Pella Chronicle (Newspaper) - August 11, 1982, Pella, Iowa Weather 8-3 HIGH 94 LOW 78 Precip. .00 8-4 HIGH 91 LOW 70 Precip. 1.39 8-5 HIGH 88 LOW 70 Precip. trace 8-6 HIGH 80 LOW 71 Preclp* .04 8-7 HIGH 86 LOW 72 Precip. .00 8-8 HIGH 84 LOW 62 Precip. .00 8-9 HIGH 76 LOW. 56 Precip. .27 Iowa's extended forecast Thursday through Chance of showers Friday but otherwise partly cloudy with a warming Highs in 80s Thursday wanning into middle 80s and lower 90s by Lows in to low 60s Thursday and in 60s Friday and Meetings THE COALITION FOR PEACE will meet Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Fireside Room of Second Reformed The group will remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki and discuss ways to see that no nuclear weapon will ever be used All are LA LECHE LEAGUE will meet Aug. 17 at 9:30 a.m. at West Market Rain location is the home of Linda 414 For more information call Bev 625-4336, or Nelda 628-1479. SECOND CHURCH WOMEN will meet for a to Aug. 24 at 4 p.m. at Shirely Weller's A salad bar begins at 5:30 p.m. Guest speaker Bev Brand will discuss Out of Our Old AU church women are PARENTING CLASSES will be held Mondays from 7:30 p.m. Sept. 13-Oct. 11. The classes are for parents of children up to age 3. Fee is unless unable to For more information call 628-3150. * AN OPEN MEETING of AA will be Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary at Peace Lutheran Anyone interested in the problem of alcoholism is encouraged to attend and help the group celebrate its first AL-ANON meets every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at 109 W. First For more information call Shirley 628-3375. PREPARE THE WAY meets for prayer every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Fireside Lounge at Second Reformed Events THE CHRISTIAN OPPORTUNITY CENTER classes will present an adaptation of their July 23 show Night to at the Iowa State Fair Friday at 1 and 4 p.m. at Children's Heritage It is part of the governor's Very Special Arts THE GIRLS high school volleyball team will practice Monday at 9 p.m. Physicals will be Friday at 8 Both are at the high school THE TULIP CITY SADDLE CLUB will sponsor an all trophy horse show Aug. 28 at Caldwell Halter classes begin at 3 p.m. and performance is at 6 p.m. For more information call 626-37S1 or AN AUCTION of good used baked goods and furniture will be Aug. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Open Bible Church fellowship THE WELCOME WAGON BRUNCH will be Aug. 24 at 9:30 a.m. at the home of Betty 1117 Park Cost is reservations should be made by Aug. 18. Call Betty 628-1773. FOOTBALL PHYSICALS will be Friday at 8 a.m. For more information call Norris A COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN MUSICAL is coming this This is an opportunity for everyone in the community to sing in a large Rehearsals begin the last Sunday of September for of directed by Bev Brand and Ron Den accompanied by a small Watch for more CHILDREN'S FILMS and for will be shown Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the downstairs story hour room at the public THE PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL will celebrate its 75th anniversary Aug. 20 with meetings at 1 and 8 p.m. and a banquet at 6:30 p.m. All former teachers and students are Tickets for the banquet may be reserved by calling 625-4105 before Aug. 14. A CESAREAN CLASS will be held Aug. 11 at Pella Community Contact Barb 628-1258, or call 628-3150, extension 209, and ask for Barb or THE FARMERS MARKET is held every Thursday from 8 to 10 a.m. in West Market Park and from 7 to 9 p.m. on the west side of Central For information call 628-3195. 89 broadcasts several area church services every The schedule 8:30 Trinity Reformed 9:30 First Reformed 10;45 a.m. and 7 Third Reformed 8 Trinity Reformed 9 p.m. First Reformed Afternoon broadcasts vary each This week's schedule is 1 First Baptist 3 Faith Christian Reformed Of Interest DEADLINE for meetings and items of interest in the Pella Chronicle is noon GIRLS VOLLEYBALL PHYSICALS will be given Friday at 8 a.m. at the Pella Community High School Bring the gold sheet signed by your THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE announces an examination for clerk and carrier Applications will be accepted until 4:30 p.m. A written exam will be held within eight weeks after the closing There are no current job the applications will be used to establish a list of eligible persons for future More information is posted at the Pella Post FOOD is needed for the community free food located in the kitchen of Peace Lutheran Fresh produce from the garden as well as canned or packaged goods will be A SOCIAL SECURITY representative will be at the Pella Community Center Aug. 17 from 9 to 11 a.m. Page 2 Index Births 4 Church News 6 Columns 2 Editorials 2 Lifestyle 4 Pella Volume 118 Number 32 USPS 424-980 CHRONICLE Aug. 11, 1982 Iowa 14 Pages 25 SULLY'S was celebrated Friday and Saturday with a antique cars and machinery school threshing demonstrations and queens and their The parades featured more than 200 A pageant describing Sully's history was presented both Fireworks and an outdoor community worship service concluded the photo by Brian Vande Bevis doing well after stroke Co. president Wayne 47, is at Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines recovering from a mild stroke suffered Aug. 6. His condition is good and an early release is spokesmen Hospital spokesmen originally thought his condition was caused by an but ruled that out by the middle of Friday Bevis was elected president of the company July 11, 1980, following the death by cerebral hemorrhage of H. Stuart Kuyper on July 5, 1980. He had been vice president of operations for seven years before may be repaired By BARB MIEDEMA Chronicle Publisher The building at 733 Franklin St. was determined repairable by the committee made up of Verle Ver Leydens ana Paul The committee reported to the city council that the damage to the building did not exceed 50 percent of the value of the building before the therefore allowing the building to be remodeled instead of torn According to the city after a building has been determined less than 50 percent damaged and the owner decides to the city is resolved of any for that The council also turned down a request from Beemes Inc. to listen to their proposal on the Sunset Hills West Mayor C. B. Caldwell back to the council after Planning and Zoning makes a Then if we will address the In other the moving the drivers license station from the Public Safety building to the Community Community Center Director Laura Dingeman have space available and the purpose of our building is for community The move was requested because of the difficulty for older persons to climb the stairs at the Public Safety the community center has an This action is pending Department of Transportation a six-month gasoline contract to De Bruin Oil the low to furnish gasoline to the Other bidders included Farmers Coop Exchange and Grootveld a six-month salt contract to Morton also the low to furnish water softener salt to the Other bidders were In- Salt American Salt Co. and Cargill a claim made by Barb Kniff of Pella concerning damage done to her car by a can of fluorescent spray paint that may have been left by city Kniff said that as she was driving through the intersection of Main and Franklin Streets the can of spray paint was presumably spraying all by Kniff claimed the spray paint damaged the finish of her The city asked her to turn the damage into her own insurance a letter from Charles Voorhis who resides in the Park View area con- water damage done to his Voorhis said that his finished basement has been flooded four of five times the last five months since the city's new sewer system had been The flooding occurs four of five hours after a heavy He asked the city to do something to correct the The council decided that since he is not on the sanitary sewer system it's not the city's responsibility to install a sump pump to remedy the and suggested he do it himself before he receives any further water - instructed Brown Engineering to proceed with their study on converting the electric lines in the two alleys south of Franklin Street between Broadway and East The study is not to exceed a request made by Ron public works to purchase worth of pipe inventory from Pella and filed for information July reports from the city police public works and electric The council will next meet Aug. 17 at 7;30 p.m. at City The meeting is open to the Quality circles save By YVONNE JIRAK Chronicle Editor Savings of more than and many intangible benefits have been the results of a year-old program at Co. Quality a participatory management concept first developed in the 1960s and now a tool used at companies throughout the country and in have been functioning at for about a according to the company's Quality Circle coordinator Shirley Snellen A circle is a group of eight to 10 employees in a certain area that meets once a week for an hour to solve problems in that The circle follows a specific for which training is An initial brainstorming session produces a list of all the quality problems the circle can think of. Tom manager of management training and communications at who also works with the said one group came up with 117 The group then chooses one to work and analyzes it. Old Fashioned News 7 Old Gardener 11 Public Record 3 Sports 12 Want Ads 13 Prices to be old fashioned In 1934, men's suits at Wormhoudt and Kempkes cost from to Big Dutch overalls cost You could get automatic pencils at Ideal Pharmacy for 25 and 100 aspiring for 25 cents at Drug Gambles sold six rolls of toilet paper for 24 and a flashlight for 95 Federal Land Bank loans were available for 4' 2 percent and coffee was selling for 31 cents a Butter sold for 26 cents a pound at Food The prices may not be quite that low during the second annual Old Fashioned Night of Shopping in Pella Thursday but Pella merchants are going to do their The Pella Chamber of Commerce has planned the old fashioned to take place from 6 to 10 p.m. Many Pella merchants will be dressed in old fashioned and many window manikins will be similarly In a free watermelon feed it set for 9 p.m. in Central It will be followed by a watermelon seed spitting Cotton candy and popcorn also will be So get ready for a trip back to the good old days in Pella Thursday Until be sure Id read some old fashioned news on pages 7.8 of this edition of tho Chronicle After it decides on a solution to the it makes a formal presentation to the next level of which has the authority to approve the a participative form of Flanders looking to the experts - the people doing the job every They're an untapped One working in an area which assembled the metal channel that provides the frame for some believed that too much of the channel was being thrown Members toured the area where the channel was being and were able to point out a change that would allow them to discard Those in the manufacturing area said they didn't realize their process was causing that much The saving was Another working in an area where an acid stain was applied to wood with rubber thought too many gloves were being They devised a new technique to apply the stain where no gloves had to be Another area worked on rescheduling the flow of parts into the area from other areas in the saving In another area the day and night shifts met to better coordinate their and in another area the circle solved a problem of aisles congested with materials that had no holding Response from employees has been overwhelmingly Sneller were just going to start with a but there was so much interest we had to The company started with just five and has increased to 26 at Twenty-four of those are in manufacturing areas and two are in office Five more are scheduled to begin this Sneller and Flanders noted several side benefits to the in communications is one of the greatest Flanders Supervisors and employees communicate and different areas of work have a better understanding of how they fit Flanders said the management presentations showcase some hidden leadership some this is the first opportunity they've had to speak before he presentations are very One of a first projects is to determine a code of conduct and figure out how they will treat each they usually follow those codes very Sneller The circles have some limits on problems they can work Sneller Issues not subject for quality circle work include personnel disciplinary design of new products or sales and marketing But management has been very supportive of ideas Sneller Circles meet on company but some have been so the process that they take work home with Sneller and some of them get their wives or husbands working with Other workers in an area who are not members of the circle send their ideas to circle Sneller said the most common response from employees has been their delight at choosing and solving their own problems Circle participation is completely she Some areas may have 20 to 25 people when that those people decide among themselves who will be in the See Page 2 BERTHA VANDE NOORD of Pella participates in a management presentation by her The from hers and the t 25 Quality Circles have saved the company more than in the last
