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 * ...that the Mitchell Recreation Area (monument pictured) near Bly, Oregon, is the only location in the contiguous United States where Americans were killed during World War II as a direct result of enemy action?
 * ...that Oregon’s first Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, O. P. Hoff, was in charge of the first minimum wage law in the U.S. that was enforceable?
 * ...that Johnson Creek, one of the few free-flowing streams in the Portland, Oregon area, overflowed its banks 37 times between 1971 and 2006?
 * ... that after winning a Pulitzer Prize at The Oregonian, Wallace Turner went on to The New York Times, where he covered the murder of Harvey Milk?

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