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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle Advertiser
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1967
Page
7
Lat June 24 trail ride at 4 30 p m meets Nellie Dinge man s Corner. June 27 Lake Prairie Homemakers meet Otley at 9 00 a m for trip to Des Moines.
Heavy rains hindered field work delaying the 2,800 foot concrete runway project at Pella airport. Mayor Tysseling signed a $67,124.08 contract with Pella Construction Co. Grading began in May and two more dry weeks may allow pouring Portland cement. The Iowa Aeronautical Commission approved a $19,800 grant for the municipal airport. Carnegie-Viersen library plans a 1968 budget of 17,810 with 16,035 to be raised by taxes. The council tabled a study on merging recreation and park commissions and will seek reports from both. Bids will be sought for a new sanitation truck. Rosscreen Co. proposed two hour parking on Main Street by the industry office. The Church of the Nazarene was approved to use West Market Park for 10 days starting July 13.
The Pella Chamber of Commerce elected Marion De Zwarte as president and Ralph Jaarsma as vice president to lead the board for the new year. Three new directors Al De Wild Marvin Engbers and Claire Gifford begin three year terms. The board reorganized committees including a renamed retail to business improvement and a new six year policy for the industrial development group led by Gary Vermeer.
The TENCO Junior Quality Lamb Marketing day showcased 122 lambs from 22 4H and FFA members with handpicked champion by Tom Hoskins of Richland. Iverson notes over 85 percent graded choice or prime as the event promotes early lambing and markets lambs at peak season. Awards included engraved silver trays from First National Bank of Ottumwa and ribbons from the Iowa State Sheep Association with top records going to Joe Sellers Lucas County and Wayne Mason Bloomfield.
The playground program held its annual pet and doll parade in Pella this morning at 10 with 50 participants. The procession moved from Franklin Street west two blocks to the American Legion building, featuring decorated bicycles wagons and costumed children. Prizes were awarded and every participant received a candy treat while a police escort guided the route.
The Pella Chronicle announces the arrival of a Ludlow type casting machine. It will deliver modern display type for advertisements and headlines in sizes from a half inch to one inch. The new equipment casts type from matrices faster and more efficiently than previous hand setting.
City band will hold a concert Friday June 23 at 8 15 p m in Central Park. The program includes Spanish march Western Fantasy How The West Was Won Spanish Flea star spangled banner several well known marches and pieces by Sousa Porter Alpert Osser Cacavas and Walters. The event features a ceremony for band and concludes with The Stars and Stripes Forever.
Balloons freed during Space Day in Pella on June 16 drifted hundreds of miles before landing. Mailed return cards note finder names and locations. A balloon was found near Oscoda Michigan. others near Black Earth and Mount Horeb Wisconsin. Prizes include bicycle and gear. winners announced June 27 edition.
The Pella Chamber of Commerce retail committee surveyed 110 businesses and services on Saturday closing times. Respondents choose between 4:30, 5:00, or the current 5:30 p.m. closing. Ballots marked and sent to the Chamber by Saturday, June 24.
Godert G. Vander Hart, 55, of 1118 Main St., injured seriously when his car was struck by a Rock Island Lines freight on a side-road crossing at the west edge of Pella. Taken to Pella Community Hospital then Methodist Hospital Des Moines. Car pushed 336 feet, wedged against engine. Vander Hart en route to Vermeer plant. Engineer E J Stichter, Des Moines.
Galen Vogelaar, son of Mr and Mrs Jerald Vogelaar Route 2 New Sharon Iowa, is among six Iowa high school students in the American Youth Exchange Program. He left June 15 by plane for Lima Peru to live with a Peruvian family attend the university with one of the family's sons for ten weeks.
Merchants announce a one week vacation contest running June 22 to June 30 with a furnished Lake Okoboji cottage at Arnolds Park for six, meals not included, and free boat rides plus a Roof Garden night. Adults 18 plus may register repeatedly at cooperating stores including Wormhoudt's Furniture and Lee's Variety among others.
The Upward Bound program begins its second summer session at Central College on June 12 with ninety students from eleven area high schools. Director Barbara Dieleman notes participants are sophomores and juniors from Des Moines Ottumwa and Newton. Last year 85 students attended from the same area, and after August 4 the group will continue academic year activities at their high schools. G H Lindekugel and Sons of Mitchell SD submits the apparent low bid of 178600 to the Rock Island District Corps of Engineers to protect embankments along the Whitebreast and Butcher Breckams of the Red Rock Reservoir flood control pool.
John Wayne Van Zee offered a coat to accident victims near Atlantic in April. The Cass County Memorial Hospital mailed the coat to Pella addressed to Henry Van Zee, but the post office could not find the owner. Mrs Kimer G Van Zee read of the problem and recognized the coat as her son’s.
The State Education Association awarded life memberships to Mrs. Thelma Secress Van Hemert and Miss Bertha Annette Van Zante, two Pella school teachers. Van Hemert taught 21½ years in Pella after earlier posts in Lovilla and Gigin, while Van Zante taught seven years in Pella and previously in Jack Oak, Greeley, Richland, Des Moines No.4 and No.6, Otley, Pleasant Grove, Black Oak, Scott Center, and Rock Island. The certificates waive future dues, contingent on active membership and meeting ISEA requirements.
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