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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
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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.)
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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
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fear
ha fallad la
at
by DAN DILLON
ie plate
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"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 )
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