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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1961
Page
1
Mrs. Stile, director of home planning for Younker’s Store for Homes in Des Moines, spoke to PHS Home Economics classes about Home Decorating to Suit Your Personality. She described upholstery fabrics carnet samples and drapery materials in traditional, contemporary, and provincial patterns to illustrate color schemes and fabric combinations.
PHS begins girls track with 25 interested participants practicing at Kuyper field 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. On Wednesday after school, the squad competed in a 440 yard relay. The winning quartet was Karen Knowles Elaine Schakel Betty Van Ekeren and Lois Ward clocking 67.2 seconds. Coaches are Mr. Sandbulte and Mr. Kolsrud.
The staff list shows editors in chief Jan Kregel and Loretta Westerkamp with associate editors Joyce Garrett Franny Wyngard and Alice Bosveld. Editorial, features, art, and report roles are assigned to multiple named editors and reporters with advisor John Rowley listed.
Pleasantville Monroe and Prairie City schools already established girls track teams and express hope for continued support for the program.
Raymond Den Adel, former PHS Latin teacher now at Proviso West High School in Hillside Illinois, argues for adding French or German to PHS studies in a letter dated April 22 Superintendent C C Buerkens of Pella Community Schools states his view on language offerings. French derives from Latin.
Youth for Christ joins Tulip Time with a float titled Worship God in the beauty of Holiness, matching the Beauty and Blossom parade theme by depicting teens worshipping in nature. A YFC information stand will operate west of Kuyper's Lumber Yard near the Chronicle office, and a May 5 junior senior club party followed the Junior-Senior Banquet.
Mr. Den Adel praises a Latin foundation for language study and recalls Pella High's Lat in week observance since 1955. He notes strong Latin enrollment at Proviso West High with Latin I 27, Latin II 33, Lat in IILIV 18, and English/ literature classes, reflecting a diverse language program.
Principal Wilkins cites Iowa surveys showing many schools dropping the Junior-Senior Banquet from their schedules. He notes Pella High is joining the trend and expresses his view on the change and its implications.
A speaker argues the Senior Banquet should be kept if possible as the sole formal social event for Pella students to attend. He says he would support the banquet while it serves as an introduction to formal social events but deem it useless once it no longer fulfills that purpose.
Miss Hirschler, PHS English teacher, asked what greatness is. She shared stories of Augustine and Job, saying learning serves as a means to an end and the final test is how we use what we learn.
Walnut Grove Feed Co hosted the Pella FFA Chanter on a Tuesday tour from Walnut Grove officials. The group toured laboratories warehouses and the mixing grinding and sacking lines. Dr. Damon Catron swine nutritionist spoke after a company dinner. They visited the Walnut Grove research farm and observed feed test animals and results. The tour ended with a look through factory offices.
A lighthearted note recalls Ben and Me constructing a step ladder for Mary Hollabrands to view from locker tops before Mrs. Lautenbach spotted her. The piece mentions a Nex on Alice Bosveld and cautions about lighting candles during Quill and Scroll initiation. A state highway warning ends the fragment.
Sharon Daven just earned her license and explains three driving choices at intersections. Mary Van Zameren bravely admits her feet are much larger than her shoes suggest, revealing her real size as 14 for bowling while wearing sevenes.
PHS small groups traveled to Sigourney for the State Music Contest on April 29 and earned fourteen Division I ratings. Sextet I members Beverly De Cook, Bonnie Van der Linden, Judy Vander Waal, Mary Wing, Ruth Kuyper, Lois Ward. Sextet II members Georgia Ten Hagen, Loretta Westerkamp, Vivian Vroom, Karyn Roorda, Pam Gaass, Nancy Vander Pol all achieved I ratings. Additional I ratings went to Trio I Phyllis De Bruin, Sandra Van der Linden, Melba Van Hemert. Trio II Jean Roorda, Delores Vander Pol, Elaine Schakel, and the boys' quartet LeRoy Kelderman, Tony Tysseing, Jerry Gosselink, Paul Bogaard. Several soloists also reached I or II ratings, including Melba Van Hemert, Judy Vander Waal, Paul Bogaard, Elaine Schakel, Delores Vander Pol, Phyllis De Bruin, Pam Gaass, LeRoy Kelderman, with instrumental I ratings for Mary Wing, Paul Bogaard, and ensembles like the Flute Trio and Brass Sextet. Clarinetist Eunice Roorda also earned an I rating alongside the clarinet trio and clarinet quartet.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that trading stamps are an advertising scheme and not cash discounts deductible for sales tax. The decision upholds the Iowa Tax Commission in a Burlington case involving Benner Tea Company. Governor Erbe vetoed a county homes licensing bill.
Congressman John Kyl entertains Arthur Vriezelaar of Monroe during a business trip to Wellington Delaware. The trio stays at the Congressional Hotel in Washington DC meeting at the station Saturday and touring the capital before Sunday motor trip to Mount Vernon. Vriezelaar returns home by plane Tuesday after a stop in Bridgeport Connecticut.
The Tracr bowling squad ranks as one of the state’s oldest teams with members averaging over 70 years. With its regular substitute, the average age falls to 67 years.
A quip contrasts two types of people a loquacious person who talks endlessly and a silent one who says little. The speaker deems the talker worse but admits the comparison is close and hard to judge.
An eight year old in Maquoketa headlines a calf born on his farm. The calf weighed 20 pounds at three days old and required bottle feeding after birth. It could not stand for 24 hours but has since become as frisky as a pup.
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