Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Portland dock By Finn J.D. John The Portland municipal dock as it appeared around the time of the longshoremen’s strike. When the gunfire broke out and he heard the bullets sizzling overhead, visiting New York senator Robert Wagner was dumbfounded. “This can’t be true,” he said. It was. The bullets had come from four “special police” guards — part of a group of 200 guards hired by the city of Portland to keep the peace on the waterfront during the big longshoremen’s strike. They were not professional cops. Senator Wagner had been sent to...
Log truck at Leaburg Lake LEABURG: Passersby may have been surprised to see a logging operation underway on the banks of Leaburg Lake last Wednesday. Eugene Water & Electric Board spokesman Joe Harwood said it involved a big fir, just back from the picnic/dock area, that was hit by an excavator three or four years ago. “We noticed the tree dying last year, so decided it had to come down.,” Harwood notes. “The guy who hauled it away plans to turn a section of that tree into a large bench, which will go brought back to the location once he’s...
