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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1957
Page
1
A student newspaper feature lists quirky captions and vignettes about school life. Items include Freshman versus Senior dynamics, honors on the honor roll, bus driver jokes, and light classroom anecdotes from the school week.
Principal notes a pupil choir led by John Nibbelink with Connie Hoke bergen reading and Wilma Meinders closing in prayer. Guest speaker Dean Pietenpol from Central College addressed astronomy, explaining the vastness of the world and praising the creator. audience looks forward to his return.
Evelyn Engbers, tall five four with blue eyes and brown hair, attends high school near Pella on the Pella New Sharon road. She loves strawberries, rose color, and bookkeeping when it clicks, lists pencils as a long-time collection, and hopes for a secretary job after graduation.
Bob De Jong, a 17 year old senior from near Leighton, stands 5 7 and loves softball. He enjoys American History and values the Junior Banquet as the key event since starting school. He says he gave dues and tuition to the school and gained an education and much fun in return. His graduation plan is uncertain and his advice to freshmen is to have fun and not work too hard.
The boys standings show Bill Nibbelink's team in first with six wins, Jim Steenhoek second with four, Byron Bossenbroek, John Dahm and Glen Veldhuizen tied, Bod De Jongs's team last. Girls teams list Team 2 led by Jean Beekhuizen, Luella Ryken's team second, Dorothy Van Englehoven last. participants are encouraged by the season's enjoyment.
Connie Hoksbergen from Pella will enter the state speech contest at Grinnell on March 29 and 30 with a Radio Speaking entry. Her speech titled Employment of the Handicapper is set to be spoken on Saturday March 30 at 7 pm.
On Wednesday morning students from Oskaloosa Christian School toured our campus en route to Des Moines. They were chaperoned by teachers and some parents and hope to return in the fall. The Student Council gifted a floor lamp to Merle Van der Schaal after chapel last Thursday, marking her last day as secretary. She and her fiancé Larry VanDe Lune will marry and move to Des Moines. Bob De Ruiter spoke on KBOE Oskaloosa Thursday about two songs and won first place in the High School division at the Home Talent Show in Pella on March 18. Tulip Queen nominees were discussed after chapel. Sharon Bakker won and will represent the school.
Arlene De Jong, a tall blonde senior at Pella Christian, studies five subjects including American History, English IV and Latin II. She cites American History as her favorite due to its many perspectives. Her activities span basketball band chorus and intramurals with basketball as a standout. she served as post guard on this year’s team boosting the defense.
Merle Vander Schaaf expresses heartfelt thanks to Christian High students for the beautiful floor lamp. He recalls being speechless at the moment, overjoyed by the gift, and grateful it will remind him of his working days at Christian High.
On Monday March 18 students enjoyed a chapel concert by the band during service. Tuesday Rev. Gritters, a well known and well liked figure at Christian High, spoke on the topic Who's who. Wednesday chapel service was led by another speaker.
Donna De Ruiter, living on a farm nine miles north of Pella, recalls high school lessons, dislikes hangovers, enjoys ice cream on Gerri's porch, and loves basketball. She has been in choir for three years, served as basketball manager, Freshmen class secretary, and Pep Club member, with four years in the Freshmen Green Club, and aims to graduate after school ends.
Plant breeders at Iowa State College, directed by August Kehr, study tumor formation in tobacco to aid human cancer research. Funded by American Cancer Society and Public Health Service, crosses made among many tobacco species, seed grown and studied, some seeds given X ray mutations to test inheritance of tumor traits, plants recrossed to locate mutated factors.
Nassau County priest Rev Marion Gosselink from Pella and son of Mr and Mrs D Gosselink is featured in a mid island Times piece about his new 144 page book. The volume collects stories and talks with biblical and ethical themes intended for Sunday School teachers and Christian educators. Gosselink, serving as co minister of Parkway Community Church Hicksville, has pursued postgraduate work at Princeton Union Temple and the University of Pennsylvania earning M A B A Th M and D D degrees and contributing to multiple volumes including Keen Age Talks Slighted Guest and The Voice from Calvary.
A brief, unclear fragment references authorship related to the Pulpit and mentions various periodicals and journals. No date, location, or definite names are legible, making the exact claim or scope uncertain.
The Commission reports Iowa led the United States in meat production from slaughtered livestock in 1956, accounting for 26 percent of all head slaughtered and ranking first in cattle calves and hog slaughter. Iowa produced 160 million head and more than 5 percent of total U.S. live weight, with hogs driving the dominance and sheep and lambs ranking second overall.
Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak found peace in Spillville Iowa during the summer of 1893 and wrote several noted works while staying in the quiet Iowa village.
They all remembered Harry from a gas station owner who spoke of his drinking to a tavern steady customer and a man who saw his car race another then cut in to force the other toward the curb as dusk fell. For the next hours no further details were supplied.
A vehicle struck a car along a street at about 10 o clock, the driver fled after turning off his lights. Witnesses recalled a chase and a curve near the center line. A highway patrolman described the victim as bleeding from multiple orifices, with crushed limbs and instant death. A stray line about a hen and feed ends the fragment.
In Iowa many growers attempted to use Russian fruit trees as rootstock to improve varieties capable of withstanding the state's climate. Most experiments did not yield notable success, revealing key challenges in adopting the Russian stock for new cultivars.
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