The Srfnèfy Post
Von Braschler, Publisher
Caroline Duff. Office Manager
Editorial & Opinion
Dan Dillon, Editor
Scott Newton. News Editor
SANDY. OREGON. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1982
Personally speaking:
Birds best short-term companions
Good neighbors take time to weed
With Mountain Festival just
around the corner, it ’s time local
residents clean up their yards for
the thousands of visitors who’ll
flock here July 10-11.
C ity h a ll is e n c o u ra g in g
weeding of unsightly yards, too,
with a list of four or five agents to
help neighbors who just can’t
seem to get the jo b done
themselves. A nuisance section in
the city code allows a clean sweep
of yard messes that offend
neighbors, with posting of yards
targeted by the council and notice
by mail with a 10-day response
deadline Then the city legally
could step in and have the job
done by experts and bill the offen
ding property owner, putting a
lien on the property to pay if
necessary.
That’s what the city COULD do
legally What the city proposes to
do to spirit neighborhood clean-up
is a lot nicer.
Before taking legal action this
year, the city plans to spell out the
problem and offer names of ven
dors to anyone they receive a
complaint about. Last year the ci
ty took this helpful approach first
and spent some $250 to clean up
lots of negligent owners—an
amount recovered in charges, not
liens.
And the c ity ’s not leveling
clean-up deadlines against every
vacant lot with berry bushes,
either. New residential subdivi
sions are where most complaints
about tansy ragweed, uncut grass
and thistles arise
Tidy neighbors who landscape
often consider unkept adjacent
lots a public nuisance, and city
hall rightfully is sticking up for
their clean stand
Reader demand prompts tv return
By popular demand our weekly
television directory is back as
magazine insert to The Post.
We axed the program listings a
few weeks ago to cut back on the
number of pages we printed I t ’s
quite costly to print that many ex
tra pages each week, and we
didn’t think many readers would
find our service all that indispen-
sible.
Boy, were we wrong! At least
that’s what a hoard of angry
readers told us in no uncertain
terms, and we listened Apparent
ly, a complete cable listings for
the Sandy-Hoodland area
available nowhere else.
is
So with a little egg on our face,
we resume our directory of local
television programs for the week
You’ll note we found ways to con
dense the full week’s schedule into
fewer pages, while making the
listings a bit easier to read with a
new layout format.
We hope it meets your approval,
and we vow to continue the weekly
service as long as we can afford to
do so ('all to say how you like the
new format We ll listen.
Ask the superintendent:
How many try college?
hy DH JOHN PETERS
Sandy High Suprrlnlrndrnl
QUESTION
Do moat Sandy High School
graduate* go on to college attar gradua
tion”*
ANSWER
We do not have any atatuitica
on the percentage of student* attending a
particular school after graduation We do
know that the majority ot graduate*
receive some form ot after high school
education Many attend our local com
munity college* Others begin four year
programs al private or public unlversitiea,
while still others join the m ilitary service
Some go to work immediately or join ap
prenliceahip programs, Our counselor*
tell ua that very few students who graduate
from Sandy High School fall to put their
education Io good uae
Q UESTION
What does Sandy High
School offer in vocational education?
ANSWER
< urrently. Sandy High School
offers a secretarial program marketing,
metal*, accounting, forestry, electricity
electromes, industrial mechanics child
c a re , a g ric u ltu re (w hich Includes
agricultural mechanics animal science
and horticulture I and work experience In
addition to these programs for juniors and
•amor*, we offer underclassmen a course
called ’ • vocational exploration * which
treats at* different occupetional areas in a
year long sequence Through contact with
several "worlds of work" as a freshman
the student is better able to select his or
her speciality Drafting and woods are
other classes popular with ninth and tenth
graders We also have a tutor program for
vocational atudenta whose reading,
writing and arithmetic skills need im
provemenl Thu program u federally
funded and designed for he "average ' stu
den! We are the only high school in the
state of Oregon that uses federal voca
tmnal money to assist the "average** atu
dent
NOTE Qerstlen» far Or Peters sStntM be
addressed te The Masdy Pest. PO Bus U
dandy. ON r« M He will answer all gees
Hews ie this cetema
There was one thing we agreed
on the whole time we shared the
apartment
He didn't tell me what to do
I didn't put my hand in his
cage
We let each other be We both
liked that in a roommate, even
though we both violated the heck
out of our unspoken code
I>ast December I wrote about
that relationship in this space.
‘T v e been befriended by Clint
Eastwood and, for once in my
life, I have a friend who doesn't
talk back, tell me to dust under
my bed or criticize my fondness
for frozen pizzas
Our first meeting set the tone of
our relationship
Annie Dillard touched on it
when she wrote, " It was less like
seeing than like being for the first
time seen, knocked breathless by
a powerful glance . . I had been
my whole life a bell, and never
knew it until at that moment I
was lifted and struck .”
Clint lifted and struck me at the
Clackamas County F air in 1980,
moments after a friend threw a
dime that caught the dish and
refused to bounce out
The carnival barker asked her
what bird she wanted and,
although we shrugged helplessly
punk'” ' the cinematic Clint snarl
ed in the opening moments of
"D irty H arry" at a would-be li
quor store robber who cowered
beneath the business end of his
45 magnum
That sentence was the only
thing I tried to teach him in the 21
months we shared our basement
apartment, but he was his own
bird He'd just glare and tell me
to change the record
by DAN DILLON
at each other at the thought of a
pet, the light blue and yellow
number caught cur collective eye
simultaneously
I suggested Flip, but there was
little doubt the parakeet would be
named Clint Eastwood
His f ir s t p e tu la n t s ta re
guaranteed that, "like being for
the first time seen ”
" I know that in all the confu
sion, you’re thinking. Did he fire
five shots or did he fire six shots?’
Well, how lucky do you feel
cage
Clint had difficulty dealing with
his assigned species
He barked like a dog when I
came home from work He crow
ed like a rooster incessantly
every morning at dawn. He
chirped his thanks when I fed
him and he danced like there was
no tomorrow whenever Talking
Heads records were played on
the stereo
Last weekend I flew home to
Montana answering an unex
pected emergency When I got
back, word that Clint would never
learn his line waited
We bought his cage with money
garnered from recycled empties.
Its color didn’t do his feathered
upholstery justice, but it matched
his passion for noisy squawks of
outrage.
Those squawks turned once in
to a simple yelp of pain
Late for work during the first
week of his tenure, I tried to feed
him while I dashed out the door
He flew the coop, settling on the
curtain rod.
Catching a parakeet can't be so
difficult. I thought
Later I listened to an old Jerry
Jeff Walker song that used to
make me think of all the girls I've
split up with in the past six years,
and grinned
It was funny. Although they all
meant the world to me at the
time, the only thing that still
stands out among the lot of them
was their dark hair
I grabbed, listened to his
wounded squawk and looked at
the handful of tail feathers I held
They grew hack and with them
came a mutual respect I ’ve felt
with few friends
He didn’t tell me what to do.
I didn't put my hand in his
It occurred to me that the only
one the song really applied to is
Clint.
" M y b u d d y, m y b uddy,
nobody's quite so true. .
He didn’t tell me what to do
I didn't put my hand in his
cage
Letters to the editor:
School-taught creationsism debated
Whose religion?
Recently there has been
a lot of talk and print about
prayer in public schools
President Reagan even has
proposed an amendment to
this effect
There exists a lot of
public support for volun
ta ry p ra y e r in public
schools Many people feel
that this would help im
prove the moral quality of
our young people
I grew up in a public
school system in which
both prayer and Bible
reading were everyday ac
tivities There was no pro
blem, and all the students
did it without any com
plaint
The fact that prayer in
school caused no problem
in those days is not
necessarily a proof that
prayer would cause no pro
blein now Almost all the
students in my school were
e ith e r
B a p tis ts
or
Methodists, and no real
problem in interpretation
of the Bible arose
Today there are many
more types of protestant
churches w ith w id ely
divergent beliefs Also
there are non protestant
churches such as the
Catholic which certainly
don't share protestant
beliefs In this religious
climate, prayer in public
schools could cause pro
blems
To illustrate my point, I
will relate an issue that
arose
in
th is
v e ry
newspaper a few months
ago A local pastor an
nounced that he was con
ducting a set of lectures on
cults and other religious
organizations that don t
follow the
h is to ric al*
C h ris tia n p a tte rn s
I
believe he included Scien
tology and the Moon church
in this group He also, to
my shock and dismay, in
eluded the Mormon church
The next week a letter ap
peared in this section from
a member of the Mormon
church that eloquently
rebuffed the charge
Now if a Mormofi was
leading a prayer in school,
a student who is a member
of another church may be
upset Perhaps a Roman
Catholic would take excep
tion to a prayer led by a
fundamentalist There is
room for all sorts of pro
blems
Unfortunately, churches
s t ill
b ic k e r
am ong
themselves as to dogma
This bickering has increas
ed recently due to the
emergence of conservative
fundamentalist churches
as a national influence The
people pushing the hardest
for prayer in school are
these fu n d a m e n ta lis ts
Since they are making
great progress, on joining
or in flu e n c in g school
boards, the fundam en
talists may decide which
prayers are said I am sure
this would not be pleasing
to the more moderate
Christian church goers.
Schools already have
many problems to deal
with in their day-to-day ac
tivity To avoid further pro
b lem s, e ith e r p ra y e r
should be left out of public
schools or o n ly non-
sectarian prayers such as
The Lord's Prayer should
be
a llo w e d
in
the
classroom After all, there
is no law against private
prayer which comes from
the heart Public prayer is
usually only a public
display without real mean
ing.
Harold Hayward
Sandy
Call it science
the universe, including the
stars, the solar system, the
earth, life, and man. came
into existence in essentially
the complexity we see to
day . . . Furthermore, the
creation model holds that
the earth has experienced a
worldwide flood
"Actually, no persons
religion will be forced upon
the public school if we
a llo w o nly s c ie n tific
evidence in the science
classroom—that which has
been observed, measured,
or reproduced in the
laboratory.
‘ Students deserve to be
informed of all the major
scientific data and the
various interpretations of
that data To exclude data
because it happens to cor
respond with statements in
the Bible, the Koran, or
other religious documents
is censorship and poor
science ’’
Miss K unkel's le tte r
should have been heaiied
"Teach science.’’
Joan E Berglund
Sandy
In the May 20 Sandy Post
Tamra A Kunkel, a Sandy
High student, wrote an ex
cellent letter requesting
that science classes at San
Sandy Country Market
dy High include creation as
will open the season this
well as evolution, which
S atu rd ay, M ay 29, at
presently is taught ex Pioneer Park on the corner
c lu s iv e ly .
The
Post
of Hwy
26 and 362nd
m ish e ad ed the le t t e r
A venue
T he M a r k e t
"Teach religion." The Post
features crafts, fresh pro
appears to be confusing
duce in season, honey,
scientific creation with
hom em ade b read and
biblical creation, which dif pastries, plants and much
fer Miss Kunkel made It
friendliness
clear in her letter that she
The market is a social
was not asking that the Bi event each Saturday all
ble be taught in the
summer — open to buyers,
classroom
c ra ftp e rs o n s
and
I would like to quote Dr
gardeners who would like
Walter T Brown, Jr., The
to sell their wares What
director of the Institute for
comes to market is always
Creation Research as he a surprise, so you will want
explains the differences
to come often
“ S c ie n tific C re a tio n
The dedicated people in
deals with the scientific
volved with the Sandy
evidences that give us in Country Market felt they
sight into our origins The
had a commitment to their
great majority of these community to present an
evidences support creation
old-fashioned marketplace
and refute evolution - thus
where people can find
the term Scientific Crea
useful com m odities at
tion.
reasonable prices
"Scientific Creation can
I would like to thank all
be contrasted with Biblical
of you who gave support to
Creation The Bible pro
the market last year We
vide* many details about
hope to see you again this
our origins that science
year The Market will be
cannot support or refute
open each Saturday from
Biblical Creation is an ap
10 a m to 4:30 p m To
propriate subject for the
reserve a vending space
home, church, and church
call Pam Hauff at 668 7257,
related schools but not for
Pam Hauff
science classes in the
Sandy
public schools On the other
hand. Scientific Creation,
which draws its support
I ’d like to thank all those
from scientific evidence
who supported me m the
and not the Bible, is cer
tainly an appropriate and primary election for state
exciting subject for science senator, particularly the
volunteer workers I hope
you'd ad stay with ua for
* * . . . The creation model the neat campaign that will
holds that everything in culminate with the general
Open mart opens
Support asked
to increase the rate of hous
ing starts in Oregon, it
would help if some of the
other building trades would
also reduce their wage
demands to encourage the
construction of new homes
I also said that some
mem bers of organized
labor have been well paid
until the current recession
and h ave homes and
campers that many small
business pople can’t afford
This letter is written to
and th a t lik e s m a ll
express my appreciation to
business people, they may
everyone who supported
have to take less in order to
me
in
my
bid
fo r
get the housing economy
C la c k a m a s
C o u nty
going again, which Oregon
s u rv e y o r in the M ay
badly needs
primary
You also repo ted, “ Sen
I hope I will have jou r
Brown said A m eric an
co n tin u e d su p po rt in
labor has priced itself "out
November,
of the market So it’s not
Thomas A Milne
s u rp ris in g
A m e ric a n
Oregon City
business goes abroad.”
Again, you misquoted me I
gave th at as the big
business argument for go
The new s story carried in
ing overseas It's a phony
the Sandy Post, "Business
a r g u m e n t.
In
tr u th ,
h a m s tru n g , c a n d id a te
American business goes
claims,' reporting my May
overseas for a number of
4 talk to the Sandy Area
reasons (1) they can get
Chamber of Commerce,
away
with paying sub-
misrepresents my position.
sistance wages, (2) they
You reported, "High cost
don't have to negotiate with
of labor is largely to blame
for Oregon business short organized labor, (3) they
provide little, if any, social
comings,” Brown said.
in s u ra n c e and h e a lth
This is misleading 1 never
benefits, <4) they don’t
stated or implied that the
have to comply with ade
level of wages paid to
quate safety standards and
Oregon workers, union or
environmental protection
non union, substantially
regulations, (5) and on top
deters new business from
of this, they pay little if any
coming to Oregon I did
federal income tax
state, however, that a real
For many years I have
deterrent is the high cost of
led the fight in Salem for
labor related social in
“ Buy American" legisla
surance Social Security,
tion so that Oregon tax
unemployment compensa
dollars at least are not used
tio n
and
e s p e c ia lly
to buy foreign goods at the
workers compensation, a
expense of American jobs.
cost which is especially
I did say that "small
high for sm all labor-
business is hamstrung in
intensive businesses You
Oregon" but the thrust of
accurately quoted me as
my talk was to show that
saying, "Business does not
want to cume here, if it’s small businessmen, family
farm ers and organized
labor intensive and they
labor must work together
must pay those rates,’* he
said of workers’ comp ** in Oregon for a graduated
c o rp o ra te incom e tax
Although Oregon workers'
which encourages sm ill
compensation prem ium
business, workers' com-
rates are the fourth highest
penstion insurance reform,
in the U S ., Oregon ranks
near the bottom in benefits f a ir r a ilr o a d shipping
e n e rg y
in
actually paid out to disabl ra te s ,
dependence, legislation
ed workers
protecting family farming
You
in a c c u r a te ly
reported, “ Brown said and “ B u y A m e ric a **
campaigning door-to-door leg ialation for Oregon
opened his eyes to a new g o v ern m e n t purchases
distribution of wealth that where price and quality are
favors laborers. " I find substantally equal—if our
people living in expensive Oregon economy is to sur
homes with campers and vive.
Walt Brown
boats, who work through
State senator
labor unions These are
houses and campers small
Milwaukie
business people would like
LETTERS POLICY
to afford '*
The Pest asks that
What 1 did say was that I
all letters le the
commended the plumbers
é d ite r he ty p e d ,
for cutting their hourly
deehle-spaeed and
wage rates on residential
Deadline Is
construction from about
Tnetday.
IIS to SU per hour, and that
election in November
We’ve tried to gather up
all of our campaign signs
that were put up. but if we
missed one. please call me
collect at 873-8365.
Joe Davis
Republican candidate
for state senate
Candidate speaks
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