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Brookings-Harbor Pilot Thursday. January 3, 1957 Brookings, Oregon M Y WIFE IS GOING TO W RECK OUR CAR TOM ORROW ! Centralia, Mo., Makes Up Mind To Be Twice as Big and Happy Life is so happy and business so can some day be a com unity of good in the* town of C entralia, <¡,000 or 8,000. Missouri th at its 3,000 residents have rolled up their sleeves and Community Spirit Pays l'he people of C entralia are Con launched a program to m ake their com m unity twice as big and twice fident th at they will get real ac as prosperous. They have ordered tion out of studies being m ade of a b lueprint of progress for the se population, land use, streets, tra f cond 100 years of the town, a fic, parking, facilities for educa b lueprint th at may well be an in tion and recreatibn, utilities, eru spiration and incentive to other ploym ent, industries, and retail and service facilities. A m erican com munities. They know that an aggressive The tow n governm ent, civic- com m unity spirit pays It ha pro groups,- business, and industry have com bined in solid planning vided C entralia, small as it is, (or the future. They have raised with a th eater, library, a park, a fund of m ore than $6,000, and playgrounds, and a volunteer fire hired the Midwest Research In departm ent. And also kindergarten, which J stitute of K a n s a s City to chart the fairly uncommon in small Miss potential of C entralia. ouri towns, since the state does The rep o rt isn’t due until some not provide aid for such a branch tim e in 1937, w hen the town w ill I of the public schools. be celebrating its centennial. But The heart of C entralia actually R ichard L. T earba, director of the is the A B. Chance Com pany, the institute, says that facts already w orld's leading m an u factu rer of gathered indicate that C entralia tools for the power and utility in- -T H A T THE ELDEST GAUGES! J IV IN G THING IN THE IS A GIANT TREE IN T H E SEQUOIA NATIONAL HARK,CALIF dustries. This com pany em p lo y s4 But the grow th and the aspira 500 men and women and is the tion of C entralia are not confined to one com pany or to one family largest in the community. A Bishop Chance, Who founded in town. Two other industries the industry in 1907, was born w ith substantial em ploym ent, the and reared in C entralia. He re N arragansett G ym nasium Equip ceived m any invitations to move m ent Com pany and the P an h an his com pany clsewh« re. but he re dle E astern Pipeline Com pany, al so are located in C entralia. fused them all. The N arragansett firm was Ten years ago the Chance fam ily created the Chance F ounda brought to C entralia five years tion, which ever since has co n tri ago by the tow n’s INDUSTRIAL CO RPO RA - buted to the support of education DEVELOPM ENT al, religious, and charitable org TION, which used funds contri anizations. Only recently it con buted by tow n folks to buy a trib u ted $20,000 to aid in building building which it leased to the and equipping a new high school company. and $15,0t)0 to the building p ro -’ gram of the F irst B ap tist’church. O lie r Individuals Help Mr. Chance died in 1949, and Leading residents of the town in his will directed th at 1Ô per who w ith Mr. Chance are activ- cent of his estate be given to the ely behind the research and plan foundation. So the w ork of the ning program for C entralia in foundation continues and to m ake clude N athan Toalson and Joseph certain that it will keep on, F. M. Arndt, Chance com pany exec Gano Chance, son of the founder utives; R. W. A shw orth, a lead and now head of the company, ing m erchant and president of the has announced th at his will and cham ber of com merce; L. F. Beck th at of his m other contain provi man. autom obile dealer and may-1 sions for substantial contributions or of the tow n; H arry Jennings, to the foundation’s funds. a banker; H arold Miller, publish er of the tow n new spaper; F rank Noonan, m anager of the N arra Two Other Industries gansett firm , and C larence W. Mackey, the superin ten d en t of schools. They and all the other folks of C entralia, are men and women w’ith vision, not satisfied to see th e ir home tow n stand still. (T he above story is a rep rin t taken from the N ew spaper Grit, Decern ber 16, 1956) (IT MAS DEFIEO WINO, LIGHTNING FIRE, ANO OLD AGE FOR 6,000 YE ARY A M I l>ll> A Ol KNOW T H IS . COUNTRY MAID DAIRY Milk is good for people of all ages! If you w ant to live a healthy useful life and live to a ripe old age, drink lot’s of it. Country M a i d Patricia W alker W ed H ere on D ecem ber 27 Patriea W alker, dau g h ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee W alker, was m ar ried on December 27 to Richard K ufis of Fresno, C alifornia. Rev. W illard Spencer officiated at the cerem ony, perform ed in the home of th e bride's parents. The couple plan on living in Fresno. O S C Seeks Oregon Ocean Facts OREGON STATE COLLEGE—Research by an Oregon State college oceanographer is producing new and highly valuable information on the tides, inlets, water temperatures and salinity of Oregon’s more than 300 miles of coastal waters. Dr. Wayne V. Burt, project leader, in picture Is using device to measure flow of tides. His studies will provide basic information for shellfish growers and other industries located cn tidewa’er. The long-range program will cover all estuaries from Coos Bav to the Columbia. He has received a third $10,000 grant from i..v ci naval research for the extensive study. Soprano to Appear J i^ y ar; 9 In C. C. Community Conce t Crescent City—Helping to bring in the New Year will be the sec ond concert of the Del N orte Com m unity concert association on Ja n u ary 9 when the renow n sop- rona, Dorothy W arenskjold, will be heard at the Crescent Elk audi torium at 8:15 p.m. concert tim e for all r.icr.-.bc.c of the association. A top flight m em ber of concert, opera, radio and televi sion world, Miss W arenskjolJ i- California born and a leading sop rano of the San Francisco op- r com pany w here her repetoire roles include **La Boheme,’’ “The Magic F lu te”, “F au st’’, “C arm en”, “Der R osenkavalier", "T urand it Mi-s W arenskjold has been fea- tu; J many times on the Ford Festival television program . The H arvest of Stars, the Railroad Hour, The Voice of Firestone and the S tandard Hour broadcasts. She has sung under the batons o f such famous conductors as B runo W alter. Monteux, M itropoulos. Leinsdorf, Milhaud and T hor Johnson. Insurance School An insurance refresh er course , u‘ cn by the M utual Insurance Institute, a division of the Kem- >e • In?' ance G roup, w as recen t ly attended by C. O. Leonard, lo- . insurance agent. Ti ? course was at th e M irim ar hot >1 in Santa B arbaia, California Mr. Leonard reports th at it was a highly instructive course, and was attended by several hundred a- gents from the w estern states. Several from Oregon w ere re p re sented. Mr. Leonard flew to Los Angeles w here he visited his daughter and grandchildren. He also visited his sister in Pasadena and another sister and b o th 'r in law, who flew’ to Los Angeles from Honolulu for the 'holidays. Many new phases w ere t; ken up at the refresh er course, and he hopes to be able to pass along to his clientle m any new I “The M arriage of Figaro” , “La ideas in the insurance field. ¡ T ra v ia ta”, "T ales of Hoffm an”. I and Der F reischütz“. For her Del Norte-Curry county concert. M iss INGROWN NAIL W arenskjold will sing a n a s from HURTING TOUT “M adam B u tterfly ” and “Turan- Immediate dot". Relief I Ber program also will include A few drop» of O UTG RO ® bring bleaaeil : a folk song group, a French and relief from torm enting pain o f Ingrown Ball. OUTGRO toughen- the akin underneath the G erm an group and a concert fav nail, allow» the nail to be cut and th u a n re- orites group. Rollin Jensen will vent» further pain and discom fort. UU IG K U ia available at all drug counterw accom pany Miss W arenskjold. . M atching her operatic successes Beginning January 1, 1957, all savings accounts at U.S. National will earn V /i per cent interesJ Open or add to your sav'.ngs account by January 10. tern 2 ’/ i % o ínteres? on 3-year certificate* of d ’ - posit issued a fte r January 1, 1957. Interest to be paid interest from January 1. BROOKINGS BRANCH s e m i-a n n u a lly . iVrrAMW V.LvTlt THE U N ITE D STATES N A T IO N A L BANK OF PO RTLAND C i v * STATEWIDE BANK ; i JN HI5
