Christmas Tree Teaches Geometry At the High School
A Pella High School geometry class built polyhedron ornaments for a large tree in the math room. Students contributed, Marilyn Van Houweling and Ronald Veenstra funded the tree, while Marge Gosselink and Judy Groendyke completed decoration. The decorated tree was then shown to many townspeople.
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Pella High School
Marge Goutolin
Judy Groendyke
Christmas Tree
Roy Stults
Mathemat
Pella High Students Brighten Christmas Musical Night
The class moved into the hall for the Christmas musical and, using practical geometry, added to the Christmas spirit at Pella High School. Their study helped make the season merry.
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Pella High School
The Shame of The Swan Hunters
The waterfowl season closed amid reports of whistling swans being killed on their southward migration in Iowa. Conservation officials received several accounts and local papers published photos of hunters with large geese, including a snow white swan weighing 16 pounds with a six foot wingspan and its gray cygnet.
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The
Conservation Commission
The Snow Swan Difference and Hunting Acknowledgment
With other Towa waterfowl, they are huge birds and do not have the black wingtips of snow geese. They mate for life and only death can separate them. Their life span is long and a young wan does not mature until six days may outlive a man. Bwans are easily hunted and killed and are protected by state and federal law. Most swans killed this fall were taken by hunters who did not know the difference. When the last whistling swan, whooping crane or trumpeter swan has been killed it will make little difference whether it was deliberate or by mistake.
Four Marion County Farmers Attend NFO Annual Meeting
Four Marion County farmers Harold Karr Marion County NFO president Bob Stickle county treasurer G T Clark and Henry Boertje Marion County delegates attended the first annual NFO meeting at Corning December 15 More than 1000 farmers including 315 voting delegates from five states set the NFC business. Officers named O L Stanley Rea Mo elected president Harry Grundman vice president Barnes secretary and Duane Orton Atlantic treasurer A four member board of directors was elected and by laws adopted to admit only farmers as members with a $1 joining fee and 25 cents kept locally and 75 cents sent to the national office The group aims to raise farmer income which is at a 14 year low resolutions call for 100 parity price support plus emergency hog and cattle price floors and a bushel program for wheat The meeting featured Dan Turner of Corning as main speaker and stressed non violence and cooperation with the U S department of agriculture
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Marion County
Harold Karr
NFO
Bob Stickle
G. T. Clark
Henry Boertje
Corning
Town
Missouri
Colorado
Nebraska
Montana
Lake Prairie Township
O. L. Stanley
Rea
Harry Grundman
Barnes
Duane Orton
Atlantic
Iowa
Kansas
Agriculture Department
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Dan Turner
The Yeoman Farmer as Civilization Cornerstone
The speaker links 1930s farm depression to broader economic failures, arguing farm operation costs heighten impact. He traces mood declines from agriculture to merchants and Wall Street, condemning agricultural officials as cruel to residents who love the soil. He lauds the small-scale farmer as civilization’s cornerstone.
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Wall Street
Iowa History Society Adds 151 Members in December 1956
Dr William J Petersen announces 151 people elected to State Historical Society of Iowa membership in December 1956. Des Moines led with 14 new members, Cedar Rapids 12, Iowa City 7, with 53 towns and 24 members from 13 states plus the District of Columbia represented.
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William J. Petersen
Historical Society of
Iowa
S. H. Vanderzyl
Pella
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Ames
Shenandoah
Davenport
Waterloo
Burlington
Council Bluffs
Grinnell
Iowa Falls
Kellogg
Marshalltown
Monticello
Muscatine
Red Oak
Rockwell City
Stanley
Waverly
Webster City
States
District of Columbia
New York
California
Society gains new members across several states in 1955
The Society added two new members each in Colorado Florida Illinois and Missouri. Arkansas Arizona South Carolina South Dakota Ohio Virginia Wisconsin and Washington DC gained one member. It elected 801 new members in 1955 and now has 5153 members, the second largest in the United States.
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Colorado
Florida
Illinois
Missouri
Arkansas
Arizona
South Carolina
South Dakota
Ohio
Virginia
Wisconsin
Washington, D. C
United States
Release Early Figures on Deer Kill in Season
Biologists from the Conservation Commission report that the 1955 deer kill nears 1954 levels. By mid December about 4,500 hunt report cards had been returned with 2,300 kills tallied. Excludes unlicensed farmers hunting on their lands.
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Conservation Commission
Iowa deer hunting reports urge card returns for 1954 season
During 1954 a total of 2,880 deer were killed by licensed hunters and landowners. Bow and arrow kills total 54. Final bow and gun season figures await report cards. All Iowa deer hunters are urged to submit hunt report cards to Des Moines to aid herd knowledge and future regulations.
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Iowa
Commission
Des Moines
Fish and Game
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