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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1982)
2 SANOT (O r* ) POST Thue» , July 22 1962 (Sec 2) Short results in $500 in damages for couple by M ICHA EL P JONES Poet Cerrespoedeat An arson-caused car fire, two house fires, a two-car rear end accident and eight first aids occupied the week of Woodland Rural Fire Department person nel Last Saturday morning, July 17, the fire depart ment responded to the report of a car fire at the junction of Highway 26 and Highway 35. just east of Government Camp Hoodland Fire Chief Don Armintrout said upon a r rival firefighters found a 1969 Ford station waggon totally engulfed in flames It was a total loss The driver of the vehicle was nowhere to be found Armintrout said that the vehicle belonged to Allen Jeffery Tipton. 11055 S W 60th in Portland Tipton had just reported the vehi cle stolen from Govern ment Camp A Clackamas County sheriff's deputy was on his way up to Government Camp to take a report on the theft when the department was dispat ched to vehicle fire Armintrout said the fire was arson caused and the case has been turned over to the Oregon State Police for investigation This is the second arson fire involving a motor vehi cle in the past seven mon ths The first arson fire oc curred on Jan 8 and the case is scheduled to go to trial this week Ronald John Piccolo, 24, formally of Government Camp, is being c h a rg e d w ith criminal mischief and theft in the first degree in con nection with a fire that totally destroyed a 1976 Fiat At 2 10 p m the depart ment responded to a two- car rear-end accident just west of the Whistle Stop Tavern on Highway 26 Armintrout said two per sons received minor in juries in the collision On July 15 firefighters responded to the report of a chimney fire on Dewey Avenue in Welches, which was out upon arrival The department is encouraging any person who has a chimney fire not to take any unnecessary chances and call for assistance as heat from such fires can reach up to 2000 degrees fahrenheit Studding or framing sur rounding a chimney, as well as the roof, could catch fire. M ortar and brick in a chimney could also crack as a result of the intense heat At 8 15 p m a malfunc tiomng wall plug in a storage shed that was at tached to the home of Brooking and Vernice Gex, who live next door to Son Village in Wemme, shorted out and started a fire Armintrout said a total of 18 f ir e f ig h t e r s , two engines, two tankers and one rescue rig responded to H e n r y C reek , w a te r d istr ic t’s h isto r y traced by M IC H A EL P. JONES Peel Cerreepoodent Henry Creek, with its watershed stretching from the Junction of the Zig Zag River on up to the 3,000-foot level of West Zig Zag Moun tain, above Rhododendron, has a rich history in rela tion to the area’s develop ment as a recreational town The development of the town of Rhododendron has been prim arily attributed In H e n ry Rowe, who served as mayor of Portland from 1900 to 1908 After Rowe served out his term in office, he located his business in terests in the Mt. Hood area and founded the Rhododendron M in e ra l Springs Land Company This officially ended his political career in “ city” politics S u rv iv in g h is to r ic a l records on the early days of the town, however, show that Suzette F ra mette, as contributing equally as much, if not more, than Rowe She was a widow who operated the town's main hostelry and tavern. F ra n z e tte re p o rte d ly broke through the tradi tional bonds of the times and became the biggest real estate broker the town has ever had. despite the fact she was a woman alone Both Rowe and the widow Franzette hold the title of being the biggest promoters of the area. They would boast to city people that their town was “ the recreational getaway of the mountains.” Today, their energy has yet to be matched. On March 20, 1920, Rowe died and this “wide spot in the road“ —which was then re fe rre d to as Rowe, Oregon-had a long way to go in order to accom modate the large number of summer home people that had been envisioned This quaint little hamlet of barely a dozen people or so still was a bit too rough to spark a tourist boom. It wasn't until a few years la t e r th a t F r a n z e tte jumped in with both feet and became a full-fledged land speculator She picked up where Rowe left off and opened up the town's first real estate office She made the seem ingly sleepy cluster of buildings between the Zig Zag River and Henry Creek a thriving mountain village that attracted both tourists and summer home owners, as w ell as perm anent residents STREET OF DUST STORMS But the widow Franzette had two major obstacles to hurdle before the town of Rowe could blossom into the new town of Rhododen dron The first was the area's streets Whenever cattle and sheep ranchers drove their herds through town to graze on federal land, in such areas as Devils Peak and Old Maid Flatts, the pounding hooves kicked up enough dirt and gravel that people quickly tired of t le ’ dust storms And, in the rainy season the to w n 's m a in thoroughfare-w hich was actually what was left of the h is to r ic B a rlo w Road—became a sea of mud When the winter freeze came the deep ruts caused by the horse-drawn wagons and the solid rubber tires of M o d e l-T F o rd s w e re almost impossible to walk through without stumbling. The town needed paved streets badly but at that tim e even the the old wagon roa9 (which later became the Mt. Hood Loop Highway) was in such a sad state of repair that a trip to the moutains was an all-day task Travelers fought for hours struggling up steep hills, forging swift s tre a m s and b ra v in g swollen and unpredictable rivers The old highway that ‘ snaked'' a difficult course from Portland to the moun tain seemed to be the main priority with state and county officials, who gave little thought to the pro blems of an unincorporated town's main street So they ignored Rhododendron's problems and emphasized the maintenance of a cor duroy road This unique thoroughfare was inlaid with logs to give both horseless and motonz- ed vehicles extra traction It ran along the roadway and was used during times of inclement weather. The ride was jarring and bumpy, but more tolerable than sinking deep into the mud and being forced to deal with the herculian task of getting unstuck from two to three feet of muck It would not be until the '40 b . however, that the area would be able to do without the inconvience of mud and dust CROW ( R EEK SUPPLIES WATER Water was another pro blem for the area Digging a well was sometimes a dif ficult task because of the area's rocky soil The Zig Zag River had changed its channel so many times that it had deposited large quantities of ro ck and g ra v e l throughout the area It took a lot of back-breaking" work to dig deep enough to get an adequate supply of water Widow Franzette decided to solve the easiest pro blem first supplying an Improper fill a bad start “ I d id n ’ t w an t my footings to break or my floor busting up, ’ said Fahrenkrug, It took the contractor about two and a half weeks to get the sewer line in, ac cording to Fahrenkrug, and the exposed organic material should have been seen by both Hamblin and Gessford during inspec tions, as well as a “clerk of the works,” who drove up occasionally from the ar c h ite c t’s other job in Estacada. F a h re n k ru g said he began to have serious doubts about the stability of the fill in the “ B” wing area He said he went directly to Gessford and told him he didn't want to be responsible for any con crete work poured across the ditch because the ce ment slab wouldn’t “ stay there.” “ I don't have a (a r chitect's) license I don't have a shingle to hang out,” said Fahrenkrug “ All I could go on is <the> years I have worked with this stuff And you can tell when you have unsuitable ground to work on ” F a h re n k ru g said he poured one of the “ B” wing footings on a Thursday or Friday Over the weekend it rained On Monday “ a big cavity appeared under the footing.” When he showed (iessford the cavity Gessford reportedly com mented that It looked all right to him, and to Just pour more conc rete into the hole “That was an indication to me right there that, ’Em il, you'd better start covering your butt and make sure everything la right because this guy dotan t know what he's da •n g ’ “ He «Gessford* should have stopped the guy right yards of concrete in the footings, at a cost of 845 a yard An electrican who was present while the “ B" wing site was being prepared, according to Fahrenkrug, told him that workers discovered the base for the slab was too narrow So a bulldozer was reportedly used to push fill material, which had been “ stripped off’’ the site, to the south side to make up the dif ference KINKING SCHOOL? As “ B" wing was being poured. Fahrenkrug said the problems grew worse He said he set up a transit to check the elevations of the “ A” and "C ” wings and got different readings He said he thought there was something wrong with the transit so he took another reading with a dif ferent instrum ent. The results were the same The pads were sinking Fahrenkrug said he took readings once a week throughout the month of September and learned that each week "C" wing was going down at a rate of one sixteenth of an inch to one eighteenth of an inch. Within a three week period it had gone down three eighths of an inch, with “ A" wing also sinking W ith the floors now uneven, Fahrenkrug said he had his subcontractor for the slab. Jess Ellingson of Ellingson Construction, grind an inch and a half off of the floor in “ A" wing He sa id E llin g s o n spent thousands of dollars work ing evenings and weekends to get the floors even estimates an « I r a 61» Ä Sun s 3 r <b» 64/1 T bey’U ReaUy V J l L Y -.U (il'S T GROOM B R ID E Sieven D Logan Jeff Ahlquist Ben Leers Hal L’eland Ray Young Doug Smith Bill Scream Karl Minich George Pulliam Jr Robert Fisher Don Cochrane Sally G Garrison Cozann R Ba nek Ann Crawford Julie Sender Laun Falsetto Anne Rupert I^aurie McCall Sylvia Haubncks Janet Parsley Diana Kudrna Kan Burbach CLOUDTREE & S and School of Cookery 112N Main 666 8496 Gresham Please (urn to Page 3 Jto£l/aßu& SALE Prices good now thru July 28 or while supply lasts HAROWARE STORE HOMEUTE ST-120 G A S O LIN E -P O W E R E D TRIMMER/BLOWER A high-performance trimmer and blower .. now in one con venient. comfortable package REG. ’169’5 ■ <*«waa Moaaaa anachanaau ancaudad ■ Mudi p o .n l «aprahawa isotation loa increased operator comfort and Continued from Page I nothing until I get this checked out ’ "Right then I lost a lot of respect for that man pro fessionally, because if there’s a problem then Goddammit lets hit it and find out.” Fahrenkrug said he call ed Glynhrook officials and informed them of the pro blem He said he told them he thought Gessford was trying to “ pass the buck” and blame the company He said he wanted an at torney right there on the spot to see the damages hut. instead. 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Franzette’s water source was Crow C re e k , a relatively short creek that was given this name due to the large flock of crows who tended to ner‘ during pleasant weather, in a nearby 30-acre meadow. Actually, the creek was misnamed as the flock of there and had the plumber com* hack and dig hts ditch ou». Rut it’s his sub ( contractor * If it would of been us we d have had to do It (again* " Further digging was re «fuired in the kitchen area to set the footings on solid g ro u n d , a c c o rd in g to Farhenkrug “ AU the footings that I pul in the ground I put t i tra steel HI and I made the footings anywhere fi am an extra sit inches to one foot wider and thicker ’ said Fahrenkrug ” 1 look that on my own and Glynhrook paM the price of the steel the blaze The fire was caused when a long wall plug unit, that contained five to six plug ins, shorted out and burned a plywood wall and ceiling, according to A r mintrout Brooking Gex said the heat from the fire was so intense that it melted his tool box Total damage as a result of the fire has been estimated to be between 8500 and 8800. 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