North Mahaska votes on 861000 bond for new high school
Voters in North Mahaska Community School District will decide January 30 on a bond issue of 861000 to finance a West Wharton site high school complex. The plan includes a full high school, junior high classrooms, gym, auditorium, lunch facilities, and service areas serving districts near New Sharon. Polls open at noon and close 7 pm at Barnes City, New Sharon, Tainter, Lacey, and Monroe Township halls. An earlier incident saw Rog er Lee Bandstra fined after a truck rollover at Oska loosa and Main streets, with 10 steers wandering nearby. damages estimated at 250 dollars. Central College listed in national basketball stats with Marinus Kregel’s team ranked in defense and shooting.
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Roger Lee Bandstra
Pella
Oskaloosa and
Main Streets
Bandstra
Justice Court
Central College
National Assn. of
Marinus Kregel
North Mahaska Community
Kenneth Patton
North Mahaska
West Wharton
Friends Cemetery
New Sharon
Barnes City School
Central College Band to Perform First Concert January 31
The Central College Symphonic Band directed by Prof. Robert Rittenhouse will present its season opener at 8 p.m. Friday January 31 in Douwstra Chapel. Admission is free. The program features Festa March Concertino for Winds and Percussion News Reel Coral and Jade and Hennessey’s Theme. Local Pella students appearing include Jessie van Voort Barbara Duven Margaret Van den Berg Edith Vander Linden Quentin Kuyper Roger Ringnalda Beverly De Cook Paul Bogaard Nelson Nibbelink Joan Muyskens and James Van Zetten in various woodwind brass and string roles.
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Central College Symphonic Band
Robert Rittenhouse
Douwstra Chapel
Hennessey
Pella Area
Jessie Vande Voort
George Vande Voort
Route 2
Bara Duven
Wilson Duven
Liberty
Margaret Vandenberg
John H. Vandenberg
Columbus
Edith Vander Linden
Ray Vander Linden
Leighton
Quentin Kuyper
H. Hospers Kuyper
Independence
Roger Ringnalda
Wilbur Ringnalda
Broadway
Beverly de Cook
Ralph de Cook
Main
Paul Boggard
Mable Bogaard
West ‘Third
Nelson Nibbelink
Henry Nibbelink
Joan Muyskens
Jean Myskens
James van Zetten
Ralph van Zetten
North Tenth
Oskaloosa
Religious Emphasis Week at Central College
Dr Hubert Brom pastor of Andrew Presbyterian Church Iowa City guest for Religious Emphasis Week February 3 7 at Central College with 50 minute chapel services at 940 daily and a Holy Communion Service at 9 pm Thursday February 6 Public invited Foremost organizer Rev Arthur De Jong college chaplain and Stephen Struik campus religious life chairman Brom a State University of Iowa graduate Navy submarine veteran Fulbright Netherlands and ex National Chaplain Submarine Veterans of WWII currently moderator of the Southeast Iowa Presbytery
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Hubert Brom
Andrew Presbyterian Church
Iowa City
Central College
Veerans
Brom
Netherlands
Southeast
Iowa
United Presbyterian Church
Red Rock farm buildings auction set by Rock Island District
The Rock Island District Corps of Engineers advertises bids for sale of 58 farm buildings at Red Rock Lake project. Buildings in Marion Polk and Warren counties must be removed within 60 days after bid approval. Sealed bids due Feb 5 at 2:00 p.m. in Rock Island. Inspect via Red Rock office in Knoxville Iowa. Also, Michael Slykhuis, 20, pled guilty to larceny before Judge Prall, sentenced to five years, later reduced to a two-year bench parole by Iowa Board of Parole.
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Rock Island
Corps of Engineers
Red Rock Dam
Lake Red Rock
Marion County
Polk County
Warren County
Clock Tower
Hearters of the Rockne District
Rocky Island
U.S. Army Engineer District
Illinois
Marion B. Island
Red Rock
East Main Street
Knoxville
Iowa
Michael Slykhuis
Prall
Anamosa Reformatory
Slykhuis
Iowa Board of Parole
Van Zee Rites Set for Pella Resident
Funeral services for William M. Van Zee of 1008 Washington Street Pella will be held Tuesday January 28 1964 at 130 PM at the First Christian Reformed Church with Rev John A De Kruyter officiating. The family will meet in the church basement at 115 PM prior to the service. Friends may call at Van Dyk Duven Funeral Home until 1100 AM Tuesday. He retired from farming in the Pella and Prairie City areas in 1947 and died Sunday morning at Pella Community Hospital at age 84.
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William M. van Zee
Wash
Pella
First Christian Reformed Church
John A. de Kruyter
van Dyk-Duven
van Zee
Prairie City
Pella Schools Ranked 80th in State Enrollment
Pella Community Schools, with 1 503 pupils including 443 in high school, rank 80th among 463 state approved districts for 1963 64. Des Moines leads with 43 618 total. Palmer Consolidated is smallest at 218. The study by Marvin W Ingle of the State Department of Public Instruction notes districts with high school enrollments under 200 hold 17.89 percent of pupils, while 241 of 463 districts with 200 or more enroll 82.11 percent.
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Pella
Marvin W. Ingle
State Department of Public Instruction
Des Moines
Palmer Consolidated
ISU Student Vos Works as Engineer with LA Water and Power
Robert G. Vos of 1202 Hazel Street Pella was among four Iowa State University engineering students chosen for a summer paid engineer job with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The program placed students in the Water Operating Division to gain practical experience for the nation’s largest municipally owned utility.
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Iowa State University School of Engineering
United States
Robert G. Vos
Hazel Street
Pella
Vos
ISU
Los Angeles
Robert Vos
Water Works
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Mahaksa Co NFO Annual Meeting Tonight
Mahaska County NFO farmers gather at Oskaloosa city hall at 7 30 p m for the annual meeting. Election of county officers and the Meat board is planned with grain and dairy boards to be chosen later. Officials say dairy farmers may receive news at the meeting.
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Mahaska County
NFO
Oskaloosa
Highway Commission awards low bids for Iowa road work
The Iowa State Highway Commission approved low bids totaling 5,638,336 on January 15 for primary interstate and farm to market construction. Durham Quarry, Inc. of Carlisle bid the surface project in Knoxville township. Erosion control jobs on I-80 in Jasper County cost 37,110 with guard rails added for 27,484, extending to the U.S. 65 interchange in Polk County.
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Iowa State Highway Commission
Knoxville Township
Durham Quarry, Inc
Carlisle
Interstate 80
Jasper County
Polk County
Central College names Ralph R. Jones as Assistant Treasurer
Ralph R. Jones of Farrar was named Assistant Treasurer at Central College today, replacing Fred Reed who resigned for a job in Oskaloosa. Jones, 54, previously ran the Ram bier Motel in Des Moines and has a long background as a controller and secretary in Des Moines firms. he served in the Army Air Force Finance Division during 1942-43 and has five married children and 18 grandchildren.
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Gary Vogelaar
Center
Central College
Arend D. Lubbers
CUI
Irwin Lubbers
Central College Today
Ralph R. Jones
Farrar
Jones
C. E. Erickson Co
Des Moines
Fred Reed
Oskaloosa
Central Post
Blanche
Chilren
Chariton
Osceola
Army Air Force
Globe Hoist Co
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills Taken by Christian School Students
Christian Grade School conducted the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills for grades three through eight on Tuesday morning January 21. Over three days the tests totaled more than four and a half hours and covered vocabulary reading comprehension language arithmetic and work study skills. Results help teachers counselors and parents guide students and indicate which parts of instruction are effective or need revision.
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Christian
Iowa
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