Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orthodox. ¶In Milwaukee, a jury of pastors found Lutheran Pastor Victor K. Wrigley, 35, guilty of heresy on five counts, including: "Denying the objective authority of the Holy Scripture" and "Denying the historical fact of the Virgin Birth." Minneapolis' Paul E. Bishop, President of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church, said he would suspend Heretic Wrigley "without a doubt." ¶Women employees of Miami department stores have organized "Christlike Christmas Parties, Inc." Purpose: to oppose alcoholic Christmas celebrations by business firms...
...already made one foray into the Middle West, for a speech last month in Des Moines. (Harriman gave this critique of his Des Moines performance: "What they think about out there is ham and corn, and I was both hammy and corny.") Next fortnight he will fly to the Northwest for appearances in Seattle, Eugene and Portland, Ore., and Lewiston, Idaho. Early in December he will speak at the national convention of Young Democrats in Oklahoma City...
...Representatives of four Western states voted to drop the controversial Echo Park Dam from their plan to develop power resources on the upper Colorado River. Conservationists had opposed the plan, angrily pointing out that the Echo Park Dam would flood the Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado's northwest corner. The four-state group now plans to push four other dams in a bill to be introduced in Congress next session...
...famous possession in which California takes no particular pride is the San Andreas Fault, a great crack in the bedrock that leads from the Mexican border to Point Arena, no miles northwest of San Francisco, and out to sea. When the fault slips, it causes a major earthquake. Last week Seismologist Charles F. Richter of Caltech outraged chambers of commerce by warning that the San Andreas Fault has been gathering pressure for a major bust-loose...
Westward from the man on the hospital terrace swept the Rockies, flecked with the gold of the cottonwoods and aspens, beneath cloudless autumn skies. To the northwest stood Longs Peak, 14,255 ft., and to the southwest Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft., their shoulders cloaked with snow; on the way out to the horizon, amid intervening tiers and hollows, lay places like Clear Creek, where Colorado's first important gold strike was made in 1859. ("Panned out eight treaty cups of dirt," the prospector said, "and found nothing but fine colors...