Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pittsburgh in the 20th Century was a noisy, grimy giant sprawled across a coal seam, gobbling up ore from Mesabi and spewing out molten steel. It squatted, black and ugly, on the hills between the Allegheny and the Monongahela, trailing mill towns up & down its river valleys. It dug the coal and fed it into fiery furnaces, and strewed the mountainous offal of its furnaces across its landscape...
JACK ABLER Clatskanie, Ore...
Newsmen in Portland, Ore., who wanted the word from the sheriff's office did not call on big, tousle-haired Sheriff Mike Elliott to get it. Not that the sheriff might not see them at the courthouse if he was in a benign mood-it was just that he usually did nothing but snort: "Why do you guys keep calling me a politician? I'm a statesman. A statesman is for the people!" His news releases, however, could be obtained by going to Brownie's U-Drive and asking for Richard ("Brownie") Brown...
Important Product. At Father O'Hara's first post in Portland, Ore. it became clear that he liked to plow new ground in the Lordls vineyard. In 1913, when such causes were far from popular, he took the lead in pushing a minimum wage law through the Oregon legislature- one of the first com pulsory wage laws in the U.S. But perhaps his dearest concern of all, as both priest and bishop, is in developing his church in rural areas...
...farmer by profession," says Bishop O'Hara. He was born 68 years ago in a family of eight children on a farm near Lanesboro, Minn. After a chaplaincy in World War I, he was assigned to Eugene, Ore., where he founded the Na tional Catholic Rural Life Conference to promote Catholicism in rural U.S. Today the conference has 10,000 members and operates on a yearly budget of about $30,000. Explained Bishop O'Hara last week...