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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1955
Page
15
A Tuesday gathering for Young People featured John Bandstra as toastmaster and a turkey dinner. The piece lists numerous church and family visits, hospital trips, and community events, noting mumps illnesses, a Polled Hereford banquet, a fire in a Bandstra building, and a Hymn Sing to be held next Sunday.
Oskaloosa News reports a windbreak planting demonstration Tuesday April 12 on the Earl Else farm two miles south of Cedar with Town State College extensionforester Dick Crowther detailing layouts and evergreen varieties for Mahaska County windbreaks. The Cedar High School senior class plans the play Take It Busy for Friday April 22. Also notes visits by Mr and Mrs Wm De Heer of Leighton and other local social events.
After games, guests enjoyed candy, tea, ice cream, and cake served to Mrs. James McCurdy while Judy helped. Attendees included Larry McCurdy, Robert Towns, Bobby Phillips Teke Lake, Terry Johnson, Dick Newton, Linzy Collins Jr., Bill Vailardingham, John and Duane Estes, Melvin McKie, Hollis Van den Heuvel, Jerry Beach, and Johnny Veldhuizen.
Galesburg residents hosted numerous Easter Sunday dinners with guests from Newton Pella Monroe and Grinnell and Des Moines. Notable gatherings included Vernon De Bruyn Pamela and Tom Toye, Cornie Slycords guests from Pella, and Alan Kroh family who moved to Des Moines to operate a Dairy Sweet ice cream business.
Mrs H W Vriezelaar and Mr and Mrs Arthur De Vries plus Mrs Marion Heemstra visited Oskaloosa on Monday. Local 4 H members attended a Knoxville talent show the prior Tuesday evening. A planning meeting for the Junior-Senior banquet at Pella was held at the Vogel home. The Marion County Historical collection grew with items from Ivan Juline Melcher including a 1871 wooden washing machine and old dentist bells. Other artifacts from Leslie Richie Melcher featured branding irons, a Springfield Rifle, a Banner Stone and Indian relics. Dinner guests Easter Sunday included Mr and Mrs Leland Balmer near Monroe. Summit Extension members learned about mental health, with a study led by Mrs J M Van Vliet and Mrs John Vanden Board on April 12. The May meeting on Variety in Breakfast will be at Mrs John Vriezelaar’s home.
An outline of social visits across Pella and nearby towns shows To day Club members meeting in Monroe with guests Mrs Leland Balmer and others. Families share Easter Sunday dinners in homes of Van Wyk, Heemstra, De Vries, and Van Waardhuizen, with several relatives attending.
Wheat offered for reseal under the Commodity Credit Corporation loan program must meet sanitary, grade, and other standards. Merrill L. Robuck, Marion county ASC Committee chairman, notes stricter Pure Food and Drug Act rules apply to all wheat from 1965. Wheat failing sanitary tests will be disposed of to the highest bidder for livestock feed. farmers repay the loan difference.
The chairman explained the new requirement for farm stored wheat under loan, placing full responsibility on the farmer for maintaining loan conditions. A reseal loan signer must acknowledge that if the wheat fails FDA sanitation standards, it will be sold for feed or industrial use, with settlement based on that sale price. In Iowa about 25,000 persons seek cancer treatment annually, per the American Cancer Society.
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