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...Portland Oregonian, ten days ill with grippe, had himself carried to the east bay of his grey stone mansion on Portland's Imperial Heights, to look once more across the city where he had made his fortune. As the late winter sunshine streamed through the window, Henry Lewis Pittock knew that his time was short, knew that his keenest regret was to leave to other hands the great daily he had founded 58 years before. Next night he died, and Portlanders learned that his $7,894,778.33 estate was the largest ever probated in Oregon...
...even in death could wily Founder Pittock wholly loose his loving hold on the Oregonian. His will left his 470 (out of 700) shares of Oregonian stock to two trustees, with "full and complete authority" to run the paper for 20 years. That trust ends next January 28. Last week the surviving trustee, Ore Lee Price, (age 61), Henry Pittock's longtime private secretary, made a long anticipated move. Pending expiration of the trust, when Mr. Price plans to retire for good, he will hold the title of president & publisher. Succeeding him last week in the key executive...
...oldtime Portlanders were not convinced this was the final word on the future of their most famous newspaper. When Henry Pittock's 470 shares of stock are distributed among five heirs next year, almost anything can happen. And back of this uncertain prospect loomed the tenacious shadow of the other giant who built the Oregonian-its famed, longtime (1865-1910) editor, Harvey Whitefield Scott, who died convinced that Henry Pittock had double-crossed...