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The Sflncfy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Broschier Publisher Corolme Duff Office Monoger Don Dillon Editor Scott Newton News Editor SANDY. OREGON THURSDAY AUGUST 26 ,982 Alternate finance SUHS answer? Sandy High’s budget levy Sept. 21 looms as a critica l showdown between school boosters and tax- sensitive property owners over continued operation of the school The union high school failed in an earlier attempt this year to establish a new tax base and recently joined only a handful of state school districts who failed a second serial levy try. Kail sports are threatened by possible supplemental B levy failure Sept. 21 and the entire school could close by the end of September with failure of A levy for basic operations. A lte r n a tiv e fin a n c in g fo r avoiding futu re budget levy scares therefore sounds pertinent for long-range planning A universal sales tax on all items except food and drugs might prove logical successor to property tax as prim ary local sup port for schools. Property taxes for schools discriminates against citizens who own real estate. Meanwhile, younger parents who rent logically present best voting support for continued school fun- ding Maybe we should put these renting parents behind the wheel now, too Another alternative, consolida tion of SUHS and Sandy Elemen tary School District, might save taxpayers a bundle on busing alone. Possibly there are other duplications consolidation could erase to save dollars. A grassroots steering com mit tee of form er area educators could be formed to help review the possibility of consolidation The tw o d is tr ic t school boards themselves couldn’t do it Volunteerism as cost-cutting measure in the school is another a lte rn a tive w orth discussion Staff teachers to save their jobs m ight volunteer to serve as coaches, monitors, chaperones and advisors Much of the athletic budget, for instance, could be whittled by donation of time by coaches and assistants If no staff members volunteer to coach, perhaps the school could fill in with volunteer lay persons where qualified. In fact, Sandy High is a pioneer in creative use of outside volunteers and could expand its established program for greater public involvement. Public finance of large schools like Sandy High is difficult these austere times no m atter how you slice it. The SUHS board may have stepped on many sensitive toes already to make the d istrict’s crucial Sept. 21 levy palatable to voters It behooves all of us now to get behind our public school to sup port it during its hour of need and share the task for planning to avoid such pain in the future. (VB) Civic volunteer scarce commodity A lady caller at The Post this week questioned whether former city councilman Bruce Cook legal ly could serve on Sandy’s screen ing committee to review city manager candidates since mov ing to Thomas Road on outskirts of town. Indeed, who can serve on city advisory committees? W hile some positions like mayor or city council member re quire residency within municipal lim its, many advisory committee appointments can be filled by non residents The major qualification is public concern A boundary that separates where you sleep from where you work is no major concern What's important is a strong sense of community and service, so lack ing these days of television ex istentialism and solution less pro blems Will Sandy establish financial security as a municipality with a new tax base, as proposed? Will Sandy continue to grow as a bedroom or add new commerce and local jobs? Should the ciy core revitalize with floral landscaping or western pioneer fronts? Will the m unicipality be left holding the bag over costs of a costly Heritage Square parking lot? Will Sandy be ruined by a proposed shopping center near the Boring interchange, with city hall fears over lost business or possible sewer demands on Sandy? Why stand back and wait for these results to roll over us like vertical patterns on a sleepy television9 Put in your two-cents worth now by attending city meetings and volunteering to get involved any way you can City hall and council members always are looking for concerned invididuals to share the load of d e m o c ra tic g o v e rn ment whether you work here or sleep here You, too, have a stake (VB, Salem scene: ‘Work-share’ may save jobs 1 hv JA, K Z IM M E R M A N A««<xiated Oregon Industrie* Recent election campaign rhetoric to the contrary. Gov Vie Atiyeh is doing positive things to improve Oregon's economy A previously little noted piece of legist« lion, however, is Jus, now bearing frui, and keeping significant numbers of workers on Leqitlahvs Rspori «rom the State (.apital their jobs to earn a living and paying I K C L U S IV f lo Oregon « Weekly New-.pa la x « per« Iroro A« mm lated Oregon Industrie« The measure, first introduce«! early <lur ing the 1961 regular session nt the Legislature at Gov Atiyeh s request deals must have been e ployed continuously for wdh a concept known as work sharing and sis months or for a year on a part time traces HL» beginning« to Europe in the basis Twenties It was enacted first in this court For example a firm needing a 20 per try by the California Legislature as a cent reduction might lay off a fifth of its hedge against feared large scale layoffs of work force As an alternative, the firm public employes as a result of Proposition could reduce the hours of work for its total 13 Canada has the program on a national force by 20 percent An employe who scale, and Arizona also has embraced usually earns $2 Mi a week would work four work share legislation Heading before days Instead of five, receiving $164 In ( ongrMs ta a measure that would en wages and a $3«» t tax exempt > work share courage all statea to consider implements benefit Hon Although proposed by Atiyeh early in Mtmpty put. the Oregon work share plan 81, the »all languished in committee and enables employers to avoid worker layoffs died when that record long session ended or shutdowns by redo« mg work week» and Rising unemployment prompted the spreading work among more employes governor to try again during this year’s Ils administered through (hr Employ first special session in January and the menl Division and enables employs* Io work share concept was included In work fewer than norrnal twiurs ami receive another bill enacted and became effective oitmpfoyrrimf benefits for Ihe (»slant r a little more than a month ago Interested employer» need only apply to la it working0 (he Employment Division of the l»ep-rt Employment Division already reports IS men« »if Human Resources in Salem employers at 42 business locaUons have (T7S5743/ I * find out if they ran qualify qualified for the work «bare program Qualtfu-ations include a workforce of Some 3 MS workers are participating, three or more a 1» percent to 40 percent many of whom might otherwise have been work redortton in lieu of a leyedf Workers laid off their jobs completely The innocent Bystander: School tots find market profitable Oh. what a heart stirring scene it was at the Fullertons the other evening! In front of one and all, our friend George Pickering came out of the closet. "Friend" is perhaps too strong a word Glynda and I have known George ever since he married Midge ten years ago And. to our knowledge, he's never had a friend It's not that he was unlikable m eerely secretive and standoffish He certainly lacked the social graces He clearly disliked par ties As soon as we began talking about who'd made how big a kill ing on which piece of real estate or how that house down the block that someone had bought for $82,5d0 two years ago just sold for $167,000, George would skulk away " I'll het that place of yours has tripled in value, George," I remember saying to him once in an attempt to draw him into the conversation Hut all he said was "Hummph" and wen, off to pour himself another drink (How did I know he was only renting’’ » Hut the big mystery was what George did for a living Asked directly, he would duck his bead, shift his eyes and evasively say something like, "Oh, no, much and excuse me while I ge, an a s h tr a y ” And when we m istakenly put hirn up for membership in the club, he listed his occupation on the application form as "Yes ” Naturally, he was dinged Glynda. who is something of a romantic, thought he was either a CIA agent or a former Mafioso in hiding "I'm sure he's had a fact lift," she whispered dramatical ly Hut as G ly n d a th in ks thousands of people have bad face lifts ia,bet* all of them females > I discounted this Besides I had a clue of my own On several occasions I had seen George on the bus reading magazines disguised in plain wrappers " I ’m sure of it," I told Glynda confidently "H e’s a por no king " "And they drive an old VW?” she asked "M aybe," I conceded, "he's a porno prince " The mystery, as I have hinted, was resolved last Friday evening at the Fullertons. George, wear ing a new three piece suit, at tracted our attention by popping a champagne cork "I think it's high time you knew the unvarnished truth about me," he said " I am now and have been for the past ten years . " Here he paused to pu, his arm around Midge and beam out at all of us ", a stockbroker'" There was a moment of silence and then we all surrounded him to pat him on the shoulder or grab his hand Midge was looking up at him adoringly "He only told me today when the market hit 869," she said "You could have con fessed to me, George I would've stood by you ” " I know. Midge,” he said, pat ting her hand, "but I didn’t wan, the kids to know their father was a . .." "And all these years when you went out every morning and came home every night and never would say where you’d been, you know what I tb ught’’ ” Midge smiled in embarrassment " I thought you were leading a double life ’’ "Gosh," 1 said, "a stockbroker. Think I ought to buy Moonbeam Preferred'’ It ’s gone up three points in only two days " "Right now I'd recommend a fly e r in e le c tro n ic s ,” said George, "with a hedge blue chip . . . ” That's when that nerd Bill Fullerton had to butt in. "M y real estate broker is E F Button,” he said "A n d E .F Button says . . ." Needless to say, everyone in the room froze You could have heard a feather drop Who in his right mind would be caught dead talking to a real estate broker these days? Wall Street report: Secret life of G. Fullerton exposed Anyone who thinks it's impossi ble to make money in the stock market ought to go back to (be fifth grade The fifth grad«* in Sullivan. Ohio, to tie specific For a group of pint sized future capitalists there has shown how profits can be made even amid the glummrot market conditions, thereby beating out nearly 1,000 oti.^i class«*« and groups in a con test sptmsored by an educational newspaper What’s more impor tant, they did so with the kind of cool logic and fresh thinking tbAt many of their elders might usefully emulate As their principal, David L Ritchie, tells it to me the 23 students in the fifth grade math class taught by Linda Krieder took seriously the challenge to “ in v e s t'' Io.ooo th e o re tic a l dollars last October IS, with an eye toward showing gains by March IS During that five month period, stock prices continued to erode with the Dow Jones In dustnal Average oil another five percent And mo», of those who entered the control, like most adult investors playing with real money, went with the tule only 40 of the mythical portfolios end ed on the plus side Bui the ten stocks picked by Mrs Kreider s budding Bernard Baruchs show ed an average gain of nearly 15 percent What's more, the Sullivan champs didn , rely on one lucky hit to bail out an otherwise mediocre hatch of losers Fully eight of their ten selections «ruled on the plus side perhaps moat significantly, they bypassed at tempts to go with the crowd by picking what was "hot. and their unfamilianty with some of the more arcane extremes of technical market analysis may have saved them another bundle What the kids did do was apply common sense to what they alreadv knew about the world Their short term winners includ ed. for example Eastman Kodak < which they picked in the belief that ’ people would tie buying film and cameras, taking pic tures at C h ristm as'), Quaker Oats ( "everytody eats hot cereal in cold weather"» and J C Pen ny iwell and favorably known to them and their families, after a discussion and a vote, it won over Sears as the department-store choice > Their biggest gainer up 79 3 percent in those five generally d is m a l m onths was th a t children's favorite. Mattle, which they selected as a way to par ticipate in the Christmas holiday enthusiasm for electronic games, (Other reasoning, some more successful than others Goodrich because "everybody will need tires.” Greyhound because one student w ith an a ir-tra ffic - controller father said more pen pie would be traveling by bus. IBM to participate in computers and for something expensive," Monsanto because “ oil and chemicals are in the news, and it must be good business to have some," Ralston Purina because “ everybody has p ets” and Smuckers because it’s an Ohio firm ” > Now, obviously, there's some fairly unsophisticated financial thinking in there, along with the practical insights, and it's worth emphasizing (a ) that most of the other competing classes —also presumably seeing the world through unspoiled eyes— had generally disappointing results. tb) that smart investing does not necessarily reap five-month pro fits but often must wait years for its rewards, and (c> that a vague feeling that a known company ought to be doing well ought to be followed up with some solid research To their principal, all this is proof that "the public schools are still alive and well." Letter to the editor Interior Secretary James Watt wants to open virtually all of the U S coastline to offshore oil d rill ing This would have a disastrous impact on the scenic beauty of the Oregon coast, its important tourist industry and our already hurting commercial and charter fishing industries. Denny Smith, who is running for ( nngress in our new Fifth Congrrosinal District, supports Watt and his call for opening the Oregon coastline to oil drilling. Indeed, Smith is on record as sup- portin g en ergy ex p lo ra tio n wherever it might occur and at whatever cost to the environ ment As he told a town hall con vening in McNary last year, " If the energy is out there we should get It." Smith’s stance is not surprising to those of us who have followed his slipshod performance during his first term in Congress la b e l ed as a Reagan Robot" by the Wall Street JOURNAL, Smith also has been found to be the fourth highest Congressional can didate in the country for cam paign gifts from big oil and gas corporation political action com- mittero With credentials like those, it is small wonder that drilling Oregon's coastlines takes precedence over their preserva tion in Smith's mind Fortunately for we who believe that reason should play into mak ing energy decisions, we will have a choice to Denny Smith in the November Congressional e le c tio n . S ta te Sen Ruth McFarland opposro Smith in the Fifth District and also opposes his desire to open up the Oregon coast to offshore oil drilling Sen. McFarland, herself a scientist, offers a reasoned position on energy development as well as an understanding of the importance of preserving our scenic and economically valuable coastal areas If elected, Ruth McFarland will represent the interests of Orego nians and not he beholden to Texas and Oklahoma oil in terests Let's dump Denny Smith and put somebody in Congress who represents the true interests of Oregonians Paul L Franklin Rhododendron
