Word: oregon
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...national forests and cattle ranches of central Oregon's sprawling Crook County are light-years away from cities and subdivisions. Some of the 2,450 students scattered over Crook's 3,000-sq. mi. school district travel 50 miles to class. The crisis in Crook, however, is distressingly familiar. Since last spring, taxpayers have rejected the school budget four times, finally settling for a version that was reduced by $90,000. A campaign was also begun to oust the school board; teachers' salaries were slashed by virtual coercion; a circuit court judge was called in to settle...
Cities like Sacramento, Calif., and Columbus have followed the example of towns and suburbs by rejecting school-funding proposals. The revolt is most dramatic in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Oregon and California, but few states have been spared. Six years ago, bond issues for new schools enjoyed a 73% success rate at the polls across the nation. In 1969, the figure fell...
WILLIAM E. SANDINE Professor, Department of Microbiology Oregon State University Corvallis...
Their daughter was currently in Portland, Oregon, the mother explained. She had gone there Sept. 1 to work in a bookstore which was run by the mother of Brandeis Sociology Professor Neil T. Friedman, a young leftist professor who had been one of seven Brandeis faculty sponsors of the student strike information center...
Portland, Ore., police reported today that Susan Saxe had been positively identified as the same Susan Saxe who had purchased $500 worth of weapons from an Oregon gun store on September 15. They also said she was seen leaving her Portland apartment carrying a "heavy suitcase" on September 18 and had not been seen there since...