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Oregon Burglar Falls Asleep While Robbing a House
Here’s a new twist to the phrase “sleeping on the job.” Cristian Villarreal-Castillo was charged with burglary and theft in Rockcreek, Oregon after apparently...
Massive Fishing Dock Washes Ashore in Oregon, 15 Months After Japanese Tsunami
It’s no floating garbage patch, but a 165-ton fishing dock is certainly a shocking thing to observe rolling in with the waves.
Father and Son Build Fenway Park Replica in Oregon
We’re all too aware that the Boston Red Sox haven’t exactly made a stellar start this season, but this might be taking things too far. Jim Maciariello and his...
“Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon…I don’t want to ruin it for people, you know? Whenever people say it’s Springfield, wherever, I always go, ‘Yup, that’s right.’”
—MATT GROENING, creator of The Simpsons, revealing which his inspiration behind the town of Springfield and explaining why he’s kept it a mystery all these...
Oversexed Oregon: Top 10 Most Promiscuous U.S. Cities
Congratulations, people of Portland! (Or, if you're of a super-strict moral fiber, then shame on you, people of Portland!) Dating site OkCupid has tapped into...
Families: UNIVERSITY OF OREGON/EUGENE: Seasons and Seuss
He may not have much else in common with Eminem, but Helmuth Rilling, like the raunchy rapper, won a Grammy this year. Rilling, artistic director for the Oregon...
The Nation: Bowdler in Oregon
Some American place names have a unique resonance about themplaces like Maggie's Nipples, Wyo., or Greasy Creek, Ark., Lickskillet, Ky., or Scroungeout, Ala...
Nation: Oregon: Missed Chance
Quietly building a claim to the Republican Party's 1964 vice-presidential nomination, Oregon's Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, 40, rolled to a second term...
Oregon: Monsoon Season
Oregon's race for a U.S. Senate seat is the nation's only major contest in which the central issue is the Viet Nam war. The campaignlike the conflict...
Religion: Bagwell to Oregon
In Portland last week after taking 24 ballots, Episcopal clergy and laymen elected Very Rev. Benjamin Dunlap Dagwell, 45, to be Bishop of Oregon...
OREGON: A Liberal Friendship
If there was one thing clear about next May's presidential primary in Oregon, it was that all the Democratic possibles would get a chance to show what they...
National Affairs: Oregon Vote
Rain and lack of vitalizing issues kept Oregon's primary vote last week to the lowest on record. Results: Republican Senator Charles Linza McNary renominated,...
OREGON: Lease on Life
Chatting with newsmen in his Portland dining room one day last week, Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger, once known in senatorial halls for his...
OREGON: Death in the Spring
Early one spring morning in 1945, the Rev. Archie Mitchell and his 26-year-old wife rounded up five of their Sunday-school class, drove into the mountains near...
OREGON: The Bell of Kamela
Year after year, men cruising timber or hunting deer in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon had come back with the same story. Near the little hamlet of...
OREGON: Madame Mayor
In the excitement of choosing Tom Dewey over Harold Stassen (see Republicans), Portland voters did not forget that they were also electing a mayor. Last week...
Music: Opera in Oregon
In Portland, Ore.'s big, barny Civic Auditorium, 2,500 people last week bravoed and whistled approval of a tenor bellowing Verdï's Il Trovatore. The tenor's...
OREGON: Red Tiger
In 1933, the great Tillamook forest fire in northwestern Oregon licked up 10,500,000,000 feet of standing timber, enough to supply Portland's sawmills for 20...
Education: People of Oregon
Amid the political storms which have lashed the University of Oregon (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932 et seq.), a lean, -square-jawed educator named Clarence Valentine...
The Congress: In Oregon
Before the shouting over the Pennsylvania primaries had died away, the fate of another Republican Senator was sealed by ballot in Oregon. There Robert N...
