Word: oregon
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Udall said he will run a selective but nationwide campaign to prove his viability as a national candidate. "But in Massachusetts New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon, California. North Carolina there are the states I'm looking at right now," he said...
Mills announced his intention to take his seat in Congress next week, and pledged full support to Oregon's Al Ullman, the new Ways and Means chairman. Most of Mills' committee colleagues welcomed his return. "He's still the most knowledgeable tax man on the committee," said Illinois Democrat Daniel Rostenkowski. "If he can really lick this thing, he can be one of the most effective members of the committee. It'll be like Socrates having the students sitting at his feet while he passes out tips on taxes." But not unless Mills steers completely clear...
...McCall has long been among the Republican Party's most effective and innovative Governors-and one of its more painful embarrassments. In McCall's eight years in office, Oregon adopted one of the nation's first comprehensive land-use plans, banned nonreturnable beverage containers, placed its entire 300-mile shore line in state ownership to protect it from developers and publicly discouraged the influx of new residents and even tourists. It also summarily closed a polluting paper-pulp plant and forced other firms to comply with tough environmental standards...
...year-comes from a .015% tax levied against the gross sales of industries that contribute to litter: bottlers, newspaper publishers, paper manufacturers, supermarket chains. The industries do not object. F.N. ("Mac") McCowan, executive secretary of Washington's Food Dealers Association, explains their docility with a nervous reference to Oregon: "Our law is the best alternative to the mandatory bottle return...
Other states anxious to halt the spread of litter are clearly impressed. California, for instance, may well pass its own law next year. As the legislation is now shaping up, the state will bor row more heavily from Washington than Oregon (but will nonetheless ban pull-tabs on cans as a safety hazard). Though industry opposition is expected, a state-sponsored study strongly suggests that most Californians-and probably most other Americans as well-are ready to accept curbs on the throw-away habit that blights the land...