Word: portlands
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Read with great amusement your Oct. 22 article, "Skirmish on Munjoy Hill." With proper management, the city of Portland, Me. could attain the importance of a Boston or New York; with one of the finest natural arbors on the entire East Coast, it could rank high with the right people in office...
...Portland-needs more Billy O'Brions, men who are not afraid to speak up in a city where so few control so many...
...former Portland resident your article was most interesting. The fact that "only 20% of its citizens bothered to vote in recent elections" was nothing new for Portland . . . The problem of citizen apathy in government in this country will not be solved by any one simple method. Like Portland, other municipalities will have to try many devices to stimulate interest. The main thing, however, is to make the average citizen feel that he has many ways of participating in the process of creating public policy and that in the last analysis what the government does depends...
...West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...
With an air of achievement, the crowd left the hall. The first town meeting last year persuaded officials to rewrite the $7,000,000 budget and include construction of a $600,000 sewer project. Portland had achieved no miracles, but in trying to recapture the sturdy spirit of the New England past, it was proving that any citizen could still have his say, and at times even have...