Leland Miller recenty became adver tising manager of the Astoria Budget, succeeding Clarence T. Larson, who has taken up newspaper work in Portland. Fred L. Boalt. editor-in-chief of the Portland Neu's. has been at the office “off” and “on" recently. He has been under a dentist's care . He is back on the job now. Stephen A. Stone, city editor of the Salem Statesman and Salem correspondent for the Portland Telegram, is now responsible for state house news for the state wire recently inaugurated by the Associated Press. The Diversity Edition of the Oregon Statesman, published Thursday, Febru ary 28, contained 40 pages. Marion county, Salem and the state institutions were featured, with emphasis and a great amount of space devoted to industrial and agricultural activities. The States man is now in its 73rd year. Thomas Jordan, reporter with the Morning Astorian, recently forsook the bachelors and took unto himself a wife. Jordan soldiered and newspapered in all parts of the globe. The Oregonian last month instituted a new feature designed to aid those strug gling with the problems of the new state iscome tax. A series of articles is being published by Guy R. Harper, which re duces the technical language of the sta tute to comparatively simple form, so that the taxpayer can analyze each schedule of his return easily. Mr. Har per, who is tax counsellor of Whitcomb, Piepenbrink & Co. , was in charge of framing the regulations under which the law is being administered, and his ex planations carry the last word in author ity on the matter. Lowell Miller, crafty make-up man on the mechanical force of the Astoria Bud get, smiled into the office late one Febru ary morning, but with a box of cigars ready as excuses. It was a girl. Fred Lampkin, managing editor and one of the owners of the Pendleton Ea-it Oregonian, was a recent visitor in Astoria. Mr. Lampkin is one of the owners of the Astoria Budget. Ray Green, who was reared in Port land but has been away for a number of years, first serving in the army and later doing newspaper work in Arizona and Texas, recently went to work on the night copy desk of the Oregon Journal, taking the place of Alexander Brown, who re signed because the strain of night work was affecting his eyes. The Portland News nearly lost one good assistant city editor recently when Tom B. Shea was trapped in a burning house on the east side in Portland. Shea was awakened at 2 a. m. to find his house in flames. Firemen extinguished the blaze. Losses were estimated at about $850. Bob Swayze, copy reader on the Ore gon Journal, recently wrote a most un usual story for the Journal's Sunday sports department. Through the kindness of Fred Lockley, he ran across W. R . Kohlhauff, a Portland resident who spends much time collecting relics. Kohl hauff owns some ringside pen sketches that Homer Davenport had drawn of the Dempsey-Fitzsimmons fight in New Orleans in 1891. The theme was one of Swa_vze‘s favorites. He wrote a story which covered nearly a page in the sport ing section. The pictures had never ap peared before—a find which was news even to admirers of the great cartoonist. Swayze lived in New Orleans when that fight took place and his yarn was em bellished with many interesting. little known incidents. Old-timers will recall the story and the pictures for many a day. Mrs. E. P. Hoyt spent a week in Portland recently as the guest of her mother, Mrs. A . G . DeVore. Mr. Hoyt is telegraph editor of the Peudelton East Oregonian. [511 -
