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Oil Slicks and Spills--Washington State - 4

A spill from U.S. Oil and Refining Co. on the Blair Waterway resulted in oil swirling around Sea-Tac Alaska Shipbuilding Corp. drydock where a U.S. Coast Guard vessel was being worked on. The oil spill also contaminated part of Commencement Bay and was cleaned up by the U.S. Coast Guard. Photo by staff member Warren Anderson.


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Warren Anderson/Photo

Quasim, Lyle (Safe Streets) - 4

Lyle Quasim, Executive Director of Safe Streets, listens to police chiefs from throughout Pierce County at a community mobilization meeting Monday afternoon at the County-City Building in downtown Tacoma.
Photo by Karen Stallwood

Demonstrations 1975 thru 1980 - 5

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Demonstrations


About 700 fishermen, mainly members of sportsmen groups, picketed the federal courthouse in protest of District Court Judge George H. Boldt's decision to grant special fishing rights to Native Americans. Photo by Bob Rudsit.


A crowd of several dozen gather on A Street in Downtown Tacoma outside the Old Post Office. Most of the signs held are blurred or other wise unreadable, but several visible signs read, "Fish Now Elk This Fall." Three small boats and one RV is parked along the street protestors are gathered on.

Immigration and Emigration - 5

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Citizenship Day
A Celebration of Citizenship
Formulating an official welcome to be extended Thursday to newly naturalized citizens and young voters are, left to right, Leonard W. Anderson, officer in charge of the Tacoma Office of Immigration and Naturalization, John V. Susan, president of the Tacoma-Pierce County Americanization Council, Mrs. Ragnhild Banister, a recently naturalized citizen, and John P. Boyd, district director of immigration and naturalization. Mrs. Bannister, who was born in Germany, will represent the 248 citizens naturalized through the local office this year when she speaks at the Citizenship Day program, which will start at 8 p.m. at the Public Utilities Building, 3628 S. 35th St.
Russ Carmack Photographer

Labor--Washington--Strikes - 2

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Tacoma Smelter Picketed
Members of Tacoma Local 25 of the United Steelworkers Union marched Monday morning in front of the main gate of the American Smelting and Refining Co. here. Nearly 1,000 workers struck at midnight and shut down the copper-smelting plant as part of a nationwide strike.
Photograph by Jerry Buck

Restaurants and Nightclubs (Taverns)(Bars)(Nightclubs) - 5

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Over the cash register hangs a thermometer of how much money had been donated by 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and the goals of the tavern that they wanted to reach. Peggy O'Neall rings up the cash register with sales donated to help the little boy, victim of rape and mutilation, at the Fern Hill Tavern Thursday evening.
Melissa Stevenson - Photo
Susan Gordon - Story

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