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The SÉndy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Braschler Publisher C aroline D ull O ffice M anager SANDY OREGON Dan D illon Editor Scott N ew ton News Editor THURSDAY AUGUST 12 1982 Sandy would smile with facelift City Planner Don Wilson this day. In the first phase, 32 new month is treating Sandy Chamber businesses started as a result of m e m b e rs to p ro g ra m s on the project Also, some 250 new downtown rev italizatio n the jobs were created, tax rolls in business community would be creased by 32 percent and proper wise to put to local use ty value increased The idea of such storefront Eventually some state and facelifts is to put on a happy face federal matching grant money for tourists that model towns like helped complete the downtown Sisters, Jacksonville, Leaven revitalization, but the program w orth, W inthrop and White started with personal commit Salmon-Bingen also have found ment of unified merchants. Col uplifting for residents refreshed lege students were happy to in civic pride. donate their expertise Oregon’s director of Preserva In P etersburg, Alaska, an tion Resource Center told Sandy authentic “ Little Norway” theme merchants the local Barlow Trail tra n sfo rm e d the town with Road provides ideal theme for donated time from artists who Sandy to dress its streets, sketched false storefronts and storefronts and public buildings in high school shop students who cut a pioneer motif the one-piece arches as add-on Eric Eisemann, who has helped carpentry Merchants painted revitalize com parable cities, their own storefront pieces as key- poins out that federal tax credits coded and p ick ed up the are available for revitalizing materials-only tab of $300 per downtown buildings 30, 40 and 50 front. years old There’s a lot an authentic A western theme has worked pioneer town like Sandy could do to dress up Jacksonville, Jackson to dress up its downtown, too, Hole, Sisters and Winthrop Sud while providing more jobs and denly the towns prosper with the better cash flow for stores and charm of the shops that draw new tax-funded services shoppers. Across the Gorge near It doesn’t even need to be costly Hood River in White Salmon- or compromising in a plastic sort Bingen 2400 persons stopped of tourist approach A little daring fighting long enough to give their and cooperation could transform poor stores a Bavarian facelift. Sandy into a very exciting and Civic pride bloomed, according to beautiful city with personality. chairman John Blake of United How about it, hungry merchants? Telephone, as shoppers stopped The place to start is within the heading out of town to shop Sud Chamber and merchant associa denly folks started drifting into tion with the help of city hall. Fix roads wisely I understand that Bluff their tiny community to spend the (VB) Letters to the editor: Roads, nukes, world finance eyed Postal hike hits rural community Roses to US. Senators Quentin B urdick (D -N .D .) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) for securing a brief rollback in new high postage rates that stagger rural communi ty newspapers and non-profit ser vice organizations with second class mailing permits President Reagan vetoed two earlier efforts for urgent sup plemental appropriations for sub sidy recently cut Even so, the temporary rollback in new stiff rates lasts only two months. It’s good news for rural com munities served by newspapers mailed to subscribers and service o rg a n iz a tio n n e w s le tte rs , however Congress dealt a blow to the flow of information in rural America recently with overnight large increases in postal rates, rather than gradual step in creases earlier promised Recent compromises to settle the federal budget means in county newspaper rates will have more than doubled between January and October Some churches, schools, fire departments and other non profit public service organizations eligi ble for second-class mailing also have lost postal subsidy. It would be helpful if Congress would keep its committment to phase any necessary second-class m ail in c re a s e s by o rd e rly schedule It’s nice to warn so meone before pulling the rug from under them. After all, the free flow of infor mation is just as important in ru ra l c o m m u n itie s , w here publications depend on the mail for distribution t VB) Salem scene: New crunch session looms bv .1 M K Z IM M E R M A N A ss « m ia trd Oregon In d u itrirs The likelihood of yet another budget shortfall lx ««»ting shadow» on »(ate government in Salem this week Hut an even more ominoux cloud in iiecomiflg visible on the horizon A »till stagnant economy I* blamed for le g is la tiv e Report trom the S la t. Capital the current overcast A continuing re« eg f XCLUSl V f to Oregon v Week I y Newvpa Nion. couple«! with voter passage of Ballot pars from Associated Oregon Industries Measure No a the | ‘> percent property tax limitation initiative could fill that and legislature is worsened by the fa d cloud to alarming size they repeatedly have tapped obvious and The present ghiomy finara lal situation not so obvious revenue sources user the currently is under study by stale revenue past two years analysts who are expec ted to deliver their Given the impen<hng general election forecast to Gov Vic Atiyeh Aug 24 and record tax increases already impose«!, Humors throughout the capitol building in it appears likely yet another special ses dicate the absence of economic recovery sion could concentrate heaviest on spen will profit* r less than anticipated tax ding cuts One of the most likely targets revenue and still more trimm ing of spen would tie something more than the 1140 ding re«|uired to achieve the mandate«) million left in the property tax relief fund balanced Midget for the remainder of the Lawmakers have twice pared that pro current hummum through next July gram initiated at the height of a budget Mize id another deficit this biennium like surplus in 1*79 Although further reduc ly will rie te rm in e w h eth er Gov Atiyeh tions in property tax relief payment bode calls lawmakers into another special sea poorly from a political standpoint, the »ion to «teal with the problem prec«rdenl for dipping into thai fund has The governor has the power to trim been estblished If the 61st Assembly does »pending He is understandably refurtant any more dipping it will have to be done to make significant cuts without roncur before I be funds are ««immitted to residen rerwe by the legislature, particularly with tial property owners and renters Sept IS a general election on the horizon That means if Gov At:yeh calls a third Even the prospect of another budget spec ial session this year he will do so pro trimming spetial session is unsettling bahly early next month law m akers have been able to do tittle Some estimates peg next biennium s more during the last two years than adjust budget shortfall as high as I I 4 billion, if spending and revenue Measure No 3 M added to the other deficit A dilemma (hat face* both the governor factors Road again is undergoing repairs We moved to San dy five years ago. and we found poth oles and shoulders m a rk e d for repairs In the past five years we have seen these sam e potholes and shoulders m a rk e d for repairs North Bluff Hoad persists to be the most ex p e n s iv e ly kept road w ith o u t p ro p e r maintenance procedures In another city and coun ty in Oregon I asked the chairman of the county commission why his roads were better than ours in Sandy and C lackam as county He said he told his road department that if funds are lim ite d , wwhatever they do they should do right and not do anything not right within the funds A year or two ago I discussed with the city m anager the repeated repairs lor the same things on North Bluff Hoad, and he said that the city doesn't have funds for inspection I recall a cartoon on the ediitorial page of The Post a few months ago showing a road crew repairing Bluff Hoad One of the crew, presumably the foreman, was sitting in the truck having a smoke One of the crew was digging potholes, and the other was filling them up If this is the way the repair crews work, shouldn't we find some other way to get our road repairs done’’ I recommend that in spections be included in the repair contract and that B lu ff Hoad be maintenance free for at least three years H C Sargent 12461 SE Virginia Court W a tc h b a n k s the Euro-dollar system, which largely is influenced or controlled by England English. Swiss and other international bankers will try to prevail upon United S ta te s m o n e ta ry authorities to rescue Euro d o lla rs by s u p p ly in g billions of newly printed money If carried far enough, these dollars could create hyper inflation and coni p le te ly d e s tro y our monetary system What now is needed is millions of U S citizens to call upon the president and their con gressmen to NOT redeem any form of U S dollar, ex cept those lawful issues of actual legal U S notes Such fictitious dollars are funny money and sole ly the responsibility of the financial intsitutions that actually issue such foreign credits The E u ro d o lla r off shore, unregulated banking system is like a gigantic crap game, and U S should wash it’s hands from all such activity Petitions to sign on this subject are available from C B Koenig. 66« 9645 Clifford B Koenig Sandy Eew people realize it. but emitting from the intellec tual sector of the National Democratic Policy Com mittee headed by l.yndon H laiHouche. Jr comes a w a rn in g of p o te n tia l bankruptcy of the interna ttonal Euro-dollar banking system The trillion dollar plus international bank is the o ff shore, unreg ulated, dollar dominated system that allows creation of bogus money out of thin air in any currency This cur rency then is pegged to the U S dollar and issued as loans to insecure third world developing coun tries Some of these debtor countries now are unable to N u kes shunned either service or repay their loans, and their finan Huth Me Ear land visited cial collapse will collapse Sandy last Thursday She is the Democratic candidate nuclear explosions the stu for Congress in our district dent scores are lower to a Not many were present at s t a t is t ic a l s ig n ific a n t the coffee hour in Sandy degree b ra in dam aged children This study was Community Center Those who were had a splendid reported in the Oregon opportunity to sit in a circle Journal July 8 with candidate McFarland McFarland is strong for and exchange thinking on the nuclear freeze pro major issues McFarland posal "You have got to declared the issue of stop testing and making nuclear armaments and nuclear bombs before you nuclear war was the major can begin to do away with issue After a ll,” she said, them." she said Her stand " If we are dead or dying, is in sharp contrast with the others do not matter " h er o p p o nent. D enny Huth McFarland is a Smith, who voted against science instructor at Mt the nuclear freeze resolu tion in Congress Hood Community College Her PhD degree in genetics In discussing the en enables her to be specially vironment, McFarland in cognizant about harm done dicated she is for protec to our human gene pool by tion of it and handing down radiation all the way from to our children clean air mine to power plant or and water with a careful bomb assembly stewardship of our natural She is aware of the study resources In careless use done by Dr Rosalie Bertell of our resources, she said on student scho lastic we have been like children scores and the finding that at the candy jar downwind of the desert areas w here we have set off W Pete Sulzbach above and below ground Sandy I he Post gratefully acknowledges essays and w rit ten opinions from readers to appear on this page separate from the unbiased news reports on other pages of this newspaper Your opinions generally will be printed as letters to the editor, while ours generally will appear as editorials Occa sionally we are able to print guest editorials We at tempt to print all signed letters of good taste, legible lo i m and reasonable length Our deadline is noon on I iiesdays Innocent liystander: Blessed be Moonies who inherit earth The Reverend Moon is appeal ing a sentence of 1« months in the pokey for tax evasion "I misused not a penny." he told his faithful followers through an interpreter "In the tradition of Jesus. I taught Io live for the sake of others " In comparing himself to Jesus the Korean evangelist is. of course, referring to that little known book of the Bible, The Gospel According to St Pontius The pertinent chapters begin with The Sermon in the Man non Excerpts follow And seeing bis disciples, he went with them into his mansion of many rooms so as to dine And he opened his mouth and taught them saying Render unto God the things which are God x and render unto Caesar as little as you can get away with For I say unto you: Blessed are the rich for they shall inherit the earth the im provements theron. and the double declining depreciation rnettwid Blessed are the enterprising who diversify their holdings, for their reward shall be inscribed on the bottom line there came a multitude of ta x « lectors And Judas forthw ith k ed Jesus saving Hail. Mast Th«Mi has led me into wealth. f< am now richer by thirty piece» silver Blessed are the meek, for they shall sell (lowers in camel caravan lounges But even more blessed are those which lead the meek, for they shall have cheap labor And again I say unto you. ft is easier for a rich man to enter into a tax haven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle But whom say ye that I am** And Simon Peter answered and said. Thou art the Prophet of P ro fit*, to whose miracles wrought with leverage and creative (man cing we bear witness And the Master said unto him. Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my tax Aa the disciples did eat. he Mid. Verily I M y unto you. that one of And Jesus was taken bef« Pilate the governor and l governor asked him saving th<ju the Prophet of Profits a what recommends thou for sfw term capital gains'* But Jes answered him never a word, he spoke only Serbo-Croatian a they bad taken from him his terpreter Thus was he taken to Golgotha, and. like most taxpayers who are audited, he was crucified And the tax collectors cast lots to see who would have the very cloak off his back Then came unto him the disciples all in mourning And he spake unto them, saying. Fear ye not. fo2 our joint business venture shall rise again Then Pilate washed his han< and ordered his soldiers to ta Jesus to a place called Golgotl that is to say. a place of a sku and there to be utab audited Go ye forth into all nations and multiply Multiply thy commer cial property holdings, thy n ew s p a p e r s a d v e rtis in g revenues and a ll thy con glomerates stock options Have faith in my teachings alter thy corporate records, falsify thy tax returns, and lay up th* treasures of this earth And. Io. the disciples rent th< clothes and tore their hair Ai Judas, when he saw the evil I had wrought went and hangi himself And the followers Jesus came unto him. w«*epn and wading, and begged hir saying. O. Master, tell us what do Then he spake prophecy, M y ing. Some day. there will rise up an o ther te a c h e r, who w ill remember all the command ments I have commanded you, except for the greatest com mandment of all: Don’t get caught And, Io. so it came to paaa. 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