A vintage Fire Alarm Pull Box

Lt. Chuck Moyer checks an address while other dispatchers man the phones
inside the old fire alarm center.

When you called Portland’s 911 in the past, they transferred you to the Portland Fire
Alarm Telegraph dispatch center on NE 21st Ave near the I-84 overpass. The building
(shown below) is now the sales office for Sunshine Dairy. 

Sacramento Bee article

The Roswell incident took place on Monday, July 7, 1947, when an airborne
object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Explanations of what
actually occurred are based on both official and unofficial reports.The most
popular theory of what took place is that the object, or UFO, was a spacecraft
containing extraterrestrial life. Since the late 1970s, the Roswell incident has
been the subject of much controversy, and conspiracy theories have arisen
about the event.

The U.S. government maintains that what was recovered near Roswell was
debris from the crash of an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon
belonging to what was then a classified top secret program named Mogul 
(see below).

MaJ. Jesse Mar­cel displays the Roswell balloon debris

January 6, 1859

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper originating in Portland, Oregon, owned by 
Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the  
U.S. west coast and was founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 
4, 1850. The newspaper is the largest in the state of Oregon and the Pacific
Northwest by circulation and the 19th largest daily newspaper in the country.  

The Oregonian announced Thursday that it will reduce home delivery to 4
days and make reductions in staff as part of a series of changes, effective
October 1.

Newspaper publisher Thomas J. Dryer

First Garfield strip

Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since June 19, 1978. It
chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield who named after Davis’s 
grandfather, his owner, Jon Arbuckle; and Jon’s dog, Odie. As of 2013, it was 
syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals, and held the Guinness
World Record for being the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip.