Word: oregon
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...effort to stem the litter-tide, Oregon last October became the first state to ban all no-deposit, no-return bottles, and cans with pop tops. Oregonians must now pay a 2? to 10? deposit on beer and soft-drink containers. A total of 37 other states-including California-are considering similar legislation. Before they act, however, they must consider a practical question: Does Oregon's law work...
...roaring success," says Oregon Governor Tom McCall. He points to a three-month-long survey of receptacles along 25 selected roads and highways which found 75% fewer cans and bottles than usual. McCall's conclusion: even relatively affluent Americans will return containers to claim the deposit. The container and bottling industries disagree, contending that, despite the law, the number of discarded empties has actually increased. Moreover, the manufacturers say, Oregon's law is needlessly hurting industry...
...beverage canners have been hardest hit, because customers are reluctant to pay deposits on cans and are buying more bottled products. One Eugene firm, Emerald Canning Co., has shut down; California's Shasta Beverages, which distributes its drinks in cans, is also suffering financially in its Oregon operations. Bottlers complain about the cost of picking up empties and retooling plants to wash and refill them...
Prisoners today furnish virtually the entire pool of subjects for the initial human testing of all new drugs in the U.S., Author Jessica Mitford reported recently. Not everyone is happy about that fact-least of all Superintendent Hoyt Cupp of the Oregon State Penitentiary. In the Walled Street Bulletin, the prison's newspaper, Cupp argued that the poverty or prisoners as well as the reality of their incarceration meant that it was impossible for them to be truly "free agents" when asked to participate in medical-testing programs. For those reasons, all the Oregon prison's experimentation programs...
News of the unusual activity at Menlo Park reached the Department of Defense, and investigators were soon on the scene. One of them was Ray Hyman, a psychology professor from the University of Oregon who is used frequently by DOD as a consultant. Another was George Lawrence, DOD projects manager for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). He was accompanied to SRI by Robert Van de Castle, a University of Virginia psychologist and longtime researcher in parapsychology. Van de Castle decided that Geller was "an interesting subject for further study," but neither Lawrence nor Hyman was impressed. After spending...