Create a Compact Sewing Center At Home
Iowa State College specialist Elsie Williams outlines how to set up a sewing center in the home. Choose a location away from busy pathways and arrange equipment from right to left with cutting table and ironing area nearby. Use a small table for on table prep, craft a portable pressing pad, and consider a height adjustable ironing board and rolling chair for comfort.
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Maine
Elsie Wilthe Hams
Iowa State College
Efficient Sewing Space Tips for Small Rooms
The piece advises dedicated storage for sewing gear with a small cabinet or portable box. It recommends a well lit area, preferably with light from a window over the left shoulder, plus a floor lamp at the left for night sewing and keeping room lighting on for overall illumination.
Six Central Students to Attend Kansas Conference
Six Central students will attend the North American Conference of the Student Volunteer Organization in Lawrence Kansas from December 27 to January 1. Delegates include Dick Evers Edna Den Hartog Phil s Don Brueck Helen Schaafsma Marvin Van Den Berg and Wilma Maassen representing Volunteers YWCA and YMCA and First Reformed Sunday School. The theme focuses on missions home and abroad and the missionary charge to all. Conference expenses are being paid by multiple groups including the Board of Youth Work of the Reformed Church and the First Reformed Sunday School.
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Central
United Council of Churches
Lawrence
Kan
Dick Evers
Chicago, Ill
Edna den Hartog
Mitchellville
Pais Phils
Don Brueck
Battle Creek
Kotonians
Helen Schaafsma
Paramount
Calif
Y.W.C.A
Marvin van den Berg
Otley
Y. M.C.A
Wilma . Maassen
Sheldon
First Reformed Sunday School
Board of Youth Work of
the Reformed Church
Religious Life Committee
Bing
Wilma Maassen
Wilma
Student government funds transport for church youth conference
A First Church member, active in all three college women regions groups, will attend a youth conference with transportation paid by student government.
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First Church
College Women’s Regions
Colfax and Christian battle in guard clash and B squad win
Christian High’s guards limited Colfax forwards to two first half points while Rus and Swank led Christian with 11 each. Colfax surged late as coach Brunpoge cleared the bench, with Carlson 6 and Huntred 4 for Colfax, and Pella beat both B squads 28-13 earlier.
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Brown
Milburn
Colfax
Pella
Christian
Bruinpoge
Rus
Swank
Carlson
Huntred
Milk Production In Iowa Records Low November 1951
Milk production in Iowa farms during November is estimated at 368 million pounds, the lowest in years, 8 percent below November 1960’s 400 million and 12 percent under the 1940-49 ten year November average of 420 million. Milk per cow on December 1 averaged 14.8 pounds daily, third highest in 27 years, with 15.8 pounds in 1950 and 14.9 in 1949 above the 13.6 pound December 1 ten-year average.
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Towa
Towa Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Record-low total mile production in Tow a period
Production of mile in Tow a for January to November this year is below the 22-year record. Comparable output was 5,580 million rounds in 1950 and the decade average is 6,140 million pounds. Grain fed per cow in crop reporters’ herds on December 1 averaged 6.4 pounds, lower than last year and above the 1940-49 average of 6.0 pounds.
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Towa
Oskaloosa Legion Band Seeks Yuletide Concert at Pella Home
The American Legion invites members of the Oskaloosa Legion Band to perform a Yuletide concert at the Pella Home for the Ageds on a Friday night during the 1961 Christmas season, a plan urged by the Post.
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Oskaloosa Legion Band
Pella
Post
Oskaloosa Legion Band official mulls concert date decision
Adjutant Oren S Van Niewaal reports the Oskaloosa Legion Band has not fixed a concert date, awaiting member vote at the next rehearsal on Tuesday night December 11. Post 89 bowling plans aim to send two teams to Knoxville Veterans Facility in December, with Commander Max G Schakel urging interested members to contact him for first-night arrangements. An executive board decision will hold a brief before monthly meetings for volunteers to provide Military Funeral Services starting Monday night, with further volunteers encouraged.
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Oren S. van Niewaal
Oskaloosa Legion Band
Dick Geeneh
Pella
Knoxville
Bob Menning
Max G
Oren
van Niewaal
Legion Post 89
A.L.P.A
First Printing Press Arrives in North America
A historic milestone notes that the first printing press reached North America just over three centuries ago, marking the start of printed communication and literacy expansion in the colonies.
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North America
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