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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1966
Page
6
Pus StUSeNt INSURANCE shows a $5.00 student share and $12.00 school share, with a general premium rise and a pricier policy aimed at fuller claim payment. Basketball insurance rises to $6, optional for Wat pupils, with football coverage mandatory if the school opts out. Parents urged to read the application blank carefully.
Article notes three fire protection walls built at Pella Community Junior High for student safety near the boys locker room and on the north hall of the second and third floors. Wire mesh was installed to prevent glass breakage injuries. A reading curriculum change affects 7th and 8th graders in top sections, removing daily reading classes to free staff for counseling and librarian duties, while expanding elective mechanical drawing to boys and possibly girls if class size allows.
Pella Community Schools summarize a summer of programs with 148 students in driver education taught by Mr Bender and Mr Smith. Typing for credit had 27 enrollees, instrumental music reached 160 students, and summersports saw the high school baseball team win sectional games before losing to Van Buren in district play.
Eight full time janitors and three part time helpers perform repairs and renovations across Pella Community School buildings. Major tasks include fire walls in the Junior High, playground sodding at Leighton, office partition at Lincoln Elementary, playground equipment painting, yard repairs at Otley, new floor tile at Webster Elementary, grounds cleanup north of the Lincoln Building, and floor scrubbing and sealing by each custodian. Each site also has paint jobs requiring at least a week per custodian.
A report lists numerous local upkeep tasks including cement work at Lincoln School, sodding and seeding, auditorium stage renovation at the Junior High, chain link fences at Webster and Tincoln buildings, moving the Junior High principal’s office, Webster Elementary roof repair, and warehouse painting. Four major outside projects are also planned: Lincoln Elementary site work and tree removal, blacktopping at Lincoln and Otley plus cement work at Leighton, replacing the Junior High Library roof, and updating Old Lincoln wiring to meet fire code. Estimated summer and pre cold-weather work total about $10,000, excluding salaries.
The County Superintendent's Office aided The Pella Community School District this past year with hearing screenings and referrals, speech therapy guidance, audio visual materials, and psychological testing. It notes library access in Knoxville and cooperation with principals and guidance staff to aid students.
Pella Community reports satisfaction with school insurance benefits paid for injuries in elementary and junior high, hopes for similar high school coverage next year. It covers supervised activities and the route to school, but not all costs. Athletics may require extra student supplemental policies. High school football policy pays $5 of the premium. Enrollment next year is projected: high school 480, junior high 242, elementary 899, total 1621, with small increases across departments.
Mr Dobernecker and Mr Mapes take over instrumental music for grades five through twelve. Mr Mapes ceases directing high school vocal music. Mr Kenneth Lucas directs junior and senior high vocal music, having previously led vocal music for grades 1-12 at South Page School District in College Springs Iowa, located in the state’s southwest.
Our teachers in the past and will continue to be used in the future. Career Night a county-wide career night for those students not going on to college has been sponsored through this office.
Wayne Van Arendonk and Danny Van Arendonk led the Lamb show at the Southern Iowa fair on Aug 3. Wayne won market heavy weight, pen of three, and top overall honors. Danny claimed best Hampshire purebred lamb with co winners in cross bred categories and several Binns entries earned multiple Southdown and Suffolk placements.
First National Bank of Prairie City sues Clarence and Delores A Van Ryswyk in rem action. Iowa State files OMVI and false uttering and drawing of check charges against Richard Alva Kane and Terry Sedars. State charges Fredrick Lee Sels with possession of beer as a minor.
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