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Vol. 73 No. 2 SANDY OREGON, THURSDAY JANUARY 13. 1982 (|J SPS 4*1-186) Singlo Copy 25< Fuel can explosion Wet week affects river, not snowpack severely burns man Mt. H ood snowpack average An Alder Creek man remains in c r itic a l co n d itio n at E m a n u e l Hospital’s Oregon Bum Center after he was severely burned in an acci dent Friday James Dasher, 36. 19605 E Sum m ertim e Drive, was burned over 80 percent of his body when wnite gas he was using to light a barbecue ignited, dousing him with fuel. He was airlifted to the Portland hospital by Life Flight helicopter where officials said he suffered second-degree burns over the lower part of his torso and third-degree burns on his upper tor so. Neighbors said they heard an ex plosion shortly before 2:30 p m and saw Dasher run from his porch across the street to a neighbor's yard. The explosion of the can caused witnesses to believe the house was on fire as indicated in early reports to by MICHAEL P. JONES Post Correspondent Monitoring on Mt. Hood by the U.S Soil Con servation Service revealed last week's heavy rainfall had little effect on the the mountain's snowpack F u rth e r down the mountain, however, rising waters created some problems for road crews and motorists According to Stan Fox. assistant snow survey supervisor, Mt Hood's snowpack is "just slightly above average '* He said monitoring near Tim berline Lodge and on the east side of the mountain showed the snow depth and water content is just 103 and 104 percent of the average This is approximately the same as last year, said Fox. “ Mother Nature is still keeping water up there in the form of snow ” The U.S. Weather Service reported that 3.25 inches of rain fell at Portland International Air port during a seven-day period from Jan 3 to Jan 0—1 85 inches above the normal amount of precipitation for this tim e of year By comparison. Jack Baker, a Rhododendron resident who maintains a small weather station for his own use. said 12.15 inches of rain fell dur ing the same seven-day period in that com munity at the 1,620-foot elevation level That was more rain than fell during the entire month of January last year at his site, he said. Clinton Stiger, staff hydrologist for the U.S. Weather Service, said rivers in the Mt. Hood corridor area and elsewhere in Clackamas County rose Heavy rains and early snowmelt swelled waterways and tributaries in the Sandy and Clackamas River basins, although few ac tually flooded Jack Schwahn, Clackamas County road maintenance supervisor for the Sandy-Mt Hood area, said the Sandy River had an unusually high flow for this time of year Stream measurements taken near Sleepy Hollow showed 8.8 feet of water The average high-water flow for the river is between five and six feet Schwahn said some are areas which ex perienced problems He attributed this to the heavy rainfall, fill m aterial used around roads and improper culverts. Keisecker Road, southeast of Sandy, flooded with four to five inches of water covering the ro a d - the result of a plugged culvert located in a natural drainage County crews couldn’t reach the problem due to "tremendous amount of water covering it,” estimated at five feet deep On Aschoff Road, off Lolo Pass Road, 10 yards of road fill was washed away because of plugged culverts Over the weekend eight to 12 inches of water was flowing across Welches Road near Birdie Lane, Schwahn said. Although M t Hood’s snowpack is above average for this time of year, compared to elsewhere around the state it is low In an estimated 195 other surveyed areas monitored by the SCS, snowpack ranged between a 117 to 400 percent Fox said snow monitoring is becoming very sophisticated In the past SCS employees con- A booklet tracing German settlers in western Oregon will be the next project of the Sandy Pioneer Associa tion as it continues its push to establish a museum locally. The group began its drive nine y e a n ago with publication of "Sandy Pioneen, E arly Settlers and Barlow Road Days,'* celebrating Sandy’s centennial Sales of the hardbound book led to a "considerable nest egg," according to association presi dent Melvin Haneberg by DAN DILLON The Sandy industrial base got a shot in the arm this week to kick off 'he new year with the announcement that a Portland m anufacturer is moving into the former site of Tim berline Trailers John Knapp, president of Bison In dustries, said the firm w ill start mov ing into the Sandy Industrial Park site this week and hopes to complete re lo c a tio n fro m its dow ntow n Portland site by early next week. The two-and-a-half-year-old com pany manufactures garbage collec tion equipment and has experienced 5 percent monthly growth, Knapp said. “ Our products are beginning to prove themselves capable and it's beginning to catch on for us,” he noted. Knapp said the company is cur rently in an 8,000-square-foot site and employs 13. He expects the number of employees to double in the next Photo by Michael P Jones Heavy rainfall and early snowmelt swelled rivers in the Sandy and Clackamas basins, causing some problems for road crews last week. ducted the snow surveys on snowshoes. He said 10 samples are usually taken every 100 feet along a 1,000-foot "snow course." Within five or six years, however, automated equipment w ill elim inate the monthly excur sions into the mountains, during the winter season, one such device is being experimented with now on M t. Hood. At the 5,400-foot level on the southern ex posure of the mountain, just below Tim berline Lodge, a “ Snow-Tell” device has been placed It measures water in the snow, total precipita tion and a ir temperature, which aids in forecasting streamflows later on in the year. Now the association is quietly star ting the push to raise approximately *75,000 they estimate it would take to expand the Sandy Community Center to house the artifacts and history of the Sandy-Mt Hood area F in t step w ill be the story of G er man settlers Along with the National Honor Society and a Germ an class at Sandy High School, the Pioneer Association is working on a translation of a book written in the 1800s in German that deals with the early settlers "We hope to get a booklet out with the parts of the books that pertain to this area," Haneberg said, referring to W a s h in g to n , M u ltn o m a h , Clackamas, Hood River and Wasco counties " It should be of interest to history buffs and those who are descended from them,” he said “ If we mount a successful fund drive, then we’ll take it to the city,” he noted Haneberg noted that Charles Frasier, a local history buff, has published “ small books with ex cerpts from other publications that have gone over quite w ell.” More of that is also expected to help the fund-raising drive. Miles Aubin, a longtime associa tion member and student of the history of Boring, said the group also has several maps it would like to publish. He said the maps depict pioneer homesteads in the area and are of interest to newcomers in terested in tracing the area's history The Pioneer Asociation w ill hold its quarterly meeting Sunday. Jan 30, at 1 p m at the Sandy Community Center, Aubin noted Intensity pays off w ith SCP cabaret by DAN DILLON Planning a live theater production is intense But when pre-production work and rehearsals that usually span three months are condensed into two and a half weeks, the intensity multiplies, dram atically. The Sandy Community Players open a cabaret performance, "G er shwin. Porter 4 Friends,” this even ing at Alton Collins Retreat Center that followed the latter tim e line That, said Tom Ten Eyck, is inten sity “ I don’t think we could have done it if we started from scratch " The Players adapted portions of their two recent revues, then added about •0 p e rc e n t m o re new music—Rodgers and H art. Jerome Kern and Duke Ellington With all the pressure, though, there a re rewards. “ When you're playing muaic. after a good gig or good per formance you just feel high; you feel really good." he said. " It's very in tern«. I think 1 like that intensity You can’t worry about paying the HghtbUI You’re in it.” C o u nty e m e rg e n c y Dasher was treated at the scene by emergency medical technicians from the Hoodland F ire D istrict and Alpine Ambulance until the emergen cy helicopter arrived, landing for the pick-up on Highway 26 at Summer tim e Drive. Dasher, an a ir traffic controller, has been unemployed since August 1981 but has kept busy with tem porary jobs, Nancy Johnson told The Post He and his wife, Sandy, have three daughters, ages 11, 13 and 15, who attend Sandy schools. Johnson said a fund has been established to offset medical costs of the fam ily. Contributions m ay be made to the James Dasher Fund, Clackamas County Bank, P O. Box 38, Sandy. Portland manufacturer relocates in Sandy Booklets boost drive to build museum by DAN D ILLO N C la c k a m a s dispatchers In the case of the sold-out dinner cabaret, intensity meant arranging some 66 pieces of music, pairing them with the right singers to make their personalities compatible, and staging the production in an un familiar setting Steve Christensen arranged all the music and wrote musical charts for the five-member band to back the singers "You have to give strong credit to Steve." Ten Eyck said "H e ’s just a great arranger ” Even in his own musical development. Ten Eyck credits Christensen "Steve's really pushed me along ” The condensed tim e line came about with the cancellation of "Star Spangled G irl." With an open date, the Players decided to go to their strength and produce a musical revue Last sum m er’s “ I'v e Got Rhythm” played to more than 2,000 viewers. T en E y c k ’s e x p e rie n c e w ith musical theater dates back to his days at the University of Montana where he was on the faculty of the ana n um an uies aom e people on uie Tom Ten Eyck faculty felt a yen to put on a show, “ so we started doing that for fun, " he said His musical interests began much earlier “ I started when I was a little, tiny kid,” he said, "about five In terestingly enough, going through school, I never took any music I always did that on the side " Six years ago. Tom and his wife, Katie, moved to the Sandy area and got caught up in the birth of SCP For Tom, it was a return to his native area Although he grew up in Portland, he spent every weekend in Sandy Ten Eyck Road is named for his grandfather “ It's incredible the amount of talent in this area, as anywhere, if you just open the door for it,” he said The cabaret w ill present something new for the audience The singers w ill bring their performance into the audience s new twist th at’s taken the performers some getting used to " I f you’re sitting in the audience, you're right in it. You’re surrounded by sound," Ten Eyck said The audience w ill reap the benefits of the cast and crew ’s burst of inten sity in two 50-minute sets that highlight music from the Broadway stage in the 1920s. 30s and '40s “ It's just fun," Ten Eyck conclud ed " I t ’s fun working together with somebody It's not like building a boat in yo u r basem ent Your energies are all working to one goal ” year as Bison Industries grows into the 23.000-square-foot Sandy site. The company distributes packer bodies and other refuse disposal equipment throughout the United States and to several foreign com panies with just 3-4 percent of the company's sales in the Pacific Nor thwest. “ In spite of the recession, w e’ve brought out some innovative waste disposal equipment. To develop some growth in this state of the economy is a pretty good sign," Knapp said He credited part of the company's growth to its looking at sm aller, less expensive vehicles as alternatives to larger, costlier trucks. The firm w ill sub-lease space at the Sandy site other businesses The form er owners of the building, North American D ry Kiln, have maintained offices in the building. A sm all body shop owned by John Kallen and a newspaper d is trib u to r a re also tenants at the site. Welches grads make grade, officials say by MICHAEL P. JONES Post Correspondent Graduates of Welches School are faring well at Sandy Union High School and after they graduate, SUHS representatives said Thursday at an informational meeting to field questions from concerned residents of the M t. Hood area. The meeting, sponsored by the Hoodland Chamber of Commerce, drew some 40 persons to Rippling River Resort. On hand to explain the .school district were Superintendent J a c k P e te r s , p r in c ip a l John McMahan and members of the school board Responding to a question about Welches students' performance com pared to students from other feeder districts, Peters said reading scores for current Welches graduates show ed th e r e w e re p ro b le m s in September, however, problems with re a d in g c o m p re h e n sio n a r e n 't limited to students from Welches Rather, it is a problem in ail the elementary schools, he said However, reading vocabulary was not a problem Welches graduates tested "ninth grade, third month " In mathematics, Peters said only fo u r of 28 ninth g rad ers from Welches tested below grade level Ninth graders are tested when they arrive in September The results are then sent to their elementary schools "so they can see how their students fared ” Peters said a question of whether or not the type of test given is the best “ is not really germane,” because "a ll the students take the same test under the same conditions " Thus, "they all have an equal disadvan tage " Last year. 17 former Welches students who are currently seniors, scored well in the California Achieve ment Test "They scored as well as or better than 62 percent of all juniors in high school in the nation, which I think is excellent." praised Peters In reading comprehension they scored in the 55 6 percentile, of the n a tio n a l sc ale T h e la n g u a g e mechanics score was in the 52 percentile and the language expres sion was 56 6 percentile Math computation, however, show ed a 47 percentile, which is low As a result of these tests, Peters said SUHS is doing something "to boost the scores ” In the SAT scores, SUHS students tested number one among schools in the area and above the national average, said Peters. Current seniors who came from Welches, up through their junior year, had a grade point average of 2.56, said Peters They range from 1.32 to 3.88 That compares with June's graduates who attended Welches Those students had an average G P A of 2 34, with the range of 1.16 to 3 56 SUHS board m em ber Gary Cleland said a survey conducted in April 1981 of SUHS graduates who had attended Welches School showed that of 25, three were in the m ilita ry , six were employed. 14 went on to college, one was in beauty school and one couldn't be located "My concerns certainly vanished after looking at 14 out of 25 going on to higher education," said Cleland Index SECTION I Lunch Menus ....................... Senior Center News Keeping Posted Editorial, Opinion Sports. Recreation 4 2 4 6 7 SECTION II Classified Ads T V Revue Inside Tab Inside Tab WEATHER E x te n d e d F o r e c a s t: F a i r Thursday through Saturday with a chance of rain Sunday Highs, mid 40s to mid 50s Lows. 35 to 45 Precipitation: January Total: 3.76 inches, 1 76 inches above normal 1982 Total: 3 76 inches; 1.76 in ches above normal lYoutdale airport H L Pr Monday 56 40 45 Tuesday 56 31 0
