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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1961
Page
16
Twenty frost bitten Central College faculty and staff members gave a Christmas caroling performance for students on Thursday night. Carrying torches and dressed in apparel, they serenaded dormitories and student houses before sub zero temperatures shortened the event. They adjourned to Jordan Hall for hot chocolate afterward.
Marion County November sales reached $146 741 boosting the 11 month total to $1 464 700 which is 102 percent of its 1961 quota. County chairmen P H Kuyper Pella and James M Bellamy Knoxville received congratulatory letters from state and federal officials urging continued regular bond purchases. Town sales in November totaled $10 622 370 with the state 11 month total $131 728 344 for 88 percent of the 1961 goal. Other counties show Mahaska $801 660 70 percent Jasper $1 502 678 79 percent Warren $485 704 70 percent.
The Pella Calvin College Alumni Association will sponsor a Choir Festival on Friday February 2 with participants from Pella Christian High mixed choir Pella Christian Grade girls glee club Deo Cantus ladies chorus and Peoria and Deo Gloria male choruses. The mass choir will unite all five groups. Ticket sales begin December 20 through the local Christian grade school. Proceeds support Calvin College tuition scholarships for area students including Eunice Ver Meer and Marvin Vos. Board members include Rev John De Kruyter Rev Jack Vander Laan Dr Stewart Kanis and Harry Ver Meer.
A US survey reports thirty people died in incidents where cars rolled away with no one inside. The fatalities occurred across multiple states, highlighting safety concerns and prompting calls for improved vehicle security and recall oversight.
John J. Boot, 89, of Prairie City died Sunday morning at the First Reformed Church worship service. He was the oldest member there and father of Mrs. Harold Haverkamp of Pell a. Born near Pell a he farmed in Sully then in Prairie City Mitchellville area, moved to Prairie City in 1933. Services held Tuesday at Walters Funeral Home and First Reformed Church, burial in Prairie City. Surviving: five children David and Mrs. William Van Zee Jr of Mitchellville, Mrs. Haverkamp, Mrs. Lester Vos of Altoona, Mrs. Kenneth Donelson of Iowa City.
The piece traces shifts in childrearing from molding to guiding across the 1920s to 1940s, noting advances in understanding infant needs and the role of a loving environment. It cites Dr. Benjamin Spock on a young infant's capacity to give and receive love even before speech or movement.
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