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- V Î , — <Ml UKI ■USW K Wl W i R lW«"»*» The S^ndyPost Editorial & Opinion Von Broschlor, Publisher Caroline Duff, Office Manager Don Dillon. Editor Scott Newton News Editor SANDY, OREGON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1982 Incentive needed for woodlot yield ?< Letter to the editor: Readers comment on school’s levy Parents, unite A t a school b o a rd meeting I stated my bus band had taken a 10 per cent cut in pay. Actually, along with it he had to loae a day of work each week. So he really is losing 30 per cent He voted for this cut in order to have a job guarantee just until Sept 30 It has been said that teachers at Sandy are in the lower 25 percent in come for their profession in this state, while the ad ministrators are in the up per 25 percent Can this be true? If so, it seems that a substantial cut should be made in adm inistration salary There are lots of im provements I, as a parent, can suggest But I wonder if I will be heard Sports and other special programs keep our youth in Sandy We probably could save much by voting them out, as a larger percentage of kids would drop out. However, If you look at facts, you end up paying taxes then to support them on welfare or in jail I would like to see more parents allowed to be more involved with their school programs We shouldn't let ourselves become so in timidated by school person nel and rules that apply to this kid and not that one But the way to do this is not to vote education out. Rather, form a strong group of p a re n ts fo r changes Many parents are afraid to speak up Let's stand beside our kids and support the good teachers and speak up against the had We can make a difference, but only if we unite Caren Topliff Sandy Don’t fire I m ust express my disagreement with the ter mi nolog y "a savings of 176.592 realized when three fu ll and one p art-tim e teachers resigned” and again "twelve non tenured te a c h e rs m ay not be h ire d . . a savin gs of »352.065 ” These are not savings, but rather sacrifices of basic education Classroom size that a teacher can a de quately handle enabling him to meet the needs of in dlviduals in the class is p rim a ry to our whole education system I would go along with reducing pay (including administration) or freezing pay to keep an adequate staff, but would never use the euphemism “savings'' to label cutting needed teachers Joyce Marcy former SUHS teacher Sandy Money wasted? I am a financially obser v a n t c o lle g e s tu d e n t. (Poor, if you wish.) I have observed something that has irked me That’s right, a waste of money Tax money About a month ago, the county decided it was our turn to have the lines re painted on our road (Bull Run Road) That was very nice of them They did a good job, considering they don’t get much practice Just this week a road crew spent a few days oil ing and graveling the re mains of Bull Run Road. Again, this was much need ed Now, I thought they did a pretty good job painting the tins A country “higher up'* must not have thought the same way Still, I don't think it was necessary to cover them up Approximately half the lines are gone (in the area where the road work was done I. Gee, I wonder who paid for this “waste ” Matthew J Si moms Letter unsigned My faith in the Sandy Post has diminished I had a lw a y s b e lie v e d you printed all letters received Two weeks ago. I sent in a letter expressing my con cems over the Hoodland F ire Departm ent which you you chose not to run, ( * ) Perhaps the issues and questions I raised were too hot' to print Perhaps you were afraid of repercus sion. No good newspaper backs away from the truth If you have no intention of printing my letter in a fo rth co m in g issue and have not round filed it, I would like to have it return ed to me at the above ad dress E W Caldwell Lacey. Wash • (E D IT NOTE It is our policy to attempt to publish all signed letters Your ea rlier letter, however, was not signed and all a t tempts to reach you for a signature failed, since you listed no return address oi phone We welcome any signed letter from you on this subject.) The Post gratefully acknowledges essays and written opinions from readers to appear on this page-separate from the unbiased news reports on other pages of this newspaper. Your opinions generally w ill be printed as letters to the editor, while ours generally w ill appear as editorials Occasionally, we are able to print guest editorials We attempt to print all signed letters of good taste, legible form and reasonable length Our deadline is noon on Tuesdays Personally speaking Two for three ain’t bad....Ask Yaz The first lim e I uw him , he china anniversary of summer vacations The Seattle World's F air was a vision of the future telephones that let answerers see their callers, monorails and simulated space trips It's the symbol of that interna tional gathering, though, that stays in my mind After standing in line for two hours, our family rocketed to the lop of the Space N e ed le . Somehow, I got separated from them when we arrived at the iop Dazed and confused (even then), I looked helplessly around Not seeing a fam iliar face, I cried wax a skinny 27 year old khking at the leftfteld grass in Anaheim Stadium The memory cornea hack IS y e a n later like crystal II wax the start of the longest running case of hero worship in my life It's like crystal, because all these y e a n later to the day, or at least to within a week of to the-day- he did again what he did that summer evening do ing the surprising 1917 American League season of the Hkiaton Red Sox Last Monday night in Seattle, Carl Yastrzemski struck out W ith school hells peeling students back to the classroom, subconsciously every August I still run through the f ln t theme paper of the year; “ What I Did on My Summer Vacation ” Thia year I recalled same an ntveraanoa that somehow all fell due during the summer of 1982 Ths c ry s ta l a n n iv e rs a ry celebrated a trip la Southern C a lifa rn ia Disneyland and K a a tt's B arry F a rm fade, however at tka memory of wat chttg Yaa shift fram foot la feel. Ups ax ha warted far a fly hall la pal a kN In » fear ha fallad la at by DAN DILLON ie plate tb* "By and large it is the sport that a foreigner u> least likely to take Io You have to accept the lore of the bubble gum card, and believe that if the answer to the Mays Snider Mantle question is found, then the universe will be a sim p le r and m ore ordered place,'' wrote David Halberstam. I tend to agree and the pull is still there II pulled me to Seattle la watch Yaz strike out and revisit the Later, my father told me he was just out of sight and watched the whole episode Dunng my moment of terror, he was enjoy ing the show Funny guy. my dad I didn't bother to go up this tnp At the International Fountain in the center of the grounds, muumuus and sarongs have been replaced now by whatever that New Wave uniform is that seem ingly every Seattle female under ♦o is try in g to w ear And everyone seems shorter now The bustle is bushed to a whisper, where the bustle sounded good A high school class in Montana held its "tin” year reunion this summer I made the crystal and china anniversaries Two out of three isn't bad Just ask Yaz I'm not much good at reunions 1 missed my five year college reunion. If we ever bad a kindergarten reunion I missed that one, too. I lost touch with my high school class It wasn't altogether inten tiona) We just drifted apart, it and I Now it would be too easy to notice its change after Id years Sure I noticed Yaz’» gray hairs and the step he's lost going to first I missed the muumuus and sarongs by the International Fountain. But those memories, are leas fragile They ve bad longer to calcify than the memories of hanging out with a bunch of tinhorns before we all took the big step Those memories were more easily earned A quick trip doesn t do justice to 12 years of school camaraderie I always figured if I was ever in the Olympic« and won an event. I'd want to choose what kind of medal I got I've never been too keen on gold Maybe, the best reunions are ailvgr. He hopes for a slight increase in Several factions are working on state legislation to provide better tax currently charged wood pro in c e n tiv e fo r s m a ll p riv a te ducts purchasers for fire protec woodlot owners to manage their tion and research to fund a new substantial forestry reserves for revolving loan fund. To qualify, small woodlot owners would have tim ber yield. Small private woodlots, after to contract with the state Depart all, amount to 3.5 m illion acres in ment of Forestry to embark on an Oregon, and the state forester has aggressive m anagement p ro said he’d like these underproduc gram Presently, only 20 percent tive reserves to contribute 14 per of the state’s sm all private cent of the state's sagging harvest woodlots are managed at all. Hanlon’s new plan, he told The volume. He picks that goal, because studies indicate there Post, would stimulate manage could be that great of a shortage ment of untapped private forest in tim ber supply by the year 2000. lands through zero-interest, long Unfortuntely, recent taxation term loans. He said he doesn't expect AOI and fundless incentive legislation who represents the wood products has helped discourage most small industry to like his plan for in owners from managing their creased consum er ta x , but woodlots for yield. reasons log purchasers have most Jim Carbone of AO I’s Oregon Forest Industries Council calls to gain from increased forest forest property tax a disincentive harvest here. The potential is large, especial to tree growing and calls for state reassessment of a severance tax ly in Clackamas County where of 6.5 percent of tim ber value 133,502 acres rest in private, non charged upon harvest. Indeed, industrial hands of some 1,813 owners—most of whom own less why harvest? Taxes on forest land actually than 100 acres. With a projected steady decline have increased 22 percent since 1977, according to his AOI forestry in state harvest, new business from woodlots takes on growing report. State Senator Charles Hanlon importance in a timber-based last session tried vainly against state economy turned sour. Best yet, fresh new money from economic ill winds to introduce an improved woodland managment woodlot harvest p rim a rily would act. A gutless 1979 version offers remain in the state where resident owners only 10 percent of a re owners would cycle it throughout quested 50 percent tax credit, and their communities. Present tax disincentives, on few takers have bothered to col lect the 5 percent upon planting the other hand, make Oregon the and other 5 percent upon inspec costliest state in the country for the forest property owner who tion two years later. would harvest his reserves. The sta te D e p a rtm e n t of Consequently, AOI calls for the Forestry, therefore, expects next session to reintroduce a b ill for 50 Legislature to lower forest land percent tax credits payable as values and lower the severance soon as safely planted and in tax they term a disincentive to spected and include woodlots up harvest. Some sort of incentive program to 2,000 acres in the incentive pro gram. for small private woodlot owners Senator Hanlon, meanwhile, should emerge from the 1983 plans to introduce a horse of a d if Legislature to bolster Oregon’s ferent color, knowing costly state slumping tim ber economy, and tax credits might not draw many we look for funding that doesn’t salutes from legislators this burden the state’s general fund to be most promising. (VB) January. Mail voting test may give answers Experimental voting by m ail in an upcoming Gresham High School levy should provide in teresting comparison for county elections officers who also tally Sandy High D istrict ballots Sept. 21. The overlap of Gresham High patrons across county lines pro vides the f ir s t chance fo r Clackam as County E lections Supervisor John Kauffman, ten tative vote-by-mail advocate, to test its effectiveness here. Earlier testing in Linn County proved successful. K auffm an figures m ail voting here may pro ve slightly more costly, but show better participation Indeed, it may prove a god send to school districts that have trouble getting their best supporters out to the polls to pass levies. While Sandy High D is tric t voters w ill vote conventionally at their normal precincts and even may register the day of the elec tion, Gresham High’s voters this election are strapped by postal tim e requirements with an Aug. 23 cut-off for registration. Those registered voters in Gresham H igh’s D istrict who miss their due ballots in the m ail come this Saturday should call their county election office. K a u ffm a n hopes to le a rn something significant about costs and voter level in this first Clackamas County taste of m ail voting. He figures comparison between Sandy High’s levy voting and Gresham High’s m ail ballot should provide a fa ir test. Clackamas County’s Gresham High patrons who don’t receive their m ail ballots by this Saturday thus are urged to call Kauffm an’s office at 655-8551 to make sure their vote counts in the test, as well as the levy. The pay-off could, be large in both cases. (VB) Sandy football a rallying force Sandy High's Pioneers should prove a source of community pride and focus this fall, as they entertain us with new Mt. Hood League football tilts. Their contests should prove much more interesting, as they ta c k le n e a rb y r iv a ls fro m Gresham, Barlow, Parkrose and Reynolds. it should be more fun for Sandy folks to root their boys past kids down the road in the Gresham- east Portland area, and the quali ty of ball should pick up with the better opponents, too. Since even “ away” games w ill require only a simple drive dow n' the highway, we look for better at tendance at Pioneer football games, too. Games start earlier this year, too, at a more reasonable 7:30 p m ., with some games scheduled in the nicer Mt. Hood College stadium. Pioneer spirit? The new league alignment rekindles an old rivalry with Parkrose. first Sandy oppo nent Friday. Then there’s an op portunity for Sandy boys to vin dicate their loss to Reynolds last year in the state playoff. Go get ’em, Sandy! (V B ) > ' J î : ♦ «' ’ -ids ' ï t i ‘I t
