25 Aug 1976
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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1976
Page
1
An editorial urges a Tuesday August 31 public hearing at city hall on Pella’s sanitary sewer project. It proposes one new treatment plant with four lift stations to serve the Skunk river basin south of town, with future room to expand for possible Des Moines basin third stage requirements.
Drivers are warned to be extra vigilant as students return to school. Bicyclists and young children risk injury due to limited protection in accidents. School buses and new traffic lights near Lincoln and Webster elementary schools underscore the need for careful driving citywide.
Community newspaper outlines letters to the editor policy urging signed letters from readers, reserving the right to shorten content to fit available space and ensure genuine authorship.
A one car crash Aug 14 on county road TA near RR2 in Pella caused $600 damage when Verlan Van Gorp lost control on mud and slid into a ditch and struck a utility pole. Sheriff’s office reports no charges were filed.
Vesper Price recalls early life born 1897 in Shenandoah, Welsh parents, and ministry family. She discusses teaching at Drake, adopting a girl, church based recreation, Chautauqua memories with William Jennings Bryan, and 25 years of promoting a home for retired teachers leading to Heather Manor. Book available via K E Love, Des Moines, Iowa.
Ten years ago Carl Humphrey, a Winterset high school teacher for 16 years, was named assistant to the vice president for financial affairs at Central. A 205-pound Hampshire hog, owned by Bass Van Gilst of Oskaloosa Route 4, won best quality pork carcass at the Southern Iowa fair.
To the Editor A summer note from Mr and Mrs Clark Carnahan of Knoxville Iowa thanks the Pella Christian grade school and the Christian high school for allowing 4-H dog obedience training sessions on their grounds. The couple expresses appreciation for the convenient meeting place.
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