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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1977
Page
1
The editorial argues communities must grow and modernize to thrive naming Pella as an example. It notes current hospital facilities are overcrowded and in need of updating to prevent declining property values and extra travel to Des Moines. The piece cites three million dollars as the price of modernization and uses a TV ad line to underscore cost timing.
A reader argues the Lord requires keeping Sunday holy, linking it to reduced divorce and crime. The writer cites Galatians 6 7 and praises the Pella Swimming Pool closure, urging Christians to observe Sunday all day at home and refrain from secular pleasures, while thanking God for faithful parents and a Christian husband.
A 1911 Pella baseball game against Des Moines University ended in a narrow defeat as long grass in the outfield hampered a key play. Pete recalls a disaster near the ninth inning and notes perky antics by Ira Van Cleave. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are said to have visited the team during a storming tour. Buck Saw seeks a photo for a story.
Ten year back shows foreign students touring Pella en route from Oregon to New Jersey after a year in American high schools. The 1952 entry records Cecil H. Vines succeeding Clarence Zeigler as vocational agriculture instructor at Pella High School. The 1927 celebration features a full day of free entertainment with a barnstormer, wrestling bear, parade, pageant, and $4,900 expenses paid mostly by merchants. The 1907 note says Warfield Pratt Howell Co. of Des Moines bought the Pella Canning Factory, planning to pack pumpkins and tomatoes, with A Ver Ploeg kept on as processor.
Julie Hunsinger of Pella is among 28 high school students from seven states in an NSF program at Iowa State University. The five-week program offers courses and labs in statistics, probability, and statistical computing. It runs June 13 through July 5.
A 1911 Pella city baseball team photo notes the Meteors later name, detailing four pitchers Heine Van Spanckeren Henry Skillet Carson Oberman and Pete Bloem. Carson Van Spanckeren and Bloem had not lost a game, with Bloem having four wins. Pete Bloem, still living at 510 East 3rd St, recalls a rain soaked game against Still College as Central attempted to call it off.
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