First Sawmill Story Highlights Scout Missionary Parker
The Rev Samuel Parker 56 a Congregationalist and Auburn founder travels October 16 1835 by canoe from Fort Vancouver along the Columbia. He observes a sawmill in operation with Scotch laborers of the Hudsons Bay Company and describes timber, pine absence, and trade routes to the Sandwich Islands.
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Samuel Parker
Columbia
Fort Vancouver
Sam Parker
Auburn Theological Seminary
Ithaca
Parker
Hudson's Bay Company
United States
Columbia River
Orhu
Sandwich Islands
Northwest
Great Forest
Yale
Benjamin Silliman
Fort George
Astoria
Pacific
Dunn
Dense woods hindered progress on 1836 Whitman Spalding mission
The narrative recalls a forest crawl that stretched over miles before turning back. It notes Rev Hamuel Parker prepared the way for the Whitman Spalding mission of 1836 and highlights licensing issues with alcohol sales to minors. It cites 169 hearings in six months, 235 licensee violations, and 116 service permittee violations, with sales to minors and minor loitering as common offenses.
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Hamuel Parker
Whitman-Spalding
Oregon Trucking Association pushes summer highway safety drive
The Oregon Trucking Association launches a coast-to-coast summer campaign to “Set the Pace for Safety” through July to September. OTA President Vince Eggleston urges professional drivers to model five safety rules including speed according to conditions, safe passing, ample following distance, defensive driving, and yielding to faster traffic.
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Oregon Trucking Associations, Inc
Labor Day
American Trucking Association
OTA
Oregon
Vince Eggleston
Eggleston
OLCC Findings on Minors Buying Alcohol in Oregon
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission reports 169 violation hearings over six months show 81 percent of sales to minors were package purchases for off premise use. Most were by licensees selling beer for off site consumption, with calls for better employee instruction to curb minor access.
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Commission
Oregon Liquor Control Commission
H J Detloff
OLCC
Building "Islands" in the Sea for Oil Search
The piece argues that building artificial structures at sea to probe the ocean floor exemplifies how the nation must seek oil farther afield as easy onshore sources dwindle and get petroleum products to consumers grows costlier.
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America
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