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...That's Not News." Whether in the lumber camps of Wallowa County or the fishing settlements along the McKenzie, Wayne Morse is working with tireless, effective energy. Arising as early as 4 a.m., he looks worn and grey as he steps forth, topcoat collar turned up, hat pulled down, into the morning mists., But he sheds his years as the day progresses. "I," he cries in martyrdom, "am the man who has been marked for a purge by the Eisenhower Administration." Instead of discussing issues, he complains, Doug McKay is merely telling everyone who'll listen how much...
...strong financial support from COPE, the political arm of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and labor, as rarely before, is organizing the precincts on Morse's behalf. Moreover, Democrat Morse has a break on the issues: 1) because of the nationwide slowdown in home building, Oregon's billion-dollar lumber business has slacked off; 2) because of lower farm prices, Eastern Oregon's big-business wheat farmers are pouting; and 3) even though private enterprise already is hard at work on a power project in the Hell's Canyon area, a recent power shortage has allowed Morse...
...scores -and brought peace. Meanwhile, by "buying from heirs" Somoza acquired coffee fincas and cattle ranches, parlayed them into a fortune estimated at $60 million-some $20 million more than Nicaragua's annual budget. He reputedly owned one-tenth of the country's farmland, plus interests in lumber, liquor, soap, cement, power, textiles, cotton-ginning, sugar-milling, air transport, merchant shipping, even a barbershop-an estimated 430 properties. "You'd do the same thing yourself if you were in my place," he used to explain. Nicaragua advanced a little; e.g., more than 600 miles of all-weather...
...Administration has opened Wildlife Refuges to oil drilling, while McKay was publicly announcing it would be forbidden. Appropriations for the Rural Electrification Administration and the Bonneville Power Administration were drastically cut. The Rogue River National Forest has been lumbered extensively under a phony mining contract. The Administration backed a bill to give lumber operators choice public forest lands instead of cash compensation when their properties were condemned for reservoirs or similar purposes...
...Houston, a county judge checked the estate left by a man who hit the Texas jackpot in lumber and real estate: the late Jesse H. Jones, ex-Secretary of Commerce and former head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The jackpot: $9,665,302, including $3,389,701 in cash and $5,978,328 in stocks and bonds...