PORTLAND BB 191.01 MMY 62 3B: b. Portland. Carpenter, contractor; Baptist; 1 yr. Univ. of Tenn. American Legion, draft board, army in World War II; mayor 2 yr.; city building inspector. Mother: b. Lebanon, Wilson Co.; 8th gr.; hw. MGP: Wilson Co.; little education. MGF: ran steam engine, worked at sawmill, threshed wheat. MGM: hw. Father: b. 4 mi. from Portland; h.s. and business college; retail lumber business. PGM: b. Rome, Smith Co.; schoolteacher. PGF: b. near Portland; average education; ancestry from Va. Wife: 52; Methodist; Red Cross volunteer, garden club; parental ancestry: Portland. Cooperative, good-humored, and educated. Close familiarity with old-fashioned folk forms; relaxed and authentic in his own usage. Little conscious identity with the South. BR/73:LP/75 3 hr. 45 min.