The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-06-30
WEEKEND
VIEWPOINTS
BY ] w. HANSON
Editor. The Courier.Reporter

New population figures fol-
kennewick announced by the
chamber OF commerce and com.
ing from the P.U.D. are SO near
to the estimates made six
months ago by Supt. Black of the
kennewick schools that one
might think they We're compiled
oy one and the same person.
e. resident Gene Spaulding of the
chamber got the P.U.D. figures
on meters showing that there
were 1858 electrical meter con.
. nections In Kennewick. That, &C.
cord1ng to the estimate of the
chamber, represents 1927 per.
sons living within the city limits
OF kennewick. Using the same
system, it was found there are
1900 persons in the city of
That makes Pasco still a
larger city than Kennewick.
except when you figure the
rural vicinity in with the
people living inside the CITY
limits. The. P.U.D. figures for
the rural area of Pasco are 537
meters and for Kennewick
1,2ss meters. Multiply that BY
the 6.5 people per meter and
you get another 1872, bringing
the Kennewick area population
to 1853 and the Pasco area
population to 1890. State
road department road signs
had Pasco's population as 5000
and Kennewick's population as
$500.
Persons who get pleasure out
OF simply "sniping" without any
constructive objective are to find
chamber Of commerce leaders
dull company. President Spauld.
Ing let that be known at the
meeting at the chamber last
Thursday noon. Speaking in re.
ference to comment in this COL
umn last week, Spaulding told |
the 40 members and guests pre-.
sent that Mayor Urban Keolker, |
City superintendent Dick Rector, |
and the city government as a
whole have done IAN excellent |
job" He pointed out that the
chamber of commerce does dig
into city affairs with the view to
helping in the Strengthening out
Of city problems but that it is
constructive digging.
As you drive along Columbia
avenue from the Richland "Y",
you come to a sign which says
island View" Then suddenly
you come to group of residence
buildings, stores, and other
buildings. Unless you know
something of the past five years
history of Island View you are
at so much impressed. But Is
land View is one of those little
communities which often furnish
material for books and moving
picture subject matter. It had its
problems during those five years
. domestic water, sanitation,
md communication. Sometimes
It seemed that Island View was
Z community of trouble makers.
But when you dug into their
:laims you found they were
light. One person out there al |
ways was in the group who were
for something. His
name was Carl Nyborg. Carl al.
ways had an argument to sup.
port what his community want.
I'd. It was hard shedding for Carl
and his group for a while, but
3ne by one things got better.
There were not so many people
there but a community spirit
developed. Mrs. Nyborg pitched
in and helped matters along.
Now Island View still is not in
possession Of all 1t wants and
needs but its wishes are respect
ed. Some day ahead when the
community writes its history, it
will find the name Nyborg all |
through the writing. They prob.
ably will lay out its most attrac.
tive and important street and
call 1t "Nyborg Boulevard"
80
Mr.. Nyborg used to be The
Rev. Nyborg, Baptist preach.
er for 20 years. Carl got his
training as a speaker in the
ministry. When he argues civic
questions, he often quotes the
Bible word for word.
Stacks Of anti Columbia Valley
authority material have been
coming to editors desks. Now,
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