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Although wood in many areas has the virtue of being cheap, home-grown and renewable, its use as fuel exacts a terrible toll. In such cities as Denver, Portland, Ore., and Missoula, more than half the minute solids in the winter air, so-called particulates, may stem from wood burning. Geography compounds the problem when there are atmospheric inversions; in mountain-rimmed Missoula last week, low-lying cold air was trapped under a smothering blanket of warmer air, preventing the escape of particulates...
...Yonkers, N.Y., school district threatened to reopen its schools three weeks late in January unless the city council comes up with an additional $12 million. Schools in San Jose, Calif., are open, but the district declared bankruptcy in September, and is $1.7 million in debt. In Lincoln County, Ore., 16 schools closed for almost two weeks this fall until voters approved an increase in property taxes. So what is a school board...
Brad Tracy Lebanon, Ore...
...ore sales per customer translate into higher profits for Sears' merchandise group. Net income climbed 164% in the first nine months of 1983, to $320.5 million. Competitors are beginning to take notice. Says Floyd Hall, chairman of Target discount stores, a division of Dayton Hudson in Minneapolis: "From what I've seen, I'm impressed. Obviously, they are doing a lot of things right...
...frantic warning was radioed at precisely 8:31 a.m. on that fateful Sunday by Volcano Expert David Johnston, 30, who had climbed to a monitoring site five miles from Washington State's Mount St. Helens in the snow-capped Cascade Range, 40 miles northeast of Portland, Ore. He wanted to peer through binoculars at an ominous bulge building up below the crater, which had been rumbling and steaming for eight weeks, and report his observations to the U.S. Geological Survey center in Vancouver, Wash...