Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland (Ore.), there took place last week a conversation full of implications concerning U.S. manpower and transportation shortages...
...appalling fact dawned recently on Principal Leonard Mayfield of the Med ford, Ore. high school - there had not been a single fist fight .among his 350 little gentlemen in a year. A husky old wrestler himself, Principal Mayfield realistically reflected that many of his boys would soon have to know how to kill other boys. By last week Medford High's physical edu cation program had been radically revised. The new course, called "Personal Combat," is ranger-style training in high school. Says Mayfield: "It's gang-fighting, that's what...
...pastor in a Salem, Ore. church announced just before the sermon that a car had been left outside with its motor running. "Here is an opportunity for the owner to demonstrate his patriotism and conserve gasoline," he observed pleasantly, and read the license number. Governor Charles Arthur Sprague hustled out and turned off his motor...
...Portland (Ore.) Art Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary last week, invited Portland's upper crust to a preview of birthday exhibits. A reporter for Portland's Oregon Journal was there, accompanied by a photographer who popped flash bulbs until he was told he was "annoying the guests," was asked to leave...
...Says." Charles Samuel Jackson, a native Virginian, headed west when he was still in his teens, reached Pendleton, Ore. By 1882 he had acquired a half interest in the Pendleton East Oregonian, by 1886 had persuaded Maria Clopton, another Virginia native, to become his wife. Of Sam Jackson's many ventures, his marriage was the most successful...