Word: oregon
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...Oregon state police and liquor agents swooped down on 100 taverns and roadhouses in Clackamas County one night last week, confiscated 115 gambling devices and arrested 87 men & women. "I can't understand this!" cried a waitress at one of the joints. "We've always been tipped off before...
Sometimes when hard-pressed Oregon legislators are in doubt about how to vote on a complex new bill, they write in the margins of their legislative drafts: "Let's wait to hear what Charlie Sprague has to say about this...
They never have to wait long. In the aging brick office of the Oregon Statesman, seven blocks downtown from the state capitol in Salem, Publisher Charles Arthur Sprague has probably already tapped out his views for the next day's "It Seems to Me" column. Twenty years of such thoughtful, solid editorial guidance has given 63-year-old Republican Charlie Sprague the prestige of an elder statesman, made the Statesman, despite its small (15,940) circulation, one of the clearest voices in the Pacific Northwest...
...months Sprague insisted that the Oregon State Emergency Board was operating unconstitutionally, finally got the state attorney general to agree with him. This session's legislature is now at work on the Statesman's recommended changes. Last winter, when the Oregon house, under pressure from superpatriots, repealed its two-year-old endorsement of World Federalism, Charlie Sprague said it wasn't a matter of World Federalism itself, but "what worries me is this caving in of judgment in the face of propaganda . . . The risk is that of the closed mind, one driven by fear. [In the repeal...
...Oregon Style. Trumpeting into the legislature's ear is no novelty for the Statesman. It has been doing it for exactly 100 years, as Salem's top citizens reminded Charlie Sprague at a special anniversary luncheon last week. In 1851, first Editor Asahel Bush wanted the territorial capital moved from Oregon City to Salem, characterized those who disagreed as "Lickspittles and toadies of official whiggery." Such Statesman invective soon became known as the "Oregon style" of journalism. Wrote Bush, about his bitter opponent, the Portland Oregonian: "There is not a brothel in the land that would not have...