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
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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.
And he answered them, sayini
Self more flowers
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