Lars Larson began his career in broadcasting at the age of 16 at, what is now,
KMBD radio in his hometown of Tillamook, Oregon. He currently hosts a national syndicated conservative talk show along with a local show week days on his flagship station, Portland’s radio 750 – KXL. Lars has hosted the local show since 1997. 

Lars Larson behind the KXL microphone

 
Howard Hesseman is best known for playing disc jockey Johnny Fever
on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978 – 1982) and schoolteacher
Charlie Moore on Head of the Class (ABC 1986 – 1991). Hesseman was
born in Lebanon, Oregon and attended the university of Oregon.

Howard as Johnny Fever

Oregon was the first state in the U.S. to place a tax on gasoline.  It
started at 1 cent per gallon. 

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Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening, cartoonist, screenwriter and producer was
born in Portland, Oregon, the middle of five children. He attended Ainsworth
Elementary School and Lincoln High School. From 1972 to 1977, Groening
attended Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington. Groening is the
creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television
series, The Simpsons and Futurama. Groening has won 11 Primetime
Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons and one for Futurama.

In what was first called Oregon Country, traders, explorers, and settlers  formed
an autonomous government in 1843.The Oregon Territory was created in 1848,
and Oregon became the 33rd state of the union in 1859.

                      
                       The Oregon quarter