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Voi. 72 No. 23
The Sandy Post
SANDY, O REG O N , THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1982
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Post office OK’d to leave downtown
b\ DAN DILLON
The United States Postal Service
has the go-ahead to solicit bids for
construction of a new facility at
Wolf and McCormick Drives
That action came Monday night,
despite concerns that moving from
the immediate core area could pro
ve an inconvenience to downtown
businessmen and stifle growth in
the core area
Sandy P o s tm a s te r A rn o ld
Becker, however, assured the San
dy City Council that he intends to
institute some sort of downtown
delivery when the new facility is
completed
It w o n 't be h a n d -to -h a n d
delivery—Becker admitted that
w ould be “ tough at th is
p o in t’ ’—but w ill most lik e ly
feature neighborhood collection
and d e liv e ry sites sprinkled
throughout he downtown area
The system would be like a
series of lockable post office boxes
located at convenient spots
"It's always going to be on the fr
inge I think that's a drawback,”
he said
Apparently a number of local
residents agreed At the outset of
the public hearing, city officials
handed council members two peti
tions—for and against the move
The pro petition had 70 signatures;
Photo by Scot I Newton
Despite complaints of inconvenience and implications that the downtown
area will suffer as a result, the U.S Postal Service has been given the go-
the petition to keep the post office
in the core had 101.
But Councilman Tim Ward said
people may be shortsighted and
noted an example from Portland
history When a new library was
built there, officials were derided
because it was all the way uptown
from the central location. That
library is now the Pioneer Cour
thouse, in the heart of Portland.
” 1 think sometimes we get our
vision restricted to 100 feet,” Ward
said.
Council agreed, granting the
Postal Service a conditional use
permit to build the 4,700-square-
foot structure at the Wolf Drive
site.
Duff dissented; Councilman
Vern Richards abstained and
Mayor Ruth Loundree was absent
Conditions of approval include
provisions for sidewalks up to
Highway 26 and connecting with
present sidewalks in front of
Camera Connection, a pedestrian ‘
crosswalk at the Wolf-McCormick
intersection; no parking on the
west side of Wolf Drive from
Highway 26 to McCormick Drive,
and final approval of the building’s
appearance.
In other action, the Sandy City
ahead to build a new facility at the intersection of Wolf and McCormick
Drives, east of the core area.
Council:
—Asked City Manager Roger
Jordan to prepare a report on the
planting of several tre s in Meinig
Park that screen the new senior
citizen housing project from the
park.
Ave Brewster, who built the pro
ject, objected to the planting of
several large trees after he had
agreed to blend his landscaping in
to the park’s.
Jordan said the planting was not
taken to the Design Review Board
or City Council because, “ I don’t
think it’s a city council problem. I
th in k i t ’s a c ity m a n a g e r
problem.”
Councilman Don Blair agreed,
"We hired Roger to administer the
business of the city of Sandy. This
(type of decision) is what we hired
him for.”
Jordan asked for the planting
after noting some landscaping
disparities between the project and
the park.
—Purchased a concrete saw,
$1,756 90; diesel roller, $4,000, and
a 10-yard dump box spreader,
$5,653. The money was part of the
current fiscal year’s budget
—Authorized a transfer of funds
to purchase a sludge truck of tank
for the Sewage Treatment Plant.
R ecord burning planned
Pastor fights against ‘Satan’s music’
by DAM DILLON
Rock n’roll music shaped a genera
tion of young people.
The Woodstock music festival was
said to symbolize the youth of the
1960s when hundreds of thousands
gathered in that rural community in
upstate New York and listened to
three days of music.
That the three days were accom
panied by widespread drug use and
sex is no accident, according to one
Sandy pastor who is currently in the
middle of a two-par» series on the
evils that rock music embraces
“The Bible tells us to expose “the
unfruitful work of darkness,’” said
the Rev Rick McGregor, youth
pastor at Sandy Assembly of God
Church
“ Rock music is one of the devil’s
primary tools to reach the youth of
the world
“ It tears down God; it tears down
Jesus Christ It tears down Christian
standards and. at the same time,
elevates Satan and his power,” he
pointed out.
It's a powerful message the
28 year-old pastor delivers and many
young peqple in the Sandy area ap
pear to be getting it loud and clear.
” 1 would guess that sevenl hun
dreds of dollars (worth of rock music
album s and tapes) have been
Index
SECTION I
Keeping Posted ......................... 2
Senior Center News ................. 2
Obituaries .................................. 3
Editorials, Letters ................... 6
Sports, Recreation.................7-6
SECTION II
Area News.................................. 1
Hoodland Happenings ............2
About People..............................4
SECTION I I I
Classified Ads .........Inside Tab
T V Revue..................Inside Teb
Arson blaze
destroys shed
east o f Sandy
An arson fire late Tuesday night
destroyed a vacant 800-square foot
shed east of Sandy.
" W e found som e e x c e lle n t
evidence at the scene,” Sandy Fire
Marshal Jim Gallagner said Wednes
day morning. “ We found the torch us
ed to light the fire and are sending it
to the Oregon State Police crime lab
for analysis.”
T w e n ty fire fig h te rs and six
emergency vehicles responded to the
unconfirmed report of a structure at
three-tenths of a mile east of Shorty's
Corner at 9; 48 p.m. after an excited
male reported a fire.
Upon arrival at the scene, behind
43884 SE Highway 26, fire depart
ment personnel found the burning
structure. A house down the same
driveway burned a year and a half
ago in an unsolved arson fire.
Owner of the shed had not been
established Wednesday morning.
Oregon State Police arson squad and
Sandy Fire District are investigating
the blaze.
Councilman Jim Duff, who sat on
the council committee that drafted
the eight criteria for Postal Ser
vice consideration in site selection,
said he had been “shocked and an
noyed” at the three site3 the Postal
Service offered as alternatives
They were the Wolf Drive site, a
site adjacent to Tupper Park and a
site just west of Paola’s Pizza
Bam.
Duff recalled the city’s fight to
protect the downtown area when it
battled Carmel Estates at the Bor
ing interchange
‘‘We re going to be looking to fat
ten the center area The post office
would have been a good, first step
to strengthen that,” he said. “ I
look at it on the fringe area and I
look at it as a weakening.
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destroyed,” he estimated Tuesday as
he reflected on the effect of his first
message to the general public,
delivered Sunday evening
A week ago Wednesday, he spoke
with 100 young people in the church’s
Youth Life group and delivered the
same message
Sunday, those young people were
back with friends to listen again to
the message, he said
At Wednesday’s meeting this week,
one couple alone was expected to br
ing some 300 record albums of rock
music and 60 to 70 tapes to be
destroyed, because they contain
messages from Satan
RECORD BURNING
This Sunday, if the Sandy Fire
D is t r ic t g iv es its g o -a h e a d ,
McGregor wants to stage a mass bur
ning of rock’n'roll records after the 6
p m service at the church.
That would follow a trend Record-
burnings have been held as far away
as Topeka, Kan , and as close as
Lebanon where, McGregor said, one
album reportedly levitated out of a
barrel three times before it burned
If the bonfire isn't allowed, the
records will still be destroyed one
way or another. That is what
McGregor wants to do with the
series
“ I f p o s s ib le ," he said
" If
rock'n'roll is wrong, you’d better
give it up If drugs or alcohol are bad,
you give them up.
"Unless you hear the totality of the
message, it sticks out like a sore
thumb,” McGregor said, "but a lot of
these rock groups are involved in
Satan.”
He noted examples that he cites in
his sermon:
•
Black Sabbath performs altar
call* to Satan during their concerts
• The Eagles are members of a
S a ta n ic re lig io n w hich th ey
celebrated on their “ Hotel Califor
nia” album.
•
Blue O yster Cult re g u la rly
features a symbol of the occult on
album covers
•
The initials of the rock group
KISS stand for Kings In Satan's Ser
vice. The group’s members have
made it known to fans that they con
sider themselves Satanist priests.
Beyond the implied nature of the
lyrics some bands perform, album
packaging that celebrates the occult,
and poses bands strike while attemp
ting to establish a marketable image,
there is a deeper, stronger source
that delivers Satan’s rock'n'roll
message
SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION
It is subliminal, McGregor said,
and the effects are dangerous in their
suggestive mind control.
He noted a study of one effort in
subliminal seduction A large depart
ment store, at a nearly-inaudible fre
quency, placed a message telling its
patrons not to steal Shoplifting drop
ped 80 percent at the store.
In rock music, he said, the
subliminal message is the product of
b a c k w a rd m a s k in g —re c o rd in g
under the musical track while the
tape is playing in reverse
"The reason we believe Satan has
to put it backward on the album is no
ra tio n al person would worship
Satan,” McGregor said.
Worship of the devil and the
subliminal suggestions received can
lead to drugs, promiscuity and
homosexuality, he believes
" R o c k m u sic , fo rw a rd and
backward, are programming the
youth of today s world to do these
things.” McGregor said
Backward masking can be heard
on the average turntable, he pointed
out, by turning the stereo to the "on"
position so the turntable doesn't
move If the listener then places the
needle behind the song lie wants to
hear and, using a pencil on the label
of the record, spins it counter
clockwise, he will hear the music's
subliminal message
McGregor sprinkles taped ex
amples of some backward masked
messages throughout his talk
• The rock group Queen, on the
song "Another One Bites the Dust,”
chants, " I t ’s fun to smoke m ari
juana "
• Styx, on “ Snowblind" which
deals with cocaine use, tells its
listeners, "Satan, move in our
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Friday wreck
claims youth,
injures two
A single-car accident Friday on
Barlow Trail Road, near Brightwood,
claimed the life of a Brightwood
youngster.
Dead is 4-year-old Andrew Joseph
Hickey, son of Scott Kuzmesky and
Teresa Hickey, both of Brightwood.
According to the Clackamas Coun
ty sheriff’s office, the accident occur
red at 7 p.m.
- The 1967 Chevrolet El Camino,
driven by the victim's uncle, David
Allen Hickey of Brightwood, was
westbound and reportedly left the
road and hit several trees before tur
ning over.
Darrell Knott, a fireman stationed
at Engine Company 25 in Portland,
came upon the overturned vehicle
shortly after the accident.
He and his wife, Patty, who live at
Timberline Rim. pulled the victims
from the wreckage.
Knott and his wife provided first
aid until medics from the Hoodland
Fire Department arrived
Fire Chief Don Armintrout said An
drew Hickey was taken by Alpine
Ambulance to Welches Grade School,
where he was picked up by a Life
F lig ht helicopter and flown to
Emanuel Hospital where he died a
few hours later.
Injured was David Hickey, 26, who
was taken to Gresham Community
Hospital and admitted. He suffered a
broken arm, a fractured skull, abra
sions and a broken foot.
Also injured in the mishap was a
passenger, Curt Phelps, 26, also of
Brightwood, who was taken to
Gresham Community Hospital where
he was admitted with a broken jaw
and abrasions
He was listed in satisfactory condi
tion Tuesday.
No charges have been filed and in
vestigation continues
County fixes
land-use plan
Rev. Rick McGregor
voices
•
Pink Floyd, on their album "The
W all” plays a bit of a joke with their
backward masking, singing, "You've
just discovered the secret message
Address your correspondence to Old
Pink
But their sacrilegious treatment of
the 23rd Psalm on their album
"Animals” isn't quite so funny,
McGregor pointed out
"Our kids have gone and found so
many examples of their own,” he
said. " I was surprised by some of the
places where you find them
"The Beatles were a surprise to
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some," McGregor said. "The Eagles
have been a surprise to many A lot of
people were surprised by Styx, even
though its name stands for the legen
dary river of hell ”
CONCERN FOR YOUTH
McGregor doesn't consider his
message to be that of an alarmist.
" I won't say something unless I'm
convinced of it,” he said "M y pur
pose has not been to slap somebody’s
hand or find something to preach oft.
I love young people ”
Please turn to Page S.
Clackamas County commissioners
have patched up the county's com
prehensive land use plan for what
they hope is the last time.
The state Land Conservation and
Development Commission rejected
parts of the county's zoning plan in
December because they were in farm
or forest areas, but were zoned for
other uses, said Ardis Stevenson,
assistant director of Environmental
Services
County leaders have decided to
make most of the contested areas
rural zones with five- and 10-acre
minimum lot sizes Other small por
tions of the 3,206 contested acres wre
classified as timber and agricultural
land
The one exception is the 12-acre
Carmel Estates site at the intersec
tion of Highway 26 and Highway 212,
n e a r H e id i's . T h a t plot w as
designated commercial by the com
missioners
The original plot consisted of ap^
proximately 30 acres, however, the
commissioners trimmed that in the
latest decision
The site has been suggested for a
shopping center, an idea which city
of Sandy officials have actively batti-