Word: portland
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Died. Ernest Boyd MacNaughton, 79, president of the Portland, Ore. First National Bank from 1932 to 1947 and its board chairman ever since, who was moderator of the American Unitarian Associa tion from 1950 to 1952, president of the Oregonian Publishing Company from
...cancer; in Portland. Of all his multiple interests, the indefatigable MacNaughton most relished his unpaid post at endowment-dwindling Reed. Ending about every extravagance except the famed twelve-man classes ("We don't want to water down our professors with students"), the blustery Scot, a self-styled "Republican with a move on," badgered his conservative friends into unprecedented contributions to what they had long considered "those Reed pinkos," put the college in the black for the first time in years...
...much does it cost to attend a free U.S. public high school? Plenty, says Education Professor Errett Hummel of Portland (Ore.) State College. The average high school student in Oregon spends $238.46 a year on extracurricular expenses. The cost is the reason many students quit school, says Hummel...
Naturally, many cannot keep up. At two high schools, only one-third of the students can afford class jewelry. At another school near Portland, only one-fifth of the students can afford the junior-senior prom. How do the outsiders feel? Aside from moving or military service, notes Hummel, the main reason students give for quitting school in Portland is "to get work and earn money." Says...
Back in 1956, Corey and two friends had put up $30,000 each to lease an old lumber warehouse near Portland and fit it up for storing grain. In three years the partners harvested profits of $83,000 apiece. Last week, too sick from bleeding ulcers to be present in the courtroom, Corey was convicted by a federal jury in Portland of violating conflict-of-interest laws...