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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1963
Page
3
Agricultural economists speaking in Washington forecast higher cattle marketings in 1964 with beef consumption rising about two pounds per person from the 1963 level of 95 pounds. Pork, veal, lamb and mutton per capita supplies are expected to fall, while feeder cattle movement remains slow and cow prices may ease.
Items from the Home News mention Jean Watertor visiting her father C Watertor. Robert De Vries of Saginaw Michigan visited grandmother Mrs Gertrude De Vries while en route from Newport Rhode Island training to a Navy station in California. Numerous dinner guests and visits across local families include De Wilds De Vries Kamericks Ustermarkt and Van Helten with Thanksgiving gatherings and a stray note about a 265 pound beaver captured in Henover township near Waukon.
About 40 members of school boards from three counties and educators met at Oskaloosa junior high to review TENCO ten county study results led by Dr. Daryl Hobbs of Iowa State University. The discussion covered measuring educational quality across 35 high school districts, with 13 factors including program scope staff and economic base, and considered future study direction.
The count of boys high school basketball teams fell by seven this season to 564 due to school consolidations. A year earlier the reduction was 47 teams.
Heavy trapping activity across Iowa drives higher fur prices with overseas demand lifting payments for muskrat civet and raccoon. TRI average per lot tops $1.50 for beaver pelts and mink season continues with open trapping set to end December 8. Prices vary by hand and grade with prime numbers down from prior years.
Harold Byers farm southwest of Carson Iowa hosts a giant cottonwood measured at 1 feet S inches in girth at four feet height. Everett Speaker director of the State Conservation Commission announced the tree may be entered for national recognition. The plan seeks official registration for the historic tree.
At the Congregational meeting Rev. Norman B. Haan of Volga SD was elected and called as the next minister at the Christian Reformed church. Elders elected Herman Bruxvoort and Joe Sjaantema. deacons Harald Dykema Chuck Brand and Fred Swank. John Swank to the building committee. Congratulates to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Van Sant on the birth of a son Craig Exxgene born Nov 27 at Skiff Memorial hospital. Grandparents listed. cooperative Thanksgiving dinner held. Sick lists and hospital recoveries noted. infant baptism for Mark Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Arkema.
The American Forestry Association highlights a Charter Oak family cluster spanning five generations. Included are Emma Westphalen as great great grandmother Vernon Clausen and Emil Biefeldt as grandparents Mrs. Robert Henning senior and Jeffery, the son.
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