The Snnety Post
i Editorial & Opinion
Von Braschler, Publisher
Caroline Duff. Office Manager
Don Dillon. Editor
Scott Newton, News Editor
SANDY. OREGON, THURSDAY. MAY 13. 1982
School tax base and candidates prompt mail
Defeat tax base
Sandy High School tax
base proposal should be
voted down May 18 The
D a ir\ Queen economics of
S u p e rin te n d e n t P ete rs
claims the increase will on
ly cost you a hamburger a
week This also translates
into two month's electric
bill one studded tire, or 85
baby feedings per year
And remember, you high
school tax already is a
yearly cost ol .TOO gallons of
furnace oil or two root
canals, 6, imio miles of gas
for your < ar or a year’s
supply of insulin
This year's high school
budget calls for a levy of
13,019.327, an increase of 43
percent over the current
levy The proposed tax
base, if approved, would
allow the district to levy
$3,567,000 which could
allow the levy to rise 70 per
cent in only two years
The high school ad
ministration says it will tie
its increases to the con
sum er
p ric e
in d ex ,
resulting in an annual levy
of $3,567,000 by 1985-86
Don’t ever helieve it If the
funds are available, they
will be used By adopting
this tax base, the levy can
legally balloon to more
than $4 million by 1985 96
without ever again having
to get voters' approval
Let's kill this tax base
May 18 Then, when the
budget election comes up in
June, let's take a keen look
at that
It is generous
enough to employ all 19
teachers they threatened to
discharge, and to a c
comodate a better than 8
percent ra is e for the
teachers.
D is r e g a r d
the
ad
ministration's irresponsi
ble wailing about closing
the school Let the ad
m in is tr a tio n
propose
budgets and bases that
reflect consideration for
the troubled taxpayers,
and let's live within the 6
percent limitation Mean
while, elections are cheap,
compared to the taxes we’ll
save.
Milton M Fox
Brightwood
Pass tax base
There
is a crossroads
time in every l if e - a time
when each person stands at
the brink of falling into a
life that is drifting, un
productive and menial The
other path has direction
and conscience and goals.
Schools, whatever their
shortcomings, can and are
providing the tools and the
direction for most young
people
Even
those
students who criticize their
school do so because
teach ers helped them
develop critical thinking
ability and a sense of civil
justice
Sandy High has a sur
prisingJy large number of
o u ts ta n d in g te a c h e rs
C ount
am on g
th em
R ich ard Kennedy who
coaxes adult thinking from
a d o le s c e n t m in d s in
American literature Alan
L ’Hommedieu nudges pro
ductivity and responsibility
from forestry students
Barbara Beehier exacts
s ta n d a rd s of p ro fe s
sionalism from secretarial
students. G ary Adams'
social studies students ac
cept social responsibility
These te a c h e rs a re
among the vast majority
Editorial opinion:
Roads need cent more tax
Increased taxes--even a pen
ny sound plenty unpopular this
ele. ;
One sm all request for a
penny in cre ase in gas ta x,
however, w arrants support May
18.
D rivers who dodge the potholes
and curse the chutkholes in
C lackamas County know what we
mean
Oregonians have beaten their
public roads to death, while enjoy
ing one of the lowest gas tax rates
in the nation As a result, nearly
20,(MX) miles of Oregon’s roads are
substandard by national stan
dards.
I ack of road maintenance takes
its toll on everyone Bad roads
also pound the fa m ily car into ear
ly and costly repairs. Not su rp ris
ingly, too accidents are linked to
th e s e bad roads on which 56 per
cent of all d rivin g occurs.
A pproxim ately 8, (XX) miles of
Oregon roads suffer pavement
th a t’s cracked or broken. Some
17,(XXi miles of county and city
roads need work.
Each w inter that repairs are
postponed, roads d e te rio ra te
more and cost of repair grows
more staggering.
Ballot Measure 4 asks only a
penny more tax per gallon in step
increments during the next three
years—from 8 cents to 11 cents by
1984 A penny more per gallon
would cost you only $6.67 a year, if
you average 18 miles per gallon
for 12,000 miles.
You’d get a lot for your money,
to o . T h a t s m a ll in c re a s e
statewide would raise $21 m illion
more each year for road repairs,
maintenance and construction.
Nearly one-third of that money
would go to cities and counties for
local road projects.
Measure 4 is a one-cent tax in
crease that makes sense for
anyone who d rive s Oregon's
deteriorating roads and wants to
see them patched at the lowest
possible price—today’s price
A sá ? the superintendent:
"Shelter” reroutes misfits
In l»K
lo liv P ETEK «
Sandy High School superintendent
Ql EsTIOS
What in the purpuae of the
who not only provide rich
educational background,
but are good role models,
as well, by their life styles
and their commitment to
young people
P r in c ip a l
John
McMahan's credo for San
dy High School is A Com
mitment to Excellence ’
These a re not em pty
words. A commitment is
there, and the result is pro
d u c tiv e , a c tiv e young
citizens who are able to
choose an important course
through life
That some fail is not so
much an indictment of the
school as a reflection of
society. Values are chang
ing at a frightening rate.
Trends in child-rearing,
m ass c o m m u n ic a tio n ,
computer technology and
the drug culture are stret
ching the resources and the
adaptability of parents,
students, teachers and all
citizens to the lim it.
This of all times is not the
time to be backing away.
These changes are the
challenge we must meet
head-on
I f you b e lie v e th a t
schools can be no better
than the community and
that a community can be no
better than its schools, then
k 'n with me in supporting
toe tax base un May 18
Nancy Haskell
SUHS instructor
Support festival
After reading the May 6
editorial in the Sandy Post,
it becomes apparent that
there is a lack of public
relations on the part of The
Sandy Mountain Festival
Committee Not only is
there a lack of understan
ding of the purpose, goals
and accomplishments of
the Sandy
M o u n ta in
Festival by the public and
some merchants, but also
there clearly is a lack of
u n d erstan d in g by the
editorial staff of the Sandy
Post
The editorial made in
ference that the city of San
dy has not cooperated with
the festival committee
This is totally untrue The
city council and the city
s ta ff
a lw a y s
have
cooperated with and »up
ported the Sandy Mountain
F estival and been in
strumental in its success
My wife and I have been
involved in the festival
since its inception in 1973
by the Chamber of Com
merce as a festival to pro
mote Sandy as a nice place
to live and also to bring
people to town Though the
e s tim a te s of fe s tiv a l
visitors vary from 30,000 to
80,000, there is no dispute
that the festival has been
successful in bringing peo
pie to town
We hope that local mer
chanta would take advan
tage of this opportunity to
promote their business in
ways that will not kill the
goose that lays the golden
egg The Sandy Mountain
Festival Committee is very
much in favor of mer
chants having sidewalk
sales or other sale promo
tions of their own business
What we hate to see is the
influx of carpet-baggers
and junk peddlers that do
not contribute to the sue
cess of the festival Nor do
they contribute to the com
munity. Ask any local
organization that has a
food booth in the festival
what it would mean to them
financially, if they did not
have the festival as a
source of income
I also would like to point
out that the success of The
g en era tin g pow er. He Week, May 4th) offering
“ rode shotgun'* for a support to my opponent in
developer who wanted to th is
n ew ly
c re a te d
incorporate Welches into a district's race?
city But after the majority
Regardless of the out
of the citizens openly op
come May 18. my consti
posed such a senseless tuents deserve answers to
idea, Thompson claimed he these issues
was not for incorporation.
Carolyn Smith
If this is true, then why
candidate, District 23
did Thompson chair both
city of Welches meetings,
and why was the crowd in
attendance informed of his
I watched Town Hall on
future political ambitions?
Channel 2 May 2. I feel it is
Thompson s supports are time for Oregonians to
developers and those who come to the defense of
w ould p r o fit by the citizens of Antelope, those
overdevelopment of our who were there before Ju
mountain
ly, 1981 The people of that
The handwriting obvious
small town have been in
ly is on the wall. If this is vaded by a group of people
Aid Antelope
For M cTeague
Letters to the editor
Sandy Mountain Festival is
due in large part to the fact
that we have been able to
recruit to the committee
people that a re very
talented in specific fields.
These people volunteer
their time, talent and often
their money because they
like doing it and enjoy the
recognition We need to pat
these people on the back,
not slap them in the face.
Herb Fr nwick
F e s tiv a l c o m m itte e
member
Watch Thompson
I would like to offer sup
port and thanks for your
editorial April 22 regarding
John Thompson's political
tactics in his campaign for
State Senate District 14
Evidently these tactics are
being noticed by other
newspapers in the district
On April 14 an article ap
peared in the Clackamas
County News in which "A
Canby man confessed that
a le t t e r b e a rin g his
signature appearing in
several Clackamas County
newspapers was not w rit
ten by himself but was
written by State Senate
C a n d id a te
John
Thompson ",
"Asked about the ethics
of candidates ghost writing
le tte rs to the ed ito r,
Thompson said he thinks
such things are done all
the time ” *
Marilyn l^eslie
ZigZag
Nix Thompson
Election day is just
around the corner, and
John Thompson's record
needs some "airing'* to
prevent the misinformed
from m aking a grave
political error by voting for
hun,
He has supported the
(lamming of our mountain
s tre a m s , which would
sacrifice our fisheries so a
few could make money by
the kind of person you want
in office, then vote for him.
If you care abut the future
of Mt. Hood and the state of
Oregon, then cast your vote
for one of his opponents In
tegrity is always better
than voting for someone,
just because he may be
your neighbor.
Gordon Cabral
Brightwood
Candidate speaks
Unfortunately I was left
out of the Voter's Pam
p hlet, but I w ant to
reassure the voters that I
am still a Democratic can
didate for State Represen
tative. District 23.
One of the major con
cerns of my campaign has
been that people of the
district deserve to have an
active and honest represen
tative I was quite honored
this week to receive the en
dorsements of both the
Oregon Women's Political
Caucus and W illam ette
Week.
My belief in fair and
honest rep res en tatio n s
necessitates that I raise
three issues of concern
about my opponent
1. I would advise that he
read the Hatch Act before
he uses, "(n am el, Forest
Service'' in his printed
campaign literature,
2 Why have so many
special interest groups not
based in our district in
vested so much money in
his campaign? .And who
are these special interest
groups9 Bi partisan Com
mittee is made up of PGE
employees, and Citizens
Contribution Committee is
c o m p ris e d
of
PPAL
employees with residences
fro m
W ash ing to n
to
California
3.
Why
is
D ic k
G ro e n e r’ s —a
S ta te
legislator who was cited
and fined by the State
E th ic s
Commission—"Clackamas
C o u nty
p o litic a l
apparatus'* (W illam ette
Sandy High School Booster Club’’
\ \ S W I It
I he Sandy High S< bool ItooKter
( lub w.c formed in October, imho , to pro
vide support for our M-bool actlvitlen,
whether they are academ ic, extra
curri< ular or athletic Booster* chaperone
evenb. form rooting »eciiona at home
«Holing event» and |aibliclze worthy
achievement» of student* Their major
project i» nponsorship of semi annual tian
(juet» that honor students nominated for
.athlete or *cholar of the month The spring
banquet w ill be held Sept 17, and the
publtc 1» invited The booster club meets
the third Monday each month in Room 56
of Ihe high school Information at»out join
lug oi r> - ef vat ion» for the banquet may be
obtained by calling M>8 MOIL Ext 228
Q lK s l lo S What are we giang to do with
th< i students who don't fit into the
regular edu< mi tonal system at Sandy High
School in order to make them worthwhile
citizens'’
ASMWKlt Sandy High School offers a pro
gram failed Shelter for student* who
find It difficult to learn within the tradi
tionaI classroom fhewe students receive
rittf on one instruction in all areas of our
i urm ulum and learn the work habits,
behavior and altitude» necessary bar sue
res» in Ihe regular program Students
receive cred it for p articip atio n in
Shelter when they complete their in
dividual learning assignments This pro
gram is held during regular school hours
Student* assigned tothe program spend
f >’ r.. m - n «neng I t - «■ skills with one
■» v r-c Spe« tai ««“dvities such as outdoor
hiking and t ampmg, assist the student in
a< «poring survival skills and in learning to
get «long with others
Qt EMTtoN Who benefits from a tax
base 9
ANMWEK
We all do our students,
have not vet be<?un ,
to fight i
..so let’s not be
too hasty.....
patrons, taxpayers and district A tax base
set» a spending limitation for Ihe school
district The board and budget committee
will continue to examine very closely all
budget requests before approving them A
tax base will allow the district to provide
minimal basic programs, as well as voca
tiona I electives It also serves to protect
the public’s investment in buildings and
serve« A concern of all should be
whether or not their school is able to keep
functioning A tax ba»e establishes the
security of basic funding and provides our
community with stability A tax base also
provides us, as homeowners and tax
payers, eligibility for up to 90 percent stale
reimbursement lor school taxes in the
form of property tax relief A tax base ta
the best way to protect our excellent
balance of programs offered to student* at
Sandy Union High School
«EDIT NOTE Questions to Dr Peters
may be addressed to him in care of The
Pest. P O Box 88. Sandy. OK 97066 He will
answer all questions addressed to him in
this column Opinion» expressed in this
column do not necessarily reflect those of
The Post.»
tiveness in helping promote
the will of the people was
his organization of the
campaign to secure voter
approval of Oregon Ballot
Measure 9 in 1978 This
m e a s u re ,
p ro h ib itin g
charging utility ratepayers
for construction work in
progress on nuclear plants,
was approved by a 69 per
cent vote.
I agree with his stands
against nuclear war and
against sales taxes and for
family farms, clean air and
pure water. Mostly I sup
port him for his energetic
determined independence
Joseph L. M iller Jr
Sandy
engaging in harrassment,
intimidation and force to
obtain control in that small
town It could happen in
your town The best way to
stop an invasion is for all
the people of Oregon to join
together and fight to save
Antelope This can be done
by calling U S . Im m igra
tion and Naturalization,
221-2271, or writing them at
511 N W .
B ro a d w a y ,
Portland Ask them to deny
a visa to their leader Tins
should force this group to
leave Oregon and hopefully
the U S
I plan also to get in touch
with the governor and ask
him to deny them a permit
to hold their festival in Ju
ly In the early days of our
nation, the pioneers learn
ed to stop a prairie fire
They fought fire with fire,
usina "backfire.’' Maybe it
is time for a "backfire ’’
1 plan to send postcards
to Billie Belamy and others
in the Legislature, asking
them to help rid Oregon of
this threat to our way of
life
How about it, fellow
Oregonians9 Shall we fight
this invasion or just let
ourselves be taken over?
Ann Lucas
Estacada
Elect M cTeague
Dem ocratic canaidate
David McTeague has a
record that holds promise
He is running for the new
F if t h
C o n g re s s io n a l
District,
In 1978 McTeague and
Bob Vian sponsored what
became Ballot Measi^re 9.
They got out the petitions,
secured the signatures and
put Measure 9 on the ballot
Despite a budget of $2600
against several millions
put into the opposition by
P G E and P P A L , the
measure became law. It
s im p ly
s ta te s
th a t
ratepayers don't have to
pay for a power plant until
it produces power This has
saved the p u b lic the
millions poured in the Peb
ble Springs nuclear pro
ject.
McTeague scores the
Reagan administration for
tu rn in g
the
clock
backwards on civil rights,
protection of our environ
m e n t, e d u c a tio n and
human welfare. He sees
Reagan’s huge m ilitary
budgets as bankrupting the
nation.
I
re c e n tly
asked
McTeague who his first, se
cond and third choices
w e re am ong
O regon
heroes His answer was
"W ayne Morse, Wayne
Morse, and Wayne Morse.”
W Pete Sulzbach
Sandy
Elect N ewm an
As former chief judge of
Although at heart much
more of an Independent the Oregon Couty of Ap
th an a D e m o c ra t or peals, I am most reluctant
R e p u b lic a n ,
I to endorse candidates for
wholeheartedly support that court, but in one case
D ave
M c T e a g u e , feel justified in doing so.
If the Court of Appeals is
Democratic candidate for
to handle effectively its
the new Fifth Congres
growing case load on a
sional District
I have carefully read variety of problems, it
quite a few news clipping needs a judge with broad
about him. have read the experience in complex
statement about him in the fields of law and a track
Voters* P am phlet, and record as a producer.
In the contest for position
have talked with him at a
5, there is a substantial dif
recent luncheon meeting
While he is only 29, he has ference in the experience
been politically active at and background of the can
least since 1972, when he didates It is important that
was
f ir s t
e le c te d the voters select Jonathan
D e m o c ra tic
N a tio n a l Newman.
Herbert M Schwab
Delegate
Salem
One example of his effec