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2 -S A N O V ( O f ) POST Thur» Jon 27. (Soc 1) The Shindy Post Editorial & Opinion Von Broschier, Publisher Caroline DuH. OHice Manager Dan Dillon Editor Scott Newton News Editor SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27. 1983 Hoodland needs phone link ty. Folks on the east end think of Oregon City as a long ways away, which makes it hard to relate to county officials at the other end. That includes a lot of people up in W e lc h e s , W em m e, B rightw ood,Zigzag, Rhododen dron and Government Camp. Visits by officials to dark areas of the county would help, of course, as would w ritte n com muniques from Oregon City to remote constituents through the press or m ail. But th a t’s basically one-way, vertical com m unication from of ficials downward. It would be nice to let grassroots citizens at all ends of the county have their say, too. One way to fa cilita te this would be a toll-free number Continental phone customers in the 622- prefix could use to call their county of fices toll-free....even if they do have to w ait and w ait to get through the busy switchboard. If you agree, call your county commissioners at 668-3510 and be patient. If the lin e ’s always busy, spend a couple quarters to bend their ears by calling 665-8581. (VB) , Newly elected county com mis sioner Dale Harlan campaigned on it here, w hile veteran com mis sio n e rs R a lp h G ro e n e r and R o b e rt S chum acher ha ve acknowledged its need. Nonetheless, a ccessibility to county government officials from this end of the county remains a problem. Two years ago the board of commissioners agreed to install a second line for toll-free incoming calls to Oregon City offices from citizens in the Sandy area. The good-faith gesture capped a one-man drive by Sandy political a ctivitist Jack Travis (deceased) to se cu re q u ic k access to C la cka m a s C ounty o ffic ia ls , without paying for a call or w aiting endlessly to get through on a single line. Well, i t ’s s till tough to get through to the county switchboard on local toll-free number 668-3510. T hat’s better than folks up at Hoodland have it. They can call the “ toll-free” Sandy number for the courthouse long-distance and then w ait their turn to get through to the switchboard. True, i t ’s a big, sprawling coun- ■■M me » ■ - '• - i- The Post gratefully acknowledges essays and w ritten 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 p rin t guest editorials. We attem pt to p rint all signed letters of good taste, legible form ana reasonable length. Our deadline is noon on Tuesdays. A sk y o u r senator: Starkovich pledges tax reform by S T E V E STARK OVICH Stale Senator. Mat. It M y first week as your State senator cer tainly was one I'll rem em ber for many years Our firat order of business, of course, was to elect a Senate president Not since 1971 has this procedure been as lengthy and difficult as it was this time The body finally resolved the question at 7 p m F riday, electing Senator Ed Fadely of Eugene Senate president for the «2nd Session of the Oregon Legislature Once this was decided, committee assignments could be made I am pleased to report that I have been appointed to serve on the following Senate committees Energy and Environment (for which I am vice c h airm an ). Economic Activities; Local Government and Elections, and Trade and Economic Development ( I will be President Fadeley's alternate ) I feel these assignments are very appropriate and will allow me to work directly on issues of interest to me and of importance to District 14. Many of you already have voiced your concerns to me, and the one most frequent ly expressed is bringing about some type of property tax reform in order to help re lie v e the heavy tax b urden on homeowners I intend to make this a priority in the 1963 session, and will do whatever is necessary to bring about a fair and workable property tax reduction I w ill keep you informed about thia and *> S3 r « other issues in future columns I ’m excited about being here and ready to roll up my sleeves ad go to work for District 14 and for Oregon Please w rite or call any tim e with your questions or concerns I can be reached by calling to ll-free I 800 452 7813, or by w riting to me co the Oregon State Senate, State Capitol. Room S2I8, Salem, OR 97310 R epresentative’s report: Shiprack happy with assignments by ROB MH I FRAC K Atale Representative. IMst 23 The last two weeks I have spent a great fleal of time in orientation meetings These have covered an examination of the Cover nor'» budget alternative lax plana and ex pianationa of where our budget money goes In my committees, State and Federal Affairs and l^ b o r the briefings have centered on the functions of the D e p a rtm e n t of C o m m erce and the Employment Division Committee hear mgs have d a rte d and bill* are now coming through The Governor » budget has a projected deficit of 1581 million which he will at tempt to m ake up p rim arily through the addition of a I percent "not receipt* tax ” Thia ia a I percent tax on personal income before dedurtuma. in addition to the atan dnrd income tax Support for Uu* proosal at thia time ia very wonk Additional fund* are prapnaad far Higher Education. Car Several bilia ha ve heen introdurrò which desi w «h iho ttmber tax that a f i p i n l *o much an I will tloaely follo» these fa ring long terni unampioymeni in certa in mdnatriaa la attand voratwnal claaeas and I . Weaver writes: Wilderness matters pressing Most Oregonians would agree that it is high time we resolve the R A RE II w ild e rn e s s issue fo r Oregon The w rangling over these lands has gone on more than long enough, and has divided us when we need to work together to solve the grevious pro blems facing us today I want to fully explain why Congressmen AuCoin, Wyden and 1 introduced the Oregon W ilderness b ill, H R 7340, and why it must be re introduced this sea sion I believe I can make it clear the very minor ef fects that this legislation w ill have on Oregon's tim b er-relate d jobs and economy A p p r o x im a t e ly one- quarter of the BLM and Forest Service timber now under contract in Oregon is not m arketable under cur rent conditions With high priced contracts under ex tensions. our m ills are d e p e n d in g upon m o re recently obtained, lower pneed contracts to keep operating M any of the sales that tim ber com panies have been able to secure at reasonable prices have been made in the RARE II roadless areas But these m arketable tim ber sales are now under the threat of a lawsuit that could be fil d at any time As you know, the Ninth C ir c u it Court of Appeals recently ruled that the Forest Service R A RE II process was inadequate, throwing open the door for a lawsuit that could stop all tim ber sales immediately on the three million acres of Oregon R A R E 11 lands To the extent our mills de pend upon tim ber supplies from R A RE II lands, such action would be a far more severe blow to Oregon's econom y th a n our Wilderness bill The Oregon Wilderness b ill would prevent this lawsuit while setting aside a very small amount of Oregon's available timber supply for inclusion within the Wilderness System While our bill designates approximately one million acres as Wilderness, it frees about two million acres of R A R E I I lands for m ultiple use. and removes the threat of legal tie-up O u r b ill w o u ld le a v e available for harvest 97 percent of the commercial tim ber now coming from federal, state and private lands in Oregon Sixteen billion board feet 393 mmbf L ik e w is e , the B L M estimates that timber sold at prices about $100 and $150 per thousand board fe e t (m b f) is not marketable under current conditions As shown by the fo llo w in g e x a m p le s , substantial amounts of BLM tim ber cannot be harvested, and w ill be defaulted or otherwise te r minated. Leaving aside serious questions of road construe tion problems or suitability of lands for sustained-yield h a rv e s ts , th e t im b e r volumes within proposed tand existing) wIlderNss areas are obviously in significant when compared w itH the volumes that w ill be offered for sale as a result of defaulted or other wise derm inated tim ber contracts In fact, the total annual volume of timber that could be harvested from the lands that our bill places into Wilderness is 194 mm bf , or aboud two percent of Oregon's 8 3 bbf annual harvest (Some of the lands on which this figure is based are already ex c lu d e d fro m tim b e r harvest > The lands includ ed i: ur Wilderness bill would have to be cut at this annual rate of 194 mm bf for 15 to 20 years before they could produce the bolume represented by the un m a rk e ta b le high p riced contracts alone! It is abundantly clear that no jobs in the forest products industry w ill be lost upon the passage of this wilderness bill. On the contrary, jobs dependent upon the harvest and pro cessing of the low-priced sales made in the roadless areas our bill releases to multiple-use w ill be saved, since the legislation pro tects these areas from a R A R E I I lawsuit I firm ly believe that we can have a healthy tim ber economy and su fficien t w ild ern ess a llo c a tio n s . Adequate funding for bet te r, m o re in te n s iv e managen ent of the com m ercial forest lands we already have under pro duction, w ill provide far more jobs than spending the money to push roads in to wildreness Resolving R A R E I I, as our bill does, w ill allow us to concentrate on these more productive initiatives Jim Weaver Mem ber of Congress Yesteryear in Sandy: Phones, mail, signs 1958 problems by the state The Rhodendron system, ownet cooperatively by summer homeowners, obtained water from Henry Creek The Zigzag w ater supply came from Lady Creek ooo The Sandy Chamber of Com merce pushed for posting of street signs throughout the city and encouraged homeowners to post street numbers on their houses Everything's up to date in San dy, ax in Kansas City As often noted, today one city seems as modern as the next Across the land, our public buildings and roads now tend to look alike Prices also are fairly uniform in restaurants and filling stations Too. we all see the same televi sion shows and share news in stantaneously But what were things like in Sandy a quarter century ago'’ L o n g tim e re s id e n ts m ay remember these local stories from the recent past JA N U A R Y . IMS: Mayor Ruben Hoffman and police committee chairman Keith Schneider announced appoint men! of new police chief Andrew Reeves from California. Sandy » police chief suspended special courtesy cards issued by form er chiefs to allow certain citizens to carry firearm s a t aux diary citizen police •till draw unemployment insurance I have co sponsored tbi* and sdii advise you A Sandy sportsmen a aaaocia bon held a banquet for $10 per sons, with John Mills chairm an Do not expect any budget or tax plans before M ay IS when the second quarter economic forecasts coma in The stale of our economy w ill govern the outcome of those proposals P o s tm a s te r John M e ta g e r reported the Sandy post office was flooded with 108,221 letters and cards during Christmas, up sharply from 85.000 in 1967 ♦ i b b f) of Forest Service and BLM tim ber is now under contract in O' ;gon. much of it under extensions due to expire this year. Of the total volume under federal contract, between 3 6 and 4.0 b b f. cannot be econom ically harvested T h e refo re , this volum e either w ill be defaulted or terminated within the next 18 months and then re-sold These impending defaulted or terminated tim ber sales amount to a backlog that w ill have to be incor porated into the regular Forest Service and BLM tim ber sales program Ac cording to the Forest Ser v ic e , e lim in a tin g th is backlog w ill take up to three years T h e F o r e s t S e r v ic e estim ates, for exam ple, that of the 2 6 bbf under contract on the W illam ette N a t io n a l F o r e s t, 600 million board feet (m m bf) is not m arketable This nearly equals the annual volume 792 mm bf , offered for sate on the W illam ette Sim ilarly, the Umpqua Na tional Forest estimates 340 m m bf of its 1.5 bbf under c o n tra c t cannot be harvested because of its high price The annual harvest of the Umpqua is Since the city had little funds fo r the s tree t sign project, volunteers from the school and scouts were enlisted by VON BRASCHLER A pioneer past office at Cher ry v ilie wax discontinued on recommendation of congressman W alter Norblad ending a three year controversy The office had served a handful of residents for 00 years, before the Sandy past office began serving the area with a ru ral route Sandy Theatre was showing O m ar Khayyam w ith Cornel Wilde and Band of Angels with Clark Gable weekends only W ater systems in Rhododen dron and Zigzag were condemned A Northwest Berry Growers Association was sought for price structuring after local growers suffered a bad season that paid only 8 cents per pound for strawberries. —ooo— A citizens committee was ap pointed by the high school board to determine how to moderize Sandy High School to the day's needs and determine how the school stacked up statewide Members included Tom Scales, C harles F ra s ie r. M rs M att Shielda. M rs Ruen Hoffman. M rs H a z e l M u rra y , Clyde Sutherland. M elvin Haneberg C arl Bell, Mrs Ruth Andersen. George M Jones and Harald Reynolds Teachers included H arvey Hansen, M rs Helen Nelson. Frasier and Edith Jemp tegaard ooo Ruben H o ffm an, owner of W right's Supermarket building, purchased land between Strauss Street and Shelley Avenue on Main and announced plans for a modern centralized shopping center in the middle of Sandy His plan included a modern drug store, a hardware store, a clothing store, three retai. rental units and expansion of the ex isting m arket —ooo— Sandy telephone users were asked to vote for service exten sion by a Sandy Telephone Im provement Service Committee The questions of the day’ "D o you favor toll free extended ser vice with Gresham ' Do you favor toll-free extended service with Portland’’ Officials from the state public utilities commission said Sandy users could opt for extended toil free exchange with Gresham or Portland, although monthly b ilk probably would increase 75 cents for Gresham service or $2 50 for Portland service (Compiled from flies of the Sandy Poet, established 187» i
