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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1956
Page
3
Local residents travel for visits and military postings, with Gerrit Veldhuizen dismissed from Mahaska hospital. Dr. H C Wormhoudt hospitalized for chest pains. family updates and nearby fire damage to Andrew Verploegh’s office building in Oak Grove. Plus social calls in Grinnell, Des Moines, Perry and Knoxville areas.
The Calvary congregation lists Rev J D Pikaart at 11:00 am Sunday School and young people, 7:30 pm service, and Rev F Van Houten from Lynden Washington elected as pastor at the last congregational meeting. Sermons titled Wonders of the Cross and The Startling Two-fold Vision at Gol. Includes Bible school at 9:30 am, and various society meetings. Visitors welcome.
On Sunday at 605 Broadway Lund church offers morning worship at 10 45 with Rev Joseph Esther as missionary speaker. Evening praise at 3 30 features Two Men Who Didnt Know with Rev Arthur J Bennink in charge. Midweek Christian Fellowship and C E groups meet 6 30 and 7 30. Everyone welcome.
Sunday service schedule lists morning worship at 9 30 am with Our Father. Sunday School and young people's society at 11 am, adult Bible class on The Triumphal Entry. Evening worship at 7 30 pm titled The Saviour Anointed by Mary.
The notice lists 711 Independence Street minister Everett Ward with a 9:30 a.m. Sunday school and 10:45 a.m. worship including the Lord's Supper. Evening events include 6:30 p.m. Baptist Youth Fellowship, 7:30 p.m. worship, and Conversations on Religion with Professor James Graham and Rev. Ward on salvation. Family Night with supper follows at 6:00 p.m. Bible study and choir rehearsals are noted.
Douwstra Chapel Trinity Reformed announces Sunday services at 11:00 a.m. Bearing Our Iniquity and 6:30 p.m. Jesus Faces the City. Junior C. E. Eunice Roorda, leader. Intermediate and Sr. E. film Mixed Marriages at 6:30 p.m. Sunday evening Rev John Piet missionary to India guest speaker. Family Night in New Central at 7:30 Wednesday.
Minister Russell J. Redeker leads 9 30 am worship with missionary Joseph Esther. 11 am Sunday School 6 30 pm Jr C E and Sr C B Y. F 30 evening praise Are You Captain of Your Soul. Temple Time airs Sundays on KBOE at 8 00 am and KXEL at 9 30 pm. Rever end Henry Bast topics Parents Train Your Children. Third Church Family Night every Wednesday 7 30 pm. March brings Dr John A Vander Waal leading prayer services.
Pastor M Gritters delivers a sermon at 9 30 focusing on Luke 23 27 31 and the weeping women, warning of coming judgment and urging penitence. Lord's Day 47 follows with Matthew 6 9 Hallowed Be Thy Name at 1 30.
Thomas Boslooper presides with morning worship at 9 45 and evening service at 7 30. Sunday March 4 topics include What God is Like and a central college concert band program directed by Robert Rit tenhouse. Sunday School at 11 05 C E junior at 2 00 and intermediate and senior at 6 30.
Rev G Lubbers preacher invites listeners to the Reformed Witness Hour each Sunday at 1 00 a m over radio KBOE Oska O originates from the First Protestant Reformed Church Grand Rapids Michigan The program features singing and preaching in a distinctively Reformed style.
Rev. H. L. Van Dellen preaches at the Amsterdam School house two miles southwest of Pella every second and last Tuesday of each month at 7 30 p m. The notice outlines the regular schedule for spiritual gatherings and invites attendees.
Donald D Hessing 21 son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Hessing Route 1 Leighton Iowa recently promoted to specialist third class in Korea He serves with the 7th Infantry Division in the fire direction center Heavy Mortar Company 22nd Regiment Hessing entered the Army in September 1954 completed basic at Camp Chaffee Ark and arrived overseas last March
PFC Edwin Groenendyk, formerly of Fort Bragg, has relocated to Straubing in Germany while stationed with the U S Army. The service member, identified by uniformed record 55492155, is listed as stationed in Germany with a new postal address in New York.
Pvt Richard H Edwards RA 26807024 Co C 512th AIB 4th AD Fort Hood Texas Pvt Raymond G Meulpolder US 55542662 Co C 512 AIB Larry Eugene Hoksbergen S R 4722727 Co 103-141st Battalion 14th Regiment USNTC Great Lakes Til Larry left for service Feb 3rd.
A young widow placed on her husband’s tombstone the phrase Without you I cannot bear to live. One year later she remarried and had the inscription alone added, reflecting a change in life while the earlier message remained.
Robert Buyert of Pella High earned a spot on the South Central Conference first team after a standout season. He totaled 196 points in 11 games, averaging 17.8 points per game, as selections highlighted top scorers across the league.
The 22nd annual Turfgrass Short Course will be held in Ames March 12 to 14 addressing water and fertility needs, lime applications, seedings, top dressings, disease control, weed control, hot weather issues, crabgrass combat, and turf renovation with methyl bromide. Sponsored by the Iowa State Horticultural Society and the Iowa State Golf Superintendents Association, with Lyle Quinn urging high schools to send representatives for football field problems.
About 250 Cub Scout leaders from the Tall Corn Area Boy Scout Council will attend the Annual Cubbers Pow Wow at Franklin Junior High School Sunday from 1 15 p m to 5 30 p m March 4. Joe Rohrer of Des Moines is General Chairman with Stan Moore Don Boland Carl Pabst Jess Sullivan Howard Boyce and H B Bascom as committee chairs. The three hour program aims to equip leaders with games handicraft ceremonies entertainment and administration skills and marks the first step toward the Scouters Key for Cub Masters and Scouters Award for other Cub leaders. The Tall Corn Area Council includes 63 hundred Cub Scouts in 141 Cub Packs across 1 1/2 Central Iowa counties.
The Oska loosa Employment Service reports a rapid rise in year round farmhand demand, with married hands in higher demand than supply. L. E. Shaw says 12 to 15 good armed hands are on file and all local applicants have been placed, with new applicants needed to fill orders. An appeal was made for assistance from other offices.
The report notes state results are not yet favorable and that the short age of farm work is widespread across the state. Farmers offer $150 to $175 monthly plus housing and food extras, according to Shaw, who says housing and food add-ons greatly exceed typical city wage offers.
Iowa State College farm economist Tarl O. Heady analyzed 1949 farm incomes to show how labor value varies with farm size. On small town farms, workers lost money per year. gains rise with larger acreage and higher gross sales, reaching about 720 dollars per worker for mid-sized farms and over 3,000 dollars for top earners.
An article on celebrating birthdays and festivals with children. It argues that participation in occasions like Halloween Christmas and Valentine's Day builds family unity and helps a child feel equal. It notes that holidays connect a child to cultural heritage and foster happiness.
Central College launches a week long Mission Drive with events to raise funds for a Vellore Hospital X ray transformer in India. Speakers include Marion Van Horne Mita Brooks and Rev. Vriesman among others. Activities feature faculty waiters charity skating party trunk boxes and a Penny Carnival culminating on Saturday night in the Union. Earlier drives funded a Chiapas clinic and two Indian chapels.
Central College debaters returned from the University of Nebraska where the Intercollegiate Discussion and Debate Conference was held with strong results. Carolyn Coleman and Robert Bergman won four of five debates, while John Reynen and Shirley Groendyke won one. Joan Rolenbrander scored well in Original Oratory on Dope Addiction. Fifty five schools represented from nine states.
Feds ands on weel and Satur day March 2 and 3, Central's d ue team will travel to Iowa City for the Invitational Tournament. Two debate teams will consist of Carolyn Coleman and Robert P. Bergman and Inta Simsons and Shirley Greendyke. In the Oratory division, men will give an oration Public Defendant. Albertine Dials in talk is Be temporary Speaking on "Subjects in the news over the last six months." The four debaters will also en ter discussion groups on "Im plementing Supreme Court Deci sion on Race Segregation in Pu blic Schools." Phone your news to 32,
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