Chamber of Commerce year ends with praise and plans
The Chamber of Commerce closes its year with positive reports and a healthy treasury. President Vander Linden commends members for cooperation while minutes show active committees, road weed issues, and plans for concerts and student aid loans.
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Chamber of Canineree
Tiefuellen
Bo Vientes Landen
Ele
Leland Croll
Chiung Deen
Eiven
Vander Linden
Bethel Road
Galesburg
Parker Bridge
George van Gorkem
Pella
van der Linden
Dykstra
Nch
Mahaska County
Anthony Tusseling
William van Sittert
Student Aid Committee
Chamber
Treasury Department
Pella Merchants Urged to File Ceiling Price Reports
Attention Pella merchants urged to file copies of ceiling prices with the local rationing board per guidance from Van Gorp of the board. A misunderstanding of what is required is noted, with a booklet by the Office of Price Administration available for details. Warorp at East Franklin Street office can provide information. attendees of Monday's Chamber of Commerce meeting already received Bulletin General Maximum Price Regulation.
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Ery Merehi
HP. van Gorp
M van Gorp
Office of Price Administration
Warorp
East Franklin Street
Chamber of Commerce
Pella Receives Queen Wilhelmina Fund Gift Sum
Mayor F M Frush of Pella IA reports a letter from the Queen Wilhelmina Fund Inc New York confirming a $607.28 draft handed by Princess Juliana during a Pella visit. The fund also forwarded $4 in War Savings Stamps and $5 in cash incognito, with no receipts yet allocated. Hope for establishing a local chapter in Pella is stated.
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F. M. Frush
Queen Wilhelmina Fund, Inc
New York City
Juliana
Pella
Iowa
Frush
Princess Juliana
Wilhelmina
Julianna
Alton
S. L. Lucas
van der Woude
Legion Members Head to Nevada for Sixth District Conference
Several members of Van Veen Van Hemert Post of the Legion will travel to Nevada Iowa on Monday June 16 to attend a stag conference of the Sixth District of the Iowa Legion.
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van Veen- van Hemert
Legion
Nevada
Iowa
Iowa Legion
Thank You Sugar Rationers War Board Message
The Local Rationing Board thanks Superintendent Buer Kens and all volunteers for assisting with canning sugar applications. It praises their cooperative, efficient efforts, calling them soldiers on the home front and essential to the war effort.
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Buer- Kens
Dutch Air Force unit evacuated from Java to Scott Field
Lt. Com. A. Van Karnabeek leads a group of Royal Netherlands Air Force enlisted men studying radio communications at Scott Field Illinois. After weeks of Java combat he evacuated part of the air force command and brought the men to America for further aeronautical training.
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Scott Field
St. Louis, Mo
Royal Neterlands Naval Air Force
Java
St. Louis
Scott Field, Ill
Royal Netherlands Air Force
A. van Karnabeek
Com. van Karnabeek
Air Force Command
America
Three Local Boys Attending Boys State This Week
Three local boys will attend Boys State this week at Grinnell College replacing the Iowa State Fair Grounds. The session runs June 7 to 14 with Grinnell College providing dormitories field house and pool facilities. The 49th State is sponsored by the American Legion and the local post may send three representatives.
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Grinnell College
The
American Legion of
Young Men May Learn a Trade at High School
A community program partners with the Federal Government to establish metal trades training in the High School Industrial Arts shop. Courses include lathe work and welding, meeting at night for 10 to 12 weeks starting in July. Open to boys ages 15 to 18, with no tuition, funded by government or local, designed not to interfere with day jobs. Farm boys urged to enroll. contact Kenneth Decker or the school office.
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Kenneth Decker
Green
School Ofice
Rotary boy volunteers chosen by school council program
The post invites the Rotary Club to cooperate by sending one of the boys selected from eligible representatives. The students are picked through a representative program sponsored by the Student Council. Carl Van der Ploeg and Darrel Mensch will be sent at American Legion Post expense while Howard Borgman has been
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Rotary Club
Carl van der Ploeg
Darrel Mensch
American Legion Post
Howard Borgman
Dutch Naval Flyers Visit Pella In Wartime Tour
Three Royal Netherlands Navy flyers visited Pella after training at Leavenworth. They wore white tropical uniforms with white caps and discussed their time in Australia before the East, noting plans to attach a Dutel bay to their Marrack and to visit Pella again if possible. They departed for Leavenworth with Paardekooper, noting many Dutch aviators in training there and hoping to return to Pella.
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Royal Netherlands Naval
Leavenworth
Tien
Warnine
Australia
Holland
East
Martin Paarlert
Sane
Pella
Juliana
Vetle
Paardekooper
Ruaxville
Teave
Vpolla
Donate Your Scrap Rubber to The Boys Scouts
Scouts request scrap rubber donations including tires tubes old rubber shoes caps gloves and mitts. Items may be left at the Trad time Past hut near Star Oil Company north area for reuse in winter aids and supplies.
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The
Boys Scouts
Tradime
Star Oil Company
Stetien
Bible School Demonstration Friday June 19 at Baptist Church
Vacation Bible School at the Baptist Church opened on Monday with enrollment. Three departments study the Word of God with classes led by Goodell Van Dellen Buwalda Sadler De Wild Van Cleave Van Hemert Wyngaarden Kuyper Toom Lau tenbach. Demonstration program Friday night will showcase pupil work and invites all to attend as the school continues next week.
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the Baptist Church
Goodell
van Dellen
Helen Buwalda
Joyce Sadler
Margaret de Wild
J. van Cleave
W. van Hemert
Hel
Phylis
Eva Mae van Wyngaarden
Harriet Kuyper
Rose ‘Toom
Charles Lautenbach
Swimming Pool To Open Monday
The pool opens Monday June 15 under Superintendent Edward Scheiner with staff from the Wuriment in charge. Adult season tickets are 2500 with a gen per ent tix plus tax. Coach Ellsworth Miller oversees operations while guarding against drownings in the nearby river and reports of unsafe swimming near a deep pool south of town. Corporal Clifford Roland of Columbia Iowa, killed near Pt Benning Georgia, will be buried in Knoxville with Legion Post honors.
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Mathen
Lavtiey
Lepson
Edward Scheiner
Pella
Ellsworth Miller
Marion County
Clifford Roland
Columbia
Iowa
Pt. Benning
Georgia
Legion Post of
Knoxville
Five Teachers Will Not Be Back Here Next Fall
Pella school changes loom as several teachers announce departure or new postings. Webster fifth grade Joan Mortrude resigns for marriage, while Jean Klein moves from Sigourney to take her grade. Principal Carl Brown leaves for Burlington, Harold Nehre eyed as successor. Gordon promoted to Council Bluffs. Miss Tyson joins Webster as second grade, Miss Newell to Emmetsburg, Miss Plaehn to Cedar Falls, and Miss Barry to Iowa State Teachers College. Nutting resigns to lead Cedar Falls industrial arts, Shrout leaves department duties as military service looms. board may cut or reassign positions, superintendent vows to maintain strong staffing.
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Joan Mortrude
Webster
Jean Klein
Sigourney
Poewhontas
Mortrude
Grinnell College
Yea
Carl Brown
Burlington
Brow
Pella
Brown
Harold F. Nehre
van Meter
Miss Gordon
Ruth Adele Gordon
Lincoln
Council Sufts
University of Iowa
Miss McBroom
Murein ‘Tyson
Miss Tyson
Maryville State Teachers College
Emmetsburg
Iowa
Marlys Placin
Cedar Falls
Plaehn
Lake Park
Kandy
Eleanor Barry
Iowa State Teach College
Don
Pella Teachers Club
Industrial Arts Association
Red Cross
Buerkens
Lautenbach Named Army Air Second Lieutenant in Knoxville
L Lautenbach, vice president of a Knoxville business college, receives commission as second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces and reports to Keesler Field Biloxi Mississippi. He is Kiwanis treasurer Oriental Lodge member and National Office Management Association treasurer. His wife remains in Knoxville. Also notes local illness and recovery updates from First Christ Reformed Church.
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L.A. Garr
L. A. Garrison
Central College
Mr. On
Mra. Garrison
Martha
John Re
Captain Nor
Lautenbach
Knoxville
Lake Shore Drive
Princess Juliana Receives Dutch Dolls From Pella School
Dr J J Lubbers reports a letter from W Van Tets private secretary to Princess Juliana thanking Pella school children for presenting two dolls on her departure. The princess says Beatrix and Irene will treasure the dolls as keepsakes of friends in the town. Pearl Van Gorp helped prepare the dolls.
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J. J. Lubbers
W. van Tets
Juliana
Pella
Pearl van Gorp
Ilrh
Ottawa
Luth
Beatrix
Irene
W. van’ Tets
Irwin J. Lubbers, Esq
Central College
Iowa
Boy Scouts Collect Scrap Rubber Here in Pella
Local Boy Scouts organize a scrap rubber drive urging households to empty garages and store rooms. The Peoria County committee promotes a plan citing military needs, noting a large deficit in scrap rubber for 1942 and outlining the weight of rubber in tires, coats, gas tanks, and other gear to support war production.
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BOY Scouts
Pella
Uncle Sant
New Screen Installed at Pella Theatre
The New Holland Theatre closed briefly for improvements including a new floor and a modern silver screen. Joe Anderson says the latest Volks screen enhances clarity by about forty percent and adds depth, reducing eye strain. I J Sadler drove to Rochester for Mayo Clinic examination for asthma. Mrs Sadler and Dean accompanied him.
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Pella
Holland ‘Theatre
Joe Anderson
Proprie
Volks
Anderson
Motion Picture Theatre
I. J. Sadler
Rochester
Minnesota
Mayo Bros. Clinic
Sadler
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Forester
C OF C
Cornelius H. Schalson
M Lane Schakel
Scarsboro
Jows
Central
War Price and Rationing Board
Ofiial Army Air Forces Photo
van Sittert
Bible School
Nehre
U. Iowa
Dorothy Newell
Miss Newell
Drake University
Anne Vorhey
Des Moines
R. W. Newell
Shrout
Nutting
Richard’ Shrout
Donald Nutting
University of Ohio
Knoxville, Tenn
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Carl Lee
J. Vander Wal
Cynthia
Jouma Monsma
Lawrence Lautenbach
Ireland
Claus Harold Vande Noord
Henry Vande Noord
Ookaloosa
John Vande Noord
Oo Als
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