Vol. 73 No. 2
SANDY OREGON, THURSDAY JANUARY 13. 1982
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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
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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
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