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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1964
Page
5
Aecnet History archive entry from Des Moines Iowa documents local historical material and records valuable to researchers, noting preserved newspapers, city directories, and era summaries within the Iowa collections.
Daylight Saving Time requires schedule changes at Pella Tulip Time on May 7 8 and 9 with floats judged for lighting. The parade moves to 8 30 p m from 7 30 p m and Dutch Dancers 7 30 p m Variety Show 7 50 p m Queen's Presentation 8 20 p m Street Scrubbers 8 25 p m.
More than 35 bands will march in six parades across three days at the 1964 Pella Tulip Festival opening this week. Each parade has about 60 units with 23 floats. Parades run 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. daily, featuring Pella High and Central College among many other schools and bands.
Tulip Time preparations accelerate with Thursday marking evidence of efforts. Behind the scenes workers, including food prep and float building teams, are thanked for their essential but often uncredited roles. Dutch Dancers feature 225 participants with nightly practices and parent cooperation is lauded. Beverly De Cook, Tulip Queen, to appear on Steve Allen Show on KANT-TV at 10 30 p m Wednesday.
Dr Ramona Meyler, former Miss Iowa and Miss Universe delegate, will appear in the Tulip Time Parade in Pella on Saturday May 9 in afternoon and evening events. She graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport and now practices with her brothers in Le Mars. A social hour in her honor is planned from 4:00 to 5:00 at Dr Paul Van Wyk’s residence. the public is invited to greet her.
Dr. Donald Huffman and his wife Maxine Huffman have been appointed Danforth Associates at Central College campus. Robert Rankin of the Danforth Foundation announced the honor. Huffman is biology professor and division chair. Maxine is associate professor of English.
The TENCO education committee met in Ot tumwa to review tentative high school district plans. Economist Dr Don Winkelmann of Iowa State University will study the size and cost implications to provide high quality instruction at lowest operating costs. The study, due this fall, analyzes effects on operating costs per student transportation time building needs and staff utilization while noting a need for more state aid to offset wide valuation per pupil in TENCO. The panel will resume discussions in June.
Al Hockenberg of the Gamble Store described life in Kodiak Alaska to Rotarians on April 28. He noted wooden buildings, a large Orthodox Church, amphibian planes used for transport, and a thriving canning industry with six million crabs canned annually. He described salmon, crabs, bear hunting, and the annual Crab Festival with parades and pageantry.
Charlene Corratt a junior from Stronghurst Illinois was elected president of Phi Kappa Omicron home economics honor at Central College Other officers include Janet Scheevel Ver Meer Sally Sikkink and Nancy Johnson all listed with their hometowns and class years Corratt is active in Women’s Recreational Assn Central Christian Fellowship Symphonic bands and other student groups Ver Meer is a Pella resident and Mary Ver Meer is his daughter Also Thomas Boat a SUI medical student presented a paper on Particulate Iociopro teins of the Rat Thyroid at the Student Research Conference in the SUL Pharmacy auditorium.
Rev. John E. Hiemstra, associate executive secretary for the Stewardship Council of the Reformed Church of America, leaves Wayne Michigan after five years at Good Shepherd Church to assume duties in New York City. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hiemstra of Os Kaloosa and a 1946 graduate of Os Kaloosa High School.
A Pelle Chronicle report notes Dutch Elm Disease reaching Pella with elm trees in Big Rock Park showing symptoms. It cites 3065 elms within city limits, 63% in fair or poor condition, and urges sanitation steps, reporting no cure but potential fungicide injections and measures to remove dead wood and prune wounds.
William George Eagle, 22, of Norfolk Virginia escaped injury in a Friday morning wreck on Galesburg road two miles north of Pella. His 1963 Ford was a total loss and Eagle was charged with failure to have his car under control after the mishap. Deputy Nick DeRuiter investigated.
Ted Dykstra, a senior geography major, received a $1,000 graduate assistantship to study at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Larry Dean Kool, son of longtime residents, enlisted in the Air Force in March. Three Central College home economics majors—Mrs Shervie Spaur May, Mrs Sharyl Sodemann Woolums, and Miss Joan Vande Vusse—were initiated into the American Home Economics Association during the Phi Kappa Omicron White Dinner, where Dr. Margaret Warning spoke.
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