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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1962
Page
4
Preparations for Veishea 1962 at Iowa State University advance with a three day open house set for May 3 5. Central committees completed planning and a Queen of Queens will be crowned at opening ceremonies. Stars Over Veishea features Wonderful Town with Veishea Vodvil performances and a Veishea parade scheduled.
Pietenpol, a longtime stamp collector from Pella, spoke to the Rotary Club about stamp value not by age but by scarcity. He has about 30,000 U.S. stamps and as many foreign stamps, focusing now on U.S. issues carefully cataloged. He notes new issues in April and notes stamps’ varying values with cancellations and perforations.
In Central Park local Jaycees placed 3500 Easter eggs for a Saturday hunt. Children lined the walk and surged when the whistle blew at one o clock. About twenty eggs were prize items donated by Pella merchants.
John Van Zante 74 died at his Moravia Iowa home on April 20 surviving wife Eva and son Carl a brother Dick C Van Zante and sister Mrs Gerrit Hasselman both of Palla Funeral services were held in Moravia with burial in Moravia cemetery
Only one such stamp was issued and the most valuable collection by a single person is about one million dollars. Experts say purchasing a sheet with every issue from birth could yield a collection worth a college education. Dean Pietenpol attended Pella’s top stamp seller Postmaster Ed Wesselink, while Knoxville guests Rev. John Geisbreck Jim Bellamy and Bill Burrell were present, all Ro tarians.
The Des Moines Sunday Register notes April Tulip Time activities including a pre Tulip Time outing to Sac City this Saturday, costume orders by Mrs Van Hemert, and praise for Rolscreen paint exhibit spelling. It highlights flower show signage, church bus parking, a flower arranging session led by Jack Smith, Camp Fire and Bluebird funds drives, and volunteers calling for scrubbers and mothers for the baby parade. Floris Geurts and crew prep floats as May approaches.
Bruce Glenn a Central College senior studied Europe with Dr William Wing and argued at a noon Kiwanis luncheon that World Communism is the greatest current threat. He cited an international study tour with students from 29 countries and urged sincere education and action.
The program invites boys ages 8 to 12 not on sponsored teams last year to join. A rain contingency calls for a short meeting in the high school gym. Event details appear to center on Webster school area activities.
The World Home Bible League will hold an area wide rally at Calvary Christian Reformed church on Thursday May 3 at 8 pm. Rev Harold Sonnema from Grand Rapids Michigan will deliver a message on The Communist Threat and our Survival. Music by Andrew Chei and a film on scripture distribution in Ceylon will be shown. Edgar Hoover urges citizens to learn about the community menace threatening future and peace.
Lynnville-Sully high school presents its annual spring concert at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium with the theme Captain's Party. The glee club and mixed chorus perform songs slated for music contests at Osceola on April 28 and Perry on May 5 with band mothers serving refreshments from 7 p.m.
Ralph De Jong and Roger Willemsen, seniors at PHS, received the Iowa State Farmer degree at the State Future Farmers of America Convention in Waterloo on Friday April 13. A total of 303 applications were submitted from 158 vocational Agriculture departments statewide as 200 boys earned the award.
Verian Brand of the Lynnville Sully FFA was awarded the Iowa Farmer Degree at the State FFA convention in Waterloo. He was among 200 FFA members with top supervised farming programs and leadership. The LS display of five signs earned a gold rating. Delegates included Jerry Renaud Carroll Rozendaal Carl Van Zee Clarence Van Zee Darrell Vilder Kamp Jerry Jansen and Richard Van Maanen with advisor Harlan Sterk.
The Tulip Time night show on May 10 11 and 12 features Bob Klein Edith Le Cocq Dr James Wilson and Joyce Wesselink. Ray Pugh will emcee with acts by Patty Ellis The Plaid Lads Bill Riley winners Paul Bogaard Melba Van Hemert and Central College A Capella Choir. Dutch dancers perform between parade and show.
The final meeting of the Curriculum Study Committee for the Pella Community Schools will be held upstairs in the Coffee Shop in Pella on Wednesday evening, May 2. The board will host a pizza dinner at six o'clock and present a short program summarizing the year's work and discussing future plans.
Men needing pants for Dutch costumes may contact Bob Klein who offers to cut fabric to size and may arrange tailoring. Call Bob at MA 8-3092.
Rev D Walters, president of the Reformed Bible Institute, will keynote a mass meeting at First Christian Reformed Church at 7 30 tomorrow as the first of five lay training sessions in home evangelization. Other speakers include Rev J De Kruyter Rev G Van Oyen Rev Van der Laan and Rev H Bossenbroek. Special films accompany lectures for group discussion. All sessions are open to the public.
Chapter BU PEO will meet on April 25 at 1 30 p m at the home of Mrs Lucile Kuy to conduct regular business and discuss upcoming events.
Central College A Cap group led by Laurence Groeters will perform at Second Reformed Church in Pella at 6 45 p m on Sunday April 29 and at Trinity Reformed Church on Sunday May 6 at 7 30 p m The tour covered 1500 miles through Illinois Indiana Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa ending April 8 Wesley Vos will play the prelude and postlude
Jacob Mol, 56, of Sully, died by hanging Sunday night, found by his wife returning from church. In ill health recently, he had long served Sully as policeman and maintenance man. Survived by wife, one daughter Mrs. Leroy Van Zee, two grandchildren, all of Pella. Funeral services pending at Garden Chapel Funeral Home in Pella.
The 55 member Central College Concert Band led by Glenn R. Wiesner will tour three Central Iowa high schools on May 3. It will perform at Pleasantville High School at 9 30 a.m. Liberty Center High School at 2 30 p.m. and Knoxville High School at 8 p.m. The bus trip leaves 8 30 a.m. from Central College and returns at 10 30 p.m. The program includes works by Lerner and Loewe John Morrisey Roald Moehlmann Robert Bennett Vic Ewald Leroy Anderson Eric Osterling and John Caracas featuring Wanda Te Selle a Holland Michigan junior.
The Mahaska County Extension Service co sponsors a meeting on agricultural chemicals in the Eagles building Oskaloosa Friday April 27 at 7 30 p m Free dinner and prize drawings will be held during the day Entomologist Harold Tiny Gunderson Iowa State University will discuss soil insecticides in the forenoon Ex tension weed specialist E P Dutch Sylvester will cover pre emergence weed control in corn and beans in the afternoon Pre emergence weed control can save about 10 percent of yields and costs less than half soil insecticide use may raise yields at a nominal cost All farm operators farm managers and others interested in increasing corn and soybean yields are invited to attend.
Prof. G Chester Leu of Central College Physics Department was named president of the Iowa Academy of Science at its annual meeting on Wartburg College campus Waverly Iowa The academy with about 1700 Fellows and Student Associates hosts between 650 and 800 attendees yearly This year 199 papers were presented across sections including Botany Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Organic and Biological Chemistry Geometry Physics and Conservation Highlights included invited talks by Dr Walter H Seege Dr Mason R Boudreye and Dr A H Duane Scholarships from Clinton Foods awarded to fourteen Talent Search winners and the Town Science Teaching Award to Arnold L Stientjes
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