Soap Box Derby And Film Showings Planned In Town
The Soap Box Derby sponsored by the Flnvenia club Recreation Commission will be held next Thursday at 7 p.m. starting at Broadway and Elm, with prizes for first to third. Children will vote at playgrounds and the pool for a derby queen and attendants. The seventh of ten film showings at West Market Park follows the Band Concert on August 2, featuring Good Morning Dove in Cine‑scope and color with Jenni fer Jones, Robert Stack, and Chuck Connors, a heartwarming New England town tale by 20th Century Fox.
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West Market’ Park
Dove
Jennifer ‘Jones
Robert
Stack
Chuck Conners
New England
Aldry
20Th Century-Fox
Pella Falls to Indianola in District Baseball
Indians defeat Pella 5 to 2 with Miller leading offense on two triples and a single. Pitchers listed include Waal and Slykhuis for Indianola and Wood and Butler for Pella in a nine inning game with key hits and fielding notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Bob
Varider ‘Waal
Roger
Slykhuis
Wood
Butler
Baseball score note with players Sivas and Slykhuis
In a brief box score the players Per and Roger Sivas each hit two singles. The score by innings shows early runs and late drama with Waal and Roger Slykhuis credited with the win. Weather report notes July dates and a Dr. B. L. Flikkemd observer.
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Per
Roger Sivas
B. L. Flikkemd
$3 Million School Bond Sale Brings Jaycees Park Work
The Jaycees completed park cleanup and improvements in the park area with work by Herb Vander Waal and volunteers. They moved dangerous trees and walnut, cleared parking and picnic zones, painted cans, and prepared the space for visitors ahead of a planned bond sale event.
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Jaycees
Herb
Vander Waal
Thrill of a Lifetime Chronicle Photo Caption
A Chronicle 2 News photo caption notes a bold moment with the phrase Thrill of a Lifetime as a playful descriptor of an event involving the Vothers and an unnamed subject.
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Thrill of
Vothers
Chronicle 2
Concert in West Market Park features drum solo and vocal duet
The Municipal Band plans a concert in West Market Park on Tuesday August 2. Kathy McDonald will perform a drum solo and tympanist with the band, Twyla Monater accompanies the vocal duet by Mr and Mrs Dea School. The program includes Rossini Il Signor Russo and Clifton Williams Symphonic Suite plus Night Beat by Harold Walters and old favorites such as Brighton Beach March His Honor March Holiday for Winds Wing Ding and My Fair Lady.
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Municipal
West Market Park
Kathy’ McDonald
Dea
Twyla Monater
Il Signor
Ruschino
Clifton” Williams
Harold Walters
Brighton Beach
Liltiam
Fillmore
Osser
Wing-Ding
Singer
My Fair Lady
Lerner &, Louwe
Northern Pines
Sousa
Pella Merchants Knocked Out of District Tourney
The Pella Merchants softball team was eliminated in district play at Prairie City. They lost 2 to 0 to Prairie City in the third round after early offense fizzled, with Glair Gifford collecting two hits. Sully Lions then defeated Pella 3 to 1, despite Pope and Blom each fanning three. Paul Dingeman, Gifford, and Blom each had two or more hits for Pella.
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Pella Merchants
Prairie City
Pella Boys
Pella
Sully
Lions
Pope
Blom
Paul Dingeman
Gifford
Winners named in Marion County Queen of Conservation contest
Miss Ruth Bypower of Otley and Miss Marilyn Van Wyk of Route 1 Pella won the Marion County Queen of Conservation contest held Saturday July 23 among nine farm girls. Regional winners will compete at the Albia Fall Festival August 1 with prizes including wrist watches. The Iowa Soil Conservation Districts Field Day Plowing Matches at Center Sept 6 will crown the Queen who serves as hostess at Davenport September 18 19 20 1960. Marilyn Van Wyk 15 and Ruth Bypower 16 are students at Pella Community High School with active club and 4H participation.
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Ruth Bypower
Otley
Marilyn van Wyk
Route 1
Pella
Marion County
Albis
Albia
Ladie
Guthrie Center
Iowa
Soil Conservation District
Blackhawk Hotel
Davenport
Rilyn
Lvan Wyk
Marevin
Twyla
Karen
Dean Butler
Marilyn
Pella Community High
Mimond Brouwer
Ruth
Pella Community High School
Jude Latin Clubereia
Clase
Building permit approved for Robert Grandin home addition
Robert Grandin of 1109 Franklin Street has a building permit to add an extension to his residence. The approval confirms the project scope and local code compliance for the planned expansion.
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Robert Grandin
Franklin Street
Courts Say 670 Acres Go To Pella Dist
A long legal fight over Summit School district territory ended with the Supreme Court upholding a lower court ruling that about 670 acres were reassigned to the Pella Community School District. The Marion County Board of Education and Monroe school district had contested the area transfer, stalling a $1,060,000 bond sale voters authorized in 1969. The decision clears the way for the Pella district to proceed with bond plans at an appropriate time.
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Summit
Pella Community
Marion County Board of Education
Monroe
District ‘Court
Supreme Court
Marion County Board
Marion Co
Edi
State Department of Public Instruction
Pella
Bannister
Car- Necab Cooney
Wildman Plans New Home Before Moving to Pella
Wayne Wildman of Burnet expects to build a one story structure with a raised ramp and foyer on a lower level. He intends to join Linden Rexall Drug firm after relocating to Pella.
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Burnet
Wayne Wildman
Sully
Druigist
Morella
Wildman
rand _an
Linden
Rexall
Pella
Cook Appointed To School Board In Pella Iowa
John J. Jack Cook was appointed to the Pella School Board to fill the Ellis Christiansen vacancy. He was runner-up in the last election with 183 votes for area A and will serve until September 12 when he runs for the remainder of Christiansen’s two year term. Also noted are Ernest De Cock Chamber and Dorothy Chamber who have ties to Central College and local business and teaching roles.
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John J
Jack) Cook
Board of Education
Christiansen
Ernest de Cock Chamber
Wormhouse Purseture Company
Central College
Pella Rolscreen
Dorothy
Central
Pella
Pella Scouts Attend Camporee Fifty Year Jubilee
Pella Boy Scout Troop 373 along with Jacob Kuit ward Arvin Van Zante Jim Haverkamp Larry Mathes Den nig Van Gorp Jerry Gosselink Larry Haverkamp Tony Tysse and Scoutmaster Dirk Van Zante attended the 50th Anniversary Jubilee Camporee at the Iowa State Fairgrounds Des Moines over the weekend. About 1500 scouts and 300 scouters from the Tall Corn Area Council participated. Highlight events included the clock-in-fair, cooking demonstrations, skill-o-rama and many scouting skill displays marking the 60th anniversary of Scouting in the program.
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Scouts of
Pella
Jacob Kuitward
Arvin van Zante
Jim Haverkamp
New Duplex Home Planned on West Columbus Street
Excavation began on west Columbus Street near Oakwood for a new duplex by John H. Gosselink. The structure measures 60 by 28 feet and will be rented to two families, per Gosselink’s plan.
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Métiday
Columbus Street
Oakwood
John H. Gosselink
Gosselink
Rites Held in Monroe for Buckingham Sisters
Barbara Marie Buckingham 11 and Claudia Lynn 8 drowned Sunday at Gray's Lake Des Moines while swimming with their parents. They were from a farm near Monroe and attended Prairie City Public School. Swimmers found the bodies in about six feet of water after the area was deemed inadequately marked. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Church of the Brethren near Monroe with burial at Griffith Cemetery. arrangements by W. S. J. Chigpel of Pella.
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Barbara Marie Buckingham
Claudia Lynn
Gray’s Lake
Des Moines
Barbara
Claudia
Buckingham
Prairie City
Yvonne
Irvin Buckingham
Ide Trombley
Grand Rapids
Mich
Church of the Brethren
Monroe
Griffith Cemetery
Wwassty, Chigpel
Pella
Hymn Sing Hosted by AY Fine Reformed Church
The Girls League of the First Reformed church sponsors a hymn sing Sunday evening July 31 at 8 45 pm. The public is invited and offerings support the Klemathdorf Reformed Church in Hast Haarlem New York where Rev Don De Young serves as pastor.
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Girls League of the First Reformed Church
Klemathdorf Reformed Church
Hast Haarlem
N. Y
Don de Young
Geologists Plan Subsurface Look At Red Rock Dam
Rock Island District seeks bids to drill a 36 inch core test hole at Red Rock Reservoir dam site near Pella. Bids open August 10 in Rock Island Illinois. Core hole will assess rock and subsurface material under the east embankment for future construction.
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Red Rock
Rock Island
Red Rock Reservoir
Pella
Clock Tower
Rock Island, Ill
Des Moines
East Embankment
Dam Alte
Corps of Enginers
Rill Hole
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Indianola
Bigh
Indianol
Jerry Breen
Quentin ‘Kuyper
Miller
Waal
Roger Slykhuis
Winterset
Moxingo
Read
Ganoe
Fiell
Pella Praire
City Batteries
Pell and Slykhuis
P. G
Dunkin
Merchants
Sully Lions
Queen of Conservation
Soil Conservation Districts of
Daglers
Ford
Co- Operative
Ruth Brouwer
Pella Dist
Gray's Lake
Barbara Buckingham
Cook
Columbus ST
Sam Buckingham
AY Fine
North Pella
Armour Boot
Wayne Geetings
Geetings
North Broadway
Ed du Pree
Chronicle News
Vark
Cizes
Phozé
Western Contracting Corporation
Sioux City
Westernfeld
Pubon
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