Local News and Social Notes From Pella Iowa
The July 21 1955 Pella Chronicle lists many locals visiting and moving details. Articles mention hospital stays for Hattie Vander Meulen and J W Van Wyk, new car registrations in Knoxville, and various residents visiting relatives in Des Moines Chicago and Clear Lake. Also noted are student honors for Darrel Ustermarkt at the American Institute of Business, plus farm and travel notices, hospital updates, and community announcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Iowa
Chronicle
J. W. van Wyk
Sully
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
Darrel Ustermarkt
Gerrit A. Ustermarkt
American Institute of Business
Des Moines
Fenton
A. I. B. Ustermarkt
Judy
Elmer H. Klein
Mercy Hospital
Howard
Alexander Vander Pol
Larry
Lowell Northcutt
Lawrence
Cornelius Roose
Taintor
Mercy
First Christian Reformed Church
Bert Engbers
R. Kelderman
William Clement
Franje
Herman Thomassen
Bloomington
Llinois
Harold Thomassen
Diller Vander Ploeg
Clear Lake
Kenneth McAmis
Alzada
Montana
William Clark
Grover Bruinekool
McAmises
Clark
Alden Kelley
Ames
Kelleys
Chrissy
Kevin
Jacob van Wyk
Kelley
Dena
Harry Neyensch
Pennsylvania
Towa Cattle On Feed July 1st Up Nine Percent
Cattle on grain feed in Towa feed lots estimated at 1,031,000 head on July 1, 1955, the largest for this date in eight years and the first million on July 1 in Iowa. Up 9 percent from the prior year’s 946,000 head and about 1/8 above the 1949-53 average. April 1-July 1 marketings reach 400,000 head, 7 percent higher than last year, though feeders slowed as of April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Michigan
Wisconsin
Towa
Iowa Cooperative Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
July 1 cattle on feed surveys expand to Texas Arizona and Colorado
The report notes that April–June cattle on feed were 24 percent higher than a year earlier. California shows 457 000 head on feed July 1, 318 000 on April 1 and 34 000 on July 1, 1954. Colorado reports 180 000 on July 1 versus 220 000 on April 1, Arizona 120 000 on July and 156 000 on April 1, Texas 49 000 on July 1 and 81 000 on April 1. This is the first year July 1 surveys covered Texas Colorado and Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Colorado
Arizona
Texas
Thirteen Hundred Navy ROTC Men on Training Cruise
Norfolk VA July 17 Thirty two ships carry 1300 midshipmen from 52 colleges on the third summer midshipmen training cruise. Cruise Charlie visits Panama and Cuba, returning August 26. The operation trains junior officers and assigns students to ship departments under Rear Admiral E R McLean Jr. The task group includes two cruisers four destroyers three escort destroyers and three high speed transports.
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Norfolk
Navy
Norfolk Naval Base
Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Atlantic
Caribbean
Panama
Cuba
E. R. McLean, Jr
USN
Dwarfism Tests Aimed At Finding Carriers
Iowa State College livestock expert L. N. Hazel says using dwarffree bulls controls dwarfism in herds but breeders must remove the dwarfism gene completely from stock. Research explores distinguishing carriers from dwarfs by X ray of calves, but not yet practical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. N. Hazel
Iowa State College
Hazel
Hey Day program results spark cattle feeding antibiotics test
Dr Wise Burroughs reports on a cattle feeding experiment at Iowa State College to be shared during the thirty seventh annual Cattle Feeders Hey Day. The study uses 82 yearling steers wintered to gain about one pound daily on silage and corn rations with and without stilbestrol aureomycin and combinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State College
Wise Burroughs
Cattle Feeder Day Set At Ames August Fourth
Cattlemen and feed industry representatives from the Midwest gather at Iowa State College on August 4 for Cattle Feeder Day. Reports include aibiotic impact on gains in cattle and hogs, stilbestrol effects on pasture, cornstalk silage for wintering cows, and green clippings fed in drylot. The program occurs at the Men’s Gymnasium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwest
Ames
Iowa State College
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iss Hattie
Vander Meulen
Mahask Hospital
Oskeloosa
Howard Vander Pol
Ully
Lawrence Roose
Tainter
Knoxville
Mary E. Wormhoudt
Pontiac
Edna Mae Liter
Nash
William Mikesell
Otley
Mercury
Sam Nichols
Chevrolet
First Reformed Church
C. H. Wormhoudt
Iowa Methodist Hospital
Ray J. de Haan
D. LeRoy Leatart
Gayle
Long Beach
Calif
Monmouth College
Henry Wyma
Betty Jean
Chicago
Elmer van Maaren
Henry
Casey du Pree
Jane du Pree
Casey
George Ver Steer
Denver
Newton
Curtis M. Snow
Marcia Ver Steeg
Dan Vander Linden
D. C. Thomas
Washington State
Oregon
Vander Lindens
Thomases
Mark Thomas
Charles van Maanen
Harry de Young
C. A. Gosselink
Union Street
H. C. Vander Meulen
Ralph de Cook
Beverly
Black Hills
John N. Vander Linden
C. H. Vander Linden
N. Main Street
Orville Dunkin
Donald de Cook
Lowell Ray
Viola Holliday
Gerrit van Gorp
Mrs
Harry Grond
Holland
Mrs. Grond
Harry
Max Slaughter
Waterloo
Chloe Sickles
Walter Vander Zyl
Russell van Zante
van Zante
Vander Zyls
Ditcher
Pella Construction Company
Iowa Boy Designers
Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild
Paul A. Siegert
Sheldon
Richard Sylvester
Lynnville
Bash
W. A. Bohnsack, Mgr
Tracy
Glenn Messamaker
Mgr
Burroughs
Fred Whalley Blue
the Chronicle
Pella Supply CO
FELCO
Fisk Sid RT
Farmers’ Coop Exchange
Pella, Iowa
Westinenouss
van den Berg
Emma le
Pola, Lewa
van Arkel
Mobil Gas
Merchan
Vander Linden Drug Store
Sinclairize Service
de Vries
Vera's Beauty Salon
Klyn’s Tractor Repair
W. High
J. Green
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