Pella school board approves six mill levy for new building
The Pella School Board on July 9 approved a six mill tax increase to fund the 1965 66 budget. Plans include six new classrooms at Lincoln Elementary with three rooms ready by September 1966 and three shell spaces by 1967. Budget covers higher enrollments, salary raises, new buses, equipment needs, and a shift to machine bookkeeping while noting state aid changes and reductions in transportation funds. A hearing was announced to discuss details and the proposed budget.
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Mahaska Poverty War meeting set
A Mahaska county informational meeting on the Economic Opportunity Act was held with four counties, leading to a public gathering Thursday July 29 at 8 00 p m in the Farm Bureau building to learn more and decide on participation. The steering committee includes Jim Riley Oskartoosa attorney Leo Fox Dick Vander Wilt and George Vande Voort.
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Mahaska County
Farm Bureau
Jim Riley
Oskartoosa
Leo Fox
Freemont
Dick Vander Wilt
New Sharon
George Vande Voort
Pella
Iowa Picnic to be held August 7 in Long Beach park
The sixth annual Iowa Association of Long Beach Beach picnic gathers Iowans and friends at Recreation Park Long Beach on August 7. Master of Ceremonies will be Marshall Craig Allison. program includes music by James E. Son's Long Beach Junior Concert Band, flag ceremony, and a stage presentation The Land O Corn. The event features a luncheon, newspaper reads, and a request for California subscribers to report on attendees.
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Long Beach
Marshall Craig
Allison
All States Society
James E. Son
Iowa Assoc
Harry Ruffridge
Greene
Lon Peek
Waterloo
Sylvania hires Marion Vink to Product Engineering in Burlington
Marion L Vink joins Sylvania Organization Burlington Product Engineering to work on electronic tubes. A University of Iowa graduate, he lives with wife Carole at 1134 Oakview Drive Columbus Junction and is son of Gerrit and Mrs Vink of Pella.
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Marion L. Vink
Sylvania Organization
Burlington
Vink
University of Iowa
Carole
Oakview Drive
Columbus Junction
Gerrit Vink
Pella
Community Gathering Schedules July to August
Local notices list multiple social events ranging July 27 to Aug 6 including picnics reunions and socials. Activities at Shelter House West Market Park Pool Park Edmundson Park Legion Hall 4-H building and Baptist church with 7:00 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. start times, drinks and coffee furnished, pot luck and free will pricing noted.
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West Market Park
Mahaska County
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Country Club
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Edmundson Park
Oskaloosa
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Shelter House
Baptist Church
Rev Floyd Nagel Dies. Funeral Tuesday in Minnesota
Funeral services for Rev. Floyd Nagel 63 will be held Tuesday at 2 00 p m in Greenleafton Reformed Church Minnesota He died Thursday in Buffalo New York of a heart attack He served as pastor of Williamsville Reformed Church New York prior to directing the Annville Institute Kentucky for 30 years He also led churches in Giford New York Churchville Pennsylvania Gilderland Center New York and Newton Iowa Survived by wife Ruth two daughters Mrs Ralph Jaarsma Pella Iowa and Mrs John Sikkink Des Moines three grandchildren two sisters and five brothers
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Greenleafton, Minn. Reformed Church
Nagle
Buffalo
N. Y
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Williamsville
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Annville
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Churchville
Penn
Gilderland Center
Newton
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Ralph
Elaine) Jaarsma
Pel-la
John
Betty Jean) Sikkink
Des Moines
First Sandridge reunion draws 200 plus attendees
More than 200 former residents pupils and teachers of the old Sandridge school district gathered Monday evening July 19 at the Shelter House in Pool Park for Sandridge’s first reunion. Attendees registered with name address and Sandridge connection, a plan to keep a permanent record was started, and promises were made to improve sound for future events. The group enjoyed a modest program and a picnic supper with musical interlude by four Classix members. Elderly attendees included Nick Ter Louw at 88 and Henry Brom would be 98 if present. youngest guest Jana Lynn Wallace six weeks. The gathering highlighted the community’s ties and efforts to expand the reunion next year.
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Pool Park
Shelter House
John E. Ter Louw
Sandridge Community Club
Classix
Andy Ter Louw
Ron Bensink
Sandridge School
Nick Ter Louw
Pella
Henry Brom
Jana Lynn Wallace
Gary Wallace
Knoxville
Katherine Lubbers services Tuesday
Katherine Lubbers 66 of Pella died Saturday evening at Mercy Hospital Des Moines. She lived with her brother Gerard at 314 Washington Street for ten years and was a former registered nurse at Knoxville Veterans Hospital. Private family services set for Tuesday July 27 1965 at 2 00 p m from Van Dyck-Duven Funeral Home with Rev Arthur Pontier officiating. Interment Oakwood Cemetery Pella. Surviving Grace Cornelius Vernooy of Pella Klassina Christians of Grand Rapids Mich and Andrew Lubbers of Pella. A complete obituary will appear later in the Chronicle.
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Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Washington Street
Pella
Geard
Veterans Hospital
Knoxville
van Dyk-Duven
Arthur Pontier
Oakwood
Gerard
Grace
Cornelius Vernooy
Klassina
Henry Christians
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Andrew Lubbers
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Funeral rites pending for Mrs. John Ten Hagen
Funeral services for Mrs. John Ten Hagen, born Dora Weyers, are pending at Van Dyk-Duven Funeral Home in Pella. She died early Monday at De Jong Nursing Home in Knoxville, aged 88, and is survived by children Bessie Ballenger of Pella, Helen Van Loon of Oskaloosa, Ruth Woods of Des Moines, and Virgil Ten Hagen of Pella.
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John Ten Hagen
Dora Weyers
van Dyk-Duven
Pella
Close call for Don Van Ekeren at Paris air show
Don Van Ekeren, son of William and Mrs Van Ekeren of Pella Iowa, drove astronauts and officials as a military taxi in Paris during a Paris air show honoring the American astronauts. He witnessed a jet crash from about 100 feet, with fatalities and injuries reported, and described the scene and his narrow escape.
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William van Ekeren
Maple
Pella
Paris
Don
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de Gaulle
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