State plans 1600 acre park east of Highway 14
A Marion county meeting among the Corps of Engineers the Iowa Conservation Commission and local groups cleared the way for a 1600 acre Red Rock Reservoir park east of Highway 14 The plan includes an 170 acre development on the south bank with camping picnic swimming a potential landing strip and a future 18 hole golf course development dependent on years to come The proposal requires 400 additional acres and cooperation among county and state bodies to fit into a broader recreational program including parking boat launches and open play areas.
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Corps of Engineers
Iowa Conservation Commission
Marion County
State Conservation Commission
Red Rock
Highway 14
Ine Corps
Commission
Pella Chamber
Knoxville Chamber
Knoxville City Council and Water Board
Marion County Conservation Board
Tourism Council
Knoxville Water Works
Lik Rock
First Baptist Donates 500 for Elevator at Home for Aged
At the Annual Congregational Meeting of the First Baptist Church in Pella a discussion on local benevolence projects led to a planned elevator for the Home for the Aged. The church agreed to donate 500 toward the purchase and installation of the elevator.
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First Baptist Church
Pella
First Reformed
Everett Ward
Commit
American Legion Auxiliary Sews Carpet Rags and Bed Socks
Seventeen women gathered at Mrs. John Van Arkel’s home for an all day sewing bee on Wednesday January 13. They tore and sewed carpet rags and made bed socks and bibs for patients at the Veterans Hospital in Knoxville. Four pairs of bed socks and twenty two pounds of rags were produced. rags will yield seventeen 36 by 27 inch rugs. Forty bibs and other supplies will be delivered by Unit President Mrs. Beryle Vanden Berg, with a pot lunch shared at noon.
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Veterans Hospital
Beryle Vanden Berg
Mabel Shaw
Millie Schakel
Louise Sabin
Christina Slot
Dora Carson
Alice Hoeksema
Faye Visscher
Margaret van Ekeren
Minnie van Dyke
Hattie van Wyk
Jennie Vander Waal
Marie van Arkel
Helen Neyenesch
Irene Zwank
Marie Veenstra
Henrietta Hoeksema
Gertrude Huyser
Academic seminar at CUI invites public to attend
Central college hosts annual seminar on Mankind Evolving with public access. Schedule spans Tuesday to Friday featuring chapel talks, text discussions, films like Hiroshima Lenin and Trotsky Churchill Man of the Century First Man on the Moon, lectures, question periods, and coffee hours at Glass Graham Douwstra Pietenpol halls.
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Central College
Hiroshima
Glass Hall
Our Town
Trotsky
Graham Hall
Churchill
Cox-Snow
Douwstra
Pietenpol Hall
Our Town at CUI Douwstra Chapel
Jan 26 Tuesday 7 30 p.m. Our Town will be performed at the CUI Douwstra Chapel with local cast and community turnout expected. Tickets may be available at the door.
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Tues
Our Town
Cui Douwstra
Drake University Trio to Perform at Central College
Drake University Fine Arts Trio composed of John Ehrlich David Albee and Don R Haines will give a concert Thursday January 28 at 8 p.m. at Central College The program includes works by Ives Webern Barber Piston and a Piston trio Intermission Trio. The group will tour the Midwest in February visiting Aurora Mount Prospect Joliet Hinsdale and Evanston Illinois. Also notes include local community events and Pvt Timothy W Caldwell completing artillery training at Fort Sill and awaiting assignment in Bremerhaven Germany.
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Drake Univ. Fine Arts
Central College
Calvin College Meistersingers
Pella
Second Christian Reformed Church
Refomed Guild For
Christian Service
James Steenhoek
Third Reformed
Lynnville- Sully
First Reformed Church
Marinus Kregel
Calvin
Douwstra Chapel
Cai
Drake
Drake University
Midwest
John Ehrlich
David Albee
Don R. Haines
Charles Ives
Anton Webern
Samuel Barber
Walter Piston
Aurora
Mount Prospect
Joliet
Hinsdale
Evanston
Illinois
Fort Sill
Okla
Timothy W. Caldwell
C. B. Caldwell
Oskaloosa St
Army Artillery and Missile Center
Caldwell
Bremerhaven
Germany
Our Town on chapel stage at Central College
In Pella on January 25 26 and 28 Central College stages Thornton Wilder's Our Town as part of the Academic Seminar on the 20th Century. Thirty six C U L students star in a looking glass town with authentic early 1900s costumes and local donations supporting the production.
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Thornton Wilder
Wilder
Pella
Central College
Our Town
C.U.L
Geneticist to give five lectures at Central College seminar
Russian born geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, a Rockefeller Institute professor, will give five lectures at Central College in Pella in a seminar on the Doctrine of Man. The program includes daily talks, discussions, chapel services, and related events, with lectures at 8:00 p.m. Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Theodisius Dobzhansky
Rockefeller Institute
New York City
Central College Dun
Dobzhansky
Central
Arend Lubbers
University of Kiev
Polytechnique Institute
Kiev
University of Leningrad
United States
California Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Chamber of Commerce appoints five to study executive secretary role
A chamber committee met Monday to explore securing an executive secretary. Members present included Dr. F. Overman Roy De Wild Paul Farrer J. G. Boat John Harmeling Pres Steenhoek Gary Vermeer and co chairs Don Van Gorp Marion De Zwarte. Five men were named to study methods and operations.
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Chamber of Commerce Board
Chamber of Commerce
F. Overman
Roy de Wild
Paul Farrer
J. G. Boat
John Harmeling
Pres Steenhoek
Gary Vermeer
Don van Gorp
Marion de Zwarte
Three Pella bands to present Thursday evening concert
Three bands from the Pella Community School system perform at 7 30 pm Thursday January 28 in the High School gym. The Sixth Grade Band, Junior High Band, and High School Band feature soloists and ensembles including a saxophonist David Ver Meer and a trumpet trio with Mary Van Heukelem David Squibb and Judy De Cook. The High School Concert Band, with about sixty members, performs Beethoven Prometheus Overture Handel Chorale and Alleluia and Bernstein West Side Story plus four marches under director Stanley Schlueter.
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Pella
Iigh
David Ver Meer
Clude Beethoven
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