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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1962
Page
5
The Pella Colts beat Barnes City 6 to 3 and the Pella Ponies won 14 to 2 in state league play. The Colts and Ponies remain undefeated as they prepare to host New Sharon at Central College field and the high school diamond. Pella High also faces Albia Thursday at the high school diamond.
Monroe high school coach Don Lewis has accepted a teaching position with a US Army dependents school in France. He resigns from Monroe and will move with his wife and daughter Rhonda to France in August to teach physical education. Lewis, a Lynnville native and Iowa Wesleyan College alumnus, previously served in the Army.
Spectators are welcome at the Kiwanis Soap Box Derby held at the corner of Broadway and Elm streets on Wednesday July 18. Time trials begin at 6 30 p.m. The event is co sponsored by the Kiwanis Club and the Recreation Commission with prizes timers and starters furnished by Kiwanis.
A cooperative Kiwanis Club City of Pella and Park Commission project created a northeast town playground after land purchase of about four acres behind Renaud Farm Service. Kiwanis donated equipment worth 1200 dollars and Women’s Federated Club funded a fiberglass slide. Installations included various swings, bars, a merry go round, a turtle and ponies with a baseball backstop to come in late July or August.
Earl Pohlmann reflects on his move to Pella and forty years with Cook and Son Insurance Agency. Since taking ownership in 1953 he has served four insurers, added Nationwide Motor Club services, and pushed for local industrial growth and a new airstrip. He recalls humorous and unusual claims while remaining active in chamber and community affairs.
Funeral services for Mrs Henry L Veenstra formerly Dorothea Groenendyk were held Tuesday July 17 1962 at 2 00 p m at the Tracy Christian Reformed Church The family gathered at 1 30 p m in the church basement She died July 14 1962 at 77 surviving sisters five children and other relatives A later Chronicle obituary noted the Des Moines area move and local ties The body was moved from Van Dyk Duven Funeral Home to the Tracy church Tuesday morning
A Knoxville reporter notes a surge of inquiries about land near Red Rock Dam from outside buyers. A spokesman hints at Conrad Hilton considering a large hotel near the site to serve expected recreational facilities, while denying any special treatment to Hilton or similar figures.
Nola Vander Streek, census taker for the Pella Community School District, reports a 5-21 year age group increase of 178 over two years, rising from 2407 to 2585. The 0-21 total grew to 3450 from 3307, with Marion 2710, Mahaska 687, Jasper 53. Birth to 6 years fell from 1089 to 1046.
Kiwanian Kuyper spoke to local Kiwanis members in Denver after the 47th annual Kiwanis convention. About 5,000 delegates from 4,000 clubs across the U S, Canada and Mexico attended along with wives and children, while roughly 17,000 visitors filled Denver, marking the largest Kiwanis gathering to date. The host city’s welcome and coverage across news outlets stood out to him.
Calvary Christian Reformed Church will dedicate an Allen Organ Model TC-4 on Wednesday July 18 at 7 45 PM. An organ recital by Mrs Ella Jansen Marten of Boone Iowa will follow. Mrs Marten, a Sherwood School of Music graduate with a Master’s, is organist at Augustana Lutheran Church and piano and organ teacher.
A 1960 census-based report shows Marion County, Iowa, with 1,545 government employees, 22.2 percent of its workforce, equating to one government worker per five residents. National figures run 9 million civilians employed by all governments, 46 per 1,000, Iowa at 42 per 1,000.
Holland Michigan announces Dr Calvin Van der Werf as president designate of Hope College succeeding Dr Irwin J Lubbers who will retire after February 1 1963 Vander Werf age 44 is current chairman of chemistry at University of Kansas and will be eighth president in the college history
Gerrit De Graaf age 68 of rural route 2 Prairie City died Saturday evening in the local Community hospital. He farmed in Prairie City for 58 years and is survived by his wife Wilhelmina and seven children Nellie Van der Wiel Geneva Arietta William Gary Marvin Wilma Meinders. Services 1 30 pm Tuesday at Prairie City Christian Reformed Church Rev Theodore Wevers officiating. Interment Oakwood Cemetery Pella Iowa. Full obituary to appear in Thursday's Chronicle.
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