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.
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