Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oregon, Robert Straub...
...Portland have been dynamited-three of them toppled. Another three were found with attached explosive devices that had failed to go off. Clearly, somebody was out to sabotage the facilities of the Bonneville Power Administration, the federally owned agency that provides 80% of the electric power used in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana...
Four counties in Washington and Oregon put into effect an emergency preparedness plan, devised in 1970, that calls for erecting a command post to coordinate emergency power needs at a remodeled bomb shelter in the Kelly Butte area of Portland. The Red Cross installed a bank of phones for use if the current "standby alert" for a Portland-area disaster goes "red." Two of the Pacific Northwest's largest users of electricity, Reynolds Metals in Oregon and Alcoa in Washington, are particularly threatened. A power cutoff of five hours would wreak such havoc that, Reynolds estimates, it would cost...
...have personally seen six-year-old kids picking beans for five cents a pound in the Willamette Valley in Oregon in 1971. It was 11 a.m. and these kids had already worked for four hours. It undoubtedly teaches them, in the growers' words, a "sense of responsibility...
...writer is the wife of Oregon Congressman John Dellenback...