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Fred Kleiboeker's corn-and-soybean farm, 6½ miles northwest of Centralia, looks much like the rest of the crop land in Illinois' flat, picture-book farm belt. But it is now acreage with a difference. Last week, after analysis of the 1960 census results, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges announced that a point on Kleiboeker's farm has become the population center* of the'U.S.-defined by Hodges as the spot at which the nation's 179 million people can convene with the minimum travel mileage...
...Symbols. Choreographer Cunningham, 38, learned his first fancy steps from an oldtime vaudeville performer who taught him a sailor's hornpipe in a special soft-shoe version. That was back home in Centralia, Wash., where Cunningham grew up, the son of a country lawyer. In those days he used to tap-dance at the local Grange Hall, eventually graduated to a summer session at California's Mills College, where he met Martha Graham and agreed to join her company. In the Graham years he danced male leads in such works as Letter to the World and Appalachian Spring...
...Badminton Game. The hardest blow came from Illinois' Republican Governor William Stratton. He had spent the day in the downstate mining city of Centralia. When he got back to the executive mansion in Springfield after midnight, he heard about Wilson's dogs. Governor Stratton was due to introduce Wilson at the Chicago dinner in 18 hours' time; a much-perturbed politician, he decided against...
...Centralia, Wash., reporters seized upon a theory propounded by Building Materials Dealer Jack Scherer: windshield glass is made from silica sand, which abounds on the Pacific shores of the State of Washington. Silica sand is full of sand-flea eggs. So, when the windshields get warm enough, the eggs hatch and the fleas have to chip the glass to get out. When he learned that his facetiously offered explanation had been wired across the country, the astonished Scherer granted that it was no more ridiculous than some others that had been publicized...
Coverage of the Centralia mine disaster, in which in 111 miners were killed, was typical of how the P-D works. In 1947, after the last body was pulled from the mine, scores of newsmen from other papers went home. Not the PD. It doubled its staff on the assignment, in due time established what it suspected: that the State Department of Mines was shaking down mine owners and overlooking dangerous working conditions. As a result, Illinois mine-safety laws were tightened...