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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1954
Page
2
Webster teachers and local residents feature in a wide array of notes. Several families, including Miss Leona Reuvers and Mrs. Leona Sadler, travel, visit, or report illness. many bounds of kinship, church, and school life are listed with dates in August and July.
The Marion County Rural Schools faculty will meet at Knoxville High School on Monday August 28th and Tuesday August 24th. New and returning teachers gather with the County Superintendent at 10 a.m. Monday. Afternoon sessions run Monday and full Tuesday. The Tuesday morning session begins at nine. The meeting is led by the County Superintendent and a staff including Edith Hays Effie Buss James Jack and Helen Neubers in Speech Correction.
The passage argues that advertising by dealers and manufacturers is a low cost way to inform the public about cars. This marketing drives higher sales, boosts mass production, and reduces production and selling costs, helping keep overall living costs down.
Clifford R. Kelzer, Cechairman of the natural science division, joined a seminar on teaching science in relation to religious concepts, a program arranged by Pennsylvania State University and the Danforth Foundation. Lectures by Dr. Harold K. Schilling and Dr. William G. Pollard spanned mornings with discussions and worship each day.
The Senate Tuesday night passed a bill authorizing future flood control and river and harbor projects at a total federal cost of about 1.07 billion dollars. The roll call was 17 to 2 and the bill returns to the House. Iowa projects include Little Sioux River and Big Sioux River areas with specified costs.
Private Joe Schutte, son of Mrs. A. Schutte of Dren, Netherlands, trained at Camp Polk La, went to Germany last January after visiting relatives in Holland. He is with 55311248 Co. A, 12 Regt. 4th Div. c/o Postmaster New York.
LeRoy A. Van Zee, now at Chanute A F B in Rantoul Illinois, left August 13 for Puerto Rico with the Maintenance Crew to retrieve an instructor’s unit linked to Chanute. His wife and son Douglas are visiting Sully at the Jake Mel home and also staying with his parents Mr and Mrs W A Van Zee of Pella.
The notice provides addresses for soldiers including John Wielard Shiv Perry in San Diego California Theodore W Stursa U S 55388506 107th Ordnance Co DS APO 358 San Francisco California Pannee U S 55813 Co C Cath Ene Bn C APO 175 New York New York c/o Postmaster Confidential statuses.
A des Moines Register item lists drainage district funds across Iowa and Illinois. It cites monetary totals for various districts including Towa and Southpete, Chariton river, Upper Mississippi basin, Guttenberg to Hamburg Bay, Upper Iowa river, Fish Lake Drainage and Levee District No. 8, Monroe County Illinois, and Any Island Levee District, with figures ranging from hundreds of thousands to several tens of millions of dollars.
Dr. Henry Bovenkerk former Japan missionary and treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church spoke to Rotarians at a luncheon meeting. He discussed wartime and postwar missions, Christian roles in Allied occupation planning, and shared experiences from his Japan service. Visitors Reverend Harold Dykstra and Stanley Porter attended. President V Weirather presided in Jean Kuyper’s absence.
Plan confirms no combined grades in public schools this fall at Webster and Lincoln buildings. Each grade will have a separate teacher. Lincoln expects about 175 students with Dena Ver Steeg as principal and fourth grade teacher for ~21 pupils. Listings include kindergarten Helene Dockendorff, grade 1 Eva Mae Van Arkel, grade 2 Ethel Jeekgon Van Zante, Glora B. Forbes, Amy Vander scheet Breisch, grade 6 Grace Lautenbach. Webster expects ~188 students, excluding 7th and 8th grades, with kindergarten Helene Dockendorff 85, grade 1 Leona Reuvers 80, grade 2 Artie Ruth Van e 29, grade 3 Mae Brockway 22, grade 4 ...
The junior high keeps the same staff led by Mr. Donald E. Breisch as principal. Emmert handles math, Colleen Renaud teaches earth sciences, and John Sabus directs science and physical education. Union Street marks the Webster Lincoln divide. Beginners total about 70 at Webster and Lincoln buildings with classes split evenly between districts. Morning sessions at Lincoln and afternoon at Webster. Webster students report Tuesday afternoon September 1. Age rule five by November 18 remains.
BACK TO Pella after two years in the army Bob graduates from Central in 1952 and will direct Pella High activities in speech and English Miss Lanelle Post arrives from Melvin Ia with a Westmar College certificate She taught at Camp Hantesa and will teach grade four at Webster School living at 610 Oskaloosa Street in an apartment
The Third Reformed Church held an all church pot luck dinner and social hour on August 13 in the church parlors due to rain. Rev Russell Redeker and family were welcomed home from vacation with a purse of money and gifts from Ladies Aid and Mary and Martha Societies. He expressed thanks and noted their work with the Finny Tribe. The Ladies Aid will meet Thursday afternoon. The Roorda picnic and the Van Zante families gathering at the pool are also noted with attendees from nearby towns.
Kiwanis Club heard a summary of the 1954 summer recreation program supervised by Ellis Christianson Youth Committee chair. Activities ran six weeks at Lincoln and Webster Schools with directors Harold Hiemstra and John Sabus, aided by several assistants. About 170 total enrollment, daily attendance averaging 116, Penny carnival and Derby highlights funded a season-ending picnic attended by over 100 children.
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