Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home town is ashamed of Frank T. Hachiya, but his country honors him. His was one of the 16 names which the Hood River (Ore.) American Legion Post struck from the county memorial roll because they were Japanese. Last week Private Hachiya's name was on another roll...
Misqueue. In Portland, Ore., standees in a cigaret queue complained that the line was moving slower & slower, discovered after two hours they had queued up in front of the income-tax office...
Three Little Words. In Portland, Ore., John R. Polioudakis, proprietor of a grocery store, answering a stranger's query, was hit over the head with an iron pipe when he uttered the phrase: "Sorry, no cigarets...
...Denver. The Army's shrewd tactics in Chicago were followed with similar unspectacular neatness in Ward stores in six other cities-Detroit, Denver, St. Paul, Portland (Ore.), Jamaica (N.Y.), San Rafael (Calif.). In Detroit, which WLB Chairman William H. Davis had described as "explosive," union men gleefully broke a 19-day-old picket line when the Army took over. In the previous three weeks, gangs of vandals had three times invaded Ward stores in Detroit, overturning counters, trampling merchandise, smashing fixtures (see cut). Now, pickets marched away, waving U.S. flags. In Denver, Clerk Vera Jean Perkins, seeing the Army...
Captain Stanley A. Staiger, of Portland, Ore., and ex-Jockey Johnston, carrying explosives in sacks, worked for 24 hours along a river bank, never knowing for sure how near the Japs were. One after another they destroyed the bridges along their way. By the time they reached the last bridge they had only four inches of fuse left. They tamped in the charge, lit the fuse and galloped off with the uproar in their ears and debris raining around them...