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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1952
Page
4
The Home Economics Club hosted 82 girls at Miss Mina Baker's home with carols and gift exchanges. Local groups plan December 15 Christmas gatherings including Amvet Auxiliary, Eastern Star, AAUW, Philathea class, Baptist Church, Ladies' Aid, Moonlight Mission Band, and Moonlight Mission events with potlucks, programs, and offerings.
Carnegie-Viersen Library shelves a mix of memoirs and biographies including Herbert Hoover volumes The Cabinet and The Presidency and The Great Depression, alongside Noel F. Busch Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois and Rutherford Platt American Trees. Fiction favorites include The Ridgeways family tale and Journey to The Far Pacific by Thomas E. Dewey. Also listed are How About the Weather by Robert Moore Fisher and Fables For Our Time by James Thurber.
More than 120 students from 20 colleges attend the seventh annual Intercollegiate Debate and Discussion conference at Iowa State Teachers College on December 12 13. Highlights include extemporaneous speaking original oratory radio newscasting and a general legislative assembly with detailed scoring and no cash prizes. Student chairman is Lavon Burrichter with broad representation including Central College Grinnell Coe Drake Buena Vista Parsons Luther and many more.
A safety guide from Naomi Shank of Butte College urges inspecting Christmas string lights for cord or socket defects before use. Replace faulty sets, use proper extension cords with hard plugs, and avoid routing cords through rags or traffic paths. Outdoor decks require outdoor-rated bulbs and a weatherproof outlet on its own circuit, with careful placement of wiring and clips.
Mrs Lawrence Cherm of Vallejo California learned in Iowa that a burner leaf caused a fire that swept the Oberman home in California. The family had previously lived in Iowa, and the funeral for her brother Joe Bat was held recently.
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