Word: oregon
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From the rich soil of Kansas as many meteorites have been recovered as from Illinois, Oklahoma, Louisiana. Washington, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Nevada combined. To many a Kansan his State seems to be the favorite landing place for footloose fragments of the universe...
...Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, California and elsewhere, sportsmen who hunt with bow & arrow have long had their own game preserves, where no guns are allowed. Last week the Oregon State legislature set aside the biggest bow & arrow sanctuary in the U.S.-the Canyon Creek Preserve, 200 sq. mi. near the centre of the State, where cougar, grizzlies, deer and small game abound...
Increasingly popular, big game hunting with bow & arrow has thrived in Oregon for years. Bowmen like the late "Art" Young used to go there for mountain lion, bear. Cassius Styles makes his famed bows, best in the U. S., of Oregon yew. Famed Oregon archers are: Homer Prouty, who has shot an arrow 466 yd. (a record) ; Dr. George Cathey, acting president of the National Broad Arrow Association, whose Oregon Chapter sponsored last week's bill. Dr. Cathey's greatest feat: killing two bears with broad arrows (hunting arrows with razor tips three inches long, one inch wide...
Last week Dr. Adalbert G. Bettman of the University of Oregon reported a further effective treatment of severe burns and scalds. He gives the victim a narcotic to control pain, removes loosened skin from the injured areas, applies a freshly made 5% solution of tannic acid with cotton swabs. Then he immediately sponges the entire area with a 10% solution of silver nitrate. Almost instantly the silver nitrate forms a thin leathery surface over the wounds, much as a hot oven sears the outside of a beefsteak and thereby confines its juice...
...seldom heard about the Capitol is Representative Walter Marcus Pierce. He frequently sits in the front row of the House with a heavy gold watch chain garlanded across what, in the days of Roosevelt I, would have been jocularly called his bay window. Formerly he was Governor of Oregon. His present wife and secretary is Oregon's former State Librarian. At 73, he is slightly deaf and his voice quavers, but he has a great air of wisdom. He also has six children (by his first wife) and he is Congress' chief advocate of permitting the dissemination...