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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1977
Page
1
A brief note commends Pella school board president J B Dahm for well run meetings. He set procedures, kept to timetable, and moved discussion along. City council and school board are praised as models for agendas, subcommittees, on time starts, and focused talks. Reporters benefit too.
A legislative revision to the Iowa code's road rules moves from senate to house. Key changes include owner based vehicle plates, permit to stop on the traveled portion to turn left, lower four year license age to 18, and new penalties for possessing blank licenses. Officials note reflectorized plates may be dropped saving 465000 dollars.
In 1967 Lewis De Vries of Pella won a Master Corn Growers contest sponsored by the Oskaloosa Chamber of Commerce. Donald E. Johnson, former national American Legion commander, spoke at a peace officers dinner in the county, sponsored by the Pella American Legion post and the Red Rock chapter of the Izaak Walton league.
In an eyewitness memoir style, paratrooper Mark Thomas and British ally Frank Cavanaugh recount escape from German captors amid Allied air pressure on their march through France and Germany. A farmer's family provided noon meals while they hid, but a careless moment sparked a tense brief confrontation with a small SS patrol.
The Iowa House approved an almost 35 million dollar appropriations package for regulatory and finance agencies by 73 votes to 13. Debates focused on Beer and Liquor Control and liquor stores, and the Public Employment Relations Board, with amendments expanding liquor store hours and limiting board funding.
Narrator recalls a brave small group marching into history under heavy burden, fearing they and their young lieutenant and companions would die within days. The lieutenant diverts danger, sparing the narrator and others, a gesture the speaker hopes God will remember.
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