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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1956
Page
8
The Kiwanis Club hosts the annual Soap Box Derby Friday at 10 a.m. on East Third Street. Twenty eight boys ages 9 to 12 race for fast times, with final heats and adds color from playground crews. Older girls sell Kool-Aid and popcorn as crafts are displayed in local shop windows next week.
The Third Reformed Church annual picnic, hosted by the Sunday School, will occur Friday evening at Sweat Market Pat with a pot luck supper at 6 30. Activities include contests and prizes such as a ham for guessing its weight, plus awards for a smallest child eight and under and the longest name. Committees led by wives of Sunday School superintendents and coordinators are arranging the supper with several named hosts and helpers.
Local farmers report strong early success using granular DDT to combat the first brood of corn borers. Timing is less critical than spraying, with early planted corn on bottom land most affected. Hopper outbreaks persist, but insecticide demand and available high clearance spraying options, including planes, are noted. Second brood timing remains challenging and depends on rainfall and egg masses. ISU entomologists advise treatment at first sign of hatching.
The Girls League sponsoring an all request program at 1:30 Friday evening July 20 in the church basement. A skit and variety of musical numbers will be presented followed by a social hour. Everyone is invited to attend.
Reading shows a patchy July softball slate with Pella Girls facing Newton on July 19 and again July 24 plus multiple games involving Pella Blu, Rus Auto Boys, Merchant, Calvary, and Leighton II. Results list Bus Auto Boys 10 Pella I 5 and New Sharon Girls 10 Pella Girls 9 among others.
Gerald Ward and Reverend Everett Ward of the Pella Club spoke on humor at a Rotary gathering. Ward said queer words and characters are fundamental to humor and illustrated with entertaining stories. He added the best humor comes from seeing life in true perspective and noted humor aids digestion. Golf Toy President Haverkamny called at.
Interest in cloud seeding to raise rainfall grew after North American Weather Consultants proposed an effort in Knoxville area. The Marion County Rainmakers Association formed with officers Tom Young Ed Frank Carroll Price Elmer Ver Meer Ellis Christianson and Roger Brown. Generators were set up in Ackworth and Knoxville as rain fell with estimates of one half to three inches in areas. Seeding costs six to ten cents per acre and scientists say less than one percent of cloud moisture is released by seeding.
Inter city meeting slated for July 24 in Newton where Rotary Fellowships Student E. Bradford Burns of Muscatine Town will discuss his experiences at the University of Lisbon Portugal. Burns represents the Rotary district of the Pella club. Indianola Rotary Club hosts the Rotary league golf tourney on August 3 at Indianola Country Club with Anthony Tusseling named chairman. Visiting Rotarians from Ames and Knoxville attended.
The Donald Brewsters of near Sheldon welcomed their eleventh child, initially named Allen Roy, but the baby is Mary Ann, marking the family's first girl after ten boys.
The superintendent's report shows per pupil costs in Pella Public Schools increasing for the coming year by 6.80 in grades and 6.55 in high school. The rise is about 60 percent less than last year's, with figures used for tuition district billing next year.
Garden Square in Pella reports nineteen goldfish in a fountain basin died from Saturday to Monday as investigators consider a detergent poisoning theory. A few fish survived Saturday and perished by Monday. replacements to be provided by the Park Commission. A missing plant box from the band stand pedestal was found Wednesday.
Arnold De Jong on leave from the Navy will sing with the band Saturday evening. The program includes National Emblem, Bagley Melody, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Zacatecas, Two Marches for Band, Bach and Beethoven arrangements, These pieces note Frank Erickson’s transcriptions. Soloist performs Some Enchanted Evening from Rodgers and Hammerstein. Sousa March of the Week Stars and Stripes Forever features a piccolo trio by Barbara Boat and Ellen Rempe.
A fragment notes a cave near Pella Station in Kentucky described by the U. S. Weather Bureau with about forty miles of subterranean winding passages in a sixth cave.
About two hundred people attended a Knoxville courthouse meeting Monday night to study the Howell and Red Rock dam and reservoir plan. Rock Island engineers John Peil and Frits Burleigh outlined history, land acquisition, and fair compensation for those affected, with county officials and local mayors in attendance.
William McMains, a 1958 college graduate and noted organist, is slated for appearances on several television programs. He will be featured on Ive Got A Secret on August 8 and What’s Line on August ? to appear on the Steve Allen show Tennessee Ernie Ford Linkletter House Party Ted Mack program visits. He performed at the 1952 conventions and will play at both parties’ conventions again this year.
There is great interest in the Mystery Farm Contest. Repli came in from far and near. Nearly two hundred replies came in this week. One letter is from Lansing Illinois by Mr and Mrs John Meppelink. They note the farm is on the Jarard Corner west of New Sharon and praise the pictures as real interesting.
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