Betty Monster Named PHS Homemaker of Tomorrow
Betty Monster of Pella Community High School has been named the 1965 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow. She scored highest on a written homemaking exam and is eligible for state honors with national judging to follow, including a $1,500 scholarship for the top state contestant and a $500 grant for the runner-up.
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Betty Monster
Pella Community High School
Betty Crocker
General Mills, Inc
School of the
State Homemaker of Tomorrow
General Mills
PHS Band Plans Spring Concert January 28
The Pella Community High School concert band will present its annual spring concert Thursday January 28 at the Pella high school gymnasium. The program starts at 7:30 p.m. with selections by the Sixth Grade and Junior High bands preceding the high school program led by director Stanley Schleuter.
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Pella Community High School
Pella High School
Seventeen Weeks Left Before Summer Vacation
Second semester has arrived with no new student enrollments this term. The first semester ended January 18 after tests on January 14 to 16. Spring vacation is set for April 15 to 19. New student teachers will arrive soon but names are not yet available.
Class Coughs And Rusty Antics In Fourth Period
A school room diary notes widespread coughing among students, a cough drop giveaway, and absentee teachers. Des Moines trip kids Benita Perkey and Eunice De Goey get briefly separated in the city. Senior Government classes miss Johnson inauguration on TV.
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Doorenbos
Johnson
David Swank
Basketball Terms Explained By Pella Fans
A playful list of tongue in cheek basketball term definitions. The notes mix sports jargon with humorous misinterpretations, suggesting common fan misunderstandings about positions and actions in a local setting.
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Pella
Teens design military themed board games Empire and Conquest
Arvin Van Zante and Art Knowles, a sophomore and a junior, crafted two hobby projects inspired by Avalon Hill. They adapted them to Roman times with economics elements, inventing Empire on a world map square board and Conquest on a hexagonal Europe map.
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Arvin van Zante
Art Knowles
Art
Arvin
Europe
Sickness Grips Pella High With Empty Classrooms
A week of illness hits Pella High with many absences due to colds or flu. Attendance declines early in the week with 88, 86, 84, and 67 students absent respectively, but signs suggest the spread is waning and normal lessons may resume soon.
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Pella High
P E Classes Start Unit on Basketball
The Boys Girls Physical Education classes begin a basketball unit. Each class forms four teams that practice fundamentals once weekly and compete in intra class games the remaining days. The unit will run about six weeks.
Seniors Take Economics Course
Seniors study economics under Mr. Hoekstra during their senior year. They expect the course to be more engaging than government, which they covered in the first semester. The class is required for graduation and covers the United States economy as explained in the textbook.
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Hoekstra
United States
Art Classes Creating Piano Sculptures in Second Semester
Art students at the school are building piano sculptures from parts found in the art room. Mr. Tweet secured an old piano for the project and over the past week students shaped bricks, masks, animals, and abstractions with cutting tools. Clay work continues as projects evolve.
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Tweet
Artist Mr Tweet Faces Fatigue From Shifted Creations
The text notes that Mr. Tweet has been ill and that the recent art produced may have overwhelmed him. It suggests a variety of shapes and sizes created in the name of art, hinting at strain or overload affecting the artist.
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Tweet
School Menu Week Adds Simple Home Meals
A school menu lists daily meals from Monday to Friday featuring spaghetti with meat sauce and applesauce on Monday, candied sweet potatoes and wieners in buns on Tuesday, scalloped turkey on Wednesday, ham and bean scallop on Thursday, and tuna biscuits on Friday. Desserts include cake, apple pineapple salad, fruit jello, whipped cream, pineapple upside down cake, and donuts. The brief note ends with a quip about a husband helping his wife into the car signaling a recent change in life.
Feed grain signup opens February eight through March twenty six
The 1965 feed grain and wheat stabilization programs’ signup period will run seven weeks from February 8 to March 26. Open to all farmers with feed grain bases and spring wheat producers with wheat allotments, the signup allows substitution between wheat and feed grains for 1965. Participation is voluntary but requires enrollment during the period.
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ASC County
ASCS
Christian Institute in Ames February 1
The Iowa Christian Rural Institute will be held in Ames on Monday February 1 with registration at 9 a.m. in Memorial Union. Dr. Paul Robinson of Bethany Theological Seminary will speak on Resources for Purposeful Living. Organizers include ISU and the Iowa Christian Rural Fellowship. contact E L Reisetter for details.
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Ames
Gene Reisetter
Mahaska County
Iowa Christian Rural Institute
Iowa State University
Iowa Christian Rural Fellowship
Memorial Union
ISU
Paul Robinson
Bethany Theological Seminary
Oak Brook
Illinois
Reisetter
Robinson
Chicago
Church of the Brethren
Austin Miller
Creighton University
Omaha
Martin Lautenbach
Clarence Sink
South Waterloo Church of the Brethren
Verda Aegeter
E. L. Reisetter
Local Office Details Include 109 North Third Street
The note lists the contact points at 109 North Third Street, Oskaloosa, or your county extension director for further information. It emphasizes local offices as the avenue for guidance and assistance.
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North Third St
Oskaloosa
Iowa Egg Cooking Contest Encourages all Women Entrants
The Towa Poultry Association invites Iowa women to enter the third annual Iowa Egg Cooking Contest. Entry blanks are available at local supermarkets and hatcheries with screening by the PENB office in Chicago. Qualifying entries return to Des Moines for a state cook-off and top juniors and seniors advance to Chicago for the national finals October 18 and 19, 1965.
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Towa Poultry Association
Iowa
Hugh Gordon
Marion
Gordon
State Committee For
Poultry and Egg National Board of Chicago
PENB
Chicago
Office of
Iowa Poultry Association
Des Moines
Elston Erickson
Ames
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Mary van Heukelem
Dave Squibb
Judy de Cook
Amparito Roco
Stanley Schleuter
Banter Rougtie
Rnd Knowles
P.E
Christian Institute
Herbert Hoover
Farmers’ Co-Op Exchange
Felco Cattle
Farmers’ Coop Exchange
Farmers’ Co-op
Felco
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