2 -S A N O V ( O f ) POST Thur»
Jon 27.
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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-
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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
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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
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. 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
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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