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...again he thwacked Harold Stassen's ill-considered plan to outlaw the Communist Party. Such "glib proposals" and "easy panaceas," he cried, were "nothing but the methods of Hitler and Stalin ... It is thought control borrowed from the Japanese." He rode the theme so hard that the Portland Oregonian was finally aroused to a tut-tutting editorial: "Let's not have an Oregon campaign based on who hates Communism most...
...Nice Mess." Knight writes seven localized sport columns to go with the tables, so that the Portland Oregonian can tell its readers when to go deer hunting while the Miami News tips off its readers to the best sail-fishing time. Among other subscribers: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Bulletin...
...Fred) Sackett, 44, had bought the Vancouver (Wash.) Sun, acquired a weekly (he rechristened it the Sun, too) across the Columbia River at Portland, Ore., and snatched, for a small down payment, a million-dollar Portland printing plant. He had served notice on Portland's venerable Oregonian and the Oregon Journal that they would have some competition "by apple blossom time." Fortified with income from three radio stations and his Coos Bay Times ("westernmost daily in the U.S."), he was making threatening gestures toward Spokane, Boise and points south-as far as San Francisco...
Calm & Clean. Ep Hoyt, who climbed from lowly copyreader to publisher of the conservative Portland Oregonian in twelve years, was changing the Post's ways slowly, but in one year he had done a lot. His single concession to the old gaudiness was the Post's pink-paper Page One; otherwise the sideshow days were over. By shaking down the crazy-quilt make-up and flamboyant headlines, Hoyt saved 98 columns of space weekly, used part of them for better news coverage, loaded the rest with advertising. Even though Hoyt had increased its editorial staff from...
Because the Portland Oregonian radio columnist, Bill Moyes, had been taking too many off-beat pokes at local politics. the Oregonian last week spirited him out of town. Until elections were over he would "commune with the prairie dogs" and write about just plain radio...