get a book, if it is in at another library, becoming practically over night with daily van service between the 33 sites countywide Total conversion to all county sites is expected to take from 12 to 18 mon ths The potential presence of federal funds makes the Alder Creek water problem a bit tricky, US. Rep Den ny Smith, R-Ore., told represen tatives of the Alder Creek Water Users Association Saturday. Because the Mt Hood corridor s itu a tio n is unique n a tio n a lly , however, the freshman congressman told the group, "Hopefully, we can help stop it at this point," before it goes into the court process. In Sandy for a town hall meeting, Smith told the audience of 40, " I f we get government back to the local level so people know what the money they're being taxed is for, they w ill know that it's being well spent.” The Water Users Association has been embroiled in the controversy surrounding the Alder Creek Water Company since the group formed in November 1981 to provide its own solutions to longtime questions about water suitability. Now, the association is concerned that a $1.75 m illion federal loan could be forced on the group by the man ap pointed receiver for the company in September 1980 Gene G in th e r, a B e a ve rto n engineer, has made pre-application to Farmers Home Administration for the money to upgrade the five water districts in the system and repay his own expenses. The association has fought it, but a federal judge ordered FmHA to ac cept pre-application on the loan. Smith, who has introduced a plan to freeze federal spending for two years until the federal budget is balanced, would be happy to keep the money in federal coffers. His plan, the Smith-Grassley Pro posal. would allow Congress to only spend a much money as it takes in and no more " I f you can’t afford to spend, you don’t do it," he explained. He denied charges that his pro posal would put a lid on benefits. Rep. Denny Smith "W ith the budget situation and with growing unemployment, we have to increase payments because they’ve been paid in,” he said Smith feels the reduction in in fla tion which has taken place should help lim it hardship on Social Security recipients. Also, he feels his proposal would help restore solvency to the system. Responding to charges that the proposal is politically motivated in an election year, Smith admitted that despite the freeze there are any number of things that could overrule the it, such as a war, and give Con gress the open pocketbook it has drawn from in the past The congressman, who is seeking election in the new 5th Congressional D istrict, criticized the Congress for not making "lough decisions." but defended it against charges that basic services for the elderly and in firm are being slashed " I have to stand on the fact that b a sic s e rv ic e s a re be in g maintained." Smith said Sheriff sees improvement, but effort may fall short by VON BRASCHLER Sheriff Paul M cAllister of Sandy told the Chamber of Commerce here Tuesday his department is gearing up with more trained officers, a com puterized crim e lab, a narcotics team and a larger ja il. He also said the effort may come up short " I ’d be first to say we're not pro viding the kind of protection we should." he said, "but in a couple months our new officers w ill be all trained and out there " A special levy last year funded the sheriff's department back to its 1977 strength with 32 new officers It also funded a $900,000 computer for crime analysis and enlargement of the crowded county ja il to 122 beds Unfortunately, M cAllister said the expanded county ja il when com pleted won't be big enough. " It's got so bad, I've had to call some municipalities and ask them not to incarcerate, unless they ab solutely have to ," he said. The present 72-capacity ja il houses 120-130 prisoners on a Friday night Some 70 percent of them are sentenc ed prisoners, while a few years ago some 70 percent of county ja il oc cupants would be awaiting trial. "When we open the front door, we have to run some out the back door," M cAllister said A proposed $60 million state bond this year would fund the first new security center built in this state since 1958 with a facility for state prisoners somewhere in the t r i county area Also proposed is another 150 bed fa c ility to in carcerate county prisoners from C la c k a m a s , M u ltn o m a h and Washington Counties. "O ur county is very, very ripe for drug enforcement," M cAllister said "Hey, it's in the grade schools I t ’s in the junior high. I know this personal ly. We want to go after where i t ’s coming from and cost them some money " The new sheriff said the depart ment is a stricter, tougher bunch of county cops who seek greater coun tywide visibility. The department fielded 19 cars on county roads last Friday. That in cluded reserves and sergeants who now pull road duty. The d e p a r tm e n t’ s 32 new members- hand picked from 844 ap plicants, have undergone new s tr in g e n t p h y s ic a l e xa m s and background investigations in place of psychological tests. Sheriff McAllister himself trim m ed down to set a department stan dard “ I t 's a m a zin g how th e y ’ ve responded," McAllister said of his men "They’ve lost hundreds of pounds." The recruits are cross-trained to serve in all department operations, McAllister said " I inherited a can of worms, in all honesty," McAllister said "W e’ve cleaned up our mess I'm not a head hunter, but we do treat everyone the same now in terms of enforcement." The new sheriff’s levy also has enabled the department to add three dogs to sniff out narcotics and bombs Bomb threats are prevalent lately in the co u n ty—p a rtic u la rly the Oregon City area The sh e riff departm ent’s new crime analysis computer has proved inexpensive at $900,000 compared to Lane County’s $8 m illion computer system, M cAllister said, He’s also proud of its progress with two former deputies as p ro g ra m m e rs and Multnomah County looking over their shoulder for example M cAllister said the county recently moved its only satellite precinct from Estacada to Sandy to escape gas securement limitations and security problems “ The n ig h t I to ld th e ir (Estacada's) city council we were going to move from there, we had eight tires slashed," M cAllister said. "That points up the problem right now." He credited Sandy Police Chief Fred Punzel with popularizing a new kind of light in patrol cars that’s sav ing county deputies money on flashlight batteries M cA llister said deputies were spending $2,000 per year on flashlight batteries, with most batteries disap pearing around Christmas time. "We now have a better light, and it saves money." he said. Identity told o f man found at Roslyn Lake last week The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department this week released the identity of the Portland man found last week at Roslyn I^ake. Quentin Verne lies, 33, was found in the early morning of A pril 6 slumped against his car at the lake on Thomas Road According to Det. Loren Peterson of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department, it was determined that lies died from self-inflicted wounds, including cuts According to sheriff's department reports, lies’ vehicle had been seen in the area the previous evening at ap proximately 10:30 p m ,
