Pella Fund Drive and Mary Evers Fund Update
Pella Kiwanis president Jerry Stravers presents $200 to Mrs. J. M. Cook for the Mary Evers Fund, which supports nursing education. The fund totals near $5,000 with savings and CDs and gains from a polio vaccine clinic. Donations can be sent to the fund at Pella Community Hospital.
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Pella Kiwanis
Jerry Stravers
J. M. Cook
Pella Community Hospital Auxiliary
Mary Evers
c/o Pella Community Hospital
Chronicle News
What makes good reporters hard about open meetings
Public officials dread the cantankerous reporter who insists on recording and exposing meetings. The piece traces presses right to cover public business to the First Amendment, state open meeting laws, and common law, noting the journalist’s role in preventing secrecy and shaping public discourse.
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Door
John Wilkes
House of Commons
Benjamin Franklin
James Harris
U. S
Devotions for Church Groups to Be Published
Rev William van den Berg pastor at Ebenezer Reformed Church Leighton writes 25 devotional messages for laymen to use at Family Worship and Prayer Meetings. Baker Book House Grand Rapids Michigan will publish a paperback October this year at 1 50. The volume aims to fill a market need with texts suited to Thanksgiving Mothers Day Easter Christmas and other church occasions.
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van den Berg
Baker Book House of
Grand Rapids
Michigan
William Vanden Berg
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Leighton
Wight
Baker Book House
Miller congratulates Pella Chronicle on awards
Senator Miller sends hearty congratulations to Editor in Pella Iowa for Editorial Excellence and Service to Agriculture awards in the Iowa Press Association contest. The note says awards reflect the superiority of Iowa newspapers. It is signed Jack Miller. Fathers and Sons in Manchester show a trend with four attorney firms being father son partnerships: Tracey and Tracey Carr and Carr Charlton and Charlton Swift and Swift.
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Pella
Iowa
Iowa Press Association
Jack Miller
Manchester
Thomas Tracey
David Tracey
Hubert Carr
Michael Carr
Shannon B. Charlton
Wm. Stuart Charlton
Hubert J. Swift
John Q. Swift
Pella Christian Eagles blank Fremont in baseball win
Pella Christian Eagles extended their spring record to 3-0 with an 8-0 win over Fremont. Sophomore Bruce Van der Ploeg allowed two hits while striking out 12, and the Eagles rapped 18 hits led by Bob Zylstra with a triple and Jim Vander Weele and Case De Haan adding key extra bases. Fremont’s Goodwin walked eight and fanned eight as the Eagles scored in each of the second and fourth frames. In Des Moines, the Town College Foundation announced a $4,200 unrestricted grant from the New York Life Insurance Company to benefit twenty-two non-tax supported colleges, including Central College in Pella.
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Pella Christian
Fremont
Bruce Vander Ploeg
Bob Zylstra
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Jim Vander Weele
Case de Haan
Bruce
Goodwin
Des Moines
Town College Foundation
New York Life Insurance Company
Warren G. Dunkle
New York Company
Central College
Pella
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