Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that a person of such wide learning is barred from Government service, he can make his greatest contribution to knowledge only in the universities. The Institute for Advanced Study, of course, has retained him as its head, and his lectures at the University of Oregon last year were described as "a fresh breeze blowing across the badlands." In a sense, the Government's loss is Harvard's gain, and the University can be glad that there are no unbending security regulations here to prohibit a series of lectures that should considerably enliven the Spring...
...Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger arrived in Washington after the 1954 elections with a reputation as an agile liberal who would always land on his feet. He has since landed on his face so often that his prestige, even among his fellow liberals, has suffered severely. Last week he achieved two nosedives...
Neuberger's other face-fall came in the hearing room of a House-Senate committee investigating Oregon's Al Sarena Mines, Inc. and land grants that it received in 1954 in the Rogue River National Forest. Neuberger had long wanted such an investigation, charging that the Al Sarena claims were worthless as mining property, and that the grants were made only because Al Sarena's owners wanted to strip the claims of valuable timber. This, Neuberger insisted, was part of a deep Republican giveaway plot. Cried he: "If this Al Sarena case were allowed to stand...
Conservation-conscious Americans have been disturbed by recent disclosures in Congress indicating that a gold-and silver mining company named "Al Serena Mines" may have used fraudulent mineral assays to obtain the timbering and mineral rights on mining claims in Oregon. The suspected fraud should surprise few people, for it is no great revelation that private interests seeking public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates...
...east as Reno, rain sent the peaceful Truckee River on a binge, cut the city in half. Undaunted tourists kept yanking undaunted one-arm bandits in Harolds Club, joked about floating crap games. Though no lives were lost, the Reno region suffered $5,000,000 in damages. In southwest Oregon, the heaviest rains in 78 years brought floods that killed twelve people and flung huge fir logs off cliffs like harpoons...