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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1962
Page
8
Auction style inventory cites a 1958 John Deere 60 tractor a 1948 J D B tractor and multiple plows, planters, mowers, spreaders and a 1957 JD 25 and Model 45 combine with platforms and corn attachments. Includes wheel disk and harrow items plus manure loaders and spreader components.
Advertisement from Van Zee Implement catalogs various used tractors and farm equipment. It lists Hoeksema 1959 411 B Case tractor, Oliver models from 880 to 60 and 1942 M, Massey Harris 44, Oliver 77 and 2 row and 4 row planters, J D planters and cultivators, Letzburr and Wetmore mills, PTO shelters, Massey Harris baler, Stanhorst loader, Winpower post hole digger, and baler twine pricing.
The writer thanks the Mahaska Hospital nurses and aides for wonderful care and Drs Walter Campbell Campbell and R E Sparks for services. Gratitude extends to friends neighbors and relatives for cards letters calls and visits during hospitalization and after return home. Prayers offered are especially appreciated and will be long remembered.
Herman De Penning aged 50 of Sully Iowa died March 1 1962 in Fremont Nebraska born April 10 1911 north of Otley Marion County He married Lucille Van Wyk February 5 1934 and had three sons Surviving are his wife three sons Larry Howard Carroll three grandchildren his father Lane De Penning one sister Gracie and two brothers Paul and Wilbur Funeral services were March 3 at First Reformed Church Sully with Rev Harold Kammerand officiating Burial followed in Sully Cemetery Garden Chapel in charge of arrangements.
Rev. Gerald Terpstra, 36, polio survivor from Nigeria, lies at Mary Free Bed Guild Hospital and Orthopedic Center after severe paralysis. He uses a wheelchair with weekly therapy and support from Alpine Ave. CRC Church and the National Foundation. Terpstra recalls bush life, cycle travel, and resilience as he eyes a return to Nigeria to train native pastors despite ongoing health and political challenges.
John Van Genderen aged 88 died March 1 1962 at 910 Washington Street Pella born February 24 1873 in Marion County son of Cornelius and Johanna Van Genderen. He married Marilla Colville in 1922 at Oskaloosa Iowa and lived in Pella employed as a mason and city worker. Preceded by his wife and siblings he was the last surviving family member. Funeral services were held March 5 at Garden Chapel Funeral Home with Rev Everett Ward officiating. Interment followed at Oakwood Cemetery in Pella.
The Pella community immunization clinic was held in the Lincoln school multi purpose room on Tuesday February 20. County nurse Leona Fisher and a team of doctors and nurses administered 928 immunizations including diphtheria whooping cough tetanus boosters smallpox and polio. Volunteers included Mrs. Paul Farrer and others. the event tabulated 53 diphtheria booster 254 ker booster 114 smallpox 52 polio initial 450 polio booster.
Central College will send five dramatics students to Notre Dame Indiana March 9 10 and 11 for the Second Annual Religious Drama Workshop. Maurice Birdsall professor of dramatics announces the group will present two scenes from Philip Lambs Sons of Adam to show a modern religious play. Students include Mary Steenhoek Eunice Duitsman Fred Nuernberg David White and Robert Wegter. Saint Marys College will pay expenses. Birdsall will join E Martin Browne on a panel discussing Eliot productions.
John Shivvers of the Iowa State Sheep Association announces the 1962 state wide Lamb Producers program. Entries require at least 35 lambing ewes. nominees may be self or by others. Top ten will be chosen by the Sponsors Committee and the State Extension Service after the lamb crop records are complete.
A 200 pound Hampshire owned by Verle McGraw of Pleasantville won the top carcass in the Quality Park Show tied to the Marion County Swine Improvement Association and the Marion County Extension Service. Abe Synhorst of Knoxville exhibited the second place 200 pound crossbred carcass. The McGraw pig placed third in the live show and the Synhorst pig eighth. 36 head were entered by 18 farmers. Six of the top ten in the live show also ranked in the carcass show, with the first live hog placing sixth in carcasses. Other swine entrants included Tom Havener Harvey Ralph Dyer Pleasantville Lyman Smith Knoxville Marold Loynacan Knoxville Richard Stroud Harvey Shivvers'& White Knoxville Tommy Jordan Knoxville Harold Horsman Pleasantville Rob Van Zee Pleasantville Corwin Mott Knoxville Gerald De Penning, Pella Gene Stevenson, Hamilton Boyd Rankin, Hamilton Charles Sims, Knoxville and John Vriezelaar, Otley. Judges were Rolland Paul State Swine Association and Jack Simpson Iowa Pack. Bob Rust Extension Meats Specialist Iowa State University judged the carcasses. Carcass cutout info was released at the Swine Banquet in Pella Monday night.
A squirrel occupied the Walter Maroney residence in Manchester while the Maroneys wintered in Texas. It entered through a water heater draft, scuffed walls, toppled lamps, pulled curtains, knocked items from shelves, and drew a table cloth off the table. The scene included a prompt for Eliot to write The Rock and Murder in the Cathedral. Browne and wife Henzie Raeburn, noted actress and author, on a panel, have lectured at Union Theological Seminary and are touring the country.
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