Word: clay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time tent revival, almost 200 residents anted up more than $250,000 to buy a small equity stake in a new Kansas City-based company that plans to produce light aircraft. Townspeople hope their investment will help persuade the company to put its assembly plant in Clay Center, where it would provide 300 jobs. Says Deanna Fuller, a former farmwife who heads the local economic development group: "These people just want to make it possible for the young folks to come back...
Access to high-quality telephone service will be as important to a community in the coming century as the railroads were in the last. Clay Center, because of its inexpensive real estate and literate work force, might be an ideal spot for a credit-card processing center or other "electronic cottage." Unfortunately, Clay Center's phone service, provided by Southwestern Bell, is so antiquated that hookups with international computer networks are impossible...
...folks of Clay Center are anxiously waiting to find out whether the aircraft company will locate there. And Deanna Fuller, who maintains a storefront office next door to city hall, is working on a dozen other possibilities. Already she has assisted in organizing a community campaign to help expand a manufacturing plant that makes grain augers. Editor Ned Valentine, whose family-owned newspaper has chronicled the town's ups and downs for 100 years, is optimistic. Says he: "The difference between towns that survive and towns that don't is attitude, not population." Clay Center may have the moxie...
Hamlets like Clay Center, Kans., have been sapped by an epic postwar migration to cities and suburbs, a trend that has accelerated in the past decade. As small towns shrivel, so does a way of life that helped define the national character. -- Despite qualms, the U.S. will assist Japan in building the FSX jet. -- The Mommy Track debate: Should motherhood put a woman on a slower career path...
With wood, clay, paint and canvas, native artists across the continent are giving their own cultural expression to the themes that have inspired some of the greatest works of the Western tradition: the Nativity, the Madonna, the Crucifixion and the tales of the Bible. The results are vigorous, often passionate, testaments of faith...