In not much more time than it takes to lay a keel, war-born Vanport City became Oregon's second largest city (pop. 39,000). When V-J day came and its Kaiser shipyard workers left, the citymidway between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, Ore.began to die. Last week the joint was jumping again.
The man who juked it up was Dr. Stephen E. Epler, first heard from as the inventor of six-man football.* An energetic young (36) Navy veteran, he had been made counselor on veterans' education in Oregon. He found a home for himself at Vanport, began mulling how to get all the applicants into...
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