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The S^näy Post
Editorial & Opinion
Von Broschler, Fubi»h«r
Caroline Duff, OHic» Manager
Don Dillon, idiior
Scott Newton Sportt Idiior
SANDY, OREGON THURSDAY. JULY 14. 1983
Beautify downtown Sandy
Sandy Chamber of Commerce
has been granted fu ll responsibili
ty for landscaping areas between
sidewalks and businesses and pro
mises to do a good job developing
an attractive downtown.
Bryon T oile, b e a u tifica tio n
committee chairm an, offers to
meet with any business owner
who’s interested in lot improve
m e n t. He w i ll c o o rd in a te
d o w ntow n la n d s c a p in g w ith
uniform ity and offer some profes
sional landscaping advice.
He's also discussing beautifica
tion of state-owned property at the
Y where Pioneer and Proctor
Boulevards meet at either end of
town. He feels that state Highway
Division O K’s are im m inent for
landscaping these eyesores at the
entrance of town.
Toile and his committee plan to
begin im m ediately and meet one-
on-one w ith business owners who
are interested in downtown land
scaping.
He and his group of workers
rate both applause and support in
their efforts to beautify downtown
Sandy without a lot of com m unity
expense and bureaucratic red
tape.
Business owners who want to
discuss landscaping plans with
the Chamber’s committee should
m ake in q u ir y th ro u g h the
C h a m b e r o ffic e by c a llin g
668-4006 (VB)
Sandy can be proud of ’83 Fest
Sandy can be proud of its recent
Sandy M ountain Festival and
weeklong Sandy Mountain Days.
Despite impending rain, some
5,000 spectators crowded into
town for a large parade of approx
im ately 200 entries.
Many booths in the park report
their best year ever here. A Sandy
High alum ni booth reportedly sold
more Saturday than both days
last year, and the elephant ears
booth increased sales from ap
proxim ately $11,000 last year to
approxim ately $15,000 this year.
In fact, some park vendors did
business as early as 9 a m. Satur
day, two hours before official
Festival opening.
The 12-vendor Chamber Wine
Fest and Feast tent across the
street didn’t hurt park sales, but
seemed to complement Festival
activities, according to Festival
spokesmen. And the tent sale
make the Chamber some $5,000 to
show a p ro fit and operate the
Chamber in the coming year.
Only one m inor incident rippled
the fun in the park, and a half
dozen security guards quietly
escorted the two drunks outside.
It was such a well mannered
crowd that even movie star Lind
say Wagner was able to walk
unhassled two days through
crowded Meinig Park. Behavior
like that may encourage her to
return, along with thousands of
other welcome guests to Sandy
Mountain Festival. (VB)
Senator's report:
Labs claim right to know
by STEVE STAKKOVICH
State Senator. Dtst. I I
The following report is somewhat dif
ferent from those I'v e written in the past
! i concerned legislation which shouldn't be
controversial yet it was killed in the House
of Representatives last week after passing
the Senate 20-10 two months ago
HB 2414 was an attempt to guarantee
employees the "right to know" about toxic
substances (haI are used in the workplace
Few Oregonians can disagree that
workers are entitled to know about hazar
dous substances they are exposed to. yet
special interest groups who worked to
defeat this bill have denied workers this
fundamental right
Imagine that you a hospital laboratory
employe«- Part of your dally job is to
sterilize laboratory equipment with a
disinfectant After performing this func
tion lor months, you begin to experience
severe headaches, nausea and skin rashes,
which you beging to suspect are somehow
related lo the disinfectant you work with
You try to find out more about the
substance, but after requesting informs
tion from your supervisor, hospital of
ficials. the Health Division, the federal
government and even the manufacturer of
the product, you still do not obtain it
Finally you reach the end of your op
tion* there is simply no legal means by
which you can learn about the potential
dangers of substances you are required to
work with
U nfortunately, the situation I Just
described is not hypothetical, but a true
story Linda H arry formerly a lab techni
n a n in a Portland hospital, experienced
the physical reactions described about,
which eventually included passing out
When she attempted to find out more about
the rtw-mical she suspected was cussing
the problem* her long search proved
fruitless
Ms Harry's condition worsened lo the
point where now her body's defrnae
system has lieen so weakened »he is unable
to lead a normal life she la currently con
fined to living in a specailly enclosed cabin
that contains only natural priatucts and
hmited to consuming food» that are ab
solutely free »f all additives If she ever»
breaks this regimen, she immediately
p a s s e s out
Linda Harry s case m perhaps one «if the
dram atic evampirs of lost« ex
yet in today's world with hun
of new chemicals found in the
workplace every month cases of orcupa
»1 disease due lo espeaure to these
i are he. onnng more and more
We need la estebhsh sad protect a right
most A m ericans think they already
have the right to know whether the
1 with ran cauea them
ta i
in order la
tavern exposure Currently
i a worker
«hai the Mil
would have created "mountains of paper
work" for employers, and thus the bill was
• anti business." This simply is not true
Hy the tim e the bt.l reached a vole of ths
House, it had been amended in such a way
as to incur only negligible costs to the
employer in terms of tim e and money
When I first introduced this bill in
January, there was agreement among
legislators, workers and employers that a
worker's “ right to know" was fundamen
tai When It passed the Senate in April,
analysts around the state heralded it as a
long overdue worker protection measure
A poll conducted in the Eugene Register-
Guard found that over 70 percent of those
polled favored the "right to know" bill
By the tim e this hill reached a vote of the
House, business and agriculture lobbisls
had spread so much misinformation on the
hill that even the average citizen had
begun to question the desireahihty of its
passage Members of the House Labor
Committee who supported the bill made
•vary effort to find a compromise which
was acceptable to opponents of ths hill but
those lobbying against it weren I really in
terested in negotiating they just wanted
to kill the bill On June 22. the "right-to-
know bill failed in the House by a vote of
31 23
Most citizens have a rough idea «bout
the legislative process. yet few understand
how professional lobbyists fit into the ptc
lure Uibbyists are paid by special interest
groups to persuade legislators to vote for
their rauae They do this by trying to con
Vince the legislator on the merits of their
cause or. if that doesn t work, hy attem p
ting to persuade the legislator that he or
»he will be defeated
The right to-know bill was killed In
the House not because it was a bad piece
of legislation hut because several power
ful lobby groups «pent a tat of tune and
money generating enough mtainformation
and fear that many legislators gave into
the pressure
U you hove questions about the "right-
WB, or any other issue
w rite 1« me
Salem OR »7310
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Letters to the editor:
Toast to McDonald’s insults
I would like to respond to
the “ Personally Speaking"
column of July 7.
As a member of the
business com m unity of
Sandy. I applaud the a r
rival of McDonaldland and
its band of merry men At
last the residents of Sandy
and surrounding areas of
Hoodland. Eagle Creek.
Estacada. Boring and Bull
run c a n —when in the
throes of a “ Big Mac At
tack" flock to Sandy for a
hamburger
Let's get serious Eor
many years Sandy has had
good restaurants that serve
fin e h a m b u rg e rs an d
re la te d foods. A v e ry
significant share of their
business cm mates from the
fin e p eo p le fro m the
forementioned areas
These folks have been
very loyal in supporting the
local restaurants, and I am
sure they will continue to
give their support
McDonalds
is a fine
organization, and they un
doubtedly will run a clean
and efficient operation
T h e S an d y a r e a has
somehow survived without
a McDonalds' in the past,
and hopefully we can sur
vlve the future
When the store is com
plete, if Ronald McDonald
cannot help M ayor Loun-
dree cut the ribbon, could
we not entice an old sour
dough from the Juneau
area to do so’
Bob Peters
Mt Hood Dairy Queen
Halt taxes
F e llo w
c itiz e n s
of
Clackamas County, please
take a bow ! You were suc
cessful in your defeat of a
well-oiled county machine
that sponsored the "head
tax " June 28
Yes. your vote counted
Ballot measure 3.1 was
defeated by approximately
3 to 1
All of us should continue
to look behind the “ g litte r”
that generally adorns new
tax proposals
Too many tax dollars arc
wasted in too many ways
You can help put our coun
try back on course, just as
you've done here
Speak up. and we w ill
make ourselves heard*
Herman Adcox
Vice President
Citizens Against Another
Tax
Dump Metro
MSD, D EQ , LCDC,
LUBA. E E M A , CTRC Can
this be the "Newspeak"
1984 O rw ell warned us
about’
Control of the land, peo
ple. housing, transporta
tion. your property and
even control of your gar
bage! The list only touches
a portion of the areas the
M e t r o p o lit a n
S e r v ic e
District (M SD or Metro I
now has a u th o rity in,
makes laws on and has
police powers to enforce.
62,000 plus signatures are
required If 3500 citizens
each would get us only 20
signatures, this measure
would be on the Nov 1984
ballot, and the voters will
have a choice. This, most
probably, will be your last
chance to squash the
monster
Please contact us at
665 5909
Relatively unknown, too
m any think “ M S D " is
either an oriental food ad
ditive, a life threatening
disease, or something you
rub on to ease your a r
thritis Of these choices, "a
life threatening disease"
probably is closest to the
truth
The Metropolitan Service
District is a powerful m u
tant of CRAG and the old
MSD The voters adam ant
ly denied MSD a tax base,
and yet their annual budget
now is m ore that $38
million
Guess what, folks T hat’s
your $38 million*
We need your help!
Enough Is Enough In
Oregon once again is c ir
culating a state-wide peti
tion to dissolve MSD Any
registered voter in the
state is eligible to sign
(P S. We also have a peti
tion placing a two-year
moratorium on the DEQ
Auto Em ission Testin g
Program »
Katy Manning
Gresham
Fest aided
I would like to express
sincere appreciation to the
hundreds of people who
spent thousai.
of hours to
make the 10th Annual San
dy Mountain Festival and
Sandy Mountain Days a
tremendous success
To the Sandy Police
Reserves and Clackamas
County Sheriff Reserves, to
Richard Luczkow for all
those “ last minute" signs,
to Roger and Joyce Atkins.
Gene Smith. Gale Meier,
A rt and Suzie Blaisdell.
Jim Patrick and Jeff Jaqua
to name just a few
A special word of con
gratulations to Barry Fretz
and his committee for the
welcome addition of the
Soap Box Derby.
To Don Wilson, Arnie
Poutala and Arnie Becker
who proved to a sometimes
doubting Sandy Mountain
Festival Committee that a
wine tasting tent can be a
fantastic addition and a
real asset to the overall
festivities
D arrell Dempster, Chair
man
Sandy Mountain F’estival
Committee
‘Thank you’
To my many friends in the
Sandy a re a :
I want to thank everyone
of
you
fo r
your
th o u g h tfu ln e s s
in
remembering me with the
beautiful “ get w ell" cards
while I was in the hospital
They w ere g rea tly ap
preciated
Maybelle Wesselink
The Post asks that
all letters to the
e d ito r be typ ed ,
double-spaced and
signed. Deadline is
noon. Tuesday. Let
ters should be ac
c u ra te ,
fre e
of
libelous remarks and
in good taste.
Salem scene:
Late-inning Legislature low-scoring
by JACK ZIMM FKMAN
Associated Oregon Industries
The Oregon Legislature is ab
sorbed in one vast numbers
game
But that doesn't mean we're
about to see the state adopting
some sort of lottery la fact, thia
game doesn t have anything to do
with gambling in the fam iliar
sense of the word
Whet it does mean is that at
this particular stage of every
regular session of the assembly
in S alem , num bers assume
almost as much significance as
baseball statistics during the na
tiona! pastime's annual All star
break
And in recent years those oc
currence« have fallen painfully
close together on the calendar
Here’s an example If you’re
following attem pts to revise
Oregon's land-use law. it helps if
you understand provisions of
Senate M il 10 «enacted in 19881.
SB 100 'enacted in 1073). House
Bill MOO «enacted in 107»' and HB
isn acted in 1M1)
— t h r u all are signifi
cant in the current struggle over
final passage of HB 2206 in UtO
It
in this sartal tug-of-war
e n v ire n m e n ta l and
by
of tecali
ta-
Senate combined SB 300 and SB
447 that adds up to 747. but the MU
came our SB 945 after ill-fated at-
tetnpts to make tt SB 1000
And the big struggle so far this
session with HB 2226 involves at
tempts to insert amendments to
repeal provisions of l$7»'s HB
I would take many times the
space this column consumes to
explain the various laws created
by the foregoing numbers No
m atter to those participating in
the process At this stage of the
lawmaking game, they simply
recite the numbers and appear to
understand what's going on
It'S reminiscent of th eo M com
edy routine, in which veteran
pike-tellers sim ply recite the
numbers o f .
tic u la r n um bers g a m e —you
should uncerstand Senate bills
are expressed in hundreds «but
can exceed 1,000) and House Bills
begin with 2001 «except the
Senate has a 5500 series, the
House a 5000 series and resolu
tio n s an d m e m o r ia ls a r e
numbered one through whatever
in both chambers I
There are other numbers each
set with varying significance
The numerical makeups of House
and Senate are one In the
60-member House it takes 31
votes to pass a measure on to the
Senate
And proposals must
garner 16 votes in the 30-member
Senate to get that cham ber’s
stamp of approval
In many instances the 31 and
16-vote totals are compounded by
the 38-24 split between m ajority
D e m o c r a ts
an d
m in o r it y
Republicans and the 21-» m ajo ri
ty Demos hold over GOPs in the
without tellingi
And when it comae to part is
ship, numbers achieve even more
consequence in co m m ittees
Those paneta have odd-numbered
memberships, invariably favor
ing the m ajerity party. Since pre
p a i d M ik must first be paaaed
The major difference is that
numbers thrown about the capital
don't get that many
jectod to floor
m e m b e rs
of
Suffice it to say—if you’re
about playing this par
votas by all
r e s p e c tiv e
Ita t
susceptible to persuasion by in
terest groups Their ballots tend
to equalize the weighted com m it
tee numbers
The particular statistical varie
ty
of
n u m b e rs
a c h ie v e
significance when compared with
numbers of days and weeks it
takes a given assem bly to
achieve the foregoing
It's sort of like figuring hatting
averages errors. earned runs,
strikeouts, walks, homers runs
batted in and sacrifices
Actually, it's a little premature
to figure the 62nd Assembly's
sta tis tic al p erfo rm an ce. One
might say that as it went into ex
tra innings, tt became the second-
longest game in history, recorded
the usual number of errors, hit no
home runs and remains in great
jeopardy of striking out with
voters who don't understand the
numbers and won't settle for a
i tie
What's more, they 'd prefer this
game's players settle the biennial
isaues before them without retur
ning for special session playoffs
i so frequent of
That Mg
was four, last
in-
tosi
On that.
gam M e