Defying all predictions and the laws of common sense, the Clinton Street will show the cult film every weekend until the new millennium. It's hunting season on Portland jaywalkers when the Police Bureau offers a prize to the first person to nab its decoy jaybird . The hunt for the errant pedestrian is part of a monthlong educational program to prevent the dangerous practice of crossing against red lights. Retail mogul Fred Meyer , who built his empire from a horse-drawn coffee wagon, dies at age 92 of a chronic heart ailment.
Stores remain open at the request of the pertinacious tycoon.
But Harbor Drive is rubble now, its spell broken by the lush green grass of Waterfront Park , whose first sections open this year. Efforts by ranking officials at the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to destroy incriminating documents lead to an awkward moment when OLCC assistant director Charles E. Miller's necktie gets stuck in a paper shredder . Gov. Bob Straub orders an investigation into the OLCC for alleged abuses including illegal investigation of private citizens. Discrimination charges plague the Portland Public Schools. In December, activist Herb Cawthorne charges that the district's desegregation plan is discriminatory and suggests busing white kids to black schools as well as vice-versa.