Fire was a perennial danger for new mining communities in the Tri-State District as mining camps made the transition from tent cities to frame buildings. I have written of devastating ...
The word “meme” didn’t exist when Paul Linnman and Doug Brazil—a KATU-TV reporter and cameraman, respectively—chartered a flight from Portland to Florence one cool November day in 1970, and the notion ...
In 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon. The Oregon State Highway Division decided to dispose of the carcass using dynamite. Florence will celebrate the 55th ...
Eager to clear a popular beach in the US of a beached sperm whale, local authorities hatched upon a dramatic solution on November 12, 1970. The 14m sperm whale was too heavy and in too difficult a ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - Authorities in Alaska had to remove 50 pounds of dynamite found in an old school bus Wednesday, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Anchorage office ...
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