Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oregon, educators estimate that elementary-school enrollments will go up 23.9% by 1960, while high-school enrollments will jump 21%. The state will then need 2,800 classrooms, even now has so few teachers that 2,000 are on emergency certificates...
...still growing: fortnight ago it launched its Oregon edition, i.e., local program listings and news inside a national news-and-feature jacket; editions are being readied for Oklahoma, Georgia, Louisiana. For its Oct. 1 issue, TV Guide will guarantee 39 separate editions, mail and newsstand circulation of 3,000,000 weekly...
...spoons and charms, root fibers for baskets, and mountain-goat wool for blankets. Today the brightly colored wood carvings still bear rough adze marks, but they rank high as primitive art, ranging in style from naturalism to symbolic abstraction (see Color Pages). As demonstrated in the permanent collection of Oregon's Portland Art Museum, they are monuments to the highest level of wood carving achieved by a vanished culture...
Kilowatts & Conversation. Supporters of the private project were elated by the FPC decision. Said Idaho's Republican Governor Robert E. Smylie, who, with the governors of Oregon and Washington, had vigorously opposed the federal dam: "We need more kilowatts on the line and less conversation. These decisions make it possible for us to get on with the job of building the Northwest...
...adjourned. They also charged that Idaho Power rates are so high that they would deter new industry. Said Idaho's Democratic Congresswoman Grade Pfost: "There now can be no doubt that this Administration believes what is best for the power trust is best for the people." Growled Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse: "The Hell's Canyon decision will prove to be the Dixon-Yates deal of the Northwest...