Senior Choir to perform final concert at Pella High
The Senior Choir of Pella Christian High School stages its year end concert on Wednesday May 5 at 7 45 p m in the Pella Christian High School Gym Auditorium with sacred pieces led by Glorious Everlasting Alleluia He Watching Over Israel O Magnify the Lord Frostiana selections The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening A Girl s Garden Choose Something Like a Star In The Valley Below Listen to the Mockingbird Let There Be Music and Selections from Oklahoma A free will offering will aid the music department and the public is invited
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Pella Christian High School
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Traer
Bach
Israel
Mendelssohn
Magnify the
Lord
Jean Berger
Randall Thompson
Amherst
Massachus
Robert Frost
Brooklyn
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Oklahoma
Warnick
Pella Hollanders shaped by local issues in early politics
Bob Swierenga described Pella s political history to the Women s Federated Club, detailing how Dutch settlers led by Dominic Scholte aligned with Whig and later Democratic factions amid conflicts with locals. He linked Prohibition and anti immigration sentiment to shifts in party support, noting a strong Dutch Democratic tilt by 1859 and that local issues rather than national slavery concerns dominated voting behavior.
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Austria
Senate
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Henry Clay
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Whigs
Republican Party
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Holland
Scholter
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No-Nothing Party
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Knoxville Journal
Lake Prairie Township
Knoxville
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Iown
Kansas
Slaw
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Iowa
Marion County
Des Moines
Scholle
Pella Christian students earn top ratings at state solo festival
Six Pella Christian high school students earned first division ratings at the Class B State Solo and Ensemble Music Festival in Brooklyn Iowa on April 24. Four others received second division ratings in mixed ensembles and solos. The Band and Choir also participated in a separate group festival in Traer on May 1 under director Richard Williams. Patricia J Kutz of Pella received Eastern Michigan University’s Margaret E Wise scholarship for 1965 66 academic year for leadership academics and need.
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Pella Christian High
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Iowa
Pella Christian
Iowa Music Association
Band
Nee
Traer
Richard Williams
Patricia J. Kutz
Logan Vanderzyl
Sharon Road
Pella
Eastern Michigan University
Margaret E. Wise
Miss. Kutz
EMU
Eastern
King Residence Hall Council
Young Republican Club
Special
State Society
Beechout named country head of Peace Corps in Malaysia
Harold S Beechout of Ames Iowa named country leader for a new agricultural Peace Corps project in Malaysia with headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. He 1963 Iowa State graduate and former Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia, son of Howard Beechout of Columbia. He helped plan community development agricultural and home economics extension work and rural youth programs, and has written on Malaysian agriculture. Funeral notice for Ray H Boland, former Pella resident, appeared separately.
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Iowa
Harold S. Beechout
Columbia
Chariton High School
Iowa State University
Alpha Zeta
Phi Kappa Phi
Beckout
Friendly Fellows
Clu
Marion County
Cooperative Extension Service
Malaysia
Malaya
Marion County Museum and School Opening May 16
Summit Roy Cooley, president of the Marion County Historical Society, announced the official opening of the museum on May 16 at Marion County Park in Knoxville, in conjunction with the opening of the Little Red Schoolhouse. Open to the public.
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Roy Cooley
The
Marion County Historical Society
Marion County Park
Knoxville
Rolscreen Donates House to Izaak Walton League
The Rolscreen Company of Pella donated a house for Izaak Walton League use. The league will dismantle it for lumber to build a club room at Red Rock dam. The house sits on the old De Haan property at the west end of South Street.
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Rolscreen Company of
Pella
Izaak Walton League
Red Rock
de Haan
South St
Iowa City Law Students Win Junior Argument Awards
Preston Steenbock of Pella is among 16 University of Iowa law students honored for Junior Argument Awards during Supreme Court Day in Iowa City. The awards went to second-year students who argued mock cases, chosen from those who won earlier freshman-year mock contests. Four of the 16 were chosen to argue a mock case before the Iowa Supreme Court.
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Pella
University of Iowa
Supreme Court
Studen
Iowa Supreme Court
May events in local What's Up column with multiple listings
A compiled What's Up column invites community items and lists numerous events from May. Lectures, concerts, plays, coffee gatherings, and dance events are scheduled across venues including Cox Snow hall, Christian high school, Kiwanis Park, Legion Hall, Jr. Hi auditorium, Central college gym, Swimming Pool Park, and more. Notable entries include a CUI lecture by Prof. Ivan Babic on Dewey versus Marx, PHS senior plays The Heiress, and Tulip Time Square Dance events.
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Cox Snow Recital Hall
Ivan Babic
Yugoslavia
Zabreb Univ
Marx
Pella Jaycees
Central College Gymnasium
Sat
Circle 8
Swimming Pool
Camp Fire Girls Seek Dads for Float Construction
Fathers are invited to help build the Tulip Time Camp Fire float at Roth Construction Warehouse on Monday evening May 10 and to dismantle on May 17. Volunteers who assist will receive the Do Dad award.
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Roth
Heiress play set for May at Pella Junior High stage
The Pella Community Senior Class will present The Heiress an adaptation of Henry James novel Washington Square by Ruth and Augustus Goetz on May 6 and 7 at 8 00 p m on the Junior High stage Catherine Sloper will be played by Judy Grandin and her wealthy father by Guy Jones The cast directed by Mr W Kirschman includes Kathleen Power Mrs Pen neman Beth Van Sittert Mrs Montgomery Ted Weirather Morris Townsend Sue Dykstra Marion Almond Sandra Cowell Elizabeth Almond and Bill Bensink Also obituary notes Mary Pipper of 412 University St Pella died May 1 1965 at 78 Funeral details given later in Chronicle. Wayne Rorabaugh saves choking boy on I 80 near Newton
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Washington Square
Ruth
Augustus Goetz
Catherine Sloper
Judy Grandin
Guy Jones
Ted Weirather
Morris Townsend
Sue Dykstra
Marcia
Judy Kregel
Marion Almond
Sandra Cowell
Elizabeth Almond
Bill Bensink
Arthur Townsend
Frank Vanden Berg
Mary Pipper
University St
Pella
Mary
Jaarsma
Frank
Jennie Vande Haar
Nancy
John Groenenboom
Eddyville
Christine
John Slot
Wilhelm
Eisenhower to Speak at Grinnell May 13
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower will headline the Grinnell College program on Thursday evening May 13 at 8:00 p.m. in Darby Gymnasium. He will present the Political Lecture titled Politics Is Too Important to be Left to the Politicians, a public event hosted by the Program of Practical Political Education.
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Grinnell College
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Darby Gymnasium
Eisenhower
Two-car crash near Pella injures one. charges filed
Police report a two-vehicle collision at East Third and Franklin in rural Louilla and a second two-car crash on the Knoxville Pella road near Pella. Dale E Etcher and driver Shirley Borgman involved in the first, with Gaylord Carter treated for bruises. John Schakel sustained a shoulder injury and was released. charges of failure to yield leveled against Schakel. Deputy Harold Gates investigated both incidents.
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Louilla
East Third
Franklin
Pella
Shirley D. Borgman
Borgman
Etcher
Gaylord Carter
Robert Houser
Knoxville-Pella
John Schakel
Evan Alan Vander Wert
Schakel
Pella Community Hospital
Vander Wert
Harold Gates
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