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Died. Archbishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, 75, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., who as a young rector in Oregon was named chairman of the state's Industrial Welfare Commission (1913), helped draft the state's first minimum-wage law, became Bishop of Kansas City in 1939, headed a committee which revised (1941) the Catholic version of the New Testament, was given the personal rank of archbishop in 1954; in Milan, Italy...
Columnist Joseph Alsop alternated deep thinking with strenuous legwork. went doorbell ringing in Portland and Seattle to talk with the voters. His findings: 1) the big issue with most people is foreign policy, i.e., peace; 2) voters have made a switch from Ike to Stevenson that may put Oregon and Washington into the Democratic column. But Alsop cautioned: "In most cases, the switchers had made their decisions without passion or violent conviction. Their decisions, one felt, might be changed later...
...into action by Smathers and Kirwan, the operation is by no means one-sided. They think that Stevenson can give help to the state candidates as well as receive it from them. In Oregon, ex-Republican Senator Wayne Morse is in trouble against former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay. Said Smathers: "Six years ago the Democrats were fighting Morse in Oregon. Now he's trying to get their vote, and some think he's just a turncoat. What better way to get them with him than to identify himself with the national ticket...
When Dorothy McCullough Lee took office seven years ago as Portland's first woman mayor, she brought to the office the same classically simple concept of her duties that had guided her during earlier terms as an Oregon legislator and Portland public-utility commissioner. "Whatever the law is," she said, "it should be enforced impartially." Under trim, precise Lawyer Dorothy Lee, it was. Portland slammed the lid down on gambling and vice, took long strides toward solving its traffic and slum problems, overhauled its faction-ridden police bureau...